Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-11-26

during the Dark
Ages, which are now causing lonth-
ing and repudIatlon on the part OF
many Of the best and wisest people in
the world. Ali will admit that 1t is
sinful to tamper with the Word Of God
ito either add to or take from It or to
wrest or twist or pcrvert its meaning.
Whg ID II. then. that ministers Of the
Gospel, who know that certain pas
sages OF the Scriptures are not to be
found in the older manuscrlpts, fall TO
show to the people the truth on this
subject7 And n these ministers are
not fully Informed, whose fault is that1
Would It not be preferable that they
should absent themselves from some
sf the fairs and festivals and social
functions. In order to inform them
sslvesi
On what pretext are the clergy
a specially privileged class, except
for tae purpose Of giving their fiocks
reliable information along religious
linesf And what is their commission
from the Lord, except that they Should
fosd the dock OF God. which he pur-
chased with the blood OF his own dear
Bon7s II the flock have been feeding
upon ceruain ocrip'urcs supposeu W De
genuine anu u 'ney nafe Deen ."us
sick tnerepy' anu II 'neii snepueius
now know that these Scriptures are not
q part OF the Diylnely inspired Word,
why should not Gods people be in
formed OF the facts and be stopped
om .a..s po,soe.s A.s ~ '0
euoeo W 'ne Au'e''"''
Poison In Our Bibles.
The more others are silent, the more
voc must speak. We cannot see Gods
sheep spiritually sick without warning
them respecting their spiritual food.
Not only have we received many mis-
interpretations OF the parallels and
symbols OF the Bible but into our
Bibles themselves certain false state
ments have been injected-long CEN
turies ago. All well-mformed minis.
ters of the Gospel know that our New
Testament was not translated from
the writings of the Apostles. but from
copies thereof These. copied over and
ever again. no matter how carefully,
were liable 70 errors. And I'm addition,
a. we might expect. occasionally. n
bold transcrlber would add few
words to make the record conform
the better 70 his conception OF what
Il ought to be. This went on for CEN
turies before the art OF printing came
into use.
The New Testament was translated
from the Greek into the Latin language,
and was known as the vulgate. From
that Latin translation sprang our va
rlous English translations-the Douay
or Catholic edition. published In 1000
A. d.. and the King james Bible. or
Common Version. published In 1911 A..
ID The latter was merely revised
translation. 10 assist In which re-
vision other previous translations were
used. and we are assured that the text
was diligently compared with the
Greek text. But until lately there
were no ancient Greek manuscripts
with which 10 compare II, The Greek
manuscripts with which Il was com.
ner.A numbered onlv e,gbt none az
which dated earlier than the Tenth
Century. Today. however we have
three very old Greek manuscripts OF
the New Testament, namely. the Alex
andrian MS, the Vatican MS. and the
sinaitic MS. or these. tue Vatican
As. was the first 10 come TO the at.
tention OF modern scholarship. IL Is
iu the Vatican Library. appearing on
its catalogue MS far back as l475 A. d..
which manuscript scholarship accred.
itn with having been written IN the
fourth century. Next came the Alex.
andrlan MS. which is supposed 10
have been written about the middle of
the 9th century. II ia now on ex.
hibltion IN the British Museum. Final,
", we have the slnaitic Ms. which ls
IN possession OF the Russian Govern.
ment. Il was found by Constantine
Tischendorf In M. sinai Convent.
from which II takes lis name. II is
accredited with date OF about $50