RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 14

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

• = — ■ ; .THE ATHANASIAN CREED. 1 , 'A NEW TRANSLATION. /At' the last -Lambeth Conference an 1008, •' a was passed, requesting .tho. Arihp,;>bishop, of ■ Canterbury to : take steps for ■ pro.tfji.syidiug. a now translation of > Qmcunqno vult, "based upcn tho best Latin text." .In aecord-!i-w ,#nco .with this: ros-jlution. i the Archbishop m-i ,: . r .vited; cortain 'leadijig.>soholars: and. theologians. f,..,to:roviso tho vexisang■; English >yersion as it ft.-vappears in tha Book .ohCommojrjPrayer.: The jte; following: seven l eminent«soholars vand theolotki gians;; accepted •thd! j Arohbisl\op's : invitation, (is»Miamely:—Tho BisbiiJ> of Salisbury ; (Dr. Words-si;s.worth},-xhairmanilrthe/ Dean ;of - Ely. (Dr. sH.i -Kirkpatrick); the ; Rev., the-: Master -of Pem;.vv..broke . College,. Cambridge (Dr; Mason), Vieeavs Chancellor of .the Universityj the Eov. .the ,isWarden of .Keble College,: Oxford (Dr. ■ Lock); sii.,.the xßegius Professor ■of -Divinity, Cambridge Swete) j 1 -the :Bcgius.>Proiessor of-. Eccletii'isiastical .vHißtoT]r > v-Ostord"^'(Canon''.''.Y2atsoii}; ,v, Mr.. C. It. Turner, Magdalen College, Oxford, fes;: ,They.!havo...transmitted. l to. the Archbishop a; iwiointK«mort-;«in;;wluoh;--U»«y:.--gtate-i that, the/ tei fhaye .not lightly, changed-the version 1 which' is contained ,in. the Book of: Common Prayer, but !ii;''j;they.ihavo endeavoured to .represent the Latin- ;.«> original more; exactly; -in. '.a largo •, number -of |||f;(ases-rrpr , '.be'/at:'firat to tno .reader.- -The,.committee havo ■: |;^>uggostions,;as >toithe.i.use'pf, ;this .'statement'.pf-|*:i-faitli,-; or. to . paraphrase: verses to .which -objec--1 tion has beon raised They have, howevoi, -.!?Kthought,it. desirable to separato tho substance S;;4;frdiq; the getting, and 'to show this main division «-s;into: two parts, by the use l of ,-capital letters. I .-j- -.Tile broad features of tlio Creed remain UII- - changed. : The Primate, indeed, frankly deifiivclarcd <ta ..the . revisers his own opinion, that. no i i-i vniote 1 -retranslahon- would -.provide a romedy,; «:!<:directly - or - indirectly,: for n the, difficulties -in Ito the, public -use. of -the -Creed ,in the ; : '>the'^Churchl;i:Tlie;, changes; 1 ihado gsjmay.bo illustrated by-tlio, following examples— Iji-iv the, figures l refer "to 1 , the clauses .of the Creed. -; ■ v -li -''Necessary" - "needful"- (that ■ho ' hold tho Catholicv 'Taith). , - ' 1 instead of /'shall' (perish everv /lastingly). , 3. "Wo worship one God in Trinity and fc.Trmity in-Unity"..becomes "We worship. the k.ft.ono 1 l3od •as. a . Trinity and'. the - Trinity , as a ( Unitj " i 1. "Confnsing" instead of "confounding" (the Persons). ws-.'-iO.: "Incomprehensible''-changed to "inhnite." fet:-;19. "Every • Person 1 .by " Himself" , becomes. i«|.:v'cach 6f. the Persons by:-Himself.";. . fefe.2l, ilnstead of <"The.'Pather. is .nude of none; - neither created nor bcgOLteii," we read-"The jis Patheris of none j. not made nor created nor begotten " J 2G "But tho whole three Persons arc co--5v 1 eternal - together; and co-equal". l becomes "But rsKall -three Persons; are.- co-eternal 1 one; with . another and co equal " ' ."In'all .waysV'lthe-iTrinity igi.to.be. wor- *' shipped] instead of "in all things 1 28..'"He -.therefore 1 -that; will •bo saved . must ! think tot the .Trinity." becomes 'Ijflt htm [j.i/.therefore, that ..would bo -saved think thus of f tho Trinity." i. „.:: 35. :"Not; by -convorslan-of ' the Godhead into «,\-:ilesh'':bccomcs "not by. change ot,Godhead into: -,- as roasoning. sou!- and ::; v vflesh: ls .one man: :so;-God and,, Man is ono 1 Christ" - %;> ?38. j "Descended ■ into • .the . . world below,".: instead of "descended into hell." :--„vij-:..12.i-New:reading:./,'This is the Catholic Paith,' f man Vhave l; ; faithfhlly ■ .'and l ; J j a iteadfastly, believed, .- he ■ cannot -be ißaved." ■; ; ! '_ 1 ] ■f PROFESSOR DICKIE. j ' ' TRIBUTE BY LORD ABERDEEN ' ( g ;*.i;.:;.[The i "Aberdeen Weekly Journal" of Novem- j

|sa£s A'-''' .V 1 r «! ViEov.L-John, Dicbo,. preaching in; the Tarland p-Parish Church on: Sunday,' referred, to his >call to the.Chairof * Theology and Now: Siiftl'eeiament Languagod and Exegesis at Dunedm, i Zealand, :and .to his: intention of. accept; conclusion 'ofrthe service the Eev. jifimeii'tiinoa .that, in ,'donnection - with"".: the . annouM«nent .which had been niado, Lord Aber--,-widcon-.would,say :a tow,:words. :Lord and Lady MAbetdeen .jhad ;salwaysidentified" .'themselves. ;?«with -.the -;congregation -. in' 1 every ■ way, and ".they ; also :as ; an eldor; • of .iAtho- Churoh::o£. 'Scotland- that>-Lord Aberdeon' ,'.- ,oouldspeak - .to : them. -He . had:: pleasure „ m S«,jnviting. his, Excellenay -to address the. congrcffgation.'(' •> J 'i < j 1 o s:< ■■ Lord'-Aberdeen/if speaking . from* :tho floor in iv,t,front, of;-the ohoir.seat/ said: "The'intelligence* one whom we havo;'learnedto look up to a .npastor and to value; as.:avfnand has • boen €~.. called 'upon t0... leavo us,;, in. order to tako: up' .sis something to awakfin emotions-r-jn-one sense l !::!Tolved/.:but.;the:, dominant , feeling : will 'bo that fi-of,jcongratulation::and (heartfelt: goodwill.': -For. r the.-call .which has come- to our.-. friend; is ■affy.tnbute -to :;gonuine. .worthand' intellectual.' at-, X ; taininents—th<>: result. not... merely of. natural gifts, l ..but:ol >steadfast, "earnest•• study, and de- ' Tout research. iTho special book for which r,' Mr.'Diokieii3 thus equipped, and" to whioh bis. | .bent 'has, always-.inclined,',' is of far3.,Teaching.importance), and all the (more 'when i ■-,'the.field is .that of a:young and vigorous com- | Kinunity,: still-, in - the stages,', of , comparatively i !jt oarly■■ development,vand :with: an'.enlarging ,fu-, iv.turo before it., ; And. so, I' am sure,, our-hearts ..-go-oat to Mr. and Mrs. Dickie, - with a'.truly bbgetlier-" - .nfth grateful remembrance of tho past. l ,r.t ;Mr.- Dickie said, in.reply: 'lly'Lord t lam !^encouragemeht.-T;; : I;^ 6jboth .what,:you:have j said, and the. spirit which fo-.hi'.s- prompted: lti - 'AVo :in-'Tarland - have, "many ki'instances::of. .that , -:true:-and..' lmiig:'.»ympatby/ ti.whioh togother with your Lordship's -Eolf^ieny-'. |ii" : ing;i'zeal:^^^-in/all,; gobd■.?;wprks,'!-i'haS,/;'.iriado^ ?,i>narries of: Lord and Lady .-Aberdeen- known; and > t .lovcd - throughout' .the .wholt -Uritish ' Empire. eltvit-"; il»att : -ypu".! should i;.bav£>r pdpoken;. to-day /as you have clone, and I-re" ppf£ihe/hblyZjninistryg«hd:jthfe(eachirig/;i ; pf= t!ie/:^i^iipo.\ /aijd, K.?the:life, in Christ,-, are far. more- intimately reh'.la.ted .than., theory.: and practice generally are. L ,1, should • like to .go - ,to iNo'A' Zeaiand 'i'eeling those, ;whb*;.''knbw/my ti:,work| 11have;not ;hltpgether,-' iailed';.in-;the:i)raW; ptiircaKoxeroiMY^^ [i-.signttl honour. iand 'joy . to/rtceivo - this as6urhsancei fronu one like, your: Excellency,/who knows MFariand ; So; well; and . sympathetically—who ■ is, ' throughout ': the/.;whow r .worid'/fdr -his . in-'. biterest in ■;the;.Christian. , faith''dnd.devotion .to pfiPresbyterianism;-. who "represents' m-'his own fe : peVa)n^ v.t^eV;lip.Usa: of;; Aber dean V and:: the/house nira 'adj.-hononiied. I am deeply,grateful <to: your 'EipMl|ency;>fOr/wh'at/yp^