OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20419, 14 December 1931, Page 13

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS.

TO THE EDITOR 011 THE PKESS Sir, —Your many readers will appreciate your leader on Sir George Paish's warning in your issue of to-day, but some will regret your disparaging reference to "a prophet in the Old Testament." It is an unfortunate theological '"slide" which discredits Old Testament prophecies, and because of this the present world crisis is to a great majority of the people the world over a bewildering puzzle. Apart from the Old Testament prophecies, it is impossible adequately to trace the cause or find a sure solution of all the world trouble. The course of tho last five world Powers is there minutely described, and the interesting sequences of those Powers are in the Old Testament Scriptures not without an interesting key. The Joseph-Ephraim "Battle-axe" of the Almighty ar«s historically traced ir. the Scythians, the Goths, the Vikings, the Northmen, afterwards known as the Normans, by sucu writers as Gayer, Weldon, Hodgkins, and others.. Of this line of descent, "a multitude of nations" is predicted, and while it is said in the Old Testameut prophecies that "many shall rise against them," it is also said that those that so rise "shall fall because of them," and that "no. weapon that is formed against them shall prosper."—Yours, etc., W. T, KINGSTON. Temuka, December 11th, 1931,