Benjamin Wilson and the Emphatic Diaglott
By Editor
Brother A. M. Dart, of Sacramento, writes us a note concerning Benjamin Wilson, author of the Emphatic Diaglott, whose death we chronicled last week. Brother Dart, who was personally acquainted with him, tells us that he was an Englishman by birth, has ever been engaged in religious work, was formerly a Baptist, afterward a member of the Christian denomination, and finally joined the "Church of God," but what one of the several bodies which assume that name we are not told. For years he was in feeble health, but his temperate and abstemious habits prolonged his life to the age of eighty-two years. In gaining access to the Vatican manuscripts, and in pioneering the way in an interlinear translation, he did a noble work; yet in real value the Diaglott falls far below Rotherham's emphatic translation, or Hinds' Interlinear New Testament.