RELATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TO THE NEW.
The following, copied into the World’s Crisis of June 18, from Zion’s Herald of June 5, is good testimony from such a quarter for the inseparable connection which still subsists between the Old Testament and the New:— “Some timid saints are disturbed because the enemies of revelation charge upon the Old Testament Scriptures the occasion, if not the cause, of the Pocasset murder. In the same manner the sweet grace of the gospel has been held responsible for the madness of certain unsound minds which have been disturbed by religious excitements. But the Bible has borne without injury much severer attacks than this, and Christ still lives. The best apology to offer is to preach more earnestly Christ and him crucified, and to stand up more firmly against all the idle and ignorant follies that creep into the churches. Neither doubt nor ridicule can overthrow the truth, as even fiery persecution has failed to do this. Wisdom is justified of her children, and Christ will take care of his church, if that church will only be true to him. This is no hour in which to lower the standard, to array the New Testament against the Old, to talk about the legendary parables of the Pentateuch, and the traditions of a barbarous and bloody age. It is an hour to stand firmly by the Bible as it is, inspired of God and profitable for instruction; its ancient covenant embodying the new, and presenting, in symbol and sign, the promised divine Son, whom God the Father spared not, for our salvation. The New Testament discloses simply the full significance of the Old.”