The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-08
Learned Northern Clergyman.
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VERSION or THE BIBLE AND ROMAN

..rr,Y VERSION tE l fth blHi.e' A>b No"h->
,"1 CATHOLIC VIEWS OF IT.
nn oprnirg paragraph Of Professor
i'.,,'s 90 article in your paper OF to-day
49,, .,i,. !, ! reference to the rendering OF
Nv. as do pcnance," with tue I'M
~ .,,frn,cnt that this incorrect tranS!a-
l...' :, ,l,al Of the Nuigatc. There is FAR
,SD ,>,,,.rc>,ion that Catholics, as such, OBJ
~ King .lamcS'S version because 1t does
~ ,,niorm 10 Catholic versions. Here is
,',,irr OF fact, irrespective Of the argU-
'',, r, IN either side. which the writer has
- called 10 correct in some OF the leading
,.m York papers, as the Post and 1r,tnne,
- which. aS matter OF TACT, should DC
..,i.ctlv understood in the American dis
.,.>ior rs 10 the Bible IN our SchooiS ana
,.,hn time Of the Reformation numerous
.-.r>la'ions were issued with the Sahc'ioh
..t. Roman Church. the Latin Nulgat". rs
translation, compelling the admission thSt
,a;n.,.irrd Scriptures must. whether gwen
80 ~, t.,o,,lc or not lie in the vulgar tongue.
.-;,,hc lsnytlagc OF the people. The word
.','.rcd repent" the vital mora! primes
ri: the GOSPEL. a> announced by Christ
..,.f his Sarcrunner Matt, ill.,, > and !, lO.
&. IN the Nulgate, "p0Fn!tenti0m dqlte -
:, ...a Fr,nch Of the Ahht de Sacv, "tuiteS
.,.;t,+es :. - in the Spanish Of dc ). Miguel,
I,.Ir,,.f ,,nrtsnciu :" and in the Italian OF
T;,io.i "Ratredrttri with all OF which
..~InTg., King JamcS's version corre-
.'nd. The version made by English
,,,hnl;.< 1t Nnuay, France. is opposed
g., IN, VllIsatc. II was made by the
rrdcr Il Jr>uitS. who have from their
lin ., gn order been ccnSured for their
;rInarc,. in securing ut the Council Of Trent
49,, r.>,rjction Of the Scriptures from the
,..o,l.. and also for their pcryerSion Of its
n,a,ninc. a. proof Of the former, in 1850
tna leading presidents OF colleges and
Universities in France demonstrated against
;l,.ir serving a. professors: and at different
,,,. ,,nfiI 1915. when Theirs secured for the
Ia.. ;i,nr their expulsion by law, leading
Tamgn Catholic educators have brought
fhi. very charge. that they have excluded
;ir Wor! Of God. and have substituted the
t.arlin- of men in all the schools they have
,arrrnilyd. AS To the perverted translation
mad. at Douay. Archbishop Hughes found
!, necessary. in an edition issued ut New
York. 10 append this note to the rendering
DO prnancc." in Matthew iii. ,: Poeni-
t.rf;qIa .lqitc. Iuiq; Meta nocite, Gr'k !;
which word. according to the use OF the
~rrirt,lrr> and OF the holy fathers, does not
only signify repentance and amendment OF
Hi,., hui also Furnishing past sins hy fasting
and such like pcnitcntial exercises" 1t
would he hard 10 frame a more direct ad-
mission that the Douay version, Catholics
Themselves a,tc-ting. is perverted transla-
lion.
A> q fact. therefore. it is not surprising
that the Catholics ci Italy rs well a> OF Ger
many and France insist on the study OF the
scriptures rs Il part OF school education.
IL The very time when few uItramontdnc
or Jesuit priests in American cities arc
making our people believe that they are ag-
elioyed bv the Use OF King James, version in
our .rhoOlS these facts are occurring: Eng
li>h and American teachers have schools
It Rome itself where version entirely
coniormcd 10 il is not only read, but made i
textbook: in Catholic Maryland from the
origin Of our Government no rcmonStrancc
i.l> come and Governor Thomas, q Catho-
Mr. last September, pending his election,
urrlarcd his purpose to maintain the school
>y>tcm The, writer himself for sixteen
wears. rs Il college president in Washington
AMI New York, has read the New Testament
with no word OF dissent from either Catho-
lie or Jewish parents. On the other hand,
.uci parents have expressed their gratltlca-
ion al the moral lessons as distinct from the
r,LiqiouS doctrines taught III connection with
those readings.