VOLUME  XVIII.                                                JUNE 15, 1942                                           NUMBER 18

                                                                           All this in or.der  that He migh,t shew the exceeding
                                                                       ,riehes of  IHis grace!
               E D I T'A T I 0 fi                                          Through ,our salvation the riches of ;His gr'ace must
                                                                       be displayed.
                               --                                          But how is this possible unless salvation be by
                                                                       grace.?
                             By       c&a?.
                                     .__I                                  By. grace :only !.
               For  iq/  grace  cc;+  &  S&J&  thyough f&h;
             and that not of you&&s: &is- the gift of
             God.  -                              E p h .   2:8.           In grace your ealvation has its source.
     For!  :`". .                                       ,.               For the eternal fountain-head whence the whole
                                                                       blessed stream of your salvation gushes forth is sover-
     Let-us' not overlook this little but significan&brcl!
                                                              .        ,eign` election.
     For by grace- are ye s'aved ! The conjunction, pre-                   ,Chosen  yon `are unto salvation before the founda-
sents the. truth here expressed as a. reason for some-                 tion of the world. And the motive of Godis ,election of
thing else, an .explanation  of something that has been                His people is .grace,  sovereign, absolutely free grace.
mentioned. in the context.                                                 Pure `grace !
     It informs us of the fact that this. statement does                 Nothing else determined God in predestinating you
not stand alone, that is not an isolated truth, which one              unto &nformity unt,o -the image of His Son. There
can accept or not. accept without much effedt for the are, indeed, those who find the reason an,d the deter-
rest of .the~ izont>ents  ,of his faith ; which one can either         mining factor of God's election in  m,an.       They, too,
,deny 0r:cimfess  as of little or no practical siignificance           would. emphasize that salvation is all of grace, not of
and importan&3.~ ' .                                                   works.. It is grace that God sent His ,o,nly begotten
     For by grace are ye saved! . . . .                                Son into the world, and grace that you may become
\    It means that salvation by grace, and by grace partaker  of the blessings of  s,alvation in  Hi,m. Nay
only, is an indispensable condition fos something els,e,               more, they, too, #speak of electiton  .unto faith, and elec-
a gr,ound, a foundation, `withoat  which that some.thing ,ti,on unto glory. It is only the eiect  that actually be-
else  &mot  staed. Denying it is like destroying  the                  come heirs of eternal salvation. But election itself?
foundation .of an edifice : you pull `clown the whole.struc-           Is it, too, according to. them, ,of mere and pure and
ture. It is like cutting away at the root ,of `a tree: you sovereign grace? Ah, no! It is not of grace, say they,                      _
kill, the tr,ee.        _                                              but of works! Yes, indeed, :of works, though they
     And that f,or which this statement is the reason themselves would use other terms to describe their
may be read in the imm,ediately  preceding verse : "That vi'ew of election.  ,Or is it not  a%n election of works,
in the ages <to eome he might shew the exceeding riches                which  tea,ches  that God found or foresaw in the elect
of his grace in his kindness towar,d us through ,Christ                a willingness to accept Christ and  .the terms of His
Jesus" !                                                               salvation, in' ,distinction  from others, whom Be fore-
     God id rich in mercy !                                            knew as stubborn and unwilling to come to Christ?
     iAnd' H.e saved us ! Even when we were dead in                        And then it i,s not of grace!
`sins, he'quickened  us together with Christ; and raised                   F.or then it was .man,  his goodness, the foreseen
us up together with Him, and made us sit together in                   choice of his will to receive Christ, that ,determined
heavenly places. . . .                       _                      ._ `1 God's  choice Then it is not grace that makes the


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"eledt  acceptable to,, and `beloved by IGod in His eternal         est depth of-sfn and sha,me, of guilt and condemnation,
:counsel;  but it is some  e,lement   ,of goodness in man           of corruption and death, to the highest possible bliss
that induced the Most High to prefer him ,aboye  others. of an eternal righteousness .and life and glory.
 And when God shews forth the riches of <His ?grace in              ,~Baved..you  are. . . .
the salvation ,6f the elect, they will ~always  be` mixsd              Create`d you were, with -all the ,elect, -in the first
with this excellency` ,of man. . . .                                man Adam who was made a-living soul / who, indeed,
       But God forbid !                                            had life, but nob in himself; who lived wikhout  b.eimg
: For you are saved by grace !                                      the lord of life ; whose glory was corruptible, whose
       And this implies that youp-salvation is ,of ,God%om          righteousness was ammissable, ,whose  li%e -was mortal ;
-beginning to end, from its-et,ernal source in the counsel and  who was  cif the earth earthy. And in him we
of ,God to its final manf,estation  in glory in the Tday of vi,olated ,God's  covenant, became -guilty, liable to ydeath
Christ.                                                             and  ,damnation, subject to corruption, children of
       It was grace that ordained you unto sdvatioli; And wrath. And our condition was, as far -as we were con-
this signifies, not that God's election is arbitrary, btit          cerned,+hop&less.  `F,or in  -Adam we  ctiald sin,  btit we
that it has its reaison and niotive in God alone. Of -Him -courd never pay a;. `ransom' for "our sin ; we coul,d die
are all things ! God is.gracious  ! Full lof grace is, IHe in in him, but had. no power to regain life in `God's favor ;
Himself, apart from any relation or a,tiitude He may we cotild turn away from the Fount of life, but never
sustain to'the creature. For He is. good, the sole Goo.d, -could we return to Hiin. We could only increase the
the iniplication of all infinite perfections. And as the -guilit m:of %UY -si-n -every day, through -every word we
supreme and only aed infinitely Good, He is the per- spoke, by every deed we performed, with every breath
f,e:ction of all beauty. H,e is pl'easant -and `altogether we took. .Enemies ,df God we had become, hating `H`im
lovely, and there are pleasures at His right hand for- an,d hating one another! . . . .
evermore. And ~eteri&lyXe  `is attracted by His own                    33aved  we ar"e !
beauty. For He is God Triune, Father, Son, and.Holy                    Save'd by. grace, by `free and s&ePeigfi:grace !
#Ghost.  Aed of the  Father, through the Son, in  .the               For even-then, when we were dead in-sin, objects
Spiri$, God knows aHims&,  beholds IHimself, His grace Iof God's righteous w&h, that could never be restored
;anld  beauty, and inclines  ufito  :Himself  in  @ternal  afid to the favor of :God unless we-would  willingly take our
infin,ite divine favor! . . .  :                                   way thro,ugh the depth of .h.ell,  He loved .us, and recon-
       This irifinite loveliness and diViile .pleasure in -His      tiled us unto Himself!
own beauty is God's grace.                                             Us IHe reconciled. Do not express this dif&rently.
 .By  grade you  a;re chosen!           -                          D,o not say that He reconlciled  z%Iimself to us. For to
       By the knowledge  of and attraction to  .the loveliness     reconci.l,e is to restore a relation of love aid faith and
of His own perfection God was divinely urged to ordain frieedship th& has been violated and brbken, the re-
His people !                                                       lation of the covenant. And on His part that relation
       A people that would be perfect evefi as He is per-          was -nevier violated.           He is the eternal  i1 AM, that
fect, .lmo~vely as He is lovely. For whdm .He has fore-            Changeth not. W.&h an ,@tei-nal, immutable, sover&$.n
ksnown them He also did predestinate to be conf&med                love He loved His own, even when they were `rebels in
according to the image of His Son, . . .                           themselves. But us He reconciled.  ,Us He  restor,ed
 A people upon whom He might look with eternal to that stat& in which we were once mor'e the-proper ob-
good pleasure, and that might taste that?he  Lord is jects of His favor -.and blessing, -the &ate of eternal
good !                                                             righteousness !
       A people in whom IHe might .shew forth-the infinite             For such .is reeoncilitition : restorsition  to favor in
riches of His grace!                                        r-     -the way of perfect jus`tice !.
       For by grace are ye saved! ._                                   And. justice required sa%isfadtion !
                                                                       And satisfaction &f the justice of God with respect
                                                                   to our sin could be accomplished only by a voluntary
                                                                   act  #of perfect obedience even unto  ,death,         No, not
       Blessed grace !                                             ,merely to suffer the punishtient for sin is satisfaaction.
       For by grace are you recohciled unto God!                   Even the ,damnecJ in hell suffer .the agon.ies  of death,
       That same grace that mot;ivated  l&e Most High to yet they ,do, not atone for their sin. 1Go.d demands that
ordain you unto salvati,on, aceor,ding  -to which it was           we shall love Him. And for We sinner that vi.olated
His purpose to make you altogether lovely, Bven as He              His. I.aw and trampled under foot [His covenant, this
is lovely, explains that  .and why He reconciled you unto means that he must Iove- Him in His righteous wrath,
"Himself through the .death of .His Son !                          love Him in death and hell, if ever Be is to aton,e!
   -For, mark you well, saved pou.are by grace.!
 -'                                                                    And this act of perfect  obedience  we  CQL&J  never
       And that means that you were lifted from the deep-          .perform.

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           Reconciled we -are by grace!                                              `For it-is-the spiritual tie that unites us with Christ,
           For when  in. sovereign grace He chose us, and the spiritual f,aculty whereby we may know Him, taste
      ordained us to be conformed. aceor,ding  to the image of IHim, long for Him, `trust, in Him, rely onHim, `appro-
      His Son, He chose us in Him. By grace H,e ordain'ed                   priate Him, live out of Him as the young tree draws
      His Son to be the tHead of the Church, to becoyme  flesh,             its life-sap- out ,of the ground `through its roots. . . .
      Do assume the burden of our sin and guilt, to enter into                       Through faJth !
      our deepest woe, to become sin for us, that we might                           It is God's means, ,a means .oF grace, a power that
      become r.ight,eousness  .of God in Him! . . , .                       is wrought in your inmost heart by the mighty graoe
           And by .grace He was sent into *he wlorld !                      `of  IGod: by  grace ye are saved, through  fa.ith; and
           And  bygrace  He chose the way of suffering;and that not of yourselves : it is the gift of `God !-
      `death, the way through the depth of hell, there to by                         For by grace He unites us with Christ!
     upon God's altar the sacrifice that would be sufficient                         By the power ,of grace H,e quickenas  us together with
      to satisfy `the justice of ,God.                                      Him, making us new creatures.
           `God was in. Christ recon&ling  the w,orl,d unto Him-                     By'gra&e.He  calls us, p!owerfully,`irresistibly,  sweet-
      s     e    l         f    !                                           ly, ,out' of ,dark'n;ess into the light of the gospel.
           That He might shew `forth the riches of His grace !                       By grace He implants the`faith in us, whereby we
           For by grace you are saved!                                      embraqe  the Ch,rist  of God and all His benefits !
           By. grace only!                                                           -It is not of yoursellves;  it is God's gift.
                                                                                     Salvation is ,of the Lord!
                                                                                     Wonderful grace !
           Mighty grace !
           -For. grace is also `the-power of-God by which you
      are `deliv.ered' from the dominion of sin ;an,d ideath !
           Reconciliation  alon'e is no salvation, nor could it                      Abiding graoe !
      possibly lead to salvation if the  operatiton  of  -grace                      -For ye `ure saved !
      ceas,ed at the cr,oss. It must be a'pplied, so that from                       And because it is by pure aed sovereign grace that
      darkness we are `translated into life, from sin into you `are saved, you will surely be saved even unto the
      righteousness, ati,d With cior~ds of love we ar,e united en'd of eternal glory.
      once m'ore.  with the .heart of God !                                          &lways salvation is ,of the -Lord, never does it be-
           And hoiv bDuid this be .accomplished?                            come of us; always it is by grace, eever d'oes it becom,e
           Shall we say. th& `from the cross onward ealvation               of w'orks . Even as it is in free, divine, "absolutely
      becomes `the work of man: Go'd has done His part, now                 sovereign grace that He chose us, and ordained us to
      `man mrst realize what bGod has acComplished?  IOr, at become conformed according to the image of -His Son ;
      least, shall we `alloti th,e grace of Go'd arid the will of ,and ,even as it was by that same grace that Be recon-
      man to mix at this `point, harmoniously and sweetly to                ciled us unto IHimself through the `death of His Son:
      work to'gether  in sorcler' that the salvation' manifested            and even as it was by pure grace that wrought the
      on the cross of Christ may be p.erfected? iShall we say faith Within us whereby w,e -do lay hold on the Christ
      `that on Go'd's  part -He is willing now :to save all men,            of God; even so, it is by grace that we are preserved
     that the  reoonciliation   accom&shed   `on the cross is               unto the final salvation that &all be revealed -in `the
      offered with the'intention to save by God to .all, and                last timer
      `that, for the rest, it ,depends  upon the Choi'ce of man's                    By grace ye, are preserved !- :.;::.
      Iwill? . . .  -i                                                               .And through the power ,of that -gracious prleserva-
           God -forbid !                                                    tion ye persevere!
           `Th'e riches of His grace must be revealed!                               Ear, on the on,e-hand, even our p,erseveranoe  is not
           Bygrace are ye saved !                                           by works, nor on account of works, nor by virtue of
           Through faith. -mark you well :2 through faith it is             ,our  cooperatilon  with the  .grace  ,of God: it is of pure
      `that we are- saved. It is not on condition ,of faith, a              grace. Yet, on the other hand,` this -preserving grace
-     condition which tie must fulfill if Go'd is to besto,w the            of God is not a power that remains ,external to us, so
      `blessings of salvation on us : `there are no conditions that we dare passively, unconsciously;  perhaps, carried
      untosalv&on at all ! It is `not because of faith, a;s if .into glory: it is a power within us, that caus,es us to
     faith is the  new work which God requires of us by hold on to the God of our salvation. . . .
      .whichaalvation may be obtained :..tliere is no Work unto                      Grace.preserves,   ,and  we.persevere!
     .. salvation, not even faith,rnor the work, of faith. For                       And who shall separate us.? . , , ,
      by'grace are w.e saved;through faith.                                          Unchangeable grace !          .,
           Faith ' is the mea%a unto salvation,-                                                                              , :     H. H.
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       Contributing editors-Revs. J. Blankespoor, A. Cammenga,                                                                                                                                     Ofschoon  de synode we1 zal hebben beslist over de
       P. De Boer, J. D. de Jong,  H. De Wolf, L. Doezema,                                                                                                                                     kwestie of we .om ,d,e twee jaar voortaan zullen samen-.
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       A. Petter, M. Schipper, J.  Vanden  Breggen, H. Veldman,
      -R. Veldman, W. Verhil, L.  -Vermeer,  P. Vis, G. Vos,                                                                                                                                   `dit nummer van ons blad v.erschijnt, en edit zout dus
       and Mr. S. De Vries.                                                                                                                                                                    w,el komt,  als bet ei `op is,.aal ik bel,eefdheidshallve we1
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             Entered as second                                     class  m a i l   a t   G r a n d   R a p i d s ,   M i c h i g a n                                                          tweetal antikelen, `dat ik hi.erover  schreef. Voorzoover
                                                                                                                                                                                               dit waar is,. ligt -de schuld hiervan geheel  bij Classis
                                                                                  -                                                                                                            West.  Toen  ik mijn eerste .artikel  schreef, waren de
                                                                                                                                                                                               grond,en voor de instructie  van ,Classis West niet eens
                                                                                                                                                                                               gepubliceerd; en  toen  mijn. tweede artikel werd  ge-
                                                                         CONTENTs                                            .~
                                                                                                                                                                            page               schreven, waren d'e gronden we1 in h,et licht gegeven,
     MEDITATION -                                                                                                                                                                              maar gemotiveerd  waren'di'e  gron,den  n&t. Er werd
      BY GRACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I . . . . i .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393.           eenvoudig gezegd:  Het is  bewexen. Het  b.ewijs  pelf
               Rev. H. Hoeksema.                                                                                                                                                               ontbrak. D&h de. beschuldiging van eenzijdigheid is
                                                                                                                                                                                               tech slechts ten deele tiar, n.1. alleen in zoomeer  als ik
     EDITORIALS  i                                                                                                                                                                             voor  ,d'e instmctie van C18assis West. niets  g.eivloel.  ..Z.e
      REPLIEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396    is ni,et waar, inzoover ik de aangevoerde grond'en  van
      UIT DE VERTE BE&EN EN VAN NABIJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  397 alle kanten heb sbezien en eerlijk keb overwogen. Dit
              Rev. H.\ Hoeksema.                                                                                                                                                               laatste is  zelfs  z66 waar,  ,dat Ds.  `Cammenga  in zijn
     `IlHE  TRIPLE KNOWLEDGE  -                                                                                                                                                                artikel geen enkel bewij,s aanvoert, dat ik. niet reeds
       EXPOSITION OF THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM . . . ...399` b'esproken   h e b .
               Rev. H. Hoeksema.                                                                                                                                                                 .~ Verder schrijft de br.oeder;  dat, om de aangevoerde
      `THE ANGEL OF THE LORD IN. 0. T. SCRIPTURES . . . . . . 402                                                                                                                              gronden van Classis West te .weerleggen,  i,emand moet
              Rev. G. M. Ophoff.                                                                                                                                                               bewijzen, dat er genoeg we& is voor een jaarlijksche
                                                                                                                                                                                               synode, ,en bet werk de onkosten waard is. Zooals %le
      VERLOST DOOR DEN NAAM . . . . ..I.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405                                                                          zaak  feitelijk staat, gaat deze bewering niet op. De
         R e v .   G .   Vos.                                                                                                                                                                  bewijslast ligt juist op de schouderen  vanClassis Wesit.
                                                                                                                                                                                               Classis West moet- bewijzen,  ,dat de door haar  aan-
      SEPARATE CHRISTIAN LABOR ORGANIZATIQNS . ...468                                                                                                                                          gevoerde  gronden  waar zijn.. Wij  hebben,  een  jaar-
              R e v .   C .   H a n k o .                                                                                                                                                      lijksche synode. Classis W,est wil ,daarin verand.ering
      TRAINIMG  THE CHILD BEFORE  S,CHOOL  AGE  .:.....;.410                                                                                                                                   brengen. H,et  .ligt ,dus op haar weg om de wensohe-
              Rev. A. Petter.                                                                                                                                                                  lijkheid of  noodzakelfjkheid   daarvan te bewijzen. Ze
_                                                                                                                                                                                              bleef  geheel  en al in- gebreke  ,dit te  doen. Ze  sprak
      THE D'AILY PAPER IN THE HOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413                                                                                     eenvoudig uit : ,het is .bezoexem. D,e bewijslast rust dus
              Rev. M. Schipper.                                                          _                                                                                                     nog bij Classis West.         -
      NIEUWIS VAN ONZE KERKEN . ...! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ..I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415                                                                        Ook gaf Ds. Cammenga `mijn bewijsvoering `nieit
              Mr. S. De Vnies.                                                                                                                                                                 zuiver `en poll(edig -weer, i,ets, dat natuurlijk een aller-
                                                                                                                                                                                               eerste  ver,eischte  `is, `wil-`men`iemands redeneering ont-
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  twee bewijzen voor mijn standpunt  aanvoerde, name- van commissies kuneen   woxden gelegd ; het is mijn
  lijk': 1. dat een  jaariijksche synode  b:evordSerlijk  is ervaring,  dsat het  altij d  scha,d,elijk   w.erkt   o,m  com-
  voor den geestelijken welstand onzer kerken; en 2. dat             missies te zwaar te belasten. iHoe deed de Christelijke
  het houden een'er  `jaarlijksch,e synod.e  `mogelijk is. Wie       GereformeerSde  Kerk tech altijd ,dit werk, zoo 1vraag-t
  echter mijn  Itweet,al  artiklellen  over deze  kwestie  cog hij,  toen se nog  synoden  hadden  om  ,de. twee jaar?
  eens over l:eest, zal toes~temmen,  (dat d,it al een zeer ar- Hij verge&,  dat de zaak der inwendige zending in di,e
  moedige voorstelling  is,van hetgeen ik feitelijk schr,eef,        kerken door .de verschil,lend8e classes wordt b#eh:artigd,
  en  ont;dekken,   ,dat ik de volgende  argum.enten  aan-           die ,dus ,elke drie maand'en rapport sontvangen, ,en dat
  voerde :    1. Door een twee-jaarlijksch,e  inplaats van dre school jaadijks werd verzorgd door ,ee,n breed cura-
  een  jaarhjke&e  syno,d,e in te  voeren  geraken  wge als torium bestaamle uit zes en twintig leeraars, terwij.1
  kerken  verder   van  elkander  verwijderd, terwijl we             de zaak der buitenlandsche zending niet alleen door
  vooral  als kleine `en nag zwakke kerkengroep  behoefte            een  ydirekteur   wordt behartigd, maar ook door  ,een
  hebben aan elkanders raad en steun. 2. Vooral in onze breede "board",  dine minstens  ,eenmaal  per jaar  ver-
  ernsltige tijd,en is bet van geestelijk belang, dat we zo'o-       gadert. Vergelijking is  hi,er dus  ni,et mogelijk. Hij
  veel mogelijk elkand,ers  gemeenschap zoeken,  en dus meent, dat ik mij van de financieele zijde dezer zaak
  geen vergaderingen gaan afschaff,en. 3. De zaken die met "een handgebaar" heb afgemaakt; ih meen, dat ik
  onze  zending  en  ,onze  theologische   sch'ool  ,betreffen,      met de cijfers bewezen heb, dat een jaarlijksche synode
  kmmen  beter  behandeld  word,en, als  w;e een  j.aarlijk-         geen te zwaren last isvoor onze kerken. Hij meent,
  sche  .dan als  w'e een  tw'ee-jaarlijksche  synod'e  h#ou,den.    ,dat Qen cent per week per huisgezin een `!en.o,rme  som"
  .4. .De subs&Se van de behoeftige kerken wordt syno-               is. Ik geloof, dat ,er sl,echts zeer weinige  huisgezinnen
  daal (inplaats .vlan classicaal, zooals gewoonte  en nor-          in onze  kerk'en zijn,  dime  &n cent per week  als een
  .maal is)  vastgest,eld.  ,Om  `dit  voo'r  tw,ee  jaar vast te enorme som beschouwen, en dire ,ook naar die wa.ard-
  stell,en is niet we1 mogelijk. Hzet *door een commissie schatiting INeven, als ,het op eigen onderhond, of ook op
  Ite laten  dolen, is niet  w,enschelijk.   5.  ClaJssis West weelde  artikel:en  alankomt.  Zeker,  zeker, 640 dollars
beweert eenvoudig : het is bewezen. De bewijzen ont- is twee  derd'en  van een  klein  leeraars traktement,
  breken. 6. De Acta der vorige synoden bewijzen, clat maar het gaat niet over 640 ,dollars in vergelijking met
  er in 1940 .en 1941 genoeg  werk aan den winkel was een traktement  van eeln leeraar, maar in vergelijking
  voor  eene jaarlijksche  synod,e.  7. De  financieele  rap-        met duizend huisgezineen. En dan blijft het een cent
  porten bewijzen, ,dlat die onkosten rv1o,or  `een jaarlijksche     per. week !
  synod,e  niet een te zwaren last op de schoaderen  onzer              Wat de synode zal besluiten, weet ik, terwijl ik ,dit
  kerklen  leggen.    D'e  ,onkosten van  Onze synode  plus schrijf, niet. En het is mij natuuslijk lvolkomlen goed, ~
  die van al onze classical,e  vergaderingen bedragen niet hetzij ze  bet  ,een  `of het ander  besluit. Maar tenzij
  meer ,dan van lonze vroegere  classicale vergad,eringen.           er gewichtiger .argumenten  kunnen w,orden aangevoerd,
      Nu trechtte Ds. Cammenga sommige dezer argu-                   dan die ik tot duster gelezen heb, zal het mijn over-
 `menten  ltie  w8eerlleggen.  Ik  meen  echter, dat hem  dit tuiging blijven, ,dat het voor ons in de tegenwoordige
-. niet al te  goed gelukt is. Hij  schijnt te  meenen,   dat ,omstandighed,en, waar  zoovele  -classicale   aangel!egen-
  #de geestelijke  mucht eener synode all,een  geaocht moet heden synodaal moeten worden  behartigd, ivlerstandiger
  w.orden  i.n  d,e  vergad)eringen der  synodce als  zood'anig.     is, om vooralsnlog  elk j.aar als synod.e  te vergaderen.
  Ik meen, dat d:e geestelijke invloed eener synode veel                                                              H. .H.
  verdler strekt. Hij' is "niet verstom,d  door h,et gew,eldig
  stuk  werk door  ,de vorige  syntoden   verricht,  en door
  bet Sgewicht `dler zaken aldaar behand!el,d." loch, ik oak
  ni.et. Maar als een synode drie of vie+ ldagen,  ,of ook
  twee d.agen vergaderen  moet om haar werk af te doen,              , Uit De Verte Bezien En Van Nabij
  dan meen ik, dat er genoeg werk was voor zulk eene
  syn,od,e. Als wie vroeger al,s classis  ons werk in Ben dag           M,en  hoort in  <den  Iaatsten tijd, in  verband  met
afdfeden,   beweeade   memand,  ,dat er niet  genoleg  werk          den huidigen- w,ereldoorlog,  nog al .eens spreken over
  was. Hij  mtient,   ,dat de subsidie  voor  behoefhtige   ker-     vervolging  olli des  geloofs. wille. Het  Nazisme met
  ken best vloor twee jaar vastgesteltd-kan  worden: `t is zijn totalitarischce  staatsidee, gesteund door de godde-  _
  to:ch  altijxd  .dSezelfd.e  som. Ik  me,en., dat het  feit,  ,d.at looze, heidensche philosophie van Rosenberg, komt op
  bet  vaststellen  dezer subsidie altijd  h,eel  wait tijd in vel,erlei wijze in conflict met  `d$e waarheid van Gods
  b.eslag  neemt, vold~oende het tegendeel bewijst; en wie Woord, met het  geloof van  Jezus, met de  belij*denis
  `de. financieele  .rapporten   `nasnuffelt, zal  tevens ont- ,der Kerk, en kan d,e Kerk als geestelijke ma& naast
  dekken, ,dat de. tdegezegde subsidi,e juist met dezelfde zich niet dulden. De Kerk behoort ooB tot h,et terrein,
  som bedraagt  -van jaar  itot jaar. Hij  m'eent,  dat `de          waarover die absolute Staat gezag heeft en zij#n schep-
  zaken, di,e zending en school aangaan, best in handen              ter  bedoelt  -Se  zwaai&     Conflict is  onvermijdelijk.


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       Wie getrouw wil zijn aan ,Gods Woord, en zijn belijde-                 tu.s  Z;elf;  werd  n&t gekruisigd  als een  getrouw8e  be-
       ma  openlijk  handhaaft, kan  aan vervolging  om- des lij:der, maar als een godslasteraar en :oproermaker.  `De
       g4oofs wille met ontkomen. Gevolg is, dat vele leiders rnartela~ren  `der  wroege   k,erk in het-  Romeins~he rijk
       der Kerk in Duitschland, zoowel als in. de landen, die                 werden niet gedwongen  om Christus als Heere  te ver-
       door de  Daitsichers  in  "bescherming" zijn genomen,                  loochenen.    Aks ze  sl.echts ook-  ,naasf--   Christus den
       bun ambt niet kun.nen  uit:oef,enen,  in gevangenissen  of Keizer wildlen vereeren, ze-gingen vrijuit; Bet Nazisme
       concentratiekamp.en   zuchten,  ,of oak, urn lhet leven zijn komt niet met den ,eisch, dat de Eerk het- e$angelie
       gehracht.       En namen als  Mantin  Niemi$le~r,  Klaas zal verloochenen,  maar verbiedt de Kerk o'rn .d'e godde-
       Bchi~ld~er, Hendrik  Ctolijn  `(we&e  laatste,  zo'over   .wij.        looze   phillosophie  van den  absoluten. Staat  ien van
       wleten, ook in een  conc,entrati.e-kamp  in  D$tschla,nd               Rosenberg. te  rverooadeelen.  En  w.ie zijn  stem   daar-
       ,mo.et   verkeer,en),  word,en dikwijls genoemd als voor- tegen nu maar niet verheft,  die hee$t geen vervolging
       beeldlen van  d,egenen,  die thans  lij-den  ,orn Christus' ite  dnchten. W%ie- echter getxoaw  is, v.erstaat,  dat com-
       willle.                                                                pnomis met den vijand,- niet mogelijk. is, en dat de
              Wat  ,ons persoonlijk  b.etreft, wij  twijfel,en mer niet       Christelijke  ,belijd#enis  ,ook inhoudt, dat ,dle. wereld ver-
       )aan `of ,d(eze en a.nder'e bro.eders in Christus wordlen of- roordeeld  moat- worden.
     werden  metterdaad   veurvolgd om de  goede belijdenis,                     Het is  gemakkelijk   om uit  .d:e: verte  mirtelaren
       ,die ze hebben. En we gedenken onze breeders  en zus- te vereeren. Masxvelen dier lvereerders  aarz&len  n&et
       ters  .dageijks in onze geb'eden, d.at de  .Heere bun. bij             om  itn #eigen folmgeving.lmet.  den vijand t,e heul.en, zich
       den voortduur genade mag gepen om getrouw te zijn bij  `de wereld-aan  te sluiten;  ten straks  ,ontvangen  die
       tot het einde toe,  ,en  dlen vrede,  ,die  alle  verstand  te vereerders  ook het teeken van bet. bee&,  en gban-hen,.
       boven gaat. We zijn  &hter, in het  licht van  vele                    ,di,e weigeren- daitteeken te ontvangenj veruordeelen  als
       feiten,  ook overtuigd, dat vel,en, die thans ,en van uit ,extremi,sten   (en  anabaptisten.                    En  initussch~en  blijft
       ,d,e verte ,over dire- b,roeders in Europa spreken en schrij-          men natuurlijk bidden voor. ,die martelaren  in de verte !
       ven  -aIs  martelaren  ,om den geloofs  wi!lle,  ,een geheel Bouwden ,o'ok de Farizeeen  en Schriftgeleeren  -met de-
       and!ere  houdirng  zouden alannemen,  zoo ze zelf- in die graven .der. p.rofeten?                                           If.  lx-.
     (  landen, waar liet Nazisme heerscht, .zonden  wonek, of.                                                                       e%
       ~0.0 soortgelijke vervolging om des geltoo,fs wil in ons                                    -      ___ _ _ _
       eigen land zou uitbrek'en. Zoolang als we nag uit ,de
       verte   .onze.  sympathi,e  kunnen betuigen  m%et de  ver-                                       RELEASE
       volgde  geloofsgenooten, zijn we persoonlijk niet in de                                                                     "  :
     _  rvlervol,ging  betrokk,en  ;  mjaar  wi.e  ;hetzelfd,e wil  .doe,n         Is -today a. day. of, foreboding,
       van  nabij,  itrekt  piartij,  neemt zelf een standpunt in                     Of worry, of fear, and of  donbt,?
       tegenover   `,den  vij.and, moet  -op vervolging rekenen.                   Are the: dark.clouds  of gr,ieving.  and .sorrow
       En dan begint  m.en dikwijls voaden te  zoeken,   ,en                         Shutting all of lif's happiness out? 1
       tracht men  zichzelven  tie- rechtvaardigen in zijn  on-                    Do. you wonder and weep,. sadly. - waiting,
       frouw ten ,heuEen  met den vijand, en de lijdende en ver-                      Ear. the slow- passing hours to go,,. ~
       volgd,e bro:ed8eas  te veroordeelen. Zo'o hebben vel'en ge-                 As yo,ur heart with iits. weight- so oppreisive
       handeld  tegen'over  Niemijller  .,en  Schild,er.   Haet is  im-               Is heavy. with burdening. woe?
       mers niet zoo moeilijk om aan te toonen, dat dile broe-
       ders in het geheel  niet, om des  gelo'ofs  wil  veulvolgd                  Then. turn you, oh., lxrn to the Master.;,
       wordlen.   Zle  bemoei,d,en   zich eigenlijk met  d:e  politi,ek!              Release. to Him all of your strain ; :
       Z:oolang als dte Kerk zich maar op haar eigen terrein                       He. knows, for. like us He is strick,en,
       houdt, is ,er geen gevaar ! Laat d.e predikanten slechts                     I Acquamted with grimef. and with pain,
       bet `~evangelie"`verkondigen,.  en zich niet inlat,en met                   And He takes all these problems and trials,
       zaken,  `di'e  iten  slotte  d,en  Stabat aangaan, en ze  zullen               The anguish, hhe dread, and the, Itoss ;'
       niet  worden  bemoeilijkt.  Geef den Keizer,  ,dat des                    And He gives us instead  peace.  and comfort,
-      Keiiers is  ,en Gode,  .wat Gods is!  Z'oo  spra.k,en  en                      And strength that we need for our cross.
       spreken Helen, beide in Duitschland en in N,ederland.;
       En zoo is  bet altijd in  die  ges'chiedenis  der Kerk  ge-                 With. Him we. shall rise undefeated,
       weest. Indien de  vervolgin,g  zich  slechts  scherp  >en                      Though. the, wo,rld  in derision may sneer ;
       klaar als vervol.ging om C,hristus' .wi., `op,enb,aardle;  in-              Wet our strength" but His. issufficient;.
       dien de  ~~ij,an.d sleclits  l&am met den klaar  .:&tge-                     And in  time  ,a11 the darkness. will.' clear.
       sproken eisch : "Verloochen Christus of sterf !" `er ware                   Let  faiLh calfm our fears, let us trust `Him.;
      geen ruimte vo.or zulke verloochenaars der waar,hei.d,                          His great heart of. love understands ; ,
       die ,de getrouwe belijders veaoordeeIen  oin eigen. ont-                    Let us praise as ,we work and, be thankf,ul
       zoutv te rechtvaardigen. -Do& zoo is het met; Chris-                           Just to -know all isaafe in. His hands.!

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                                                 T H E   S T A N D A R D   B.E.A.RER
  _ :             .                                   _               is, first `Jf all, the present death #of all men which cul-
                                                                      minates in the corruption of the body, a,nd all the suf-
    `. The. Triple; Kno-q&&re                                         fering `of this presient  time connected with it. All men
                                                             -  - lie in the midlst ,of death, also in .the mi.dst of physical
                                                                      death.         D,eath  reigns  ,over  all men. Rom.  5:12-14.
                                                                      Dieath  iencompasses  us on all sides. It is  .the grim
          An E.xfiosition Of The Heidelberg                           ,s-pectre  that' always stands waiting at the end of our
                              C a t e c h i s m                       earthly way, no matter in which  ,direoti,on   w,e may
                                                                      turn.     It .is ithe: enemy that relentlessly pursues us,
                                     v.                               frequently reminding us, by sickness .and pain, sorrow
                              _                                       ,and ,grief,  physical and mental agony, of the certainty
                             LQRQ'S  DAY. IV.                         of its final  vi&ory; and dooming  la11 our  efiorts to
                                                                      ultimate .fail.ure:  all is vanity! And death is -no acci-
            -                        2     .                          dent. It is noit the natural end of all `existence. It is
                                                                      the-hand ,of God that is heavy upon. us. Death is the
                 The Justice Of  Go,d,s-Wrath'.   (C,ont)             ~expressi~oa ,of the wrath `of God-again,st  sin. It is the
         But  ithe- Catechism in this tenth  questio,n and wrath. of God that abidfeth on us and never gives us,
  answer.,denies  that there~issuch a principal, distinction          even .a. moment's respi;te.       Looking at man,s present
  between Go&d's attitude. to.ward the-w.ijcked  in time and          existences as.&ch,-  apart -from Christ, it is nothing but.
  in eternity. ,God.does  -not change. Hle is not gracious            ,a  testimlony  to Ithe- truth of what.  <our. Clatechism de-
  1t0 the -wicked in -this :worl,d,;  in order to; become-.filled     clarles in this tenth answer: IHe "is ter,ribly  .displeased
  w&h wrath- agamst ,hirn in- the next. IHis wrath is an with our loriigilnal as well .as -with our actual sins ; and
  ,ev#er present reality. His.. just- judgment is. executed will punish them in his just judgment temporally and
  con~stant1.y~ God cannotwink. at sin even for a" ,moment.           1eter:nall.y." The true explanation of ,o'ur present life
  Hle punishes a1111 unrighteousness in per!&&-  justice in is found in -Ps. 90 : "F.or we are- consumed by thine
  time as well-as in eternity. `God's wrath is even in the ,anger, and by thy wrath ,are .we.,troubled. T:hou   ha&
  prosperity *of the wicked. And His just judgment is set `our iniquities before thee, `our secret sins in the
  &early manif,est  when-  in- and through their prosperity           light  .,of thy countenance. Por,al-1 our days are passed
He prepares  &em for greater  dam.nati'on,   anld  ithat,            away iln thy wrath: we spend lour years as ,a tale that
  too, in such a way that they also prepa-re  themeel~ves             is told. The days of  o,ur  years. are  ithreescore  years
  for eternal ,destructilon. T.hat this is, indeed, in ,agree- and ten ; and if by- reason. `of strength .-they be four-
  ment with what the a&hors of the- ,Catechism had in score pears, yet is their strength labor. and sorrow;
  mind, may become- evident from a  quotati'on from fo,r it is soon- cut ,off, and, we fly away. Who knoweth
  Ursi.nus' `Schatboek" : "Obj&t~an- 1: The ungodly the power of thine `anger? even according to thy fear;
  often, enj,oy ,prosperity  here and do many things with             so is thy wraith." .7-11. The only way out  ,of' the
  impunity;  H'ence,  all- sins are not being punished. present :wrath ,of God. is the cross `of Cihrist, and. the
 Answer : ^ Anld yet- they. shall be punished, yea, [they            so1.e ray of light that pierces the darkness of our pre-
  are already being punished here: 1; `In the conscience sent death is His resurrection.
 by whose pangs Iof. remorse all are tortured ; 2. also in               Then, tooj the wrath- of God a'gainst sin and His
 those. things- which they use with the greatest enj'oy-             just judgment become evident in those-special miseries
 ment ; and that, too, in ,a greater degree --according- as ,and sufferings that are  in,separably  connected with
 ith:ey <are less ,oonscious of thei.r bein,g punished ; 3. often ,certain- particular sins. I h*ave no ,dloubt but that,. if
  also:  with: other forms of punishment; the' heavilest,            we only ooul,d always dilscern the ways and dealings
 however, -in the future life, where not to be dead will Iof God. with men in detai:l,-  we- wsould  notice that -all
 be eternial ~dea$h." p. 89. And this is quite in. accord sins -are ,rniet wiith their own characteristi~c punishment.
 with Scripture. For the-Word of God knows nothing But thetruth  of this statement appears only in those
 of an aittitude of-grace,on- the. part :of God- towa.rd:the         grosser  a.nd more apparent cases that are-plainly mani-
 wicked i.n this life, but teaches that H,e is angry w&h             fest tozall. If a man practices sexual immorality, God
 the. wicked  every *day, Ps;- 7 :1X; that He is always. in punilshes  him in His-just  judgment with, certain di-
 His holy t>emple to try the children :of men, and that seases and corruption of the body  ; the drunkard makes
 His soul hates the wicked, Ps; 11:4, 5 ; that His wrath             ,of himself a physical wreck- .aad .a mental. imbecile ;
 is revealed from heaven against -all- unrighteousness of certain sins ,of character, sech as lying, *deceit,  pride,
 men, R,om, 1118 ; and that. His face is again&. them haughtiness, and the like, meet with their own proper
 that do `evil, 11 Fet. 3 :12. ..                                    retribution. The ungodly wor1.d looks upon thlese (evils
         This wrath of -God- against--sin as revealted  in this ,as the -natural res-ulB  -of. the. vices practised,  as the
 present worl,d-becomes  `evident in #different w,ays. There         operation #of the ,physical  laws of the u*niverse that can-
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not be changed ;-but the believer k%lows that in all these 26, %3ffi Let no man -imagine that it is possible f,or
"zesults"  (of sin thee hand ,of God  `and His righteous him to `sin even for a moment with impunity, for God
judgment become manif,esit. An& this is true, not only is terribly di&eased with all sin, driginal and actual,
of individual signs, but of sins colmr@$ed .in arid by tlhe          and in-IHis just ju,dgment punitihes sin in titie as wlell
family, society, the  State;`+he   nati@ns of the world              as  iti  ,eternity.
in their relation to on'e anqther.  ;Grieed and covetous-                LOif .coursle, temporal and eternal punishment cannot
ness, pride and vlanfilty,  thle .suppressidn Df' the weak be  separaOed  from each other. They are closely  re-
by the strrong, -thle ambition  to'-build: empires at the I.ated.  _Th:e wrath  oaf  (God in time  pr?epares   f,or. His                n
`#expense of smaller nations, love..  :of, wealth and of wrath in <eternity. Existence in the present world can-
p,ow,er,  maliloe  `and envy,-all  these   n&e+  their just not be separated from that in the wo,rJd to come. I;t
retribution  wen in this present titie:in; .a11 `kitids #of LIP- i's in this light that the prosperi)ty  of the wicke.d  must
nest and  turmoi%l,  revoluti'ons and  W~JKA  !God  .in His be viewed, in ,order to, understand tha,t even in this the
just judgment leads-  the world  oil,  t&l  way to  self-            wrath of ,God   ia #operative.    Those who separate the
destruction  ! IAnd this puni,shment is -indeed, often-the           present from the everlasting  future may  babbl'e  ,of
more terribl,e acoordi.ng  as the .worl,d is less cQnsci&s jGo8d's  fa&r upon the ungodly and of all the blessings
,of thle fact-that the hand of G,o.d is `hk$vy. upon them in they \enj,oy in this lif,e, and so deceive themselves and
His wrath. 1% is this, tha;t lconstitutes.the'awful  char- oteers.  `B:u;t the moment we pJ,lace. the two, `time and
acter of, bhse pr,esent  world conflict.:. `Tl& fierce an,ger        &ernity, in  proper relation to each  otther, we  clear-
,of God is upon the nlation,s of th,e ~o$d. :;Ft is d&rative         cly s,ee *h&e folly ,of this, and r,ealize khatthe prosperity
everywhere, `on the land,. in the gq, ,.a~& in thle air.             `of the wicked is itself a  m&ifes;ta;tion of-  ;t;hie  fi,eroe
It is ;the mur,derous  intent `of &&n- killing :one' another anger of the LOX%, w,hereby He' leads them to, meat&
by the thousands on the .b&tlefielh  ; `it, is heard in tie          damnatiion. It is this  ,. truth  which  the Holy  Sml%rit
cry or curse df those that are swallowed up into death revealed to us through Asaph, when- he entered into
by, the waves of the sea ; apd i! the. roar lof lexplotding          the sanctuary rof God and- &derstood ;the end of- the
8helJ.s a.nd `bombs. IIt is in *the bpy1oud  d~eci.sion~s of bhe. wicked. *hen he could view their present prosperity
mighty ,of. the worbd ho d.&troy  either the weak & thpe             in  the light of that  send, and  `disc;ern   clerarly  Dhat in
~qu~ally mighty, Ias tie11 as in bhe moaning ,of thle dying giying'them prosp&i;ty  God set the u$go,dly upon slip-
,on the ba&tliefield, and the l,amentations  of tie berleaved pery places, and `casted  ,them d,dwn into .destru&on.
&t home. Yet, men continue to, speak of &ariots and                  Ps. 73 :17ff. Thus also the author of Ps. 92 was divine-
`of horses; they  glotit  over reports of  d;eath   Bnd  ,de- ly taught to .sing .of the prof&nd  wis,ciom of God, in
struction  ; ;th&y protidly speak of the yllew worl,d  order -that H.e caused the wicked to flourish and to .g1'ow as
%hey will surely `establish; and they knoTTT not that the ;the mass in order Dhak they might be destroyed fur-
fi:er.oe anger ,of the INo& High i's conscming them!                 tever. P,i.: 92 :5-7. Atid. thus it is evident that God's
       FurthermoDe,  these is that peculiar ma,nifesta;tion          government  lof  thle universe is  alwtays  a,ccording to
Idf thbe angeT of the Most l?Iigh; aceordi,ng  to whi'ch He          justice, an,d that He a,lways punishes sin in His just
punishes sin with more:and greater si.n, and thus pyie- judgment. And the ,ciay of the revel&:tion  of the righ,t-
pares the vess.els of wrath for ltiestruction. When men              eous  jud!gment `of `God will not set straight .a11 that
in#duJtge  in, the  ,evi.l   pas&on8s  of  $h&ir corrupt  natire,    was left crooked in time, for  God  neSer  81~v&   ,any-
they pday with (he dread+1 firfe of &e wrath ,of God. thing crooked ; but rather .&hat in -all H%ig dealings wi$h
F'qr God'? wrath agaiest sin `is, 0perativ.e in and upon the wicked He treated them in justice and- righteous-
*hose wicked passions and evil lusts, and by m'eans of nless.  #Surely,- God punishelF  sin temporally as wela as
them Be gives mien over unto greater sins and fouler e+ernally. -%here  is no escape even for a mometit from
sins, till .they become worse th,an $hte beasts of the field. thi.s pursuing wrath of God. ,Only in Christ and Him
It its this fata; process that is .des,cri.b.ed  as thie mani-       crucified i.s the way ,out. For in Him even ,ihe suffer-
festation of the wrath of ,God against all ungodliness of ings a.nd death of this present time are m&de `sub-
men, in  R,om.  1:18ff. It  is  thi,s `wrath of God that servi'ent  unto our `eternal sdvation!
makes men foolish, when l&owing God "they glorified                      Nevertiheless,  the punishment of sin is not limited
Him not as God, neither were th'%nkfnl;" that gilves                 to time, but is only a foretaste of eternal `desolation in
th,em  ,over  `.`to  uncleanniess through the lusts of their .hell. T,his tru%h of eternal punishmen.t is opposed and
o'wn hearts, to  dishon.our their own  bold&  betwe'en               gainsaid by many., Some simply maintain that the
+hem&lves ;`r and that gives them up, through these punishment ,of s,i.n in time is su&,cient :. h&Ii is here.
&e h&s, unto "vil~e affections ;" so tliat, finally, they T,he  ,grave  iS the end  ,of the  wicked.  O&hers claim
are utterly given ov'er to "a reprobate mied,  t,o d:o those tha,t son%how in the mend all men will$e saved. T,here
thi,ng&  w)hich are not  comvtinient[`,  so that they are will be punishiment after `death:  but also this will come
fi'll,ed wi& all unrighteousness and are hopelessly sunk $0 an `end. Ultim,ately God will deliv&.all'. Many, too,
in the miPe of corruption and destruction. vss. 21, 24, (teach that there will be it second brobatidn af,te+`death,


ano%er chance, which will either result in the sal- in vs. 33 o,f the same cha.pter  IHe threatens them: "Ye
vation of .a11 men, or in the salvation of mosit of thlem,       serpenit;s,  ye  genefation of  ivipers, how can ye  .escape
while following this sedond  probation the' stubbornly the damnation of hell?" Especially decisive against
wicked will be  anih~~la~ed. But all have this in  com-          thte  .denia,l of  `ohe truth of an  aeternd  .hell is Mark
.-mon, that they d,eny the truth of un&cling- punislhment        9 :43-48 : "And if thy hand  offend thee, cut it off:
in ,hell.    They argue that  sin is both temporal  and          it- is betiter for thee, to enter into life maimed, `than
finite, an.d that it would be gross injustice to inflict having  ;two eyes to go  into hell  (,gehenna),  indo the
eter,nal punishment. upon sin committed- by the finite           fire that !never shall be  quenehecl; where theizr worm
creature in time; Then, too;  $hejr ,deny that-  Scripture       dieth wet, ,ancl the fire is not quenched.        And if thy
teaches  an-eternal sufferi.ng iti hell as pun.i&ment for f,oo;t offend $he,e, cut it ,off ; it it better for ;thee-to  enter
sin. Agents  of &he SeveiLth Day Adventisti, and of the hti1-t;  into life, than h,aving tw,o f,eet to. be cast into hell
International Bible S~U,d;tiltSj foliowe?s  of Rus~s~l and       (gehenna)  , into the fire that never shall be queimohed;
Rutherford, go  labout teaching and preaching that there where their wym dieth not, and the fire is not qwench-
is no hell, that "helP in Scrij#ure means. bhe grave             ed. And if  thiee eye  offend thee, pluck it out; it is
(Sheol,   ITade's.)  ,  and  tha&  w#hen the  BibI,&  spetiks of better for $h,ee to ,en;ter  into .the kin&ti of God width
".eternal" punishment,  the- word  et,ernal signifies an ,o,ne .epe, $han lhavin'g two eyes to be cast into hel>l fir,e ;
"age", a  lo.rig perio,d.                                        wh.eye their .w:olrrn dieth not, c&d the fire is wet quench-
    Over against these argumetits, tie -may remark, in ed." See also Luke  12:,5.   Morover,.-&even   though  ?che
the.-first place, thbat. sin and guilt caneot. be. measured words shieol an.d hacles often &er to the state of the
by the- stand&ad of th.e c&a,ture, but must be evaluated dead; this is not aleways  the case. O,f lthe rich man w,e
in the  light of the infinite majesty of God  agtiinst           read in Luke 16 :23, 24 : "And i,n hell1 (hades) he lifted
WOhom it was committed. The argument that sin  is up his eyes, be&g in torments, and seeth  Abraham afar
cotimitted by a fiti& cregture,.  and bhat, too, in time ;       :off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said,
and that, th,erefore,-  j&&ice ca;nnot  inflict eternal  pun- F&her Abraham, have mercy on m'e, and send-Lazarus,
ishment  Upon the  sinne? is  utterJJi  false.  lO,f  ithis w,e that he m&y ,dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool
shsill have m80be:to   say in our disctistiion of the next iny tongue ; f,or I am tormenlted  in this flame." ThIlit
Que&on  and answer -of the CaJechism. Secon,dly, with this statement occurs in a parable domes ntot make the
r-esrjtictto  the argu:ment t&t the wlo&s often translated slightest difgerence, for it is exactly the purpose of tl-+
"hell" i;li the BibI& do n,ot mean the piaoe of eternal          paFable +o 4eaoh that, while th,e righ;teous  are bl,essed,
I&-tul-e,  we tiay begin by admitting that there is an th,e wicked  `are tormented after  `ohis life.  Nlote also
blem,en$ of truth in this : the word5 sheol .anid hicccles loan such passages as Rev. 14:9~11: "If any -man worship
often better be translated by "grarv,e" o,r by "the state the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his
of  the. dead" hhan by `(help'. But this. gives no right forehead, or i.n his hand, &e same shall .drink of ;t;he
to &ass.erti,on that the Bilble does not'speak of a. hell Tivinle ,of the wrath of Go,d, which is poured out withou$
aS the p.lace ,of eterhal.punishmient.    First of all, Set iit mixtme  into the cup `of hits ind.ignation; and he sjhall
be not,& that there is also the word "gehefifia" which be tormented with fire and brimstone in bhe presence
tilvirtijrs  denotes the piace of. eternal: desolation, and of the holly angels, and i.n thre presence of the Lamb.
which s,ur!ely tiutit be trans[lated. by "hell". Tlh,us in And the smok:e of their torment ascend~@~h  up for ever
M&t: 5 :22 : ",b@ whosower  shall s&y, T,hou fodl, shall         and ever; and `dhey have no rest ,day nor night, wiho
be in danger df bell fire." (literally : "shal.1 be oblig&%d     worship  lth'e  bealst  an,d  hi,s image, and  w.hosoever   re-
into the pehenna of fir,,"). Iin vs. 29 of $he satie ohtip-      ceisveth @e mark of his nam,e." And aigainst i&e stake-
t&r we read: "And i.f~ tliy right epe offend thee, piuck ment that whenever Scripture speaks of `everlasting
it out; .and cast it f'r.om  thee;  Por it is' profitabBe for                        _.. _.
                                                                 punishment it means d long p&o.d .of time, may be
thee t2iat onI& of thy n%mbe?s slionld perish, and nbt           quoted as quite sufficient what the Lord states in Matt.
that- thy whole body  shduld be cast into hell  (ge-             25 :46 : "And  thlese  shall.  tgo away into  ,everla.sting
henna) .`j Th'e same. statenient ,occurS .in vs. 30. The puriishment: but the righteous into life eternal." The
sa;nie tioad f;or "`yheli" occurs in Watt. 10 :2g: "Aed-fear     poinit  h,ere  i,s  $hat in  the original  th,e same word
.fiot them which kill the body, b,ut are not able to kill        (8aiooriion)  is  used  f%r  "evel?lasti~ng" and `(`eternal".
the ,soul : but- raithel fear .him whioh is able to desitroy     Now, if in the first instance (,merlasting  punishment)
both `sdiil an,d b&y in hell." Also ili Matt. .18 :9 : "And ithe  tiord signifies  *a long period,  it cannot possibly
if thine eye. tiffend thee, pluck it ou,t, and cast it from      mean  anythi.ng  .else  i.n the  s,econd   insknee `(`eternal
thee ; it .is belter  fop thee to enter 1Xe wi&h one eye,        life). But we know  %hat.  f`eternal  1if.e" in Scripture
rakher $liafi h;aving.two-  eyes to be cast into bell' fire." means life ,everlasting. It foll'ows,  then, that in Matt.
In l\a?,t. 23 : 15lthe LQrd a&uses th,e hypocritical scribes 25  :46  Dh,e  phrase  "ever.las;tirig  punishment" signifies
and l?harisees  &hat *hey make th,eir p:roselytes twofo3d        punishm&&  wibhoult  jen_d.  T.he Catechism,  th&ef&e,
more. chil,dren of hell (geherina) than' themselves ; and presents th'e teaching ,of Scripture, when it ,decl:ar&


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that Go#d punishes sin temporally and eternally:
     The divine motive of this punishment is  God'!s                  `: ~The Angel-Of The Lord Jn The Old
wrath. This is expressed tin the words : "He is terribly                            Testament Scriptures
displteased." T.he German here has: "Er  ztirneth
schreCklich". The.cwrath -or .displeasure  of God is not                 In the light of these observations certain perplex-
to be cornparted  to- human anger. It is n,ot a `passing ing passages in the book -of Exod.us take on meaning
,emotion. It  i.s constant. For God's  hanger is  the  re-           for us. One such passage is the promise whi-ch- God
faction of the holiness of G'0.d against the wicked that made to Moses. shortlp~  after. the: ~r~val.`ole,,~he,.,people  _
tramples under foot the gllory of is name anId refuses ,of Israel in the: ~~~~~~ess~~~a~~~~~~~~i~~;~  reads. inpart;.:
to give Him thanks. God is holy. And His  &6li&&s
                                                     .  .Tp<- .:-    "Beh,old, I send' an*.angel  b~~~~~e.-the~~~.~~~.~~~~~~t~~~~-i~~,,~-_
is  thee divine  virtue according  t,o  whicZ  Hel'always the way, to bring thee into the pla&whi& I .have:p'rGz
seeks Himself as the only  Go'0.d. He seeks  His&n                   pared. Beware of him and obey his voice. . .  ." (Ex.
glory also in the creature..  .And when the crreature  re-           23 :20-23). Th'is announcement should not cause LIS
fuses to give Him the glory.that is ,due unto- H,is name, `to look fo,l-ward to the appearance in subsequent chap-
(God's  holiness r,eacts  against that creature in wrath. ters of a creature-angel to bring the people of Israel
Nor is His wrath directed merely agai.nst  sin, and not to C,anaan. The angel here promised has already  mad%e
atgai.nst the sinn,er. Some like to make this distin&ion.            hi.s appearance. He is the angel-the angel of the
`God is  displeased  with sin, but he  l,oves the sinner.            Lord-whom the ,scriptures  identify with. Jehovah .and
But this is a pure abstracti,on,  quite contrary to the ass0jciat.e  with the pillar of clo.ud and fire-the siagn of
teaching of, Scripture. `God wrath  is, not  dire&d ,his hidden presence. He was now for the first time
against sin but against the workers of iniquity. Pnn-                promised and hais presence in the camp announced; the
ishment is not infli,oted upon sin, but up~oli &e sinner.            reason being that, in reply to their reception of cove-
It is not sin that is cast into hel:l fire, but the ungodly          nant, (Ex. 19 :l'7, 18)) the people of Israel had virtu~al-
that co-mmits  thle sin.                                             ly just been constituted a holy nation to declare God's
     And this  wrath of  6o.d  expr,esses  and realizes it- praises and the army of God towar hi:s warfare. Thus
self  in  the  cursBe.  The. Catechism quotes: "Cursed is the need -had been created of a captain, guide and
<every  ,one that  continueth not in all things that are             shepherd to lead the "people and to go before them as
written in the book of the liw, to)do them." The curse the terror of Go,dto  intimidate the enemy. This need
is the ,opposite  of the blessing of God. Both are the was supplied by `the angel already present but now
almighty  Wo,rd  whioh God speaks.           Blessing `is the        for the first time introd'uced  to the nation. Being sent
Word which He speaks in His favor and ,eter.nal  lqoving- ,by the Lord and- being the equal of God even, the
.kindness upon' `His people. The curse. is the Word H,e people were admonished to. beware of Him and obey
pronounces upon the ungodly reprobates in His con- IHis voice in that He would not pardon transgression.
stant and eternal wrath. It `is the Word that brings                    `Another such passage is Ex. 33:l:3, "And. the Lord
misery, temporal and eternal misery, upon all that  Ilove            said unto Moses; Depart `and go up ,hence, thou and
unrighteousness. And there is no escape. Only in                     tie people which thou hast brougnt up Otis VI wit: IW-.
Christ, Who voluntarily borfe  the wrath of God and the              of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham.
curse- on the accursed t&e, is there a way lout; For                 And I will send an angel before thee ; aad I will drive
in` Him there is eternal right~eousness,  favor of God,              out the Canaanite. : . . for I will not `go up in the
and .th'e bl,essi.ng of life in His fell~owship  forever.            m,idst of thee; for.thou art a stiff-necked people: lest I
                                                   H;  H.            cons'ume thee in  t.he way." The Lord has a conflict
                                                                     with His people on account of their great sin. They
                                                                     have caused Aaron to make a gol,den  calf. The people
                                                                     are pardoned ; but their pardon is limited by th,e fact
     SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL FIELD-DAY  L                                 that Jehovah -will not go in the midst of  t-hi Qeople
will be held July 4th at Ideal Park. The'program will to Canaan, because in `that case they would expose
,begin at 1:OO with games for the chi.ldren.~  Speakers themselves- to destruction-. through their sins, for they
for the day will be Rev. H. Hoeksema and R,ev. .A.                   are a stiff-necked people ; but that- He will send an
Petter. There-ar.e  plenty o,f seats and benches.                    angel before them. Just what is the force of this
We have our olwn Cantmeen this year. Come one and all threat? The` passage, -taken on its face meaning, as-
aed spend the day with us in Christian fellowship.                   serts thlat, if hitherto Jehovah .has gone up in their
Directions.: from Grand Rapids-3$!! mile from South midst, He will henceforth withdraw Himself and cause
B,eltline,  turn 1/2 mile WIest? then 1, mile South.                 His place to Be taken by the angel; But this cannot
From Kalamazoo:  11/2; mile north of  Cutlerville on be  .the thought conveyed: For God and the  angel-
Division, turn 1h mile West, then I/ mile South.'                    so it appeared-are `one and the pillar of- cloud is the
-       -                              The ~Comm~ttee.               s&b01 of the. presence of both. Hence, the notice can;


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  not be taken as an  -annonncement  of a subsequent "Make me to know him whom thon wilt sen.d" i.e., the
  separation' of the two.: .:. `. , ._ _.    .,:.                       angel ; and.then, "that I may know thee "0 my God".
      Another explanation ..hass-.it  &at -.~he'. who: says to          It indicates that in his mind the angel and Jehovah
  Moses; "I will not .;go up :in. the- midst .of .thee, "is stand out as being one, so that to know the angel was
  Jehovah in the  .f%z&  `.of--the.   revealed,:glory  of the to know Jehovah. It also indicates that his request is
angel aim-that `the, angel tp'be sent is. Jehovah in the                not that t-he Lord tell him whom He will send but that
  obscu@tidn.of the g1or.y of this same angel-the. @gel -He make him to know better than 1H.e has her,etofore
  of the Lord. Thus on:account of the ktiff+eckedness                   done' His,, Jehovah's own blessed self i.e., that God
  of the people; the revelation of: God will- h'enceforth               give him a clearer and more perfect revelation of Him-
  veil `itself.-  :    -::.  _,_  1  -  -'                              self in the face of the angel (who is chrisit) and thus
  _ `7,.,This :..exp@nation.  is as unlikely .as' the one first also a more perf,ect  knowledge of the way- in which He
:~e~~~i:n~ed~l-`~~~W~~t-iilus~-be"trakB~-into:   ~cco~~~~also   here    saves His people. Living, as he did, in the Old Testa-
: .$s~:thati~the  Lange1 of the `Lor'd:~:a~d-`Jeh~uah~tl~ough  dils- ment Dispensation, his knowledge of this  wiay was
 tintit, the one from the other,' are.yet  one. ~-The~passage           most imperfeott;    The Lord replies, "My presence shall
  is to be paraphrased'thus  : "`And the Lord,' the triune ,go  w%ith thee and I will give thee rest" `(vs. 14). It
 : Jehovah, said unto Moses through ,I& angel, Dopart,                  will appear that this answer is suitalble  if it be con-
  go up hence, thou and thy people. . . . and I will send               sidered that what Moses desires is a clearer revelation
  an angel. In and  throngh my angel I will go before                   of God in the totality of .His attributes, a view of God
  thee `a.nd will-, drive -out the `Canaanite. . . . For  nei- perhaps such as cannot be realized except in the in-
  .ther 1. nor my angel `wili go Iup in the midst of..thee;             carnate Son of God, .thus a revelation of God's glories
  for thou ,art a-stiff-necked p,eople: lest I consume thee such as the church at that time was not prepared TV
  i n   `t h e   w a y . "                                              receive. The Lord's reply~is to be paraphrased thus,
     Y Thus, *both Jehovah and the angel will go before                 "Why dost thou desire that I show thee more of my-
  them2and neither will go up in their`midst. The proof of ,self. My presence (face in the original) shall go with
  then-.correctness  of'this interpretation is the s,ubsequent thee and- I will give thee rest. Is this not enough for
  doing.@f  -Moses. He %akes the tabernacle and pitches thee ?"
  it without the camp,: afar off from the camp (vs. 7).                    Moses' request was essentially identical with that
  Then we-read,.  f`ind it came to' pass, as Moses entered made to the Lord by Jacob at Peniel when he said to
  into @e Tabernakle, the cloudy pillar descended, and the Lord,  "T'ell-  me, I  ..pray thee, thy name" (Gen.
  stood` at the door of the- tabernacle, and `talked with 32 :29). God's answer to Jacob w.as, "Wherefore'is it
  Moses" (vs. 9). "And the Lo&d spake  unto Moses face                  that thou dost ask -after my name." "And, He blessed
  to face. . .  ." (vs.. 11) .* So then, the cloud-Xhe angel him there." ~Essenitially  this, too, was GodXanswer  to
  of the Lord-as  w&l1 as  Jeho;vah  goes into seclusion.               Moses. Instead of -yielding to his request, the Lord
  In the Old" Dispensation -Christ, too,,- was holding His              blessed him (and' with him the people of Israel ac-
  people at a distance from Him'and this for pedigogical                cording to the election) -in His declaring, "My face will
  yea&n&                           _                     :              go with thee and I will give thee rest."
      A right  understan,ding   .of the relation which the                 Let us lay  hold on the  thrust of this promise.
  angel of the.:Lord  and the Triune covenant God sustain. Isaiah identifies the face of Jehovah with the angel
  to each other greatly aids one in grasping t.he sense (of the  Lor,d) by the statement, "And  th,e angel of
  and meaning of the last half `of -chapter 33 of the' book Bis face saved them.... (Isa. 63 :9). Thus the promise
  of' Exodus'.and  `in discerning the thought-processes in              i,s to th,e effect that God's Christ-the gracious coun-
 this  difhcult passage. In verse 12 Moses, complained tenance of the Lord-will go w,ith Moses. The signifi-
  -to the Lord that "thou sayest unto me, Bring up this cance of this affirmation can be comprehendred only in
  peoplee : and thou hast notletme know whelm thou wilt the way of ,&stinguishing between God by HimseZf and
 send with me. . .  ." So the text reads in our English God in His relation of the Father of Christ. By `Him-
  .Bibk.. But this should have been translated, "But self, as standing.outside this relation, He could only
thou hast not mad& me to know `1irn or t&e one whom                     find it in Him to destroy this people. For His eyes
  thou wilt send." -Moses' complaint is not that God are too holy to -behold sin ; and they in themselves are
  fa&d to tell him whom He wotild send. Jehovah has ill-deserving because of thfeir guilt. It is only in the
  told. He will send His.angel  with Moses (vs. 2). Nor                 relation of Christ's God and F&her that He can keep
  does M,oses fail to. comprehend-that the angel is to be mercy for thousands, forgive transgression, iniquity
  identified with,Jehovah. That he.has &d.erstanding  of and sin, be for His people, give them the ascendency
  this is plain from his repetition of -the complaint in vs. over the adversary, and give them rest, mark you, rest.
  13, "Now therefore, I-pray thee, if I have found grace The word  -includes  all the blessings  aocrui.ng  from
  .in thy' sight, ,shew .-me now-thy way, that I may know               Christ's atonement, thus life everlasting in opposition
 i%ie. . .  .I')~kno~w thee Jehovah. Moses first . says,                to eternal doom and desolation. It is only in the  rela-


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  tion of Christ's God that He can bring them into being bytes. in the hu,man  nature of Christ? The latter cer-.
  a peculiar peop1.e and empo,wer  them $0. declare `.His ttiinly. There is proof of this. Isaiah identifies God's
  praixses. And it is precisely in their possessing Him face ,with the angel bf the Lord in this. language, "And
  in this relation that  they are separated from the the  angeil of his face saved them"` `(Isa.  63::9).   The
  world.                                                            angel, as was shown  froth  the'rs&ptures,  is Christ.
      It is in this relation of the God and Father of the That the face of~Gbd`is -His. glory visibly manifested is.
  angall--iHis gracious face, Christ Jesus4hat  H,e, `the furbher  evid@iit  from this that it was made  to. pass
  Triune Jehovah, through His angel, will go with them. by Moses .and that the reason he saw it not;was that
  The promise is thus of utmost significance. It spel,ls            the hand of ihe Lold covered him while it passed by.
  life with God for Moses and his people. It means that             (Ex. 33 :21-23)) so that what Moses saw was the "back
  eventually h'is desire to see God as he is will be grati-         parts" of IGdd's face, the glory of the triune! Jehovah
  fied but that for the present ,he must be content to live `obscured. What passed by'is the pillar of do&I, wh'ich
  by this promise.                                                  at that moment, was made to assume an aspect of such
      That Moses had sufficient understanding of this uneatihfly splendour that the sight of it was njore'than
  word of God to him to sense its import, is evident from Moses  &uld have endured  without  pefishing.
  his reply, "If thy face go-not, carry us not up hence.            AlsO God's  face `then is  Christ Jesus,  th& Son of
  For -wherein shall it be known thait I and thy people Gc$ in His  ofice of Mediator, visibly  manigested  on
  have found grace in thy sight? It' ia  n.ot that thou the eatih first -in human form, then in the /pillar of
  .go&t with. us", `Thoiu,  thy face, thou in the relation cloud, and lasltly in the fulness of, time -in :the ' man
  of the ang&s Father'? "So, `sollely ;throulgh Thy going Jesus. The face of Cod is now the  glorifie:d human
  with us in ithis relation, `shall we be separat,ed,  I and .nature of `Chi+t %vhich we see through  `a g&s-the
  thy people, from'all the people that are upon the face .Scriptures-daEkly.                T,hus in the Old  Dis$nsation
  of tie earth" (;vs. 15, 16).                                      IGod%  faoe was  .the Cloud, the visible  symb$ of thle
      "If thy face go not; carry us not up hence". Life             L!ordts presence. It went before the  people  to  <lead
  Xvith Chrisit's  God in the wijldereess  is much to be pre-       them in hhe way ; and `its glory filled the r shnctuary.
ferred- above life in Canaan without God;  for- apart Y,&t Moses was told that-he could .not. see God's .fa;ce?
  frolm Him lifme i,s death, it matters not how filled that         What-the Lo,rd had refer&e%0  is either a s$endrous
  life may be with a material abundance, the good of revelation of the archetypal  image of God's &tributes
  this earth.  Anld the sole evidence  befor,e men that such as no man either in .this life or in `the' life to come
  Christ's God is t&e God and Father of Christ's people             b& God only can and does behold or a revelation of
  is that in and through Christ Hfe go with them, van- this image as only'the saints id `glory can abd do, be-
  guish their adversaries and make `them to inherit ,the            hold. This latter is in.all likelihood ;the case;
  `earth and on it f,ellowship  with them. -Therein precise-           Let us now go back to vs. 19. "And he s&d, I will
  ly it' is known that His people find grace in His sight. make all my goodness pass `before thee, and' I will pro-
  "T;herefore,  Lord, go thou with  u,s, thy face Lord!" claim the name. of the Lord befor.e thee~.;akd will be
Such is Moses' request. And the  L,ord   .responds,  "I graci,ous  to'  whem I will be gracious, and  will show
  iwill  d.o  lthis' thing also  th& thou hast  spo.ken; . .  ." mercy-on wh& `1. will shelw tiercy."
  Indeed, how could He show Himself  unwillling to do                  Thi$ scripture makes mention of God's goodness
  this thing, seeing, "that thoa has% found grace in my and name; The surrounding scriptures  make `mention
* sikht, and I know thee ( and thy people) by name (vs.             of His glory and~face. B&h are the Visible fadiance- of
  17)) `seeing that I love thee and in that lovIe know thee         His goodness. Aed in the latiter is colmprehebded  the
  by the name ;that bes'peaks what thou art by th,e power           totality of  all His  vitiues. And this is His  natie.
of my grace-sons of Christ's God.                                   M&es  will see all  God's  goddnes`s  .-not  in  it;  highesC
      Taking fresh courage, at the hearing of these grac-           Idut only in its obscured radiStnc@. This visi& will be
  ,ious words, Moses in his mind returns to his original accqmpanied  by-the  spoken word. The  syml$ol-here
  request to which he now' gives expression in this lan- the  pillar of cloud-is mute  -Htholut-the   woid. The
  guage, `:I -beseech thee show &e thy glory, `reveal to Lord will also proclaim  His name before'Mos&.  Pre-
  me more of thy bl,essed self'. (vs. is). That the glory paratioli iS now niade for the fulfillment of this-p>om-
  of God, which Moses desires -to see, is` God's face is            ise. There is a place by the Lord, a cleft of the rock.
  plain from His. reply, ~"Thou  ,cansrt not see my face The Lord puts Moses'in this cliff and covers him with
  for there shall  n'o man see me and  live" `(vs.  20).            His hand.  Then "the Lord descended in- the  cloud"
  Her,e the Lord  i`dentifies His  glo?y with His face.             -FaEk you, the cloud--"arid sitdod with him there, and
  But what is to be understood by the Lord's face? Is it proclaimed-the natie of the Lord." The one.who pro-
  the `divine essence as such, the express i,e., the arche- claims- is not Moses but the- Lord. "And the Lord
  ,tyij& image of God, or the revelation of this image,             passed by (iin the cloud) before him and pr.ocIaimed,
  -itlie `visible. manifestation of the totality of God% attr-i-    "The-L.&d,  the'Lord God, merciful and gr@pus, !png-
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       suffering, and ahun,dant  ifi goodness and truth, keeping Son of God and the  ,dwelling  of the triune co&ant
       mercy-for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgr%+ God with men in and-through God's Son. The human
       sion and sin, and' that by no means will clear  lthe             Eorm in which He at important points in the history of
       guilty ; visiting the `iniquity of the fathers upon the the patriarchs appeared to ithem ; the pillar of cloud
       chi,ldren, and upon the  khildren's   childr,en, unto the that w.nnt before the people of Israel to lead them in
       third and to the,fourth generation" (5x; 34 :5-7).               the way the  tabernaclle over which this cloud w.ouId
          What Moses receives is a dim vision of  all1 the              hover during the rest-b'eriods' of Israel's march through
       fealtures of God's  glory, such at that which  >errified. the wilderness-all prefigured ithe human nature that
       Isaiah (Isa. 6) and such as`was manifested in Christ.            in the fulness of time the' Son of &d was to assume.
     He sees, as was said, the "back parts" of God's face-              This `cloud  -had  access  to Him  but only through the
       parts which correspond to. the gl+-God's Scriptures mediation .of priests and in the wo,rld only. through
       -throu&h  which is now  ,&en the glory  of Christ the: mediation `of the prophets.  Buti  this  temple-
       darkly. ~The bfilliance of the revelation of God's glory         presence of Christ, of the triune God,  ceased --when
       in t.he full1 sense tiould  ,d,estroy Moses. For he is-yet the people of Israel had filled up their  meas,ure of'
       a rnafi w&h an eye that is both earthy and sinful. In            iniqtiity ; and Jerusalem abandoned to  destructiori.
       his vision John saw one like unto.the S.on of man with           In the time succeeding the exile, Christ and through
       hair white like wobl; as white' snow and with eyes as ,a Him God %vas presetit  in the word but the ark and tihe
       flame of fire.  ,It was  bhe  `gl,orified  Clirid.  Atid when cloud were wcanlting in the temple. Thus foriaken of
      -John'saw `Him he fell as dead at &s feet. Believers              ,God, the true Israel waited and longed'for  a new mani-
       in  this life cannot see  G,od's  fa&  ueolbscured.   Hetic.e    festation of' $he. face of J&hovLh. At last  tihe dawn
       they now see through ,a glass darkly and know .in part broke.              Jehovah once more  vis,ited  His  people  but
       and prophesy in part. Spiritually they remain children now i-n the mystery `oY `4Go.d manifested in tihe flesh".
       in this life and also speak as children of things heaven-        Biut His own received  Him not. `They nailed the
       ly in terms of an earthy language. And th,is was ltrue           manifested in t& flesh to, the cross. But having died,
       e@&ially of Moses,  a's he liv`ed in an epoch in which           be  ros@ agin unto the justification of His pedple and
     $he Spirit `was not yet come. Therefore he, m.o,re  so - ascended into heaven. Then He return?d  in the Spirit.
       than we, spake as a child, understood as a child, -and           But the church longs to see  `His.  f-ace. This longing
       thought as a .child.                                             wial be satisfied `in' the  gloripa8 time of the church
          Paul -knew a mad in Chri,st, whether in the- body he upon the pew earth, when the tsbernacle  of God w!U be
       could not tdl, dr whether OUI of the body, & could not           tith men.
       tell, oaukht up-to the third heaven, in p&rad.is.e, where                           I                           G. M. 0.
                                                                             .
       for a moment. he stood face to face with t&heavenly.
       And he heaad unspeakable words-woyds not_ lawful                                            -
       for a man to utter a$ Ithat no mati can utter *ho still                                          .,
       bears the image of the ,earthy aad is occupied in his
       mind with eatihy images of the heavedy.                                       Verlost Diior Den Maam
         When Christ will "appear the `glass though which
     we now see  sp darkly, will have served its  usef,ulness                                   ( P s a l m   5 4 )
       and therefore- will vani.sh  away as di,d the ceY'eniofiies         De Heere heeft ops geopenbaarcl w& de h&torisohe
       of the  -law at  $he first coming of Christ. For that aanleiding van dezen psalm geweest is.                          .
       which is perfect- will then havIe come and th.at which.             De psabn tiepd' gedicht  gedurende  de periolde van
       is in part will be done &way with. Then we shall kgogw' DIavid's   Z.even  toen  hij  ails een  ve!dh:oen op de  berg&n
       even as we are known (1 Cor. 13).                                gejgagd tierd idoor ,den goddeloozen  koning  Saul;
          The  -proclamatiqn of the Lord was as obscure as                 De  benatiuidheid  die  in  ,dit lied bezongen wordt,
       the glory `of God that was made to pass by Mos(ts was heeft Eijn oo'rri%& in de gdede  daden van David en de
       di@ The ,Lord is' He who $orgi,ves iniquity and sin' valschbeid   van  zijne  vijanden.-
     but who by ng means' will r&r the guilty. Hoiv para-                  l?avid-had .de%woners  van Kehilmah gered van de
       doxical  i&is must  have sounded  In Moses' &rs. The             Filistijnen. Doch dit .goed zouden ze`zekerlijk b.etatild
       faot an'd truth set forth by this word of God was not hebben met kwaa'd door hem aan Saul over- te geven.
       compr&henjded  by Moses in  all-it8  implicatiop.   It` is a Dtaaboim  meet David  vlutihten  ri%ar  h&  guid-O'osten,
       word that can be understood Only w&n conitemplated               naar d.e woesitijn  en-de wouden v$n Zif. De Heere had
       in the light of the New~Testament  Scriptures.                   hem te kenhen gegeven  doqr openbar'ing der efod;  -da&
                         -  e                                           &  inwoners   van  IQhilah hem zekerlijk  zotid,en  ver-
                                                                        raGen *n Saul -die in. aan$ocht'was.           .-
           .I?; is pl,ain that the goal of revelation during the Old     -in de wouden v&n Zif komt Jbna;thtin en maakt een
        `&s@mer)t-  DispensaQn.   wasp the incarnation of the verbond  met David, ,die zich sterkte in zijn God.


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       Dolch,  0~  we&, de Zifieten zijn  ?an hetxelfde -slag do&h wij hebben het hier`te doen met God die waarlijk
mer&&en  als  .,di.e van  Kehilah.  -Zij  zenden  bodem af Gdd is. -:$.i met Hem is de Naam uitdrukking  `van Zijfi"
naar het  nookdkn,.   naar  de  solldaten-bende  van Saul. Wezen.   ~  )X  laatste   clausule   wijst  daarop;  als David
Daa.r  aangekomen-  hooren  ~6  %et  yerachtelijke   ver-              ze$: en doe mij  recht door  tiw  tiacht.  Macbt is een .
r&ad : "Heeft CDsvid zieh n&t .bij dns verbdrgen in de ,deugd  Gods,. e&r onder vele deugdea Go,ds. En zooals.
vestingen  in bet .wogd, op den heuvel van .Hachila,,  die Davi,d het zi.et'.is ,er vooral behoefte aan de tipenbaring
aan ,dit rec!hterhati#d  van .de wild@nis is?" Ja, ze' zor- van Gods mecht tegenover iijn wederpartij d:ers.
gen ervoor  dat Saul geen folut kan maken bij liet op-                     Dat de Naam Gods openbaring  is `van Zijn wonder-
.sporen  vali den  armen  DalCd. De  bijzoedex%eden*zijri `lijk  Wezen  w&en  .we van  M&ha  6:9. Daar staat :
.compl,eet. Saul kan  rechttif  Op zijn wild  +&u&n.                   "want Uw -Naam iiet het  Wezen".         Alles wat in het
De  valsche, laffe, goddelodze koning van .Isreel laat lGod,del.ijkti Weqe-n- ispkomt t3 bpenbaring in ,den Naam`
ook niet na om den Naam'er bij aati te hal,en. Lui&ert Gods.  Dsaaropx-is  er  verlossing- door dien Naam. En
naar hem: "Toen  zeidti Saul:  Gezeg&d zijt gijlieden d'aarom leidt-moeite  en verdriet  ons tot de aanroeping
d*en Heere,  dat gij u over mij  om%erin;d~`hebt. . . .  !" van den `Naam  ,des  IH,&eren.  I
be vuil'e sionnen worden-gezegtend -en Saul stelt het                      Nog eens  weer: "0 God!`? David  ver>olgt   .zij,n
voor 51&of hij in ellende  is vanwe@ David. David, die                 gebed in benauwdheden; Laat ons luisteren en .leeren,
ih,&n. nooit  iet,s in  ,den weg  `  legde.          Ce  fu,nidamen$e% want  dit is een  ond,erwijiing Davids. 0. `God,  hoof
der waarheid  worden   -onderstb&en  gekeerd,  als de mijn gebed,  neig de ooren tot de redenen mijns monds!
duivel  hoo,gtij   vi&.                                                 Moe$ dat erbij ?  Wist God  niet, dat -David  aXn
       `En David wordt geboods?hapt: -de ZHieten hebben `t bidden was? Is het noodig om Go.6 er attent op te
U  v&aden!                                                             maken dat wij. aan `t bidden tijgen?
       IOngeveer'iti  di& tijd is David `aan .`t psaltizingen,          Ja,  clat moet  ,erbij. God weet het  wel;  doch  HlY
of lieveer, psalmdichten  getogen. W5t zal .de stakkerd                wil hebben, dat wij Hem aanloopen als een water-
anlders' doen?.: De laatste wborden  van Sau&,.wapen  .ge-             &room. Hij geni.et  `ervan als wij Hem eeh; kinderlijx
lweest : "zoo .z'a! ik hem nas:poren ohder .$l.e d,uizen,den           aanspveken,  oak in `t  zeggen, dat wij nu.zullen -bidde,n
v a n   `Juda!"-                                      -.
                                               .:;- _ .                tot Hem. Ook komt daatibij, dat het een behoefte  des
       Qok  hbd. Saul  a,ll.e schijn  ian,...qecht  aan  zijxi  zij; .harten  is om Hem aan-te zeggen. Het staat zoo onge-
Hij was Koning van Israel; bat is een  ,.l>eele  voor-                 veer gelijk  aan het uifspreken  Ivan. den  Vad,er-naam.
spropg op den armen zwerver  die van de bergen  naar                   David maakt God er  attent op, dat hij  zich bewust
dve woestijnen vliet eh vand,aar naar- de .diohte wouden. Dot H,em richt. A1s men o~p aarde tegen iemand sprekgn
       Bovendi&i had Saul de macht in htinden. Hij kon wil, eischt welgevoeglijk.heid,  dat tien -eerst dien man
maar rechts en` links -de drommen soldaten opr;epen                    ,adres&ert,  dat ,is, zijn naam uitspreekt. Zoo is het ook
om den gefaagde  Ite omsingelen en .op zijn gemak af te                behoefte, dat  ge?oelt een kind  Gods  `als  %  ware  &-
m&en.  Macht`maakt  recht. De  zegening  .des Heeren stinktief-geeskelijk:   Ik zal den Heere zeggen, dat ik
wordt zelfis afgeroepen  over lag@ spionnen !                          tot Hem wil  &p&ken  in de bede of dank of. lof en
       Doch er is n'og B& uitweg  voor David, een uitweg prijs.                      ,     -       -
.die niet ,do.or  de woudmq  Fokt, noch bok met woestijnen                 Voorts zal  Dav`i'd zijn  gebid motiveeren. "Want
en bergen  te maken :heeft: En -dime. uitweg is God.                   vreemden skian tegen m.ij op, en tyraniien zoekep  mijne
       D,at i;S de vier-en-vijftigste  psalm.                          ziel!" Het  zijn  `tieemdel?ng&i  en  eyrannen die het
       80 God!                                                         hem ben&uwd.miketi.       D&t bretigt ons:tot  een moeilijk-
       %&n  mooi begin. bat  mo,est'  6et  begin en einde heid.  DC! vraag komt op: hoe lion  Datid spreken iran
zijn  van- ons  allen en  vafi  allIe  m.ens&en,   en#gel,en en vreemden,  .waar  toeh  `,te Zifieten  manhen Van  -Jtida
dui+elen.  Van  alIes en  all& die  `bestain. God.  `God               waren, zi jn eigen .stamgenooten  ?      We kunnen  ver-
is het begin, mid&%:en  einde v$n alies.`Ol?h Hem draait staan,,  d&t hij van tyrannen spreekt.  Daar  bedoelde
alles. Bewus+ of  onbew.ust,  gewilli,glijk  of  tegti den hij zek,er Saul~ en Saul's bende mede. Wreedelijk  ver-
wil in. A,lles roert ,en beweegt'omdat  God God is... _                volgden zij zijfi ziele . Doclh m&t `die vreemden be-
       D,ie dat we`et  en.ervaart  roept tdt God iti bkfiatiwd-        doede hij `toeh de Zifieten? En h'oe waren die tieem: e
h&d&n. D&@nrbegint  David zijn' gebe`d in- di'en' $orm :               den?  IHet  wooed   b&&ekent letterlijk,  a$d+aai&,' ter
90       God!     $;+.;:v~-.-.     :           -            `.         zijde treden, zooals een vreemdeling  zijn, reis onder-,
       `Verloi mij` tioti2 X%ven Naam eri do& mij recht ddor bne'ekt, ter zijde treedt om het huis der inwdners b.itifi&i
Utie  +macht.  D8e'%&,$te   cia.usule  werpt   licht  over de te &eden; zooals  een vreemdeling  huisvesting en'bndkr:
ee&te  die ietwat'vrehmd  klinkk. Verlas mij do& Uwen t,erzijd'e   tr&dt om het huis  der  inwoners  binnen te
Naam. Wat  :ktiti  e&  naati  ons  h`elpefi?  Zoo:zijli we treden, zooals een vreemdeling huisvesting en onder-
gene&d  te,  vr?gen.-   1  .E&i  riaam?  :  :%a&  2` er?  -in een ldak zoekt  bij de intioners van ,een and??. land.
&am?  Zu&`%,.7ded  g&leug&l`de.  uitdrutiking  ohde% de                    Het  a&&oord ligt voor  d'e hand.. `De  -ZtXieten
mensoheiikiti&e&n;  -Dch; j&' da%` is'.wel  Zoo onder ins,
                    - .                                                waren D&$d tdt vreemden vantiege  huh goddeloosheid.


                                                                  TSHE  .ST.ANDAtiD   B..E-ABER                                       b                                       401:

        Als het volk- Gods- wandelt in $e: raadslagen der go@+ J&ritig _ en heiliging..
        loozen,  is hun na&n  ni'et `1anier'Jakob en  Isra;el,`~ d,och .: Het --is stX  gewor;den  in  Davidls hart.. Een zacht
         dan zijn zij  vreem\delingen.   Z$: Jeremia 15  :-21:.  ,Daar  t`$el%"  %e&  uitgesproke,n.
        wordi Gbds %lk door den Heiligen, Geest !`bdozen'!~$n' `: :-Dsivia. is &et a&en. :God' is. .hem tolt .een Helper.
         "tkranpen"  g&$eeten-.            fii,e  oak,: Jesaja 1  :lO.                   Daar `,.Dat-.w&$!`D%vid & die we&ischtip'~maakt hem gerust
                                                                                                                               .-
  l$&  &&e~j~~Sqi&$   en Gomorrah. .En om ni,et ireqder t@niddlen .irafi den strij;d.,  E,r' is. `ien :groote  s&are ,i#n
       `~e~~~n.,l-l,et;`-~~k-~o~   .Openbaririg  waar Jeruzalem geeste- ,-. Israel over&ble$.en  d?e s?oor  d,en geza1.f de des Heeren
.-        .-l~~;~~~~~,a~~~~~~~~~~~`~Sado~~                  en      Egypte:              :        bidden.. En `on,dFr, die*.$&.are,  aan `heit hoofd van die
          . ,__ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  door zij,n lage handeli& schane staat de Hetitie`$& heirscharen.                                                     ~
-:.  -  ,~~~.na~~n;~~~~~~~ve~~~~~n~   `Zij  wisten,  dat  `~~~~d                                       David we&t he$ : God zal dat kwaad .aan zij.ne ver
 ~.  ,s+y- mac-Y  ,(R&& +&;  .Y Ten  .overvloede   `was-  di:t in  de-  `spieders   ,vergeld&i;-  D.&  tr@spieders"  zij.n  `-de  Zifi&en.
         vele jar& die tichter  hen-lagen bewezen. Denktaian den V,a@he  men&&x  Ze.lodpen U opzij.  Past.op!  Ze
         strij,d van Goliath. -Denkt aaq `de zangen der. dotiht+rs                                &ebb& U &&&&l~gen  met een `zwart, duivelxh oog-
  Israels.: `David heeft zijn  tien-d,uizend#en:   verslagen. merk. 0 neeii,' &xzull&n'dit .itia@e en duivelsche niet
  M,ea wist dat d.e Heere e& welgevallen had a&n David. laten zien. Al.&&   &a$  bedekhelijk in zijn  -Werk. Het
         Dooh hi& zit kieti d,e kn:oop  : Zij `*apen godd&os  en is-$&n  werk d& di%st&xis. Ze. weiteti.den  weg tot Saul
         clan haat m'en diii! goed %ijn. `t Waren  lafge menschen. .in  `Gi,beti?'  1s'David:tiiet  bij-  &s,  6 Koning?  `Zijn wij
         David  h,ad nog pas de inwoners  van. het  na;bui-ige   geen  tirduwe   -onderdanen?  Worden-  wij  niet bewogen
         Kehilah gered fii,t de ,handen  der Filistijnen. .-Oridank                               goor de zai&%e  moti&en, o  I@ni.ng?- Is er nog  wat
         is `s w'ekeld's loon, doch- heit is- bier' de kerk die zoo van  -Uw dienst,  ,o Grodte  in Israel?  K&n `er ook no-g
         walgelijk  .handelt. -In `t  `algemeen is` ,het al zod laf een  zegen.inkj.e  af  *voo8r.  Uwe  trouwe  verklikkers ?
        `orn .de aerkliltker te spelep. Hoeveel'te meer als'cni&n                                 Laff,e, vliende duivelskinderen. En ze zijn met de'
         den n&am -va`n Christen ,dpaagt; Het is' &ht duivelsch. Zifieten- niet allen-naar  de he1 g?gaan. Zif is nog het
                `En- d&tyrali.der-tyrgfinefi  is Sahl. " W,&l;  d%it gedeelke vergif en venijn tussfchen  de broederen van Juda. God-
         ,der- g&chiedenis' -is tevens het -1aatste  -tfjdvak' ivdn den verlosse  ens  ervan.                                                                              _I  .,
         origelu&gen Kdning Isr@els: -Het zal n%t lang meer                                            Doch God zal het  z&k&  en  &den en  bkngelden.
         ,d.tiren  en dali he@ft  %ijn dq%rdrtikking uit; Het liep`op l&iste& naar David: l3oei z-e uit ;d?or- Uwe waarhgid.
         &ii`&&j           met-.S~fll,         -            -       ..            ? .             W,at  beteekenti   &t?  -Het  b&ee&&:  d$t God'ze  a& de
                -Nog`&$i ge,d&ite-o?ntrent  dit Tiers;, +Hoe vreeselijk `God der waa&eid"`z.$l  onidekken, &t?&x&&q  en'-als
         als  er-  tegen  on,+,  gebedefi   wBrdt.  Mien  l.et'  dear  zoo.  n'iet  Ii&ige  dui%k&in&e~en  verslinden. W&,~&$-J:  .is  die
         OQ, doch het 1~ vre$x?lijk;  We `veptrappen -en ve&ruk-                                  deGgcl,   waard&r-men  is  zboals-men   na&  zfjn,  wezen
         ken en .verguizen  en' `doen lijdeti: Y  G&at als  vanzelf;  zija moet. W,el,  d&t is God.  D&id  be+oelt  .to<.`eod
         ,Geeft.:maar -in-%an  aen' irispra'ak d&r' oade natuix- en we it:e  !eggen-:  b'es6js  U.  -aid'  Gbd.  t&&$veY  hen-en  1  d&n
         worden  `tyranneti `en handelen -vreemd; Doch,.  0 -wee ! word& zij                                             versloncien.            ..       `-          -      `*,
         #d&a? ii& een `snikkend-kind Gods 6p `de k&e& ! En i?re                                       Dat  &t  DiGid; in  toevoor&%$:  En  hij  6e&nt in
         hooren let `h&tvers&"tix?Bnd@  !--Doe  -mij reel-it `tegen-                              t&  gaai?  ifi  ` t           volbrachte   be&ssi&gsw&.   Dolirier
         ove`r  r@jn  wederpartij,  .d  .Heere..1  -  .H,et  `,is-  gedaarlijk  zegt  ,$an dezen  qsalm,   ,dai er  &en&,  veilossing en
.%erk om Gods kind te  be&uviren;                                          `..                .-  :..d$nk&arhei&   Iin  sch+lt.:  .En hij  h,&efi  gelijlk. Dit
                Ook  kan  n&n' de  vp'eetideh  `en` tyr&nn6n  hie?a&n  la&te  `gedeelte   ii  de  hemeli, David  gist  aan  `t  -of!+
         on&erk&nn&.  : Zij%elEen Gdsd' fiiet .vtior` htinnen oo&n.                               r&.-  `E.n- &williglij,k;.  -D&t is  h& ken.&+& van waren
            We  -wopden-   e r   &aii  ge`ciretid  -en.  d.$djroni  bev@eemdt   &odsdile$.  1                                              -       -1.
         liet ons zoo vtiak, als `we hat' woelen der' godd,elloozen                               :    Eh bet ,ga&t in `t einde weer om ,dien naai. Dx&id
         ~g&&&an.   D&  .kunnen  w'e' er  ti.iet  bij  hoe  dat'irolk  zal  dieti  N&n  Berhdogen.   .fiij doet dat al in `t  uitexi
         het  aandurft'soti  zoo tre  handeleri. `w& worden   -er aan van, de soho&nste  Pa&tie op ,di,en Naa& !%j'.is  Jeho-
         ,gewenld en daarin zijn we 0,6k !zalig, orn-.alles &n all,en                             L$L En die &am is. goed; in `dien naa& ii& aU&h-i~
         te zien  -eri te  beoopdeelmen  en te` behandelen  UitY  bet                             Van eeuwigh&d. -T& in  `al:le  `e~uti&~d&i zullen  a-6.
         ,6ogpunk  `Godes.   :Ook  iti  once  ioti;de'is   &  nag  ztilk een                      Da6ids diem Naa&:uitjub@len  %oorli& aangez&ht'v&`.
         hemelbreed   v&sohil  tusschefi de  kerk  en de wereld, (God. -En  d#an  i]s `t  goed.  -  -.  `.  ..  1..  T: -  -.  `p  Y
         De Heilige G&e& die het Woord +an `den verheerlijlkten                                        De  benauwdthkid  heefi  pla%ts  .ge&aakti   voo?  ver-
         Ghristus in ,o,ns harte spreekt onderhoadt` den `Christe- @wing  en ruimke. En. w:at Zif- en Sati &nga&: `Mijti
         lijken wandel eri als er a&lwaling is ter recht&r- of ter- oog heeft vajelij-k op hen geblikt. Ih heb mijn vij&n-
         ilinkerhand  is daar het grieven en,sti&Ypen  van de..smarlt                             &en mogen zien. Doch de  stakkerds  zrjti  &ek&&d   $:
         des nieuwen l&e&. En weerhoudt. ons om vreemden lgevallen. iGo&  waar'heid   heeft,  z e   gev&den.                                                                         '
         te              worden.                     ~.                    ;                           DD.e ,iervulling  van dezen psdm is den hof van Jozef;
                IHet .verschil is hier :' We stellen- God voor onze waar Jezus stcai,  te zingen. Zifm is Judfas  en - S%t+n ;
         oogeii !     Ongekunde  zaligheid.  Twee-  vruchten :  .be-                              Saul-  zijn de. vuige  l&den' van  hei Sanhedrin, met
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            408                           u    -.     .THE-     S-TAMDARD                     B.E-ARER~

            Herodsus en Pilatus in `t zog van  hunne. modderige principles and aims and contro,lled  by Christian poli-
            wateren:  Nooit. heeft David dezen psalm gezongen cies  a,nd  actmns at all times.. If it is to  be. worthy
            zooal's Jezus dat deed. De eigenlij.ke  dichter -is altijld ,of the name, it will m&main and defend the righteous-
            Jezus..   ,Ziet .Jezus is alle gestalten van. den vier-en-          ness- of  ,God even in the midst of a wicked world.
            vijftiger en het zal Uwe onderwijzing verdiepen..                   1.t will demand that justice be done- for God's, sake in
                   Zoo herhaalden zich de klanken van `t angstig roe-           the sph:ere  of labor and industry, in the re.lation be-
            pen. tegen Satan en booze menschen op `t vervloekte                 tween employer and employee, in the stipulations and
            hout. En `t .werd  noi banger  toen Hij wegzonk in Iconditions of labor, in the matter of -working:-hours
            eeuwigen dood. 10. God, verlos~  Mij : de waat'ren zijn, ,afid wag& scale. It will appeal; if necessary;-to those
            tot  aan de ziel gekomen!                                           in -,authority  that they bear : the-: sword; according to
                   En Uw Jezus ,is verlost uit alle Zijn benauwdheden God's calling in protecting the good and punishing
            en zingt nu blij te moe; God een lofzang toe. Terwijl the evi:ldoer. It will even cause its protest to be hear.d
            het vlammend oog Zijn vijanden z&t.                                 agamst the wtorkers  of in,i@.rity an'd condemn the world,
                   Eerst Jezus en dan die van Jezus zijn.                       announcing the judgment of God upon the wicked and
                   We.er  het vreemde en  .het laffe,  bet valsche en Ijroclaiming  the  &tory  which  wle-have in  our Lord
            sluwe,.  het tyranileke en ver,drukkende  van onze ziele,' Jesus Christ.. And. in doing this it Will spur its mem-
            6 God! Mijn ziele vernachte.  met David in de wouden, bers on to' ,do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly
            en heuvelen  van IHaehila, to;tdat  de nacht van.d.uivelech         ttrit,h  their God.
            verraad  verdwijne en -den morgenstond der verlossing                   Needless ito say, such an organizatmn  should-h&e
            opga in onze harten !                            `G.          8;    the whole&&ted support- and co-operation of every
                                                                                Christian workingman,  whether. he be personially bene-
                                                                                fitted or not, and. also .of every one who .is in -any way
                                                                                interested in the Welfare' uf the C.hristian laborer.
                                                                                    The question arises, why has the Christian Labor
                                                                                Association, after eleven years of existence,. failed to
            Separate Christian  &abor  Orgahzatims gain the fuli support of .a11 those who donfess  to be
                                                                                united in the common bond of Christian faith? Why
                   -Every ,now :and then th,e charge is heard that the has -it remained so smal.1 and insigmficant  even while
            leadlers,,  in thechurch  ignore, the diffi,culfies of the work- the  need  ,for  ,o:rganization in the  fields of labor and
            i.ngman, bye id&g little or nothing to -help .him solve h.is industry continues .to grow?
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            peculiar. probl,ems,  in the sphere .of labor and industry.             O;n the  on'e hand, the fault lies with those who
            At-be&o  it is said, the  inflnence of the  lea,dters  is affiliate themselves' with the worid,ly  unions. They Will
            negative. ..- T:he world.ly  unions are' criticized by some defend themselves by sayi,ng that they kave never been
            and @on#demned-  by others, the existmg Christian Labor asked to swear an oath or even to pledge loya.lty to lthe
            Association has either failled.  to' gain their support or union, never attend their ~m&tings,  even object to-their
            ihas been subjeoted:to  their. criticism. And all in all,           use of force, refuse to be held responsible  f&r their
            the workingman still feces his problems allone.          '          atrocities, but only p-ay their dues` to holld their job.
                 ..How.muoh  is true of these charges is besi:de the            This compromise attitude is even s.u-l$o&ed by many
            point. They do give  evi,denoe   to the fact  tha.t the ministers in the  Ghristian  I%eformed  Clhurches.  They
            labor,er feels that- some -positive a&i&i must be .taken.           will argue that. after all the "bread Question" is the
            He is confronted with  th:e  faot that during the  last main issue in this worid since it is a man's chief- re-
            years-industrial coniditions have become s&h, thraugh               sponsibiiity to support his family,. at .almost  any cost.
            large corporations; mass productions- and tl%e ,demand If,  then; the Christian  finds  it- almost impossible to
            for'col.lective bargaining, that he finds- it c&leult t,o properly, support his family without jloining a Wo$4dly
           obtain a&hold a positi.on- umess ke joins somee  6'rganii uniion, ,he is duty bound to do so for the- sake of his
            z,atien . And many of those who recognize the evil- of fatiily. IOjthers  wile1  argule that we  ark in  n6 way
            jojnicg-a  w'orldly union have sought a solution td their obligated to' get o,ut of the world;  but to live` in it and
            problem in a ,Christi.an  labor organization.                       to let  our light  tshine.   Th&efdr& affiliation with an
            .      That C3ristian.s wlho are united in a common- bond roath-bound organization is possible  with&it denying
            of faith. htave a right to. organize can be conceded with- one% ~rincipl~es, eventhough  these unions are definite-
            o,ut argument. - E,ven if they organi+%  with a. view to ly anti-christian in.principl;e  and actions, if only the
            paob~ems~sonfron;ting  the workingmaan in the sphere of lChristian  Will let his light shine as a member of the
            Ilabor and  in.d:ustry,  .there  -  >an be  n.o real objection union. Suck an' attitude is definitely detrimental to
            ,r&sed as  longas  they  aotual1.y  do so as  C,hristians. the Christian ,Labor  Associatiun, but also opposes every
           .`Frorn:  the very nature- of the case suoh an Xor~ganizati.on  ' attempt on the part of Chrisiians to' create a separate
            will- be distinctively Christian; governed by ,Chri,stian           labor organization.


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     ,On the o'ther  hand, the ChristEaa Labojr Association a contract will it sanction `a labor strike as a last re-
 is itself responsible f,or the fact that it <does  not gain sort, and reco,gnizes  the strikae so employied  as a legiti-
 the j suppoat that such an organization should have, mate, weapon in the workingman's organization to se-
 just because it is not nearly distinctive enough. There cure- its just demands." The first part of this article
 #can be sonly one possible reason for creati.ng a separa,te    i,s highly to be oomrnended,  but the last part should
 [Christian labor movement, and that is to maintain have been ~omitted.  ,For evid'ently  the last part most
 our Christian charaoter and unitedly apply our C$ris-          glaringly  contrdicts  the first part.  It is first stated     ,
 tia.n  pri.ncipl,es  by bringing them  i.nto practice as th-at all violjense of every kinid is rejected as unlawful
 friend-servants ,of Glad in every s&ere of lifse.     I.       and unchristian, and after that has been established
     Thle main issue for the Christian is  nevler the           it goes on to say that  nev:erthel,ess  some forms of
 "<brIead  que&on".     IIe has  1,earned  by  :gratie not to .violence under certain given conditions .are a 1,egitimate
 seek the bread whiZoh perishes, asking what shall we weapo.n -in .th,e -hands of the workingman to gain his
 eat `and what shall wte drink and wheaewith &all we end.
 be clothed, but to seek first the kingdom of God and its          The serious angle of the matter is that .the Chris-
 righteousness in the assmance that in that w,ay all tian Labor Associa:tion  feels that it cannot gain its end
 these other things  wi.11 be added unto us. It d'oes make without resorting to, ,or at l.east  threatening to resort
 .a worl'd of differen.ce whethger w,e discuss &he. problems to force. It refuses to appeal its case to the highest
 tof th,e laborer from the aspect `of the kingdom ob `Gold Tribunal in the Iheavens,  awaiting the day of judgment
 and its r,ighteousnless  or purely from thte aspect of <his    for the final verdict, in the meantime announcing to
 material interests in the'world.                               the *worlfd that God will certainly punish all unright-
     And yet the  consti,tution  of the  Ch&itian Labor eousness, oplpression-and greed, and cheerfully takinlg
 Ass,ociation  establishes as the sole aim and purpose of *up ,one?s cross to suffer f,or the cause of Christ in the
 th'e  socilety  "to promote the material and monal interest assurance that the victory is ours through Him Who
 of its members". Although the statement is also made has overcome the wlorld.
 that "all .efforts for the improvement ~of labor an.d in-         The ,obj,ection is raised that this -is nothing less
 ~dustrial  conditions must be prompted and guided by than gassivity,  and as far as the results are concerned
 Christ&n  principles", the improvement of .conditi:ons         it has no practical  v&e.       But again the question
 and :the material interests `of its members aemain  its        centers down to this : w&h practical results are we
 chief aim. There is nothing distinctively Christian seeking, and wheat is our aim and purpose in creating
 in that aim. Essentially, we finId the same thing ex- a Christian lambor organization. If we are seekmg  the
 pressed in th'e constitution of the American Flint Glass kingdom (of God and its righteousness, wle ar,e called
 W,orker's  Union, namely, "to  Ereate a co-operative to proclaim the will of the Lord wh'erever we are and
 spirit among thosje  whose interests are alike, thereby to demand obedi,ence to that divine will as revealed to
 ,enabling them  50 act promptly  ,on any matter that           us  in the  Scriptur'es.  No  ,one can call that passivity,
 may effect their interests." A Christian labor o.rgani- if we do strive for justice for  #God's sake, if we do
 zation can certairdy express itself far more distinctly        seriously cause  .our protest to be heard against all
 th,an that.                 -                                  unrighteousness, if we do appeal, as might prove neces-
     But that this materialistic aim is actually the pur- sary, to  {those in authority for justice in protecting
 pose of the Christian Labor Associ,ation  `becomes evi- the good and punishing  th,e evildoer, and if we are
 dent in the fact that it condones the use of.fmorce as a       finally forced to  ,assure the wicked world that  ven-
 iast extreme t,o gai.n its end., I have f,ound it ra.ther      `geanoe belongeth .to the Lord and that we are willing to
 remarkabke  that sonstitutions  of other w'orldly  organi-     suffer for righteousnless  sake in order that justi,ce may
zations which I  have seen say nothing about the use triumph forever in the bemens. N,or can the resmts
 of force in any way, but rather presuppose it, since prove t,o be a disillusionment f'or the believer. What-
 it is a well-known fact that they `do not hesitate to re-      ever the outcome may be, he possesses the peaGe  of
-sort to fo~rce'when  ;they deem it n'ecessary. The more heart and  mmd that he has  doee  his duty, and if
 striking, then, to find it mentioned- in the constitution he must suffer on acoount of it, he. counts it all joy that
 of ,a Christian  organizatimon. We  r'eed: "The C.L.A.         it is given unto him not only to confess Christ's Name,
 rejects as .u.nlawful and unchristilan all viol,ence in a but also to suffer with Him.
 labor dispute and condemns also all f,orms of intimida-           The remark is also rn,alde  that this ideal is far :boo
 tion and $he.destruction  or unlawful taking possession high for the Christians of our day, because the Churoh
lof  ,property.    The `C.L.A. seeks the solution of labor is i.n such a state of spiritual degradation that it woul'd
 probl'ems  through cooperation, me'diation  and arbitra- n'ot even rally to a truly Christian cause. But if -that
 tioa.' `Only after all these means havIe fai,led, and the be ,our attitude we have already` lost. the fight before
 cond.itions comnlained of have been proven to be grave- we have seen .the smoke of battle.
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It can readily be understooid that with these objections            .
t,o the existing Christian Labor Association in mind                     Training The CThild Before School Age
it becomes exltr.emely difficult, if not ethically itipos-
sible, for a Christian workingman who takes his prin-                    -The  ~difficulty of  t&raining  children is  well nigh
ciples seriously to join this  organizati,on.        H,e must proyerbial.  To this  ta+sk  peEhap?  .more than to any
soop.realize.  that b-j; joining this body le aleo exp:ress,es     other the tel1in.g Dutch proverb is often app$ed: "The
ag.reement  with its principles `as expressed in the con- 5beat skippers are those looking on from shore". And
skituiti~on,  alnd  &at he is pledged to abide by all its          we have per&s heard_the  moral story of the man w*ho
.+cts and dlecisions,  and theref,ore, also responsible f,6r       went to  his neighbour, the father of twelve' w.it.h  a
its  a,ctions.   Supp,ose that  his  gr.oup   shotid be forced com$laint  that he could not manage his child and would
to "a la& ,extreme" 2nd that they resort to tthe u'se of           dike some advice.
force to gain their end,  which i,s in complete accordance.               "Oh, but you are at the wrong address", sai:d the
to  the  csonstitution.   Whzlit can  hle do? He  cantiot' and ,w:ell-blessed   parent. "I recommend :to you the. neigh-
may.-not submit, and yet he. must, even to the extent of hour acrosa the str,e.et".
t&ing an active part, if he wishes ,to remain a member                    "Bout",  s&id the searcher for agivise, "Q&man  has.
of the  orlganization.     And  anokhelr  q.uestio#n  arises :     no; cb,il-dr.eu, at a1.1".
what must be &e attitude an'd a.cti,on of his church in.                   ",Jnst ..sQ)`, sa$-the  well-seaaoped .faDlze~, `%l-&. is.
the matter of discipline in such a case?                           why he carat& y& a;ll about it".
    Thesle  %hings are worth  oonsilderirig.   `Shall  wej                Because. af Ithis. we.ll,kn:own. d$K.cul,ty. of. outlining
(&hen, as Protestant R,eformed  peopde immeldia$ely. pro- a training plan and of this proverbial difficulty of the
cee.d-to organize olur o!wn labor group? That, i.t seems. task of training. cbildr,en, and the still greater task of
to me, would be the height of folly. If .$he purposle of           bring!& the prinoiples..into  practice, `1 beg. from the
lorg@aizing  is to  find strength  i.n unity,  the group. chanitab1.e reader, wh~o perhaps has many years in. the
&odd be as  large as  possibl:e   without  d,estroying  its        school of  aexperien,ce,.  not  .to turn  thle Dutch  proverb
disti&ive' character. A  Chri,stian  olurganization will man me. And should anyone wish to challenge state-
always necessarily be small in `comparison with the. men.&,- or basi.c principl,es  here expressed, I. welcome
worl'dly orga.ni&ons,  even at its best. Althongh I do coraecti~on.
not possess the figures of the present'member~sship of                    The  reformed man is a. man. of  principl,e. And
the  Ch8ris%ia,n Labor Association in  comparison   with though -this <is often taken to mean th& the reformed
the. two. .Qge worldly union.s,, it is a fact- that not so m,&n .&cks. to hlis convictions, ye% it really `means thalt
rn+~y years .ago the. C:hristian Usbor  Assoc'iation hagd          he is a man who has pFinciplesj  seeks. an,d formulates
a membership of thirty five-thonsand meragainst three principles, lives by these principles, and tries to moti-
and. one. half: millhon i.n the Amenican F'ederation  of vate all his actions by ,them,
X&or. Bl&h groups may have grolwn since th,en, but                       Tlhis also is true respecting., i&e -task of training,
their growth, "must have been @!rop&ionately.                      &ild.ren. H'e ,wants.ito  know this task and. perform it
    The only- solution seems to lie in a frank `and in the biblical,, re$&m.ed  way. And-one, of. the fist.
thorpugh discussion. of  thils matter in our  church printciplles  `6f all th.ings is that the creattire.  is-  ma:de.
peYti.odic&s.  Possibly  sulch a  dliscusaion  Can lead to 5or the .glor-y of h$is:`God. And. the- second as. co-related
a unanimity of opinion and something can be done to is +hat evertiliing..  is bnought to that destiny by the.
lex&. our influence upon the lab.or organization that laws an,d ordinances wh$ch God has determ,ined for it.
now exis$s .in ordier to make. it p~ossibl~e  to. give it our             ERpecidlly  in this question .of the. training. od our
united and wholehearted support. A separate Chris- ch.iledr.en we as Protestant Ref,ormed are interested -in
tian, labor movement  can ,only' be of real value. to. the         this phase, beca,&e  iit is so utterly impossible iln `the
wou'kingman. when  i% has the  backin.g.  of' all con-. light of: the ,d&listic standard of ethical valules. and
,cerned.                                                           the uni?&egrated  conception of the purpose of. things.
    If  this  arti~cl~e   serves no  olther   puTpose  tha,n to    which is fost.ered  by Dhe. doctrine. of common ,grace.
,arause. a ,dis&ssion ,onl the matter, t&s space wila not-                To, be-  slurej that  ltiheory  speaks also of  S.oli Deo
hype -been ta~kea. up in vain.                   C. H.             Gloria  and. by the convential orthodoxy and the re-
                                                                   formed. herita,ge. still o,-&en. eminciates the true prin-.
                                                                   -dple,  but in a more popylar or unguarded. discourse.or
                                                                   in practical !ife. t,he dualism. .appears. `The reader can.
                 CLAS&S  E A S T                                   easily  necall mottoes or  Declarakions of Purpose by
,mee!s  .in. regular  sessi.on Wsednesday,  July 1, at 9 :OO. parent-teacher groups such, as : For the. Glory. of God ;
A.M,,, ,at the, P.eo+esrtant Reformed C.hurch  in Holland,- For the Formation. of good citizenship ; and For the
M i c h i g a n .                                                  uplfit of the  Commun%ty;   And. of course,.  form this
                             D. JONKER, Skated  Clerk.             thr,ee-fo'ld   u8nintetegrated-  goal there is a  .three-fold


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standard. The church judges over the fir&, the politi- yarn. When a- chil!d does the same we ascribe it to
cal party or Patriotic Day Committee over the second, an inf,ernd  influence. And so further do. children, love
and the community over .t.he +h.ird.                      :       dirt  +s a s&X trait or are  thejr unconscious of the
    IOyer a!gain& this th,e ref0rme.d  man has one single         diff,eren&e  between. cleanliness and diti.
purpose : the glory of God ; and one guiding standard :               Sec.ondly, that morality exists by a relation to l,aw,
the law of God, the law-of love; the good and accept-             anld that therefore it tiuat be considered that bhe sins
able perfect will of God.          T,he ail-embracing,  all- ,of children are, by that principles  always rela&ively  less
pervading power  ,of this principle is the warp  and              sinful than our o;wn si.ns.
 woof of  Scr,ipture.       '                                         Thirdly,  that the parent is also totally depraved and
     Now I  ,expect there will be no question  i?  a.ny' is by nature spiritually  trust,ed  to judge and  set a
mind as to the validity. of this prieciple in the abstract, stanldaxd  of`right and wrong &an the child whom be is
but thinkin,g further we wi.11 hear the qeestion wbeth<er         seeking to traiin.
we -can work wi+h -tihis principle and apply it concretely            In th,e lighk of these things I am. convinced bhz+t in
to  our little  children. With regard  to' this question th,e  mid&  of  +his  complicat,ed  task  w.e must  t&e the
th.er,e  are a,bout  three possible positions.                    perfect law of ,God as a staeda.rd  for-the training and
     Fir& is  the view of many educators of the  Ia,& conduct of our  chi.lldren.
*decades  that rhil,dren should be left as much as possible
                                             ..C',                    This `is the ex-press teaching of Scripture :
to  foUow  thleir own ways under  thie  gu,idance of a                P,roverbs  %2.: 6 : "Train up a  .ch.ild  in- the way he
spcm+aDe social control. We may dismiss this theory `should go; when he is old he will not depart froamm' it."
 imme`diat,ely  as contrary to Scripture.                             Now Solomon might here be p,ointing-out a-natural
     A second view is.that children must learn obedience law as he ,does so often, but in the light of .I,& oo.n$exjt.
simply in the abstract. They must learn that "yes" &is is improbabl'e. Thus the `sway" is the way of %hQ
 means -yes, and %I$' m,ea,ns  no.                                fear of God.
     And a third vi.ew is that he must l,earn a.s moral               Eph.  6:l: "Ch.il,dren  obey your parents in the
rakional  crea&ure  to live in the law- that is given ,for his Lord".
 moral coti.stitiuti,on.                                              Eph.  6:4: "Fathers prorvoke  not your children to
    The choice now  betweea. the  two latter will be              wrath but bring them up in  the  ,discipline  and` ad-
 gre&ly.  influenced by .a.definite  answer to, the question moniti,on of the Lord".
 whether the child is actually a moral being or whether               The more I  foll,ow- this  scniptural principle -the
be is to a greatsextent  only potentially. so. ,Or to exr         more I may be comforted with the convict@n that to
press  it from another side, the qeestion is `ohen whether that training in ithe will of ,God the Holy Spirit bears
he can unde&an:d spiritual motiv.es or. whether h.e is            testirmony  in the heart of the child. For. surely he
simply b&d by some.kind  of unmoral ben$ of natur,e.              ,does not bear that testimony to any arbiirary imposri-
    land it ishere that.1 am afraid we have not always tion of the parent upon the chi1.d. The fact of physical
_ especially in our daily lif,e followled  the principles laid    @edominance can hardly persuade the-child as.rational
 down  besore  u,s by  Scrtpture. Is  thene not  .a  <danger      creatur,e that my command is good and ,ought $0 be.
that w,e look at our chilfdren  -from the Scriptural view- obeyed. Bzit when I tiy to lead .my &il,d in -the' way
 point of 6o6al deprav.ity  and th,en forget that this d&         of the Eaw d l,ove I may trust that from all sides 4 .
 prav.ity is.moral. W.e treat tieti as (the word is some- wi>ll be sustained -by the Holy Spirit. 1
times used) little devils,  and forget that we are using              Firstly, the fact is that a!1 scriptures will fit in and
a different standard $or- jvdging other people. than sustain that one singl!e command.
for judgi.ng our children.. And so the ctrtin.in$g  df our            Secondly, the spirit testifies to the intrinsic go,od
 children is often ihard and. harsh, in,s;teatd  -of spirituaUy of such an act by all Dhe relations of life within Q-d
 firm and loving.                                                 outsi,de  of  -bhte  3amily.
     Y&t in this. viewpoint' `the  follb,w-ing   thi.ngs  aFe         And bhirdly,  there is a still more immedfate testi-
nsually sorgotten.                                                mony of th@ Spirit directly to the heart and co,nscience,
     F&&ly, that  alihough   all that is,  noit  09 faith is      and makes it discern good and evil and-makes- it ap-
sin and D&erefose  -the z&s also of. the sin&l -child abe         prove my command.
 si.n, we are not `able -to condemn  the_-outwar,d acts               Now this ,does not lose sight of-the fact that some
 as they. appear befor,e our eyes as sin... Many. of the things must of. necessity be mechanical. This is not
 a& of little children, however annoying and .embar-              &cause the chilid has. to be bli.ndly- obedi,ent. IGod do,es
 rassing, cannot by any. law be classed as sin. Any not treat His creatures as blindly obedient. iGod treats
&u.n!g creature loves .to rend.and  worry certain obje'cts.       Hi.s creatures as co-workers; He reveals His will-and
 A, puppy- l,ov&. to .tear.  an old sh.irt or a- shoe. When purpose to them,  an,d gives testimony that that will
 a. child <does  this we become: angry and call1 it a. .s$-       is good.
structive  little imp. A. kitten loves to ltangl,e a ball of          In,this sense also we should try to explain to our


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      : child.ren the moral value of the command. Even the lives. --
       assurance "You  don? understand this now, but  f,or                -For instance, the law of God is not a dead state-
       the time being just tru& y&r father and mo%er" i:s ment but, is an expression of the living will of God,
       of course a very good reasonable explanation. &so -Iwhereby  He keeps every  cr.eature in its place and
       further the understanding that God  has  pla@ed the makes iit serve `His kingdom. A breach in that law is an
       parent in a' position of authority  even though by attack on the plan and purpose of God. The com-
       latik of natural gifts  tihey are not always  f,ully  able mission of a murder i,s the viola,tion of the law of God-
       ,to judge and  command  cl,early  in every  dletai#l, is a whereby He has gkjen to every living person a task
      *good explanation. Thirdly, that blind ob#edienc,e is in and office in His creatilon. Therefore, even hatrQd is
       itself not virtuous is evident from the worsds  of. Pleter      murder according to the words of Christ. Adultery is
       spokken as a  gen'erd   prindi.ple  ; "We  mc& obey  Go'd       tdisru&ng of many ties and a violation of many rights,
       rather than man". &nd also from the fact that the nam'ely elf husband and wife, of the rights of children,
       ,chi&l slowly becomes more and more  fre,e in the               of  thie rights  a&d honors of brethren and sisters.
      ,F&sur,e  that its judgment ripens.                              Therefore, it is a breach in the creature that is eon-
          Taking this basis then as a principle we may begin stituted to live in `the law of God. Idol worship is not
       with what we call an exercise of mechanical authority. merely the. kneeling down before a mute stock but
      !@er,e also the Motive must be th%t good and acceptab,lle        it is the corr.ulpltion  of the pure knowledge of the ever-
       and perfect will of  ,God. A certain  &&er reflecting blessed God, Who must be purely k.nown  to be glori-
      .on  th'e  au&hority   anld training of a child even in  the fied.
      -case of a mother who nurses her newborn infant holds               So we will assume that the child is $1 and prone
       that she thus tea&es it regularly of habits which are to evil in relation to this bl,&sed law of God, and to-
       necessary for family lif,e aed thus laid the ground in ward that we will take a two-fold attitude. We will
       its sensitive  psyclti~cal  life and its  h!abits -for later strive  to instruct him positively, and negatively we
'      obedience. :P,erhaps tie reason of this author will be will chastise him for transgressions of that  law.
       found just a little far-fetched and yet it may ,suyely             Thus we see the seriousness of the task, for in the
       be granted that it points to the true principle.                light of this task the training of most #children is neg-
          And so we may more and more moul;d the child's Bected. Perhaps there is noithing that requires a mor.e
      ha.b.its and attitude, always holding in v&w the ulti-           careful formation and that i,s more sensitive to treat-
      mite ,goal, a loving service of the ever-bllessed God.           ment and stimului  and sQgge@ion  than the soul of a
              Then I-am sure we will be surprised how soon the         child. I .,oannot  think. of an object that is near enough
       little  &ild can  r,eally understand the  appeal to that to  serv,e as an illustration. A  ma&ine  obeys  o&tain
       highest motive,  fear why not, if that is the  greartest        laivs of physics anld quite well takes care of itself. W.e
       law. Why do w.e s'et a certain age fmor the beginning simply step into our cars and they function. A plant
       of  r,eceptilvity?  Must we not rather assume that as may require some trai.ning,  but to a great extent  it
      th,e law for the mord crelatur,e  it is also most applic-        follow,s  the laws of its normal grow&: Even the moSt
       able to all his-spiritual psychical lif,e ?                     sensitive -an&al s,uch as a fine br,ed collie dog whcch
          A  ohi1.d  wiB listen to. a Bible story with intense lhas su,ch great depen'denoe  on the moods and instruc-
     `. interest and with the reedy recognition of the virtue. tion of its masher has ,after all only an animal mihd
       of the Triune God Who revteals Himself therein. R,e-            and is not expected to be a trained and responsive
       bardless now  %hether  that child be  consider;ed,  as a creature.
       spiritu$ly living  child it  nevert,h$el,ess  spolitaneously       HOJW h%gh above these is not the ch.ild which is mad,e
      ascribes virtue to God and His ways. However, that .in the image of God, and created for the initiation into
      same child may a  m&uneat  later be involved in a thie highest fellowship and reaction  of pu?e intelligent
      murderous  quarrel about a forgotten toy; ,How much lme.
       more true  fiis  principlve of spiritual response must             And to` begin tith, tl& crea;ture is conce&ed  and
      `be co,nsider.ed  in a truly spirit%1 heart anh mind, and born in sin, alien and in.imical to that very lif,e o,f God
       must we not  as&be the  slow'iess  of response to a             in all its intricate phases and planes of i& existence.
       lack of spiritual li!e and affinity? That is why many How then must we' not confess the Immensity of that
       people go through life as if God and His holy law- are task, and our utter unworthiness for such a task. IHOW
       something that ,has no meaning fdr them. We  .can- careless,  ho!w superficial, mechanical, carnal,  i,s not
       tiot  thIevefore conclude to t&e impossibility from the also the  5ulfill~ent of this task.  Thterefore,  training
       general lack of clearly defined moral. response.                first of all. Pequires a deep. spiritual sense of our un-.
              `%o so train thk child the parent will first of all him- worthiness.  `Secondl$,  a firm resolve by the grace of
       self have to see this law of God not as an abstract 1Go.d to  train- those children for God's  k.in,gdolm  and
       statement or doctrine but as an all-embracing principle for no one else ; to distinguish d'efiniitely between pirtule
       sccordin'g  to which he t.hi.nks and.speaks and acts and        and culture, betwee,n sin and awkwardness or impro-


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  priety, and to so set first things first @at many un- N'o n'ewspaper  could long continue unless all the tricks
  necessary valueless byrdens and di,stractio?&  .fall away. tof modern j.ournalism were aptly in control. But the
 And thirdly, a firm  determinati.on  to give time  a,nd striking thing is that no newspa.ger  would be published
 -thought and planning for this time to listen to tlieir unless it met thse d,emands  of t&e reading public. The
  many qu,esti,ons. Time to' help solIve their conflicts and newspaper prints what we want to read. It has its
  perplexi6ies,   time to punish `them in love  when it is           own way of finding this out, jvst a.s any sal'esman has
  necessary, time not to puni.& them as a short-cut and ways of finding `out the particl:lar  want of hi,s client.
  time-saved in tile midst of our earthly and vain pre- It is not necessary that a poll be t.aken or a qpestionaire
  occupations.                                                       sent ont 60 get a conception of the publ?c want. Neither
   In the measure then that we as parents also live does the daily have to w'orm its way into our domicBes.
  in that law of love, sd that they see us striving in that We want all the stuff the newspaper  contain,s. We
  direction, and sijeaking in that vein, will they be able a.ocept it with open arms. As  pro'of  f,or this, I have
  to.fulfill tihat a,dmonition  of the apostl'e-: "Be ye f,ollow-    only to point you to the exasperation we evidence when
- ers of me aed maYtk thgm that w&k as ye have us for the' newsboy occasionally skips our door-steps, and
  a.n example".                                                      we tell him in no uncertain terms what we think of
      Then our life will corroborate o'ur. word of. protest- him the next time he comes aronnd, or in a rage we
  ation th& punishment hurts us niorle than it does them,            call the news deplot and demand that an extra copy
  be,caus'e  we deny our own reluctance fo' punish in order be rushed ont that very evening.
  to  puntsh in the: nam'e of Him who has del,egated  us                This  greait  deman,d  for the daily newspaper is
  with authority to  ma.intain His perfect  law in the ,evidenced  also in the fact that nearly every home re-
  sphere of our family 1iEe.                                         ceives one. Statisti,cs  show that there are enough
                                                      A. P.          `dailies published to more th.an supply each home with
                                                                     `one. According to a stahement taken from the 1941
                                                                     issue  ob  the  Encycl'opedia  Britani,ca, the  iota1  circula-
                                 *
           \                                                         tilon of daily newspapers in the United Sta%es in 1940
                                                                     was 46,579, 892 copies daily. This means that every
                                                                     third person receives a copy each day, and tihere are
      The Daily Paper In The Home some three million copies 60 spare. Now certainly
                                                                     this vast amount of papers .woul,d not be published. un-.
     IGood evening, Mr. and Mrs. Average Homemaker! Iless th,er>e was that demand. Not only is there merely
  I am the Daily Newspaper; and have &ome to sho;w                   a deman,d $or a newspaper, but for its contents. ,Sur-
  something of personal  interlest  to  yoti.' If you will prtsing it is to  know  that in the  ,same period men-
  alIow me to step in, I-will show you Dhat, for a nominal tioned above, there were some 2,015 different pub-
  cost, I will bring to your ddor each diay all the informa-         lishers of daily newspapers ,and most of these ape c'on-
  tion on the latest murd'ers  and thefts, broken homes, trolled by three or four  syn.dicates. This means th'at
  and lives, accidents snd. catastrophles  t,hat will mak,e          the newspapers publish with very little variabion the
 your ha,ir stand up straight with fright. In addition, sa.me contents.  Ther,e  was a time about sixty years
  I I-Till prolmise  to keep you informed on all the gossip ago, wh'en there were some 11,000 ,difFer,ent iedepeedent
  and slander, vice and debauchery the people  around publishers, but $hia figure was cut down to the presenb
  you are committing. I will see to,  it-that you hatie a mintmum through consolidations whi'ch in turn were
  dramatic portrayal  of .a11 their acts transcribed 6n black `evidently influen*ced  by public demand that the news
  and white. And it is our business, in addition to all Ibe more uniform. The newspaper has developed along
  +his, b keep you informed on all ttie matters of publilc wi'ch our national grow+h aed American civilization:'
  interest an,d having news `valu!e, in the political, social,           The first Ameri'can newspa.per  appeaned  alb B,oston
  recreative apd even religious spheres of life; and for in April; 1704. The first  ,daily appeared at  P.hila-
  good measure we throw in an occasional cake recipe delphia  in Septemb`er,  1'784 ; and was known as "The
  ,an& a page of  comics.  _-                                        Pennsylvaqia  Packet and General  Adv'ertiser".  Al-
     @houl,d. the daily neyspaper  come to each home and most from the very  ins:eption of our national inde-
  eatih individual with such an appeal ,there  wlould be pendence, th'erefiore,  our citizenry was under the in-
  undoubtedly many doors slammed in its face.                  But fluence of the daily newspaper. In these early years,
  +h.e newspaper  does n&.,com~e  to us tiat way; neither +he .daily pap,er  served pri,marily as a political organ.
  does it hmave to.                                                  In feeit, two of the first political leaders in our history,
      The newspaper  has not gained its popular reception `Alexander eamillton  and Thomas Jefferson, leaders of
  rneFeQ on its own appeal.           Surely,  3s astounding the Federal and Republican (later known as Demo-
  popularitya$d ready alcceptanc,e  is due greatly to its cratic) parties, each had his oswn new#spap.er  through
  aptness $0 &rik~l@ eye with psychological appeal. `almost exclusively. The colonies had  b.een liberated


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whlc he aired his -political
    Al                              views  aed pl,atforms. In             Now, certainly, if there is one. principle we have
these days political issues held th,e ptibliic  attention              learned in recent years, it .is the, principle that sin
from the steel shackles of John Bull. And w&h this #does not reside in t.hings. Sin is a matter ,of +he heart
freedom came the responsibility ,of establishZig new and of ihe will. On the basis of this same principle, it
form's of government. Hence th'e question in the soul shall have to be maintained that the newspaper as such
Tof every patriot .was: What form of government and is no more evil than the moving picture machine is
what political set-up shall we continue under.                The evil in itself. But this does not mean that the use to
Ipublic  min,d .demanded th'e discussion of these in tihe              which thle motifon  picture ma&ne and therefore also
n e w s p a p e r s .                                                  th'e daily newspaper is put is good. We condemn on
    Though the newspaper served-at that time,  an*d  still
                           .                                           Chrisitian principl,es  the picture machine when it is in
serves to air political ,lssues,  it did not remain only a `the ser&e of s,in do we not? Should we not also coa-
political  bdl:etin.     As the  nation grew and its  -life tderim the newspaper in as far as it .serves the works
became  morie  com$ex,  itis social, religious  ahd  _  r,e-           of d.arkness  ? X&h+ here it cbecomes evi'dent that the
creative ef$o&s more involvea and extended, the news- newspager shodd not,b,e read without ,gaeat  ,discr,etion
paper, as `to `.foT ,and content .an;ci p.urpose  also, con-
                                                                .      and discernment. AnIt the sinful, fleshly passion for
Yorti'ed.                                                              the vulgar which the. newspaper seeks to s&.tisfy shall
    `&ule&ions such `as these may' be heapd in most every surely have to be condemned. It will necessarily have
&ome today: What-  does hhe weather-man say'? What to be condemned in ourselves first, ,and again when w!e
is Riiler dbing tdday ? How ma,ny were kill:ed  ,over  +he co,rne across jt in %he newspaper. Also. here, tihe child
week-end?   Xay I see the  f;unni,es?   -Haw  `di'd  the  De- .of  Go,d  `must fight the  f%$t of  fai+h and seek only
t&it-`Tigers tur? otit yesterday? Will you. readXn6le the beauhiful, the pure, the things that har,monize with
Wiggily'to me? `Who is'listed  in tih!e obituaries'? What a walk -of sanctification. Unavoidably, however, `he
-l&d  c$' a  `dress  ~did Mary's  m&h&r-in?law   wlear  aIt            coni.s in  ctimtad  with the instruments of sin which
her w$ding? These  and many more are the ques!tions                    things he hates.
we -dematid *an -answer to `from oti? daily `&wspa&&.                     In this connection, `it must be conceded that the
?Ehe  an,swers   .to  .these   questilons   &ake up  th'e  conterit    newspaper is  often the instrument of the prince of
Of  +hle daily paper  to:day.  At the beginning of  6his               darkness. A printer's devil, according, to  Webstier,
short essay we suggested ,a %&her `bl-mit amd sopdi`d                  is `a young apprentice in a printing ,office who, does
%ppe&l tihe n+spaper might make to gain eritrance into &hores,  and often gets very black from the printer's
,our  h&es. -Ansd we-suggested that should the daily ink; (whence the name Idevil) . I suppose there ,ape as
make -such ati appe$ many doors rriligihit-be  &OS&~ iti many of these as these are  printin.g   establishmen&.
~$$s?fT&e:   TJ'J$e.+&&'   +.&y   ,we  put  :it  that  say  iS 'be-    A devil'8  printer, on the .other hand, according to our
cause we are aware that our age atid present civiliza-                 own definition, is .a printer who is a tool of the prince
tilon (deigns to be kno'wn as elite, refined, cultutie`d. .T&o         of demons, -and as such is persuaded.  to publish-the li,e.
come .dir&ly to our popdk&  with'thereqeest to po;r-                   I suppose there ar,e many of these  al,so, and especially
tray ~21 the sor,did  mundane acti&ty antd eve&s of this in the production of newspapers. Whose purpose it is
stream-lined <era might evoke some oppositilon.  * And to  incul'cate the lie and satisfy  the carnal lust and
y&t at heart  o:ur  popvla,ce   eraives  `for  exacltly these pa%si.on of the reading public. `The Christian, theae-
~$&~.@~jffj$-&&,,  *$~a e&ts.t;o. r&&j Ai1 .&o& $11&m.                 fore, -shall have to read his pap_er aware of this earnest
    `Iil ,many Christian liomes where the dai.ly also fieds attempt of +he father of lies to disfi@ur;e the truth.
ieiitrance, Go&s peopl'e  ?ise up in horror sht&d anyone                  <On the other hand, it cannot be denied that though
atteinpt to sell them ,and their ,@hil`dren,$i&ures cif de- mulch of the daily paper is corrupt -and has a corrupt-
prti.veld  men and women, or books with `filthy stories.               ing influence, `there  is also much in the paper whiti
Siill, when it come,s to the, d$ily newspaper, thley have shou1.d -be read even by the Christian. -1 bel.ieve  the
.no scru$es it seems. All df which goes to `show that the Christian should be fully abreast of his times.
even we `live1 in -the flesh `and still to a great degree Be  s'honl,d not only ask  questio'ns concerning that
-id&ire the things of the Flesh. Hence,`it is to.o, that th*e which goes on in the wor'ld, but he:shoulld also read the
-p&r fin:ds-such r,eady  acceptance ationg us also.                    answers  `$0 these questions in the newspaper. Some
    N&rally,  when we `spe&k of the daily paper in the                 Christians look ,askance  att the tales of war in-,horror,
,;homes, we `have `in min'd bhiiefly our christian homes. aed therefore &fuse to read of these horrors. They
An3 sine&the daily paper as to coritent  is determined .h:igd& their heads as'the ostrich, .and wonld at$empt  to
lar&ly by the mixed  ,demanlds   6f the  general  publi'c, Yemain alopf  fro? current  ,events.                   I `believe this
th,e question arises: Shotild we, as christtans,  indulge .atttitu,d,e is not only-wrong but -also  impos&jlle;' Are
`in t&is crave `for &e daily newspaper? Is  the  n'ews- we not called of God to face the dr?ead realities of:His ,`A=
.paper,  `in 323 present f0r.m and content Do `be ~$1.0~1~ providence, and, to judge  df  the& as  Christians virho
.c&$,-j~ne'&.~s  &I?                                                   principally stand in the liberty of Ch&t? In add&oh


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to this there  are many other elements in  the,  d,aily          doelwit waarnaar hij streeft. W,e gaan natuurlijk ge-
-paper we can hardly get along without.  Th'e  chris- trouw ter kerk, maar het is zoo gemakkel.ijk  om ergens
tian's home is an integral.part of the comm,unity  and           elders te. kerk.en  en eigen kerk voorbij te gaan. Ons
it tinnot be physically separated from the secular life jseugdig%lkje  maakt  zich  dikwij1.s schuldig  aan  dit
.of that  communiity. And  h'oiw shall he coincide  wi&h         kwaad. Erger nog is het dat men heelemaal niet gaat
th,e li$e of his community unless he is fully aware of of &ns per Zondag en dan ve?der Gods dag voor zich-
that communities' lif,e? @IHe must. be infowe.d.                 zelven neemt, om clan, zooals men zegts te genieten  van
    In conclusion, however? this process of information (Gods vrije  natuur en Hem dan zoo te  d,i.enen. De
shall have to come to him and his family not as water            ouderen onder ons .makeh  zich oak we1 eens. schuldig
$hrough a sieve, but he shall have to, analyze each bit aan dit kwaad, en het is daarom misschien nog niet
of news and all the elements of th,e newspaper as he zoo verkeerd dat er een  `gas;ration'  komit,  al is het
does everything else, -with spi,ritud  eyes. I* shall b,e        dan ook met  ,een  andtier  doel. .'
his  d,uty,  ,as prophet in the home to show  florth  the           De synode van onze kerken is ook weer voorbij en
truth even as-i.t shall- often be necessary on the back- de be!angen van ons kerk'elijk-leven  zijn weer behar-
ground of the  .lie. Then it  w.il.1 also be  t+ne  bhat he      tigd, en veel is weer  verricht dat mag  wooden   be-
will -not encourage h-is chil,dren to read all the `prul' s,ehouwd  als van blijvende waarde oolk voor once ker-
on-e -finds in the daily, but' to read with *discretion.         ken als een geheel. Het -spijt me dat ik deze vergade-
IIn  t'hi,s  -respect,  we all  will  a.dmit that we come far    ringen niet kon bijwonen. Ik-kan u de. gebeurtenissen           .
short, and we :shall-have to exdaim with the apostle             in vo,gelvlucht  daatiom niet weer.geven. ,Ge zult het we1
"the evil which ~I-wotil,d--not, that I- do; and the good        zien vermeld in' ons "Church News".  (Ge  krijgt dan
that. I .wo&d,  th& ,do.I not",                                  ,ook een meer bree@oerig verslag.
                                                 M. S.              Het hoad&' der Synoden is geen nieuwe bezigh-eid.
                                                                 Het is  Vax  ouden datum. De  Kerk van Jeruzalem
                                                                 behart@de `iri he% bse&in -al hare ketkelijke  belangen.
                                                                 Synoden  hebben veel goeds  voo$gebratiht,   indien ze
                                                                 ten minste bestonden Uiit gereformeerde vertegen'woor-
              Nieuws .Van Onze Kerken                            -digers. `t Is echter `in het vefleden'.  soms .ook mis `ge-
                                                                 loolpen, en al  te dikwijls  zieit men de bange  droevige
    Er is geen-mooier-en gemakkelijkel;  werk voor een -gevolgen vooti de Kerke Gads op aarde man `een ver-
eenvoudige schrijver dan om iets ni,euws  te schrijven ongelukte Synode of een moedwillig  samenroitten  van
van de kepken waarin hij een-naam en plaats..heef,t.  orit- dezulken die den naam van Chtistus dragen.
vangen  .door Gods  VoorzienIgh$d. Deze kerken zijn                  Er is soms -oak nog we1 eens-verschil  hoe dikwijls
hem `dietibaar,  en hij Perheagt zichzelven wanneer hij          men syeoden  moet houden. Ook onder ons is men het
het goede mag  vernemen ;  mmaar bet  smark hem. ook :hier niet eenparig over eens. In zijn editorials in de '
wanneer de ,dingen zich ontwikkelen in de verkeerde
                  7                       ~.        ,            Stand&d Bearer, May 15, schrijft Ds. Hoeksema dat
`richking.                                                       het zijn opinie is om &lk jaar synode te houden, omdat               '
    Ik -sohtiijf. dat het 2gema.kkelij-k  is om .ker.knieu'ws    dit noo'dig  is om de belangen van ons kerkelijk leven
te schrijven, wanneer men t,en minste:dit nieuws .ont-           te behartigen.  .Er is  meestal-werk genoeg voor drie
van& van deze kepken waarover  men moet schrijven.               of vier dagen; En wanneer er zijn die beweren  dat bet
Nu, ik heb nog nooit .nie?ws  ontvangen. Dit vergeet             de onk,osten  nie< loont, dan .is de Ds. v&n oordeel dat
.men zeker. Het k@mt mi.sschien ook ,omdat  ik een ge- `bet werk in Gods kdninktijk niet met geld kan worden
woonmensch-hen .en..geen  domin6.  .Nu, het Holllandsche `,betaal.d,. en -4alt het van groat belan,g is in deze donkei-e
spreekwoord  luidt : geen$nieuws is. goed nieuws.                dagen vogr onze kerken o,rn hare bdangen te behartigeti
                                                                 "ee&aal  per jaar door een sinode. Ds. Cammenga is
    N,y de' wi.n~ey'-w-eer.yoorbij i's- en, de- .zomer haar van oordeel dat het de moeite niet loont. .E,r is geen
 iqioch deed, i& .-oak %l@%edrijvigheid  in het kerkelijk. werk  genogg en de' onkosten  zijn te  groat  voor het
leven  minder-  actief: "Gatech!esatie  en  vereenigings-        wenk dat meet  worden  verrichk.  Hij moet niet veel heb-
leven zijq ten einde g&poed,  en ook het gemeellitelijk          iben van let h,andgebaar  van zijn collega, als deze zegt,
huisbezoek is weer ~vor2bij. En is nu alles goed onder           dat hetmaar  6&n cent per week kost voor een huisgezin.
 011s als kkrkengroep  d&i heeft ook dit gezegende vruch- Hij wil fnaar zeggen dsvt hij wie het kleine niet eert,
ten`  voorgebracht.    Zoo .moet bet ten minste zijn.            is het -groote  niet waard. De Ds. begint even een op-
    De zomer met-al haar- pracht en praal is echter niet telsom,  en dit zal hij we1 van zijn meester  hebben ge-
 altijd zoo bevorderlijk-voop o'ns geest,elijk  1,even. Er is leerd ; -een c&t.pes week- dat wordt de enorme waacde
te veel dat afvoer;t  en verwij,dert  van het hoogste en         van $640.35 in een jaar, en met dat  gel-d kan veel
 eenig  doe1 dat  een. Christen  beschouwtt  als  bet eenig  worden  gedaan.                               _


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.41,6            1.:  ;                             T H E   S T A N D A R D   B E A R E R   z
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    Nil  : iS het echter mijn  geciachte.  dat we, -met ,di'                                           IN . MEMORIAM
alles de: v&.ikeerde  weg opgaan. Er. moet geen pnte-'
vredenheid  worden gekweekt iti ons midden.pver  geld-                              Op den  lOden van  Mei, 1942, behaagde het da  IIeere  of-1
.zaken. Dit is.-niet  bevorderlijk tioor  het welzijn onzer                     tot  zich  te.  nemen  onze beminden Man en  Vad::,.  Gro2tvzde  `,
                                                                                                                                              : .
kerken. J&Y. C.ammenga geeft een kleilie  ,vingerwijzing en Over-Grootvader,
.naar een.  zeke$  werkelijkheid  wanneer hij zegt dat                                              JOHN P. KLAVER
,yen $2.00 bi;`dgbt voor een arme gemeente bi jna te veel .~                                                                                    I
1s; We w&en het we1 : ,de budget in de eerste gemeente in den oud&dom  van 78 jaren en 9 maanden.                                                    . .
is zoo ongeveer  $1.25 maar men klo'pt  bij Fuller Ave.                             Dat hij in zijn Heiland ontslaapen is, en dat hij nu wa2r-
gemeente tech ook no0i.t tevergeefs aan wanneer men .lijk lee% is onze troost.
iii- nood verkeert.  Het is natuurlijk ver  beneden de                                                            Mrs. John P. Klaver, Sr.
waardigheid van iedere gemeente als een leeraar niet                                                             Mr. en Mrs. Peter J. Klaver                m.
in aardsch,e nooddruft wordt ,voorzien,  want het geldt                                                          Mr. en Mrs. John T. Klaver
hier ~61 voornamelijk hat de arbeidser  zijn loon waar-.                                                         Mr. en Mrs. Cornelius Klaver
dig  is;:  I&t is  zeker  waar  dat men  ni$  ,geldelijk   kan                                                   Mr. en Mrs. Teunis Klaver
tiitmiegen de dingen van geestelijken aard. ' Men kan                                                            Mr. en Mrs. Joseph Braaksmx
nu  eetimaal niet de  dingen van eeuwige  marde  ver-                                                            Mr. en Mrs. Henry J. Van Dyken
gelijken met  de` tijdelijke voorbijgaande  dingen,  -en                                                         Mr. en Mrs. Marcus Faber
daarom wanqeer  men begint te redekavelen over de                                                                Mr. en Mrs. Nanning Klaver
onkosten van een syn,ode  dan mikt met Ite laag.                                                                 Mr. Harry Klaver
         Ge. vraagt misschien, maar moet nien dan-niet.  de                                                      Mr. en Mrs. Jacob C. Stroo
onkosten berekenen aleer men bouwt? En bet ant,woord                                                             34 Klein-kinderen
is, voorzeker. Wanneer meli een kerk wi1 botiwen  dan                                                              8  Over-kle'mkinderen.
komt men eerst we1 eens in een  kelder-keFk  terecht.                           Grand Rapids, Michigan
W'anneer  men het eens is geworden dat het zonder &eil
eigen %hri.stelijke  &ho01 niet m,eer gaat, en %?r worden
bouwplannen  b,eraamd;  dan rekent  men met de on-
&o&&  hierean  ver,bonden. Dit is  ieer natuurlijk en
goed bijbelsch.  Hert bouwen  van een school  of kerk
is echter een aardsche natuurlijke bezigheid, en ds                                              WEDiHNG  ANNIVERSARY
zoodanig raken ze ni&`? de dingen van Gods Koninkrijk.
         Als het echter over de dogma, over I,eer en leven                          On June 4, 1942, our belpved  parents
van een ker.k  gaat, of over het gedrag der leden  of van
.den individu, dan spreekt m.i. geld niet meer. Indien                              Mr. and Mrs. JOHN ZAND#STRA  nee Jennie Ta.meling
het gaat over de beginselen van een Prot. Ref.. School hope to commemorate their 25th wedding anniversary.
-dan moet men niet met Itwee maten meten. Een onder--
wijzer in een  Christelijke  school moet niet  worden                               We, their children, extend our sincere and loving congratu-
beknibbeld; Zijn salaris  mo& van die  a.ard zijn dat . lations. We thank our ,God for sparing them for each other and
hij. een  goed orderlijk bestaan heeft. Wanneer een for us and pray that the Lord may continue to  I& with  them
gemeente een Ds. beroept, $an zor,gt ze gewloonlijk .er' i- in grace and loving kindness.                                           ;
we! voor dat niet hett minste maar w&l zooveel mogelijk                                                 Their grateful  chiidreti,       _
het meeste op zoo% beroepsbriefje wordt geschreven,
want men is we2 eens bailg dat zoo'n man Bet beroep                                                                Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zandstra
niet aanneemt -vanwege bet gerijnge tractement,  wanit                                                             Mr. and IXrs. Henry Zanc+tra
men.gevoelt zeer goeci' dait dit niet b'evordelijk  is'voor                                                        Arthur
de zaak van Gods Koninkrijk.                                                                                       Jo& Jr.
         Als nu maar ,eerst  wordt vastgesteld dtit het goed                                                       Jennie
is voor de kerken als een geheel dat we jaarlijkxhe                                                           P e t e r .
synoden moeten  hebben is er al veel gewonnen, en zal                                                              D o r o t h y
de geldkwestie allicht niet op den voxgrond treden.                                                                Bartel
                                                              S. D. V.                                             S a d i e
                              ;                                                                                    Edith,
                                          -                                                                        Betty
                                                                                                                 B e r n a r d
                        `a         ,lith Annual  Field Day         .                                               and 2 grandchildren.
                                    July 4 - Ideal P&k                          R. R. 1, Hammond, Indiana.


