A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 102
102 good of mankind at heart and shalt behave kindly and make the poor and the helpless partners in thy goods? Or, is this a curse: Thou shalt love the truth, and gain knowledge, and worship one God alone and shalt not set up Gods, besides Him? Or, is this a curse: Thou shalt oppose the tyrant and the oppressor and help the oppressed and shalt put a stop to the iniquity of the wicked? Which part of the Law is a curse from which Jesus has saved us? Is the worship of God or certain restrictions regarding food, a curse? Did the Scribes and Pharisees and other Jews merit the wrath of God because they failed to perform these acts of worship and observe these restrictions, and Jesus saved the world from being accursed by putting aside these commands? He himself acknowledges that the Jews performed all the prescribed acts of worship and observed the prescribed restrictions regarding food, so that they were not condemned owing to their failure to obey these commands. They were condemned because they failed to observe moral commandments. Then did Jesus put these aside also? If not, then what is the curse which Jesus has removed? The truth is, that hearts are dead, and in order to obtain freedom from the commands of God the Law has been called a curse, and Jesus is charged with sin. For, otherwise, is it not true that those who called the Law of God a curse have framed laws a hundred-fold more numerous than the laws of God? In short, old faiths had been mutilated and the world had become full of evil, and it had become imperative that God should have sent a new dispensation to establish His