Bulletin - December 1, 2011

 O'Canada

Blessing

Breakfast

Elizabeth chaired this morning.  She shared with us her positive thought, “There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands” by Victor Robinson.

VISITORS

Visitors Sue Fisher and David McKellar (members in waiting) join us again.

GUESTS

Karen’s guest Susan Lafford (Principal TRHS) joined us this morning,

along with regulars Josh Cormier (Ove) and Marita Webb (Pat).

MAKE-UPS

• Louise attended a make-up at the Amherst club on Monday;
• The Executive, Breakfast, and Club Administration all met this week;
• Names should be submitted to Barb J.

BIRTHDAYS

Brian’s having another one on December 6^th!

Have a great one, Brian!

ANNIVERSARIES

None.

PIN PAL                                                     

None.

50/50 DRAW

Marita drew Mary’s ticket.  Mary walks away with $15.00 in her pocket!

HAPPY DOLLARS

Mary was happy to have won 50/50.

Barb J. sent us all some Sackville Rotary statistics this week and is happy to report the scores.  Cheers to all of us!

Dave was happy to have met the Sackville Fire Department members and their Chief…not so happy about his burnt chicken soup…

Ove threw in a dollar for him and one for wife Pat.  They had a great time in Switzerland and were well looked after.  From there they went to Paris where they met up with yet another former RYE.  Gotta love the RYE program!

Peter is happy to be back at Rotary.  He’s proud to announce that his daughter is performing in three concerts where she will be the soloist.

Wynn – curling – grandchildren- winners – you know the drill ;)

Dianne is looking for drives for our RYE students.  Anyone??  She is also sad to hear that John’s father passed away.

• Dale is so happy that breakfast is over!
• Great cooperation from all!

 Elizabeth was happy too, I just couldn’t hear why.  Sorry Elizabeth, but thanks for the buck!

Pam H. purchased a calendar from the Oromocto club and won $500!!

NEXT

Christmas Party!!

• Greeter will be Leslie.
• Remember to bring a book donation. 
• A reminder to bring the birthday hat for George ;)

COMMITTEE REPORTS

No regular meeting next week as we celebrate at Laing’s house at 6pm.  Please bring a book to add to our collection.

Breakfast – Dale – Served 394 which is an increase of 50 people.  65% of sales were done before-hand.  There were great donations from several businesses (which were listed but way too fast).  Profit from this event was $2,800 which includes the $335 made from the cake raffle.  Some changes will need to be made for our next breakfast as Burnbrae is no longer operating.

Sue P brought things to Marshview’s Breakfast Program and was shocked to see how little they have to work with.  They are operating with minimum facilities and tools.  Something the Club may be interested in looking at.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

RYE to meet on Monday at 5pm at the Olive Branch.

PRESIDENT’S TIME

President Ken handed over the podium to Past-president George to introduce 2012 Executive.

Past-president – Ken; President – Trish; Vice President – Gayle; Treasurer – Darrell; and Secretary – Pam B.

Directors will be: Club Administration – Wayne; Foundation – Sandy; Membership – Andy; Breakfast – Dale; and Fundraising to be determined.  Mary will continue to be our Sargeant at Arms.  George asked members for further nominations.  After three calls, upcoming positions were held.

GUEST SPEAKER

Sackville Rotarian, Charlie Scobie, introduced himself as he prepared to share with us his presentation on The Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

It's always a little challenging to recount our guest speakers' presentations.  Always wanting the information to accurately reflect that which was presented, as well as to interest the reader as it did the audience.  I feel it's even more important when it's one of our own.  Crossing my fingers, Charlie... 

This is the 400^th anniversary of the publication.  It has been used by English speaking folks for the past 300 years.  First translated in 1611, 99% of the population couldn’t read it as it was in Latin (for 1000 years).  The one percent that could read it were scholars and/or clergy.  It should be noted that they didn’t necessarily want the people to be able to read it.

John Wycliffe’s translation in 1382 had drawbacks, being no Hebrew nor Greek.  The translation from Latin (twice removed) was done by hand.  Copies were banded and burned. They also dug up Wycliffe’s body and burned that too!  Amazingly, 150 copies survived.

Along William Tyndale (1494-1536) who knew the original languages.  This met with opposition.  He was tracked down and arrested.  Tried and condemned and ultimately burned at the stake.

In 1526 the first printed version arrived.  Many copies were burned, others smuggled.  This version influenced all future versions.  In the years that followed Henry VIII broke relations with the Pope (for personal reasons) and felt that the bible wasn’t so bad afterall.

The 16^th century brought more translations, drawing on what was already done.

1560 brought the Geneva Bible – a calvanistic slant with margin notes specifically for the Puritans and Presbyterians.  Another is the Breeches Bible which is older than the King James version (1560 approximately) and can be viewed at the Mount Allison Chapel.

During 1603, James VI and I replaced Queen Elizabeth.  This was a difficult situation between politics and religion.  They were forced to deal with the Roman Catholics who wanted James out.  November 5, 1605 “The Gunpowder Plot”.

In 1604, Hampton Court Conference brought a new translation of the bible (John Reynolds) which was to replace all the others to serve all of England.  Now it seemed that the King James’ version was a great idea!  This was a major undertaking with 47 clergy members and 6 panels.  It was submitted further to a group of 12 for refining.  Whether or not this was the authorized version is unknown as the documents were destroyed in a fire.

The bible itself contains chapter summaries and holds no margin notes.  They compared this version of the Bible to that of former ones.  About 85% was the same as Tyndale’s version.  Italics were used to indicate that there was no corresponding word to replace.  Books of Apocrypha (old and new testament) could not be included and could only be read separately.

1795 “The Murderer’s Bible” has been known to have mistakes: “Let the children be killed…” and “Thou shall commit adultery…”.

In 1769 the Oxford Standard came along.  This is the version were a familiar with today; although there were critics who never accepted this version.

The King James’ version is not used as much today because versions were based on earlier manuscripts (e.g. The Dead Sea Scrolls) as well as scholars know more about languages today and wanted to seek a modern language.

There are still some mistakes (e.g. Isaiah 9:3 – the word ‘not’ was translated wrong).  The style is considered majestic, being a very literal translation.  It is written poetically with a simple syntax.  Translators were mostly clergy.

The King James’ Bible went unchallenged for 300 years until 1881/1885 and again in 1901 by the American Standard.  Today we use the New Revised Standard version, designed for reading in public.  We all quote from this version without even knowing it: “the blind leading the blind”, for example.

Charlie ended his presentation with the reading of Psalms 23 – “The Lord is my sheppard…”

Sandy thanked Charlie for his very interesting presentation.

Our meeting adjourned with the stating of the 4-Way Test