WITH

GOOD NEWS FOR ALL

I haere mai hoki te Tama a te tangata ki te rapu ki te whakaora i te mea i ngaro. " Ruka 19, 10

" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. " Luke 19. 10.

NAMA 21. / AKARANA, HURAE, 1891. Registered as

No. 21. AUCKLAND, JULY. 1891, a Magazine.

" Rapua a Ihowa i tona kitenga ai karangatia atu kei tata ana ia. "

—Ihaia, 55, 6.

" Seek ye the LORD while he may bo found, call ye upon him while

he is near. "—Isaiah 55, G.

HE MEA NOA ANO TE PAIPERA

TAPU.

I

KATAHI te kupu miharo ! Engari ra, i

e tika ranei kahore ranei ? Ehara

ranei i te kupu nui a nga tangata whakapono

hemea noa iho nga pukapuka katoa haunga

te Paipera Tapu ? Ehara ranei i nga kupu o

roto e kupu tika he kupu e rite ana hoki mo

enei ra ? Ehara i te kupu a te Karaiti tonu,

" E pahemo te rangi me te whenua, ko taku

kupu ia e kore e pahemo. "—Ruka 21, 33.

Pera ana te kupu ki a— 1 Pita 1, 25. " Ko

te kupu a te Ariki, mau tonu ake ake. " He

kupu pai he kupu tika hoki era. Hei reira

ka mau tonu ki a te Karaitiana nga mea

katoa e whiwhi ana ia i nga kupu a te Atua.

Ano hold te tangata e whakarere ana i te

aroha noa inaianei ki mau tonu ki a ia ake

tonu atu te whakataunga whakawa.

Tera pea e penei ana te kai-korero, E aha

koia te tikanga o taua kupu na, '' He mea

noa ano te Paipera Tapu ?" Tena ko tenei.

Tera ano ka puta mai te wa ka pahemo nga

THE BIBLE OUT OF DATE

WHAT a startling statement! Surely

that can never be true!

Is it not the boast of Christians, that every

book that is written grows old and out of

date except the Bible ? Does not it keep

abreast of the times; and does not Christ

Himself say, " Heaven and earth shall pass

away, but my words shall not pass away"

—Luke 21, 33. Also in 1 Peter 1, 25—

" But the word of the Lord endureth for

ever. " Yes, those verses are blessedly true,

and all the blessings that Christians get

through God's Word will last for ever, and

the judgments recorded upon the rejectors

of the gospel will be carried out, and that

for eternity.

Then what do you mean by the Bible

being out of date ? What I mean is this.

There will undoubtedly come a time in the

history of this world when the Bible will be

out of date. For more than eighteen hun-

! dred years pardon has been proclaimed to