San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-06-16
THE REVISED BIBLE.


the Sacred Scriptures, protesting NJ
the same time, that you ''take no
great amount OF stock in theological
discussions, there accurs the follow
ing erroneous statement, which Iwish,
by your permission, to correct, You
say: THE new version comes from
the hands of considerable number
of the most learned and respectable
men of the present day, representing
all Christian denominations The
error into which you have fallen elus-
tiers grounds the word "all," which ]
have taken the liberty to itaicize.
Undoubtedly, 'the new version
comes from the hands of II consider
able number of learned and respect
able men, but it is not true that they
represent all Christian denominations.
The truth is, the 8Church OF Eng
land" which you characterize in this
same article, as corrupt and bigoted,
has had the absolute control and man
agement of this entire work Of re-
vision. Going back to the origional
source OF information, on this sub
ject, I find that when the English
committee was formed in 1870, erery
member was an ecclesiastic of that
Church! And DR.. Roberts, himself
the Leading spirit, says, 'She would
never accept a revision made by any
other denomination" And, with in.
exorable frmness and exclusiveness,
on this point, that Church has never,
in this work, accorded to any other
denomination, or even to the com
biped Judgment of all other denomi-
nations, IN equal voice with that OF
her own ecclesiastics, in deciding up,
on any of the new version, which you
so highly extol.
1t is true that the committee IN
yited the assistance of other scholars
in England, outside Of that denomi'
nation, but it was modestly arranged
by them that t,oO'thirds should still
belong to the Church of England!
II is, also, true, that twoyears LATER
American scholars, chosen equally
from all Churches, and to be known
as the American Committee, were III
vitcd, to cooperate in the work, to
get rid of the odium already awakepd
by the partizan aspect OF the Com
mittee, and to make the work of re-
vision appear essentially Protestant.
l quote from the official documents
THE Americans" by reason of the
terms of the Constitution adopted by
both the English and American Com
mittees, 'entered upon the work with
the cleaY understanding that they
were to be fellow reyisors with equal
rights and responsibilities as the
English Committee" But in 1877
there was a break--a rupturc--a fall
ING out! OF it's exact nature, the
} public is not informed-but it caused
} an interruption foE mosaths OF the com
, parison of the work between tho two
, Committees. It appears, however
to have been healed, or patched up
by the following agreement:
1.-The English revisers promise tc
send confdentially their revision IN
its various stages to the American re
yisers, to take all the American sug
> gestions into special consideration
before the conclasioa Of their labors
, to furnish them before publication
+ with copies of the revision in its Tina
l form, and to allow them to present
, in an Appendix to the Revised Scrip
lures, all the remaining differences o
= reading and rendering OF Importance
e which the English Committee shoult
+ decline to adopt; while on the othel
y hand, the Amcricnl revisers pledg'
:, themselves to give their moral sup
port to the authorized editions OF thu
University Presses, with a view tC
!. their freest circulation within the
q United States, and not to issue II
val edition for term OF fourteen
years.
Observe, now, by this arrangement
the American Committee, which wa
designed to represent Professionalism
and not the Church of England, i
denied an equal voice in the work
Fhey are allowed simply to max
suggestions. which the Church
England Committee may adopt o
not, at its own pleasure; they are a
-. lowed, by this agreement, to proscn
a their rejected suggestions i'll an al
pendx. prorided they will promis
! not to put cut an edition. which sha
represelt the uptammeled views q
: of Professionalism, for fourteen year
a to GOMEZ!
But the final decision of every que'
IS ton is here expressly reserved to IL
r,um;ttae whose members are ttw