Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1881 — Why the New Revision Will Be Accepted. [ARTICLE]

Why the New Revision Will Be Accepted.

Of course, the translation will receive criticism. It asks it and can endure it. We have sometimes been thought too much in haste to accept it without hesitation in advance. We have been willing to do it, and the reason is simple. We do not set ourselves up against the most competent scholars of the world. Their conclusions will have to be accepted at last. Now the twenty-five English and the thirteen American revisers were, in the first p’ace, picked out as the best men known in the English-speaking world, the most competent to form and express a wise opinion on the subject of the new translation of the Greek Testament. They have now devoted their most patient study to the subject for five years. They have with the utmost patience studied every word and weighed every consideration that will occur to the more hasty critics of their work. The result is that of their united wisdom. Put now against the judgment of all the rest of the English-speaking wrld the judgment of these forty men and the opinion of these forty men is worth more than that of the 100,000,000 beside. The conclusion of one wise man is worth more than that of a thousand fool. Is this the surrendry of private judgment? Not at all. It is the mei e recognition of the trust that we must all put in competency. We hold that if is now the duty of every wise preacher immediately to" introduce the

new version into liis Sabbath ministrations, and of the private Christian to use it for his devotions. — The Independent. __________