New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-06

criticism and the hands Of pedantry and the hands OF
useeas disturbance had better keep on OF H. wrongly
10 touch that omnlpotent box b 70 ue We
are In the midst Of great agitation consequent upon
the upw revision of the Scriptures We had ransAton
276 wears old embossomed In the warmcst affections OF
al h GOOD ~ Garth pterlocked with the best secular
literature and pronounced by the Websters and the
washington ryngs AS the masterpiece OF English prose
An Chr,sendom was satisfied with the TRANSLATION e1-
cent few doctors Of divinity
hui two companIes-an Old Testament Company ana D.
New Testament Companyhave been busy Tor ten years
changing the book and few days ago the New Testa-'
ment launched the result OF it, abors upon the
orld After Universal advertisement Of the intended
book and the dramatic Withholding OF the book TIL
a certain day. the work came forth. Two
million copies were sold In two days what
commitment TO the scrptures Yes but be not deceived
Did the 2OOOOO0 people suddenly become pashonateV
fond Of scrkpture readingi No These 100000 Bibles
vent into houses where the Bible was already
e,,broned All those Of who honored the
book wanted TO know what these men had
been doing with favOrite Tor ten years IN
add,ton o the general curiosity about the ieonoclasm
OF parts OF our best book the denominations OF religion
lists were anxious 20 see their peculiar Ve"s Houu 10
favored or opposed by the new version
Tho church and the world have the famous revision be-
fore them. We are asked for our verdict There are
many who do not want to oppose the ecclesAscai rins
for each denomination has suen rhg' anu
there Ia as much bOsssm In the church OF Goa
as in the world and monopoly would rule the kingdom
OF Christ II could It rules the money market anu
legislatures Of the world Nine hundred and ninety
r,n ot NJ every thousand In the depths OF their
souls that the revision has been attempted and look
upon II "a desecraton and PROCLAMATION ana mmu-
alton and religious outrage am ws 10 INK hot
commentary aud TO stand II respectfully on ny poJA
shelf behind other human opinions OF the oIu OF %
but to put IT upon my private stand. or IN I King
room or on my pulpit as substitute LOT MIX
Iames's translation, I never win put my hand
on tho old book and take the oatn o, sd H no%
that Lord Shaesbury and the Archbishop OF lork anu
many other strong men on the SnSr sb aptbortS or
anti-revisonists But supported Dy Su annsn,sc
no authority here and now take my stanu Appausse
These 6y men after ton years e tS,n mu new ~"
doctrine. II II had been found that thr trans"oon ~, a.
teaching any false ideas OF God OF OF INC D, " :"
future, would say, by all means give US ne ~, 80
aud put forth immediate and mlgltless 'n ,.. w.,
the organized oblteraon OF the 4 have wrong
Of God and the soul 9 nd eirT nn ycpe. Of
the Bible, out In the World ana uo'E coraI Ghnrrh
assails the magnificent liturgy OF the Llscopal ~
makes the Inscriptions the graves OF your dead uh
true; II reflects upon the old family ne anu 10 "e m
tated leaves nothing certain save the record OF mar
rages births and deaths. II this new version sncee
for the next few years you will have 20 watch your
chdrens offering OF the Lords Prayer ana !eiA .o ~
shot before they run over the evil into an unln
spired doxolory. Iauchtcrl II Is an out-andout war
against all the religious literature ~ thc ages II, =,
Who undertook this im-rtlnence on t,e psr ~ sh
the sea know not the qualifications Oh VIZ ~ elem
have done the work. understand thht mHh! ~ ~"
ARE far from being the best scholars oi Grrat bllh
| only Judge them 10y this revision. IL Il Phahc; GAIT
eour and false tn the principle which they dech w
outset would guide them namely. that they would MAKE
unnecessafS changes. As Ia the work zone oy ,,e
American revisonirts have THIS To say oli. Ernt'
man takes the responsibility OF choosing group
American scholars to revise the New Testhncnt' Inc
gentleman taking this responsibility, having peeh nI
aud educated In foreign land. was not erpccihl9
adapted 10 make wise selection among American "n"i
This gentleman In making thcSeecton ueIlhen ,nr
living and dead generations of Bible readers, Dy nlhH
and reiieTatng, The Christian people Tor years nav
frttTn "a
royal ass Excepting four OF these scholar, they ARE IN
known outside of their little circle. could call the roll
OF hundred scholars superior to all those enpoyou
this work executing the nlustrions Dr. WOOscy. II
q needs lie done. why not call In conVcn
all the great and good scholars o America ana MAKE
selectiOn OF rcyis0nstst where Il the scholarship 81
Princeton Columbia, Mlddlotown and New iiruhH"lck
Tbe work II u literary bOtch, which VIII never Dc
adopted all the people fearless OF criticism ana rebuh
speak cut their real sentimental.