You are probably aware that the practice originated in the third century of the Christian era." _Mr.M._ It originated with a man by the name of Abraham, I believe, sir, two or three thousand years before Christ.
_Mr.K._ O, then, you go to Judaism for it! _Mr.M._ Judaism comes to me with it, and hands it over to me.

There was something good in Judaism, we all think.

Judaism was not a Mormonism, as certain ways of speaking of it not unfrequently would make us think it to have been; it was not an exploded folly, but the form which the church of God bore for two thousand years.

But it began before Judaism; it is older than Moses.

Judaism received it from Abraham.