Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-28
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Whatever may be the fate OF the revision.
the discussion Of definite questions of interpre.
tation will inevitably be most Instructive. IL
ought 20 De remarked that the Impulse which
will be given to biblical study BY the revision
mas been more or less cordially recognized on
an hands, and there Is very little ground to
iear tnat the Changes made viii have any
tendency to lessen the popular reverence for
The Word Of God.-Bdptist Weekly.
Rev. DR.. Robert Laird Collier, late OF
chicago is not being quoted with CONNIE ada
tlon by Unttarians since his return to England;
ana ne evidently doesn't like them overmuch.
EBgiish with American Unttarianism 10 q way
nythlng but favorable TO the former. The
Wofd Unitarian stands for two entirely differ
emit things In the two countries, he SAYS In
New England 1t means a church with the in
s.1tutlons, sacraments and organization of q
chulcn; put In England 1t means that the sac
that all institutional religion receives onIy
meager and Negative support. The Unitar,an
movement there Is cold. critical and theistic.
eulogizlng freedom OF opinion while intoierant
oi ail opinion not In accordance with It's own
views. "A
The late venerable and eloquent Dr.. Loy!ck
Pierce, who never missed a chance, during a
ministry OF seventy-f1ve years. 70 do the
negroes good, was preaching once on Christian
Ter to make astonishing cumaxes now and
then. On this occasion he laid down the law
CT HE and death in Christian experience:
you must make. II you can fly fly; IL you cant
h!, run; II you can't run, walk; ii you can't
walk, crawl" His voice was rising TO It's ful
trumpet tones, and hts eyes flashing as few
eyes ever flashed His right hand was still high
advanced. The congregation trembled for him
What could ne say more? But he was the mas
ter OF such crisis. He wound up the senteace
with an explosion like thunder: .Ir YOU can't
cfaWl-worm II a!ong!"
the Kew. DR.. Samson, acting moderator al
the Baptist ministers conference In New York
has expressed the opinion that the Oriental
ana Protestant churches would not accept or
from the Lords Prayer. He said the PoiyviSr
OF Walton, the Lexicon OF Castell and the Com
mentaries OF Poole sustained the King James
version, as old nearly all the Greek manu-
Scripts or their day. The doXology was ia the
ARABIC and nearly all the versions used In the
various sectS OF the Oriental church. and ft was
TO be found In the liturgles of st. Chrysostem
ana 81. Basil, and In the versions throughout
Greece and Russia. The later version OF ST.
Jerome, published In the fifth century, omit
yea IL. Nor was 1t quoted by Tertullian, Cyp.
ran ana other Latin fathers, or In the Catholic
Bibles. The omission OF the doxoIogy was
based on an examination of the AleEandrtan
manuscript, now In the British Museum, but
all the pages Of Matthew up to chaptsr d
verse 6, were lost. 1t was also omitted in the
SlnaiIic manuscript, first seen by Leschendorfr
In 1914: but this was so imperfecIly copied that
whole lines were omitted, one OF which was
the doxology.
A few years ago the attacks made upon
religion by some men Of science led to the
foundation of an English society to investl-
gate all philosophical or scientific questions
more especially those said to initiate against
the truths OF revelation, and to ubliSh Lhe re-
SUITS 10 IT'S members In quarterly journal.
This society. which was called the Victoria In
st1tute, or Philosophical Society OF Great
Britain, now boasts OF 900 members each pay
Ing small annual subscription among whom
are many leading men OF science. The Arch
bishop OF Canterbury. and several English.
Colonial and American preiates have also
joined IT, Lord ShafteSbury recently said:
tine OBJECT With which this society was
formed was, not merely to beat down the views
OF others. not to be antagOnlstic to the progress
OF science, but 20 do all that we could do for the
development OF truth. and, II l may use the
phrase, to give religion fair play This So
ctety was not founded to establish either one
opinion or another. 1t was not started for the
purpose OF setting up the Bible against SCI
ence. The object Of the society was, that sci
ence should have fair play, that the truth
should ce told on ali sides, and that we might
get rid Of the despotism Of certain scientific
men, Because 1T is perfectly well known that
men or science, With all their sublime and
mighty notions, are as 6espotic as the weakest
OF the human race, and they are exercising
their despottc sway to a remarkable extent
who are either fascinated by what they have
read and discovered, or are crushed BY the
authority OF few great names. 1t was ia
order, as have said, that science SHOULD have
fair play that this institute was established.
and the blessing OF God has SO rested upon n
that it has at last taken q hold In public e.u-
nation"