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In every inetance we charge by the space occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four Dr five squayes, as the aAvertiser may wish, and is charged by the space. SWAdvertisers will pleasestatethe num her of squares they wish their advertisements to make. & Business men who advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the SIENTINEL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. FOR TIE PICK ENS SENTINE'L. MR. EDITOR: III you11' p)jer- of Jan. 31st, I see an art icle in reft ernce to a new traislation of the Bible. As you adimit. one article on the siibjec I hope ymu will nit exclude anot her. The writer corrcc h% sui oes that there is opposition to 8neh t a tm)Ve merit. Thse Bible, a Sw have it, ham beei the gnide to milli(ins, Who have uleady reached and entered the gate 4' the Ccle%tint City. It served CIr Iai ers, it will serve their chil drci and we ci fee nio ad qiatt, re;.s ii t, I ai chiange. Competent 6tudnIt (et the llehrew and Greek tell its hat thi re is i t devitit.oni eu ough, from wlat i-, already right. to eI atger the sah a:ion t a single .soul Nui bers uif accirateand consi e'nioust lil)gAIsiS, who ha ve1 (fOe t) j-in "the General Atsembly and Chitcih of tIh First Bori, whose names are wrilten iii [earen,'.1have 1. ft the solemnly recorded opJinlion that, taken as a whole, th.e Ifing d agesC 'transha'ion is the best po8s ble. WVell, in this age of civil anid religiotts liberty, as the IIehrew and Greek ate extant, if' any mant con eider's-that he is bettor able to trans late, for himself, tihan thlat immor1tal Corps of scholars ch1osen by King J.ames can do it fr him, he is at liberty to translate. I'hiere are no to forbid. Ent who, that know s -whO 111ose tUCen were, pt't'sumte that he is wviser than the wvhole fory seven? Dr. A ndr'ews, who presided over thze work, is said to have read, fluently, fifteen diff'erent languages exclusive of the Llebr'esv, Chailtie, Syriac, Greek and Latin. Dr'. Ri, nolds, of' that coi-ps, was a man of great learn.ing. Bishop Hall speak-. ing of him says, "the memory and reading of that man were neart to a rui'acle.'' Th-heerlii foty five 'v ere not without talent and learn'Iing. But while we grant that any)) man~1 maiy translate for himiself (as wise in his r own eyes as they were) we do insisr that there are cogent r'easonis why any man, 0or any forty'-seven) men eit her, should not translate again for the English reading masses. The J(ink James v'ersion has been already printed and wiuely scattered amnoung thd' millions whIo read our laingulage. The Ba*gsters and Eyries, of Spots wood, London, and a host of individ.-. * tal publishers and comnpanies in our own country, have sent out a great numnber' of editions in Overy size oif ty pe and st3 le ofbinding. Besides this the American Bible Society has been woi'king vigorously, for Sixty years, to thb4nd that there shoild not be an Iihabited but, even the poorest in our linad, without its Bible. The beguests ot men, whose spiritrs are in Heaven : ow, bot who while on earth gave largelf- feu, who, in the tful their- hear,gave su3ms thai loue-have been absoi-bed by _tis society and - appropriated to the in tetded end. Now, suppose there is a . move that unsettles and renders void this great work w'hat is gained thereby? Can the Atmeriran Dible Union "countei vnil the King's danagec?" Who coultquoll the contusion that would ensue, or undertake to make a new and better translation? Who, on the face of this eatph, %%onld have the .influence, the wisdouk or the .power to Say to, and for the millions concerned, what that t.innslation should or should not be? The scene that would ensue is aptly described in IEt Timothy VI, 4-h. "Doti6ng about questions and striles of words." I is one thing to enter p n a dis cussion of religious I olemiCs, and quite anolher to find and settle for the niasses what is truth. Let such a discussion arise in regard to the matter before us, and where is the oil that will allay tOe troubled wa terb?. Where is the judge that ends that sti ite? Let lovers ot truth, of opeace On earth and good will to %% ard ,men," beware bov they tai per with this "seventy times seven headed hy dra," which will i not down at the bidding of those who arouse hiim. Let, such beware lest too soin proestant christendom present the spectacle long h(wped for by Bible hidifing, Bible-hatinig Rom.e, p,irti sata divisin even to weakiess and I.uin. Oilr- present seemiig divisions .are cmn parivea hm liless. The pro testant world reads one anmd the smIe Bible, aId holds otie aiil the 11am1e Chllri:t as Ihe head. Pame re fuses to stffer the conmrion people to read Ihe Bible in the molher toigues, (stentsibly b C..-c it would lead to sEClhis. inl her r1anks, really becau6c she is afraid of "freenen) whurn hhe truth makes free." She poitts to diVided rOtetan1 tism as a roUft of what she alleges. Give us protestanttismn as i . is, with King Juames as i :s chiarter' and Ch rist ats a head, a t iusand times rat her t han te united ignorance of Romtie and the Pope as a headi; but never oh, niever, let the m'othter of harlots point to the protestnt world, drivent to that degree, that every sect hias its own Bible, and no two of the Bibles alike. "Tell it not in gatls, pubs Iish it not in the streets of Ashikelon, lest the daughiters of the PhilIistintes rejoice, lest the daughters of t he auncircum icised tr iumtftphi." The writer, alluded to, seems to fin~d f ,ult withI the t ranslat ion about the Gre'ek word Baptizo. Well, they could not do otherwvise. There was nto oneO term in our' laniguage that would at all cover it, in all the mean ings that good Greek usage had at tached to it. Trho like thin.ug hats been oft en done ini the scientiftice world. LeiQXcographeltrs do not make wvords. Writers borrow and transfer, and usage colnims them, and theni it is thle business.of the Lexic graphier to record and (efine. We would ires pec-f.lly ask the writer' to look ait the Greek and English Lexicon compli led by John Pickering, L L D., editioni ot Wikins,' Car-ter, & Co., Boston, 1848, article Baptidzo, paige ot Lex ican 201, heft laud column, line 16 fromn top). Also, Lexicon by Rev. John 0i aves, edition of Wilkins, Carter' & Co., Boston, 1851, page 110, word Baptidzo, line of defini 'ion 4. To justity the translators in what they did I will say this: there are none, we presige, who say that t hat word never means immnerse, ex cept one or two Lexicographe who say it tiever means immerse in the New Testament. Schlensner, for one, says that it never means inmnerse in the New Tlestaiment. It 'oertainly meats immerse in soinie places in the classics, but cannot always be so read there, and clearly it cannot *always he so nuderstood in~ the N~ewI Testament. Paul uses it 1st Cor. X chapter, 2d verse. It contradicts Moses in Ex., XIV, 22d, 29th, and Asoph Pslan LXXVII, 17th to read it itnmeree. We are obliged to take it as meaning to pour in that place. Doubtless the translators saw.it used elsewhere and the meaning was ub viously not to ponr. upon but to sprinkle, or to itnmerse, hence they could not translate by any of these terms, and bence transfered the word, and it stands in English just a it. did in Greek, defined in various ways; and so it will stand, in time to come, wherever a translation is made by echolarIs. It is a im1athemlatical axiom that the whole is greater thIn a1y of its pa-te. Immerso is a part of' the definition of baptidz-, not the whole; pour is a part not the whole. The translas or6 attainted to greater aectiracy by tiif'ei'i ng than they could have done by translation. There stands the word Baptize. For the Baptist it means to immerse; for the Pedobap tist it means to pour or to sprinkle, just as it did for the Gieeks them selves. In the Greek it conveyed aill these ideas;*it will do so as long as the Greek Testament shall be read. It would do so, though the Amer ica) Bible Uniun Publishil-Y Coimpany wei e to iniltiply transla. I ions uxi:hl only iummerse ill Cach, till they weie "thick as aututn.nal leaves that Ltrew thei brooks in Va. lmubraso," and theinmfelCSion world u~ ill und*er st nd it immerC Ise, though some edtobaitist Bible Unitia wv.re Ito mlalke I anla.tillnA wvith. poh and splrin dle onlly t r bajptize , till their transla:i,s11 4 1m1tn n,iilbetred tihe locusis that p:ra'gilel the Egy) i:is. OAr praye'r is that the Cmureb, uneir ill her namles, m3a), % igolroulisly cilcilate the B..u we lite, anld preach Christ Cru11cific(l, anid leave the 1ranslation to each :isalizddindividial tor himself. 1-Gii AIcLAL-. rTp -: O xIc i lF G :NiUs.-Colu m bus was the soni of a weaver, and a weaver- himiiself. Clautde Lorraine was brouighitipn a pastry cook - MolIere, the great Ire'nchi comiiic wri-. ter', was the son of a taipestry maker. ILomicr was a begr. 11si odwa the son of a small farmer', D:imosthe nes, of a cutler. Tereneo, the Latin comic writer, was a slave. Oliver Cromwell was tho son of a birewer. IIoward, tho phlilanthiropist, was an a pp~rentico to a grocer; Benjamfl in Frankli n, the son of a tallow chands Icir; 1)r. B3ishop, of Wor'cesteir, tile soin of a linen draper. De Foe, the great English political wr'iter, was thle son of' a butcher.. Whitefield w'as lie son of an inrnkeeper at Gloucester; Car'di nal Wolsey, the son of a b)utchert... Fergu so n was a shepherd. Virgil was the son of a porter; Slhakespear', of a wvool dealer; Horaco, of a shopkeeper; Encian, of a~ btatiOner. Ilogarith was an.apprtent ico to an engravur; Den TLucker was the son1 of a small far'mer', and camo to Oxford on foot. BIshop01 Prideaux worked in the kit'chen at Exeter college. Edmund .Ualley was the son of a soap boilor. A i1FFtIURENC1e.- "No w, t hen, st at c youri caise," Bald a Detroit lawyer thle other' day as hie puIt 'a $5 bill away in hi vest pocket. " Well," began hiis clIiia,81 suppose thle man liv ig next door wants to put a barn r'ight up against my line, c'omhing with in two feet of1 my house? ''lie can 't (do it, sIi'-can't do any such t hinig," r'e plied the lawyer. "But I want to puit my haiti right up agtainst his~ line," remarked the client. "Oh--. ah-yes, I see. Well, sir, go r'ight ahead and punt up y'our-barn there. All the lawv in the case is on yu side.-Detroit Free pr~ess. Beast Bultler now says thiat IIayes rnakes a good PresCideOnt, and tbha? it is a gre .t pity lie was not elect ed. Lydia 'Thompson is worth a quarter million dollars. So much for dressing economically.-Danbury News. The Dead Come to Life. At seven o'clock on Sunday morn ing, says the Philadelphia Times, crape bung by the door of the dwel linsv, 123 Mary str,eet, a thoroughfaIre )etween Carpenter street and Washs ingon avenue, in the Second Ward. The neighbors who knew the story of a long and painful illness said, "P,.or Mr. Schrack has gone at lastl" Word was sent to the doctor that he need attend his patient no longer. Tlie undertaker was visited. In Old Swedes (Gloria Dei) Church Mr. Schrack's death was announced and the Sunday school scholars comi mented up, n the death ot'lie teacli.. er they had learned to love. At 11 o'clock, four hours later, the cl-ape was turn down from bt!side the dwel ling in Mary street. The order for the undeutulker was conitermanded. The doctor was t, Id to burry to his patiei.t. The Sunday School schol ars in O!d Swedes'- Chiarch were about paesing a rearlution of condo lerce with their teacher's orpihaned boy when the )astor, Rev. S. B. Sims, was handed a piece of paper beariiig lie single word, hastly WiIten, " Etevived". The neighbor hood was soon thick with runore, all huvinrg for their purport tihe coling of the dead t) life. Among those who had an inkling of the facts'it wais generally agreed that somethiig not tar short of a iiracle ha1d happened. The story it a remarkable one. I J. larry Schrack, once a wealthy m-erchant, stneat ly al his tortune by tiidorsiig the notes of others who w re eit lier ilfgl ates or u cre thvil selves unrfortunrate. WVith his onlr son, his u ife. anid two c-hildren Laving diod, lie has for1 em1l)e tili paot rvi ed in a neut little b11o1se on Alarv street abuvo F1nt. F-1r I he pnst foulr n'.ths lie has been seriously ill, with lervoius Slp-a6m1s of 1I.e hean.t. DU Sinig tihe ha111er J.a-I ( lmi-t week lie (Ir.sei g ie all ho41pe C Of li%in(g, rind thle attending *hp ician. D)r. J. II . Ca~ni'(dell, expected his pa: ient'si dJeathI mfomenlt ariy. N~i RsC1J A CK DIFS. Appea-rntly Mr-. Schirack died at twenrty tiuiinutes of seven o'clock on Sunday mornintg. H is limbs becamne cokUt and rigid, ihis lips colored pur ple, and around his mnouth was the blue mark, ger'era'ly sup'posed to be-. token death A ha'nd mirr-or was~ placed over his~ mont h, but its shin ing surftace was not dimmeind. 1 Iis filends and n 1 leighbors w ho stood aroun di( pironunced himt de ad anid grieved for him. A few hours after walrds the body' was ' compijletely Strippe-l t hat it might be prepar-ed fotr,the trndertaker's hand-. Before washing thle corpse0 it was5 necessary to remme it ftrom the bed. A hneigh bor-, MIr. Ch:arles Shaniklarad, lifted the bod y, wheicn, to his alarmi, lie d is-. inct ly hreardI a feeb'le groan. A hur ried examninat in des eloped t he fact that lie man wars not dead. The body was wrappf)Jed ill bbmitkets anid bot tles of hot water- placed between thi mi. Mr. Shank li l huried tor t lie doctor, and. retunintg quiickly, acted under the inistiructions he had re ceivyed unit il thie doctor arri ved. Ini a sho:t t bne Mir. Sch acrk had gained con,scioutsnes, arnd was sitt inrg up ini be,hut mocre t han t hat, thre mrt b)efore w as ly big at dieathi's door, anId who waIs teirribly aflieted with dis e-aseJ, was alnost as sountd and wecll as ever he wars in his life. Mr. Schrack dreaded the idea 'f his pe culiar case beinug made public, but, if the pIartienilars wer'e to be re'ated, h le said lie would pr-eter. narn atinig themi himself, so that tile statement might be correct. A Timues repro sentlativye y ester-day found him sitt ing up in .bed, with a bright col.>r int his cheeks arid looking like any thiing bit a cork so. le is a y ouing mall, prob ably thirity year s of age, a galod talk.. er arnd intelligenij. lie spoke ini a buaarse whisper2 not tie result of his illness, but c-ased by his catehing a slight cold in consequence of the per spiration lie was thrown into by the remedies employed to revive him. le spoke earnestly of Lis experience; but was vivacionsand smiling, and at times j .ked about the expression of the doctor whein be found him alive. . He tells his story as follows; TDE DEAD MAN'S STORY. "Last September I had a terrible Rttck .of benjorrhage of the lungs Rnd since then I have not been able to do anything, except for one period f three weeks, My health at times was fair, but three weeks ago I felt ltat I was going fast. My flcsh let my body. My entire appearance -hanged. My appetite was gone. Everything I swallowed was at once brown off my stomach. Last Thurs Jhy a week I found I would have to rive it up. I felt as though the iower it action in l liiihs was eaving me. I iwas fearful of going to bed and so I sat in a clair for hrce days and three nights. I then made up my mind that I u%ould have to die and asked to be put to bed. Wediesday night I was taken with something like a chill and spasms at the heart. Afier coming through that I seemed to revive until last Saturday. Every hour during that day I experieiced a change. While the ripi hand would be purple the left would be white. When the left hand became dark the right became while again. The entire It side of Mny lody was numb and almost use. less. Abonit 9 o'clock (-n Saturday Wight my eyts:ght began failing me. I lot n y hearing ai d my speech be c,ame thick, miy tongie being greatly wullen. I had fully miade up my mJid that I had to die. At about 4 oIcCk on Sunday morning the tips of my fingers became like lead. My sight was now entirely gone. My at (nmeh ' as terribly swollen and was greatly inlflamed. Each suc ceediuig cram;l was more severe and roatch htighier i n to the stomach. All't he passages (of my tbroat seemed to he closed. Shortly3 before 70o'clock I askecd to be moved to the foot of the bed. My hie ad hr.d scarcely touchedl the pilliow whlen LexcOlaimed, "Throw me overI" and then--I fountd myself in anot her land. Thie vision I looked uponR was the most beaut iful that man ever saw. It would he nn1os si ble lor' m'e to give a iscIript)1ion t hat would do it just ice. My tirst feeling was that of tallh g dlown a *great height, and then I founid myselt in a valley- I walked aloig tin il I came to a lerrible, (lark, black riVer', at siight ot which I 311 Lddelred and fear eJ. Ikfore me anid beyond the riv er was a black cloud. Others were walking over the zriver, and, although I dreaded it, something nrged 'Ue on and I felt that I had to go withI the others. As I got nearer to the dark cloud it dieenme bright and beat iful , anid ex panrding it openced The first thing I saw was JIesus. 1 saw a great tempile and a great trone. I saw my lit te hoy, who was drfowned t wo years ago, and my other dead chilI. I saiv may dead w ife-, but I could not touch t hem. I saw people whomu I had almost far got ten. I saw ay old grlayshieaded grandfather, who died when I was but two years old. There were miany w homt I looked for', but I did not see iem. MR. sCIITACKs DIsAPPo INT1MENT. "Tfheni the vision began recedin'g, and 1 never can des.cribe the terrible disappointment I felt when I found myself again in bed. I felt, indeed, grieved. It was eleven o'clock wheni I regained consciousness, and at once I felt as though my life had been re newed. I was a new man. I had not then, nor have I now, an ache or a pa'!n. My eyesight, my hearing and may speech had fully returned, and I feel now as well ao I ovor di in my life." -- Dr. Jatnes IOantrpl, tb&attend ing physician, said that Mr.' S raol was attacke4 with riurvous spasms of the heart. "I expected his death at any moment. He was in such a condition since Sunday a week that I did not dare to make an examination of Lis lolgs, as I kne lie cold not stard it. Mr.8 &lrack told me that during tbp lour hours of his Uncon. sciousness he had but one -Aot on earth, and lie was very sorry- that I had brought him back, because he wits so bap,py where hie was." Showing how fully be,hs recover ed, Mr. Schrack eaid laughingly yes. terday that if lie was to become the subject of notoriety, perhaps people would be flocking to sece him. "In that case," and here he laughed hearl ily, "I will have to charge twenty-five cents fI'r admission, and Ilhen poi iaps .Barnutm will be after ift. Taming a Shrew.. Out in Grow townsbip, says the Anoka (Minn.) Union, there resides a man and wife, their names we shall not discloie, who have been married but a few years. In these few years they have lived togtLer there have arisui differences, and iiow they.dout like each oilier as well !i Iihey ought to. These differencts Ii'equently lead to open h< stilities, and', as neither the One or the other likes to give up, they quarrel most furiously. One day last week trouble began onco more, and recrimination followeA re. crilmination, until the husband, seiz itg a pitcl.er of milk that was stand-g ing in close proximity, r.prarked, emphatically and touchingly, "Lucy, it you do not stop scolding I shall certainly empty the contents of tlis litcher on you." Lucy paid no heed to the threat, when, alast the con. tents of the pitcher came upon her. Ot course this made the now tlior oughly irate Lucy boiling. The bus. band .then seized a pail of water and said: "Lucy, if you don't stop scold ing, I shiall cor tainuly irow this water onl you." L :cy again heeded not the threat, and received thbe water 'in consequence. This but added insilt to iz.jury, and Lucy .waxed more wrathiy thani ever. Then the hus band caught up a pail of soapsuds and cried, "Lucy, it you don't stop, I shall cetrtainly douse you with these suds." The soapsuds threat also fail, ed to have any effect, anrd she - was treated withI soapsuds. By this time the lady w'as wet to the skin, and has.ily retiented to her sleeping apatmtsIIt to change her' clothing, all the while scolding to the best of her' ability. 5he husband leastened to the well and dlrewv up two pails of wvater', arn,, on re~ turniing, informed Lucy that thle cold water was for her Old water had the des.ired effect, and'rLucy surrientdered, and now we iunderstanid that all .is serene once mtor'e; how long to last, .no one k no we. A sad'. stoty counes from Texas. A Miss Moor'e was' preparing for mar riage, and invited a friend, Miss Wil.. hiamis, to) assist her, In rumaling through a drawer an old pistol was # careolessly handled b.y Miss Williams, iresulting in the shooting and instant death of Miss Moore. She was buried on the day that was to have been her wed ding day, and Miss W illiamns has become insane. The fool killer could assemble' in almost any Ohio village and knocic at least a dozen Presidential candi dates in the head without going out of town. It. was at the battle of Edge lill that Sir Jacob Astley made his re markable prayer: "Oh, L'ord!' Thoa knowest how busy I mucst be this day; if I (orget Thee,)jio not Thoti frgc5 me. Mairch on, boys."