The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-06

Editor of Progress does not admit it.
The writer knew that many years ago
the effort was being made to trans
late the Old Testament, and that GER
tain portions of that part of the BIZ
BILE had been given the various Bap-
tist leaders to translate. But that
the work had ever been done and the
volume issued was unknown to the
| writer. We venture the assertion
that the Editor of Progress did not
know anything of it a week prior to
his attack upon it. And even now he
has never seen one of them.
2. "Does The Times believe that
the changes made are of real bene-
fit to Christians?" The writer has
never undertaken a defense of the
translation. Time will determine
whether it be good or bad. We do
not see how Christians can be hurt by
the book. 1t all depends upon wheth-
er the translation be true to the origi-
nal language from which the transla-
ton is made. Baptists have made
mistakes in the past. They may have
made one in the work just completed.
/ But we do not think Editor Nichol-
: son is any judge of the, matter If he
were an expert in scriptural manu-
!, scripts and was thorough Greek and
Hebrew scholar, we might have some
4 respect for his opinion in the matter.
Since both of us are in pretty much
= the same boat in so far as such
knowledge is concerned, it is a mere
: waste of words to go on. He does
S but beg the whole question at issue
when he says the Baptists have dis
= torted the Scriptures and are narrow
minded. Perhaps they are, but it
does not come with good grace from
: Brother Nicholson to say so.
3. "Will the notifications as they
- appear in The Baptist Bible tend to
" promote broader Christian fellow
, ship or to develop narrow -mindedness
and sectarianism We do not fol
the life of us see where it can devel.
X, op "narrowmindedness," nor do We
'I see how it can develop "sectarian
lie ISM. To charge it, as the Editor O.
Progress does, is to pass judgmen
WlIllOuJ IIldl lIle pooh oIdllN
ne or fall on it's merits. If it is a fax
ry and a distortion" watchmen OF
of the walls of Zion will be forthcomin,
to let the world know it. The zeal o
Editor Nicholson is evidence of thi
he fact.
ITS d. "Does The Times Editor wei
he come and stand for this latest I'm
err proved Revised Bible, which ha
If. translated the mode of baptism S
that it conforms more closely to tn
views of those Christians holding t
the Baptist doctrine of immersion? p?
;ly We cannot say s4tne eidi les tahien
,b2 81. - tile past twenty year
rg and used the New Testarhen
IN translation, which now becomes
DIS part OF the "new Baptist Bible"
on never occurred to US that Brothe
nd NICHOLSON would object. Being Ban
ed list and using it in the preparatio,
nd OF sermons and for consultation an,
e. sometimes even going so far as +,
is read from it in Baptist pulpits did moi
IS, seem to us to be any breach of ethics
ic IL did not occur to us that Mr.. Mich
~ olson would object. If this new
d, translation of the Old Testament oct.
Id into the writer's hands he NAV use u
g, as he did the New Testament trans.
10 lation.
it Inc writer uses the King James
e. version constantly. Not only so, The
G ilmes sold something like three hun
-e urea Bibles of the King James ver-
= sion last year. We have just as much
n respect for it as has the Editor of
: Progress. But it is we'll enough to
remember that it is itself a transla-
: tlon. 1t Is three or four hundred wears
: oid' to be sure. The latest book of
Y the New Testament was written less
than LOO years after Christ. The King
James version, therefore, is itself
revision, as may be seen by anyone
VINO will read the introduction. Wera
the revisers inspired? We do not 50
Deleve, any more than we believe
, those Baptist revisers were inspired.
lhey translated, in both cases. and
neither of them has spoken with f.
nality or with absolute certainty. Is
IL narrowmindedness to continue re.
search! Is it narrowmindedness to
nave the courage of your convictions
and dare to publish the fact? The BIZ
bic is not fetish, mere thing to he
worshipped. To so regard it dooms us
TO the worst kind of narrowminded-
ness-bigotry.