The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-14

Talmsye .. the Revised NH.

At the opening Of the services TODAY
led you in the Lords prayer according to
the new version. stopping before the dox,
ology, but will never do it again, either in
public or private. unless in my dying PRAYER
my breath could go out OF that point. and
then would finish it in Heaven; for tina, ia
the only part ofthe Lords prayer spproprI.
ate for both church militant and church Fri,
umpbsnt. "''
lrelect this revi.ion because II comes At
most inopportune date. The great battle
between Gin and Righteousness is fully omen
ana all the batteries are unlimbered. While
tne forces OF heaven and hell are in hand 10,
hand light 1t 10 asked that 20 stop to discuss
whether our weapons might not be ham,
mered into little better >. spe: wbether w.
cant nave better tsssel put on the
nit OF our sword since they make better tas.
sells now than they used to. While the
spocaiyptic angel is flying through the midst
OF heaven, proclaiming to all nations and
kindred and people the gospel, We are crit,
iiclsng the angels plumes and trying to catch
him till We can stroke his feathers another
way.
Again, reject this new revision for il
shakes the faith of many in the truth of tho
Bible. Out and out infdelity, after hundreds
q years OF bombardment, instead of demol.
ishlng, have only driven the Bible further
into the affections Of the world. The chief
danger IS from the mistaken friends of the
Bible. But.vou have to take men as they are.
The revisionists begin their work by
saying there are in the new Testament 10000
mistakes, and that there are $50 600 varieties
OF readings to the new testament. The devil
takes these statistics, which you can manage
without damage to yourself; and he makes
them the everlasting ruin of great multi
tude. This movement will turn more souls
into stark inddelty than the thirty. eight gen.
tlemen Of the new testament company will
ever argue out of II, though they should live
the 500 years of Mahslalee, the 962 wears of
Jared and the $50 years of Mslhusaleh
aggregated. The greatest work of the last
2o0 years has been to have the people under.
tsnd that this was the word of Gcd, the
truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth.
And now you say there are only 10000 nit
takes in it, and only about 1876 900 reatings,
and forty changes to be made in
the sermon on the Mount You cay they are
not radical mistakes Why then all the ex-
element of the public mind? Look out lest
while with torches you are hunting for rats
in the cellar you do not set in coDaaeration
the august temple. For ten years
and ever since have heard of the move.
ment, have deplored it. But there has
been no good time to speak on the subject
till nov. | may be scoffed at for my words
IN very high places hut l Am only putting
lato words the sentiment Of more people thai
ever thought strongly the same way on any
one subject since TIE world was created. Aud
they will be heard, and this is only the nut
terlng OF the oncomifg tempest of popular
indignation, cis-A tlantic and trans Atlantic.
Hands off the Ark Of the Covenant! Re.
member the fate of Uzzah.
l object to this new version because it
oper the door for revisions innumerable.
Have you anv idea that these char ges will
stop )erp? Ia the back part of the New
Testament there are twelve pages of pract-
cal protest on the part of the Americans of
the New Testament company against the
revision Of the Englishmen and Irishmen of
the same company. Hence we shall have
another revision to revise that, and. as in
1928 Noah Webster published his revision of
the Bible. and Prof Moves, and Moses Stu
art, and Bishop Ellicott and Dean Afford
offered their revision of different portions of
the Scripture, 80 we shall have revision on
the top OF revision, revisions 10 flocks, rev's-
IONS in herds, regisions in awsrms, and
after awhile PRESBYTERIAN revision and Bap-
fist revision, and Episcopslisn revision, and
the church will go into psroxysm Of revis-
ion, and there will DO nothing intelligent
satisfactory and appropriate left either in
Bible or prayer.book hut the ejaculation.
"Good Lord, deliver usr' These discoveries
of 10000 mistakes and the $4,000 different
readings have actually got hold of the, music
of the angels over Bethlehem. If
those angels had known that they we're
within hearing distance of the New Tesla.
ment company they would not ha0esung so
loud. Instead of the translation which says,
"On earth peace, good will toward men," it
Is to read, "On earth peace among men in
whom he is we'll pleased" The rhythm
gone. the wide sweep Of meaning gone and
the Christmas carol ohoked until it is black
10 the face. Keep on. brethren, while you
have your hand in and give us new revis.
ion of Hsndel's Messiah and Haydh's Cres.
ton, and chisel out few improvements ON
Powers Greek Slave and touch up Angeles
Last Judgment and improve the sunrise and
sunset and show US tho aorist of the spring
blossoming Of last year, and let us have uni
versal revision.