Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-06-04
THE REVISED BIBLE.

most remarkable sale of any book
ever published. AS a financial un-
dertaking it is the greatest success
of modern times. Two weeks ago,
in an article on the subject, we gave
several quotations comparing the
new text with the old. To day we
give below the opinions of leading
New York clergymen on the revis-
ion:
The Rev. Or. Henry c. Potter, of
Grace Church, says: Legislation
BY the Grand Convention will have
to precede the adoption of the re-
vision by the clergy of the Episco-
pal Church. The King James YER
sion of the Scriptures has been
inherited from the mother church of
England, and the new work by it's
merits will have to first win for itself
estimation, appreciation and conf.
dence." DR.. Potter Personally has
specially warm interest in the
work. Marked conservatism is rated
ss the most prominent feature Of the
REVISION, DR.. Potter said, and even
what may be considered the errors,
he thinks, are errors upon the judi
cious side.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, of
Trinity Church, says: "The King
James version was the only author
lied one in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and no other can be used
until it is established by authority.
The only authority is general con-
vention by the church. In the
meantime no Protestant Episcopal
clergyman had any more right to
introduce a bible different from that
now used than he had to Introduce
a new prayer book" The revised
edition of the New Testament he
regarded as an interesting contribu
tion to literature, and he thought it
ought to be studied.
The Rev. Thomas Armitage, D. D.,
pastor OF the Fifth-avenue Baptist
Church, says he shall not introduce
the revised New Testament into
public worship, not because it was
not superior to the King James, but
because he already possessed bet
ter version, that of the American
Bible Union, which he had en-
ployed in public and private for the
last fifteen years. He thought the
revisers had either gone too far or
not far enough; they should either
have disregarded popular prejudices
altogether and acted and voted in all
cases in accordance with the ripest
scholarship, or have contented them
selves with few obvious and r,eces-
sary cancellations. 1t had been con
coded to him privately by one of the
scholars engaged in the revision that
the American Bible Union text had
been a constant work of reference in
the PROCESS of the work, and yet
such was the pride of English schol-
srshlp that not word of credit was
given to the latter, either by note of
reference or in the introduction
Speaking for his denomination gen.
orally, he thought the revised text
would be ultimately adopted by the
Baptists as text for public and
private worship; but he, for the
present at least, should continue to
use the versions he had employed SO
long.
The Rev. DR.. j P. Newman, Of tn e
Central Methodist Church, says: II
favor the revision, though l think
there are some grammatical changes
open to discussion. Some of these
changes are made on too slight a
ground, and have sacrificed the ven
cradle forms of expression which
were embalmed in the memory of
the Church. There are other changes
relating to doctrine which should
have been made, but the revisors
lacked the courage to do it. They
were too largely influenced by his
terical theology, which is a purely
human invention. In some things
the Church will be disappointed ;
bnt on the whole it is magnificent
work of modern scholarship, cspec-
ially in the department of biblical