Des Arc citizen., 1860-02-29
For the Des Arc Citizen
 ! W MOORE AND REVISION.

MR. EDrToR In your issue of Feb S.h, is an article upon Bible Revision. l by J. w. Moore, and as you offer your columns for a free investigation. accept the offer and herewith proceed 10 review sad episile. 1 do not expect 10 benefit your Reverend correspondent, as am well aware of his persistent and bitter hostility to the Revision enterprise. l dc not say bitter without reason, for in tb.e article before me, in speaking of what 'lt is pleased 10 call ''ihe tactics of the so. ciely," he charges revisionists by impii.a. i tion, with dishonesty and fraud; he sa ys "when the collection of money IS the ob. l1ect, their "statemenls put forth in 1heil lpamphle,s and uttered by their agents are wholly irreconcilable with ceita,n as. sumed "facts.' His statement str tpped | ot ts verbage, contains an implied charge of swindling, upon the part of Revision agents. That ths Is maliciously and grossly slanderous. demands no pr oof. l. is source of monlfcalion to all right minded men, that gray-haired preacher, can so far forget all seIfrespecl and com mon courtesy, as to be guilty of beslnat- tering with infamous aspersions the fares, Ireputalons. Mir. Ms first objection is but the false and siale repetition of all the enemies Of Revision; "It partakes of all the characteristics of seelarlan move ment." He undertakes 10 sustain this, not by the official enuncia'lons of the "Union." bu, by the words of individuals Is ihis faIr2 Are the Synods and As senblies winch Mfr. M attends respons- ble for all that he and others may say, as individuafs Certainly not, but for such things only as they officially and aathori- tatiuely put forth as body. This is equally true of the Bible Union. Why did not MT. M. appeal to it's Constitution, its authoritative and official acts, to show it's sectarlan character Simply. because he dayed moi. Inow ask the candid atlen. ltlon of the reader while we examine this charge.
 l. Is the principle it was organized to l"Hindicale" -sectarlan2 Hare Ii is, Art. II. of the Constitution "lls OBJECT shall be to procure and circulate the most faith ful versions of the Sacred Scriptures in all
 languages throughout the world" Read CT, examine this Article closely. and say, tUhm constitutes its secta rIanism Does Mir M mean 10 say that it Is secfariam 'to procure and circulate the most faiih- fn versions of the Sacred Scriptures! Or that itis sectarian 10 give these versions in at Languages throughout the world 1? If not. then, what constitutes the sectari- anism of the Union's OBJECT" The above is the head and front of the Unions offending it contains the grand principle of it's organization. "A FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED BIBLE FOR ALI PEOPLE AND KINDREDs, that it may speak with ONE VOICE,
 ea From Greenlands icy mountains, To lndia's coral stiand.'"
 And yet, this lofty cathoIcty is stigma. lized and branded and scodsd at, as sec tarianism!! And by whom By haters of sectarlanism--nay, but by men that have grown gray in the advocacy of sec ,arianisn in most revolling and repulsive forms. By men whose ambition IS to per peiuate and foster schism. Truly, it comes with an i'll grace from such charac- ters for while they love seclaranism, as their whole lives do testify their afected contempt and abhorrence, but serve to show the utter uuthlessness of theIr opposition upon such plea Seciari- ansm is the cause of their hostility. but. in Memseiues. and not In the Bible Un- on. defy any man to show. not all the characteristics" but a siagle charac- teristic of seclarianism, in the above, fhe principle of the Revision movement - What could be more noble more philan. throplc than Ito procure and circulate the most faihfA version" of the sacred Ora cles,ihe greai lamp of Life and immonali- y9 If to give fahhfM versions of Gods word be sectoraan, by parlty of reasoning to give uataithfui versions is unsectartan, This IS refreshing specimen oi anil-re- vision logic. If Il be seclarian to give accurate versions, then, the Union vis so. otherwise not fdaaa
 H. Is the Bible Union seciarian in its organization and membership? The fol- lowing resolutions were adopred at pre- lminary meeting when the committee was appointed to prepare constitution for the "Unon": 8sa
 RESOLVED, That it is our dnty to form a VOLUNTARY association for the purpose of procuring and circulating the most faithful versions of the Sacred Sculptures in all lan- guages.
 ssREsoLvED, That in such an association we will welcome all persons to cooperate with us. who embrace the principle upon which we purpose to organize. without regard to their denominational position in other respects.n
 Can any unbiased, unprejudiced man call this seclarianism Let us analyse
 the resolutions. f
 I. The Bible Union is a "voluntary" association.
 ?. .Hi persons are invited to cooperate lr the, formalon of it's object.
 3. The only qualification of member ship is, that 'lhe principle" of organza- tiou be embraced, viz:: faithfut ver- sion of Gods word for every nation, and not as Mir. M ungraciously and falsely declares to make an ''mmersionis, Bible" :" If he enjoys his iIl-na,ured scof livery we'll 1a N3
 4, Such persons will be received. "with- out regard to their denominalional position