BIBLE TERCENTENARY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13332, 22 March 1911, Page 6

BIBLE TERCENTENARY.

AN ADDRESS TO KING GEORGE. ' His Majesty’s Reply. , Press Association.—/Telegraph.-Copyright. jEeceived March' 22, 9}20-'a.m. ■ -4 LONDON, March 21. ;A Reputation from, the various churches, ; headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, presented King George with an address and ia,Bible f oh the occasion of tercentenar yof the authorised version. , King George, replying,. expressed pleasure >at ;tlie celebration, saying that the labours of the translators deserved lasting honour. For three centuries multiplying, millions of English people -turned when in need to the authorised version, and he hoped his subjects would increase and cherish their noble, inheritance. SYDNEY CELEBRATIONS. SYDNEY, March .21. Arrangements have been completed for • celebrating the Bible Tercentenary on the same dates as the British celebrations. This year will be the tercentenary of the publication of the Authorised Version of the Bible and it is being suggested at Home that it should be fittingly celebrated. A tercentenary of such, a kind has a wider appeal to every class and every reUnions community of the people than almost any other national enterprise which has stirred the spiritual and intellectual life of; England. The facts are simple enough.' In June, 1604, a conference, of the two great parties in the English Church was called to consider a petition of the Puritans again the rites and ceremonies of the Established Church. 'lt is said that ope of the leaders of the Puritan party, a certain Dr .Reynolds,, inveighed against the inaccuracies of the so-called Bishops’ Bible, and that King James I. suggested a new revision, which might prove acceptable to all shades of religious opinion. The idea, after some'delay,.,was taken up seriously three years later,;, and it,,is thus interesting,stp discover that the great version owed its inception not only to the . learned Monarch on the Throne, but more specifically to the remonstrance of the Calvinistic section. ■ f .