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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18851, 2 May 1923, Page 11

FLOODS AND LEGENDS. TO THE EDITOB. Sir.— Under, tho above, your writer “Constant Reader” makes an attack on tho veracity pf the Oid Testament which I am sure is painful to nine-tenths of your readers, and which I resent as an offence, however joyfully it may bo read by infidels. Ho writes: “It is now necessary to abandon, belief in an actual Noah and a real Flood. They are relegated By the scholars to the region of folk lore.” As an antidote I _ wish to quote from a recent address on “The Witness of Christ to the Old Testament,” by E. K Simpson, M.A., translator of modern Science and Christianity. “Our Lord treats tho Old Testament as an indivisible whole, of consistent tenor and equal, autuiorlty, from beginning to end. Ho regards it as one. To Him it is no miscellany, no amalgam. but an organic body of revelation, possessing a definite title page and finis. Jesus Christ oast His mighty aegis over the Old Testament. He sets His hall-mark —observed-on the received text of tho Hebrew Scriptures without deduction, emendation, or erasure. The Lord of the miraculous endorses the Old Testament miracles without a hint of hesitation or apology. Ho ratifies the story of the Flood, of Lot’s wife, of the burning bush, of the desert manna, of Sodom’s doom, of Naaman’s care, nor will He throw Jonah overboard-. Tho facts are incontrovertible and their significance cannot bo over-rated. In fact, the Master Himself has drawn the inevitable inference from them. “If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not. how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?” Which do your prefer, the flickering tapers of Sciolism or the radiant Light of the World, tho Name that is above every name, tho speculations ol scholars or the testimony of Jesus Christ? —the same yesterday, today, and for evpr?—l am, etc., John Smaill. Roslyn, April 29. COLLISION AT BURNSIDE. TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —It is stated in your issue of the 28th inst., on the authority of a Mr Reid, that his motor lorry had, on the 27th inst., a collision with a motor car driven by Mr Knarston. I will not say that Mr Reid did not have an accident,' but I deny absolutely that it was with anybody of the name of Knarston. There was no one of the name of Knarston from Taieri Mouth on that road on the clay stated by Mr Reid, and, what is more, there were no oars from Taiori Mouth.—l am, etc., A. E. Knarston. Taieri Mouth, April 29. PROMINENT • BANDSMEN. The recent band contests have once again proved that there is nothing to equal Fluenzol for keeping the mouth moist and cool and Q-tol for cracked Ups.—Advt.