New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-26

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eEced American ideals il life and laws and
government.
I trust that this celebration may continue
and deepen the influence of tie Bible upon
the people OF this Republic.
Bryce Reads the Kings Letter.
The audience remained sta nding through
out the reading of the letter, and every
body rose again when Bishop Greer intro
duced Ambassador Bryce as the bearer OF
message from the King Of England and
os a man who had done more than any
other person 10 strengthen the friendly
feeling between the two nations.
Il am honored," said Ambassador Bryce.
ito nave been selected to read to you a
letter from my sovereign expressing his
sympathy for the joint commemoraton OF
great event. The letter reads as follows;
| I rejoice that America and England
should Join Ia communicating the puLilca-
: ton three hundred years ago Of that YER
I sion Of the Holy Scriptures which has so
! long held its own among English speaking
/ peoples. Its circulation IN our homes mas
done more, perhaps than anything else on
earth To promote moral and religious wei
/ fare among old and young on either side OF
/ the Atlantic.
/ The version which bears kins James 3
maine is so clearly interviewer in the his
1 tory OF British and American life that IL
| is right we should thank Gcd for II to-
] gether I congratulate the President and
/ people OF the United States upon their
share In this our common heritage.
| The British Ambassador then spoke Of
the event commemorated. which, he said,
was. like most great things. no sudden
achievement OF a group of gifted schol-
ars. but the mature fruit OF desire. and
purposes which had long been rlpened in
/ The minds OF our ancestors. Il say our
ancestors, yours and ours" Mr.. Bryce
| continued, for the honor of this author
I lied version belongs to what are now the
| two branches of what was then the one
undivided English race. The translators
began their work in the very year when
the first English settlers landed In Vir-
elnia, and finished it long before the feet
Of the Pilgrim Fathers touched the shore
! OF Massachusetts.
Excellence Traced TO Bible.
! The simplicity. dignity and the beauty
| Of the language of this version were pro-
nounced by Mr.. Bryce as only second In
Importance 10 the accuracy OF the relig-
ious rendering He SPOKE Of the force. the
loftiness, the sweetness and the sadness
Of the English tongue as found In the
Psalms and the Prophets as we'll Is In
other parts of the Bible. The excellence
/ Of the greatest English writer's could be
traced TO their knowledge OF the diction
If the Bible and this could also be
re recognized in the speeches OF John Bright
and Abraham Lincoln.
lie also said:
Speaking here TO an audience OF Amer
| leans, ! will ask you again 10 remember
| the profound significance Of the epoch in
which the English Bible appeared. There
was then one English nation. II has since
beer divided. but this English version Is
! the cherished possession OF Americans no
less than OF those who sun oweii IN IN me o,a
| been a link between all the English speak
ing peoples III four great continents, the
| strength CT which has grown more ana
more evident and precious IS the memories
/ NJ ga Observation-Disclosures and chickering's
have melted away in the consciousness OF
! deepened unity and the sense OF loftier duty
| 10 mankind. 80 ~
Won this evening from the King of Great
| Britain. the English spoken is Truly called
.'our common heritage" II Is such heri-
,age which we can turn to the best account
~ showing ourselves pervaded by the spirit
y, the teaching which the Gospels con-
tam.
Its Unceasing Protest for Peace.
The sacred WORDS tnJoHlhg pedc" Anu
cool win among men had stood In the
cages ~ this book as an unceasins protest
addressed to all nations against hatred and
Srainst strife the child II hatred, protest
sometime unheeded in moments OF PAS
eion Vet never silent and now In this
milder age falling. as we hope. upon more
n,,nn,,v. cars Their line IS gone out
| ,hro,,uhouf all the earth, and their voice
n Tho end Of the world"
let US hope that the year we commemo.
rate as the anniversary OF great event
in Our religious history may also be rernem-
Iered ae the year in which solemn renun-
cia tim Of war as means or settling their
, disnufes was made by two mighty and kin
dred nations. grateful TO God for the light
80 81, ci,ls than the wealth and the
nower which He has given, and Tor the
MAGE OF nearly century when mas sun
sisted between them such remuneration
may seem superhuous as between nations
,,hcn, we can hardly think OF as likely 10
he ever brought near To thai dire resort.
hut the example VIII be or great ana en-
g,,r,no importance to the whole world be-
cauee il viii mean that nations are az Icast
eoetinc 10 rise 10 the level OF Christs
teaching
..The Bible in the Worlds Education"
yos theme OF DR. Henry w. Warren.
eenior bishop OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church. lie compared the life OF the ma
lions whose conceptions were based on
Biblical teachings with tho practical Inn