Christian
BY ATKINSON & LAWRENCE.
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ELON COLLEGE, N. 0., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7,1901
VOLUME LIV: NUMBER31:
CJ^pistiart SUr\
I'UBI.IHIIKD WKKKI.Y.
I'Ik-Olllci&l Organ of the Southern Chris
tian Convention.
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES.
1. The Lor<l Jesus i* the only Head of the
church,
I The name Christian, to the exclusion
of all party and sectarian names.
H. The Holy Bible, or, the Hc.riptu^Q^jfcf
« he Old and New Testaments, sufTlelen%njlfe
• »f faith and practice.
4. Christian character, or vital piety, the
o dy test of fellowship or membership.
h. The right of private judgment, and
the liberty of conscience, the privilege and
iutv of all.
Current Comment.
Inerensiiig Desire and Supply.
In our reckonings about trade
and economy we often overlook
one ol the most potent factors.
We refer to the diversity and
the expansion of the tastes and
appetite of man. This might he
termed the indefinite factor in
economics. You can never tell
to what extent man’s tastes and
appetite will develop and en
large. Invention and discovery
both tend to enlarge man’s tastes
and have greater effect nowhere
more than upon man’s appetite.
Stearfi and electricity having
made rapid travel possible and
long distances easy produced in
ma.i a desire for long journeys
and numerous pilgrimages. The
stage-coaches would have had
to enlarge their capacity a thou
sand fold if the public had de
sired to travel in the year of our
Lord, 1841, as they do in this,
1901. The present desire and
necessity set back to the capaci
ty of sixty years ago would have
over-run both the stage coaches
and, the insane asylums, mad
bouses and hospitals as well
Under such a condition there
would have been more nervous
wrecks and shattered minds
than this world ever heard of.
A wise Providence seems to
check the desire until the capac
ity for satisfying it has arrived.
Twenty years ago you had to
pav 25 cents tor a plate of ice
cream and only got it then at a
fourth of July celebration or at a
political speaking. Suppose the
desire and the demand for and
the consumption of ice cream
then had been what they are to
day. Why, the ice cream ven
ders would have been the busi
est people on the earth, the
cream bill the largest at the
grocer’s and everybody’s father
in the country would have been
bankrupt, or run mad with beg
ging. The large desire and
demand remained very prudent
ly checked until the enlarged
capacity tor supply came. It is
so in all the industries.
This is the reason why im
proved machinery does not dis
place or destroy labor or reduce
the price of wages. With en
larged capacity comes enlarged
desire and consumption. You
can remember when a “chunk”
of lire was kept over night to
feindle from in the morning or
when you walked half a mile to a
neighbor's to borrow lire.
Match-making machinery in
those days w^is scarce, match
factories were lew and of small
capacity and matches were five
to ten times as high-priced then
a* now. Now there are two
match factories in New Jersey
whose combined capacity is 90^
000,000 matches a day. One
factory in Ohio has a capacity
of 100,000,000 matches a day.
Has match-making machinery
displaced match-making labor?
|iy no means. It has displaced
our efforts at keeping fire over
night, saved us the trouble of
borrowing fire of our neighbor
aod thereby enlarged our desire
tor, and consumption of, match
es. Instances might be enumer
ated without limit.
As we see it some of the most
(fatal blunders of economists have
been made in failing to reckon
sufficiently with the ever increas
jng desires and cravings of man.
Here, as well as elsewhere, *
wise Providence, leads and
governs. The pent-up desire
seems only to manifest itsell
after the capacity for satisfying
has been developed.
Honor to Whom Honor.
It seems that we shall never be
through deciding upon whom t<
heap the untold honors of the
late Spanish American war
From the firing of the first shot
in that memorable contest dowt
to this present time there has
been one mad scramble, some
times almost amounting to fren
zy, to either honor somebody 01
dishonor somebody else. In out
minds we have never been able
to fully decide whether the
American people really wantec
that war for the sake of the op
pressed Cubans or not, but we
have long since had no doubt or
one theme. The American peo
ple did want something to gel
excited about and a few heroes
to embrace and go wild over.
Judging from what wassaid and
done at the time I krecon the
world never before saw or heard
of such heroes as we found in
that war. There was only one
trouble about it all. We did nol
keep ,up the beat and fire ol
our enthusiasm long enough
Our hero worship for the time
being was complete, but the
trouble was that it did not last
long e-ough. We went at it
with such vim and vigor that we
soon turned to other things than
th's from sheer exhaustion.
In our haste to go wild and to
worship it seems that in one in
stance at least we got hold of fhe
wrong man. Aclmiral Schle3>
had the misfortune to be in tem
poary command of our fleet oft
Santiogo harbor when the Span
ish commander, Cervera,decided
to sail out of that harbor. The
results are all known. Schley was
victorious and that entireSpanish
fleet was destroyed. Then Ad
miral Sampson, the comander in
charge of the squadron who had
been elsewhere during all the
fighting arrived. Then the real
war began. Whom shall we
honor, Schley who won the vic
tory or Sampson who did not:
That has been the perplexing
question of the war, the one
question that we have taker
seriously to heart.
Now, altera due season 01
time, a histoiiau, McClay, by
name, records in the third vol
ume of his literary achievements
that Schley was a cur aud a
coward and “flew like a
traitor” et cetera. So Admiral
Schley has asked for an investi
gation ol his conduct to see
whether or not he was a cur,
a coward and a trritor. And
Secretary of the navy, Long,
oas appointed a court to try the
case, which court will convene
September and possibly sit loi
several months This court is
to tell us whom to honor anc
whom not to. Meanwhile w<
heave to put up with the blank
bare fact that Sampson wat
away and Schley blew fcha
Spanish fleet iuto“splinterations’
coward or no coward, cur -o:
hero.
Charity and the Insane.
According to an official state
,rnent recently made by the Stati
Hoard of Charities for N. C
there are now known to be ii
this State 766 insane not ii
asylums. The Raleigh asylun
was inspected the other day anc
it was found that there were 3;
approved applications tor ad
mission on file, none of whon
could be admitted for the presen
because of a lack of room. Capt
Denson, member of the Roarc
of Charities said in an interview
the other day that hundreds o
the State’s insane were now it
jails, in country homes and it
private homes, and that owinj
to the lack of attention at thosi
periods which occur in the his
tory of all insane persons, thosi
persons have died in jail quiti
recently from maniacal exhaus
tion' as is shown by the last re
ports.
This is a shame and a bio
upon the fair name of Nortl
Carolina. A great State with 1
rapidly growing population
. whose industries, enterprises and
resources are abundant, seem
: ingly unlimited, in (act, not able
to lake care of the most helpless,
and pitiable class of people on
earth! If there is a class of
people who should above every
other class receive kindest treat
ment and first consideration at
the hands of the public that class
is the insane. They are perfects
' ly helpless, dependent and not
responsible for their condition.
And to think that North Caro
lina houses a large per cent, of
these in her jails and prisons
and many of them she does not
house at all ! It is a shame, a
sin, a stigma, a disgrace that the
State ought to make ail haste to
wipe out.
THE REVIVAL OF PENTECOST.
BY REV. WALTER HOI.COM 11.
(In The Revival.)
We are now living in the dis
pensation of the Holy Spirit,
and we should be enjoying great
spiritual awakenings. The work
of Pentecost was the first and
greatest revival under the pres
ent dispensation. The world has
not seen anything to .equal it in
power since that glorious day.
Therefore it should be our model
and pattern in all our evangelis
tic work.
THE ORIGIN OF THE REVIVAL OF
PENTECOST.
The revival of Pentecost had
its beginning with the Holy Spir
it. The Third Person in the
adorable Trinity was the author
of this deep and far-reaching
w ork of grace. God had prom
ised us this revival in Joel 2 :a8 :
“And in that day I will pour out
of My Spirit upon all flesh ; and
your sons and daghters shall
prophesy.” Then in Zech. 4 :6,
He says, “Not by might nor by
power, but by My Spirit,” show
ing us that this glorious work
would be effected by the Holy
Spirit. And, on the day of this
great awakening, Peter stood up
and declared the work to be of
the Holy Ghost. Says he, “This
is that which was spoken by the
prophet Joel ; and it shall cbme
to pass in the last days, sayeth
God, I pour out of My Spirit
upon all flesh,’’
It is comforting to know that
thy Holy Spirit is always present
to do His work in protracted
. services. Jesus says, “Lo, I am
with you alway.” It is the Spirit
that quickenth.” Our everpres
ent Friend and Comtorter will
do the reviving. We are so glad
it does not fall to us to work up
a revival. But, that the Holy
Spirit will stir men and quicken
them into life eternal.
We are absolutely dependent
on the Holy Spirit to quicken
men into a luller and deeper
spiritual life, and to quicken
them out of the sleep and death
of sin into the life of holiness
and power. Our best efforts in
the energy of the flesh are profit
less. “The flesh profiteth noth
ing.” You may preach as
eloquntly as an Apolos ; praj as
earnestly as an Elijah j sing as
sweetly as a David; think as
. profoundly as a Paul ; work as
arduously as a Peter ; but it will
all be worse than nothing nnless
it be energized by the Spirit of
fhe living God. Let us make
the proper use of preaching,
singing, working, but learn to
rely entirely upon the Holy
Spirit to start off and keep going,
the religious revival.
TIIK REVIVAL, OK PENTECOST
[ P4*fE IN ANSWER TO PRAYER.
While it is not opr work to get
up a revival, it is our duty and
privilege to pray down a gra
cious revival- Prayer is the ij.ll
! inclusive condition of the reli
gious revival. The Bible ■ rec
r ogniges this fact from Genesis to
Revelation. In the 85th, Psalm
' and in the 6th,verse, David asks,
| “Will Thou not quicken ns again
that Thy people may rejoice in
: Thee?.” (R. V.) In Hab. 3:2,
we have, “O Lord, revive Thy
: work in the midst of the years,
in the midst of the years make it
known.” (R V.) Agan, in Acts
1:4, “These all continued with
one accord iu prayer and suppli
1 cation.” These men and women
1 were gettiqg ready for a pente
, [Concluded on fourth page.]
An American Revision of the Bible
Many ot our readers are possibly not aware hat there is aboul
to be issued from the Thomas Nelson & Sons’ Bible House in
New York an American Bibje. Sixteen years ago the revised
English Bib'e was issued. The Company of Revisers then did
not take into consideration the tact that the English language is
not the same in America and in England. The language once
the same in both countries is gradually varying and today is
neaer alike than it will ever be again. Two hundred and ninety
years ago the Ring James’ version, or the authorized version of
the Bible, as we usually call it in distinguishing it from the revised
version of 1885 was issued. It was a remarkably satisfactory
edition, else it cou d not have stood so long in the face of constant
change in the language, and even today the majority of English
speaking people use it iqstead of the revised version. The benefit
of the late revisions will be in doing away with the necessity of
constantly explaining words and phrases whose meanings have
changed with the passing years. For further information regard
ing the American vevision, we quote, at length, from Howard
Osgood, one ot the Revision Committee, in the Sunday School
Times.
‘•Replying to the request to give* some idea of the changes in
the forthcoming American Revision of the Bible, I can offer no
more than an outline sketch. Tne subject is too large for a short
article.
“Our companies of the Old and the New Testaments, have
always kept strictly within their own spheres, and I can speak
only of the Oid Testament.
“All Bibles, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Latin, German, French,
English, are the results of many revisions,'not to add to or take
from them, but to obtain the most accurate text—and translations.
The revision under King James, 1611, followed a hundred years
of repeated revisions. That revision was an admirable work of
high scholarship in Hebrew, Greek, and English. But so great
has been the change in the meaning and usage of words that some
translations, accurate in their day, now misrepresent the Hebrew
and Greek, as well as the English, ot three hundred years ago.
PrtVent’ then meant to go before, meet; now it means to hinder
•Let’Alien signified to hinder; now it means to permit,-‘-Lust’
then^ts in German now, meant pure pleasure, desire, joy ; now it
breathes vile passion. And so through a long list of words.
“Could those good scholars rise up and see how time has
wrenched and changed their words, they, with the same common
sense shown in their previous work, would be the first to advocate
making the translation plain in the words of today. They believ
ed, as we do, that the Bible was given to be made clear, and not
to be wrapped up in dead and misleading terms.
“The revision of 1SS5 removed many of these dark and twist
ed words, but it also left a large number which ihe American
Company of Revisers have greatly reduced, though they have not
been able to get them all out.
“ W hy snouici we tie compeiu d to read in the iiible the strange
spellmgs ‘bewray,’ ‘ciel,’ ‘grisled,’ holpen,' ‘•hough,’ ‘lien,’ ‘mar
ish.’ ‘minish,’ ‘pourtray,’ ‘shew,’ ‘sith,’ ‘struke,’ ‘strowed,’ ‘victual,’
and many similar? That is not our spelling, and will not be. A
special dictionary of strange Bible words is required to interpret
such spellings to 11s.
“There is one word occurring often which has one meaning
in England, and an entirely, different meaning in our land. ‘Corn,’
in England, is grain of all kinds, especially wheat, oats, barley,
etc , but with us the word is never so used ; it means to us Indian
corn, and that alone. We do not call platters chargers, nor the
hump of the camel its bunch. Traders with us are not chapmen,
nor are merchants occupiers. Umpiers are not known as days
men, and we would never speak of a perfumer as a confectionary.
In the language of today, conversation is dialog, but in the Bible
it is mauner of life Under the disguise of ‘fat,’ we would not
recognize a vat, nor in a chapiter the capita! of a column. What
‘go to’ means puzzles all except the readers ot Old English. We
do not dress our soldiers in harness., Our statesmen are arrayed
in hosen, but there are few of them who would know their trousers
under that name. Farmers, with us, do not speak of the ground’s
being chapt, or of draining a marish, or of fraying away birds, or
of sending a feller to lay the forest low. We do not take our
shoes to be clouted, nor do we give cast clouts to the poor. Col
lops may be familiar to others, but they certainly are not to us.
To fine, with us, is to impose a penalty, in money, bu> in the Bible
it means to refine; while to impose a fine is, in the Bible, to
amerce. But dnough. Many pages might be tilled with spellmgs
and words that are entirely foreign to us, and which therefore
make the Bible more difficult of understanding.
“We do not use ‘an’ before strong aspirates,—an heart, an
house. The usage in the Bible is a strange medley,—a hard and
an hard, a,harp and an harp, a hole and an heap. There has been
an endeavor to conform to our usage of ‘an’ only before words
beginning with a vowel sound. There is the same confusion iu
the use of ‘my,’ ‘mine,’ ‘thy,’ ‘thine,’ before aspirates.,-—‘thy hand
maid’ and ‘thine handmaid,’ ‘my head’ and -mine head,’—and
there has been a persistent effort to eliminate the confusion.
“Dr. Johnson was a great man in his day of more than a hun
dred years ago, but he was not strong euough to block the pro
gress of the language ; and ‘wliich,’ despite his protest, no longer
to us means ‘who,’ and ‘the which’ is out of date as a relative.
“There are also words remaining in the revision ol 1885 that
are needlessly harsh and repulsive, which may be replaced by
just as accurate translations not so repulsive.
“Until Calvin set bankers free by right teaching concerning
interest on money loaned, the man who would take interest was
exposed 10 all the penalties of the church. ‘Usury,’ in Old Eng
lish, meant interest. So no interest was taken alter the loan, but
a bonus was exacted before the loan that put interest to the blush.
And all this because of a false interpretation o( Exodus 22: 25 ;
Leviticus-25:36, 37; Deuteronomy 23:19, where the Hebrews
were forbidden to lend or give mouey or food to their poor breth
ren on interest. The" poor would always be with them, ard they
were to give them sufficient to supply their need, and not make
the poor-repay them (Don't 15:7-11). The injunction concerns
only gifts to the needy, and has nothing to do with commercial
operations. It is interesting to note that there is, among the Jews
of New York today, a society that loans money < > the poor with;
out’bonus or interest..
“What‘dragons,’‘cockatrics,’‘sat) rs,’ m-ant to the men of
j611 it is difficult to say ; to us they are mythical terms. In Ktng
Jame’s revision there were twenty-two ‘dragons.’ The revision ol
1885 replaced fourteen of these by the right translation, ‘jackals;’
the other eight ‘dragons,’ by plain translation of the Hebrew, will
be seeu in their places no more. Tiiere were tour‘cockatrices,'
with the marginal rendering‘adders,’ rn K og Janie’s revision,
which were replaced by ‘basilisks’ in 1885 flint now ‘cockatrices'
and ‘basilisks’ have departed, and the plain translation ot the He
brew ‘adders’ has taken their place. The *s ityrs’ have ceded then
room to an animal that is nor a myth, but very familiar, the accu
rate translation of a common,Hebrew word,—the goat.
“In ‘God forbid’ and ‘would God’ God is not expressed or un
derstood in the Hebrew. They are simply ‘far be it’ and ‘would
that.’ Why these plain terms were ever translated ‘God forbid’
and ‘would"God’ is a mystery.
“Perhaps hasty critics will be astonished that so many of the
references in the margins of the revision of 1885 to the Samaritan,
Greek, Syriac, and, Latin Bibles have been omitted in the Amer
ican revision. They have been omitted because in a hundred and
fifty-one out of the two hundred and forty marginal references the
majority of the versions is against the references; in thirty-three
places not a single version supports the reference. In 1885 the
American Company voted against that set of references, not be
cause they were ignorant on the subject, or wished to preclude
investigation, or to shield any theory of inspiration, but because,
as true to the Hebrew, Samaritan, Greek, Syriac, and Latin Bibles,
they could not approve statements so plainly inaccurate. With
no critical text of any of the versions, it is large guessing in tne
dark to stamp any of them on the margin of our Bibles, when a
few years’ investigations may nullify the proof. A very greatly
reduced number of references to the versions that give some help
in difficult places has been retained, and the versions are quoted
that contain them.
“There is no designation by capital letters of‘God,’ ‘Jehovah,’
‘the Spirit,’ in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, or Greek. In these lan
guages the same size of letters employed in common narrative is
used for these names. In them we read, as it were, ‘god,’ ‘holy
spirit,’ ‘the spirit,’ while in English we read ‘God,’ ‘Holy Spirit.’
j The use of these capitals has become very properly our’ method
to express reverence. Much may be expressed in respect or in
depreciation by capitals. When an American writer now inten
| tionally and often prints ‘bible,’ ‘god,’ ‘Christ,’ we know that he
does so of set purpose to depreciate them. The English-speaking
I world would be justly shocked if in the Old Testament were found
.only ‘god,’ but, in the New, ‘God.’ That would be to us a god
less evolutionism carried to its highest power. But what can be
said for printing “my spirit’ Isaiah 42: 1 and Joel 2: 28, and, when
these very passages are quoted in the New Testament, for print
ing ‘my Spirit’? (Matt. 12: 18 ; Acts 2: 17.) Similarly, ‘the spirit
of the Lord’ (Isa. 61: 1) and ‘the Spirit of the Lord’ Luke 4:.18),
‘his holy spirit’ (Isa. 63: 10) and ‘the Holy Spirit’ (Acts 7: 51).
There have been strange vagaries in editions of the Bible in as
signing capitals to the ‘Spirit’ in the Old Testament, until at last
our Bibles have known no ‘Holy Spirit’ or ‘Spirit’ before the first
chapter of Matthew. And yet the New Testament declares that
the presence and work of the Holy Spirit or the Spirit was the
same under both Testaments ; that the Holy Spirit is a person,
the same God the Spirit under the God as under the New Testa
ment. If it would be wanting in reverence to print ‘spirit,’ ‘holy
spirit,’ in the New Testament, what is it to so print in the Old?
Such things ought not to be, and there iss<,in the new American
revision an endeavor to right the wrong.
SOME OF THE STRIKING CHANGES.
America a Revision.
And God said, Let the waters
swarrii with swarms of living
creatures, and let birds fly above
the earth.—Gen. i: 20.
No v the time that the child
ren of Israel dwelt in Egypt was
four hundred and thirty years.—
Exod, 12:40.
And that ye may make a dis
tinction between the holv and
the common.—Lev. 10: 10.
On the behalf-of the children
of Israel, that it may be theirs to
do the service ot Jehovah.—
Num. 8: 11.
Jehovah, the God of your fath
ers, make you a thousand times
as many as ye are.—Deut. 1: 11.
A great altar to look upon.—
Josh.22:10.
From heaven fought the stars,
From their courses they fought
against Sisera.—-Judg. 5: 20.
God, my rock, in him will I
take refuge.—2 Sam. 22: 3.
And when they were departed
from him (for they left him very
sick ).—2 Chron. 24: 25.
Their young ones became
strong—Job. 39: 4.
I shall be satisfied, when I
I awake, with beholding thy form.
—Psa. 17:15.
I said in my haste,
i All men are liars.—Psa. 116: 11.
_
English Revision.
And God said, Let the waters
bring forth abundantly the mov
ing creature that hath life, and
let fowl fly, etc.—Gen. I: 20.
Now the sojourning of the
children of Israel, which they so
journed in Egypt, was four hun
dred, etc.—Exod. 12:40.
And that ye may put differ
ence between the holy and the
common.—Lev. 10: 10.
On the behalf of the children
of Israel, that they may be to do
the services of the Lord.—Num.
8: 11.
The Lord,the God of y our fath
ers,make you a thousand times so
many more as ye are.-Deut.i: 11.
A great altar to see to—Josh.
22: 10.
They fought from heaven,
The stars in their courses fought
against Sisera.—Judg. 5: 20.
The God of my rock, in him
will I trust.—2 Sam. 22:3
And when they were departed
from him (for they left him in
great diseases)—2 Chron. 24: 25.
Their young ones are in good
liking.—Job 39:4.
I shall be satisfied, when I
am awake, with thy likeness.—
Ssa. 14! 15.
I said in my haste,
All men are a lie.—116: 11.
Two Women Philanthropists.
It need not be ovelooked in
passing that two of the richest
j institutions of learning in the;
world are practically the prod- '
uct of woman's genius and gen- j
erosity. Tne University of;
California has over 3,000 stu- j
dents and 300 instructors. Mrs.
Phoebe Heart is devoting her
millions to this institution and if j
her present plans of rebuilding, |
beautifying and equipping it are
carried out it is likely to be not
only one of the richest but one of
the most complete and thorough
ly equipped schools in our land.
Mrs. Heart’s gifts to it alone!
will possibly foot up some fifteen
or twenty millions.
Another rich university, the |
| Leland Stanford-Jr., at Pato j
1 Alto, California, is the .creation j
of a woman’s mind and money.
This university was built as a
memorial to the only son of
Senator and Mrs. Stanford
which son died in 1885. Hav
ing lost the heir to their vast
fortune the sorrow-stricken fath
er and mother decided to make
all the youths of their state their
heirs by building and equipping
and endowing a great school
whose doors should be open tree
of tuition charges to all young
men and young women of the
State. Before these plans were
carried out Senator Stanford
died, leaving Mrs. Stanford to
carry out the details of their vast........
educational scheme. How well
this plan has been carried out
Leland Stanford Jr. University,
with a total endowment of about
$25,000,000 making it One of
the richest in the world, abun
dantly testifies. Both the Uni
versity of California and Leland
Stanford Jr., are co-educational»
Women as well as men have
learned how to handle success
fully and give away judiciously
their millions.
If there were any chance for
salvation after death, the devil
wouldn’t work so hard to get
men to put off their praying ’till
the last minute.—Sel,