New Bible out in China by Baptist Argus

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 21.

New Bible out in China.

By Baptist Argus

OUR China Baptist Publication Society will soon have out an edition of the Revised Mandarin New Testament in which the word "immerse" is "immerse," and not merely the colorless "wash" which is all that the two great Bible Societies are willing to give us. You have no idea how determined, how perverse, are the efforts of the

societies and translators in general to obscure and, if possible, keep from the Chinese the original meaning of the symbol left us by the Lord. One can't charge such honorable brethren with being unconscientious, but it does seem sometimes as if there had been a perversion of conscience somewhere. It is simply holding down the truth with error. The frantic desire for "union" has made consciences elastic on many points, but not on this!—Baptist Argus.