The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-08
THE WORLDS MOST
LEARNED WOMEN
Mrs. Agnes S. Lewis and
Mrs. Margaret D. Glib
SOL Here.

This evening at s o'clock two of the
Agnes Smith Lewis the discoverer of the
Palimpsest of the Syriac Bible, and
her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop
Gibson, author of the exceedingly inter-
csting volume entitled "How the Codex
Was Found; A Narrative of Two Visits
to Sinai" will speak to tho students of
Union Theological Seminary and their
friends in the chapel of that institution
or the subject of their expeditions to
Sinai, which they have visited five
times, aud the relation OF their discov-
cries to the science Of textual criticism
and the Interpretation of the New Tcsttl-
ment The extraordinary attainmcnts Of
these ladies have been recognized
throughout the whole world of scholars.
Both of them enjoy the singular distinc-
ton of having received the honorary de-
gree of LIZ d. from the ancient uni
versites of Edinburgh and Heidelberg.
Mrs. Lewis literary work includes the
Introduction to ,,"rhe -Four Gospels in
Syriac.' the editio princeps of the now
famous codeX which bears her name,
edited for the syndics of the University
Press, Cambridge, 1894; Some Pages of
the -Four Gospels retranscribed from the
Sinaiic Palimpsest with translation
OF the whole text, London, 1896" and the
series of papers in The Exposltor, Vols.
~. and XII, entitled What Have We
Gained in the Sinaiuc Palimpsest?' Mrs.
Glib on. in addition to her work In Syriac
photography, has written life OF her
accomplished and lamented husband.
which is published in his volume of the
Cid Ballads well known to students of
Spanish literature.
I)r w. w Moore who was the guest
Of these ladies at their homo In Cam
bridge last summer, in one of his letters
written from abroad to the "Children's
Friend speaking Of the services in the
Presby terrain Church there which he at
tended, mentions another inuication Of
their unusual attachments. He says:
1--WE saw a thing in that church which
we had never seen before. When tho
minister read tho Scripture lesson from
the Old Testament, In the English YER
sion the two ladies in whose pew we
we're sitting, opened the Hebrew Bible
and followed the readings in that. and
in like manner when the New Testament
lesson was read they followed IN the
Greek text"
1t was largely through the munificence
of Mrs Lewis and Mrs. Gibson that
Westminster College, the theological
seminary of the Presbyterian Church in
England, was transplanted from It's for
mer undesirable location and established
In tho university city of Cambridge. thus
bringing the Puritan theology back to Its
original home in England. The financial
agent who canvassed the English Pres
byterlan churches for the experimenting
Of the donation of these two large minded
and large-hearted ladies was the Rev.
DR.. John Watson, OF Liverpool, better
known to the general reader Ian
Maclaren," author of BESIDE the Bon
mic Brian Bush and other popular works.
The college is now fully established at
Cambridge, with full outfit of buildings,
and Is doing excellent work.
Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson are the
guests while in the city of their cousin.
Mrs. Warner Moore, at No. Sl3 East
Franklin Street.