The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-10


u piler being Rev. Frank s. Ballen
tine, an Episcopal clergyman o.
scranton. II is in five dainty volumes
devoted to the New Testament. ant
every lover OF holy writ should have
10. The author does not announce
whether he purposes covering the Old
Testament or not. Only two volumes
ire out thus far, though all the others
are In press.
The first volume gives the Gospel OF
at. Mark; the second contains st. Mat
thew. together with the Eplstles of st.
Peter. st. Jude and st. James. which
Mr.. Ballentine considers to belong to
the same period. The third volume is
TO contain the Gospel according to st.
Luke and the Acts of the Apostles; the
Fourth and fifth will give the Epistles
nf st. Paul. including the Epistle to the
Hebrews; and in the sixth volume the
Gospel. the Epstles and the Revela tion
of st. John will be published together
This translation has been made in
modern American idiomatic English
for modern American readers. Much
care has been devoted to the typogra-
phical arrangement. Prose Is printed
as prose, and poetry as poetry. He
brew parallelisms are indicated plainly
and graphically. AS Christ's words to
the people OF His day and generation
were plain, simple and homely. so this
translation tells again the same great
truths In the same simple language OF
our own day and native land.
Mr.. Ballentine uses dollars and cents
not pounds. shillings. pence and farth-
ings. He makes some popular changes
too-"charger' to "dish"; "mammon"
to money; watch of the night" first
hour." etc. to our present designations
OF time. He drops all antiquarianisms,
such as the final "eths" of the verbs:
ne employs quotation marks and thus
escapes the necessity Of repeating "he
said He prints quotations from the
Old Testament in somewhat smaller
type. In Matthews Gospel. he tries
to reproduce the effect of the Hebraic
rythm by the free use of parallelisms
in printing.
On picking up one of these beautiful
iy printed little volumes-they are not
too large to put in the pocket--one is
struck with the fact that there is no
numbering or breaking into verses, but
that the text looks as attractive as
that of any book of today The print |
runs not In the narrow columns as in |
the old Bible, but across the page. The |
parts are arranged as |
IN all modern stories. after the method |
OF Henri Laserre in his Les Saints |
Evangiles. Mr.. Ballentine giving the
French author full credit for this novel |
and striking feature Probably few
people care for grammatical details, |
but scholars will be glad to know that |
Mr.. Ballentine has restored to the Eng
lish much of the force and beauty it
has lost in translation, his faithful rem
dering Of the lenses of the original
Greek being what the Sunday School
Times reviewer calls the greatest in
novation in the work.-Wilkes- Barre
Record.
Martin Luther. the great reformer,
vas born November 10, 1883, at Elsie
ben. Germany. This event will be
at the Sunday services
in Grace Lutheran church,
corner Madison avenue and Mulberry
Itreet, Rev. Luther Hess Waring, pas
or. The Sunday school will render
he following Home Mission and
luther Day programme at 1890 a. m.,
o which the public is cordially invited:
rgan prelude .................M Miss Hattie Kline
nvocation ........... Pastor and congregation
ong Of praise, 40! Mighty Host" .... School
cripture Lesson. the Luther Psalm,
Miss Marie ilencckel
ong, "Christ for This Land We Sing. School
rayer of Thanksgiving for the work OF the
reformcr ..................... James Matter | ,
ddress. "Why We Are lIcrc' ......M. c. Landt |
ecitations :. Lizzie Sunday and Icssic Kaufman !
esponsve reading, Luther and Ills Work"
Superintendent and school | ,
cading, "Luther, Model of True Christian
Liie' ................... d. l.. Fickcs. ESQ.
ing. Forward Soldier, Follow Jesus . School
rimary department recitations. y
Ella Grau Emma Ewald. Byron Wilcox, III.
mcr Kaufman. Edith Iandt, Janet Sunday, | y
Clara Corey. Foster Kaufman and Edith Ben. !.
der.
ing. Happy Little Ores" Primary class
ectation, 80 Church! Arise and Sing!" n
Roy Linker :. ~
ng, "sound the Battle Cry .......... School v
'sponsive Reading, "llome Missions "
Superintendent and school | y
'citations.
Irene Iorenz. Elsie Kline. Irene Siebecker II
Lille Foss, Irene Cunningham and Rosa | !.
Ruth.
ng "a Work for Us to Do .........,, school q,
citation, 'Afssonary Music'' , Cara IIaas ~
dress, "IIomc Missions ............ Pastor :.
oln solo, selected ......... Miss Clara Long ~ ~
ng, Lord, Send Thy Word and Let II Il,
rN, Observation-Disclosures. School | II,
'sing Prayer and Bencdction. W,
At the evening service at 7.3O O'Clock C..
ere will be special music and the da
stor will speak on Traces of Luther pr
Germany Today" m'
Following is the programme of the En-
ome Missionary conference to be G.
Id in the Washburn Street Presby-
rian church:
untsry and Doxolosy.
yer. tw
mn, "My Country 'Tis of Thee" mc
ipture reading. pa
iress, sour Home Missionary Preachers Pa
HOW Many ana Where D. A. Stone he
aper "Our Home Missionary Teachers and pri
the People They Work For' Miss Mabel Crist sci
iress, "Our New Fields in Cuba and Porto AM
Rico ...................D n I, Morgan Pr
mn, "Iiail to the Lords Anointed." OF
lress, "Reasons and Motives for Home Mis-. ing
sions' ....,,,.,.,,..,,... Robert j. Williams eva
ress, "What Our Local Church Gave Last mo
Year to Home Missions and What We IN
Should Give This Year, ........ The Pastor
ring for Home Missions. T.
mn. "God Bless Our Native Land" and
ediction. ch
- cln
iospel service at the Young Wo- n., m
ms Christian association, 2O5 WASH arc
ton avenue, at 3.45 Sunday after q
IN. Delegates to the state conyen- pas
! will make reports. All women and pre-.
Is are most cordially invited. The iect
tx beginning November II will be @ inc
erved as week of prayer i'm the asso- =, ~"
lion. Services will be held every day at
l215 and at 1 o'clock on Tuesday ia
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