General News.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3629, 13 August 1880, Page 3

General News.

A meeting has been held in London for "the purpose of considering the best means of promotiug and arranging on Suuday evenings cheerful and entertaining gatherings conducted on a liberal and religious basis outside all questions of theology. Mr w« Cou Pland> M-A'' occupied the chair. Letters were read from Mr James Heywood, F.R.S., Mr F. D. Mocatta, Mr Chatfield Clarke, Prof. C. J. Plumptre, Miss M. E. Rick* ardson, Miss Orme, Miss Edith Simcox, Dr. Hoggan, and others sympathising with the movement. Mr Mark H. Judge explained that it was proposed to arrange for meetings on Sunday evenings, in which music should form an important feature and with which lectures, readings, &c., would be associated, as might be found desirable for the purpose of proTiding in every district of the metropolis opportunities „ for spending Sunday evenings profitably. Mr Jud R e moved— 14 That ail association' be now formed under the title of' The Sunday Evening Association ' to bring together all persons who, estimating highly the elevating influence of music, the sister arts, literature, and science, desire, by means of meetings on Sunday evenings, to see them more fully identified with the religions life of the people." This resolution was seconded by Mr Grcdtrey Shaen, spoken to by several of those present, and agreed to unanimously. A second resolution, appointing a com-, mittee, was passed on the proposal ot Mrs Anna Perrier, second by Mrs Edward Berry, and the meeting dosed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. The Athenaeum speaks as follows or tne new translation of the New Testament : —"The first edition, as it may be called, of.the revised translation of the New Testament may be expected in the Autumn, and along with the_ English translation two recensions of the breek text will be issued simultaneously—the one will proceed from the, Clarendon, the other from the Pitt Press. These two texts will exhibit a notable and rather suggestive contrast in the different methods pursued in their construction, The Oxford text will represent the critical spirit of the nineteenth, century, which is somewhat prone to seek new departures and to break with the past. Accordingly the Clarendon will publish the text which the revisionists have found it necessary to frame for themselves, after ottrefurweighing ohd mature consideration of all Available evidence for and against the readings adopted. For the behoof, however, of those weaker vessels who continue to have a superstitious veneration for the name of Robert Stephens and the Greek used by the translators of 1611, all passages in%which the Oxford" text departs from the received text will be "indicated by foot-notes, and in these notes > the reading of< the Texttis Receptus will be ' given. The Cambridge text will, on the contrary, be neither more nor less than a reprint of the Textus Keceptus with foot-notes giving the reading adopted by the revisionists. Prof. Palmer is responsible.for the Clarendon text; pr Scrivener for the other.—lt is with regret that we hear it said that the form in which all Englishmen know, and most of them use, the Lord's Prayer is no longer to be the form which is to pass current. . We shall rejoice if the report, which is widely circulated, proves incorrect ;agreater calamity than such a change as rumour declares to be imminent it would!be difficult atthe present moment) to imagines , , „.-, At iSpandau, in Prussia, the editor of a paper has been fined 15s. for having committed a "gross nuisance," by inserting the advertisement of a lodging to let nine times, instead of only once, as ordered, causing by the repetition merely annoyance to the landlord and public.