Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-02-19
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"Do the Baptists repudiate the com.
mon version and expect to establish
one of their own"
Does not Inquirer" know that the
common version is used In Baptist
pnlpits throughout the land, and In
their Sunday schools? Baptlsts
have no more reason for repudiating
the common version than other re-
ligious denominations have. Bap-
lists In America have always used
the common version, and they have
nourished and multiplied, and never
more than now. 1t Is but two cen.
turtles since Baptists in America, the
home of liberty, were arrested, whip
ped, imprisoned and banished ON
pain OF death, by law, for teaching
their distinctive doctrines, while
other churches were sustained or fos-
tered by the government. .Notwith-
standing these disadvantages, the
Baptists, with the common version
in their pulpits. Sunday schools and
families, have outgrown I'm numbers
every denomination in the country
but one. In educational and benevo-
lieut. enterprises, they are not behind
any.
The phrazcology of Inquirer adj
mits that the common version il
only a rersion, and not the standard
from which there Is no appeal. Why
should IL he better than other YER
sions which may possibly he made I?
That IL has imperfections Is cknowl-
edged In the cancellations made by
every Preacher and S. S. Teacher In
the land. The Baptists are not more
forward than others in making these
emendations; why, then, should
they he suspected of repudiating the
common version.
Enquirer" asks: "Do the Baptists
expect to establish a version nf their
own ~ thus insinuating that the
Baptists hare or are about to have a
aversion of their own" He would
give the impression, no doubt, that
the Revised Scriptures, prepared by
the American Bible Union, 10 "a
Baptist version" If 1t IL a Baptist
version it was not prepared 10y the
Baptist denomination. Nine differ
ent denominations were represented
Ina the Bible Union In its organiza-
ton. IL has never claimed to be a
Baptist Society. The Baptist demon.
ination has never recognized II as a
Baptist Society. 1t claims not to- he
In the interest Of any denomination.
Many individuals and some churches
among the Baptists are friends and
sul p prters of a pure version of the
scriptures In our own language. If
it Is possible to have q version of the
Holy Scriptures SO pure that the
= eachers aud s. S. Teachers will
have no need to annul ID or appeal
from to the Greek and Hebrew
text, why not encourage it? Surely
no christian can lose anything which
IL would he 10 his advantage to keep
by having pure version In the Ian.
guage of the people. If the Bible
Union succeed In giving us such n
version let us not oppose II by giving
II n sectarian name. II they do moi
give us n better version than we now
have, il will come to nought, like
many Others before it, by reason of
that Providence which has always
watched over Gods word. After
twenty years labor, the Bible Union
have completed and sent out the Re
v.sed New Testament, translat ed
from Greek Manuscripts i've and ak
hundred years Older than any which
King James revisers hal use of i'm
preparing the common version -
"'rhe Christian Advocate and Journ-
al" the most widely disseminated
periodical of the Methodist Conven-
ton, says of the Revised Testament !:
"The translation l. Il good one, much
better. we think, than the commonly
received one. We would advise hi
BILE students 10 possess and use 1t. :"
Genesis is also ready, and IL much
praised by journals o: various demon.
nations. The Revision by the Bible
Union, SO far as completed. judging
from Communications in Religious
Journals of different denominations,
and personal examination. would he
40 disgrace tn l1aptists or any other
denomination, il they might justly
claim tile work IA their own.
ID. y. MASON,
Pastor Baptist Church,
('uIa- Eulls In.ru