Enterprise news-record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911, 1911-04-01

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and, In fact, all English speaking
countries, will join in the observance
of the English Bibles birthday.
The celebration will not be confin-
ed to London. In the course of the
week meetings will be arranged in
leading provincial centers in Scot
land and Ireland, similar to the large
mass meeting. to be held in the Royal
Albert Hall on Wednesday. The
celebration will continue for several
weeks and will reach it's climax and
conclusion on the Sunday following
Easter.
VIII Interest Many.
In connection with the interesting
celebration the authorities of the
British Museum have arranged an ex-
hibition of historical character
which will attract the attention and
hold the interest of the thousands of
Bible scholars who will visit London
during the tercentenary celebration
The exhibition will be divided into
two sections, manuscripts and print
ed books. The manuscripts will d.
lustrate the progress of the Bible
from the very earliest times, start
ing with examples of the Hebrew
and Greek originals, and going son to
the Latin Vulgata, which brought the
Bible into England. There will also
be numerous examples of early Eng
lish manuscripts, produced at vari-
GUS intervals down to the time when
the art of printing was introduced.
There will be about thirty examples
of biblical manuscript illustrating
the various periods mentioned.
The printed or book section will
start with a. copy of the first example
of portion of the Bible printed in
England, this being Tyndale's New
Testament produced in 1926. Other
examples of printed works will show
all editions produced in 1911, when
the special committee appointed seven
years before by James l, to revise
the Bible for all time, produced the
result of its labor. There will also
be specimens of some specially inter
esting additions of the authorized Yer
sion since that date.
The exhibition will include a speci-
men of practically every Bible in the
museum, excluding, however, mere
translations into foreign languages OF
the authorized version. Several copies
will he accompanied by documents
illustrating their history, and the Ian
guages and dialects represented in the
whole collection will include Hebrew
Greek, Syriac, three dialects of Egypt
ian, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and English o.
the middle ages, Tudor and Elizabeth
an periods.
1t was in 1903 that the Puritan wins
Of the Church of England petitionet
James for the revision of the Book
of Common Prayer. To bring about {
final settlement Of the matter, which
caused considerable dissension among
his subjects, King James summoned
conference of learned men, theo
logians and Bible students, which con
lvened at Hampton Court in the king
presence, on January IA, 1904. 1t was
during the four days of that confer
ence, which clearly showed the di
vergence of opinions regarding the
existing English texts of the Bible
the Great, the Bishops and the Gen
eva Bible, that James conceived the
idea of ordering a new version o.
the Bible, hnceeforth to be accepted
as the only authorized version. Ht
dismissed the conference, however
without disclosing his plan.
On July 23, of the same year, he
called the same scholars together onc'
more and charged them with the tasl
of making a new version of the Bible
based upon the Bishops Bible from
which they were to deviate only wher'
absolutely necessary. The fifty-fou
scholars Of which the conference con
sisted, organized themselves into 81.
subcommittee and with all the avail
able material, from the original Gree
and Hebrew manuscripts, Bishop VI
fila's Gothic translation and later La
| in, German, French Italian and Span
ish translations to the English Bible
of Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale an
the Geneva Bible at their disposa
! began their task which was not CON
pleted until seven years later. The e'
: act date of the completion of the wor
l is not known, but it was at the begil