Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-06

by the American reVlSiOulsts nave TINS
TO say--one gentleman here takes the
responsibility OF choosing a gronp OF
American scholars to revise the New
Testament. The gentleman taking this
responsibility having been born and
educated in foreign land was not espec-
ially adapted to make wise selection
among American scholars. This gentle
man in making the selection
Derides the Living and Dead Generations
OF Bible readers by saying and reite-at-
ing: The Christian people for years
have been drinking the water oil nie
from the Jaw bone OF q royal ass" This
gentleman selects group OF scholars TO
revise the New Testament, and except
ing four OF them,they are unknown out,
side OF their little circle. / could call
the roll call Of hundred scholars supe-
rior to all those employed IN this work,
except the illustrious DIR. Woolsey. l
yehemently reject the mode OF put
ting the Scriptures in columns like
solid newspaper column, instead oil the
division OF verses, as in our present
translation. IL Is the
Charm of Our Old Book
that business man or q wife, ,oyerborne
with household cares, or an invalid with
no power OF consecutive thought, can
take up a verse and carry it all day. |
omen a page of this new version and l
find one paragraph a column and bali
long. BY this new translation one VIII
be tempted to think, 81 can't take the
whole page, so will take nothing
That shortest verse OF the Bible-an
ocean oil sympathy impressed in two
yords-"Jesus wept"--is set in s)lid
paragraph OF one column and halt.
You can find il IL you look long enough
for il, but il needs to stand out isolated
and alone in its grandeur ana tender
ness and pathos and omnlpotence oil
meaning. Another mechanical misior-
tune is the dropping OF the headings oil
the chapters. 1t is an important part OF
the old translation. We all want to
know what the chapter is about before
We begin 10 read it.
| reject the new version for
It's Amazing Travility.
You have more control over your sense
of the ridiculous than | have If YOU can
read without smile some OF the changes
made or proposed You remember
Christ's sermon where he speaks OF the
inaptitude OF putting new wine into old
bottles In our revision OF 1881 it Is
rendered: "No man putteth new wine
into old wine skins, else the wine will
burst the skins and the wine perisheth
and the skins. But they put new wine
into fresh wine skins" The change is
evidently made to show that the bottles
of olden time were made out OF the skins
OF animals, but II is not just
as easy to explain the bottles to the peo
pie as 10 explain the wine skins. "Show
me a penny" said Christ, wishing from
the kingly stamp on it to illustrate its
earthly currency. That will not do, say
the reyisionists. Instead OF "Show me
a penny" ""Show me a denarius.. The
revision changes the "beasts' OF Rave-
lations into "hving creatures" But will
you not have to explain living creatures
as we'll as the beasts. The old transla-
tions was
Two Much for the Delicacy
Of the American part OF the New Testa-
ment Company, where it says OF Simon
Peter. "He girt his coat about him, for
be was Naked" the American commit
tee suggests that il should read in the
margin "had on his under garments
only," The old translation said:
"Neither do men light candle and put
/ il under q bushel, but on a candle
stick" The reyisers reject candle
stick" for stand" The new revision
makes other changes OF how little i'm.
portance Judge ye, when il saysthat the
old translation which reads into a
4, 40, ba kr ha
tain" where the old translation says
Unto ship" it ought to be THE ship
and instead OF teacher IN Israel 1t
ought to be the teacher. Instead OF
good Il ght it ought to be the good fight
and instead of "a crown OF righteous
ness" il ought to be "the crown OF
righteousness" and instead OF "a
bushel." the bushei, and instead OF
covered with waves" it ought to read
"becoming covered and instead OF
"net brake" it ought 10 read were
breaking" and instead of "straining at
gnat' il ought to be "straining out
gnat and
with which shall not worry your pa
tience.
What the world wants is not critics,
By evangels, not men to knock the
doxology out OF the Lords prayer, but
men TO make all nations kneel. pro-
claiming at the feet of Christ, Thine Is
the kingdom and the power and the
plory forever, amen" At the opening
OF the services to-day, l led you in the
,ord's PRAYER accordiny to the new ver-
sion. stopuing before the doxology, but
Twill never do il again, either in public
or private, unless in my dying prayer
my breath should 90 out at that point.
ann then | would finish it in heaven;
f,r that is the only part OF the Lords
PRAYER appropriate for both
Church Militant and Church Triumphant.
Again / reject this sew revision, for
il Iakes the faith of many in the truth
Of the Bible. Out and out intidelity,
after hundreds OF years OF lombard
ment, instead Of demolishing, have only
driven the Bible further into the affec-
tions Of the world. The chief danger is
from the mistaken friends OF the Bible
Unbeliei and skepticism are not logical.
But YOU have to take men as they are.
The reyisionists begin their work by
saving there are in the New Testarlent
10000 mistskes, and that there are
10000 varie les OF readings TO the New
Testament The devil takes. these sta.
tistics which yod can manage without
damage to Yourself and he makes them
the everlasting ruin OF a great multi.
tude. This movement will
Turn More Souls into Stark Infidelity
than the thirty y-eight gentlemen OF the
New Testament company will ever ar
gu ont OF it, though they should live
the s95 years OF Mahslsleel, the 962
wears OF Jared, and the 800 years Of
Methuslleh aggregated. The greatest
work OF the last 20 years has been to
have the people understand that this
was the word Of God. the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth. And now you say there are only
10000 mistakes in il and only about l35
thousand readings and 10 changes te be
made in the sermon on the mount. You
say they are not radical mistakes. Why
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