Influence of the Bible
, The Jewish World says in an article tin the revision of the Old Testament : It is but a truism to assert that Saxon civilisation is largely the outcome of Old Testament teaching. For, without the Scriptures of the Hebrews, the Western world would have lacked alike an incentive to all higher progress, and been deprived of a literature embodying . some of the noblest tnbughts that have ever yet been
vouchsafed to mankind. The praot-
ical Anglo-Saxon is a man more after C&e fashion of the Old Testament than would care to admit; and there ean^be no doubt that his peculiar characteristics are not a little due to tjtie fact that, for good or for ill. the Jewish scriptures are his favourite reading: No book, in the eyes of the Englishman, can compare with the Bible; and though Christendom claims to be inspired by the teaching of the New Testament, yet no impartial critic of the times, who judges the English-
man by his work rather than by. his
professions, will fail to see in him the gtaipp of the Old Testament, trace in
his character the impress of its teachings, and perceive in his morality the influence of its ethics.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 28, 15 August 1885, Page 3
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204Influence of the Bible Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 28, 15 August 1885, Page 3
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