Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-04-27
new YORK PAYS
HONOR TO BIBLE
Monster Meeting Is Held in
Carnegie Hall.
BRYCE READS KINGS LETTER
Audience of Great Size Listens to Let
ter from President Taft and
Addresses by Eminent.
Churchmen.
BRYCE READS KINGS LETTER

New York, April 26.-"It will take
me less than five minutes to tell you
what has been the effect of the author
lied version on English literature"
said Professor William Lyon Phelps,
of Yale, in Carnegie Hail. ct has
simply been the whole thing"
That was the burden of every speech
that was made at the tercentenary cele-
bration of the fact that King James
set his wise men to the task of trans
lating the Bible and that they COM
pleted their work 800 years ago this
year At the exercises, Carnegie Hall
was filled from platform to the top
most peak of the highest balcony.
Clergymen Of distinction from many
creeds took part in the celebration in
the organization of which the Amer
lean Bible society has been active.
Along the first tier of boxes were the
thirty-six managers of the society.
Bishop Greer of the diocese of New
York presided. first edition of the
authorized version, the property of the
Bible society, was used by James
Wood, chairman of the five year meet
ing Of the Society of Friends, when
he read from the Scriptures the 55th
chapter of Isaiah. The first note of
applause came when Bishop Greer an
nounced that letters about the cele-
bration had been sent to the society
by the heads of this country and Eng
land.
This letter from President Taft was
read:
II desire to express my deep inter
est in the recognition which is being
taken in this country of so notable
an event as the 3O0th anniversary of
the King James version of the English
Bible
|"The publication of this version Of
the Holy Scriptures in the year 1911
associates it with the early colonies
of the English people upon this con-
tinent. It became at once the Bible
of our American forefathers. It's clas
sic English has given shape to Amer
lean literature It's spirit has inf1u-
enced American ideals in life and laws
and government.
81 trust that this celebration may
deepen the influence of the Bible upon
the people of this republic.''
Ambassador Bryce began by read
ing this letter from King George, dated
at Buckingham palace:
81 rejoice that America and England
should join in commemorative the
publication 800 years ago of that
version of the Holy Scriptures which
has so long held it's own among Eng
lish speaking peoples. It's circulation
in our homes has done more perhaps
than anything else on earth to pro
mote moral and religious welfare
among old and young on either side of
the Atlantic.
"The version which bears King
James name is so clearly interviewer
in the British and American life that
it is right we should thank God for it
together. | congratulate the presi-
dent and people of the United States
upon their share in this, our common
HERITAGE
The ambassador told his audience
that the authorized version belonged to
two branches of the English race that
was undivided when it was written.
The translators began their work,
said he, in the very year when the
first English settlers landed at James
town Island in Virginia, and finished
it long before the feet of the Pilgrim
fathers touched the shores of Massa
chusetts.