The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-05-04


vie with 1909 in the matter Of
centenaries, but has the edge
over any other year of the new
century. If this thing keeps up we
shall get the centennial habit There
will be centenaries every week of
births, of deaths and of notable hap
penings between ceDtenaries of coro-
nations and inaugurations. of war and
peace, of inventions and revolutions.
Civilization will come to look like
garden of century plants with some
festival or celebration constantly burst
Ing into bloom.
In 1911 it is the semicentennial of
the first Inauguration of Lincoln and
the centennial of the birth of many
notable men-to wit: Charles Sumner,
Jan. 6; Horace Greeley, Feb. 3; Meis-
sonier, the celebrated Napoleonic paint
er, Feb. 81, all of which, by the way,
are over and gone; David Hume, the
British free thought historian, April
20; William Makepeace Thackeray,
July IS; Franz Liszt, Oct. %; John
Bright, Nov. 16. and Wendell Phillips,
Nov. 20.
Nor does this end the list. On Nov.
we celebrate the centennial Of Har-
rison's victory at Tippecanoe and on
Dec 81 the tercentenary of the aces
sion of Gustavus Adolphus. l had al
most forgotten the bicentenary of the
appearance Of Addison's Spectator on
March l.
centenary of the first issue of the King
James version of the Bible. Nobody
knows exactly in what month the orig
inal publication occurred, so the cele-
bration will be observed at different
times in various parts of the world.
In England and America it is fixed for
March.
TRANSACTIONS Were Numerous.
There had been several English
TRANSACTIONS of the Bible prior to the
King James or authorized version,
but none of them had been quite sat
isfactory. The first of these worth
mention was the Wycliffe Bible, trans
lated by John Wycliffe, the original
English reformer and martyr, in the
fourteenth century and circulated in
manuscript William Tyndale, anoth-
er reformer and martyr, followed this
with another translation in the six
teenth century. 1t is somewhat Sig |
nifcant that both of these translators
were counted heretics, and not the |
least of the charges against them was |
this very desire to give the Scriptures |
to the common people. Tyndale was |
prescribed and went to live at Worms
with Luther, whose follower he was.
There his translation was completed.
The Tyndale Bible became in large
degree the basis of subsequent Eng
lish versions. 1t was published in
1926, and during the same century six
other TRANSACTIONS were made and a
seventh begun. The reformation was
bearing abundant fruit.
The next translation after Tyndale's
was that of Miles Coverdale, which APP
peared in 1886. 1t has been claimed
that Coverdale worked with Tyndale.
but this is in dispute. In popular
parlance the Coverdale version has
come to be known as the bug" Bible
because Of the following translation
Of a verse from one of the Psalms:
$50 that thou shalt not nede to be
afraid for any Bugges by nighte nor
for the arrow that fiyeth by day"
The Matthews Bible followed in
1887. 1t was translated by John Rog-
ers. another Protestant martyr. The
raverner Bible, named for one Of its
publishers. Richard Taverner, appear
I'd in 1889.
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