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Excerpt from Documentary History of the American Committee on Revision The first meeting of the New Testament Company took place on June 22, 1870, under the presidency of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who held the position of chairman uninterruptedly to the end of the ten years and a half over which the labors of the revision extended. The titular chairman, Bishop Wilberforce, attended once for about a couple of hours; but it became, even in that time, apparent to the Company, and perhaps was so to the Bishop himself, that a little lighter hand and looser rein were required to guide the Company pleasantly through the intricacies of criticism and scholarship in which they were almost hourly finding themselves involved. The Bishop, however, remained a kind friend to the movement, which his own eloquence had so largely assisted, and was interested in it to the time of his lamented death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.