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The Warren Record. Warrenton, N. C.. Thursday, May 6. 1976 — Paife 12 i?
Bible Takes Comfortable Lead As The Most Translated Book In The World
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The way of a Bible translator
is hard, but no one has had a
more discouraging time than
Deaths And
Funerals
I HOWARD L.POWELL
Funeral services for Howard
l*mont Powell, 21, of Inez
were conducted at 3 p. m.
Monday from the Inez Baptist
Church by the Rev. Ben
Swicegood and the Rev. Ralph
Waters. Burial was in the
Pridgen Family Cemetery.
Mr. Powell died Saturday at
Duke Medical Center after a
long illness.
He is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burwell
Po'vell, Sr., of Inez; thrte
brothers, Burwell Powell. Jr.,
of Greenville. Thomas Powell
and Robert Gerald Powell, both
of the home; his paternal
grandmother. Mrs. Susie
Powell of Inez; and his
maternal grandparents. Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Radford of
Nashville.
Memorial gifts may be made
to Leukemia-Cancer Research
Fund. Duke Medical Center,
care of Dr. Harold Silberman,
Durham. N. C.
Y A W AI.LEN COLEMAN
Funeral services for Vann
Allen Coleman. 82. will be held
at 2 p m. today (Thursday) at
the Jerusalem United Metho
dist Church by the Rev. Robert
Warren. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Coleman, a retired
farmer and contractor, died
Tuesday at 10 a. m. in
Community Memorial Hospital
after two months illness.
He' is survived by a son, Vann
Earl Coleman of Norlina; two
daughters, Mrs. Mildred Peeler
of Warrenton and Mrs. Shirley
Britt of Luray, Va.; a sister,
Mrs. A. C. Preney of Newport
News, Va.; 10 grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.
WILLIAM P. ELLINGTON
Funeral services for William
P. (Bill) Ellington, 57 of
Somerset, Ky.. were conducted
at 2 p. m. on April 28 at the
Somerset Undertaking Com
pany. Burial was in the
Somerset Cemetery. Mr. El
lington died at his home on
April 25.
He was born June 18, 1918 in
Norlina. the son of the late
Elijah W. Ellington and Mrs.
Alice Shearin Ellington.
Surviving are his mother, his
wife, Mrs. Louise C. Ellington;
four children, William Bruce
Ellington, Gary David Elling
ton, Robert Lewis Ellington
and Tina Louise Ellington, all of
Somerset; a brother, Maurice
Ellington of Roanoke Rapids
and a sister, Mrs. Sarah
Perkinson of LaCrosse, Va.
WILLIAM J. TANNER
Graveside services for Wil
liam J. Tanner were conducted
at 11 a. m. Tuesday in Grace
Episcopal Church Cemetery at
Palmer Springs.
Mr. Tanner died Sunday. He
was a farmer in the Palmer
Springs, Va., section.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Lily K. Tanner; a
daughter. Mrs. Ruth T.
Williams of Chester, Va.; a son,
William J. Tanner, Jr.,
Houston, Texas; two brothers,
Robert E. Tanner of Henderson
and Jacob T. Tanner of Palmer
Springs, Va.; and a sister, Mrs.
Margaret T. O'Connor of
Maryland.
MRS. SALLY A.SNEAD
Funeral services for Mrs.
Sally Alston Snead, 95, who
died April 25 in Maria Parham
Hospital in Henderson, were
conducted at Shocco Chapel
Baptist Church at 3 p. m. on
May 2. The Rev. C. H. Brown
officiated. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Mrs. Snead, born September
1, 1880 in Warren County, was
the daughter of the late Lovett
Alston and Mrs. Mary Green
Alston and the widow of the
late Walter Snead.
She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Nannie Wil;
liams and Mrs. Esther
McJunkins, both of Warrenton;
several grandchildren, great
grandchildren and great-great
grandchildren.
EMMITT LUTHER LANE
Funeral services for Emmitt
Luther Lane, 59, of Hickory,
and father of Mrs. Janice
Willard of Warrenton, were
conducted at 2 p. m. on Friday
at the First Baptist Church in
Hickory. Burial was in the
Catawba Memorial Gardens.
Swviving in addition to his
daughter there are his widow
and two daughters of Hickory
J ' grandchildren.
David Wilkins.
Wilkins' translation of the
New Testament from Coptic
into Latin was published in an
edition of 500 copies in 1716. It
took 191 years to sell out,
earning j it the distinction of
being the world's slowest
selling book.
Without Wilkins's help,
however, the Bible has been
selling rather well. Between
1800 and 1950 some 1,500,000,
000 Bibles were printed, and
the number grows every year.
Figures released recently by
the .United Nations show that
the Bible is the world's most
translated work, well ahead of
the runners-up, the works of
Marx, Engels, and Lenin.
Working on Kung Version
The Bible already has been
translated into 1,473 languages
and dialects, and linguists
around the world are working
on 500 new versions, the
National Geographic Society
says.
South African missionaries
and scholars are busy convert
ing the New Testament into a
curious Bushman dialect called
Kung, in which clicks of the
tongue act as consonant sounds.
The sound of Kung are
unwritten and the vocabulary
limited, but the group is
pushing op, /undaunted, by the
knowledge that translation of
the Bible into the related Nama
language took from 1825 to
1967.
Translation has its pitfalls. A
translator in the Solomon
Islands found that he had
rendered the Psalmist's phrase,
"the wild asses quench their
thirst" as "the cannibal pigs
drink water to stop hiccoughs."
A Congo missionary transform
ed "five loaves and two fishes"
into a veritable feast—"five
loaves and two elephants."
A missionary among the
Tarahumara Indians of Mexico
tried to obtain the word for
"jump" by acting it out. The
Indians chorused an expression
which the clerrvman happily
wrote down, only to learn later
that it meant, "What's wrong
with you?"
Ten Wtyi to See
Abstract ideas pose even
more difficulties. The Bulu
language of West Africa has no
words for "trust" or "holy," and
"righteousness" must be trans
lated by "straightness," but
there are ten different kind? of
"seeing."
"Translation it is that
openeth the window to let in
the light; that breaketh the
shell, that we may eat the
, kerne); that putteth aside the
curtaine, that we may look into
the most Holy place; that
removeth the cover of the well,
that we may come by the
water, even as Jacob."
Sharks have no bones.