, 1876-10-22
TEACHING IN TONGUES.


The Philadelphia Bulletin, in the course of d
series Of sketches Of the Centennial, has the fol
lowing interesting one Of the Bible pavilion:
4 little to the southwark Of Horticultural Hall,
upon shady walk leading from thence to the
Dairy. Il pretty pavilion to which attention Is at
pavilion Of the American Bible Society, and we arc
told it has been erected 'tby special contributions
BY few friends Of the Bible, y WHO hayc desired
that place should be apart Ill the Exhibition
celebrating the Centennial anniversary OF the ma
tion's blsth for the especial display Of the Book
the pure teachings OF winch arc the foundations Of
all free and enlightened Government.
The oduity Of the sign attracts to tho pavilion
good many people whe arc by no means in the
habit Of reading the Bible in any language ut ell,
and by whom it, reproduction III 100 languages il
regarded only au interesting literary curiosity
as a curiosity, too, winch needs TO be examined
number seems excessive and to require the sub
SANITATION of ocular proof. But with the Bible
itself, the fnlllnent is greater tantlc promise,
Tor the 100 languages include many dialects, and
the actual number Of different versions of the holy
work is no less than lG4. mere list Of names is
not very enlvcnins reading, yet list 50 fruuSht
logical value-as is that into which the Bible has
been translated, can scarcely prove unlntcrestlng,
and may therefore be given ~ follows: English.
French, Spanish, Catalan. Portugeec, lndo- Por:u-
Cuesc, Italian. Taudois, Piedmontcse. Komsueae
lobe:iand and Enghadine,, Rouman, Wclsh, Gelic,
Swedish, lcelandish, Flemish, Negro. English (snr-
jna,n}, Creolese West 1ndiee), albanian, Basque,
Russian sclavon,c, Bohemian, hungarian, Wsnd-
tian Samogi1ian. Lithrnian, Lettish (L1yona),
Polish, Finnish, Norway -Lapponcse, Lap, Estho-
nan tRussa, norpa ana NcyaD hunGas.am Tnohn
wassiun (Russia)- Georgian, Syr'ac ancient anu
modeTn), Arabic, Maltese, Ethlopic, Ticre (Abys-
sinia}, Amharic {Abyseinia) armenian (ancisnt int
If,evjon} Hinli Eenoaii lin native and Roman
chafacters}, Gnjerati {West 1ndics), pasl-Gn-
serati. Aiarathi, sudhI lndia), Panjabi, Fsmil,
native tive and Romun characterz), ori=sa nndia),
japanese lin native and Roman ehaEacters},
Chinese {according 70 the BF'dgman and M & Cnl-
quial dialects OF Fnhchan, Ningpo. Atnhoy, and
shaueha-the first three in native, the last three IN
Roman charactezsl, Sia1nese. Bnrman, Ahassl IN
bayan Tor Low Malay. Dasasia), Da]ak tBorneol'
JAPANESE, Nia=ian, Ma1agasy (faGa.zascas), Mar
rineyri tAustralla}. Maori sScw Zealand, Sen.
Uebridesj, Eromauga, Fate, fijian, Hotuman,
Toorsan. Nieuc .tSavagc lsland), samoan, Ka5o-
tougan. Tabitan, Ebon kusa!en G'beTt l2anas' n.;!
hcrero. kair4 Damara, Sanlacnqa, Duatla' ioo'
Haussa, lorgbuba, Accra, Tsaehi, Mende Man
es esa
eca, Dakota, ojibway. Auskokce,, Cherokee lin
native charactersl Delaware, Nez ferces4 AaSau,
Avmarn, and ATrawack. ..-. .
The amount of labor expended upon these trans-
1aons can scarcely be realized. even by those who
have been engaged in similar work, especially US
such work has been Of religious ortechuical char
actcr, requiring the utmost care to prcserEe sense
and fact intact the transportation from one set OF
words into smother OF different powers anu d,fier-
ent construction. In the mujorlty OF these trans
Iations it has been primarily necessary to reduce
the foreign language to written signs, au under
taking requiring years of patient, laboEious re-
seasch which must be counted in aa part OF the
work Us . whole. But an even greater difficulty
has been found in making tue language Of heathcn
theory OF the Christian religion is pure, its
comniand1nents-while so sinple-are 50 exalted
that the vocabuaries, simple for the promotion OF
he purely perfect doctrine Of Christ. The tongues
framed .ony to describe the grosI material wants
OF the boiy. have required Infinite aaanipu-
tIem TO tie language OF the soul,
and it has been upon this division OF their noble
TASK that the greater postiaA x Ae kbGs q trans