A. T. J by Alonzo Trevier Jones

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 15.

A. T. J

By Alonzo Trevier Jones

To THOSE persons who make such an outcry against the International Lessons from the Old Testament, as containing "no Christ," "no gospel," &c., we would commend the careful study of Acts 28: 23 in the lesson for April 26: "And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening."

In the law of Moses and in the prophets, Paul could find enough about Jesus to keep him talking a whole day, "from morning till evening;" but nowadays "eminent theologians," "doctors of divinity" (?), and "gospel leaders," can go over them for a whole year and yet find "no Christ" and "no gospel" at all! It would naturally be thought that those who can talk so learnedly of "Pauline theology" and "Christocentric faith," might know more of real Pauline theology, and real Christocentric faith than to talk of "no gospel and no Saviour for the children," whenever the lessons are taken from the Old Testament. If there were more study of the Old Testament, there would be fewer objections to it.