There was no one suffering particularly for a revision of the
Bible. It was good enough as it was. No literary sharp of the present day
has got any license to change anything in the Bible.
Why, the cheeky ghouls have actually altered over the Lord's Prayer, cut
it biased, and thrown the parts about giving us this day our daily bread
into the rag bag. How do they know that the Lord said more than he wanted
to in that prayer? He wanted that daily bread in there, or He never would
have put it in. The only wonder is that those revisers did not insert
strawberry shortcake and ice cream in place of daily bread. Some of these
ministers who are writing speeches for the Lord think they are smart. They
have fooled with Christ's sermon on the Mount until He couldn't tell it if
He was to meet it in the Chicago _Times_.
This thing has gone on long enough, and we want a stop put to it. We have
kept still about the piracy that has been going on in the Bible because
people who are better than we are have seemed to endorse it, but now we
are sick of it, and if there is going to be an annual clerical picnic to
cut gashes in the Bible and stick new precepts and examples on where they
will do the most hurt, we shall lock up our old Bible where the critters
can't get at it and throw the first book agent down stairs head
first that tries to shove off on to us one of these new-fangled,
go-as-you-please Bibles, with all the modern improvements, and hell left
out.
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