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Master, Of which the church had pre-
served four for US.

Master, Of which the church had pre-
served four for us.
RECORD CHESTS OF OLD.
The lecturer asked his hearers to pic
ture to themselves the record chest in
rome, or Jerusalem, or EpheSus, when
sufficient time had glided by since the
should we find? We should find: ID Some
manuscripts OF the o. T. books; C) A
few rolls of the Apocrypha; 90 either the
and the Acts. the letters of ST. Paul, St.
Peter, and st. John.
Now what we have to show is the con-
nection between this Blble-for it is the
Bible in solution-in that record chest
and the r. V. Bible, which we hold in
our hand today. IL my hearers will pur-
chase an excellent little book called
How We Got Our Bible" by an Irish
clergyman, Mr.. Patterson Smyth Oon-
much.
The lecturer drew the attention of the
audience to the three oldest Bibles in the
World-the Vatican, the Alexandrian Qn
the British Museum), and the Sinaitie
The most famous r. V. was that of s.
all scholars the Vulgate. This was
direct translation of the o. T., from
Hebrew into Greek, made at Bethlehem
where the traveller may today see the
grave of this mighty scholar, who labor
ed on for many years, and whose trans
lation stood alone the parent of every
Latin translation for fully a thousand
years. Like the revsors of the nine
teenth century, 8. Jerome was attacked
His work was called heretical, revolution
airy, ETC., by all sorts of prejudiced peo-
pie and fgnoramuses. In letter to his
lady helper. Paula, 8. Jerome says u
could afford to despise them II / stood
upon my rights. for Tyre is played in
vain to ass"
THE FIRST TRANSLATORS.
which were in the hands of the priests
and evangelistS who helped to bring
about the conversion of England during
the second and third centuries. The noble
band OF teachers under ST. Augustine did
not arrive from the Pope of Rome until
5S7. 1t was st. Bede, the monk of Jar
row, who first translated part of lne
Holy Scriptures into Anglo Saxon The
lation of st. Johns gospel.
In the seventh century Caedmon, the
monk of Whitly, made rhymed extract
of the gospels, which, rendered into mod
ern English, runs thus:
What time the Lord God
From death arose,
So strongly was
No Satan armed :.
For He went forth
The Lord of angels .
In the Strong City
And babe fetch
Angels all bright
And even bade say
To Simon Peter
That he might on Galilee
Behold God,
Eternal and firm
AS he ere did,
The next translator was King Alfred
the Great, known to school children as
the King who was good at eating cakes
but not at baking them. In his day the
church founded college at Oxford and
Alfred's patriotic desire was that all the
free-born youth should learn to read we'll
Here is the Lords Prayer of his time:
Uren Fader dhic art In Heopras
Our Father which art in heaven)
Sic gehalged Dhin noma.
Q1allowed be Thy name.)
Those who know German will observe
the likeness.
Archbishop Aelfric appears about the
close of the tenth century, when a CEN
turion was a hundred man." a disciple
was Corning knight" the man with
the dropsy was 1.-The water-seoc-man'
the Sabbath "the reste daeg' crest day)
THE BEGGING FRIARs.
The lecturer graphically sketched the
begging friars of the fourteenth century,
the greed and corruption of the church,
the money-grabbing, etc. 1t was then
that John Wycliffe, the morning star of
the Reformation" was sent as a preach
er of righteousness, like a John the Bap-
fist. Here is Wycliffe's translation of st.
Matthew 3:1-4:
I'm thilke dayes came loon Baptist.
prechynge in the desert of Jude, saving.
De We penance for the Kingdom of hey-