The working of this law has recently been seen on a large scale.
A few years since, a body of chosen scholars, universally
acknowledged to be the most fit for the work, undertook, at the
call of English-speaking Christendom, to revise the authorized
English version of the Bible.
Beautiful as was that old version, there was abundant reason for a
revision. The progress of biblical scholarship had revealed
multitudes of imperfections and not a few gross errors in the work
of the early translators, and these, if uncorrected, were sure to
bring the sacred volume into discredit.
Nothing could be more reverent than the spirit of the revisers, and
the nineteenth century has known few historical events of more
significant and touching beauty than the participation in the holy
communion by all these scholars--prelates, presbyters, ministers,
and laymen of churches most widely differing in belief and
observance--kneeling side by side at the little altar in
Westminster Abbey.
Nor could any work have been more conservative and cautious than
theirs; as far as possible they preserved the old matter and form
with scrupulous care.
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