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THE OLD TESTAMENT-HOW TO

READ IT

Religion And Its Appeal To Imagination

been built into a wall by a perse- cuted minority, to be discovered in there building of the Temple 70 years later. The time of is des- covery was the second period "of religious vitality. The Book was welcomed and made the basis for drastic religious reform. Drastic in this, that every other contre of worship was destroyed. It is dif oult to believe that men who cared enough for the Book of Deutero- The destruction of the two king-nomy with its very high command- dums is due to their desertion of ments to love God and love one's the pure worship of Jehovah cen- tred in Jerusalem.

BISHOP HALL AT ST. JOHN'S

Bishop Hall preached the fourth of his series of Sermons on "How to read the Old Testament" at St. John's Cathedral yesterday.

No man likes to be a prig. Many TeR fight shy of religion be cause they are afraid of priggish. ness They make a bad mistake, Religion which makes prigs is bad religion. It is perhaps difficult to compare one's own day with days that have gone. But one might hazard a guess that religion makes fever prigs to-day than it did thirty or forty years ago A man does not come to Church to-day to "better himself." He does not come because he wants to be good. He comes because there is an 1111- satisfied longing in his heart for something something more than he can say He comes to Church because God Unfortunately, the Old Testament to many of us has been taught

draws him.

more

than himself:

round the Ten Commandments.

As we think back to our child- hood days, there stand out the de- lightful stories of Adam and Eve, of Abraham, Jacob and David and then the Ten Commandments. The rest of the Bible composed of poetry and prophesy reminds 115 perhaps a little bit of the coming of the Messiah, but has little other meaning for us.

one

THE BOOK FOUND IN THE TEMPLE.

neighbour, should have centred their worship in Jerusalem in order that the coffers of the Temple might be well filled by those who were drawn to worship there. One can only suppose that they saw that the purity of the worship of Jehovah depended on centralisation in Jerusalem Places of worship in the country districts too easily be came dominated by pagan worship. The third period was when the Book reached its present for two hundred years later, when the re turned exiles were setting out again to build their country's life round the worship of Jehovah in Jerusalem,

The passage which most "plainly links the two Books together is the dramatic story in the Second Book of Kings of the finding of the Book of the Law in the Temple, in the reign of Josiah about 830 B.C, Two things seem to be pretty cer tain about this Book of the Law. The first, that it must have con- sisted of, at any rate sections of our present Book of Deuteronomy. Secondly, it could not be the Book in its present form. On the score of length alone the second point can be taken as proved. It seems The results of this centralizing to have been a fairly easy matter policy, are clearly seen in the to read through the whole Book. Gospels. Every village has its As regards the first point, the aynagogue, but only the Temple in evidence is simply this. Nearly all Jerusalem has sacrificial worship. the reforms carried out by Josiah It is from the synagogue worship as the result of the finding of the that our own Christian worship has The Psalms are ita Book are the reforms advocated in

developed. the Book of Deuteronomy.

Hymn Book and Prayer Book in

Bible. one, and the Old Testament its THE WEEK AHEAD OF US. Hilkiah the High Priest, who But you have not come to-night realised the importance of this dis- for a history lesson. You have not covery is of tremendous interest at come to-night to learn more about this point. He is more like the an old book, and the manner of ita modern person than either a pre-writing. You have not come even learn how you may Dut more fully the

of teaching that Book. You have cotine to church to-night because another week lies ahead, of you, and you would week with God. You have come because life has many problems and makes many demands, and you know that you cannot answer those problems or meet those demands in your own strength.

A MODERN PERSON IN THE OLD

TESTAMENT.

share that.

I want you to see the Old Testa-phet or a priest. Your childhood's to ment differently. If you stand in teaching makes you think of pro- carry the Chamonix Valley in the French phets who are Men of God, and of men of ritual. Italian frontier: you find it dif- priests who are cult to pick out Mt. Blanc. Many Have you ever stopped to think other peaks hot even snow-covered how it is you know about the pr Seem higher. Climb the hill on the phcta? Who preserved their teach North side of the Valley, and stop, It was men like Hilkiah who as one must stop, to take breath preserved it. They were devoted to every now and then, and lock South the Temple worship because it was towards Italy. Each time the warship of God: and devoted to majesty and the height of Mt. the teachings of the prophets be

cause they loved and understood Blane stands out more clearly" as

The word Deuteronomy means the hearts of men. It was men of Second Rook of the Law. But be though it was growing as walked. The little peaks that from this stamp, serving in the Temple ing a Christian is not keeping the the Valley looked as high sink in virtually made cur Bible as we now teronomy imagine that God re- Courts of Jerusalem, who have Law. Nor does the Book of Deu- to significance. I want you to come to the Book of Deuteronomy have it. They made the Jewish quires of Man caly the keeping of community of which "Mary and in the same way. I want if I can: Joseph, the parents of Our Lord, the love of God. It ure men to laws. Deuteronomy is filled with to-night to make it stand out in

are representative. These men love God. Last Sunday night you. its true majesty" as the dominating Book in the whole range of Old treasured the teachings of the pro- heard how Amos and. Hoe des-

phets, and rewrote the old his criben the character Testament literature.

at God There are tories of their people in the light more beautiful passages in other.

two "How," says Amos, Books, as we shall find when we kept the fame of religion alive in agreed " God and man, man and of prophetic teaching. These men walk together unless they be come to Isaiah. There are pas- sages in other Books more

the days of captivity and in the God-there can be no contact be more difficult days of the return. foundly, aware of the need of, man

tween them unless they be agreed. for God, as we shall see when we They were sealons for the Temple Is God to agree with. Man and come to the Psalms. There are

of God, and for the purity of the walk in the ways of man's chooë- worship of His people. passages in other Books more coo-

ing, or is Man to live in agreement cerned with the deep problems of taught men to love God and to live with God and say with Jesus life, as for example in the Book of His Compatry,

Christ, Nevertheless, not my will Job. But the clue to the Old Testa- WHY THE BIBLE BOOKS WERE but Thing be done." HowW ment as a whole, the Book that

WRITTEN...

deeper even than Amos into the holds the range together is the

possibility that Mao might walk with God For Hoses took back in Book of Deuteronomy.

love, and forgiveness the wife who had become a prostitute. "That redemptive love" he said, "is the love in the heart of God for Me

pro-

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They

Who was it who treasured these precious teachings so that they were reproduced in the Book of the Law which was found in the Temple in the time of Josiah? We

It is so easy in reading a book of the Bible, whether it is about. Listen to these words:-"Hear O Isaiah or the stories of the kings of Isral; the Lord Our God is one Israel, to think of the book as be Lord and thou shalt love the Lord ing written at the time of the thy God with all thine heart, and events they describe. This is all the with all thy soul, and with all thy more true of old books. There was might And these words that I до printing Sarolla were of a command thee this day shall be limited length. The results was a upon thine heart and thou shalt literature so dramatic and so pie- teach them diligently unto thy turesque that it is difficult to children and shalt talk c. them imagine the Bock written long after when thou sittest in thine house the events. The Book of Kings do not know. But we da know and when thou walkes by the way, written, in modern times would that it must have been men who and when thou liest down and make much more apparent of the knew the same God and walked when thou lisest up. And thou shalt casual reader that it is writing with Him. They could not walk bind them for a sign upon thinë | about past events with a hand and they shalt he for front hets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the door posta of thine house and upon thy grates.

OUR LORD'S FAVOURITE BOOK

purpose

with Him unless they were agreed. of its own. The writer would make They urgs us to love God because it easier for you and me to see the they know that God. loves Man., Book as a whole. You can read They knew it in their hearts: they the two Books of Kings without knew it in their lives: they know realising why the writer traces the it in their experience with their history of the Temple from its fellow-men they knew it because building by Solomon right down to God showed His heart to them. Deu- No wonder Deuteronomy was the ita restoration as a centre of pureteronomy is a persons book. It is treasured Book of the returned worship by Josial, or why he the par's job to make available exiles, who built up a new religion describe the fate of both Samaria for everyday life the great visions life on the basis of the religions his and Jerusalem because they were of the prophets, that all men may story of their people, from about not faithful to this worthy and keep company with God 1 speak 400 B.C. to the time of Christ. to God. Plainly a book written in to you tonight as Deuteronomy No wonder in the Temptations of this way inust have been written spoke to the Jews. We are in the Our Lord every answer given to after all, the things that were des presence of the same Go He the tempter is from the Bock of cribed, and ut a time when the loves us in the same way. What Deiterohomy No wonder He found in this Gospel of love the templeworship was trying again to is our conduct to be during this Essert itself and its claims on the week? "Are we to be any different sum of the law and the prophets, Jewish, people. It does not make because we have met to worship the supreme summit of Old Testa- the historical value of the Book Him this Sunday sight? You will ment teaching We have good any less to realize that it WRI not go away knowing better the grounds for believing Deuteronomy written some two or three hundred laws of the Jewish people written to be the favourite book of Jesus of years after the events described, in their Second Book of Laws Nazareth,

We must, however, suppose that You will not go away and spe But you must not think, of Deu- when the Temple was destroyed the next seven days trying to keep teronomy alone. Deuteronomy and many of its records with historical the Books of Kings go hand in details were carried by the faith hand. One is history, the other is ful priests into captivity teaching. In language and myle and outlook the Books of Kings

DEPOSIT OF RELIGIOU'S and the Book of Deuteronomy are

REVIVALS

these rules; if you did you would finish the week merely a prig Pray God you will go away more assured of Him of His power down, the ages to speak to men who will hear Him to purify worship inseparable. The Book of Kings The Book of Deuteronomy is the and to purify lives not by making begins with the close of the reign deposit of three periods of religious laws but by winning love. This is of David and Solomon's building of revival in Jewish history. The the God. Who spoke to Isaiah and the Temple. It shows how the first period is the date of the writ Hesekiah, and spoke to Jonth and Kingdom and the worship centreding of the Book of the Law found Hil Kiah Who kept in the days” in the Temple of Jerusalem was in the time of Josiah. This may of the exile and in the years that divided in two. It traces the his- have been in the time of the domin- followed many men and women tory of the Northern Kingdom and snce of Issish during the reigh of His cnvited lovers-walking with its two great prophets, Elijah and Hezekiah, that is 70 years, before Him because they were agreed to Elisha, dow to the fall Josiah's reign. In that caso it love Him and to serve Him 1f is Samaria, ther northern | would have been written se a hand- of this God Deuteronomy speáku. capital in 792 B.O It book of religious and moral pro- This God through the pages of traces the history of the South-tices for those who had accepted Deuteronomy spoke even to Jesus em. Kingdom and her great pro the prophetic faith of Issiah The Christ. Let Him speak to you to- phet Lanish, and the great, high ||10 years following Tenish and Hese- night a message of love and peace. priests who followed the prophets, kinh saw the whole Temple defam; "How can two walk together unless down to the destruction of Jerusa-ed by felte, worship, and the they" an, agreed !” Agree with lem in 659, Të has one lesson and Gomidance again þf an Adolatrous God. Accept His love that you one lesson aloite that man must priesthood. We can well imagine and He may walk together this löre and worship God.

how the previous Book may have week and all the days of your life.

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