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| title = God’s Views on Marriage as Revealed in the Old Testament. | | title = God’s Views on Marriage as Revealed in the Old Testament. | ||
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| subtitle = Dedicated to the Bishop of Manchester. | | subtitle = Dedicated to the Bishop of Manchester. | ||
| author = Bessant, Annie | | author = Bessant, Annie | ||
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Every}} newspaper in the country has been printing a libel on Secularism first published in the name of the Bishop of Manchester. It has been asserted that Secularists thought to use the coarse language of the original, that a “man might live tally with a woman, and send her away if she become sick or otherwise unpleasant.” No such doctrine has ever been taught by Secularists, and challenged to prove the statement, the Bishop of Manchester said that it was his opinion that there would be nothing to prevent such conduct if people gave up belief in God, and in a future life wherein they would be held accountable for actions here. It does not say much for the ennobling and civilising effects of the religion of Christ if, after eighteen centuries, those brought up in its midst can only be kept from filthiness of life by “the fear of hell, the hangman’s whip.” Men and women have not been taught by Christinaty to love purity, but only to fear hell, and the natural result is that a bishop of a Christian church fears a deluge of wickedness if men lose faith in punishment after death. What a confession of the degrading results of the Christian creed! | |||
But passing by this, I propose to show that while Secularism has never thought that a woman should be deserted when she loses some of her outward attractions, such teaching has been spread through the world by the revelation of the god whom the bishop worships. I propose to show that belief in the bishop’s god is most dangerous to purity of life, and that it is only practical disbelief in him which prevents the most offensive vice. In the bishop’s church the Old Testament is read as well as the New; it is declared by Art. VI. to be included “in the name of the holy Scripture,’ and by Art. VII. that “the Old Testament is not contrary to the New,” and that “they are not to be heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises.” That ought not to be pronounced vicious by a bishop of the Church which has been pronounced right by the god of the Church. The god of Moses is the god of Dr. Fraser; Iahveh of the Hebrews is the “Father” of the Christians. He is the “Unchangeable,” the “Eternal;” and Christians acknowledge the authoritative nature of the elder revelation when they binp {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-17}} | |||
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