New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-13
TO PRINT REVISED BIBLE.
Managers VOte to Amend Constitu-
ton of american SOciety.

! At the annual business meeting of the board of
J managers Of the American Bible Society, held In
the Bible House yesterday. it was voted to amend
the constitution of the society so rs to permit 1t to
print the Revised Version of the PhIe course
/ which has long been urged on the society.
Since the organization of the Bible Society, eighty
I eight years ago. the rigid and answering adj
herence has been maintained that article in the
constitution which prescribed that no English
edition of the Scriptures should be published by
the society other than the version then in COM
mon use, the Authorized Version. that OF King
James prepared in 1911 1t has also resisted all at
tempts to prevail on it to print any so-called
teachers Bible.
For more than year however. the executive
management of the society has recognized the
necessity Of yiel ling modern ideas in its
work Of Bible publication. and the question Of al
terng the constitution as admit OF the print
! Ing and circulation of the Revised Version has
often been informally discussed by the board Of
managers. This board is composed of people from
fifteen different Christian denominations. and a
wide diversity of opinion existed among them as to
what the proper action to take.
Finally, recommendation formally adopted
at the April meeting Of the board that the society
should amend the first article Of the constitution
so to permit the publication of the Revised Yer
sion of the English Bible. well the King
James Version. and the date for final action was
set for the annual meeting yesterday.
The amendment makes that part of the consti-
tuition relating to the version which shall be used
read in part follows:
. set forth in 1911 and commonly known =
the King James Version, whether In its Original
form, published in the aforesaid year, or as re-
vised, the New Testament in 1881 and the Old
Testament in 1885, and published In those years
under the supervision of the COMMITTEES or re-
American committee Of revision and printed under
its supervision in 1901.
There was opposition the amendment. F. VOL
cott Jackson. of Newark, y. j. one OF the mem
hers OF the COMMITTEES on Distribution. who thought
that the society would he acting in defiance of tos
wishes Of its founders if it changed the constitu-
tion framed by them, leading it,
The Rev. Or. Edward P Ingerson one Of the
secretaries Of tho society. thus explained the &C
ton:
II is the result Of petitions we have received
from New England and from New-York state ASK
ing print the Revised Version and more
than year ago the American Revision Committee
asked do r. Almost all OF tho leading pastors
have also so advised. Both in England and in TINS
country there is growing conviction that the
TO be given 10 the public by the society here and
the British version by the British and Foreign
Eihle Society in London.
One reply which the authorities ~ the Bible Soci-
ETY. made 10 those who insisted having the Re
vised Version was that the Revised Version
copyrighted work was the property ~ Thomas
license from tina: firm. II has been learned. how
ever. that the Nelson firm will probably make no
objection The society's use OF it's version In
fact II Is likely that the Nelson's will do All N"
printing work Of the new version for the Bible
Society The society has not vet determined
when II will begin the publication OF the Bible in
the Revised Version what proportion OF IT'S out
put will be 81 the more modern work