The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-05-25
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TIE REYISEDTEsrAMENT.

1
the Rev. Henry Ward Bsecher reached
the city last evening from VALPARAISO, Ind,
where he leCtured Saturday night, and the
reporter found him at the Grand Pacific,
"What do you think oil the rsVisiOn?"
said the reporter.
~ haven't examined it"
"Wss it necessary to revise the Bible?p
"Thore was o necessity for it. have
been indignant at the American Bible So.
Ciety for backing of the track. Years ago
thsy went to the great expense and labor
OF correcting simply the typographical
errors which had Crept into the text
they amounted to thousands and thou.
ssnds-snd published an edition. Aud
Bishop Coke got up on his hind legs, aud
some OF the Presbyterians asserted that
the Bible Society we're attacking the
church, and go on, and the Society backed
down, let the edition 20 out OF the market
and went back TO the old notlTiously
erroneous VerRlon, 1t was an outrage.
II would not have been for men that
didn't believe in the inspiration OF the
Scriptures; bat for men who did believe
without that TO stand on we have no
oTthodoxy-to admit that In the version
which ia given to the common people the
mind and the will OF the Lord as expressed
in the text is perverted is an outrage, The
text is Obscure, and they know 1t. II Is Q
misstatement OF them, and they know 1t,
no matter how small the particulars are,
II was not only Inconsistent, but 1t was an
outrage for men that really believed in the
divine inspiration Of the Scriptures, as
they did that have any church or Bible.
Now then comes q sober, Well'Eegulaled,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS band Of men In En-.
gland, representing all Christian denomi.
nations, and in AmeTicaI representing the
same-as able body Of men as could have
been secured in any period OF the worlds
history-and they have given ten years
and q half to the study Of this question,
not for the sake Of making new version,
but for the sake OF a reVision oil the old
version; and 1t is not possible, OF course,
that their work can be perfect, but that 1t
Ia q great advance on the former versions
| have no reason whatever 10 doubt. They
have thrown on. OF the text that which
scholars without exception have Tor long
time admitted was loisted into It, and did
not belong TO it,"
THAT will take away some OF Ingersoll's
ammunition"
"Yss, good deal OF It,"
"How do you regard the version as
literary produCtion?"
~ haven't read it,"
"Do you think 1t will be adopted by the
Congregational Churches?"
"Yesi generally, but some will hold out.
But some would hang back ii the trump Of |
the resurrection sounded. / think, gener.
ally speaking, the churches will very soon
SEQ their way to adoptit."
"0f all tho Protestant denominations?"
II think 3d."
"Will you adopt III"
"That will depend upon the action OF |
my church. If the congregation wautit
will"
"Wil not general action on the part Of |
other denominations be DeCessary?'
an the highly organized ones; but l |
think the Congregational and Presbyte. |
rian churChes willtake 1t up. Presbyterles
and Synods will doubtless give utleranCe
on the subject. Many Presbyterian
churches, however, will do as they see fit.
They arc not bound to ask the Synod or
Presbytery what hymn.book they shall
use"
"And how about the Episcopalian
ChurChes2"
"My impression Is that they will accept
1t. The revision comes from headquar.
ters-from the province Of the Archbishop
Of Canterbury-and some OF those en-.
gsged In the work are the most eminent
EDiscopslian scholars there and here. II
has been developed under Eplscopalian
ausrtCes."
"What DO you think Of the Faith, hope
and lover
at ia .eminently proper. l have used
that from twenty-five years In reading and
in speaking. When you use Charity you
put veil on the real thought; you can,
not see the face OF 1t. Charity originally
meant a generous disposition, but the
meaning has changed so that It has be.
come specific line Of faction. Love comes
nearer the meaning,-would be absolute
II 1t did not include passion as well as
beneiicenCe."
"Well, how do you regard the substitu.
ton OF 'Hades' for 'hell'?"
ut ought to have been substituted. |
don't think our modern idea OF hell ex.
listed In those dsys."
"Where is 'Hsdes'?"
~ hope l shall never find out. It Is one
point OF geography about which am
more than willing TO be ignorant"
"Doea 'Hades' destroy locality2"
"a hope go. l believe in state rather
than place."
PROF. SWINGS OPINIONS.