RELIGIONS OF BABYLON

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6493, 13 April 1908, Page 6

RELIGIONS OF BABYLON

Tho subject taken by Dr Tudor Jones, addressing the Unitarian Free Church in the New Masonic Hall, Boulcott street, last night was. the religions of Babylonia, Assyria. He spoke of the highly interesting discoveries of archaeologists among the excavations of Babylon, Nineveh and other cities which were the centres of a flourishing civilisation three thousand years before the time of Christ. Tho material upon which discoverers based their conclusions regarding the customs and beliefs of these ancient peoples went back fire thousand years before Christ. The Bible was never understood until the last few years, because there was no material to show its source. To-day they know as a scientific fact that a very large portion was rooted in the religions and theological conceptions of the Babylonians and Assyrians. Quoting from a record 2000 years 8.C., be read an ac* count of a delgue so like that given in the Bible that he surmised those not well versed in the Scripture would not have known that it had not come from that source. He was astounded at the marvellous code of ethics covering ©very human relation, embodying in many respects an ideal of civilisation which had not been reached even now.