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William E. Smith,
Attorney at Law,;
ALBANY, CA.
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■tain, ortr Trtrfnpb Ofiea.
Jahl-ly
ti.J. WRIOHT. U.U. POPE
WEIGHT & POPE,
Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY. QA.
umCE:—Orsr H. Msjer A GUnbtr'a Store, co>
per Breed and Washington St*.
Dec. M. 1880-dlwwly
V. T. JONES,
J0NE8
JESSE W. WALTRtS.
A WALTERS,
Attorneys at Law,
It U 0Blr i plain old Blbla,
But lay itaway with cam,
For my mother men lo read It,
Each reroe no street with a prayer.
1 oornew one may be more perfect
Reviled hr learned of the ace,
Bojltlretae nr hallowed treaaara.
With the ielf-eame words on each pa,e.
That In rhUdhood'a ho an fall sweetly
Unon mjr listening ear,
OfGod and Hit wondrous merer—
Thronch many a weary year-
It has stood the test of the scoffer.
And where 1» the heart, to-day;
That will turn to the new edition.
And lianiah the old away!
'TwouM Jar on the rhythm of memory.
And lu mighty power would fade.
»ou may turn in your anarch for knowledge
And aay that the new le beat - 1 r#r
For me, I can only wonder
Tliat man should have wade thi* tan.
___ Bible.
read when I waa a rtiil.t,
I la the one that my mother *- aanred,
And never wa*taint more piU I
I cannot tarn from It* vener.
To words that are cold, entranced:
No. give me my grand old Bible,
With never a letter changed.
The Word of God Profan
ed and Ontraged.
Rape of tlie Gospel by Pedan
try and Worldly Egotism.
THE SEW TKASSLATIO-V THE
OCTUROWTH OF BOSSLSM
IS THE CHl'RCH,
Moaopolj Would Bale the
Kingdom of Christ If It CMld.
the Episcopalians to see
what bad been done about Apostol-
I ic succession, and the Methodists to
see what bad been done about free
I grace, and the Congregationalists
| to tee whit had been done about
the democracy of religion, and the
CuiversalisU what had been done
I with future punishment, and so we
I all rushed for the Beviscd New Tes
tament.
i Tiie Church and the world have
I the famous revision before them.
We are asked fur our verdict. We
all have a vote. The humbled per
son in the house has a vote. “Wllat
do jron think ofit ?” is the perpetual 1 will lie templed in ihiiik,
meuts. To come down to the tuo u ark by saying there ars in tliej
cbanical arrangement of thi- new j New Testament ten thousand mis-;
version, I vehemently referi n.«- like-, ami that there are one bun-
jnode of putting the Seiitsfnis- iu •Itedaud tlfty thousand variolic* of
columns like a solid new^i>i|N>r rol-!reailiuga lu the Xew Testament.
’’iSiu”* ray plain Olil Blbj
BIBLE DICTIONARIES WRONG,
AND THE GOOD BOOK ’
<11 AOS AND ALL
N1GRT.
ALBANY. OA.
Otter over Centra.* Railroad Bank.
anl.Vly
J>.A. VABON. A, II. ALVRIK.N1>
fa soy <r a. efriend
Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, GA.
Active and prompt attention given to col-
Lction* iikI all general huftine**, Practirr
ail the court*.
• mirt! over Sou tlie n Cxpreaa office, opp.»-
a.tc Court Hon**. jan<L«ltf
James Callaway,
Attorney at Law
FN8POKB1V LOYK.
Temple Bar.
!*• Hint love ouly »»ure
Which a hows no out want sight *
Or dutb it l>e*t cudurt*
That bhuns to seek the light y
MiU matrix run a* deep
Am Ibosf that hurry by;
The little flowers that sleep
l-l vv, though they seem Pi die.
Then keep thv trea-ure Mill.
safe in thy secret hiva-t.
To open is to »pUI:
I’n-jioLen love in bent.
Thus nouI shall -1*0:1 k to soul.
\nd heart shall l*eat to heart.
" itbstut the forced control
'fork idle word-*, impart.
fHRlSTtA SKN V*KXCK OP DEATH.
ol tbo jlloat Hi
The New Version mm
Triviality and a Joke-Book.
Caustic Criticism of She Met
Kt oekod the Dosologj Out of
tko Lord's Prayer.
New York, June 5.—At the
' Brooklyn Tabernacle tbia morning
a large assemblage was present to
! hear Hr. Taimage’s discourse. Ho
was listened to with great attention.
question. Some say, “I like it very
mach.’’ Other* sav, “I like it to a
certain extent.” Others say, “I
wautayearlo consider it,” which
means, “I want to hear what others
say, anil then I will say the same
thing.” There are many who dot fiiul it If you look long enongh for
not want to offend the Ecclesiastical
Bing, for each denomination has
such a ring, and there is as much
liossisut in the Oinrch of God as in
umn. instead of the dit'i-loti ssf
verses, as in our presuoi iianstaits>i,.
It is the charm of our »M t> ok time
a business man, <>r h w if.- „>itIh.. ih-
-with household nsre-. »r *u invalid
with no power *>f ,'itMM‘cuiive
thought, can Ink • ii|. > ver-e and
carry ft all day. I oprii a page of
this new ver-ioi>, amt -I tin.I one
paragraph n .olinmi and a half
long. l!y tlii-. new irau.-latiou one
. “I can’t
take the whole page, 901 will take
nothing.” Thai shortest vetse of
ilie Bible—an ocean of sympathy
compressed in two words, “Jesus
wept”—is set in a solid paragraph
of one column and a half. You can
it; but it needs to ataU‘1 out isolated
and alone in its grandeur, and ten
derness and pathos, and omnipo
tence of meaning. Another
the world, and monopoly Would ! cbanical misfortune it the dropping
rule the kingdom of Christ, if it * 1 *
could, as it rules the money mar
kets and Legislatures of the world,
i There are Iwo voices that have not
i yet been fully heard: First, the un -
j pretendin', Christian scholarship of
1 America and England is displeased
; more slum it can express at many of
; the changes made, and the other
1 voice is the voice of the great mass
es of Christian people—999 ont of
srd Copy _
Jutllrtal ssnissn Ever Pro.
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o ratio
oaiscsi.
Tlie following i. a copy of the
• most memorable judicial sentence
which has cvec been pronounced in j
the annals of the world, namely linn
of death against the Savior, with the
remarks which the Journal Le Droit
has collected, and the knowledge of
which must be interesting in the
highest degree lo ovciy Christian
It is word for word as follows:
Scuteuce pronounced by Poutiu-
Pilatc, iiitcmlant oftho Lower Prov
ince of Galilee, that Jesus s>f Nazis?
relh shall suffer death by the cross.
Ill the seventeenth year of the
reign of the Emperor Tihorius, and
on the twenty-fourth dny of the
month of March, in the most holy
City of Jerusalem, during the pon
tificate of Annas and Caiaphns.
Pontius Pilule, iiitcmlant of the
Province of Lower Galilee, sitting
to judgment in the Presidential seal
of tlie Praetors, sentences Jesus ol
Xnznrclh to death on a cross be
tween two robbers, as the numerous
and notorious testimonial* of the
people prove.
1. Jesus is a misleador.
2. Ho has excited the people to se
dition.
3. He is an enemy of the law.
4. He calls itiiziself son of God.
5. He calls himself, falsoly, the
King of Israel.
C. Ho went into the temple fol
lowed by a mnllitudo carrying
palms in their hands.
Orders from tlio first centurion,
Quirrillis Cornelius, to bring bint to
the place of execution. Forbids all
persons, rich or poor, to prevent the
execution of Jesus.
The witnesses who have signed
the execution of Jesus arc,
1. Daniel Bobani, Pharisee.
2. John 2orababel
3. Raphael Bobani.
4. Capet
Jesus to be taken out of Jerusalem
through the gales of'Tourues.
This sentence is engraved on a
plate of brass, in the Hebrew lan-
Thc following U his sermon in fail: | CTery 1,000-who re grel in the
subject : “toe sKw revision a ; depths of their soul that this revia-
been attempted and
MUTILATION' AND PROFANATION.
Text—11 Samuel vL 6 aud 7:
“And when they came to Nacbon’s
threshing floor, Uzzlah put forth bis
hand to the ark of God and took
hold of it for the oxen shook it. And
the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Uzziali and God smote him
therefor his error.”
The sacred chest of acacia wood
called the Ark of the Covenant,
about four feel by two, golden-lid-
ded, golden-hinged and mounted
on two cherubim and made to con
tain the divine covenant, and at one
time holding'the bowl of wilderness
manna aud Aaron’* rod that bud
ded, was tbe most sacred box ever
created. It was in the presence ef
that c’-est God commuued with the
I-raelitcs. Improperly to touch
that box was death. Ail the' peo
ple understood it. On ono occasion
dfty thousand and seventy people
lost their lives by irreverence to the
box. The circumstances of my text
were these: That precious chest was
being transferred on a cart drawn
by oxen. Now, oxen are an uncer
tain t«ain, especially when on a hot
day they come near a shadow, for
without reference to tbe safety'of
that which they draw, they dart
aside for the . cool .place. For this
or some other reason the oxen with
this precious chest made some sud
den start and tho box rocked, and
Uzziab, tho driver,(put his hand
upon it. He had no business to
>oucb it under any circumstances.
Under the Judgment of God this
driver dropped by the cart wheels
That box long ago perished, for it
was oonfltgraut with the ancient
temple. But we have a sacred
rhest, an ark of tho covenant—the
Bible. Like the ark or old, it con
tains therdivinc covenant; and the
manna for poor wildernesscd pil
grims, and the rod of trouble that
has budded into fragrant consola
tion, and over it the mercy seat.
It is so sacred that tbe hands of is a depreciation of three hundred
i gitage, mid ou iU side are the fol
Herrick Barnes,Proprietor | lowing words: "A similar plate h>?
I been scut to each tribe.” It was
Alhana flanreia I discovered in the tear 1250, in Ihe
AXIDauy, weorgia. City of Aquilli, In the Kingdom ot
. , ... I Naples, bv* search tor Ilnmau an-
T“: ~ V oI: ^Si'-iVand remained there, until
diition ol the traveling pnblic. Entire* »t- 'J'' 11 ? fooMtl 1>> u Commission of
latacticu guaranteed. The table is sup Arta in the Ircneb army in Italy,
plied »ilb the best tlie county afford^ j Up to ibe time of the campaign in
mud ihe serv-utsare unsurpassed iu po- .Southern Italy il was reserved in
liteuess and attention to the wants of the -aerislo of the t arlliiisians, ne.- r
g .lost? Ouiuitmses convey psuseuger* to
aud from the different railroads prompt-
ll
free of charge,
utes.
Charges to
snit the
sep2y tf
S1SII1 DOORS! BUNDS!
FOR SALE BY
GEO, S. GREENWOOD.
K I DN EiY-WORT
Ns pies, where il was kept in a boa
of ebony. Siuee then the relic has
been kept in the Chapel of ^Cnserl.
The Carthusimuaian* obtained, by
their petitions, that Ihe plate might
lie kept by them, which was an ac
knowledgment oT the sacrifice*
which they made for the French
army. The French translation was
made literally hv members'of the
Commission of Arts. Denuoii hail
a fac simile the plate engraved,
which was !u>ni:lit by Lord How-
aril, on (he sale of his t'abiuct, for
2,390 francs. There seem to bo no
historical doubts ns to the authentic
ity of this. The reasons of the sen
tence correspond exactly with those
of the Gospel.
Doa’I L'ae Ilia Word*.
In promulgating vour esoteric
| cogitations or artie.ulatitig vour su-
• perfirist sentimentalities anil arnica-
l hie philosophical or psychological
observations, beware of plntiludin-
. ous ponderosity.
* Let your conversational cemmuni-
cations posse-s a clarified conacise-
j ness, a eompaeted comprehensible-
j ness, coalescent consistency, and eon,
catenated cogency.
Eschew all conglomerations of
! flatulent garrulity, jejune babbft-
; men! and asinine affectations.
Let your cxtemporaneoui de-
! scanting and unpremediated e'wpa-
liatious have intelligibility and vera
cious vivacity, with rodomontade or
I thrasonical bombast,
i Sedulously avoid all polysyllable
profundity, potnpona prolixity, psil-
laeeoua vacuity, ventriloquia! ver
bosity and vnuiloqucnt vapidity.
Shim doable entendres, prurient
jocosity and pestiferous profanity
obscurant or apparent . ’
In other words, talk plainly,-pure
ly. Keep from “slangdon't pul
on airs; say what yoa meau; mean
what yoa say. Don’t use big
words.
Tixrxtxa says bit church ought
to organise s base-bail nine. They
have a man who ball* first and sec
ond base. The organist can always
get a short stop on tbe organ, while
the minister, seeing he has a goed
field, pitches into tbe congregation,
who have to catch it
They call it a bay-window, be-
cause von go there when yon would
look out to aee.—Potion pamcrift.
worldly criticism and the hands of
pedantry and the hands of useless
disturbance had better keep off or
it Wrongly to touch that omnipo
tent box—which is onr ark of tbe
covenant—is to die.
Wc are in the midst of a great ag.
Ration consequent npou the new re
vision of the Scriptures. We had a
transition two hundred and
seventy-six years old embossomed
in tlie warmest affections of all tbe
god of earth, interlocked with the
best secular literature and pro-
nounced b/ the Daniel Websters
aud tbe Washington Irviugs as tho
masterpiece of English prose, the
translat'on at once blessed and rev
olutionizing the nations for good,
aud all Christendom satisfied with
the translation except a few doctors
of divinity. But two* Companies,
an Old Testament Company and a
New Testament Company, hare
been busy for ten years changing
the book, and a' few days ago the
Testament Company launched the
results of their labors upon tbe
world. After great universal ad
vertisement of the intended book
and tbe dramatic withholding of
tlie book till a certain day, and then
withholding it tills still farther
dav, tbe work cornea forth. The
English printing press keeps a tight
grip ou the copyright, and when
one American publishing boose of
fered a large snm for the privilege
of reproducing the book simnlta-
iwonsi v, the English presses rejected
the ofler in cavalier aud abrupt
strle. This severe copyright was
not. to meet the expenses of tbe re
vision, for that waa met by private
subscription, the $30,000 subscribed
on this side the sea for traveling ex
penses being a small part of the
moneys contributed by benevolent
men. Two million copies are sold
in two days. Wbal a compliment
lo the Scriptures! Yea, but be not
deceived. Did tbe two thillion peo
ple suddenly became passionately
fond of Scrlptnre-readlng? No.
tse two million Bib es went into
sea where the Bibles was already
enthroned. All those of us who
honored the book wanted to know
what them men had been doing with
our favorite for ten years. Had
we a statue.in Yew York City Hail
Park that bad been the pride of the
in since its foundation, and
vast cx-
rty-oight men for ten
years had been busy under cover
changing that statue, ou the morn
ing the cover dropped and tho
changes should be revealed, there
would bees room in the streets and
squares approximate to hold the
spectators. Iu addition to this gen
eral curiosity, which wc a’l felt
about tbe Iconoclasm of parts of our
ion lias been attempted and who
look upon it as a desecration and a
profanation and a mutilation and a
religions outrage. That last senti
ment will come up like the surges .of
tbe Atlantic after a tempest often
days. I shall give you my reasons
for rejecting ;his new revision of
the Bcriptnres. I am willing to
take it aa a commentary aud to
stand it respectfully on ioy book
shelf behind any other human opin
ions of the Word ofGod. But to
put it upon inv private stand, or in
my family room, or on the pulpit,
aa a substitute for King James’
translation, l never will. I put un
hand on the old.book and take the
oath et allegiance. So help me God!
I am glad to know that Lord Shaft
esbury aud Arcbnisbop of York,
and many other strong men on the
other aide of the sea, are anti-revis
ionist*. But, supportedby high au
thority or no authority, I here and
now take my stand.
These fifty men, for ten yearshnsv
in tinkering the New Testament,
agree in the statement that they find
no new doctrine. Differing on
many other things, they all agree
here. If ithad been found that the
old translation was leaching auy
falso ideas of God or the soul or the
future, I would say by all means
5 ve us a new revision, and put
rth immediate and mightiest ef
forts for tho organized obliteration
otAhe old translation. Tbe world
cannot afford to have wrong notions
of God and tho son! and eternity.
But the new version keeps all tlie
old doctrines. Then what good
reason could there be for this dis
turbance of sacred association, this
loosening of the faith of Christen
dom. It is too late to reconstruct
the Bible. When King James’ trans
lation was made, tbe Bible was a
sparsely circulated book, and the
changes made caused no wide per
turbation. But this revision of 1881
million copies of the Bible ont in
tbe world, and doing their work.
It assails the magnificent liturgy of
the Episcopal Church, and makes
all her prayer books vast inaccura
cies. It makes the inscriptions on
the graves of your dead untrue. It
reflects upon th* old family Bible,
and to tbe uninitiated leaves noth
ing about it certain save tbe record
of marriages and births and deaths.
If this new revision succeed, forthe
next few years yon will have to
f ratcli vour children's evening offer-
ngsnfthe Lord's Prayer and jerk
them tip short before they run over
the "evil
W
important part or the old
translation. We ail want to know
whir the chapter is about before we
begiu to read it.
I reject tlie new version for its
amazing triviality. You have more
control over your sense of the ridic
ulous than I have, if von can read
without a smile some of the changes
made or proposed. You remember
Christs sermon, where he speaks of
the inaptitude of putting new wine
into old bottles. In onr revision of
18SI il is rendered: “No men pat-
tetli new wine into old wine-skins,
else the wine will bant tlie skins,
and the wine perisbeth and the skins.
But they put new wine into fresh
wine-skins.” The change is evi
dently made to show that the hot
ties of olden time were made ont of
the skins of animals, but is it not
just as easy to explain the bottles to
the people os to explain the wine
skins? “Show me a penny,’! said
Christ, wishing from the kingly
stamp on it to illustrate iu earthly
currency. That will not do, say tho
revisionists. Instead of “Show me
a penny,” “show me a denarions.”
Tlie revision changes tbs “beasts”
of Bevelation into “living crea
tures.” But will yon not have to
explain the living creatures aa well
as the beasts? Tho old translation
was too much for the delicacy of the
American part of tbe New Testa
ment Company. Where it says of
Simon Peter, “He girt his coat
about him, for he was naked," the
American Committee suggests that
it should read iu the margin, “Had
on his undergarment only.” The
old translation said: “Neither do
men light a candle and pot it under
a bushel, but on a candlestick.” Tbe
revisers reject “candlestick” for
“stand." The new revision mates
other changes, ol how little Import
ance judgo ye, when it says that the
old translation which reads, “into a
mountain" ought to be “into tbe
mountainwhere the old transla
tion says “into m ship," it onght to
be “the ship,"and instead of a
fight, it ought to be the good
and instead of “a crown of right-
eoiisness,”it ocgbtto be “the crown
of rigbteonsnes*;” and instead of
“a bushel,” “the bushel;” and in
stead of “cohered with waves,” it
ought to read “becoming covered ?
and instead of “nets brake,” it onght
to read “were breaking f and in
stead of “straining at a gnat,’’ it
ought to be “straining out a gnat;’’
and other infinitesimals of differ
ence with which I shall not worry
vour patience. Thirty-eight men
for ten year* bant for inaccuracies,
and all tbia only a foretaste of what
we shall have when, after three
years more labor, tbe forty-one
inembers of the Old Testament Com
pany will lanueh their work. I
have sometimes wondered what the
thirty-eight gentlemen of tbe New
Testament Company and forty-one
gentlcmeu of the Old Testament
Compauv might have accomplished
for good if they had apeut the
I'm* devil take these statistic! which
you :au manage without damage to |
yourself, and he makes them the,
••rcrlnsting min of a great mnlli-l
tuile. This movement will turn
mute souls Into stark infidelity than
the thirty-eight gentlemen of. the
Xew Testament Company will ever
argue out of it, though they should
live tbe eight hundred and ninety-
lire years of Mahalaleel, the nine
hundred and sixty-two years of
Jared, and tbe nine hundred and
alxty-nlae yean of Methuselah ag
gregated The greatest work of the
last two hundred years has been-to
have tho people understand that
this was the word of God, ’be truth,
the srholc truth, and nothing but
the truth. And now you say there
are only ten thousand mistakes in
it. and only abont one hundred and
thirty-fire thousand reading's, and
forty changes to be made in the Ser
mon on the Mount. Yon say they
are not radical mistakes. Wh
then, all tbia excitement of the pui
lie mind? Look ont lest while with
torches yon are hunting for rats in
the cellar yon do notaetin confla
gration the angnst temple. For ten
yean and ever since I beard of tbe
movement I bare deplored it Bat
there has been no g«.od time to
■peak on the subject till now.
may be setffed at for my words in
very high places, bnt I am only put
ting into words.the sentiment of
more people than ever thought
strongly the same way on any one
#'* ' world — ' '
DILLT LX
A Starr Of Wild lib In Colorado—
H'*'U tlt«' >"«ori«'U* 11 Izli Ha VUtn u
Leaped From a Plying Rxpre»«
Tr*m — Hl» Hobbertaa— Hautrd
DoWtt b* Indignant Cltixcti*—
llitiiuf d l Willi U In Urol It
er, ur Silent Hen*
since the i
S was created,
one’’into an uninspired ten years in preaching the old trans-
doxologv. It isau out aud out war lation instead of fludlng fault with
against all the religions literature it, and if the hundred) of thousands
of the ages. Away with your Cro- of dollars which dirfttly and tndi-
den’s and Brown’s Concordance; j rectly have been .expended in the
onr Bib’e Dictionaries are wrong; preparation of this new revidon had
' ~ ' been put into the American Bible
yon
Kit!
itto's Leadings wrong; Yahn’s
Archaeology wrong. ' In matters of
religious occnracy it means chaos
andoldnigbt. Who undercook this
impertinence on tbe other side ol
the sea? I know not the qualifica
tions of the Archbishops and the
Archdeacons and the Prolessors
who have done tlie work on the
other side of tiie Atlantic. I under
stand that many of them are far
from being the best scholars of
Great Britain. I know that men
Willi great titles arc often tbe mer
est accidents, aud their high office
no sigu of scltolardtip, D. D., L.LD.
F. B. S.are often the heavy baggage
of a very slow train. I only judge
them by this revision. It is’ pedau
tic aud. capricious and false to the
principle which they declared at the
outset would guide them—namely,
that they would make no unneces
sary change. Aa to tho work done
by the American revisionists, I have
this to say: One gentleman.here
takes the responsibility of choosing
a group of American scholars to re
vise the New Testament. The gen
tleman taking this responsibility,
having been born and educated in a
foreign land, was not especially
adapted to make wise selections
among American scholars. This
gentleman, in making the selection,
derided the livingaud dead genera
tions of Bible readers by saying and
reiterating: “The Christian people
for years have been drinking tbe
water ol life from the jaw-bone of a
royal ass.” This gontleman selects
of scholars to revise the new
put Into
Society and the British Bible Socie
ty for the spreading abroad of that
old translation, out of whose Ioina
civilization and Christianity were
born, and under whose influence
England and America are what
they ere, and tbe dark skies of
heathendom begin to flame with
the morning. What the world
wants is not erilies, but evangels;
not men to knock the doxology out
of the Lord’s prayer, but men to
make the nations kneel, proclaiming
at tbe feet of Christ, “Thine la the
kingdom and the power and the
glory forever. Amen.” At the open
ing of the service to-day I led yoa
in the Lord’a prayer according to
the new version, stopping before the
doxology, but 1 will never do it
again either in public or private nn-
lcss in my dying prayer my breath
should go out at that point, and
then I would finish It in heaven, for
that is the only part of the Lord’s
prarer appropriate for both church
militant and church triumphant.
I reject this revision because it
comes at a most inopportune date.
The great battle between sin and
righteousness la fully open and all
the bat'cries unlimbercd. While
the forces of baxven and hell are in
hand-to-band fight it is asked that
we stop to discuss whether our
weapons might not he hammered
into'alittle better shape; whether
we can’t have a better tassel put on
the hilt ol our sword, since they
make better tassels now than they
subject
and they will be heard, and this is
only tho mattering of tbe oneomiDg
tempest or popular indignation, cis-
Atlantie and trans-Atlantic. Hands
off the Ark of the Covenant I Be-
member the fate ot Uzzah.
I reject this new version because
it opus the door for revision* innu
merable. Have yon any Idea that
these changes will atop here? Iu
tho back part of this new New Tes
tament there are twelvo pages of
practical proles: on the part of the
Americana of the New Testament
Company against tbe revision of the
Englishmen and Irishmen of the
Company. Hence we shall
anotbor revision to rcvlso this, and
another revision to revise that, and
as in 1823 Noah Webster published
his revision of the Bible, and Prof.
Noyes and Moses Stuart and Bishop
Ellicott and Deacon Alford offered
their revision of different portions
of the Scripture, so we shall have
Tision on Ute top of revision—revis
ion in flocks, revision in herds, revis
ion in swarms, and after awhile
Presbyterian revision and Baptist
revision and Episcopalian revision,
end tbe Church wilt go into parox-
ysmi of revision, and there will be
and
-• -t, «• o or
Prayer book bnt the ejaculation:
“Good Lord, deliver us l’’ These
discoverers of len thousand mistakes
and tbe one hnndredand thirty-five
thousand different reading hare ac
tually got bold of the music of tbe
angels over'Bethlehem. If those
angels had known that thsy were
within hearing -distance of tbe New
Testament Company they would not
have tug so load. Instead of tbe
translation which says, “On earth
peace, good will toward men,” it is
to read, “On earth peace among wen
in whom He is well pleased.” The
rhythm gone, the wide sweep of
meaning gone, and the Christmas
carol choked till it 1* black In the
face. Keep on, brethren, while yon
have your hand In, and give ns a
revision of Handel’s “Messiah" and
Haydn’a “Creation,” and cblaal out
a few improvements on Powers’
Greek Slave, aud toneb up Angelo’s
Last Judgment, and improve tbe
ennrlse and snnset, and show us the
aorisl of the spring blossoming of
last year, and let us have nnivcrsal
revision.
Meanwhile to private Christiana
let me give a word of practical ad-
vice. Hold on to your pocket BI-
hies, your ' flunlly Bibles, yonr
church Bibles. The old Bible
goodenoughforme. It hasbro
so many sons to glory. Iam
Is
wrought
hoping
throngs the teachings to go get safe
ly there myself. The old Bible it
good enough for yon. If yon hare
money that yon want to spend In
augmenting your Scriptural knowl
edge, don’t spend it on this mutila
tion of the Scriptures, but purchase
Scott’s or Clarke’s or Barne’s or Al
exander’s or Bridge’s or Stuart’s or
French’s or Plummer’s Commenta
ries. Tho three hundred million
cooles of King James’ translation
will soon vote down the four or ten
million of the revision. Besides it
will take more than seventy-nine re
visionists to reviso the memory of
whole generations of Bible readers.
The Bible as yon now quote it will
be the Bible as quoted to the end of
time. The only revision your Bible
will bear will be tbe marks of your
own lend pencils 'in the margin,
slating bow certain passages have
been illumined in your own solaced
experience. I should not wonder
If npon some of the consolatory pas
sages of the Old Testament you
wrote your own commentary, not
with pen and ink, but by the signa
ture of a tear. Better than Gustave
Dore's illustrations of the Scripture
would bo that Bible illumination. I
also advise all private Christians,
all up and down tbe earth, and Suu-
dsy-.chool parents, and all minis
ters of tho Gospel who have unterrl-
fled utttorance, to be quick and ve
hement in tbelr protest against this
scholarly profanation. Speak out
now, or forever hold your peace. I
pray God that this excitement about
tho new revision that may wake ui
all up to higher appreciation of that
GoaSeaniFnathel
A few weeks ago the people of
many communities in Colorado were
made angry by the escape of the no
torious bighwavraen. Billy Le Boy,
from Deputy Marshal Cantril, ou
the Kansas Pacific express. Tlie
story of tbe escape, as printed at the
rime, waa that Le Poy** sweetheart
had planned her lover's release, and
that she had successfully bewitched
the Deputy Marshal. The true
story at related by tbe baodit to Dr.
Flournoy, of Del Norte, It a* fol
lows : Le Roy carried about his
person's tiny key, made from a
watch spring, men Le was strip
ped and searched on tbe morning of
bis departure for Detroit he
ed the skin of hi* neck and placed
the key in tbe crease. His month
was opened, hit hair brushed, and
hla ears examined, but tbe key es
caped tbe notice of the searchers,
men the train was running at ter
rific speed Cantril left hit prisoner,
shackled hand and foot, and step
ped to Ute toilet room. “In two
seconds.” said the bandit to Dr.
Flournoy, “I bad my hands free,
and in another second my feet also.
All the passengers in the car, except
one lady, were either nodding -or
half asleep. I knew how tb settle
the lady. I just gave her one—of a
look, ran to the platfoim and jump
ed off I was stunned, bnt came to
In a little and got away.
war jimmy resigned.
Several days passed after Le
Roy’s escape, and the people hoped
that be had gone to some other cor
ner of the world. On the night of
the IStht in*L the tlnwu stage for
Del Norta passed the lower corner
ol Franklin's ranch, when from one
side of the dark highway there
arose a demand to halt. The quick
movements of the robbers frighten
ed the coach banes. Old Jimmy
(so he it called) waa driving, and
he had terrible work lo control the
horses, though be did his best. The
robbers, mistaking tbe runaway for
a deliberate attempt on the part of
the driver - to evade their clutches,
fired a volley into tbe fast (fleeing
coach. One of these ihots passed
through a man’s hat who sat on the
b ix with Jimmy and took off one of
bia locks of hair.
“Let’s go back and snrrander,
said Jimmy; “if we don’t they'll kill
me next time.”
“For Gok's sake don’t go back,
ileaded a passenger, “for I have
1700 right on mo now, and I’ll loso
the wholo of It.”
So Jimmy put lash to his horses
ami the coach got away as quickly
as possiblo. Then Jimmy resigned.
He did not propose to he killed in
any such manner. He knew that
the bandits wero none other thau
Billy Le Roy and bis partner. - -
"THE LITTLE TELLOW.”
heard from lost
D-iNDlT. they got bint out at last, and found
that the whole of bis calf had been
scooped out hv the bullet. It waa
an naly WSUtr-rr 1 — .?—r
-“Who are you,*nyhow.??ihe was
asked. •? -- ;
“I am Billy Le Roy,” he replied.
“Billy tlie Bandit?”
“The same,” • - ; v
. HANGED. - *
Del Norte was cr.izy over th* cap
ture. “The people were' wild,"
said General R. A. Cameron, who
happened to be in the place; “ths
streets were like bo many hives of
mtd bees.” The Sheriff locked the
two prisoners in tbe rear cells ot tho
strong jail and a committee ol in
fluential citizens was appointed to
act as guard for the night. About
ten o’clock tho Sheriff stepped
across the way oo business. He
was soiled, locked in a room, and
kept tinder guard. Everything
was qqiet. Apparently, everybody
had gone to bed. At eleven o’clock
a party rode 1 up to the jail door and
knocked. Tbe guard asked what
was wanted. “This is your relief;
walk ont.” The guard walked, ont
and were seized and bound, one by
one. The party then went directly
to the celts where Le Roy and Pot
ter were, took them out, gagged
them aud left the jail with the pris
oners. Not a word waa spoken.
At twclvb o’clock, midnight, a
man rapped at Coroner Hollands
house. Holland pat bis head ont
at tbe window.
“Halloo 1” amid he.
“There’s two men hanging on a
tree near the rirer.”
“What?”
‘That’s what I said; and, by the
way, it’s very curious, but 1 found
the keys of the jail just up tho
street. Here they are."
The stranger tossed the keys in at
the window and walked away. The
Coroner went to the river and cut
down the dead bodies, which were
those of Le Boy and Potter. The
uext day the Coroner’s jury render
ed a verdict exonerating ail con
cerned in the affair.
As the dead bodies were stretch
ed side by side many persons re
marked npon the close resemblance.
Upon Le Boy’s rigid arm were tat
tooed the letters "JP P,” and upon
Potter’s right arm tbe letters “S. P.’’
Le Roy’s real name was Arthur
Pond, aud Potter’s real name Sam
uel Pond, and tho dead men were
brothers.
Lo Roy waa next;
Wednesday nlgbtiwhen tho stage
waa ascending tbe hiK about three
miles from Antelope Springs and
abont a mils and a hair from the
Tho hill is very steep, add It
was while the ascent was being
made that tbe agents jumped from
tbelr concealment and fired a vol
ley of bullets into tbe passing vehi
cle. Onef othe bullets took effect
In the leg of Engineer Bartlett, of
theDenvtrand Bio Grande Road,
striking him in the fleshy part. Tho
ball struck a ai’vsr dollar in Bart
lett’s pocket and sent the dollar
into the flesh, then glanced and
went through the leg and oat. The
silrer piece protected the femoral
artery end saved Bartlett's life.
Bartlett says there were three men
In this party, and that one of them
waa a little tellow, said to tbe big
matt of the crowd: “—yoa, get on
the other aide, there, and ’tend to
business.” The little fellow pulled
bis self-acting British bulldog and
climbed up on the wheel. He
jointed the muzzle at Bartlett's
!ad and remarked ;
“1 am going through yon; hold
npyonr hands.”
The operation reqalred bn: a
short time. Money and watch soon
paved into the deft fingers of the
road agent. It became neccssary
to get into the pocket nearest tbe
wound.
“Yon are hurting my leg very
mach,’’ mildly protested the victim.
“Well, you, you can stand It,”
was the reply. The front boot was
then cleared of mall, and the rear
one being empty, tho driver was
told to go, and that “ quick.”
Tbe inside passengers were not dis
turbed. The robbers were evident
ly nervous, for it was early in the
evening—8 •30. The “little fellow”
waa Le Roy himself.
CXtOBT.
A fife and drum corps paraded
Del Norte when the stage reached
that place, and there was consider-
able excitement irnDenver and all
LOVE AND PAIN.
:
“And I lots you, too,”
*§! h “ T “
ua umentraing teto-E-tcie.
As tea iialrot)oaibtul lovers
Gsntly swung upca the fat*. •
“Holy maeteral1 G«e Moses I" :
_ Answered Uo, la direst paiu.
For, alas! wc nererxncw the
logcoultv of fate, >
And lore that betrays usottsu
To a mashed thumb la the gate.
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The
cltizrns of
»lonx the route.
Del Norto armed themselves for a
grand hunt for the highwaymen.
Deputy Marshal Armstrong headed
the party. The guide was J. P.Gal
loway, an old and experienced
mountain borse-thief tracker. The
man-hunters rode up the Saroya
into tbe mountain fastnesses. At
dusk ou the 22d, while Armstrong
was sitting on a bowlder, with Mc-
Froat and Galloway near, when he
saw a man emerging from the thin )
PKKFKCT SPKIXn AND ICM-
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A Thorough Blood Purlher, A Ton-
1c Appetizer. Peasant :o me lAu*. Invtffor
ati*g to the bod j Ihe most eminent Phyel*
rlana recomru-n.l lheae Bitters for their cura
tive properties. Trial si*e, 60ets. Ku!l
size 'l*rg*At in market) 81.00.
isrTHY THEU.4I
FOR THE 3QD5EYS, L1YZK AND URIN
ARY OWJaNS use nothin? hat ‘•WARNER’S
SAFE KIDNKY AND LIVER CURE." It
.. . u rr.u ,»r , i aUnds UNRIVALED. Thousand! owe: their
tnnbor. ilalt. said Armstrong, health and bappines* to It. iV’Wo Cfer “Wtr-
The man raised,!*!* guu and wa* about ntr> * **** Tome BtsaaT with perfect confident*.
' to fire, when he saw he was covered i
from three points. He surrender-
used to. While the apocalyptic
and excepting four of angel is flying through the midst of i Great Monarch of Books before
them they are unknown outside of. heaven, proclaiming to all nations, which tbe Iliad and the Ody&sces
their little circle. I covld call the 2nd kindred, and people the Gospel, and the Korans and the Vedas and
roll of a hundred scholars pet lor we are criticising the angel’s plumes the Shastcrs and the Zendavestas
to all those employed in this work aud tryiug to catch him till we can
except tha illustrious Dr. Woolsey. stroke his feather* another way.
If such a work needs be done, why Again I rejcct thi* new revision,
not call in convention nil the jrreat for it shako* the faith of many in the
and {rood scholars of America and truth of the Bible. Out and out in-
h*ave them make selections of revis- fidelity, after hnndreds of years of
ionists? Where in this Xew Testa- bombardment, instead of demolith
best book the denominations of re
ligionists were anxioua to see if ment Company iw tlie scholarship of • ing, have only driven tbe Bible fnr-
>ecuiiar views would bo fa- Princeton and Columbia, and Mid- tber into the affections of the world,
or opposed bv the new ver- dleiown and Xe* Brunswick? The chief danger ii from the mis-
The Baptist? wanted to eeo The work is a literary botch. ; taken friend* of the Bible. Unbe-
he rerersiouisu had done for which will never be adopted if all < lief and- skepticism are not logical,
immersion, and the Presbyterians the people fearless of criticism and But you have to take men as they
and tho National Libraries of earth
must yet kneel. By its torch may | Armstrong tent a load after
we find our pathway to the end of
tie pilgrimage, and on its pillow ot
gracious promises may we drop
ofi into the calm, cool dreamless
slnmber that waits for ths first res
urrection.
Why is B. H. P. like Senator Joseph
E. Brown? Dire it up. Because iu
chief aim is internal improvement.
wija; had be^u dope about the de- rebuff speak out thetr real sent!-‘are. Tbe revisionists begin their' Sanodine cum all sto dii
* m m
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H. H.WABSEB k CO., Rochester.S.Y.
Slotbers : mothers!! XXothors 111
Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child suf
fering and cryiDg with the i xcruciating
pain of cutting teeth? If eo, go at ones
and get a bottle of Me*. WissLOWa
ran'i SooTHiyo Svbcp. It will ;ve the
him. poor little sufferer immea....Iy—de-
Tho ball struck the fellow, and with pend upon it; there is :.o mistake
a quick bound he entered Into the , about it. There is not a mother on
brush near at hand and rolled down i earth who has ercru*ed it who will not
the river bank out of slgbt. It was I tell you at once th;t it will regulate the
a Job gelling him oot of tbs copse, j bowels, and give rest to the mother,
ed and admitted that he was“Lonls
Potter,” of Le Boy’s gang. The
three humeri went toward Alamo-
sa. On the road they saw a little
fellow with a pack on his back. At
Ihejtommand “ halt,” the little man
drew a revolver, fired and
He would not aay a word, and all
the cooling in the world teemed to
have no effect. Finally they got to
talking abort shooting into the
copse after him, and this brought
tbs young man to tims. He said be
was ibvt *4>d couldn’t walk. But
and relief and health to tbq chili
operating like magic. It i( perfectly
oafs to use in ail cases, and pleasant to
tbe taste, and is the prescription of one
of'he oldest and best femalephysioiooa
and nurses in the United States. Sold
everywhere. 25 cent* a bottle.
