The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-26
| KING JAMES VERSION
Of ENGLISH BIBLE
THREE HUNDREDTH ANNltER-
SARY OF ENGLISH TRANSLA-
TION CELEBRATED.
Ambassador Bryce of Great Britain
One of the Speakcrs-Bible
Is the Common Heritage
of All.


| Associated Press Special
New York, April 26.-In deliver
ing a special message from King
| George V to the meeting in Carne-
| gle Hall last night to celebrate the
three-hundredth anniversary of the
English translation of the Bible, Am
bassador Bryce of Great Britain
| spoke of the effect the translation
has had upon the English speaking
race. He said in part:
"The great event which we are
met to commemorate was, like most
great things, no sudden achieve
ment of a group of gifted scholars
but the mature fruit of desires and
| purposes which had long been ripen-
! ing in the minds of our ancestors.
Much had been done towards an
English Bible before King James the
First commissioned his company of
learned scholars for their task. Us
| ing the labors of their many pre-
| decessors, the translators produced
| a version which was wonderfully eX-
act for the scholarship of those days
SO exact that after three centuries
| the changes which repeated cola
lions of manuscripts and and repeat
| ed examinations of the precise mean
| ing of the Hebrew and Greek texts
have led modern critics to make are
few and unimportant in proportion
to the whole.
How much OF the excellence of
our great writer's from Milton. Jer
envy Taylor, and Baxter downwards
is traceable to their knowledge of
the diction of the Bible? We can
feel it in four great masters of our
tongue who adorned the last gener
alton to all of whom the Scriptures
were familiar from childhood We |
recognize it in the speeches of joan |
Bright and Abraham Lincoln, in the |
sermons and essays of Cardinal New |
man, and in the earlier writings of |
Thomas Carlyle before his style be |
came Germanized. The names OF |
Lincoln and Bright suggested the !
immense and unique service which |
this translation rendered to men of
our SIOtk. II brought ul1S Won
derfu storehouse of historical mar
rative and moral reflection, this in
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differences as TO it's meaning the
common starting noint for their
poetry and their ethics. CHANGER
and Tasse and Goethe have their
roots in it as well as Dante and
Milton. II has been a visible SYM