The Leavenworth weekly times., 1877-11-01
A LECTURE On THE ENGLISH
BIBLE.
Prepared for the LeavenWOrth
County sabbath school Instii"ie-
LcayenwOrih City. October i9th
and 2Oih, 1877, by Rev. f.tM. Spen-

lfuoiisheo oy request vi '''e
an presenting ANYTHING like a full dis
o,yioa of ,h;s srh;ec, We must enouire
It'll. MIL,
ai'ef the source "hehce 'iie
came, and show how it come into It's pres
ent form. 1t will be admitted without dis
,,s-;o,, ,b,, a,lJ scr;n,pre WAS gwen by
u'''" w
inspiration oi uou.
The Old Testament was written originally
i'm the Hebrew language and the New Test
,,.r, :, tho Gr..t I,ncu,ga To these
seherai statements .iefe "'e 'o"ne '@''
exceptions. Several passages IN Ezra, con-
sisting of copies of letters addressed TO the
p.h,Ion;.,s and tho Pool Of Daniel from
:,
'he secohu W 'he aer.n.A
exclusively vi 'he ah'is y,
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tfadi,ioh tha' ai'ei 'he "uoh iion'
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iahS".Se oi '-"i'Pe- Lesioes theSe 'Heie
During to the dark ages however the Bible
was accessible to but few, partly because Of
the difficulty of multiplying copies by the
slow process of manual labor and partly to
the discouraging influence Of the Romish
Church. Especially from and after the
council of Thoulouse which prohibited the |
laity from possessing the scriptures. This
prohibition was frequently repeated upon
other occasions.
About the beginning of the fourteenth
century science came TO the aid of the Cos
pel and furnished a cbeap substitute for the
ancient yellum. The discovery of the art
of making paper was one important step to-
wards the giving of the Gospel to the
masses. The discovery of the art of print
ing in the fifteenth injury and the plori-
ous reformation in the sixteenth cen,urv
were additional steps in the same direction.
and made it possible to place a copy Of the
whole Bible in the hands OF every man, wo
man and child living upon the earth and in
their own mother tongue. The discovery of
steam has done much to facilitate this work
and now printing presses driven by steam
are multiplying copies OF the Bible, which
are being carried by car and ship load into
all parts OF the habitable earth
Il, s.;d that thor. ,ro M, loss ,h.
HUNDRED I,nou,ges or d;a,acts nov in nsa ~
narts If The e.rtb Ten vaa,s 49,.
!, VA s,a,ed that rho R;bIa had ~, SO.
I.,.d into u,ore ,b,n ono bnnJraJ nd 4 S;,r
of ,basa a, The nrasan, r.,a of nn". s
No, m.nv decades ri ve,,s vii, n,sr III ,hs
R;bis vii, he ~;tbin the re,ch & al
Ru, we are 10 sn..ak moro nar,;cnI,r,v of
the Englisb Bible. i the RibIe in ,bs
Enol;sb Ianouage In do;n, So ve c,nnot
we'll avoid sav;ng sometime about this Ian.
rnace Jt i one of the modern Iapgn,oas
? md has develor,ed l;Ie the Eno,;sb sol.
inc race from the chaos Of the middle ,oes
a. might he sunnosed II is comnosite All