Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-19

| Latin and French and cut out of them
the verses he wished. These are past
ed In his own book, which he called
THE Life and Morals Of Jesus of
Nazareth" The compilation was made
about 1919. A concordance of the
texts is given in the front and
scources of the verses in the margins.
The section of the Roman law under
which Christ was tried also is cited.
All these notes are in Jefferson's hand
writing. Two maps. one of Palestine
and another of the ancient world are
pasted in the front.
Jefferson long had had the prepare
ton of this book in mind. In 1904 he
wrote from Washington to DR. Priest
ly, the diScoverer of oxygen and one
of the earliest Unitarian leaders: Il
have sent to Philadelphia to get two
Testaments, Greek, of the same edition.
and two English, with the design to
cut out the morsels of morality and
paste them on the leaves of a book. -
Nearly ten year later. writing to John
Adams, ,he stated that he had for his
own use cut up the gospels, verse
by verse out of the printed book ar
| ranging the matter which is evidently
Christ's." In the same letter he
describes the book as 1.-The most sub.
lime and benevolent code of morals
which has ever been offered to man."
His original idea, it is said. was to
have the compilation translated and
published for use by missionaries to
the Indians. In the COLLECTION are also
two copies of an English New Tesla
ment from which Jefferson made his
clippings.
THE National Museum collection
contains the well worn New Test
ament used by Francis Asbury, the
first bishop OF the Methodist Church
ordained in America. 1t is marked
with hundreds of texts for his ser
mons in his own handwriting. Asbury
was sent out as a missionary by John
Wesley in 1771 and in person organ
lied the work of his denomination in
the entire eastern portion of the
country.
This collection also contains q fa,.
smile copy of the Biblia Pauperum, or
Bible of the Poor, a series of wood
cuts illustrating the leading events in
the life of Christ, each with represen.
tations of supposed parallels from the
Old Testament, accompanied with ex-
planatory texts. Such Bibles H.ere in
vogue during the Middle Ages until,
liz OuSAl LIS lufSIlltUH OI pruning, the
complete Scriptures were made avail
able for the people.
The National Museum has a copy 81
the second edition Of Luther's Bible,
published in 1854. Previous to Luther
version there vera in use at least 10
distinct German versions, literal trans.
lations Of the Vulgate. Luther worked
from the original tongues, but sue.
ceeded in giving the Scriptures a Ger.
man dress and q style that would ap.
peal to German readers. 1t is impor-
tant not alone for the part it played
in laying the foundations of Prot
estantism, but also because it marked
the foundation Of the present German
literary dialect, just as the Wycliffe
translation in England did much TO
| standardize the English tongue There
is another edition Of Luther's Bible
issued in 1704, at Frankfort. which
contains numerous woodcut illustra-
tons and historical and chronology.
cal list.
A notable Bible in the collection is
Spanish Old Testament printed al
Amsterdam in 1861. 1t bears the title
THE Bible in the Spanish language
translated word for word from the
| Hebrew, examined by the InGuisiion
with the privilegium of the Duke OF