THE REVISED VERSION A FAILURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8082, 24 September 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE REVISED VERSION A FAILURE.

It came with a great flourish of religious trumpets. For ten years it was in the hands of scholars in every way exalted. When the work was done the cry went up from orthodox lips that it marked a wonderful epoch in religious history. It was to fasten the attention of the world upon it, and bring abcut such an upheaval as had never been known in all the long record of spiritual movements, uprisings, and revivals. Multitudes who professed to be theologians and Scriptural commentators praised it to the skies. Large sums were spent for early copies. The numbers sold at the beginning were enormous. Every adventitious aid waß given to the Bale and the markets were bulled ecclesiastically. The gudgeons were baited with an edition without a hell, and the new orthodox revolution, as far as any sort of an insight could be got from the surface, was an accomplished fact. Beneath the surface, however, the revolution did not revolutionise. The Established Church of England -never has approved of it synodically, although it demanded the translation the longest and loudest. No other Protestant denomination ever officially made use of it in its churches and Sundayschools. The Catholics would not touch it under any circumstances. Families proscribed it. Writers and speakers, lay or clerical, so scorned it that they would not quote from it. Tabooed, spurned, a failure from the beginning, it has now passed almost completely out of sight and out of mind.— Kansas City Times.