[The following from the Bunker Hill Gazette of December 16, 1880, will be of interest to Bible students. The plan of making the meaning more clear, and that of not modernizing forms of expression, is good. We hope it will make the truth shine brighter than man-made creeds. WM. PENNIMAN.] THE announcement of the speedy publication of the New Testament as revised by the Bible Revision Committee, to be followed in about two years by the revised Old Testament, is a piece of news that will be received with great interest wherever the English language is spoken. The work has made slow progress on account of the great care taken to secure accuracy, and to obtain for every important change the assent of two-thirds of a committee numbering in all no fewer than eighty-two persons. The text of King James' version is taken as the basis. The language of the received version will not be altered except when its meaning can be made more clear, or in cases where there are manifest errors. No attempt is made to modernize the forms of expression. The committee wisely recognize the fact that the simple and dignified language of King James' Bible, though rendered somewhat quaint and antiquated by the modifications which have taken place in English speech in the course of more than two centuries and a half, is so associated in the minds of English-speaking people all over the world with the thoughts it conveys and the moral and religious truths it teaches, that any alteration made with a view of assimilating it to the forms of expression of the present day would rob the Scriptures of much of their force and beauty. The revised Bible will have many strong points to recommend it to the churches on both sides of the Atlantic, and if it fulfills the hopes of the friends of the revision movement will soon take the place of the version so long accepted by all English-speaking Protestants. It will have no new readings made in support of the claims of any particular denomination; for all the principal denominations are represented on the committee. It will have the advantage of the great progress made during the past 270 years in knowledge of the Hebrew, Syriac and Greek tongues, and of the geography, monuments and history of the people inhabiting the Bible lands. It is the calm, careful, deliberate work of a large group of eminent scholars and divines of recognized influence in the various branches of the Protestant faith. Probably it will have nothing to contend with except the force of habit, which will favor the continued use of the old version. It must make its way by its own merits; but King James' Bible had no better chance at the start.