VJ. W. LJ Grenerai insurance ancl ileal T owanda, I'M. New Testament Changes. One of the most important changes made by the Revised New Testament is the ominission of what is called the dox ology from the Lord's Prayer in Mat thew's Gospel— 4 Tor Thine is the king dom and the power ami the glory, for ever. Amen." These words are an in terpolation found on the margin of the text in some of the earlier manuscripts, and not found at all in the older ones. Its origin can be traced back to remote Aryan sources, and it can be foun I al most literally in one of the hymns of the Zend Avesta, to which some students of Irunic literature give an antiquity as great as 2,000 years before Christ, am! which is indisputably older than the time of Cyrus ami the cuneiform inscriptions (about .">59 11. C.) In this hymn,address ed to Ahura-Mayda,the Creator and Good Principle, occurs the following passage: '•To Him belongs the. Kingdom, the might and the power." Evidently litis doxology or ascription is one of the ear liest expression of worship adopted by the Aryan mind. Its omission front the Lord's Prayer will not be generally wel comed, for it unquestionably forms an impressive and bea tiful climax; but as there is no reason for supposing it was in the origional Gospel'the Christian world must give it up. Biblical scholars are all agreed that no claim for inspira tion can be made for it. Another change whim will bo even less readily accepted because it rests upon the meaning of a word and not upon a ques tion of authenticity now fully determined is that of substituting love for charity in the thirteenth chapter of I. Corinthians. St. Paul's praise of charity u-> the chief of Christian virtues, in the beautiful chapter which is probably more iir.nly j imbedded in Christian thought than any portion of the Bible except the Sermon o:i the Mount, now becomes the praise of love. It must be admitted, however,that tlie argument in favor of this alteration is a strong one. The Greek word ren dered charity i.i King James' version does not mean almsgiving, nor merely a tolerant, kindly frame of mind toward the weaknesses and faults of others, as the word charity signifies in the English of the present clay, but something much broader, deeper and more active—the love of the soul for G > I and h i n unity. The inefliciency and liability to miscon ception of the word charity in the chap ter in question have long been recognized by Biblical scholars. Trench says: ! "Love and charity are used in our author ized version of the New Testament pro miscuously, and out of the sense of their equivalence are made to represent one , and the same Greek word; but in mod ern use charity lias come almost exclu sively to signify one particular manifes tation of love—the supply of the bodily needs of others—love continuing to ex press the affections of the soul." The Revision Committee cannot, the.e l'ore, be charged with making a novel rendering in this instance. The change they propose has long been anticipated and approved by scholars* The almost entire absence in the Revi sion of changes having a possible docti - nal significance will be much commented upon. The explanation will lie found, no doubt, in the fact that most of the im portant Protestant sects weie represent ed upon the Committee and that a con siderable majority was required to make a change in the face of a contest. Per haps there was also a feeling or courtesy 1 which caused the majority to refrain A'oni pressing alterations which might have some effect on the peculiar doctrines of any of the denominations having a membership in the Board. At all events there is a notable absense of sectarian feeling in the criticisms thus far made upon the new text. The appearance of the new translation, | its enormous sale, the discussion of its j merits, and the publication by the news-! papers of the history of early mauuseipts | ami versions,will no doubt arouse a fresh interest in the Gospel naratives and the theology of the Epistles, by which the churches may expect to profit in the way of fuller pews and increased membership. Much will depend, however, on the di rection this fre-h interest takes, whether it proves to be reverent or only critical and argumentative. Possibly we are on the eve of a great revival of Christianity. The sale of a quarter of a million of Tes taments in a few days may be taken as a sign of such a revival, or it may lie noth- i ing more than a passing phenomenon of this doubting, investigating age, which eagerly seizes upon everything that is new, and delights to tind imperfections in all that has been regarded in the past as sacred. 'rs:.sEJEIMsK'S airinin. PA. AM) X. Y. n. R. Train.- on the l'n. X X. Y. It. 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