Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — The Critic Answered. [ARTICLE]

The Critic Answered.

An acute critic calls attention to what he styles an inelegance in a leading article of the Pilot. It is that in which the following sentence occurs: “And Paul said: But I was born so.” We are sorry it Is inelegant, but it must stand as it is; for it happens to be the exact words of the New Testament, chapter xxii., verse 28, of the Acts of the Apostles. The Pilot never tries to improve upon the language of Holy Writ. Some afternoon, when we have reformed all the wrongs in the world, and pointed out all the faults of all our neighbors, for their reformation, we may sit down and revise the New Testament; but it will not be this year, nor next year. Somewhere along about 199 S we shall inaugurate these important reforms.—Boston Pilot.