MR TYERMAN.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2891, 22 May 1878, Page 3

MR TYERMAN.

(To the Editor of the Evening- Stab.)

Sir,—Having seen some of the writings of Mr Tyerman, and knowing something of his personal history, I thought I would go and hear his lecture last night—l was not disappointed, but very much pained by his sophisms and falsehoods. In a letter I can only notice one or two samples of these. Ist. As to his sophisms. He gave us examples t of his so-called saviours, their precepts, their sufferings, &c. i but he gave us nothing as regards their actual lives. Why did he not do

this? And why did he not give us the life of Jesus Christ, and compare notes ; he would then have been obliged to acknowledge the immense superiority of that life over all the others P Pilate, himself, could find no fault in him. The testimony concerning that life is certainly as worthy of credit as the testimony concerning any of the others, and methinks a little more so; but itdidnotsuit his purpose toestol Jesus. wo much for ...the lecturer's sophisms.

As to his falsehoods : he stated that all the apostles believed in the return of Jesus Christ during their lifetime. does he get his information from ? Certainly not frpm their writings. Does he not know that Paul wrote his second letter to the Thessalonian Christians purposely to correct the then prevailing opinion among the disciples that their Lord would soon return ? He ought to

have known this, having once been a p:.rsofl. In the second chapter of that epistle he tells the Thessalon>ans that Christ would not come again until there had been a falling away from the truth, the general apostasy, and the "Lawless One," "Man of Sin," or Antichrist, must be first reveaSd. The apos';asy from truth is now universal. The Christianity of Christ is almost unknown in the earth; it is not exemplified by a single religious body of the days. The profession of it everywhere is counterfeit, so far as these religious bodies are concerned, and that fact, it may be, is the reason j •why Mr Tyerman himself is such a striking example of Bible prediction concerning some n:en of these last days, who Boldly and shamelessly stand up before a public audience and deny the Lord who bought them. He (Mr Tyerman) does not see the Christianity of Christ in those - who profess it, so he denies his Saviour altogether, just as so many others have done from the same cause. Is that it P If it be so, what a fool is Mr Tyerman, and all the rest of such ! There are, let me tell Mr Tyerman, any number of signs of Christ's own predicting that He will rery speedily return to destroy His blasphemers, and then rule the earth in peace and righteousness. His return is^ the only hope there is fo:* this perplexed and troubled world. These troubles and perplexities increase daily everywhere; and so it is predicted, as all know who study their Bibles. Cardinal, Manning, though connected with Apostate Christianity, yet is a far seeing man, and knows the prophets. I close with an extract from one of his iate utterances.

The truth concerning these times could hardly have been better expressed, and in fewer words. Let Mr Tyerman and your readers generally ponder them well, and escape tfce wrath of the Lamb now impending over the nations of the earth. •—I am, &c, . William Wood. The words of the Cardinal:— "The 40 days of Lent come upon us seasonably at this time, when the whole Christian world is held in suspense by rest* less fear. The etrong and the unjust for a time reign over it. The words of the Pro-

phet are vieibly fulfilled before our eyes : * The wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and tha waves therefore oast up dirt and mire. There is no peace to the wicked saith the Lord.' There is not a kingdom or - a people which is not either menaced. from without or troubled from irithin, or both. Evory nation in Chris t:ndom stands upon is arms and strains all its power to increase its armaments. The rrts and industries of- p?ace languish because eyery man mnst be called to learn the arts of war. Universal fear, suspicion, and mift^ust are upon all the nations of the world. Faith and justice have been outraged in their eanctifary. There is now no international law but the will of the "strongest, and right gives bo safety to the weak. Such are at this tim,e the mutual relations of kingdoms and states which once were united in the peace of the Christian world. They have no common bond to hold them together, no •upreme moral authority t j adjust or to allay their conflicts ; and if ihere be trouble from without, there ib also everywhere trouble from within. Authority is weakened in all lands. Rulers can only follow the will of those whom they are set to rule. A tide of revolution has swept over all countries. Every people in Europe is inwardly dividfd against itself, and the old society of Christendom, with its laws, its sanctities, and its stability, is giving way before the popular will which has no jaw, or rather which claims to be a law to itself. This is at least the forerunning sign of the Lawlesi One, who in his own time will be revealed. Bat whereBoever pnblio authority is weak* jaternal authority is already passing away. In these limes tbehesrfcs of children are not turned towards Sfeir fathers, and the independence " of the Prodigal Son is by the youth of to-day claimed as a right. But whe-e paternal authority is weak no authority is strong. The authority of self-control can hardly be fouud in those who render no obedience to the will of parents. Such is, in trutb, the chnraeter of this lafct age. St. Paul has fori/old .ti at in the last days men should be brenliera of

treaties, disobedient to paver tg, tnd loveva of thoir own selves. Tfc is good I'ien that we are called by this penitential season to look into. our homes and into ourselves; for wo can do nothing for the Chri3tiaa world but to reform ourselves, and to pray for it, tint the^ scourges of war and of revolution—-now visibly impending—may be stayed if not turord aside, and that the church may once more enter into liberty and peace. Let us then turn to ours-lves 5 and in this timeof

penance let us lay on ourselves ?orae acts of self-denial, some practice of self-chastisement. Learn theso well in this season of Lent, and do not foreseke them when Easter pomes. In such daya as th se if; is no wonder that the spirit of penance should be faint and low. The world with its relaxations, has insensibly pervaded the Christian society of men. All the wholesome austerities of . Christian life are mitigated to meet the self-indulgeno of the world. Softness, and &&e and the full enjoyment of all liberty which j'b not positive em, have enervated the self-control and relaxed the self-denial even of the good. Few internal mortiflcations, and many external deYotions, hare taken the place of the simple and austere piety of our forefathers,