St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
The New Revised Testament.

Tuesday, the 18th day of next May,
well, you may enter it on your calen-
der if you will as New Revision Day ;
for then in this city of New York the
New Revised Testament can he had by
any one who has fire cents to his credit
which he can draw upon. There will
be all sorts of styles, prices and bind
ings. The prices will vary from five
cents to fifteen dollars the bindings
from the curly paper cover to rich le-
want morocco, while those who have
sent their ten dollars to DR.. Scbaff will
receive that elegantly bound copy with
Il special inscription specially stamped
by special stamper. And that special
ten-dollar edition is bright idea which
would do no discredit to The Christian
at Work itself it appeals to n very
subtle feeling which permeates human
nature. We are not surprised to learn
that this feeling is SO prevalent that it
results in putting IL handsome amount
in the committees hands. We are glad
it is so. The American committee have
done splendid work and though all
their suggestions have not been incOr-
pOrated in the text, we are glad to
know that they have been printed sep
arately and annexed to some of tho
costlier editions of the New Revision.
And these special copies, let lis say, will
have special value a hundred years
hence or more when we who shall soon
possess them shall be taking our nice
nap under the daisies and violets, while
a shaft of Italian marble above bears
our names nicely chiselled in raised
Lot
them-can value thom as heirlOoms, or
sell them for a good big sum if they
should be hard up this last idea we
rather get at second hand from DR..
Philip Schaff. The first editions will
be English through and through, with
out trace of naturalization about them.
The irrepressible will intrude itself :
We shall read "favOm" and "SaviOur," ="
while enterprize will be spelled with an
instead of a :, and the words will be
divided on the short vowels instead of
the cOnsenants, so we are fully prepared
to meet with measure and pa-trimOny
and solemn, all of which to our fancy
is not solemn at all, but remarkably
funny. And not only so, but twenty
four hours thereafter there will be in
Vulnerable editions, for the American
types are all east and the American
presses are all running that are going
to print the New Editions. Further
more, we learn that the Herald will
print the whole New Testament com
plete in its Sunday edition, so that
many of its readers will be made famil-
lar with book which is now emphati-
cally n sealed book to them after all,
this is a way the Herald has of printing
the latest news. Meantime the sages
of the American Tract Society there
are some very good and very wise men
in that SOciety-aTe putting their heads
together and asking each other,-"S Shall
are print the New Revision, incOrpora-
ting the American Committees sug-
gestions in the text ?" Brother Ste
venson says, "Shall we, Brother Rand ~
And Brother Rand says, "Shall we,
Brother Warner ?" And Brother War
ner says, ''Shall we, Brother Shearer n
And Brother Shearer Gays, "Shall we,
Brother Frissell 2" And Brother Fris-
sell says, "Shall we, Brother Kings
bury ~ And Brother Kingsbury says,
"Shall we, Brother Simmons ?" And
Brother Simmons he says, "Wait till |
see those great men and Editors,-
Doctor Ward and Doctor Abbott and
Doctor Prime and Doctor Field and
Doctor Bright and Doctor Buckley and
Doctor Curry and Doctor Wheeler and
Doctor Patton and Mr.. Mallory, of the
NJ. S. T."--but here comes
our publisher and says, "We must 90
to press in an hour and the printers are
waiting for copy" But we shall have
a copy of that New Christian
at Work.