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India.
Previous to a farewjll for ever to the old year , Bro . Tottenham conferred the degrees Ark and Mark—on four candidates , thus making all tlie M . M . ' s of the Lodge members of the Ark and Mark Chapter . The new year has began well ; in January we had an initiation , and there are others in prospect . AVe hear , with the greatest delight , that the Brethren in the city of palaces have shaken off their lethargic habitsand have revived the d
, ays of the good Marquis of Hastings . Nothing like example . Be sound at the heart , and the life-blood will warm the extremities . Long may Masonry flourish , is the prayer of all Brethren from Himalaya to Cape Cormorin . AA'hen we shall get our charter of R . A . from England , is a mystery to be solved . Steam is up every where but in the Grand Lodge and Chapter of Englandif the dignitaries fear a blow they do not
; up , go the way to prevent it . AVe like authority , and will hold our breath as long as possible ; but it is hard to labour under the incubus of unnatural delay . Major Macdonald ' s loss , as a working Mason , will be long felt . He saw no difficulty in anything .
Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
The Holy Bibles containing the Authorised Version of the Old and New Testaments , with nearly Twenty Thousand Emendations . London : Published by Longman and Co ., Paternoster-Row ; with Majis and Tables . 1841 . The existence of such a work as this is , we believe , unknown , except to the few personally known to the Editor and their immediate friends ; no flourish of trumpets having heralded its . A noble
conappearance fidence—that its own merits would win its Way to general estimation , akin to the enthusiasm and devotion which could alone produce such a work , appears to have presided at its birth and sent it forth . But though the name of the Editor is not paraded in the title page , there is no affectation of mystery about it ; it was readily communicated on inquiry at the publishers—being Dr . Conquest , the eminent Physician , in Finsbury-square .
The Editor observes in the Preface , " It must excite the wonder of every reflecting mind that so few mistakes , omissions or mis-translations should be found in the authorised version ; when it is recollected that it was made many centuries after the originals were written , that printing not having been invented until the fifteenth century , every copy had previously been transcribed with the pen by uninspired and fallible menand that the translators had but a comparativellimited
; y acquaintance with oriental languages and manners . Besides which , the Sacred Scriptures , like all other ancient books , were written without any punctuation or distinction of words ; and as several Hebrew letters having very dissimilar significations closely resemble each other , it is surprising that more errors should not exist . Indeed , so inimitable , as an entire production , is the English version , so deep and extensive is
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
India.
Previous to a farewjll for ever to the old year , Bro . Tottenham conferred the degrees Ark and Mark—on four candidates , thus making all tlie M . M . ' s of the Lodge members of the Ark and Mark Chapter . The new year has began well ; in January we had an initiation , and there are others in prospect . AVe hear , with the greatest delight , that the Brethren in the city of palaces have shaken off their lethargic habitsand have revived the d
, ays of the good Marquis of Hastings . Nothing like example . Be sound at the heart , and the life-blood will warm the extremities . Long may Masonry flourish , is the prayer of all Brethren from Himalaya to Cape Cormorin . AA'hen we shall get our charter of R . A . from England , is a mystery to be solved . Steam is up every where but in the Grand Lodge and Chapter of Englandif the dignitaries fear a blow they do not
; up , go the way to prevent it . AVe like authority , and will hold our breath as long as possible ; but it is hard to labour under the incubus of unnatural delay . Major Macdonald ' s loss , as a working Mason , will be long felt . He saw no difficulty in anything .
Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
The Holy Bibles containing the Authorised Version of the Old and New Testaments , with nearly Twenty Thousand Emendations . London : Published by Longman and Co ., Paternoster-Row ; with Majis and Tables . 1841 . The existence of such a work as this is , we believe , unknown , except to the few personally known to the Editor and their immediate friends ; no flourish of trumpets having heralded its . A noble
conappearance fidence—that its own merits would win its Way to general estimation , akin to the enthusiasm and devotion which could alone produce such a work , appears to have presided at its birth and sent it forth . But though the name of the Editor is not paraded in the title page , there is no affectation of mystery about it ; it was readily communicated on inquiry at the publishers—being Dr . Conquest , the eminent Physician , in Finsbury-square .
The Editor observes in the Preface , " It must excite the wonder of every reflecting mind that so few mistakes , omissions or mis-translations should be found in the authorised version ; when it is recollected that it was made many centuries after the originals were written , that printing not having been invented until the fifteenth century , every copy had previously been transcribed with the pen by uninspired and fallible menand that the translators had but a comparativellimited
; y acquaintance with oriental languages and manners . Besides which , the Sacred Scriptures , like all other ancient books , were written without any punctuation or distinction of words ; and as several Hebrew letters having very dissimilar significations closely resemble each other , it is surprising that more errors should not exist . Indeed , so inimitable , as an entire production , is the English version , so deep and extensive is