The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-03

lead IN this direction Until a short time
ago European Governments were mig
gardly IN making appropriations. But
they are coming to see that II II uselc-s
20 have the big guns II YOU have not the
sklliul men To put behind them.
The Better English OF the tmcri-
can Revision Of the libic.
The learned scholars Of the American
Revision Committee arc far seen In
Hebrew and Greek. but II Is permitted
to conjecture that their feeling for
English and their perception Of the
popular understanding If English are
n little blurred In the books and lit
URGES of most Religions and m the crrr-
monies of barbarians or savagcs that are
without a literature, archaic expressions
are found and they are retained
times after their meaning has been lost.
But is the meaning Of most of the ex-
pressions in the Authorized Version
for which the reviscrs have provided
substitutes, unintclllgible or obscure
to Bible readers of to-day? l. II not Ia
be supposed that they are able Ia find
IN all the innumcrablc cheap helps and
landlords To Bible study the cxplana-
tion of any words or phrases that are
obsolete or difficult.
We believe ourselves that those Grabbed
old proper names are the most brlstllng
hedge IN the way of the Bible reader
Without a pronouncing dictionary he Is
perpetually tripping up The Letters OF
MERoDACH BALADAN are illegible and
HELkATH HAZzuRIM is not easy Ia the
memory But Il seems suJerfluous Ia
be- bothered 10y some of the words that
the r~cviscrs seem to have regarded "a
hard The time Ia rCad the Bible. the
time 10 read SHAKESPEARE. for that
matter. II IN youth. Then the mind
receives n thousand golden phrases
and stories. learned by heart sometimes,
not fully understood until later, destined
To become the treasure and consolation
Of the days when thou shalt say | have
no pleasure in them A. child you may
not have known what the " cmcrods 81
were. hut at least you knew tina, nothing
was bad enough for the PhIliStincs.
Unfortunately IN our day the PhilIs-
tines have laid hands upon the Bible
itself.
Let us look into SH%AREsPEsRE a min
ute. Upon what meat doth this our
CtssB fccdy' IL T. "A very small quota
ton sack that doesn't contain that.
Is there anything difficult about the
word " meat" Would anybody think
of substituting d" food " for 1t ~ the
American rcvis"rs hive done with the
a." meat Of the Bible? " The young
lions scck their meat from COP My
flesh is meat indeed. My blood drink in
deed % What reason II there for saving
&" food instead Of meat" This Is
poetry. not a catalogue of food products.
but To- ~ back to SHAKESPEARE Now
pile your dust upon tho quick and dead -
Does anybody fai. to understand that,
The American ~rrvisers would substitute
d" living, " live" II would have to be
Ia keep SHAKEsPRsRE's metre.
SHAKEsrEARH's toad. ugly and ven
omous, Means vet a precious jewel In his
head To our mind YOU not only
don't gam, but YOU lose by getting leave
to amend by reading It's Has
HAMLET's BY Heavens. III make "A
ghost of him hat let's me become
ambiguous; Don't people still Use the
phrase without let or hlndrance?"
" Prevent In the sense of a" anticipate "
Is obsolete, but surely the Authorized
Version Is a monument Of English liter
aturc. to bc cherished a. such A mar
ginal note would explain prevent "
Ia the TRIGGsEs and the other bab,-
and suckiings MosFs wis, not that
his face shonc" Did anybody hav.
any trouble with visit IN Sunday
school, Why should 1t bc changed
10 knew The American revl~rr
might have credited the Jssople with
"a little intelligence" such changes a.
make full ior fulfil and far IT, 1, BE-
for God iorbid scem supcrluous.
The chl"f valuc 81 all the cmenda-
tiuuS IT the Autlur1~t Version that
do not deal with actual m~istransIaiians
b, that they show 10y contrast IT, ~.
rruuty After their moment If my
,lty the rcvisious sink into oh>cuntv
The Authorized Version came at the
nsii tam" and found tho language r.,ady
The lev autiquat~i ~ords sad thc touch
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