The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-29


,t{ *. ~ tain flies false
zkzaz hoods crept into it
during the Dark
Ages. which are now causing loath-
ing and Reputation on the part of
many OF the best and wisest people in
the world. All will admit that it is
SINFUL to tamper with the Word of God
Ito either add to or take from 1t or to
wrest or twist or pervert its meaning
Why u 1t, then, that ministers of the
Gospel, who know that certain pas
sages OF the Scriptures are not to be
Found In the older manuscripts, fail to
show to the people the truth on this
s1bject2 And If these ministers are
not fully Informed, whose fault is that?
Would it not be preferable that they
should absent themselves from some
Of the fairs and festivals and social
functions, in order to inform them
selves?
On what pretext are the clergy
q specially privileged class, except
for the purpose of giving their fiocks
reliable information along religious
lines? And what is their commission
from the Lord, except that they should
feed the flock Of God, which he pur-
chased with the blood Of his own dear
Sonp II the flock have been feeding
upon certain Scriptures supposed to be
genuine, and If they have been made
sick thereby, and If their shepherds
now know that these Scriptures are not
q part Of the Divinely inspired Word.
why should not Gods people be in
formed Of the facts and be stopped
from eating poisonous elements intro
duced by the Adversary
Poison In Our Bibles.
The more others are silent, the more
zoe 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
turtles ago. All well-informed minis
tiers of the Gospel know that our New
4Cctd1ACut was AOl LIduSldIcQ HUH
the writings of the Apostles, but from
copies thereof These, copied over and
over again, no matter how carefully.
were liable to errors. And In addition,
as we might expect, occasionally, a
bold transcriber would add a few
words to make the record conform
the better to his conception of what
1t ought to be. This went on for cen
turtles 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
rious English translations-the Douay
or Catholic edition, published in 1909
A. D., and the King James Bible, or
Common Version. published In 1911 A.
d. The latter was merely a revised
translation, to 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 to compare 1t. The Greek
manuscripts with which it was COM
pared numbered only eight, none of
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. OF these, the Vatican
MS. was the first to come to the at
tention of modern scholarship. 1t is
In the Vatican Library. appearing on
its catalogue as far back as 1475 A. D..
which manuscript scholarship accred-
Its with having been written In the
fourth century. Next came the Alex
andrian MS, which is supposed to
have been written about the middle of
the fifth century. 1t is now on ex-
hibition In the British Museum. Final
", we have the Sinaitic MS, which is
In possession of the Russian Govern
ment. 1t was found by Constantine
Tischendorf In Mt. Sinai Convent.
from which 1t takes its name 1t is
accredited with a date of about $50
a. 49, "a tnCcG t4ItG OluGSl M00. Vi
the New Testament known in the
world, the Vatican and Sinaitic are
the older.
Assuredly nothing should be consid-
cred as part of the original Scriptures
that is not found In any of these three
Oldest MSS. Why should we not tell
this to the people? Why should we
not inform them that some of the
most confusing texts of the Bible are
not found In these old manuscripts?
Is 1t not sin to preach doctrines as
from God which have no part in these
early MSS? This is our thought.
From time to time it will be our pleas
ure, as well as our duty, to teach the
common people what the clergy al
ready know on this subject. More
over, the Bible Students Association
of Brooklyn has arranged for the i'm
portation of copies of the New Tesla
ment bound in cloth showing the vari-
atoms between the readings of these
old Greek MSS. and our Common Yer
sion. The usual price of these is S1.OO:
but, importing them In large quanti-
-
ties. they are able to supply them post
paid at 60c. each.
Consider Now Our Text.
''Go We into all the world. and preach
ieveth and is baptized. shall be saved;
but he that believeth not, shall be
damned."-Mark xvi Is, 49,
One of the most important of these
interpretations or poisonous additions
engrafted upon the Word of God is in
the sixteenth chapter of Mark, all of
which, from the ninth verse to the end
OF the chapter, is spurious-fraudulent
1t is additional to anything that st.
Mark wrote, as evidenced by the fact
that these verses are not found in any
Of the three Oldest Greek MSS.
OF course some of the items of
these verses are found In other Cos
pels. 1t would never do to add lie
without certain amount of covering
OF Truth to sugarcoat It'll But notice
our text and what a wrong thought it
gives-inconsistent with the remainder
OF the Scriptures. Its intimation is
mat the preaching or the Gospel to
every creature viii result either in his
believing it and being baptized, and
thus being saved, or IN his disbelieving
and being damned And this word
damned carries with 1t, in the light of
other misunderstanding fire and
blazings, roasting and torture, shrek
ing and woes indescribable. This is
al wrong-contrary to the authentic
Scriptures
The authentic Scriptures inform us
that this Gospel Age is one In which
God is gathering from the world a
"little flock" of footstep followers,
sanity and elect, to constitute the
Bride Of Christ-his joint-heirs in his
coming Kingdom. They show that not
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