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FOOD FOR REFLECTION

PART I

RELATION BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

OR

THE DISPENSATION OF THE MOSAIC LAW FULFILLED AND SUPERSEDED BY THE ECONOMY OF THE GOSPEL

I

JUDAISM SUPERSEDED BY CHRISTIANITY, AS SHOWN BY THE WONDERFUL VITALITY OF CHRISTIANITY, ITS CONVERTING EFFECTS, AND TRIUMPHANT SPREAD NOTWITHSTANDING THE MOST FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION

THE Jewish religion is the oldest of the three in question. If we date its origin from the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, in the days of Moses, it is more than fourteen hundred years older than the Christian, and more than two thousand older than the Muhammadan religion. From the time of the giving of the Law to the coming of Jesus Christ, the people of Israel, or the Jews, were the only worshippers of the one true God, and all the other nations of the earth were sunk in ignorance and