New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-17
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

that for which where it refers TO persons.
ana knew or know for 'wot' or visit
About the only change that Will strike anyone
us being to the advantage of Baptists particu-
laily Will he the substitution of in after bap-
.l Lant; Tor with 50 that passages viii read
water The prefix saint in the titles of the
gospels has been stricken out, and here You
see, holding mp some proofs of the forthcom-
m mg work, the tides read plainly, Matthew,
Tor ghost all through. We regard the word
spirit as much preferable to ghost There
VIII be many other changes of similar char
acieI. Ours Will be version that We shall be
aple to circulate conscientiousy. But it will
not be exclusively for Baptists. Presbyte-
ilanS, Congrcgauonalsts and others NAV use
It. 1t vii be distinctly called the American
Revised Edition of the New Testament We
90 not expect that it will Immediately supplant
al other versions even in the estimation of
BaptistS. would not wish it to. But we can
read it with pleasure and scholars will find if
useful as they do all TRANSACTIONS, for COM
paratIVc purposes"
-, PRorEsoR DWIGHT ON TIE REVISION
The Rev. Or. Timothy Dwight, Professor OF
Divinity at Yale College, who is one Of the
American New Testament Revision Company,
AT the request of the Editor of Public opinion,
published in London, has furnished that journal
with the first of a series of critques TO Toe sup
pied 10y several eminent scholars and writers,
on the different books of the revised New
Testament. Professor Dwight in his last paper
discusses the changes made in the First EIiStle
TO the Corinthians. He takes up, first cases i'm
winch wrong translation Las been corrected.
Prominent among these" saws Professor
Dwight, so far as this Epistlc is concerned, are
several passages where the error Is due not to a
false conception of the meaning on the part OF
me old tranSlators, but rather to the altered
slghlhcalce which the progress OF time has
gwen to words. The idea of the writer's
thought which the modern reader gets is false
one and, unless new words are supplied, hc
must remain under misunderstanding"
Alter illustrating these eases others are re-
fclTcd TO IN which there may Ice doubt in some
minds as 10 the correct rendering, or. again.
where the question i only as 10 whether the
lenses OF verbs should bc given with their pre-
else force in the Greek. IA eases of this char
actcr," says the writer, Il" those who are strongly
attached to the old version may claim that il Is
SUFFICIENTLY accurate and yet We are sue that
the Jud rmen1, not only of scholars. bat of the
great company of Christian readers. will, after
due consideration, determine that the rcVi~orS
have been faithful to the truth IL the changes
winch they have introduced"
SwCDES ~ THIS COUNrRY.-C. NJ. Eshiorn.
who was recently sent to Worcester. Mass. by
the Mission Board of the New ork Conference
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, to look
after the spiritual interests of about 5000
SwcdcS who have settled in the city in the last
two years, IN AN address delivered few days
ago, spoke ~ follows in regard 10 the condition
"i ms hulch ana rs work among The Swcdcs: :
country consists of four great ecclesiastical
h0dlcs-thc Synodical Conference, the General
Council. the General Synod North. and the
General synod south. 10 the General Council
belongs the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran
Church of this country. This Church origin
atcd IN the year 1919, when my father came
over To this country. And the first c0ngrega-
ton organized consisted, believe, OF seven
members. Al present our Swedish Lutheran
Church in the United States numbers about
10000 members, with more than 10000 COM
munlcantS more than 300 congregations about
100 pastors, six religions papers, four Orphans
homes, two colleges and one Theological semi
nary. the seminary and one of the colleges to-
gcthor having thirteen professors and about
100 students. from the very first oar Church
has been in Il special sense a missionary
Church.. Our pastors are missionaries for
though having their own LOCAL churches, they
always spend nj least some part of the wear in
missionary work hunting up the SWcdcS, who
are scattered all over this country, from the
New England States 10 the Pacific coast, from
the borders of Canada to the State of Texas,
and trying TO bring them TO Jesus Christ
The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHUECH.-The extent
and elaborate orgdnizaton of the Roman
Catholic Church throughout the world are illuS-
tratcu IN Il striking manner 10y an OinClal list
lately published at Rome under The direction of
the Pope The enumeration of hicrarclhcal
titles IN the East and West together includes Il
total of 49, Offices, all OF which except about
100 are at the present moment occupied. OF
the dIgntaTicS who rank next below the SUI
prcmc PUntIff, there are sixty three. and of
patriarchs, comprising both the Western and
the Eastern rites, there are eleven. The arch
bishops of the Latln rltc number no less than
l31, with 600 bishops. The Oriental rite Is
administered 10y only hfty-onc archbish0ps and
bishops together. OF officials bearing the title
of apostolic delegates there are SIX. of apostolic
Wears tWcnty-SlX, and of apostolic projects
lO2. But OF the bishops and archbiShopS as
many as $50 are appointed TO titles called an
pdrttbUS HfdctjttW. -Four members oi the Col
lcgc OF Cardinals are over eighty years of age,
and only three are under My. Twenty nine,
or nearly hall OF the sacred college, are between
seventy and eighty years old fifteen are be
tween sixty and seventy, and lively are be
tween fifty and silly. There are twelve Roman
Catholic bIShOprlCS and one auchblShoprlc IN
Great Britain, while in Ireland there are
tWcnty-tOW bishOpucs and fOur archhshOpricS.
I'm the whole OF the British dominIons the
number of Roman Catholic prciatos WAS
Gently estimated ut lis.
Bishop Edward Iierzog has an interesting
letter, dated Bcrnc, Switzerland, June ], III The
current number OF The CkUrchmGn in regard 10
the recently published statement that The Old
Catholics are about to establish "A church IA
NeW-Orlcans. After stating that lac has no re-
latlOns whatever with the Old Catholics OF New
Orleans and that he is prohibited from cXCrclS-
ing any episcopal jurisdiction outside of swift
erland, Bishop ilcrZOg writes as follows:
wish from my whole heart that also in the
United States the Roman Catholics may rice
against the errors and abuses OF the lapal
Church. But IN my opinion, for that end the
establishment of a separate old Catholic COM
mmity would be neither necessary nor bcne-
fetal. | would rather advise and urge the re-
formed Catholics of your country 10 place them
selves under the jurisdiction of the catholic
cpiScopate of your Church. With full conf
dcnce in the wisdom and generosity of your
bishops defer to them the question whether
certain concessions in nOn-cSssentical liturglCal
matters should be granted or denied 10 re-