Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
RELIGIOUS.

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RELIGIOUS.
Some Notes of Religious News in the
World.
The Welsh Presbyterian Church in 1851
numbered IS, Sl3 members, while last year
the total membership was 1926 with
upward of 100, 900 adherents and 1863, 37s
| Sunday-school scholars. There were !, 300
persons received into membership last
year.
1t is estimated that at The present time
the Old Catholics in the German Empire
include at least 45 clergymen and $4,000
lay members, under one bishop. The
largest congregations are those at Munich,
Cologne and Breslau, numbering about
5000 persons each.
/ Methodism in France holds its own, and
makes slight gains. There are at present
l66 places of worship in France-an in
crease Of only four in the last year. There
are 80 minister's % local preachers, los
class leaders, l,775 members with l04 on
trial, and SO Sunday schools, containing 2,
655 scholars, connected with the churches.
The revised version of the New Tesla.
ment cannot, it is said, be permanently
used in an English Presbyterian Church
until it has received the sanction of the
Synod. DR.. Donald Fraser, however, has
favorably reviewed it from his pulpit, and
DR.. THAN Davidson read one of the les
sons from it a few Sundays ago.
The Calvinistic Methodists in Wales
recently held General Assembly, in
which it was stated that there were in the
denomination l, l47 societies. l, l34 chapels,
600 ordained ministers, lis, $40 commune
cants, and I63, 1873 Sunday.schoo scholars.
cade was 80. s per cent. in South Wales,
and 25.7 per cent. in North Wales.
The Rev. Moses How, of Cambridge,
| Mass, who is said to have been the oldest
ordained preacher in New England, died a
few days ago at the age of 80 years. The
| Rev. John F. Adams, of the New Hamp-
| shire Conference, who is 81 years old, is
now said to be the oldest preacher in that
section of the country, and the Oldest
Methodist preacher in the world.
John Marshall and John Adams were
! the intellectual children of the clergymen
of their day. Without that religious
teaching which anchored our Constitution
on the moral law, which bound them by
God itself, our Republic would have
crumbled and wasted away and persisted
as speedily as did the French Republic of
1913. Whatever there is of virtue in
American life and structure has come, in
directly but surely, from the influence OF
the generation of Congregational clergy
men which preceded. Senator Hoar.
From the report Of the Statistical Secre-
| tary, which was read at the international
| Sunday School Convention at Toronto, it
appears that there are in the United States
81, $50 Sunday-schools /; Canada, 5,400,
and in Newfoundland, 240, making total
of 90,370. The teachers in the United
States number 6,S20,S35 in Canada,
$40, ITO, and in Newfoundland, 1000,
making total of 975, l95. The scholars
are divided as follows United States,
$3.50, S35 Canada, $40, 40, and New
| foundland, l6, 100, making total of
| 7,I77, l65. The number of converts added
to the churches in twenty-four States and
Territories was reported at l23. 532.
| At least one clergyman in the Church of
England has taken decided stand in
favor of the revised version. The Rev.
Philip Hedgeland, of Penzance, writes to
the Spectator that actual experience is the
only test by which the work of the re-
visers should be judged. 81 have so far
used the revised version IN my church
daily from the first Sunday after its APP
pearance," he writes, and shall probably
continue the use, unless my Diocesan
should forbid it. That, of all things, an
appeal to the Bishops should be avoided.
They cannot conveniently authorize what
is uncertain in law, but they can tacitly
allow the use of the revised version, just as
they allow the use of hymns. And if the
clergy who wish to set before their people
the truest rendering OF the original Script
ures will only do their part, not being
hindered by authority, the revised version
will, if found worthy, gradually take the
place of the Authorized as the Author
lied gradually land probably without
formal authority superseded the Bishops
Bible"
Upon the heels OF the announcement thai
a new edition of the revised version of the
New Testament, containing the readings
suggested by the American committee
would be published in New York, comes thu
news that the members of the Baptist de
nomination in Philadelphia intend to issu,
a new edition of the Testament Scriptures
The American Baptist Publication Society
will have charge of the work. Nothing
has been determined yet as to the characte
of the new edition. 1t has been deter
mined, however, to incorporate in the bool
the rejected suggestions OF the American
committee, the displaced phrases beinl
printed either as foot-notes or in an appen
dix. 1t is possible, however, that the KIM
James text and that of the American com
mittee may be printed in parallel columns
The Rev. DIR. George W. Anderson, tn
editor of the Baptist Publication Society
and the Rev. DR.. Henry G. Weston, o
Grocer Seminary, will supervise the ar
rangement of the work. In speaking o
the forthcoming version the Rev. DR.. Will
lam Cathcart, President of the Philadel
phia Baptist Historical Society, is reported
to have said There were few Baptist
on the committee but we do not particu
larry want Baptist Bible we simply de
sire translation that will correspond a
nearly as may be with the origina
Greek. Many things In the King Jane
Bible were mistranslations, and they hav
not been set right In the new revision. Il
the third chapter of Matthew, for instance
we find the Greek word en- translated
in where it speaks of all Judea ant
Jerusalem having been baptized by JOIN
in the river Jordan. That, you see, ex
actly bears out our doctrine of baptism b.
immersion. But few verses further OF
we find the same Greek word renderet
with Elsewhere it speaks of baptizinl
with the River Jordan-not with the water
of the nver, but with the Jordan itself.
In view of this action by the Baptists o
Philadelphia, the following brief extrac
from sermon preached in London few
Sundays ago by the Rev. G. II. Spurgeon
will be read with interest. ssNo Baptist,
he said, should ever fear any honest at
tempt to produce the correct text and 81
accurate Interpretation of the Old ani
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