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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4943, 12 November 1884, Page 2

(To the Editor of the Evening Stae).

Sir, —I have been rather a close student of the Bible for forty years, but I never yet was able to understand what theologians mean by being guided by it, and your correspondent " Verity" "does not assist in making it any plainer. He says, like them all, that he is guided by the Old and New Testaments. If you will follow me, we will fry to find out what they mean by this, for they appear to be in a muddle about it. Here is the book called the Bible, composed of the Old and NewTestaments, which teaches two separate and distinct religions, and ia some cases are diametrically opposite to each other. One teaches the Jewish, and the other the Christian religion ; the Jewish religion commands many sacrifices and ceremonies, they had holy garments, holy vessels, holy houses, and holy days, which are not in the Christian religion, and what Moses commanded Christ forbade; He said, 11 Thcu hast heard them say of old, an eye for an eye, but I say unto you, resist not evil ; again, tbou hast heard them sayLove thy neighbor, but hate your enemy, but I say love your enemy." Nothing could be more opposite. What puzzles me is, why the Bible Society is so anxious that the Jewish .Scriptures should spread through the world along with the Christian Scriptures ; the one teaching slavery, polygamy, and the hating of our enemies, and the other the contrary. Is there any wonder when the whole Bible is handed over to the Moors as being the infallible word of God, that we should have such a mongrel bred thing as that called Hauhauism P Verity says over again what I say, that the seventh day is the Jewish Sabbath. Is this the one b& advocates to, be kept as the right one? Then, the Christians and all other people are Sabbath breakers. Christ himself was, for they had not to do any work on that day. bu: he did good on that day, and ihe Jews said that was Sabbathvbreaking. If an ox fell into a pit oa that day they had to get him out, but that would be working, and contrary to the old law, whioh says thou shall not do any work, and the punishment for the breach of it was stoning tb death, and without this the law would not be carried out. Paul condemned the Galatxans for observing days. Let us have the truth on this subject, whatever it is. The Sabbath has been palmed upon us for generations on false pretences. A falsehood cannot do any good to anyone, and it must perish, but truth is immortal, and must live —I am- *°-» UycLK John,