p. 16 | THE OLD TESTAMENT

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 12.

THE OLD TESTAMENT.

JOSEPH COOK, in a recent Monday lecture in Boston, took as his subject, "Christ's Testimony to the Inspiration of the Old Testament." A correspondent of the Congregationalist says of it:—

"The lecture opened with a remark of Columbus on first seeing the Orinoco River. 'This stream,' said he, 'cannot come from an island; it is too large; it must proceed from a continent.' In like manner the sermon on the mount is a stream from the Old Testament, and the preaching of John a ripple from the stream of Jewish economy. So much has been said lately about the higher criticism, that some timid people are beginning to inquire if the Old Testament has not been overrated, and question if it really contains any Messianic prophecies. But whatever the higher criticism may say, the fundamental principles of the kingdom of God, and the root idea of monotheism, underlie the Old Testament. The two great commandments, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself,' are the law of Jehovah."