Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-06-09
In Defsnse Of the New Re-
vision.
A Happy Tribute to the Beau
ties of the Divine World.
As Given 10 o Sinful World Through
the Medium Of the New Testament.
Excelling the Old Testament as the
Sun Excels the DINNER Light
of Moon and Stars.
Abstract Of Sermon Delivered in the
First Presbyterian Church at
Pittsburg.
Especial Dispatch to the Enquirer. ]

Especial Dispatch to the Enqurer.l
PITTsBURG, PENN, May 29.-Dr
Phillip Schaff, of New York, Chair.
man of the American Committee Of
Revision of the Testament, lectured
here this morning in the First Presby
terian Church, in the defense of the
new revision, to an immense congre
CATION. In the evening he spoke al
Library Hall in German, urging the
closer observance OF the Sabbath. In
his morning address DIR. Schaff in sub
stance said:
Read Saint Paul, third chapter, six
teenth verse. This passage refers in
the first instance to the Scriptures OF
the Old Testament, for the New Testa
ment was at that time not complete
and IN wider; higher sense it applies
even more forcibly to the New Testa-
ment. 1t rises as high above the Old
Testament as the glory of the sun ex.
GELS the diner light of the moon and
the stars, for the Old Testament is only
preparation for the New. 1t is dis.
pensation of the law and of promises.
The New Testament is fulfllment of
the Old, and dispensation of Gospel
and grace, able to save to the utter
most all that believe. Take, then, the
Bible as a whole, the Old and the New
Testaments together as book inspired
by God, addressed to all men, of all
ages, of all classes and conditions of
society, and yet written by holy men,
being thus divine and human, both as
the person of our adorable Lord and
Savior as God and man in one person.
4 say it is divine and human book,
given by inspiration for the instruc-
ton, for the Improvement, for the ad-
vancement of the whole human race, to
the end of time, and Is by far the most
remarkable book that was ever witten
or published. We may say it is not
book; it is all institution. 1t is one of
the three fundamental pillars of Chris
tian society, the Church of God, the
day of God and the Book of God; a
Holy Trinity or earth, on which our
civilization and all that is pure and
good and noble and desirable in our
institutions, in our private, public and
national life rests. And if you could
blot out this book of books from hu-
man society, or if you could destroy
the Church of God, or the Gay of God,
you would inhict o mortal wound to
all that is best in our houses, in our
nation, and in our whole modern life.
You would prepare the way for the re
lapse of mankind into the heathenism,
into barbarism worse than that from
which our forefathers were brought
out by means OF this three-fold human
and divine agency the Christian
Church, the Christian Sabbath and the
Holy Bible.
After referring to the former trans
lations, he continued:
Every living language changes from
time to time. The language of the
Saxons changed into the modern Eng
Iish by taking into itself the Norman
French, and the English of Wickliff's
time changed into the English of Tyn-
lall's time changed as modified into the
English of King James revisioners;
and so the language of King James
aas since undergone great modifica.
lion, and so great as formerly, because
language has now reached a higher
stage of ofperfection and classical form,
but not sufficiently so but that certain
words have changed their meaning to
one which is directly opposite to that
expressed by them, and it was
desirable that these words should be
replaced. | will give YOU some exam,
pies, In the New Testament the word
prevent is used, meaning there to go
before, ito precede,' which is the orig
NAL meaning. Now it means the re.
yerse-to hinder or obstruct. The
same word occurs in the Epistles-that
IS, to go before, 10 precede and not to
hinder, the opposite word to Iet.'
\ on read in the first chapter Of Paul's
Epistle to the Romans that Paul saws
ne had a desire to visit the saints In
Rome, but was 'let hitherto Now,
hat means thereto, prevent, withheld
rom 1t is used in the same sense,
also, in Thessalonians. Then we read
hat I'VE took up our carriages, which
las been retranslated baggage, as con
aiming a truer meaning. Then we
read in Paul's Epistle to the Romans,
.wenty- eighth chapter, I'VE fetched our
Now, what do they mean?
'or we know they had no compasses in
hose days. 1t means that they made
. circuit in roundabout way Then
1ou have the word Easter in the
welfth chapter of Acts for passover.
There was no Easter in those days;t
8 term of the Middle Ages. Then
'ou read of the words by and by in
aase of forthwith, and it means just
ae reverse. Paul says to the Colin-
dians Il know nothing against my
elf 1t means by myself for against
1yself. Then you have a variety of
hrases especially in the Old Testa. !