Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-22
WHICH?

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The revision of the New Testament is
announced as complete, and between two
and three million copies have been sold
in single day. This demonstrates an
earnest desire to follow the incubation
of the text, but whether the
world is to be profted thereby
may be considered an open question.
There has for years been growing
element of doubt relative to the anthem
ITCHY and inspiration of the scriptures.
The common title page of the now
cid "New Testament" runs in this wise:
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ; translated out Of the original
Greek, and with the former trans]ations dill
gently compared and revised.
As if to encourage the doubts noted,
we are, now confronted with another
" revision which has been prepared
by those who rank as the ablest
biblical scholars of the century,
and are grayely informed that we have
been for generations following false
lights. Our idols are ruthlessly smashed
by the multitude of 'errors'' which the
savans now discover. Men have come
and gone under the supposition that they
had been enabled to "search the scrip
lures" and we are, startled
to find that it has been an
incorrect copy which has been extant all
these years. The Sabbath school educa-
ton which has been inculcated In the
present generation, must pass for naught,
and the venerable men and women of
to-day must needs revise their early
teachings, 10 ascertain what ground to
stand upon.
The new revision will now be endorsed
as diligently compared and revised"
and like the "only original Jacob
Townsend's Sarsaparilla,' will be
claimed as the only correct
guide to point the footsteps of the
multitude heavenward This will, per-
haps, prove satisfactory to the people On
earth at this date, but what is to become of
those who have gone before with the
crude and erroneous translation out of
the original Greek" as their guide board!
Are they to be considered as lost through
ignorancef What adequate penalty can
be inflicted on the false guides who have
kept the world cropping in darkness over
a laundering edition of the scriptures
Perhaps they have their re-
ward in punishments inflicted in
the other world, but 1t can hardly be con-
sidered fair for those they have misled to
suffer for their sins. If people have been
able to reach the bright and shining
shore by means of searching an erroneous
edition of the scriptures, what boots it to
new have correct copy?
And after all what assurance have we
that the present version is correct9 The
two or three million people who are in
dustriousiy engaged to-day in searching
this new edition of the scriptures, and
the other millions who win put IN the
hot weather in similar work, ought to
have some assurance that they are
right at last. 1t is narrowing to think
that all this research may be again upset
IN q few years by more wise men who may
come after us, and adjust their eye glasses
upon the crooked Greek letters, only to
find that the wisdom Of to day is another
comedy Of errors.
The GLOBE cannot conscientiously
welcome the new revision. It may be q
good thing for controversialists, but as a
guide board for the future state, we doubt
its efficacy. The clergy can discuss the
respective versions ad R6stssns, but the rev