, 1881-08-07


Meacilanl, her disciple and SUCCESSOR The
Shakers do not believe III the atonelnent in
the sense the orthodox Christians teach the
aoettlne, ,,e' ara ,HaI the1r heavens and hes are
no 1uture condition Of the soul being neces-
sarllY of eternal duration. In fact they hold
That progress out Of evil is as feasible il the
1nture life as in this: They also believe that
the spirits Of dead persons can visit the
earth. and under certain conditions influence
the thought and actions of the living.
THE REVISED VERSION.
EXTRACTS FROM DEAN srASLEY:s LAST
ARTICLE.
London Times.
The question will arise III many minds, Is
there any change produced III the doctrine
presented by the New Version? To this
question the answer is No and Yes. There
is no change it'll any OF the great doctrines
which all Christians alike hold; the impor-
tance Of charity, Of mercy, of Judgment, the
transcendent and diyine beauty of the Char
actcr in the Gospels, and the force OF the in
cidents and arguments in the Acts and in
the Epistles are beyond any possibility of
alteration from new reading or 4 new col
location of phrases. But if it be asked
whether some of what are commonly called
doctrines are placed in a new light, then the
ta4io"<t A'"9' oc III .'.e am .n''s.se eol eA-
ample, the very word doctrine perhapsnot
from the fault Of the translators. but from the
change of meaning which has taken place III
the lapse of time, has undergone a tranSfor-
NATION which converted a perfectly general
expression into one Synonymous with dog
it, has been removed almost uniformly in the
present revision, which renders the original
word, not BY '' ''doctrine,'' but by 'tcacling.''
:. Heresies' u and "herctical," which in &C.
clesiastical pariance for many centuries have
come to mean 50 error in opinion" have now
the mask taken from OFT them, and they ap-
pear in their true light rs factions " or
party spirit
All the modern fancies which have con-
fng,'' and s. sda1nnation " have from different
causes been exploded in this'rersion. The
words which have been hitherto translated
''hell - are now, either Ill the text or the
margin, reduced 70 thelr 0tlglnal meanings
each with a very different signitication the
one from the other. and all from the meaning
which they had acquired in modern popular
language. me Wofd eveIlasung IL a. IL: ie.St 'I
age, age or ''for the ages or Else the far more
sublime aud ethereal word OF eternal
''DannatiOn," which had acquired 80
harsh signitication in later Eng glisll,
is now entirely banlsffed from the
sacred volume, and appears only either rs
condemnation - or s'judgme1lt" "lnspi-
ration; although it might have been inter
nreteti in less technical sense, yet now in
the one text which was employed for yindi-
eating the verbal authority of the Sacred
Scriptures has been transformed from "Ail
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
doctrines have lost their chief supports, and
that sometimcs by variation of interpreta-
tam tam mare often - by variation of reading.
The passage in Phil, il, t. is now not trans.
lated, He thought it not trobbery to be equal
with God,'' but "He counted it not a
prize to bp on an equality with God" The
word .spcrson,'' in Hebrews, l., 3, has matte
way for a phrase which in the Athanasian
Creed is used US the opposit OF it. and reap
fest in the tiesh'' is now "Wno was mani
tested in the tleslL' and the old reading, we
are told, rests on no sufficient evidence. The
last twelve verses Of the last chapter OF 81.
Mark WHICH formerly were apodfeth of th u os;I VII
teaching, are now separated BY space tron. %
the genuine narrative and we are toid that
the two oldest Greek manuscripts ;5tlo Anu
some other authorilles oillll n.oa uen A4e 4
h5vs hHs OF said the 10 1e'sl isishop WiibeTforce
t' l say with ,Atlianaslus, the oilly gr0nno
for Il Church to stand On IS, neiiese ttlls VI
you are damned" ne Woulu !i.svc igu!.n ti.
himself a. aosS ~ t t 'eM ietter h c,,ro,,
appearance Of Patr-passionsm in Acts, M xx:,
., is permitted to bear the alteFnative aI rem
n; dsrng Of the 2rdf r. nans ne has sSSd
ginal variation. The verse l. rJoh John r.;aS -.
which in the last century %as ~ 1egreu oy
dynes as the sHes q a a
01 fro the Epste and its
place knows it ,,.,' no more. s,otn The angel e
which has suRPied Hahy 1s at TX, Rxton 1ol and
mons at tle edici1tal III nv Me1s ,r'rju 81 t1 sS
pressions PRESS Of dispafassment. The Implicit 1a. ii
Mark x d % nSxaee GeI!snlaj ai, is tti doia6ffuy II W
mentioned in the other. There arc, on me
other hand PASSAGES WHICH f stu aitlh5;Iha, 5fni
'@2k 32ae5 9f sIP5fSs2n s 8 still citsd ssf'M! N tie form s
most conducive TO the received doctrite' ne
T'he exclamation Of Thomas in John Nx., -,