Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-23
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERE AND ELsEwHKRr

- Rev. DR.. Sunderland has left the city for
about ten days, going 20 CatskiIl. " v, and
thence To Orange. ". J., 10 fulhl an old
engagement TO exchange pulpits with Rev. DIR.
henry Storrs. of that place.
- The Georgia revivalist, Rev sam Jones is
holding meetings In Nashville using a tent con-
structed for the purpose, seating nearly 1000
people.
- Rev. NJ. ]. Craner, D. D.. late L 8. minister
TO switzerland, leaves the diplomatic corps, and
he has been elected To the chair OF systematic
theology IN Boston university.
- Bishop Taylor writes from the mouth of the
Congo that two men were converted since the
party lett New York, one OF whom has entered
The work a. a missionary apprentice.
- Rev. I. t. Tasker ST., the veteran local
preacher OF Philadelphia, president of the
Church Extension Society OF the NJ f. church.
reached his eighty-sixth birthday on the 18th
instant.
The tenth general convention of the Re-
formed Episcopal church will be convened at
Peoria, H., on Wednesday next At the con-
.vention two years ago Ri Rev. ]. A. Latane
was elected the presiding bishop. Each church
is entitled to one deputy. with one additional
Tor each 100 communicates.
= At the recent commencement of the Theo-
logical seminary of the Methodist Protestant
church the following were the graduates: c. r.
work al Frederick county. Md: o. w Pool, of
West Virginia, to Parkersburg; w. c. Rymer OF
west Virginia, To Henderson county, y. G: IL.
W. kendley, of Frederick county. TO NJ Tabor,
near Georgetown: :. G. Ohrum. OF Carroll
county, Md. to Accomac county, Va. and j w
Kirk OF Alexandria, to Crisiield. Va.
The Revised BibIe-A Jewish Opinion.
From the Jewish Advocate
A large company OF Christian clergymen i'm
this country and another In England have been
engaged for 10 years I'm the preparation of this
book, and we are now to have the result of their
joint labors. The object Of making this revision.
or new translation, appears TO be 10 obtain a
closer and more exact rendering OF the original
ana Incidentally to modernxe the book by the
substitution of modern words for some which
have become obsolete since the version now in
use was prepared, some $50 years ago. 1t is
stated that the revisers have eNamiped care
fully every sentence Of the book with the view
oil correcting errors of translation. and that, I'm
order TO insure perfect accuracy, they have
diligently compared several OF the most ancient
copies In existence. Emphasis has been given
TO the fact that the revisers are not all OF one
creed, almost every section of the Protestant
That provision was wise. for a creed very stub
bornly held is liable 10 affect the Impartiality
OF Judges tn a matter vitality affecting the basis
OF creeds. But il Is strange that if accuracy was
the object chiefly desired, no representative of
the RomanCathclic church was invited To assist
and still more remarkable that i'm TRANSMITTING "A
book, the original of which was written in He
brew by Jewish poets and secrs, no invitation
was extended 10 a Jewish scholar who surely
might have been expected To have superior
qualifications for the work.