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Ltsson 1).
Tho Sinuor's Priond.
LI'KS 7 : -W—6o
- TEXT "An.l tie Mill iinlu l"'r, Thy sins
sr InruiTfii." —1.1 ki 7 : 4e.
Ventral Truth : —Christ can tavo sin
ners.
it we turn back to Matt., 11 chap., we
shall linil there his account of the "ten j
11moily of Jesus about John," almost in
the same words in which it is recorded
by St. Luke. Then follow these memo
rable and beautiful words of Jesus,
words which will never die: "Come
unto me all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and 1 will give you rest. Take
my yoke upon you and learn of me, lor
I aui meek and lowly in heart, and ye
shall find rest unto your souls: for my
yoke is easy and my burden is light.
(Matt. II :28-30.) It has been supposed
that these words were heard by the ,
woman mentioned in this lesson, and
that they touched her heart and were j
the means of bringing her to Jesus, j
Certainly they ve had this effect in ;
very many cases since her day, and they
xvill tie beatd by many sorrowful sotil
in ages yet to come, and will induce
them with all their burdens to come to
the meek and lowly Jesus for rest.
Who this woman was is not certainly
known. Some think that site was Mary
Magdalene, but this is highly imptooa
bly, as also that she was Mary, the sister
of Lazarus. The brief hut significant
description of her is, that she was "a
woman in the city which was a sinner."
She was of a class which may he found
in every city, and is described in the
Hook of Proverbs as one of those "which
forsaketh tho guide of her youth and
forgetteth tiie covenant of iter tiod."
She was a guilty but penitent woman,
who felt deeply her shame and sorrow,
i nd longed to find comfort and forgive
ness. She came into the house ot Si
mon, "a respectable Pharisee," who had
invited Jesus to dinner, and whose
house, according to the customs of the
Last, was oppn to others who thought
proper to enter and view the festivities
of tue occasion. She, too, had beard ot
•Jesus, ami perhaps was in her heart a
believer in his divine commission. At
any rate, a sense of need drew her to
Christ, and so, with a true courage, she
put away her sense of unwortbiness and
shame, and resolved that she would
seek his presence and his help.
She brought a costly offering also, an
alabaster box of precious ointment, and
witli flowing tears which fell upon his
feet as she stood behind him, sprinkled
his feet and wiped them with her rich
tresses, pressing her lips to theni with
humble gratitude, and pouring upon
them the fragrant and precious oint
merit. The whole proceeding was n
most simple and eloquent expression of
her faith, repentance and love, and was
altogether acceptable to the pure and
loving Jesus. He knew what was in the
woman's heart, and graciously accepted
her sincere faith and loving devotion,
and rewarded her with his torgivmg
love.
Simon looked on with a cold and
critical eye, and inwardly made his own
censorious comme its. To these Jesus
replied by the story of the two debtors
and their conduct, when they were both
freely torgiven by their common credi
tor. With rare wisdom and discrimina
tion he obliges Simon to acknowledge
that the woman's demonstrations were
only the natural and proper expression
of her grateful sense of the lord's mer
cy in forgiving her great sin, and that
they who have the deepest sense of
their own unwortbiness will naturally
express the highest sense of obligation
to Christ.
He contrasts the behavior of the wo
man with his hoit's forgetfulness to
show his guest the ordinary tokens of
Kaatern hospitality. He shows Simon
that the despised woman exceeded him
in a loving appreciation of her indebt
edness to Christ, which proved that she
keenly felt her great obligations to him ;
while Simon is taught that he himself
hid little idea of bis own need of Jesus,
and thus little sense of gratitude and
little real love to him for his forgiving
mercy. It was a most wise and perti
nent lesson.
Then, turning to the penitent but
joyful woman, the Lord assured her that
her humble faith was acccepted, and
dismissed her with a gracious benedic
tion, "Thy faith hath saved thee: go in
peace!"
PR ACTICAt. Sl'O'irsTlOSS.
1. Tharisceism says to the sinner:
"Stand by, for 1 am holier than thou."
Infinite purity and love says : "Come
unto me all ye that labor ami are heavy
laden, and 1 will give you rest."
2. Many men are willing to invite the
Lord to dinner, but arc not willing to
give him their heart*. There is away
of patronizing Christianity, which is a
very different thing from embracing it.
Simon's civility to Christ cost him
nothing, and teas worth juet what it coot,
3. A truly penitent and loving heart
thinks that it cannot do too much for
Jeaja.
If it has nn alabaster box of precious
ointment, it will joyfully break it, and
pour its fragrant contents upon the Sav
iour's feet.
Yet far more precious is the gift of a
sinner's broken heart.
4. Many men piide themselves on
being always ready to pay their debts,
who never remember their largest Cred
itor.
We owe man two hundred pence;
our debt to Clod is more than ten thou
sand talents I
Yet, "Jesus paid it all!"
5. Christ's hatred of sin is only equal
led by his love for sinner#.
0. They who have the keenest sense
of their own unwortbiness will he least
censorious and bitter in their condem
nation of others.
In the days of great anti-slavery ex
citement, two prominent pastors in New
Lnglund met on Monday morning, after
one hud invited a worthy Koutliern
minister who was a slaveholder to
preach for hint the Sunday before.
"Hrother lb," said one, "now could
you allow that sinner to go into your
pulpit yesterday ?"
"Ah! Hrother 1f.," was the reply, "a
sinner goes into my pulpit every Sun
day."
7. They love Christ most, not who do
the most for him, but they who are
sensible how much lie does for them.
I much, I've* much forKl*fii ;
I'm a miracle <f <'•"
8. It was an evidenco ot Client's
transparent purity, that lie was not
afraid of contaminutiun from contact
i with great sinners.
His enemies often reproacued liim for
keeping low company, hut he was al
ways willing to go anywhere for the sake
of doing good.
9. Many persons have Rome faith in
Christ, but are afraid to express it.
Hut faith grows by expression, not by
j repression, as flowers confined in a dark
| cellar do not grow. Bring them out
into the light, and they put forth their
richest beauty and exhale their sweet- !
est fragrance.
V Sovereign Heinecly for Smallpox iiiul
Scarlet Fever.
From lli- I'hllailslpliis Km.rJ.
About two years ago Thr llecord made
known through its columns a smallpox
I specific winch had been given to the ,
! public by a correspondent ot the Stock- \
I ton (Cul.) Jlrrald, who declared that it \
had b _> i si r • sfullv used to his knowl
| edge in hundreds of cases, and would
prevent smallpox, or cure it even though !
the pitting* were filling. T.ic recipe j
was originally published as a panacea i
j for smallpox by some of the most sci i
I entitle schools of medicine in I'uris. iti
:s claimed to be of infallible efficacy. '
It is a euro also for scarlet fever, and
it is harmless when administered to
well persons. The following is the pre
scription :
Snip..ate of zinc, one grain ; foxglove
digitalis), one grain; half a teaspoon
ful of sugar ; mix with two tablespoon
fuls of water. When thoroughly mix
ed add lour ounces of water, l ake a
spoonful every hour. The disease will
disappear in twelve hours. For chil
dren smaller doses should be given, ao
co.ding to their age.
A subscriber ot Th- It<ror I called at
this office with a slip cut from the issue
of tins paper which contained the re
oipo above given, and stated that the
preparation bad cured bis child of small
pox in one day. The remedy appears to
tie precisely the sa .10 us that now being
dispeiiseu to scores of people daily at
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, at the
corner of Seventh and Spruce street*,
in this city, and which lias been found
remarkably efficacious. Mother tiotvi
ga, the venerable head of the institu
tion, who is busily engaged in com
pounding the medicine, has been a
member of the order of Sister* of Chari
ly for fifty four year*, and is now the
Mother Superior of tho order in this
city. She states that she ceived the 1
specific from Father Kenrich, of "ier
mantown. some ten yea.s a *o, wuo first
bad it front a French physician, who
discovered it during the pievalcnceof
a smallpox epidemic in l'ari, where
it had been used with great success.
When tiie Sister first began to make it
she voluntarily sent a Itottle or two to
families that she knew were suffering
from small pox : tho result was so sqr
prisingly beneficial that th"* rejiort rap
idly spread, and in a short time the
news was known all over the neighbor
hood. Several priests in the city have
not only recoir.ment.ed it but announc
ed to tlieir congregations where it could
be procured, ami the additional public!
ty thus given has necessitated the con
stant labor of all the Sisters in the work
jof preparation. It is made in a large
I copper vessel, which holds eight gallons,
anil not infrequently twenty gallons a
i day are distributed. Any person can
procure it, no distinction being maiie
on account of religion. It is given free
where persons are unable to pay, but
! those who desire can make a small of
| fering in re.urn for it. It is the custom
| of the Sisters to send out a printed
prayer and a small scapula of the Sacred
j Heart with each bottle. Many cases of
1 cure are recounted by people in the
vicinity, and the Sisters say that in no
case where it has been used has it failed
| to give the best results.
(linage of Finger*.
A NOVII. StIIUICAI. RXrRRINIJtT Will' II TWO
MKV IMPF.RU") FOR HUNXV.
j From lh ClovtlMMl
Yesterday a rejiort reached the Herald
regarding a peculiar treatment on the
part of a resilient physician. I>r. Han
ton was found at In* office, and to in
quiries frotn the visitor made the fol
lowing interesting statement:
"For some year* I have made the sub
ject of engrafting one of study, and so
confident was I that it could lie per
formed that on last Wednesday morn
ing I detetmined to make the venture.
Frank and August Filer, aged respect
ively twenty five and twenty-eight, for
a considerable sum of money were pre
vailed U|*>n to subject themselves to the
ordeal, and at ') o'clock myself and as
sistant amputated the little finger
through the shaft of the second pha
langes of the right hand of August, and
the analogous finger on the person of
Frank, engrafting the part amputated
from one person to that of the other,
pulling four sutures in each. The tin
gers were dressed and the men departed,
with strict injunction* to say nnthiDg
about the matter and to return on
Thursday morning to have their lingers
redressed. During the operation quite
an amusing incident took place. The
little finger of Mr. Frank Filer had been
amputated, wrapped in a towel, and
placed on the steam heater. My assist
ant, iti looking for something to wi|>e
the blood from his hands, took the
towel, not noticing the finger. When
1 came to look for the finger, after the
one on the hand of August had been
amputated, for the purpose of placing
it on hit slump, I found it gone, hut,
after an anxious search of a few min
i utes, 1 happened to glance in the slop
. bucket and saw It floating on the sur
face. It was quickly rescued, placed on
the hand,and bandaged.
"The entire operation was performed
• in less than an hour, without the use of
anmsthetics or of stimulant*. Notwith
standing my expressed wish, tho men
wont down street, exposing themselves
to tho rain and daiupne**, and at every
opportunity told the story of tiio won
derful experiment, contrary to my in
junction*, desiring to make nothing
public until the experiment was proven
beyond tho possibility of a doubt.
"Twenty four hours later the men re
turned and had their finger* redressed,
which were found in a very promising
condition, notwithstanding the expos
ure that the men had subjected them
to. There was a union of the parts and
a partial circulation, giving a normal
appearance to the finger as far down as
the nail. The continuity seemed per
fect, and one ol the men said that he
had a sensation in the member. I pro
pose to watch the cases and give them
my most careful attention."
'i iiF: OI.I> rouTAbK KOAII.
iiisTORU W. HEMIMM KM KS or TIIK MUST
HAII.KOAU CROSSING TIIK AI.I.KOIIIMES.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa
ny is about to occupy the route across
the Allegheny .Mountains traversed by
the old Portage Railroad. It is now
fixing up the tunnel, which was bored
when the new Portage Road was built.
Work has been commenced on the
abandoned Portage Railroad, which is
to be made the freight pathway of the
Pennsylvania Railroad over the Al
legheny Mountains.
A The main line of the Pennsylvania
Canal terminated at llollidaysburg, at
the eastern base of the Allegheny
Mountains, and began at .Johnstown,
at the western base, Between these
two points was constructed u railio.nl
across the mountain, called the "Al
legheny Portage Railroad." It was
thirty-six miles in length, crossing the
mountain at Blair's Cap, and over
come in ascent and descent an aggre
gate of 2,570 feet, of which there w.-rc
on the eastern side of the mountains
feet and on the western side
1,172 feet. The top of the mountain,
which is some 2,<HM) feet higher than
the culminating point id' the road, is
2,7 m feet abovt the Delaware river
at Philadelphia. The ascent and de
scent were overcome by ten inclined
planes, five on each side of the moun
tain, lifting from 1.10 to 2"0 feet. The
cars wi redrawn up and lowered down
the planes by stationary engines at
the heads of the planes, and on their
intervening levels locomotives and
horses were used. The "< fid Alleghe
ny Portage Railroad" was regarded as
a monument to the intelligence, enter
prise and public spirit of Pennsylva
nia. The surveys for the road were
commenced in I*2* and were contin
ued by various engineer- until the
appointment of Sylvester Welt h, un
der whom the road wn< located and
complete.!. The Allegheny Portage
Railroad in it- day was considered a
work of the greatest magnitude and
equal in grandeur with any in the
world. It was a work which immor
talized the memory of Mr. Welch.
In September, 1 * >O, the line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad was opened to
the Mountain House, one mile west of
llollidaysburg, where it made connte
tion with the Allegheny Portage Road,
then owned and operated hv tin- State.
In December, 1852, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Line from .Johnstown, the
western terminus of the Portage Road,
was completed to l'ittshurg and its
ears run through from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg, using the Portage Road,
with its inclined planes, over the
mountains. In February, 1854, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company com
pleted its mountain division, using no
inclined planes and stationary engines
and abandoning the use of the Portage
Road. Upon the completion of the
mountain division of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad there was direct unbrok
; en rail communication front Philadel
phia to Pittsburg hv the State Road to
lAncastcr, thence by the Hnrrishurg,
Mount Joy ami l-aneaster Railroad to
Harrishurg and thence hv the Penn
sylvania Railroad to Pittsburg, These
roads were at first leased by the Penn
sylvania Railroad company, hut in
1857 it purchased the nißin line of
the State railroads and canals and in
lHlil leased the Harrishurg, Mount
Joy ami lAiicaster Railroad for It!'!'
years, thus virtually becoming owner
1 of the entire line.
The railroads leased by the Pcnn
, sylvania Railroad Company have
given it control of aliout 1,500 miles
of rnilrond in the State of Pennsyl
vania and some -'l,soft miles out of the
State, making it the most important
railroad corporation in the {United
States.
How sweet is a perfect understand
ing between man and wife. He was
to smoke cigars when he wanted them,
but he was to give her ten cents every
time he indulged in one. He kept his
word, and every time she got fifty
cents ahead he'd borrow it to buy
cigars. And so they ngreed and were
happy.
Day Dawn.
A wind ram- up o-i m th- —a,
Abd -aid, "O, mi-U. makr roots for r.n>."
II hattrd th- hl|*i. and rrl-d, "Salt on,
V* marlnrta, lh night la gooa.'*
A-l hnnlad landtrard far atrar,
frylni, " Asak I II la th dag."
II -aid —ln thr fbSMt, "Shout'
llang all jnvt M; l-am,-rt <nl.''
It IwM Ih- w—l-l-lnl', Md-d wing.
And laid, "O bint, awakr and sing."
And o'-r Ih- forma, "0 rli-nllrl-ar,
Votir r|arln blow, lh day la nrar."
II whi-p-r-d to ha fl-lda of rani,
"M dawn, and hall Ih- roalng morn "
II -honlsd through Ih- hlfry lo-r,
"Aak. O trail I prorlalm Ih- hour.
II rnB-*d Ih- rhnrshyard *Hh a algh,
And aid, "Rot y-i: In qnlst lis."
-Unrtiun,
TIIK KKVISKI) BIBLE.
ExamploH of tho ChantroH Mado.
I-RKMIIIENT CIIANK, OR UAVKRIORB COI.I.KOK,
A MR. if nr. u or Tiir. COM MITT er. us nr.-
VISION, I.KITI'KKS ICON TIIK ONK
lir.Nlilir.il ANli TM KNTV THOU
IAN II r.ItUOKS AM) VA HI -
ATIONS,
From Hi* I'llHA'l<-1 |ihi Tim***.
President ('base, of I laverford Col
lege, a member of tho American
branch of the committee on the re
vision of the New Testament, lectured
on the subject of that work in the
Ink) 1 of the Academy of Fine Arts on
Tuesday evening of last week. The
arrangements for the lecture were
uiude months ago, the time being a
few days after the new edition of the
Bible was expected to he placed before
the public, hut for some reason the
bringing out of the work has been
postponed until May, although private
copies are already in the hands of the
members of the committee. The in
structions with regard to them are
strict, however, and nothing could in
duce any member of the committee to
make public any material portion of
the work before the appointed time.
President Chase, in his lecture, gives
a clue to many of the chunges and the
reasons therefor.
President Chase's tir-t point was to
show why the present revisers claimed
superior knowledge to the older trans
lators of the New Testament in regard
to the genuine original text. His next
step was to demonstrate how that orig
inal text became perverted and how it
could 1M- roHlorcd.
In the economy of heaven —with
reverence he it spoken —"there is no
waste of miracles." As the inspired
words of revelation were given forth
in human language, with all its uecc—
sary imperfections and limitations, and
recorded by finite human instruments,
so tln-ir preservation ha- In-cti entrust
ed to human fidelity in accordance
with that great law of our religion
life, that it is left for roan in his sub
ordinate sphere to co-operate with ' iod.
Nor have nun ln-en wanting in the
faithful endeavor to pre-. rv>- the rec
ords of I'iviue revelation miimparcd.
Vet with the very means of pr<-< rva
tion came in the pos-ibility of varia
tion- and error* a liability which ba
llot been completely obviated even by
tic invention of printing. It i- not
likely that any two edition- of our
Fnglish Bible to-day, or the Bible in
any other language, ar<- entirely alike
in every l--tt--r and mark of punctua
tion. In spite of the gr< .t<-t care
mid watchfulness curious and some
times even shocking misprints have on
various occasion* crept in. I remem
ber scribbling olf sortie years ago for a
manuscript pa|wr published by a col
lege soeiely s-une lines entitled "The
Skaters," which had sung themselves
to me when a few evening- before, un
der a ehnr starlight skv, 1 had joined
a party of students in skating on Mor
ris' Pond and left ull the jxM-try of
youth and the motion of winged feet
on the resounding ice and the ringing
steel. 1 had almost forgotten having
written them, when I found a so-called
copy of them a number of years after
ward in an album handed me for a
contribution. The piece had ln-en
copied from book to book from year
to year, and the change it had under
gone in the process was surely some
thing rich und strange not in Shakes
peare's sense . Some lines had no
sense at ull ; in others an omission or
slight modification had utterly per
verted the meaning ; ami the metre —
which was, perhaps, the piece's strong
point, if it had any—had become in
several places the most excruliating
discord.
120,000 ERROR*.
The danger of such variations, how
ever, was undoubtedly va*tly less in
the case of the New Testament than
in that of any merely human composi
tion. The sacred text ha- always been
regarded with a reverence which is
! calculated to inspire a copyist with a
i profound sense of his responsibility
and very great care was taken in the
I comparison and revision of copies, a
work often entrusted to a ditfcreut
hand from that of the transcriber.
Not*ilhstanding all this care, however,
variations and errors crept in to the
amount of no less than 120,000. At
first hearing this number startles us.
We almost tremble for our precious
inheritance. A little examination,
however, reduces its terrors. Ninety
nine in n hundred—nay, perhaps 1
may say nine thousand nine hundred
and ninety-nine in ten thousand, are
practically of no importance as in
volving any point of luilh or practice.
The majority of the different readings
in this formidable enumeration arc
mere differences in spelling. Next
come slight differences in grammatical
form, not affecting the substantial
sense ; then differences in the greater
or less fullucss of writing the name of
our .Saviour —the use of one of his
names or both, the prefixing or omis
sion before his nntne of the title Lord
—(what might lie the importance of
these variations being neutralized by
the fact that it is often found that the
same manuscript, which, against the
general current, omits one. of these
words in one instance inserts it in an
other); then Climes the use of synony
mous expressions—thus of the three
(ireek words, all meaning to soy, one
manuscript will use one, and another
in the same passage another, and .An
other the third ; then we have a claw
of variations in which the effect is
merely rhetorical, the same idea being
expressed in different readings with
greater or lew force and vividness; ;
und the whole number of text* in
which the variations of reading would
affeet materially the doctrines convey
ed can ho counted by units- —I had ul
most said upon the lingers of one hand.
Of the one hundred and twenty
thousand differences in spelling, ar
rangement and phraseology which
have been noticed in our sixteen bun- .
dred manuscripts many are found only
in one manuscript, or in very few ;
many others are obviously erroneous
at first sight, like the mistaken we
sometimes meet with in a letter or in
a new-paper ; so 11,a the whole rium
ber of readings in which there i- real
ly any room for serious doubt or dis
cus-ion—including question* of mere
spelling, grammatical forms, relative
position of words and the like—dm*
not exceed from sixteen hundred to
two thousand.
for tin; simple translator the prob
lem is still less extitjsive; fur it is
evident that mere questions of orthog
raphy, and in many oa*<* questions of
relative position,do not affeet liitn one
way or the other. It i* an encourag
ing fact that by the labor of scholars
the numlM-r of what can truly be call
ed doubtful readings i- rapidly dimiit
i-hing ; point after point becomes set
tled beyond possibility of reversal, and
by the strict application of the regular
scientific laws of criticism the text of
the New Testament is becoming estab
lished with a certainty far surpassing
that which attache* to tin* text of any
of the profane authors of antiquity.
I.X A MI'!.KM Ot CHANGE*.
11l regard to the revision, one of the
first questions that comes up is, What
shall he the style of language ? There
i-, perhaps, a wrong popular impres
sion a- res|K*cts Biblical style, the pe
culiarities of old English found in our
translation of the Bible being mis
taken, for peculiarities of the Bible
itself. Now, it is no more literal to
translate in tin* fourth tiuqx) "the
wind blowetb where it Jisteth," than to
tran-late "the wind blows where it
chnuK-." |'he former i no more the
style of Divine inspiration than the
latter; nav. the latter, to ti- to-dav, i
the more exact r< pr -en tat ion in Eng
lish of the inspired original. Still I
think we shall all agree that the Con
vocation at Canterbury wa- wi-<- when,
in 1870. it decided tiiat the style of
diction which we find in our Bibles of
Kill, it-elf largely determined by
Tyndalc s version of 1 .Vl4, sball I*-
retained *o fur as possible, so that the
revisers could hardly find exceptions
to such a word as "blowetb" nor to
"lisUtb" unless they should believe
that tbe word bad la-come unintelligi
ble to modern reader*. A some what
harder question lias regard to sueh
grammatical forms as Tie" for "is"' or
"are," "which" for "who," and the
lik<*. "Our father which art in Heav
en," is a mistranslation in the English
of the nineteenth century, for the
English of our day, like the Creek of
old, has a masculine t cho, as well as a
neuter which, aud has uo right to sub
stitute one for the other. But three
centuries ago "which" was admissible
English for a masculine relative pro
noun, and its frequent use in our
Bible i< oue of the most striking char
acteristics of what is called the Bibli
cal style.
FIDELITY TO ORIGINAL MKAXtXo.
It has lieen urged just at this |toint
thai fidelity to the meaning of the
original require* a literal modern ren
dering; the case having been cited,
for instance, of a clergyman, not want
ing in general intelligence—but be
most have been wanting in the very
elements of Creek scholarship —who
actually enlarged, in n discourse, upon
the sublimity of the use of the vague,
grand which in this passage, instead of
who, "for the latter," it was alleged,
"would lessen the majesty of the
Deity" by making the representation
of llim too sharply defined, too near
and personal, perhaps too anthropo
morphic. Well, I can onlv say that
it has rested with the committee, in all
such cases, to weigh the conflicting
claims of the preservation of the old
archaic color of our translation and
the requirement* of modern grammar.
.So, too, with archaisms in the use of
words, in which the question becomes
at lime* much more im|tortant ; for
then* is little danger jwrhaps of any
one's being misled by the "bes" and
the "whichc* but a man of inferior
cdueation might easily misunderstand
such expressions a "David left his
carriage and ran down into the val
ley," when his carriage is uot a coach,
but some bread and wine ; "I prevent
ed the morning," when prevented was
simply "anticipated" or "came before;"
"he was let," meaning "he was hin
dered "wizards that peep," meaning
"wizard* that chatter;" "be careful
for nothing," meaning not, take no
care, take no thought, but simply, l>e
not too full of core for anything, be
not over anxious.
TilK GENERAL FniTCll'Lt-
But the general principle upon
which the revision is made here, too,
is a sound one ; retain archaic words,
as well as archaic forms, where there
is no danger of their meaning being
misconstrued, but if there is any
serious danger of this kind substitute
for them words intelligible to the com
mon reader at this day.
In judging the new revision when it
appears care should be taken to free
the mind from the inevitable prejudice
in favor of the readings and render
ings in King James' Bible arising from
familiarity. Even the imperfections
in our English Bible have become;
| hallowed in our minds by the*perfec
tion* with which they are surrounded,
and in a book in which every line and
every word has become precious to our 4
souls we are, at first thought, jealous
of even the slightest alteration. But
remember that the reviser* have not
; themselves made any of the readings
wherein the new Bible will differ from
the old version. They have only
found thern and collected them from
the most authentic sources, and thus
presented a Bible nearer the original
and older than the old. If we are .
convinced that nothing ha* been taken ™
away except for the purjws-f- of re
moving the paste from the diamond**
and the pinch heck from the gold p
that nothing has been altered except
to restore to it* original form and di
rection what had been hammered into
another shaftc or bent out of the way,
I think we shall accept with thankful
ness a look of which we may say with
great it not with absolute confidence:
"Here are no interpolations or mis
tran-lution*; here are the genuine
word* ol Divine inspiration—without
addition, without diminution, without
jK-r vers ion."
A- for the amount of change, those
who are expecting to we a great differ
ence between the new Bible and the
old will he more disappointed than
those who hope there will be very
I little.
ItOOTII AT HOMK.
iiir i/i>* DOS Mir. or Tiie ami khan tha-
OSbIAN.
\ cry youthful in appearance, in
fact almost in proportion a* young
looking a* Mr. Hare, whose resem
blance to him i- rcmarkabl', Mr.
Booth is yet in hi* tenth lustre ; hut,
allowance l*-ing made for nervous wear
and tear, i*. in manner, gait and
speech, n young man. may I*.*
taken, indeed, a* an illustration of
Mr*. Kcely * theory, that acting is a
very healthy profi-s-ion. Smoking in
ec--antlv when not on the stage, Mr.
Booth i- otherwise the most abstemious
of men. 'hi the ground that bis ner
vous tcmpcrntncul will not bear the
excitement of stimulants, he drinks
nothing stronger than tea, and eschews
dinners and diners, junketings and
frolics, of all and every kind. A
member of any number of clul*. he
never gee- near one of them, and live*
entirely at his movable home. Once
in a while be may dine, on a Sunday,
With pleasant modi; but such occa
sions are few and far between, and
his daily routine of lib- i- of the tn'ist
modest and quiet kind. In defiance
of the prevailing fashion of liv ing in
the open air, he never g ><•* out except
upon compulsion. Ki-isig late he is
contt nt to pas,, the day <*v< r a b<#ok,
struggling against the depre-- ion which
follow- the excitement . f appearing
on the stage, and only recovers himself
a- the hour for action approaches. It
was once a-ki-d at what precise hour
Mr. Macn ady "Iwgan to be Macbeth."
In the ease of Mr. Booth the hour is
variable, depending very mu- b on
when reaction sets in. When tie lias
done his work he goes home, not like
Mr. Toole, "to his tea," but to what
Americans call "a bite of supper," fol
lowed by a prolonged interview with a
very fine meerschaum, a gossip with
his wife, and a sjkll at a book by his
fireside. He is one more instance of
i the quiet home-loving instincts of men
who are imagined by the good-natured
j public to lead lives of gayetv and
splendor—the centres of admiring
; crowd* of worshippers, the picrrei de
tauchc of such raconteur*, wits, and
humorist* as are still left to us.
Ilow Official* Were Once I'aid.
j It is not a generally known histori
cal fact that from 1777 to 17*4 the
territory now known a* Tennessee
formed a part of North Carolina, and
| that in 17h"> the Tennesseeans, lamm
ing dissatisfied with their government,
organized a Stnte government under
the name of "Franklin," which was
maintained for sonic years. The State
organization afterward disbanded, ami
territorial Tennessee was again annex
ed to North Carolina. The following
is among the laws passed by the I leg
islature of the State of Franklin.
We Copv it as found in a speech by
Daniel Welwter on the currency iu
1830;
"Jte it enacted by the general assem
bly of the .State of Frsnkhn, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the
aame: That from the first day of Jan
uary. 17*9. the salaries of the officials of
this commonwealth be as follows, to
wit :
"His excellency the governor, per
annum. 1,000 deer skins.
"His honor the chief justice, 500 deer
skins.
"The secretary to his excellency the
governor, 500 raccoon skins.
'The treasurer of the state, 450 rac
coon skins.
"Kach county clerk .100 beaver skins.
"Clerk of the House of Commons, 200
raccoon skins.
"Member of the Assembly, per diem,
three raccoon skins.
"Justices' fee for signing s warrant,
one muskrat skin.
"To the constable for serving a war
rant. one mink skin.
"Knacted into* Uw the 2*th day of *
October, 17£9, under the great seal of
the iSute."
How- many amusing and ridiculous
scenes would we witness If each pair
of men that secretly laugh at each
other were to do it openly.
♦ ■
"Downy" way of putting it: Men
arc geese, women are ducks, and birds
of a feather flock together.