The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-10-21
The BIBLE HISTORY
(WrItten By Rev. ). Hamerson)

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gagged in making copies for these
churches. The same was true about
the Epistles or letters written by the
Apostles to these churches.
While the Apostles were alive
these letters as natural result were
not as carefully kept as they should
have been; but as soon as they were
gone, it dawned upon the churches
that these precious documents must
be compiled and preserved. This was
done at Rome in the year $50 A. d. by
brother of the Bishop of Rome.
But the churches grew and multi
Piled and as writing with pen and ink
was a slow process, many Of these
manuscripts omit certain books of
the Bible Some of them may have
missing books in former or separate
roll. or they wanted those books
which were most valuable to them.
Thus Matthews Gospel and the Epis-
tie to the Hebrews the Gentle Con-
verts cared less for than for others,
thus the omission The compiIers
had no small task to produce the most
accurate and perfect system offfthe
whole. This is as we find the orfga-
nal manuscripts in Greek, Hebrew,
Latin, Coptic and Syriac versions to-
day. fis0e gr 5a.s
Now We come to our English Bible
As Latin was the language of the
scholars the Bible was not printed in
the vulgar tongue OF the common peo-
pie. A noted Frenchman was struck
with the fact that the children of
France only got fragment of Bible
knowledge. without order and system.
received sanction of the Bishop of
Paris,a also that of the Pope of Rome,
permission to translate the gospels
into French. And so great was the
hunger of the people for the word of
life that 100000 copies were sold at
once.
But the work soon came to an end.
1t was claimed by the church that
some words were not correctly trans
lated, so the work was prohibited
There is an English translation OF
the Bible sanctioned by the Pope of
Rome known as the Douary version
a very good and true translation.
issued in A. d. 1909. 1t can be had
at any Of our book stores for a small
sum-
John wycklif translated the Bible
into English in the year 1880 but his
work was condemned, by the King
and the Clergy OF England. william
Tyndall published the Bible In Eng
lish in 1926 A. D. But his books
were forbidden and rs many as could
be found we're publicly burnt, and at
last the author himself was strangled
in his bed By order Of the church.
After the Reformation appeared the
Coverdale Bible, then the Matthews
Bible. then the Geneva Bible and the
Bishops Bible. At last the Clergy
! appealed to the King to select men
of scholarship and ability to trans
late the Bible by Royal sanction so
that there would be a uniformity of
reading. This pleased the vanity of
King James and the work was done
300 years ago and this is the Bible
now in common use known as the
authorized version or King James
version.
Some 50 years ago it became evi-
dent that a new translation was need.
ed. A great light has been shed up
on the original languages by Modern
discoveries and scholarship but most
of the English languages had grown
away from where it stoSd 800 years
ago, so committee in England and
one in America began their great
work which was completed and sent
out 80 years ago. This great work IS
not only correct rendering of the
Hebrew and Greek. but is also a cor
rect use OF English as in use today
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