Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-25
MINOR TOPICS.

man to compromise SO long as he can
maintain dead lock.
MINOR TOPICS.
BRETHREN, stop passing around that
prescription for strawberry shortcake. The
season is over.
ABYss1N1A and the United States, said a
speaker at church conference in Chicago
are the only two Christian countries that
tolerate polygzmy.
EIGHTY Thousand acres of land have
been secured between Jaffa and Jerusalem
with the purpose of establishing colony
there where the Jews who are prosecuted
in Europe may find a refuge.
THE Greek government has given an
order that the Bible shall he read in the
public schools in the ancient and not in
the modern tongue. This introduces tho
Greek testament into !, 200 schools, which
contain 0,oo0 pupils.
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the question of our duration, is the ques-
ting of our deserving. Immortality will
come to such as are fit for it, and he who
would be a great soul in future, must be a
great soul now. 1t is a doctrine too great
to rest on any mans experience but our
own. 1t must be proved, if at all, from
Our own activity and designs, which imply
an interminable future for their play"
THE British revisers OF the New Testa-
ment were exceedingly punctual in their
attendance Oh the meetings Of the COM
pany. Out of the 4O7 meetings Bishop
Ellicott attended 405 times. Some others
reached also q very high standard, and of
those who attended more than three
fourths of tho whole series of meetings,
the number amounted to fully onc-:hird
of the whole company.
Tho Erie Observer, Dem., published
where a superfluous judge was to have
been provided, has "not bcen able to see
much in Gov. Hoyt's official career that
has commended him to our approval, but
his veto of the judicial appor:iontment
bill is AL act that will do much to atone
for tho faults of the past, and restore him
in the confidence of the people. -
THE young men in the divinity school
at Yale who mako 4 speciality of Hebrew
have made their appearance before a crit
zeal world as revisers of the Old Tesla
1nent. Their first effort is revision of
the Prophecy of Habalkkuk, which is very
suitable for experimenting on, as it con-
tains only three chapters. Their work is
now<sistributed that it may be criticized.
Should it meet with general favor. they
intend to proceed with more of tho Old
Testament books, possibly completing
their work ahead of the regular rcvisers.
THE people of New Guirca have always
been reckoned among the most trouble
| some to missionaries and the most difficult
to convert. A missionary party of thir-
teen recently fell into tho hands of a'mob
of natives in the Maresty district. The
cruel natives slaughtered all except the
Rev. Mr.. Berwick. No offensc had been
given to those blood-thirsty wretchcs
and the only explanation of Mr.. i;crwick
can give is that they were actuatcd by a
| desire to commit malicious mischief.
ALL profits from the sale of the Oxford
edition of the revised New Testament 90
to the University Press publishers, who
at the outset, in lieu of the copyright,
guaranteed all expenses to the revisers
The English committee gave the amount
Of their expenses at 500, 900, and this was
paid them for their labor. The American
committee have not received and never ex-
pected to receive, their travelling expenses
or any other expenses from the Univer-
sity Press publishers or any other parties
on the other side of the water. Their cx-
penses were betrayed by the donations OF
friends Of the work Oh this side. and tho
committee gave their time and labor with
out compensation.
DIR. COOPER, of Pittsburgh, Penn, pro.
cecds to London this summer as the rep.
resentative and delegate of tho homeo-
| pathic practitioners of the United States.
1t appears that the homeopathics of this
country arc not satisfied with tho article
on Homeopathy Published in the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica, whose American edition
has obtained large circulation, and pro-
pose, through DR.. Cooper, to enter an
official protest against its continued publ
cation in that repertoire of information,
and to insist upon its correction in sub
stantial particulars. 1t is claimed that tho
article is written from an entirey partisan
point of view, in the interest of the old, or
So called allopathic, school of practice :
that many Of its statements are untrue and
one-slded, and that an encyclopedia intend
ed to give information, without regard to
tho conflicting schools of medicine. has no
right to allow partisan bias to creep into
its articles.
DEAN STANLEY a few days ago preached
before a crowded congregation in West
minister Abbey, and referred incidentally
to the revision of the New Testament .
For the first time, ho said, an attempt has
been made, imperfect though it WAS, to
reach tho original meaning of the sacred
words and never before had the Englisl,
nation the same opportunity of arriving
at faithful rendering. Discoveries had