The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-04-19
ANGLO-S AxONS AND BIBLE.
TER OF THE KING
JAMES VERSION OBSERVED.
Event in London Has Interest. for
English-Speaking People Over
the Whole World.

LONDON.-At a great meeting of
churchmen and statesmen in Albert
hall this evening to celebrate the
tercentenary of the revision of the
English translation of the Bible by a
commission which completed the So
called King James version in 1911
Premier Asquith and Whitelaw Reid.
the American ambassador, who were
the principal speakers, took the OPP
pOrtunity to eulogiZe the arbitration
movement
Suffragettes interfered with the
proceedings, and when the prime
minister began they unfurled ban
ners bearing the inscription. Votes
for Women" The banners were
torn up after a free-for-all fight.
In his address Mr.. Asquith said:
THE English Bible belongs not only
to the subjects of King George, but
to the whole English-speaking world.
One of the truths which has been
slowly realized and which now, l
believe, is firmly rooted in the faith
of christian men and women on both
sides of the Atlantic is that war be-
tween English-speaking peoples
would be not only a crime against
civilization, but an unforgivabIe
breach of these few commandments
which are enshrined in the New Tes-
lament on which both nations have
been bred.
Would Be Splendid Monument.
There surely could not be a more
worthy, more appropriate, a more
splendid monument of this tercente-
nary year than that it should wit
ness the sealing of a solemn pact be-
tween us, which would put an end
once and for all to the hideous and
! unthinkable possibilities of fratricid-
al strife.
Speaking of how the Bible fur
nished the strongest and most indie
structible bond for present practical
unity in the aims and aspirations of
the English-speaking family Ambas-
sador Reid said:
While that community of aims
and aspirations endure5, starting as
| it does from our common possession
and use of this book and supported
! by th same language, the same com
mon law, the same parliamentary
institutions, the same civil rights and
| largely the same blood, it is the
greatest single guarantee for the
peace and progress of the world.
Inspired by Scriptures.
"In fact, continued the speaker,
from the men and from the peoples
nurtured on the precepts of this book
and mainly on this version came the
recent statesmanlike proposal of the
president of the United States and
the inspiring response of Lloyd
! George, through Sir Edward Grey,
which promises to make war as a
settlement of any dispute henceforth
between English-speaking peoples
impossible, and between any other
civilized nations discreditable."
The ambassador concluded by
reading President Taft's letter.
President Taft's Message.
Washington, d. Fluctuations
on the Bible tercentenary ceremonies
at London tonight were expressed in
a message sent through Ambassador
Reid by President Taft as follows:
''To the Tercentenary Celebration
of the Publication of the King James
Version, Royal Albert Hall, London,
England: 1t affords me very great
pleasure to present through Mr.. Reid
my congratulations to those who, in
the mother country, are commemo-
rating so signal and historical an
event as the publication of the King
James version of the English Bible.
This Book of Books has not only
reigned supreme in England for
three centuries, but has bound to-
gether as nothing else could two