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Tem,$2 and $2.50 per Day, T..GAITT.TARD, Tj o 17 4-tf. DRAPRIETOR_ THE SINGER'S HEART. The fire that filled my heart of old Gave luster while it burned; Now only ashes gray and cold Are in its silence urned. t Ah! better was the furious flame, The splendor with the smart; I never cared for the singer'a fame, But oh! for the singers heart Once more The burning, fulgent heart! No love, no hate, no hope, no fear, No anguish and no mirth; Thus life extends from year to year, A fiat of sullen dearth. Ah! life's blood creepeth cold and tame, Life's thought plays no new pait; I never cared for tue singer's fame; But oh! for the singer's heart Once more The bleeding passionate heart! -James Thomson. t BIBLE REVISION. La Adres Delivered Before the Newberry Bible Society, Xay 15, 1881, by Rev. - Luther Broaddus t It is announced that day after o-morrow there will issue from he London presses and in this q ountry too, I believe, the long- p alked of revised version of the e ew Testament. This is a fact in 0 :eeping with the spirit of sear,.h- a ng investigation and unsparing c riticism of the Bible, which dis- b inguishes our age, and it is in part a he result of that spirit. From o he interest it has already excited 0 nd the influence it most have it v vill -surely mark an era in the e istory of this century. In view 1 f this fact and as we meet in a b ible Society it has seemed to me b ot inappropriate to say some- f, hing aboat the revision of our i glish Scriptures. I shall not L e scholarly nor profound, but in n , familiar way I hope to say some o hings which may aid you to re- b eive this new version in the right 0 pirit and secure from it the great- 9 st practical benefit. The discus- t ion of so broad a subject must of i iecePi!y,under the circumstauces, i >e partial I shall, therefore: con- 0 ine myself to a few of the many b )oints that might be presented. a We all know, of courre, that the )ld Testament was written origin- a LIN mainly in Hebrew and the o iew Testament in Greek, so that ~ ~nglish speaking people must find I >ut the meaning of these .la,n- r ;uages and convert them into an ~nglish dress. Ettempts were i nade to do this in the early histo- t y of the language, finally result- a ng in the production of what we :all the authorized version. With -eference to all translations of the sciptures I make this general e roposition, to which I am sure you will all readily assent: that itt s our privilege and our duty tot have that version which comes mearest to the exact conveyance( ~o us of the meaning of the origi-. sal-that only is tbe word of God1 -the inspired original. 1. Let us look at the chief diffi :ulty in the way of the new ver ion-a difficulty that has met wtery attempt to introduce a new translation of the Scriptures; namely, our reverence for our En glish Bible. This grows in part ont of its great antiquity and in part out of its intrinsic excellence. lit is now about 275 years old. All down-through thesethbree centuries1 it has been doing its benign work. When we consider the changes in our language, the progress of the1 arts and sciences, the march of human skill and learning in every particular, it is simply amazing1 how our version of the Bible has lived and flourished and is still so fresh and modern. This very fact is a proof of its exeellence, and this isi another reasoin of our rev erence for it. When we remember the restrictions placed on the re visers that made it, and the diffieul ties under which they labored, it is wonderful that they did their work so well-so well that even the advanced scholarship of these times is obliged to pronounce it still an excellent translation. Its mlerits as a literaxy production also have much to do with our reverence for it. Niothing in the history of the English tongue has dne so much to influnne and i.ould our language. It has been ,be great conservator, with its ,lear, forcible, pure, simple Anglo. I. )axon; standing up ever like a >ulwark against the tide of inno. rations which from time to time kas threatened to engulf our beau. iful language-a silent but mighty irotest against every effort to mar ts beauty or weaken its force. [his itifluence has been all the noro strongly felt because it has een the book of the people; and o the educator of the masses. or the larger part of the English peaking world it has been the nly book. 1o wonder we rev rence it. Our very language is , constant reminder of our obliga. ion to reverence and love it. But nore than every other considera ion is the fact that it has been >ur Bible, our only Bible, and the siblo of our fathers. Hero and here some few have been able to onsult the original and get their deas of God's word from it, but he vast multitude have gathered heir religion from this book. All hey have known and believed as come from it. It is associated vith all their experiences of the ast, all their hopes for the future. 'he very words of the book are recious because they are entwin d amid the sweetest memories of ur lives. In hours of exultation nd joy they have been the vehi les for our jubilant thoughts ; in ours of need they have been the rmory from which we have drawn ur weapons to besiege the throne f the Eternal. With its sweet ords we have cheerci and sooth I our dying, and comforted and istained our own hearts in hours ereavement and trial. They may ring a new candidate for our Lvor and ask us to introduce it ito our homes and churches, and reckon we shall do it, but we inst not and will not surrender r reverence for this dear old ook. Still, my Christian friends, ur-reverence ought to be intelli ent enough go back of a mere anslation to the divine origi ial-that, I repeat, that only i God's word ; the translation is nly the human vehicle which has rought it to us; with the errors nd imperfections of all human roduetions. In proportion to our rue reverence for that divine riginal ought to be our desire to liminate all error from the trans tion. And, after all, our reve ence will not I apprehend be everely taxed. The new version Sto be only a revision not a new ranslation ; that it is really the ame version with its imperfec ions corrected and its errors re aoved ; and surely none of us can bject to that. The familiar Bible tyle is to be retained, and the Id expressions too, n henever hey convey a clear idea of the rue meaning. So that it has een asserted by some who are ngaged in this work that, the ew version might be read for a ~ng time .in many of our pulpits ~efore the change would be dis overed. 2. 18 there need of such revi ion ? i admit that desirable as t i to get at the true meaning, et frequently repeated revisions .re not to be desired, and none lught to ba made unless there is >ronounced demand for it. in his case it must be apparent tc very thoughtful person that here is such demand. This will e seen when we consider the ad. antages we possess ov'er the ranslators of the authorized ver ion, in the material at our com nand and the skill to use it. Al ,he time this version was made he world was just fairly emerg ng from the darkness of the mid le ages, while we stand amidsi ,be blazing light of all the sebol resip of this wonderful 19th cen ury. Take, for instanice, the fiat ,er of the text, i. e.. the questier s to what constituted tne trut riginal writings. The autograpi sop;ies, you of course know, ha een long lost. ,I cannot bu aope-and it isn't a wild hop ither-that even in our dai tey may be found, and that w hall hear of the MS. of the lette to the IRomans in Tertius' owl handwriting at Paul's dictatior with the closing salutation writt e b Paul himsel' Bnt we baven' any yet nor did James' transla- A tors have any. They were de- in pendent, as we are, in copies more at or less ancient. Of these they bi bad only sixteen and now there L are nearly sixteen hundred. So et that on any disputed point we w have a hundred witnesses where fr they had one-and some of ours w nearly 1000 years older tban any they bad. This is not an unim- E portant fact because there are p: many tens of thousands of various b. readings-many of them unim- w portant it is true, but many others re in which we want all the testi tb mony we can get to weigh and tb sift and decide. I may say in! w passing, to flay any uneasiness of that may be felt, that with all the w various readings discovered, no tb fundamental doctrine of the New B Testament has been touched. In tb addition to the large number of b manuscript copies at our com- st: mand the writings of the fathers nc have been printed- since our ver- aE sion was made, and their testi- w mony with reference to the text re is highly important. They quoted re so freely from the New Testament, as it is 'asserted', that if all the MSS. tu had been lost the entire text m could be reproduced from their ly writings. Then there is the less tb important testimony of the old versions in other languages which w have been printed since our ver. m sion was made and are at our st command. So then as to the at question of getting at the thing at to be translated, we have an im- tb menence advantage over the gt transi- tors of the Authorized Sc Version. We cannot of course th speak with confidence as to what th has been done by the revisers in of any given case, as to admitting or m rejecting parts of the text, but tb doubtless some passages of in- ti< terest to us and some we have th learned to love and value will have E to go, but if they are no part of ci: the true word of God, we sball pl all join in a hearty approval of nc their departure. Pt And now as to the translation re of the text decided upon. In this ell respect we enjoy perhaps as great n advantage over the translators of pr our present version, as in deter- or mining the text itself. The first si; thought might suggest that those bl who lived nearer to the age of the tb Bible writers than we do would is be able better to understand the th language in which they write, A but these were not near enough bi for that to amount to anything, sb and in facilities for understanding re the original they were immensely sb behind us. The development of dc the art of printing has quickened sa learning of all sorts, but more so especially linquistic scholarship. w Look at the Philology of to-day gi for example, especially compara- gi tive Philology. While the scholar p< sometimes errs as to the relation- w ship and influence ot different Ian- h< guages, nothing has done so much g to unravdl the mysteries of the bi dead tongues as comparative Phil or elegy, and it was at the time our or present version was made almost it an unknown science. Besides, J< the scholarship of our times of w another kind has greatly aided, li, though indirectly, in leading us iri to the true meaning of the orig- rr inal. The researches in archacol- fi, ogy while bearing more directly o1 on questions of interpretation n< have also helped to the under- re standing of the meaning of words w and pharases in the Bible. To m know the manners and customs, ci the conditions and circumstances of of the author helps greatly some- st times not only to interpret but to w~ traaslate; and even our own cen- fc tury. to say nothing of the two pre- di ceding has been rich in its dis- bi coveries of' this kind. I might tl give illustrations of the many mistranslationis into which the h translators of~ our version were led si from lack of the light which these ri advantages give us. Added to all t< this there is good reason to be- ci lieve, as Dr. Scbaff points ont - that the translators of our present rj Bible did not use always even it the material which they had; f< often taking not the original He- e rbrew text and translating that, e Sbut the Greek Septuagint, a trans- s lation made 200 years before i iChrist ; and so in the New Testa . nt on using not tha original I S., few as they were, but an Y iperfect Greek text in existence u the time, or sometimes nothing d it the Latin Vulgate, an inferiori e atin translation. And with ref ence to the* translation they ere often extremely careless, o equently translating the same 4 ord when repeated even in the s me sentence by two different c aglish words, without any ap. b rent reason whatever. Ard 0 id they been ever so able and so illing, they were placed under strictions so severe and some of em so unreasonable as to force em to errcr ; as for instance, itb reference to the translation 0 the word church in which they 0 ore commanded to follow blindly; e errors of the Bishops' Bible. ,sides they were all members of! s e church of England, committed - their prejudices and the re riction on them to introduce c >thing that might seem to be i ainst the tenets of their church, bile in the work of the present visers all denominations are C presented from America as well 8 in England. So then, if oppor nity means demand, and in a I atter of such importance it sure does, there is demand on usefor is work. 0 But there is another fact to t hich allusion has already been ' n.de which makes this demand i Ml more apparent and r:essing ; ti d that is the changes in the use c d meaning of words and phrases g at have taken place in our lan age during these centuries. h >me words-and the wonder is at there are not many more of k em in the Bible have passed out i the language altogether; and to " any Bible readers who have not e opportunity or the inclina- c )n to find out their meaning, d ey have no meaning at all. In a ekiel we read, among the den un- 0 tions of the people by the pro- Y et, this sentence 'Sith thou hast t hated blood, even blood shall n rsue thee.' One of our children a ading this would very likely con- B ide that Sith was the proper n bme of some one wLom the d ophet was addressing ; bat it is 1 ly an old English word for a ice 'Since thou hast not hated 0 Dod, even blood shall pursue b; ee.' In the same book, Assyria 0 compared to a shroud ; not that t e Israelites were dead and the 0 ssyrians were to bury them, 0 it the word shroud means there Y elter, and the Israelhtes are a buked for making Assyria their t elter or refuge. I have no d iubt many have read what Paul a ys in Corinthians about things a Id in the shambles and wondered ie hat shambles could mean, never b essing that it was the old En. ' ish for a meat market. I sus- n ,t some boys have wondered h hat Jacob did with the rods when g S'pilled' them. They may have a issed correctly Irom the resem- Y ance of the word to the modern n ec that he pealed them. I reck- n older people have been puzzled 0 that magnificant description in SI )b of a great water monster, herein it said, 'By his neasings a ht doth shine.' The word neas- b gs means breathings and the a onster is discussed in highly d ~urative language as throwing a t light with his breath. I have ti >dubt the 5th Psalm has been ti ad hundreds of times by people b ho never knew that lessing eant lying. And many of the d preachers, w~ ho were so fond d talking about the 'besom of de- it ruction,' spoken of in Isaiah, I hich God would use &,ainst his v es, never learned to their dying i y, that the word means the d oom with which be would sweep 3 em off the face of the earth. lhen there are many words which ave changed their meaning and 6 iare apt to mislead: as, road_fo)r I id, quick for alive, and quicken, I >make alive, prevent for pre-t 3de, let for hinder, meat for foodi -the meat offering of the Oldc 'estament had no meat at all in ,-instantly for earnestly, ear r plow. Tbe farmer of to-day ho reads whbat Samuel says about aring the ground would hardly appose that he meant to plow tcarriages for baggage &c. I night add greatly to this list, but at this uffie t o show that if we rant everybody who reads to nderstand the Bible we must esire that these things shall be hanged. h Finally, this work of revision i as been done with the greatest ( are by the foremost Biblical w' :holars of our times, and it de va -rves an honest and unprejudiced an xamination. Let us. give it and of e governed by the verdict of G urjudgment and intelligence. CO mf OLD-TIHE DINNER MAN- ho NERS. ho plS Not long since, while turning we wer the dusky contents of a box doi ! books labeled 'all at 6d.,' my at- str ntion was drawn to a r;,sty lit do e 12mo. bound in well-worn A l ieepskin. A short examination ter iowed it was complete, and for an ie small sum of sixpence I be lag Lme the possessor of a literary thi -easure which has since afforded ter ie much grati6cation and amuse: th< tent : -The rules of Civility; or th< ertain Ways of Deportment ob- bol rved in France, amongst all Per th4 >ns of Quality upon Several Oc. abi isions. Translated out of French.' do uch is the title of the work th, hich has brought up this train hic F ideas, and its perusal goes far na convince me that our ancestors m2 ere not to be envied. Of the to istructions given for behavior at a t Lble, the following are the most th( irious of tho'se that are fit for bl eneral perusal: gri 'In eating, observe to let your th< ands be clean; feed not with Bu )th your hands, nor keep your th nife in your hand ; dip not your an ngers in the sauce, nor lick them cot ben you have done; wipe your be outh, and keep your spoon ha can. Gnaw not bones nor han- the e dogs, nor spawl upon theloor, an Ad if you have occasion to sneeze be e cough, take your hat or put th< our napkin before your face. a c rink not with your mouth full ari or unwiped, nor so long till you thi re forced to breathe in the glass. go e must have a care his hand be IoN Dt first in the dish, unless he be fin -sired to help his 'neighbors. G., you be carv'd, 'tis but civil to ne, .dept whatever is offered, pulling ed I your bat still when it is done nei y a superior. To give anything pi t your plate to another to eat of, ha iough he be an inferior, savors we E' arrogance, much less an apple po] e a pear that hath been bit by ye] ou before. We are to wipe our [oc >oon every time we put it into his ie dish ; some people being so H elicate, thiey will not-eat after to man has eat with his spoon cri rid not wiped it. When dinner wa going up to any nobleman's ta- thE e where you are a stranger, o:: o1 inlj iferior quality, 'tie civil and good lag anners to be uncover'd. If it so 'N appens that you be alone to it's ether with a person of quality, lag ud the candle be to be snffed. se1 ou must do it with the snaffers, Bu ot with your fingers, and that pIS eatly and q-uick, lest the person las f bonor be offended with the sa' niell.'- The Antiquary. thi -~ lag 'Now, Susette, where are my ho oots? Do hurry with them ; I m sure I have called for them a w ozen times.' 'Yes'm ; in a min te, 'in. I heard you, and I rought, to save you time and be rouble, I'd button them for you bu efore you put them on.' What did Oliver T wist ? What Fr id Charles iReade? What was ha Bulwer Lytton ? What did do vanhoe ? What was Wador- th rorth ? W hat did Mrs. MKalock ? to here did Victor Hugo? Where an id Charles Lever? What had 8e irs. Braddon ? co .. - - an 'It is a sad thing,' said Mrs. to: pilkins to her husbana, 'for a t nan to have his will contested af- in, er he is dead.' 'Contested after to; le is dead !' cried Spilkins. 'That wi s not half so bad as to have it :on tested after he is married !' hi Deacon Richard Smith says a so :oquette is like a snake. Presume sc t's because she acts coyly, and a th inake acts coily, too. to There cannot be a greater .reachery than first to raise a n -oundlnva and t.han danalen it. _ "JAMEN, 15 THAT YOU?" Women are timid creatures, and to to be left in a house alonat ,ht, so, when Mr. Gallaghor, nt away froin home, leaving his Fe with only an ignorant ser-, rit, she was very much worried,. I readily harkened to the voice ' a.n agent who called just after: llagher had gone around the -ner, and wanted to sell her a ,chine which. would prevent rglars from getting into the ise. She bought three. Those. ced at the front and back doors re so arranged that, when the. >r was opened, a bammer would, ike down from above and knock. rn the person trying to entei. hird contrivance of differentpat n was placed on the stairs and'-,. )ther at the front window. Gal.. her unexpectedly returned late 6t night, and, -attempting to en -. the front door, got a blow on nose that knocked him down steps into the street. . He was' h surprised and annoyed at circumstance, and, utterly un e to understand it, tried the. >r again. Same result. Ne m thought somebody was be d the door trying to assassi .e him, and, getting up very d, ran around to the back door,, get in that way. Then he got bump that sent him back into swill-barrel, and he was terri cross when he got up. He bbed an ax, and, as he opened. door again,, struck with it t he hit nobody, and got ano ir knock-down. Then he weni. I got' a policeman, so tliaa.ne ild tackle each door, adre sure to get in; but after,W I enjoyed three knqc_c-downs y met and coa4gd' notes I decided that toen must.. in the house. They then tried front window, and, raising it eluge of icy water froin a hose anged' to bring it flew UPon m. But they braved that and in. Then they ransacked-the rer part of the house, but could i nobody, and meantime Mrs. up-staifs, heard them, and Lrly died of fright. They start up stairs, Gallagher first, sad Lr the top a stair, fixed on a ot, rolled under Gallagher and rled him backward, and he not to the bottom, taking the iceman with him. They both. led, but Gallagher yelled the dest, and his wife recognized voice and his favorite oath. r courage returned. She went the .head of the stairs and ed : 'James is that you ?' James ~ a painfully hurt and awful mad n, and the policeman was try to get back the breath Gal 'her had' squashed out of him. ,' cried James, 'it's not me; some other fellowv. Jim Gyl her was never knocked down enteen times in one night!' t she knew it washe, and ex- . 'ned matters. And then Gal. her gave the policeman $10 to rothing about the matter, and officer retired ; and tben Gal ~her jawed his wife for two - urs, and the next day went ~en miles to.overtake thie man io sold her the machines and ked 'the life nearly out of him. admits that the things would dreadfully discouraging to a rglar though.-Boston .Post. - FA1THFUL UNTo DiA.- -A. ench chemist is reported .go~ ye given a striking proof of~ mestic affection. He condensed a body of his deceased wife in t,he space of an ordinary seal, d bad her highly polished and ,in a ring. He made a nice in rue by betting with lapidaries d others that . they could - not I the material of the seal in ree guesses, and, after pocket-. the money, would burst into ~rs and say, ''It is my dear fe ! Every man has a skeleton ia a closet and a private and pez nal tombstone on which is in. ribed thbe epitaph, 'Sacred to e memory of wasted time and at opportunityY He is not only idle who does >thing but he is only idle who