recognized very distinctly tendencies of this sort in the older versions, though abating in more recent times. His article concluded as follows: The Bible does not need any doctoring at the hands of translators. The Chinese church is entitled to have the Bible just as it is, in a strictly faithful and accurate translation. This they demand of us who translate it for them. They do not want to know what the writers would have said if they had been Chinese, but what they actually did say. This is the manner in which the Chinese who have learned English are now translating foreign books into their own language, and this is very evidently the spirit of the times. The English Bible, especially the Revised Version, is a monument of careful and accurate translation. Translators into Chinese cannot do better than follow in the same line. I have a number of times heard students when using commentaries, or hearing lectures on various portions of Scripture, express their surprise and dissatisfaction that the Bible had not been more accurately translated. I have known Chinese preachers, when quoting a text which had a marginal reading saying that the original says so and so, to remark with strong disapproval, “If the original says so, why not translate it so, and be done with it?” On one occasion in our committee, when a question was raised about giving a metaphor straight or paraphrasing into a comparison, one of our literary helpers said with vigorous emphasis: “Do you suppose that we Chinese cannot understand and appreciate a metaphor? Our books are full of them, and new ones are welcome.” If we do not give the Chinese the Bible as it is, they will condemn us, and before long will do the work for themselves. In conclusion, it is worthy of remark that no one man can make a satisfactory translation of the Bible. There are limitations to every man’s knowledge of truth and of language. Every man’s vision is distorted in some of its aspects. This is a lesson we have been learning day by day, and are still learning. If any man wishes to find out his limitations in these respects, let him join a translating committee. With regard to the difficulties in the way of this revision, Dr. Goodrich thus expresses himself: