Palestine:
Basing his statement on the result of excavations in Palestine and Mesoypotamla, Sir Charles Marston, in an Address given at the Pan-Pacific Asso-lation: luncheon on Monday, Jan. 20, the Astor House Hotel, said that as far a coulld be discovered every religion originally started as a monotheistic pellet, and that polytieism nly ere pi as' the religions declined. The excavations also, he said, all tended to prove that the Old Testament. wa: substantially accurate in its history.
The speaker was Introduced by Dr. P. W. Kuo, Chairman, who said that Sir Charles, an eminent British archaeologist, was going to direct their attention to the excavations A. retired i Sir Charles Marston was at present passing through China on his way to Palestine, by way of India.
Everyone spoke very glibly now: adays about long distances of time and space, commenced Sir Charles Marston, and the heads of many so-called democracies were also prone to speak very glibly about large. sums of money. But he felt that it was! necessary to realise more clearly what exactly a long distance of time really was, A Bishop recently stated that IL was of little use talking about the creation of the world, as it was created 3,000 million " light-years ago!" 'That statement demanded rather more credulity than' many of those In the Old Testament, The excavations in Mesopotamia—the cradle of elvilization—went back
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