The Preaching of Women.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 213, 14 September 1901, Page 3

The Preaching of Women.

To the Editor of the Times. Sin, — If you are not too wearied I would just like to ask you a question or two : 1. Why do certain correspondents invariably revert to personalities instead of confining, themselves to the point at issue ? 2. Did you sco any common senso in the letter signed “ Author of a New Religion ?” 3. Would it be common senso to take a chart of an unknown coast, and after having noted certain features refuse to bo guided by its sailing directions '? 4. Does not Scripture say Ist Corinthians, 2nd chapter, and 1-Hlt verso, “ The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they ftfo spiritually discerned ?” 5. Do you not see the difference, Mr Editor, between “ The Testimony of Jesus, ’’ the spirit of tiie prophetic word (Revelations xtx., 10), and the preaching of the gospel of the grace of God, the former having reference to the Lord Jesus Christ in connection with judgment and destruction (read tiie whole chapter), and the latter having reference to Him in connection with grace and salvation, Romans 1, 16. 0. Would failure to. see this suggest that someone is failing to “ Rightly Divide the Word of Truth,” 2nd Timothy, 11, 15 (part-).—l am, etc.,

Rote.- —Re a new religion, both in the Old and in the New Testament we have it foretold that such should come to pass, a new religion, with (of course) a new God at its head, namely, a self-exalting Man ! In the Old Testament, in the book of Daniel, it is written in the eleventh chapter. verse 36, as follows : “ And the King shall do according to his will, and shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every God. and shall speak marvellous things against the God of Gods. . . . And verse 37, “ Neither shall be regard the God of his fathers. . . for He shall magnify Himself above all.” 38, “ But in bis estate shall he honor the God of forces, and a God whom his fathers knew not shall he honor,” etc., etc. And in the New Testament, second Thessalonians, second chapter, third verse, we read : Let no man deceive you by any means ; for that day (the day of the Lord) shall not come, except there come first a falling away first (from the faith of Christianity), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth Himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God ! sitteth in the Temple of God (inJerusa- '■ lem) showing Himself that He is God. | He, then we, the outcome of the new ! religion, a religion not of God, but of Man. ! —Vox.