The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-06-16

one members of the Old Testament
Company will launch their work. l
have sometimes wondered what the
thirty-eight gentlemen of tie New Test
ament CompanS and the forty.one gen.
tlemen of the Old Testament Company
might have accomplished for good ii they
had spent the last tea years in preaching
the old t. anslation instead of finding
fault with it, and il the hundreds Of
thousands of dollars which directly and
indirectly have been expended in the
preparation of this new revis on, had
been put into the American Bible SOCie
ty and the British Bible Society for the
spreading abroad # that grand old
translation, ut Of whose loins Civiliza'
ton and Christianity were born, and IN.
der whore influence England and Amer
les are what they are, and the dark
skies heathendom begin to flame with
the morning. What the Lord wa lts is
not rites, but evangels; not men to
knock the doxology out of the Lords
prayer, but meE to make the nations
kneel, proClaiming at the feet of Christ
thine is the kingdom and the power
and the glory forever. Amen" At the
opening OF the service today | led you in
the Lords prayer according to the new
version, stopping before the doxology,
but l will never do it again either IN
public or in private unless in my dying
prayer my breath should 60 out at that
point, and then | would finish it in
heaven for that is the only part of the
Lords prayer appropriate for both church
militan and church triumphant.
IreieCt this revision because it comes
at a most inopportune date. The great
battle between sin and Righteousness is
fully open and all the batteries are uu-
limbered While the forces of heaven
and hell are in hand to.ha d fight it is
asken that we stop to discuss whether
our weapons might not be hammered
into little better shape; whether we
can't have q little better ia sci put on
the hilt Of our sword, since they make
better tassels now than they used to.
While tie apoCalyptic angel is flying
through the midst of heaven, proclaim
ing 10 all nations, and kindred, and pel-
Pile the Gospel, We are Criticlsing the an
gels plumes and trying to catch him till
we can stroke his feathers another way.
Again l reject this new revision, fer it
shakes the faith of many in the truth OF
the Bible. Out and out infdelity, after
hundreds of years of bombardment, in
stead of demoli ining, have only driven
the Bible further into the affections of
the world. The chief danger is from the
mistaken friends Of the Bible. Unbelief
and skepticism are not logical. But you
have to take men as they are. The re.
visionists begin their work by saying
they are in the New Testament ten
thousand mistakes, and that there are
one hundred and fifty thousand valie
ties of readings to the New Testament.
The devil take these statistics which you |
can manage without damage to yourself, |
and he makes them the everlasting ruin |
of great multi ude, This moH Hem 'nt
will turn more souls into stark inhdellty !
than the thirty.eight gentlemen OF the
New Testament Company will ever argue |
out of it, though they should live the
eight hundred and ninety.hve years of
Mahalaleel, the nine hundred and sixty
two years of Jared, and the nine hun
dred and sixty.nine years OF Methuselah |
pggregated. The greatest work OF the
last two hundred years has been to have |
the people understand that this was the
word of God. the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. And now you
say there re only ten thousand mistakes
in il, and only about one hundred and
thirty. five thousand readings, and forty
changes to be made in the Sermon on
the Mount. You say they are not rad
ical mistakes. Why. then, ? II this ex
element of the public mind2 Look out
lest while with torches you ale hunting
for rats in the cellar you do not set in
the august temple. For
ten years and ever since heard of the
have deplored it. But there
has been no good time to speak on the
subject till now. l may be sCotfed at for
my words in very high places, but am
only putting into words the sentiment OF
more people than ever thought strongly
The same way on any one subject since
The world was created, and they will be
heard, and this is only the muttering of
he onColning tempest of popular intig'
nation, Cis-Atlantic and transatlantic.
Hands off tie AK of the Covenant Re.
member the fate Of Uzzah.
l reject this new version because it
opens the door for revisions lnnumera-
de. Have you any idea that these
hanges will stop here ? In the back
,aYt of this new new New Testament
here are twelve pages of practical pro-
est on the part of the Americans of the
Jew Testament Company against the re.
'ision of the Englishmen and Irishmen
# the same Company. Hence we shall
lave another revision to re ise this, and
mother revision to revise that, and as in
1923 Noah Webster published his revis
on of the Bible, anu Professor Noyes
nd Moses Stuart and Bishop ElliCott
nd Afford offered their revision of dit- I
erent portions of the Scripture, 30 we
hall have revision on th top Of revis'
in foCks, revision in herds,
4vision in swarms, and after awhile
Presbyterian revision al d Baptist revis-
IN and EpisCopalian revision, and the
'hurCh viii 60 into paroxysms Of revis-
IN, and there will be nothing intelligent
satisfactory and appropriate left either
q Bible or Prayer book but the ejacula'
on: "Ciood Lord deliver us W These
lsCoverers of ten thous nd mistakesand
ne one hundred and thirty. five thous' !
nd different readings have actually got
old of the music of the angels over
ethlehem. If those angels had nown
lat they were within hearing istanCe