Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-13

he felt disappointed In what seemed TO him |
10 be loss of the familiar rhythm OF the old
translation in family worship he finds that |
his ear becomes accustomed to the new |
form and that where it most seemed |
TO lack 1t Is quite equal to the old. He re- |
lates that no once inquired Of Rev. DIR. |
Philip Schafi, one of the most eminent of the
revising. commission, why they altered
the Lords Prayer from "Thy will he done
on earth az in Heaven" to read "Thy will be
done as IN heaven, so In earth" DIR. SchaH
answered that II was found that everywhere
else than In the version of the Lords Prayer
as given by Matthew, where heaven and
earth are joined in the text the former is placel
first, hence the change in the new version
Tor uniformity's sake. But" said DIR. s.,
|" have you ever examined the form of tho
Lords Prayer as given by Luke, in the old
version, which we have been usingy' To
his surprise DIR. Titzel found--look for your
self-that in the Lords Prayer, as rendered
In Luke xi, 2, in the old version the phrase
il given, "Thy will be done, as In heaven,
50 in earth" Some of the RADICAL changes
of the new revision arc not 40 radical and
novel after all.
Nocablegram brought to America the news
| OF the death OF Mrs. Julia II. Ewing, who
died in England nearly month ago. And
| yet there are few such stories i'm the litera-
| ture as her " Daddy Darwin's Dovecote" and
| "Jackanapes." a child can understand
them and would be purified by them. and ]
| pity the man or woman who could read
| them with dry eye aud without quiver OF
| the lip. You can buy them for 30 cents
| apiece, illustrated beautifully by Caldecott.
The English cd ition is what you want
| know people who are sorrier about Mrs.
Ewing's death than for Gladstone's resigna.
ton.
Dan Voorhees, told me the other day, lust as
he was starting for Tennessee to defend
somebody for murder--where has he no,
gone on that errand--that the fall before ht
went to college and when he was only II
years of age, he walked i'm the furrow anc
between the plow-handles turning over g
| acres of sod. He thinks Valley Forge thu
most interesting and most beautiful spot h
has seen on this green globe, and some da,
he proposes to make an Grafton about II
Next TO that the sweetest place to him IL
| Pennsylvania, no says, is the eXpanse q
green fields and waving oaks, of fragran
clover and of climbing vines near York, OF
which arc Brockeyr and "WiIlow Bridges,
the homes of the Blacks, father and son.
When President Cleveland was about I
visit Gettysburg, the obligipg officials of
great railroad intimated to one of his friend
that their corporation would be glad to put
special car at his SERVICE " if he would as
for it." The friend did not have to consu
. the p 'sident to answer back that it woul
/. be h initiation ,or the president to ask ft
: such thing and degradation to accept
! The car was paid for
) Hon. Bayliss w. Hanna, the appointe
n minister TO Persia, don't want to &
if | know anything of mans di
position from his walk and conve
4, sation. When the subject was first broach,
l. 10 him / think he only saw glittering in Il
3. Orient sl0,0Coa year, and a sojourn amoi
s the -worshippers, garbed i'll silks al
= blazing with jewels When it can
"a to packing the babies in shoe boxt
u and jolting over three hundred mil
= OF mountain on mules and traversing 4
: miles of desert on camels, Hanna's hes
~ failed him. / fear his effort to be transierr
III to the Argentine Confederation was not
success. The last saw of him he was ma
, ing a bargain with a saddler to build hin
81 soft cushion for his mule-back, camel-ba
ie trip to the Shah's court
M ~
1t wasn't nearly as hard for Sam Cox
tear himself away from Congress and CO
oil stituents as he thought il was.
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