Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-30
Christianity Up to the Minute

Since November 30 will be consid-I cred throughout the United States as Bible Sunday" it is no doubt fitting and proper that a portion of this space be devoted to eXaltation Of Gods own Word. THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIP
 TURES.
 By A AMMAN. There are three revealed religions recorded in the sacred Scriptures: the Patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian. The first and second we find recorded in the Old Testament This Old Testament is divided into four divisions, history, law, prophe- cy, and poetry which includes the books of devotion. The Christian re- ligion is found in the New Testa- ment, in which there are also four great divisions: the four gospels, the Acts of Apostles, the twenty-one epistIes, and the book of revelation
 THE FOUR GOSPELS
 The four Gospels contain the most wonderful history known to earth. There is nothing proceeding or sue ceeding like them in the history of the world. They stand alone among all writings. The age of law, of prophecy, of wisdom, and of nation al power had long passed from the Jewish people. The age of servitude, of sect, of party, and of tradition had come. Hypocrisy, bigotry, intoler- ance, and self-righteousness were ruling characteristics While they boasted of Abraham as their father, Moses as their law giver, and the prophets as their teachers, the Jews disregarded the faith of the one, the instructions of the other, and had gone about to establish their own righteousness" teaching for doc trines the commandments of men,"
 In this age, and surrounded with such circumstances, Jesus apeared. The gospel records of his life, have 70 parallel in human history. The four Gispels give the birth, life, mis- sion death, resurrection, and as cension of the Being who has wrought the greatest changes in human society of all time. Those who wrote the gospels, give rec ord of all that Jesus did, taught and suffered, without a single comment of their own. John ventures to say, these are written that ye might be- lieve that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life thru His name." This may be stated, in general way to be the meaning and purpOrt of all the Gospels. We have therefore the Messiahship of Jesus and His divine mission confirmed, not only by mir acles. signs and wonders which God did by him, and His own declara- tions, but by every variety of ey. idence known to man. These things are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is sthe Christ, the Son of God" The testimony is ample. The Messiah of the prophecy is the Christ of history.
 The chief object of the first great division of the New Testament-the gospels-then is to produce faith. They do not give a record of the Church complete. nor the history of the admission to any of it's blessings or privileges. In the study if the New Testament it is very important to keep in mind the proper divisions of the book. Without doing this it will be impossible to gain accurate knowledge St it's system of salva- tion. The gospels were written giv- ing the history of Jesus as an eX- ample; His teaching, as instructions, and His death as an atonement; ana all this for the purpose Of produc- ing faith and obedience.
 THE ACTS OF APOSTLES
 The Acts of the Apostles gives the history of the organization or the Church. the preaching of the apostles under the commission of Christ. beginning at Jerusalem, and continuing to preach in the various parts of the world. It gives the mls- sionary labors of the Apostles ana evangelists. gives the minute and de detailed account of the pardon or masses of people and of many ln- diyiduals. Here alone we can ma fuu account of how the gospel was nreached. received and obeyeu. Here alone of all the books of the New Testament are we told how persons came into the church Of Christ' This. then, Is the book to which the believing penitent will go and ask as thousands heretofore have asked Lord. what wilt thou have me 10 do?" and receiving the same answer ,-;,l do the same things and reJoice in the same hope
 THE EPlSTLES
 The twenty-one epistles were "rll' len to organized churches and to ln' ,.;d,,aIs churches, giving H.