To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Sin—In your January 3. issue, there is an article by G. I. under the heading: What: is to be done with the Old Testament." We are told in the first paragraph on the authority of Bishop Ryle, that, "during the last 30 years what is known as the modern critical view of the Bible," has won all along the line, yet, so it seems to me, nearly the whole of the article is occupied with what proves the contrary. For instance we are told. "the new knowledge of the Bible has yet to make its way among the people." "The great majority of the people.... receive instruction from class teachers and Sunday School teachers who have been trained to study on antiquated lines and have been told to study safe' but obsolete handbooks." failure of the critical view? The New Testament is safe, but it is not antiquated nor obsolete and it is the only real hindrance to the "modern critical view" of the Uld Testament. If the best scholarship could invalidate the telling and authoritative testimony of Christ and all the New Testament writers to the Old Testament, it would stand a better chance of winning the masses of the population. Until this is done, what chance can there be for the modern critical theory? For the wise Christian. having based all his hopes on the plain words of Christ and the New Testament writers, is bound also to give the first place to their ut-terences concerning the Old Testament.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.