Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-23
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THE sORcEREE
Who harbors Love within his breast,
Though born to toll and low estate,
Is by the glamour of his guest,
Beyond the rich and high born, blest,
And greater than the great!
Nay Love within a bramble path
Hath grander realm than ancient Rome;
The humblcst roof OF tile or thatch
Beneath his sOrcery will match
Saint Peters mighty dome!
The Anti-Monopoly league of New
York is steadily moving forward in its
efforts to create popular sentiment in be-
half of the ends which it has in view.
Pamphlets, editorials, paragraphs and
speeches are being sown broadcast, and
sooner or later the effect Of this systematic
organization will he felt.
NEXT September twenty five cadet ell
ginecrs for service in the navy will he ap-
pointed, by competitive examination, held
at Annapolis, and any American boy be-
tween fifteen and twenty years Of age has
the right to contest for one Of the cadet
ships. Here is a good chance for lads
who would like to serve their country and
at the same time sail the bonnie blue sea.
To the Reformed church comes the
grateful news that its general synod in ses-
sion in Tiffin, Chic, have unanimously
adopted the report of the peace commits
sion which settled all the questions Of
cultus and doctrine that so long agtated
and threatened to divide the church, 1t
will be remembered that tho peace CON-
mission originated at the general synod in
this city in 1873 and its work done so soon
has been we'll done.
OF all the attempts made to review the
revision of the New Testament We find
none SO complete and scholarly as that of
IN. W. H." the erudite book reviewer
of tho New York Sun. lie takes up L
whole page in yesterdays issue with an
examination Of the four gospels in the
learned and catholic spilit which pervades
his regular reviews. He shows the merits
and dcmerits Of the revision, the improve
ments and Inconsistencies Of the revisers
in manner that seems to be incontro.
vertible.
THE great fire at Milton about u year
ago and the distribution of the relief fund
find their historian in Rev. w. II. GOtwald,
historian of Evangelical Lutheran church
there, who has published pamphlet of 81
pages about the fire and the legal proceed
ings in full in accordance with which the
fund was distributed. It is valuable and
interesting to all whom it may concern,
and has permanent value because the
distribution by law was entirely unique
and the case, SO ably handy by three dis
Interested common pleas Judges as masters,
establishes new departure IN ,iurisprl-
dence.
THE New York Observer thinks the
New Testament revision the most valu-
able contribution Of Biblical knowledge
which has been made within the last two
centuries. 1t will ut once stimulate the
reading and study Of the Holy Scriptures,
confirm faith, silence, caviI, clear up the
obscure and altogether "sllall accomplish
which please. On the other hand, in
England there is chorus of disapproval
over the changes which in the Gospels
average nine to each five verses, and in
Epistles three changes to each verse.
Elaborate criticisms appear in most of the
daily papers, all condemnatory, and con-
victing the revisers of disregardins |
their pledges to introduce the fewcst al
terations possible. These articles quote
scores of examples where the changes
We're purely frivolous and capricious, and
lenouncc the self-opinionated scholarship
Of the motley combination of tbeolosians
and professors which las disfigured,
mangled and made unrccognizable some
Of the nOblest passages in the Bible.
Other papers express in similar terms re-
gret, grief and astonishment at the re-
viscrs' wantOn disregard OF the reverence
and love felt by tho English people for the
existing text, saying that the revisers may
know Greek, but not English, and pro-
;esting against defacing the noblest mon-
lment of English prose. It is understood
hat an act of Parliament is required to
nforce the use of the new version by the
Established Church. The government
ave no intention of proposing such an
ct.