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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."