In asking “By whom?” we are in fact putting two questions: under what sanction, and by what instruments. To the former enquiry it might be answered, that inasmuch as uniformity in the use of a Scripture text is of the first importance, it would be desirable that the version when amended should be put forth by authority. But there can be little doubt that such an answer would be an inconsiderate one. The procedure would defeat the very end it has in view. On only one of the Christian bodies in this country would such authority, even if complete in her sense, be binding. And if the amended version were thus bound upon her, we should be departing from the precedent set us in the case of our present version, which, whatever might be the intention of the notice that it is “appointed to be read in churches,” appears to have made its way to universal acceptance by its intrinsic excellence, and without any binding authorisation at all. There might be various conceivable ways of undertaking the revision. It might be entrusted to a body of men selected and commissioned by the highest power in the land. Or the action might begin, as it is now beginning, with one of the religious bodies among us, and might proceed, not confined to that body alone, but extended so as to take in such of the rest as might be willing to aid. But, however undertaken, the result should be put forth to make its way simply and entirely on its merits, and as approving itself to the conscience and judgment of the Churches of Christ. And we are thus brought to answer the second member of this enquiry, By what instruments should the revision be carried out? Our last sentence has anticipated the reply. Such a work should no more be done by one section of the Christian Church than by one man. The same concurrence and conflict of thought, the same variety of experience, the same differing shades of feeling and apprehension, which render many men requisite for the work, render also many Churches requisite. There is in the lay mind a natural and well-founded distrust of men who are enlisted in the warm advocacy of particular systems: and nothing but a fair balance of the English Churches in the work would command public confidence.