29. Bishops Bourne Lahore Aug. 15.01. Dear Sir, The Lord Jesus
Christ was certainly not a Lawgiver, in the sense in which Moses
was, giving a complete descriptive law about such things as clean
and unclean food etc. That he did not do this must be evident to
any one who reads the New Testament with any care or thought
whatever. The Mosaic law of meats etc was given in order to develop
in the minds of men who were in a very elementary stage of
education and religion, the sense of law, and gradually of Holiness
and the reverse. It is therefore called in the New Testament a
''Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ" (Gal iii. 24) for it
developed a conscience in men which, when awakened,could not find
rest in any external or purely ceremonial acts but needed an inner
righteousness of heart and life. And it was to bring this that
christ came, By His life and death he both
30. deepened in men's minds the sense of what sin really is and
how terrible it is and also showed men how they could be reconciled
to God, obtaining forgiveness of sins and also power by the gift of
the Holy Spirit to live a new life in real holiness, and in love to
God and man. What the characteristics of that new life are, you can
see by reading the sermon on the Mount St. Mathew Chapters
V-VII.