New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-27
REVISBRS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
A RECEPTION IN THEIR HONOR

LARGE GATHERING AT THE HOUSE OF ELLIOTT +
sHEPARD-A PAPER READ BY THE REV. DR.
sCHAFF.
reception IN honor of the American COMMITTEES
OF kevisers OF the Bible was given by Mr. and Mrs
Elliott r. Shepard LIST evening in their house at
futh-ave. and tifty-second-st. About 400 GENTLE
men were present Mr.. Shepard was assisted In re-
ceIYing his guests by Mrs Shepard and Mrs. A. d.
Shepard, of Fanwood n. J. Mr. Shepard was one
Oh the Executive Committee who assisted the
American revsers III their work The
elegant rooms in the house were filled during
the evening, and the occasion proved an enjoy
aole one. Music furnished by Bernstein's
orchestra, and Pinard served the refreshments
Among those present were Justice Samuel Batch
I0rd, or the United States Supreme Court; Judges
MWa iPIIia' Banfort6, Learned, Pratt and Halves;
MnlLiam n. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, eX-Jndge
Ghoate, William Allen Butter, A. A. Low, W. NJ
naIeh, Z. Wand rbilt. H. Mex Twombly, Dr. W.
Re~a Bwig MSf00 d. Shepard j. Gmes
robert l.. Stuart, Judge Barnard the Rev. DR.. ROs-
wei u Hitchcock, the Rev. Dr. r. 5. storrs, Gordon
W. Burnham Edward T. Brown j. b. Cornell John
II. Sherwood the Rev. Dr. J. Packard of virginia
norman L. Wagner. Augustus Schoonmalier, Theron
A. ButIeri George strong, t6e Rev; Or. }, P.
rs n. Jesqp, D. Willis James. Thomas L. James
Willard Billiard, John b. McClave " lillian I Hatch
AUSTIN Abbott Thomas Sloane, &. Van SantvoOrd.
CHARLES j. Buchanan, William irwin, Henry T..
Russell, John d. Prince James Ialcott, William
Dowd and J. Alexander striker.
DE- Schaf delivered an address in the course OF
the evening OF winch the following is a part
Eighteen months have elapsed since the publication
OF the Anglo American Revision Of the New Testament
During that time II has been on trial before the argest
tribunal or critics 10 which any book has ever been sub
n laatic Two nations and all the English
spfaAlhg Gehomnatl9as winch use the yener-
aDe edltlQn OF 16ll have been and are still
sitting IN judgment IT, Tne revision cOmmi, tee knew
al along tha the revision did not mp their ideal
Ide revision mas met with the most opposite Judgments
II 10 pronounced by 70 be the best translation ever
made; others condemn IL unsparingly as failure, at
least as 70 IL aim to supersede the old version
Tor public USE But it's enemies cOncede that
Il has served a good purpose in stimulating
EoIe study aud that IL may be probably used vert
flying commentar} on the authorized version. Five hun
dred years ago the first complete OF the Old and
New Ic~taments INTO the English tongue. work OF
Amazing devotion and industry those days given
10 the world. Its chief author, John Wickiife,
lOru, tns morning star or me ketorm1tlon,' was
denounced by the Archbishop Of Canterbury
aud High Chancellor Of England (ArundeD as that
pestilent wretch OF damnabe memory, son of the old
serpent YEA the forerlnner and disciple OF Anohrisr.
who, the complement Of his wickedness, invented
new translation Of the Scriptures into his mother
tongue"
n Tnf y f 1a TSh 3 S Illus.
and the bones Wlckllfe the 1nes in Ii2S his
Sse cast INTO the Brook swift In the year 1929 william
IyIaaio tnished the ars edition OF MS version OF the
version which came next, was violently assaed from
sohoiarship and bad EngIsb King James, Version don
eau never fully recover its former position and il
doomed to a lingering death and honorable burial
II England and the United STATES now march in the
front rank OF civilized nations, they owe II IN greae
measure not indeed to King James bat to the RIM as
translated deyOut and learned men
in their work Viewed in the hight OF pas, expersnces
the version Of 1881 mas Jared very veil
Henry Provide, the London agent Of the CIR
Nat by April 1881 he had received orders for 1000 Oo6
xfori copies, and that on publication day Il was i'm
81 Clarendon Press informed that he sold 365O0O
copies Of the Revised New Testament from May 20
to December 81. 1851. An American firm sold
over 100000 OF the LppincOtt edition in the
summer Of 1881 Another sold $1,000.
printed the whole New Testemen in the sunday issue OF
May % days after it publication IN New1Ork The
four Gospels the cts OF the Apostles and the Eplste
to tue Romans About !, 500 0wOrds elegraphed
from Ncw-YOrk constituting he largest dispatch
sent over wires informed that there fifty Ameri
schools are using the New Version, and becve th.t
with the blessing Oh God t VIII continue 70 increase III
popularity.
The Row. DR.. Day. of the Committee of Revisers
of the Old Testament, called upon to make
some remarks regard To the progress OF thar work
He announced the most sangulne OF the friends OF
the reyiaers hoped that less than year
would eapse before the work was COM
Detei, but the less sangune, and the reylS-
eTs themselves, were Inclined TO believe that
two years wCud be required. He said that the
feeling had been kindly expressed that the Old
Testament Committee ought To learn something
from the criticisms made upon their friends en-
gagged upon the New Testament out nor All HerlNT,i
from public criticisms had proved or value. IN
the afternoon he had heard the remark made by
one of the gentlemen engaged III tDe revision
of the New Testament that not one OF
his nOtice-not OIe of the suggestions Tor
improvement-had failed TO be considered
in the meetings of the Reysers. Bishop Lee, OF
Delaware, said that he could not put Itei some
sympathy for those who dreaded any change beng
made il the books that had been so precious TO al
who spoke the English tongue. But IL shouu De
renem Dered that this book itself was IN lts DAY
revision. Professor Timothy Dwight, -0I Yale
College, made o brief and witty address