A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley: containing a statement to the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, as to the relations of that institution, with France, the valleys of Piedmont, Switzerland and GermanyCunningham, Francis
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A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley: containing a statement to the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, as to the relations of that institution, with France, the valleys of Piedmont, Switzerland and Germany
Cunningham, Francis
British and Foreign Bible Society
I am able, however, by a convincing document, to shew what is the real
estimate taken of the Bible Society by the Neological party in Germany.
There is published at Darmstadt what is called the Church Newspaper,
which is devoted to the consideration of subjects connected with
religion. The editor of this paper, as you will judge by the following
extract, is a Neologian, and let us hear the language in which he speaks
of the Bible Societies.
Extract from the Church Newspaper of Germany, Kirchen Allgemeine Zeitung,
published at Darmstadt, Sept. 28th 1826.
_Heading of the Number_.
“Verily were Christ now to appear again he would say, ‘Woe unto you,
Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites,’ for ye anxiously cling to the
letter of the Scriptures, which ye misunderstand; and the spirit, of
which ye cannot comprehend; ye insist on the doctrine of a dead
faith, but neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment and
mercy; and ye appear outwardly pious whilst within ye are full of
hypocrisy and wickedness. Depart from me, he would exclaim, ye
workers of iniquity, projectors of heresy, slanderers, and breakers
of the peace, I never knew you.”
“ON BIBLE SOCIETIES.”
After stating some general advantages which might result from the
distribution of the Scriptures amongst the Heathen, such as “calling into
action the slumbering energies of man,” “ameliorating his nature,” and
laying the “foundation of his moral improvement;” the editor goes on to
mention the ordinary arguments which are made use of against Bible
Institutions in Germany, and which arise chiefly from the part which
foreigners have taken in their establishment.
He then states some particular reasons which should lead his readers more
carefully to consider the mode of conducting Bible Societies, and to
greater caution in lending them their support and patronage, particularly
at the present period.
I now give the translation of an extract.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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