The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-13
THE BIBLE.
Revision Of the ssAuthorized'' Yer.
siOn.-CommuntOn of the Company

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1t may BIO interesting to recall scene
which was briefly noticed In the columns
OF the 1ImeS as having occurred during
the past week, and which gives pleasing
augury for q better feeling between the
contcnding factions Of Church and State.
We refer 70 the participation in the Holy
Communion by the company Of revisers
OF the authorized version Of the New Tes-
lament, which occurred In Henry WIS
Chapel in Westminster Abbey, prepara-
tory to their entrance on their important
work. A notice had been issued TO each
Of the body, to the effect that tho Sacra.
mcnt w0uidbc administered there, on the
day of their first meeting, TO such Of the
body as should feel disposed to attend.
Some few were prevented from appear.
Ing, but ht the hour named rs many. rs
twenty presented themselves, and were
placed in the ancient stalls Of the Chapel.
No ono else assisted. fThcy Dean read
the service from the communion tA-
bic at tile head Of iHehrys ~Vll!s tomb.
1t so happened that this table thus
received It's first use. It had within
a few days pNst replaced q temporary
table, having ,as tlle inscription round
it sfecoftls, beens.serectetls ssm place. OF
the ancient altar which once indicated the
spot where Edward vi! was buried, pro-
badly 70 meet the wishes Qf his sister
Mary, and hal been destroyed by the Pu-
ritans in the civil war. On the marble
1nI ,,,l,t..I,. In Ia INInnnI tho
fragment Of the beautifully carved tricze
Of the lost altar, found unexpectedly lust
year, In Edward Wis grave, together with
othsr fragments Of ruined altars WldCh
happened to beat hand for like purpose.
In front of this table. thus itself mOnu.
ment OF the extinct striteS of former days,
and round the grave Of the youthful Pro-
testant King, In whOse, reign the, English
Bible first received It's Elacklow owledged
place in the coronation Of the Sovereign,
rs well rs It's free mil general' circulation
throughout the people, knelt together the
banll Of scholars and livines, consisting
.oE Representatives Of almost every. form
,ot EChristial b6liqfl in England. There
were Bishops bf tic Established Church.
two Of them by their venerable years con:
nected with the past generation; there
were the representatives Of our historic
cathcdraIs and collegiate churches,
OF our learned universities, Of our Ia:
hOrious parochial charges, and of
our chief ecclesiastical convOcNtiOn;
and with these, intorminglcd with
out distinction, were ministers Of the
Established anti Of the Free Church Of
Scotland, and OE almost every Noncontor-
mist Church IN England-lndepcndent,
Baptist, Wesleyan, Unitarian. It Is not
to be supposed that each one OF those
present entered with equal agreement into
every part of the service; but 1t Is surely
not without u hopeful Significance that
neither on the side Of tue Church nor OF
Nonc0n(0rmity was there any religious
difficulty" raised us to Joint participation
on such IN occasion in the most venerable
and sacred ordinance Of the Christian
religion, The Chapel Of Henry VIII. has
witnessed many famous sights, more arl.
gust and more stirring. the funerals OF
Kings and princes, OF mobiles, generals and
statesmen; debates OF, the Westminster
Assembly and OF the convocations Of tho
English Church = the installation Of the
Knights Of the Bath, whose banners wave
from tho roof, and whose swords were
deposited beneath the altar raised on that
spot BUTT may be doubted whether It
has ever becu the, scene, Of an; eYentSs
fraught, If rightly Considered, with pos
stbiities of Kindly Intercourse between
jarring factions, and pacific solution Of
warning problems, as that which Happen.
cd, silent and unobservel, on the 22d OF
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