The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-16
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1885,

ance of such scholarsas the
Protestant Episcopal church of
America may furnish, and I, therefore,
undertake the charge of addressing my
self to you on having been the centre,
as understand, of the communications
of the nOn-Episcopalian churches
with DIR. Angus during his
recent visit. May l ask you,
In consideration of the distance of
space and length of time which would
be involved in repeated correspondence
with each member, to enter into such
negotiations as you may deem
advisable with the scholars of
these churches. 1t will, of course, be
readily understood that the object
OF the committee of conversation ana
| of the revising companies, is to procure
on the ground of scholarly and biblical
qualifications. With this view, have
consulted with Dr. Angus and others.
and venture to submit a list of such
eminent persons as have occurred to us
as falling within the above description.
You will perhaps have no difficulty
in arranging with them, and also Gf you
think best) with Bishop Potter, repre-
renting the Protestant Episcopal church,
and to whom have not written, as the
Bishop will understand, only because
he has already received a COM
munication from my superior in
rank, the Bishop of Winchester.
The details of the mode of cooperation
will easily suggest themselves. On them
| need not at present enter, but will
conclude with the hope that the joint
and cordial cooperation in this great
and holy work may add another link to
the friendly intercourse and COM
munion between English Christendom
and that powerful and ever-increasing
offspring that it has produced beyond
the Atlantic.
Yours, very faithfully,
A. p. STANLY
Bishop Wilberforce had somewhat
earlier written to Bishop Potter, of
New York, asking the cooperation of
the divines of the Episcopal Church.
The general convention of America,
but as the general convention of which
did not meet until the following
autumn, the subject could not formally
bishops before that time. Under date
of August 7th, 1871, Bishop Wilber-
force again addressed Bishop Potter, in
a letter, which was submitted to the
house of bishops for their decision.
The house of bishops decided to take
no official part in the work, but left in
dividual members free to act as they
might, but so much time had elapsed in
the preliminary communications be-
tween America and England that the
final arrangements for the American
committee were not made until the
summer of 1872. These arrangements
were concluded by DR.. Schaff, who Wis
tied England that summer for the pur
pose. On his return in the autumn,
the committee began its work. Though
nearly two years later than the English
companies in beginning this work,
they pressed forward with such activity
that they were enabled to complete it
contemporaneously, with their English
brethren. The first meeting the
American committee, when its
was completed, was
held at the Bible House,
New York, on the 4th of October, 1872.
The list of the American committee, as
finally constituted, included also those
who participated in the organiza
ton of the body and the
Others who were added to men,
bership by election of some of the
earliest meetings. The membership was
necessarily limited to scholars, whose
residence was not as remote from New
York as to make their attendance i'm
possible.
In the margin, "Abaddon," which
has hitherto been known to English
readers of the Bible only from the New
Testament. Revelations TX, has been in
troduced in three passages, once in Job
and twice in Proverbs. The term
"meat offering" was changed into
"meal Offering" the former term hav-
ing ceased to be the generic name for
all food.