The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-26
THE REVISED NEW TESTAMENT.


the eye, and they have given to the work
they undertook careful and painstaking
study, coupled with much patience and
research. We have not had time to examine
carefully and critically the advance sheets
that have fallen under our observation, but
the comparisons we have made do not. show
much change. from the old, or King James
translation. Speaking of the revised New
Testament the New York Evening Mail
says: "rhe great event of the day is the
simultaneous distribution Of hundreds OF
thousands of copies of the revised New
Testament, in Ill the Englsh spc aking coun-
tries. History affords no precedent for this
event, which has been preceded by many
years Of tho patient labor of the finest schol-
ers in the protestant churches OF Great
Britain and the United StaIe'; by the sblest
and most learned discussions of the objects,
scope and methods of revision; BY the com,
men.s of the foremost secular newspapers.
by the most perfect and gigantic arrange.
mcn,s and by a universal feeling or curiosity
and interest. The immediate and remote
effects of to days wholesale distribution of
the Word on which all our civilization,
progress and hopes of Immortality rest, can
not DO comprehended by the greatest
human intellect. But it is certain that the
inspirations and Influences that will come out
of to-dal's distribution will DO immensely
powerful agencies in the redemption of the
race, far more so than hundreds Of
so called "great events" that are chron.
iced as decisive Of tho fate of nations"
One effect of the use of this revised ed
ton will be 10 make men and women exam
Inc it and compare 1t with the old edition
and thereby thousands of people will be
brighter to read the word of God who might
not otherwise perhaps have done so. 1t is to
DO trusted that all the seed aown in this way
willn fall upon barren and stony places
nor in shallow soil, butth some of them,
and tho. great majority of instances, will take
root and grow and boar abundant fruit Of
grace, and carry peace and happiness 10
multiplied thousands Of hearts, some of which
are.now cold and Indifferent, and others aching
and longing for the waters Of forgivness to
be poured out upon them as the gentle dew.
From the casual examination that we have
discovered no very material changes
further than an improvement upon
the English Of the old translators, Eng,
lish that was proper and correct then, but
that has been greatly changed and smoothed
since tho days of King James. The old
edition of the bible, the ono with its somea
times quaint words, the precepts of which
our mothers loved and taught us at their
knees, and the lessons of which we conned in
the Sunday schools in our childhood and
youth, has too firm hold upon tho heart of
us all, TO be given up readily for n power
reading. The Lords prayer rs we were
wont to repeat it, when we laid us down to
slumber 10 the innocent days of long ago
when we we're children, is too deeply craven
upon our memories and treasured up in
the recesses of our hearts TO DO forgotten
for another tina! may read little moro
dramatically only. The old bible for con-
turtles has been good enough to live by and
die by, and why change ii? IL has come to
us all, the high and the low, the rich and the
poor, the proud and the humble, as the
blessed gift Of God TO fallen man; 1t tells us
the grand, old, old story of the crucifxion
and of the love Of a mercful God for His
fallen creatures. II teaches us 70 love our
neighbors as our ourselves; to DO charitable;
to be truthful; to be honest; to DO upright,
to be moral; to BIO pure 10 the thought and
deed; to love the Creator and obey His com
mandments, and ii shows US the way 10
eternal salvation. II tells us of tho love and
the mercy and of the forgiveness of the all.
wise and all>just Father, and what
more can any Other bible to ach? Lst tho
scholars have their new bibls and lis better
rounded and more grammatical sentences
If they want it, but to the
mind of tho older people the
old one will always DO dear, and the
tendrils of their hearts will cling to il as the
rock Of their salvation, tho anchor of their
peace and happiness, and brightest hopes
Yet for all this il may DO and doubtless Is
tho best that tho new translation take the
place of the old. The rising generation will
learn II and prefer il ss we learned its pre.
decessor, and preferred this TO the earlier
vulgste,
THE Msharujan OF Ncpaul, who adhered
faithfully 10 the British during the mutiny,
has just died. His prime minister, jung
Bshadoor, defeated, Ia December, 1859 the
last remnant of those who were struggling to
free themselves from tho British yoke. The
Mahsrsah cared for nothing but hunting,
and when the Prince of Wales VISITED Ncpaul
few years ago got up an immense tiger
hunt in honor of tho prince. The poten,a,e
just deceased enjoyed the Distinction of hav.
ing within the boundaries Of Ills kingdom
the highest known mountain In the world |
of which the altitude Is 10000 feet. I,s
north boundary lies within the limits OF
perpetual snow. Nepaul, tho capital Of tho
kingdom, IL A 600 feet above the level Of the