"CREDENDA" ONCE MORE.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4972, 16 December 1884, Page 3

"CREDENDA" ONCE MORE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.)

Sib,—The foggy atmosphere in which this norn de plume revels has so blinded his optics that bis language becomes the most incomprehensible of incomprehen~ sible stuff, and perfectly inapprehendable by such B3 live in the sunlight of divine inspiration and rerelations. In the book of inspiration and Divine revelations, we often read of such as he whom the foggy god of this world, or age, has so blinded their eyes that they cannot see men even as trees walking, but view them all, except themselves, as dummies, without life, light, common sense, or reason. Bah! What does "Credenda" mean by the following sentence ?—" The unconditioned must be incognisable and inconceivable, its motion (or notion) being only the negative of the conditioned, which last can only be positively known or conceived." Such rhodomontade rubbish smacks of the utterances of a philosophical lunatic. The earth is rapidly becom ii^ one huge lunatic asylum, and the lunatics are in great variety, preparing to act after the fashion of philosophic France in its first great revolution. .Reasonable and common sense men and women are becoming daily more scarce and uncomeatable; frauds of every kind abound, especially religious frauds, while the greater the fraud the larger his or her following: witness the war army for illustration. Well, thus it is predicted of these last times of man's folly, so no wonder. The utterances of men and women under Divine inspiration are so simple and so easy to be understood that a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein, provided he has not previously been steeped in the philosophy of the various schools of theology and of the atheistic philosophic writings which disgrace our literature. Take for illustration the following :—" God (or the Deity.) is lore "; " God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son," &o. ; " The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." How simple ! Why, a thoughtful child can understand them; moreover, such utterances are intended for the mass of mankind to receive and believe, and not for the wise of this world to mystify and confound. Nothing is so aimple as Di»ine revelation unsophisticated by deceitful, designing, craftsmen and creedsmen. "Credenda" may aim his poisoned javelins at Bible theomancy until his fingers cramp and his optics fail him; it matter, not, he cannot overturn them, for very many of them, uttered thousands

>l years aen. history proves have been iterally fulfilled to the letter. Even atheists themselves have acknowledged 'his fact. There is in these days a perfect i-a^e to get rid of the Bible, of Jesns Christ, and even of the Deity himself. Ah! •»nd the devil also does not mind being ignored so that be may carry his point Well, there is nothing astounding in such action to a well-informed Bible student, because such a student knows well that a monsirous being is very shortly to be palmed upon mankind by Satan, as the God of this earth. I believe that the spiritists will herald him, and that he will beat even Nero and Herod for wickedness of every description. He is to sit in a restored Jewish temple, declaring that he is God—the Christ of the Gentiles, and the Messiah of the Jews, commanding that all mankind should worship him, and all but the few righteous left on the esrfh will do so. Faith in the Deity and Hia Christ must therefore be undermined, and be almost extinguished in the minds of men to make room for this usurping mon ster's 3J years reign over mankind. A decree to burn every Bible will then no doubt issue. So what we now see and hear from infidels and atheists are only the foreshadowinßS of their future action. 1 lately received a letter by post which aimed to make out Christ as only a myth, and no reality, and yet " Credenda " this very year, Anno Domino 1884, proves the reality beyond a doubt, to a sane mind, for if we ascend the ladder ot the history of Christendom step by step, or year by year we shall certainly arrive at the time when the babe heralded by angels lay in a manger of a certain inn of Bethlehem's City, and we may read in Luke's Gospel what certain inspired persons said about the wonderful child. Sir, this denial of all that is good and true, what a mania it has become ! To conclude. I would warn " Credenda " and such as him that if they continue to despise and reject the teachings and predictions of the Bible, that very book tells the truth con* cerning what is to become of them, but it is not pleasant to dwell upon the judgment that must certainly fall upon such, so I leave it for all whom it may concern to ponder it over and cease blaspheming would they enter the " good time coming," the rapidly approaching Kingdom of Christ.—l am, &c, William Wood. P.S.—This will be my last letter in answer to your correspondent.