The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
REVISED VERSION A DRUG.
booksellers OverstOclxed with the
Newest English Bible.
New York Times.

New York Times.
Those who remember the enormous sales
which attended the Introduction of the re-
vised version of the Holy Scriptures will be
not a little surprised at the general collapse
which has gradually made this publication
a drug on the market. Over sixteen years
ago the first edition of the revised New
Testament was published at the Oxford
Press. and at that time strenuous were
the efforts made to obtain advance sheets
of it that one house alone offered 35 900 for
a single copy without success. When the
revised version of the entire Bible was
published four years later the run on the
Oxford University Press warehouse was I'M
precedente0 upward OF a million copies be-
ing issued between one midnight and the
next midday. At the New York branch of
the Oxford Press. in Blocker street, the
office was besieged the night before publ
cation, and special detectives were placed
around the building to prevent overeager
purchasers from obtaining copies, even by
depoSiting their money.
1t is estimated that 100000 copies were
sold in this country during the first three
weeks after the publication. Such q sale
had never before been known, and several
American firms, including Harper Brothers,
ID. Appleton &, Co., Dodd Mead & Co.. and
Porter 81 Coates, of Philadelphia. issued
American editions in large quantities to
meet the demand.
The collapse was experienced less than
two months after the first appearance of the
lean firms interested has been variously
estimated to be between 100000 and $780,
600. From that date until now the sales
have been extremely small, less than eight
copies being sold to 100 of the King James
version.
That the revised version will ever sup
plant the King James version seems ex-
tremely doubted from the present outlook.
AS is we'll known. the new version is never
used in either the Roman Catholic or Prot
estant Episcopal Church in public worship,
and can never be. unless authorized by
those in power. which is extremely unlikely
to occur, owing to the origin of the revised
no ic ar
used almost exclusively among English
speaking people of the Roman Catholic
phTrch and the King 5 5ames Blbg IN the
of other denominations the revised version
has made little or no Roadway, and the
regular Scripture reading for the day is
AS textbook, however, it is considered
almost invaluable. and is used extensively
many Sunday schools. Its superiority in
technical accuracy is everywhere recog
nized It's lack of popularity in public wor-
ship seems to grow out of a loss of senti-
ment which is found to so large a degree
in the authorized version: one of the pas
sages which has evoked the most unfavora-
BILE comment is the translation of the Lords
Prayer. which in Matthew vi, 9-14, is made
to read as follows:
Our Father which ART IN heaven, Hal
lowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be DONE as in heaven so on earth.
Give us this day our daily bread. And for
give us our debts as we also have forgiven
ton, but deliver US from the evil one"
The substitution of the evil one for
evil brought forth a flood of criticism.
Another passage which has attracted at
tention is the translation of the Gloria in
Excelsis" Instead of GLORY be to God In
the highest, and on earth peace good will
to men the revised version has it: GLORY
to God in the highest, and on earth, peace
among men in whom he Is Wei pleased.
decided the fate OF the new version as a
book appointed to be read in churches"