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Show L BIBLE IS REVISED. I The Baptist Publication society has provoked much adverse crit- ' icism by the revised Bible which has been issued by the society. An attempt has been made to present the Bible in the English language of today and to eliminate all antiquated words, but there are many ; ministers, even within the Baptist church, who object to the modern- J izing of the Book of Books. ' 1 "Adam" and "Eve," named as the founders of the human race 1 in the King James version, gives way in the new Bible to the terms I "man" and "woman." Such words as "loveth" and "leadeth" are 1 replaced by "love" and "lead." "SVhere hell is referred to in the six- I teenth chapter of St. Luke the word "underworld" is substituted. Portions written in poetry in the old Bible are printed in their verse 1 form. Other changes in the new version are: I "Use of the phrase "carved image" instead of graven image" in I the first commandment. li I Placing of the word "immerse" in parenthesis besides the word I "baptism." " I "Substitution of the phrase "great fish" for the word "whale" "Jm n ne B0Ty Jonah and the whale. |