This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...wish to commend to you the careful study of the Old Testament. There is a tendency in some quarters to undervalue and neglect it. There are those who regard it as wholly superseded by the New Testament. That was not the teaching of Christ and His apostles. It is true we must be careful not to fall into the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...wish to commend to you the careful study of the Old Testament. There is a tendency in some quarters to undervalue and neglect it. There are those who regard it as wholly superseded by the New Testament. That was not the teaching of Christ and His apostles. It is true we must be careful not to fall into the mistake of setting it on the same plane with the fuller revelation contained in the New Testament. But read with the right perspective, it is full of interest and weighty with great teaching. First, it shows us the beginnings of revelation, and helps us to trace the Divine light from dawn to day. Second, its incomparable narratives, the delight of our childhood, are alive with lessons for all time. Third, in the prophets especially we have the loftiest principles of public righteousness expounded and enforced. In New Testament times there were no politics, because the Roman Empire had suppressed and extinguished all political freedom. The only political duty possible to the subject of a Roman province was to "submit to the powers that be." It was otherwise in the days of the Hebrew kingdoms. The prophets were the teachers of the two nations in public as well as private ethics, and therefore it is to the prophets that we can go for instruction in the righteousness that exalteth a nation. It can scarcely be affirmed that their trenchant utterances concerning the true principles of public life are not needed in Christendom to-day. Fourth, in the Psalter we have the heart-breathings of devotion for all ages. Can we afford to dispense with the 23d Psalm--that loveliest Divine pastoral? or the 51st--the cry of the penitent, the natural accompaniment of the parable of the Prodigal Son? or the 90th--the noblest funeral dirge? or the...
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