           VOLUME XXI                                               DECEMBER 15, 1944 . .                                                NUMBER  6

                                                                               gewor.den   ,doolr  (den wil  odes mans. Hebben we  lhier  tdus
                  MEilITATIE                                                   cdet boek ,des oorspaongs  e n  ,dler gording ~1x1 Jezus
                                                                               Cb@situs,   <dat is, niet  idie  reehtelij,ke, maar de organische
                                                                               lijn  sdler geslachten, die  ,op Jezus  C&ristus  uitloop&.
                                                                            - dan moet  d'e  lijn tot  op  Clxristus `doorgaan,  ,dan kan ze
     God, Die De .Dooden LevendMaakt niet met Jozef  wo'rden  lafgebroken,   ,dan! loopt ze  door
                                                                      . .      over  Marilai. Alleen, wanneer  wie hier het geslachts-.
                        Het boek des geslachts van jezus Christus, regisher van Mari!a hebben, ka,n  m,en het o-pielchrift necht
i                    den xqon van David, d,en xon `van bbruhcpb.              laten  weidervaren: het boek der  genesis van Jezus
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                     Abraham glewon Irak, en Irak gewon Ja7oob,                Christus.
                  +n Jakob gew;o+a Judas, en zijnd broeders; En                    E n   J o z e f   Id+n?
                     Jxdas gewon. Fares en .Zara bij Tamar. . . .                  Hoe  kiL11 hij  idian in  *dit  "b,qek   bes geslachts van
                                                                               Jezus Christus':  Yv;or'dsen  ingeschoven?
I                                                          Matt. 1 :l-3.
           .De.  vleesohzvording   ,des  W$oo!rds !                               Als  ,die  lijs  `pan  D&vids geslacht,  waa?uit de  Chr?s-
     .;      Hoe in  tde geslachten,  )die tot  ob Abraham terug tus zou geboren worden,  [opdat het  mensche,Pi~k  onmoge-
.gaan, het  vleesch,  Id!at  de,  Z,one  Gods  str,aks   uirC Maria Kijke en  bopel,ooae  idler  bel'ofte.  volkomen  aan.  het  Jicht
     zal  ata.xmeinen,-  geweyd,   ,dat  .wordit  `01~~1 hier Rn het boek mocht  ;tr&deti,  ,op  eene maagd uitliep, `dan had Jakob
`des  ges&c~ts   va.n  Jezui.  Chlri&us   geteekend.                           (vs. 16) geen zonen, dan  wqs  Maria  tofdochter, en
             Dit  .t,och  l&t  aangedui,d in  ide beteekenis  %an  ,het        dan wend  ha?r man bij  het geslacht  ,van Jakob  in-
     oorspronkelijke  &ord, dat.  hiler  .door  geslacht  is  .ver-            geli jd.
     taalldi.  Het.woord' is  1,tterlijk  ger&sis;  en  @ene&  be-                Bovend3eti wend Jozef  ;d& in de registers  opge-
teekent  T,LJ,o'rrd%g,  ooq*sprong,,  zo?  dait. we  .vert&en mo- sclireven als de wettige  vader van Jezus.
gen: "het boek der  wonc&g  vaui  J:ezus. Christus;"  .En                          En  zoo weed  `ook aan  ,de maagd,  die zwanger  w,@rd
ideze "wording"  zi,et niet  sop  ,Zijne geboorte, want deze                   en  eenen  zo,oin'  baagd,e,  bes&$%ning' gegeven tegen  bdeti
wordt ons beschreven van  vers  achkdilen tot het einde lasker van  goididelooze tongen.
in  ldi*tulfde  hoo;fidBt~~k, terwijl het opschrift, Waarmee                   O n t f e r m e n d e   wijshetd  Gods!
     dit hoofdstuk aanvangt,  s2echts  (de eerste zeventien ver-
     z e n   ,dek,t.  In  ,dez!e  %erzenhebben  w e   ,dus  eene  aan-             De  wording  vtarlll Jezus  ~Christus!
Iduiding  ..van  *de  zcro&ng   vcL?z  Jezus  Chtistus  rin de  ge-                De  zoon van  Daviid . . . . . de zoon van  Abrgham!
sl,achten                 der             voorvnlderen;                            Jezus!  D,at was Zijn  naam  (onder  de  mensehen.
             Maar   ,dsar,om  inioek  ::dan  (ook vaststaan,  .dat we hier     En  ,met dien  nBarn  verdween  ,Hij  `onlder  Idle menschen.
,het  .geslach&Pegister;  niet van Jozef,  maar,  van  Maria                   Want,  behalve1  ,dan  idloor  .degenen,  Idile op  de vervulling
hebben).                 -'       :,,        0                                ,der.  belofke hoopten, en  #die het Woord  Goldis   ,in verband
             Schijnba+.?   - i s   #dit  la-pders;  -  .'  /                  met dien naam gegeven kenden en  gelooS%en,  werd- er
             Aan bet  ei+  @och  :van  Idlit boek  ,d,es  geslachts  lezen    aan  tden  nbaarn  Jezus  .destij!ds  ge,en bijzondere beteekenis
Fe: "En Jakob gewon Jozef,.  dien  man  va&  Matiai,  uit ;meer gehecht.                                                     `_
welke geboren  is Jezus,  gezegd Christus."                                        Wie  kon zijn zoon nu geen Jezus  ,he.&en?  <.
             Twee  dlingen  skaan echter vast. Maria  <was uit  `den               En was  Jezus  ,nilet  ,de  zooti  van;  Joseph,  `dep timmer-
zade  Davi,ds,  wlant  :  nl2iar het  vl'elesch  i s   C&istus  uit- man? Kende men  n.iet zijnen  vader, en zijne moeder,
Davids  geQ+cht.                  En  Jozef, de  man' van  Marita, was `en zijne  broeders en  zu&&s2  ,En  wias hij bovendien
~&$'  J&apkj'  p~dgr,  wan'c  d-  (&2%3tus  GOd@   ik3 niet  Vkg#c;l? Qzdq  &$I&  Jw%wner 1 Wz&   .bij~vx3333  ~9u  Me-  &4:1


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uit  Nazareth mogen verwachten?                                      eenen  Vade.r  zijal,  een Hij zal Mij zijn  tot  eenen zoon  ;
      Neen  ; wat de  men&hen betnof,' wat het vleesch  ,a,an-       dew.elke, als hij misdoet,  zoo zal Ik hem met eene men  -
ging, was er ook  ,in  ,dien  naraan gedaante noch heerlijk-         schenroade, en met plagen  ,der  menechenkimleren   straB-
heid. Hlij  ,dui.didie  .eenvou,dig aan,  Id'at  ideze Jezus, met    fen.  ::Ma!ar Mijne  goedentienenhei,d  zal van  .hem  niet
vele  andiere  Jrezussen, zijne plaats innam  `onder de              wijken, gelijk als Ik die weggenomen heb van  Swl.
men&hen.         '     t     1                                       dien Ik van  voor uw aangezicht heb weggenomen. Doch
      Jezus,  zoo heette Hij. En  ~4s men  .daar nu  verder          uw huis zal  .bestend~ig zijn, en uw  .koni$nkrijk tot in
niet meer  van  u&, en  *er geen  bijzonldere   beteekeni,s  laan    eeuwigheid, voor uw `aangezicht;  uw stoel zal vast zijn
hechtte, zou men geen bezwaar  ilnbrengen.                           tot in  .eeuwigheiid." 11 Sam. 7 :12-16.
      Met  td:en  n&m Christus stond het  eenligszins  amdlers.              Op  Davilds,  zala.,d was  Isra&   chope  .gev,estigdl.
Want Christus, was niet Zijn naam, doch Zijn titel.                          Daarvan  zaag het vrome volk reeds in  ,de oude  be-
En over dezen titel zou zeerst nlog eens gedisp;u;teeui& moe- Ideeling :
ten-  tworden ! Want  Christus  is Messias,  Gezra.lfde, de          "  `Ir Heb eens  geawor.en `bij Mijn eigen  heixligheid:
Verwachte, Degene, Die komen  zou. En ofschoon de                    Zsook  1.k  aa$n Davil lieg' ;  zoo hem Mijn woord  ~misl:eid !
naam Jezus wel  .door een  mensch onder  ,d,e menschen Zijn zaad  zal eeuw.igzijn ; zijn troon zal  heer1ij.k pralen,
gedragen  ,kon  w.orden, en men  ,Hem  alzoo  Idien naam             Ztoo duurzaam als  tde zon,  zoo  .glansrijk als haar stralen  ;
misgu,nde  noch  betw.istte,  dat  Jezus is de  C,hr&tus,   zou      Bevestigd  ,als  1d.e maan ; en  ,aan des hemels bogen,
men ontkennen. Daartegen zou het vleesch zich met al                 Staat Mijn getuige trouw te  schitt'ren  in  elk;s  oogon."
zijn kracht verzetten tot het bittere einde,  ,het einde des
kruinles toe:                                                                En  ,die  .hop#e  wend vervuld in Jezus van  Naaaaeth!
      En  tach, Hij is Jezus,  .de Christus !                                Het boek  odes, geslachts van Jezus Christus is open
      Jezus,  niet maar  ondier andene Jezussen,  maar  ~a1.s        ter inspectie !
D,egene, Die  look  mettex,daad  was, wat Zijn naam  aan;                    Zoon  Davi!d,s . . . . Zoon  Abrahams!
lduidde:   J&ovah  Heil,  (de God onzer  volkomene  adig-               e
hei!d, Die Zijn volk zalig zal maken van hunne zonden.                       Wonlder Golds !
En  jdeze  Jezus, wat ook het vleesch `daartegen mag  mur-                   De wording en  loorsprong  van Jezus  C:hristus!
muxeeren, is wel  mettendaaad  !de van  Gojd van eeuwig-                     Of  w:ie  wondit bij het  .liezen  van1  ,dit boek  ,des ge-
heid verordineerde  men  gezalsde  Christus, Die  Isxaels            slachts van Jezus Christus niet getroffen  door  h.et
troon  .uit  thet  s~lij~k zou doen verrijzen,  `op  (den  #troon    menschelij~k-`onmogelijke   d e z e r   wonding,  ,en  door.  d e
Dvi.ds zou zitten tot in  eeuwigheidl,   en op  `dien troon         openbaring  daarin van  lhet  wonlder  Gods, Die de  <doo-
`over alle volkeren zou  regeer,en.                                  ,den  Levend maakt?
      Daarom is Hij ook zoon  Davids  ,en zoon Abrahams.                     `t Is metterdaad een l(even uit ,de idooden !
     qai bon  &et anders:                                                    Dat wil  :dit door den Geest geinspireende boek ons
      Z'oo  was het  &mers eeuwen tevoren  B:an  Abra~ham            aanstonldis  <reeds doen verstaan  door  id:e rangschikking
geopenbaard, toen de  Heier'e God hem het evangelie                  in  d&e  masi veertien geslachten.  `VS: 17.
vtiktindigde (Gal. 3  :8) : in u zullen  (alle volken ge.                    Gij  yerstaat  immers,  (dat  (deze  Is,ymboliek met opzet
zegentd worden.         Op Abraham  ,rus;tte  ,de  bel,ofte, en      zoo gekozen is. In de  w~erkelijkl-rei~d der menschelijke
op zijn  zaaldl En  adat zaad  was Christus.  Want  "zoo             historie was het  zoo niet. Er waren meer geslachten.
zijn  die  ,beloftenissen  tot Abraham en zijn zaad gespro-          Met opzet zijn sommige geslaohten overgesprongen
ken. Hij zegt niet : En  (den zaden,. als van melen ;  manr om  tot  :dfe symboliek van  dr.ie maal veertien te komen.
ds van n : En uwen  zade ; hetwelk is Christus."                           En  spreekt  rdan  ,deze  symbohek  ,er reeds niet  luilde
Jezus, Die Zijn volk zal zalig  m'aken van  lunne  zondIen,          van,  .dnt God  juist daar Zijne  wo,ndermacht  spenbaart,
en in  Wtien  Jall'e volken  zoaden gezegend worden,  mo,est waar alle menschelijke  mogelij4kh&d heeft  eoggehouiden,
)duB zoon van Abraham zijn.                                          op:dat  .Hij  Z'ioh  ZO,LI  #openbaren  als den  Go!&,  Die  .de  ,doo-
      Maar  .d:e  Chrisitus moest  ,ook uit  Davitcls geslacht ge- den  levead maakt? Worden  (door deze  tdri,e maal veer-
boren worden.                                                        tien  Idlan geen drie, perioden in  Id:e verwachting  Isna,els
      Davild was  ~im~m~ers  `de door God aangewezen koning          aenlgedui,d-   ,v'an  tweemgaal zeven ieder? En is zeven, als
Isti&  ; en zijn geslacht was het koninklijk  gesliacht.             zes  ipus n,  rails arbeid en ruste, "dan geen symbool van
Uit Abraham,  :doox  Jnda,  lileip  !dle lijn van  h,et eeuwig       het  volmaa;lde  <merk  .Gods, van de komst van Zijn konin-
k80ningsch@  over David.  Z,oo  w:as  he,t geopenbaard :             krijk, van  die vervulling  Idler  b,elofte? En wijst  clan dit
"Wanneer uwe  dagen zullen  vervuld zijn,  ,en gij met tw:eemaal  zeven niet op  ,een  Idubbel wachten van  Godd.
uwe  vadieren  zult  ~ontslapen zijn,  zoo zal  i$k uw zaad          vol,k in `de o,u.de  bedeelin.g, ioodat bet wel moest sohijnlen
na u  &en  Iopstaan, dat uit uw  jlijf voortkomen  zal, en           alsof God,  ,d:e belofte telkens vertraagde? En  ontvin>g
Ik  zal zijn koninkrijk bevestigen.  D,ile zal Mijnen het  $d!an in  Idieze  periode van  tweemaral zeven niet  ldub-
Naam een huis bouwen ; en Ik zal  tdien stoel  zijns,  kontin-       bel voor al zijne zonden? En liep  ,dan niet telkens, tot
krijaks bevestigen tot in eeuwigheid,  Ik zal hem tot                ~driemaal boe, deze periode  ui.t  ,op  eene menschelijke


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 ,onmogelijkh,ei:d,  zooxlat men wel des  wachtens  moede' vond bij God geen genade. En `t werd al later  !en  ,al
 moest worden  ,of op hoop tegen hoop  geliooven moest? donkerder! Ook Abrahams  l&aam verstierf. . . .
        Van Abraham tot  David!                                                       `t Was  menschelijk onmogelijk  gewlorden  !
        Tlweemaal  zemen ! Lang had  me.n gewacht ! De                                En als  ,de  bel!ofte zich aan Abraham en Sara her-
 tij,d was  lang voorbij ! Maar in  David scheen  dan toch haalt,  la.chen  .beide:  wise  verwar& nu kinderen in  den
 ,d,e vervulling  .d'er beloften te zijn `aangebroken ! Dan avond  ,des levens?
 neen! Weer  wloridt de belofte verschoven. David zal                                 En  !dan wordt zij vervuld! Goddelijk wonder!
 <deInc Heere geen huis  bo,uw.en. Weer wondt er  gergro-                     Leven uit ade  !diooidlen  !
 `ken van zijn  as.adi! En  -vandiaar gaat  bot al naar  be-                          En Izak gewon  Jakb !
 aeden. Van  David tot  ; . . .  `0 schrik ! . . . . .  ,de Ba-                       Jn\,`maar `ook ihie? door .:de beliofte! Terw:ijl   Ishtmaei
 bylonische wegvoering : de  (dood, het graf. `t Is nu ver- in menigte  uitbnae,kt, is Rebekka onvruchtbaar.                                            E n
 loren! Dan neen! De belofte blijft spreken.  Zerub- als God  ,eindelijk het gebed verhoort,  [dat Izak  <en  Re-
 babel komt! De prins! Maar ach !                            ook zijn  gl:ans beka tot God  opzehlden, Is  alles1 verkeerd: Eeau staat
 verdooft, en  `t  `wlortdh al  fdolnkerder, tot er  ,einidielijk  nisets     op Jokab's. plaats, en  Jakob'rs;  vleesch, schoon hij zijnen
 jover,blijft  fdian eene maagd uit het huis van  Davi,d,  `en broedier  sohi:er  wan.hopig  `bij  tde hielen houdt, is  niret bij
 Exau zit  `op diens troon ! . . . .                                          machte1 ,de plaats ader belofte te veroveren. . . . . . .
        Driemaal veertien!                                       /     -              Doch  i:n  tic  "Wortding" van Jezus Christus,  ,die im-
        Mlenschelij ke lonmogeli j khei!d ! '                                 mers  iar  Jakob's  lendenen was, wint  cde belofte  fhet !  " De
        Maar ook  zoo blijft de belofte spneken. Want im-                     meerdere gaat den mindere  Idiienen!
 mers  ,eene maagd zal zwanger  wondien en.  eenen  zo'on                             Menschehjke  onmogelijkhei~d!               Goddlij k wonder !
 baren, en  zijal  naa)m zal zijn  Immannel!                                          En Jakob  gewlon Juda ! 0,  Jnkob had veel zaad,
        Menschehjke onmogelijkheid, maar  Go!d~delijB  w,on-                  bij vier vrouwen, want hij wilde altijd  lde, belofte  Gods
 d e r !   Lev,en  u i t   den  (dood!  D.aax  i n   Idee  k r i b b e   v a n voorthelpen. Maar  Raohel  ,is  onvr.uchtbaar, Ruben  be-
 Bethlehem ligt het eindpunt  van de  gesl.achten   Abra-                     drijfttIslchande,  Simeoa en  Levi zijn  wloestaards,  en in
 barm en  Davidis, Jezus  Chlristus. En  :dlass is  Ide open-                 profetische  verwonderi:ng moet Jakob  einldelijk  toch
 baring van  Go;d,   ,d'en God  onzer  zaliigheiidt,   Disc immers het  zaad vinden in  Jada,  )den  vierde !
 de  [dooden levend  !maakt? . . . .                                            .  Ju!dla! Gij zijt het!
        D,riemaal  veertien !                                                         E n   Juda?  A c h ,   `t  wolrdt'  a l   Idroeviger   n a a r   h e t
        Van Abraham  hot  Dlavid  `den koning ; van  Davi.d  t,ot             vleesch!  H,ij gewon  Fares en  Zara . . . . bij  Tamar,
 idie wegvoering; van de wegvoering tot  {die maagd !. . . .                  zijne eigene  sohooadochter ! Want  Juda had  zich  ,eene
        De mensch gaat  ,onder ! In `t  vl'eesch is geen hoop  I              I&naanietische tot vrouw genomen. En bij haar meen-
        D,e! belofte blijft werken,  wo,& vervuld!                     m      de hij  $door het vleesch het zaad der belofte te ver-
        De wording van Jezus Christus. . . .                                  wekken. E,n `t  soheen  te gelukken.  Drle,zonen werden
        Goddelijk  wonder !                                                   hem  uit haar geboren. Gotd  (doodde  ,de eerste! En als
                                                                              Jmla-  dienis  VKUW,  Tamar,   laan:  (den  tweed'?,  Onan ge-
        Leven. uit  !den ,d#ood.!                                             geven had, om toch  zsla.d.te  .houden,   (deed de laatste het
        A.ch,  ZOO  was  `t bij deze  won~dlerli~nge wording van              nog  sohaedelij,ker  Idlan de  ,eerste  zooin, ren  Gold doodde
 Jezuisi Christus  a1tij.d weer !                                             hem `ook ! En.& Juda  nogmaals1 voorbereidselen maakt
        Abraham gewon Izak? . . . .                                           som  Tamar voor zijn derden zoon  `als  vrouw te  bewaren;
        Gewon? Ja, maar niet  and'ers  `dan  :dloor het  gelloof vreest  Tamar,  &d!at God  look  `hem zal  rdooden, en waar zij
 in  Tde  b,elofte;  ,door een  gelsoof van hope tegen  hope;                 ook het zaad der belofte wil zien,  merkleedit ze zich als
 ldloo,r een geloof,  ,dat  weltiswaar niet  bezwere8,  m,aar  `dat           eene hoer en  verllokt ze  baar eigen schoonvader tot
 in  `t  llange wachten  toch bijna `onderging. Want Abra-                    bloedschande! . . . .
 ham had de belofte. Hij zou  zaa,d zien! En naar dat                            En'zie!  `t  gel'ukt!~
zaad  verlangd$e  hij met  ial, wat in  hlem was. Zeer be-                            Of liever : nu werkt  (de belofte ! ,Ju:da gewon Fares !
 geerde hij  som  Ch,ristuls'  ,dlag te  zilen. Miaar uit het  too,g-                 Waar  Julda `t  zaald  ,der  belfofte  bedoeldiet voort te
 pulnt  rdles vleesches  blierek  h,et  .al aanstonds (onmogelijk,            brengen,  ldaar doodt God het in Zijnen toorn! Als Juda
 dat hij ooit  ,dit zaad zou voortbrengen.  Want  sch,oon                     zeker, "bij `t  inkeeren tot  :de "hoer" aan het zaad  Idler
 hij  zisch al sterk mocht  gev,oelen naar  het*  vleeis!ch, be-              belcofte niet  denkt, gewint hij het tegen wil  ien dank !
 kwaam om zaad `voort te brengen, Sara  `wlas <onvrucht-
 baar! En ach!  ,hij en zijne  ,gade  bep,roeden het  Iw'el                  ,- Waar is nu het  vlees&? . Te schande gemaakt !
                                                                                      Wonderlijke wording  va.n Jezus Christus ! Leven
 door het  vleeach,  leia wilden het  Ivleesoh  wel. in dienst uit ,de ,dooden ! Ook  )in  [de kribbe van Bethlehem ! Ge-
 steBen van  Gods belofte. En kon hij dan bij Sara  het boren uit @ene vrouw, ja, maaIr zondier  Ide wil clel-, mans !
 zaad niet voorbrengen, uit  Hagar zou  `hij  ,de  vervulmling                        De dingen,  ;die  ~omnogelijk  zijn bij  (de mensohen,
 .der belofte  zi'en. En `t vleesch had  `suoces! Doch niet ,zijn mogelijk bij  God!
 bij God. Het  "llatat Ishmael voor uw aangezicht leven"                              D,ie de  rdooden levend maakt!               -     -       H.  H.
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      Contributing  edbtors-Revs. J. Blankespoor, A. Cammenga,                                                                                                                       The above caption  characterizes a  .goo,d  .deal of  so-
      P1 De Boer, J. D. de Jong, H. De Wolf, L. Doezema,                                                                                                                called  "evangelieal" preaching in our  oountry. A  very
      M.  Gritteers,  C. Hanko, B. Kok, G.  Lubbers,  G. M. Ophoff,                                                                                                     good  .i$lustr.ation  of  this  may be  f,ound in  ~3, book  ithat
      A.  Petter,  M. Schipper; J.  Vanden  Breggen, H.  Vldman,
      R. Veldman,' L. Vermeer, P. Vis,  .G. Vos,  W.  Hofman,                                                                                                           was  recently sent to  me; by  6he  Zondervan  Publishing
      J.  Heys,  l\rlr. S. De Vries.                                                                                                                                    &use.  The  boek  bears   the  title "Ye Must Be Born
      Communications relative to  contefits  should  be, addressed                                                                                                      Again," ,&d  its  author is Hyman  Appelma!q   who  Ihim-
      to REV. H: HOEKSEMA, 1139.  Franklin St., S.. E.,, Grand                                                                                                          self  attributea,   the  sensatio.nalism  &hait characterizes  bis
      Rapids, Michigan.                                                                                                                                                 pr'eaching  to  the  fact  6hat he is  :a converted  Jew. Sihce
      Communications relative to  sbscription  should be  ad-                                                                                                          1  ,received  the book, the  autho:r was  invi*ted to conduct
      dressed  to MR. GERRIT  PIPE, 946 Sigsbee Street. S. E.,                                                                                                          a  seriles  lof  "evangelis&" <meetings in Grand  R,apids,
      Grand Rapids,  Zich.  Al1 Announcements and  Obituaries                                                                                                           which by  this  time  tz.re  oonclud;ed.  MoxeoveT,  the  editor  '
      must be sent to the  above   address  and  wil1 not be placed                                                                                                     of  The  `Bar$,er   ,wrote a  critical  eidiltonial,  co,ndemning
      unless the regul& fee. of $1.00 accompanies the notice.                                                                                                           Mr. Appelman's  preach.ing   a;s "thoroughly Arminian."
                                          Subscription $2.50 per year                                                                                                   At the  same  time,  however,  be  wjrites  ;that `it is by
      Entered as  secoid  class  mail at Grand  Rapids,   Michigan                                                                                                      no  means a  pleaslalnt  Itask  to criticize the  preaohing  of
                                                                                                                                                                        some  lof  these  who  are  aagneed  w%h  US  ton  ce&in  car-
                                                                                                                                                                        .clinlal  ,doctrines   of the Christian faith,"  iand he  finds
                                                              CONTENTS                                                                                                  that it is a  clase  tof  truth being  "mi.xed with  er,ror."
                                                                                                                                                                        A-d he  appears  to think  &hat it "is  a matter of  mis-
MEDITATION-                                                                                                                                                             placed  ,emphasis, for "Appelman's  teachingrs, . . . .
      GOD, DIE DE DOODEN LEVEND MAAKT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121                                                                               stress  h.uman responsibility  ;at  the  expense  ,of  ldivine
           R e v .   H .   Hoeksema                                                                                                                                     soveneigntiy." Mr.  .Appelman is  sa4di to have taken  the
                                                                                                                                                                        editoli of  Th,e  Banner to  task for  :h,is  criitic&n,  !and  ac-
EDITORIALS :-                                                                                                                                                           co,pding to  :rep&s  tof his  statements  he  ,cl,ai.med  io be
      ARMINIANIFM GONE WILD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124                                           as  gooi&  `a Calvinist  8s  hi,s  critic.        T~his  is, perhaps,
                                                                                                                                                                        hardly  truc,  lalthough,  in my  ,opinion,   it is  i.ndis;putable
      THE EVANGELICAL AND  REFORMED   CHURCH........i25                                                                                                                 tihat  rthe  ,difference  between  M r .   Appel,man  a n d   .the
      EXP,OSITI~N   OF THE   HEIDELBERG   ,CATECHISM......IBB                                                                                                           adtor of  `The  Banrzer  is  aer'cainly  o'nly  ia matter of  de-
           Rev. H.  Hoeksema                                        .                       s                                                                           .gree,  nat  o f   pr~nciple.  I n   proof  ,of  ithis,  1   neger  ntot
      THE PRIDE OF EPHRAIM ..,..; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130                                       only  to  ;the  statement of  the  &i+or  mself  thart  Appel-
             -Rev.  G. M. .Ophoff                                                                                                                                       man's  teaehings "stress  human  resp.oinsibility   la;t the
                                                                                                                                                                        expense  lof  Idivine sovereignty, but  also  ito  ;the  keachings
      D E   L E S   D E R   H I S
                                                                    . . . . . . . . . . . * T O R
                                                                                      . . . . . . . . . . . . . * I E
                                                                                                        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133    of  the  "T.hree points," land ;the position always assumed
                Rev. G. yos                                                                                                                                             by  the  ieditor  ,of  The  Banner,  accor&i~g  to  which we
                                                                                                                                                                        must  believe  the  co;nSradiction  hhat God is  gracieus  in1
      1C:OMMUNISM  AND THE  SOCIAL  LIFE . . . . . . . . . ..*................ ;;135                                                                                    lthe  prealching   lof  the gospel  ito,  nll  the  hearers, and  ,tiat
               Rev. B. Kok                                                                                                                                              He wU save sonly the leaect ; tha;t saving mate is a well-
                                                                                                                                                                        meaning  ,offer  Ion  6he part of God, and  tl-&,  it  ais  sover-
      DENYINlG  THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137                                                                                           leign. If the  editor  of The Banner  will  be  #honest,  he
               Rev.  ,tJl De Jong
`:                                                                                                                                                                      may  ceirtaidy  Etidi  :tie  .lsame  t~o  iru:eooncil~alble  liees ia
                                                                                                                                                                        Mr. Appelman's book  whhch  be  Ialways  kries  ku  idraw
      CALVINISM ACCORDING TO'KUYPER'S STONE LEC-                                                                                                                        hirnself. If  6h!e  reditor  of The  Bamer  w.ill take  the
      TURES - A CRI'TIQUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140                         trouble`to re-examine  bis  o$m  sermons   con  &EY  "Th,r#ee
              .Rev.   &.  Luebeas                                                                                                                                       Foints" he  wil1  dilacover  that  some  lof his  statem'ents
      THE CONCEPT `)SERVANT  OF JEHOVAH"  IN ISA. . ...142                                                                                                              :are  strikingly   similB;r ,  ;to  some of  these  m+de by Mr.
               Rev. J. A.  Heys                                           -                                                                                             Appehnan. IZence,  it;he  fedihor of  7Ahe  Bann'er is  ba.rdly
                                                                                                                                                                        ,in a  posi.tion to  critioize  Wr. Appelman's  preachiing.
                                                                                                                                                                         '  &  f$s  ug  we  ds  nat  cmwlder:wucl?  pre-ccking   kuth


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mixed  with error, but a  corrnpti;oni  of the truth  ; we do                 Listen to this: "Believe and be  bor,n again. What
not  agnse with  M,r.  Appehnan   `on some  oapditial  poin&,             mo,re  `do you  w:ant? How muoh lel!asier, how much sim-
but  Idiffer  fundlamen~ally   with  bis  pr:eaohing   aEong  th?         pier  ean  Gold make it ? Wil1 you  aocept God's  ,offer ?
entire  line; and  fo.r  US it  i,s  nat a  makter of stress on           WiiB you be  b.orn  a,child  o,f God? Oh, what  mighty
human  ?esponsibility  at the expense of God's  soveyeign-                gifts,  what  might$  blessingsj,   Go:d  skands ready to  ,shed
ty (which by  %he  `way is  nonsease anyway,  .siac& man                  on  ,&very,ohe  `of  US  through  falith in His Son. God is
c%n  never be  responsible  for  th  wo4-k of God)  ; but                waitini for you,  plaading   with you. If you  really want
Appelman's preeching is 1a.m .out zand out denial sof God's               to be a  chil,d of God  ; if you really want  to be certain
sovepeilgnty. He liiterally  icienies that G'old ais cthe Lord in lof  your  salvation:, of  peur everlasting  li$e,  .lof  your
the  m a t t e r   ,of  salvati,on.  Appelman  ,does  n o t   prcach fel1owsh.i.p  with Christ,  lof  your home  i*n heaven,  coma
the  Go,d of the  Scriptures, the  Christ  `of  ,tie  Boriptu~res,        tand accept Jesus  `as your  Redeemer, by  fai,th.          (Thus
-the  otonement  lof the  Seri,piures,  itrhe  sinner  .as  he  i;s       f,alr  $he,ne  ia  really  nothing  #over which the  ed(itor of
presen&d  ,in  the  Scripture&                                            The  Banner  lought  to stumble H.H.). God  wil1  1d10  the
       Coasider  th!is  1 "God is ready, God is willing,  God is nest. Every mn,  woman, and  ohild  lhas faith enough,
eager, God is  Iamxious, God is  plesdi,ntg  $or the privilege            if you  wil1  everoise  it, to  come to Christ, to accept the
 (si,c  !) of  washing  ,away  ;the  -sins  ,of  levlery soul in  the :free gift of  Gad's love." Eow Mr.  Appelsman  can have
precimoas  bFo,o;d  sof His Son  and beir. But  His  hands  are           the audaoity  to  tel1  bis  au!di:ence  tbs+t   he is  a Calvinist,
ti,ad\  Hfis  po,wer is  &im?ited, His  grace is oonstrained by .is beyond  al1  comprehension,  ,even, 1 am sure,  beyond
pou., If you  want.~$o  be  savad, God is  wfilling  ;td  save            h i s   `Owen.  HIelre  h e   teaChes  freewillj  regeneration   .by
you.      If-  yeti  )don't want  bo-  b  Bamed,  there  &n't  :any-- faith,  ,and"lhe  !at%ribut:e:s  f,aith  to  al1 men! pp. 25, 26.
thimg  that even God  can do to  yescue you from  .that pit                   1  co&d quote  muoh more. But let  it be  sufficient.
of  &ern&  bu,&ing." 1  consider .tiis ,a :de,scription,  nut             Mr. Appelman's  poealelhing is an example  ,of  Arminian-
`of  Go'd,  hut  lof an  i:dol. Appelrnan preaches  ,a  m:ighty           ism  gene  wil:d.
sinner land  a  `poer,  w1ea.k  Gold,,  thact must  heg  p$he  sinnel                                                            H. H.
for privileges! To  ,rn,e,  thisis  bl-phemy. p. 109.
       Note  &is : "HI&  ,dild  ;that  for  you  ,an,d  for  m e .   1                                   -.
`w,onder if you  can  say to  this Jesus now,  `Lo:rd, the love                                       ._.
of  Cl&st  doeS  constrain me  ,aed if  t<here is  ,anythling
you have  left  -undlone  here  wher,e 1  li,ve,  ;that 1  aam  :do,                           The &angelical
to  the best of my  power  ,an:d ability  pou  ctin  oounrt on
me. 1  -am going  $0  idlo it.' " If this  *means anything,                                             and
it  meanls  that  Chcist left  things  undsone  which we must                         The Reformed Church
do  fes Him. ?Ihe  lsucoess of  Ch&;t's.  wo&k  Idepends on
US.     It is  i.ti#  n+d  :of being  supple-ented by  US. Appel-             We  stated  that  tbe  action of  tic  GeneFa Synod of
man  (does  niet  u~ndlerstand,  tor  Ideliberately  `denies,  +h.at      the  R,ef%rmed  Church  *in the United  States,  :in 1932,
Christ  perfects His own  wlork,  gathers  anr$  presierve-:              whereby the  ppoposed Plan of  Union was  .unanimousl;r
His  own  elect, and  %h.at no  tian,. even  though  he  .be  a           aldopted,  must be  coneidered  ob  ptincipd   importante.
preacher,   ean do this  f,or  H,im;  p. 93.                              For, as  ar as  tic  Synotd was  ooncerned,   thel  Refiorrned
       Attend  b  this :  "Yes Jesus  bor;e  thse sins  `of  `every       Church had  eimply  shified  to  `chre  ,confessional  basis
 one of  US in  H.is  Bown  bo%dy on  +hat  cuns!ed tree. His o'f the Evangelieal Synod of No&h Amerioa : the Augs-
 blood was shed for  every soul  to the  ,ends of  ,the  .et&h.           burg Confession,  Luther,s   Catechism,  tind the  Heide!-
 . . . . Surely, there'is  no.soul  Who  m!ay  ;not  he  washed           berg  Cateohism.
free  ctnd clean,  holy  and  wholesome  in  the  bloord  `of  the            Eowever, we  pecall  thlat  th;i;s  resol'ution  a n d   pro-
Ltimb.  Tfhat is  the greatest  news,  &e best  news, the                 ppsail, waS ito be veferred to $he classes of +he Reformed
`mIo&  inspizing news. It is Hhouting goo:d news. J'esus                  Chu.rch in the Unitsd  Statesj   .and  ito the  ctiitricts  ,of the
 CXrist  ,died for  al11 men. ,His  bloed  is  ,available  for  the       Evanlgelicd  Sy-nad  o f   North  Ame&a,  f o r   their  a p -
 claam,sing  tof  al1  souls  fnom  al1 sins.       Freelg,  bounti-      proval.     It `was,  therefore, stil1  .possible   th.at some
 fully, lovingly,  leagerly, God  pxoffers that cleansing                 lassis,  sar  gr&p  sof classes,  woultdi reject  ;the pnoposal,
 tid  t,o  dl sinners  .alike." T.he last sentence.  is{  cquiite and  pmotst  lagair& the  action taken by  ;the  Genera1
 in harmony  with  ;the  Firrs$ Point  lof 1924. The  editor              Synod,
 of  T@  Banner  c.s.  preach the  same thing. But  here                      As  $ar as 1  can  gatheT  from  tic  offici,al  idocuments,
 yqu have  ,+he  doctri&  ,of a  Ch,i;st  pro omnibus,  of uni- however, no  suoh  laotiae was taken  wen by one classis.
 verFa1  &oniement.  It  as  tic  :dloctrine  that Christ  also               On  June 26, 1934, a  joint session  was held, in Cleve-
rdlied  fork^  %hose  thjat  ctre nok  actually justified. Anid  this     land, Ohio, of  the  Genenad Synad of  th"e  -Reformed
 means  that Christ's  ,death  .ics, not in itself  justifying.           Church  itni  the  Unli;ted States and  th  Ev+ngeli.cal  Synod
 It is a  denia  sof  vsicarious   ,atonemenlt  itself. p.  1.26.         of  No,rth  .A:merica."  ?I'o  th& session report was  FendeT--


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    sd by the  tw,o  respective commissions on Church  Union                      &sses of the  Refoimed Church  in the United States
    representing  `uhe  t%o  d'enominatitons.  .  Tlhe oornmission had  ad'opted   (tihe Plan of  Ulnlicm, that  $hey  al1  Ideclarecl
    of +h,e Resormed Church, r%ported `as f ollows :                              thait  they were  oorvinced that  the  two, denominations
                "Dear.  Fathem and  Brethren,:                                    involved were in agreement  ion  essential  (doctrines,  and
                "The Evan.geli8c@  Synsod ,of  Noltih  Amserica  apd  the that  ,tiey  al11 adopted  the  confessJona1   atandaFds  lof  +he
    Genera1  Synod  lof  ;the  Reformed  Church In  +he  Un+itecl                 Evangelieal  Synod of North  America  ,as  thei  doctrinal
    Staitjes  haviinlg assembled in  joint  eession in  ok?der to                 b a s i s   `of  ui+on\.
    reoeive  .official  a,ndi  final  repoti  of  the  alvtion  iof  each             1  failed to  fhld,  ;in  %e  ~of%cial   idocumentis,  a single
    Church on the Plan  lof  Union,  sccording to  $lie  pro-                     prot;est by a single classis,  or oonsistory,  or  office-
    vision,s  `of  A.rtiZcl.e  X11, 1  be&  lease  t,o  repor-t  f,or the bearer;  against  this  -propos&   Plaan of  Ur&on.
    Commission on Closer  R,ellartilons  and  Church  &ion                                                                                       ;K. H.
    that  it;he  R~efiormle~d  Ch,&ch in the  Unibed States has
    r$guJarly   addo&ed  the  PIlan of  UnEon  satid  ;the  jdelegates
    .of  the  Gen!eraI  Syno.d  `of  the  Rmeformed Church in the
    U,ni&d  Sta+es  ,are  preparedi   to.  dec1ar.e by  j,o,int  resolu-
    tion  %art  ;the  uniton' of  the two  Churches is  ,dtily  ef-
    f              ectied."                                                           The Triple Knowledg
                                     "Respectfully submitted,                          .
                                 Euorge W. Richards,  C,hairman."
                                                                                  -An Exposition Of The Heidelberg
                The above is  fcom the "Acts  ,and  Pro.reedings  ,of the
    Genieral Synod of The  Evangelieal  aed  the  Reformed                                                    Catechism 1
    Clmrch, 1934," as  quoted in "An Examination  ,an&
    Criticism," p. 90.                                                                                         PART TWO
          The  loo.mmission  represent,ing  the  E%ngelical Church                                     O F   M A N 'S REDEMPTION
    presenited   :a  similcar report.
                After  thesle  reporti,  weye sdopted, a  jotint  reeolution                                  Lord% Day  X11 ,
    was presented  :and adopted  as  foll'ows  :                                                                        9.
                "Whereas the  Rl&rmed Church in the United States
    and  the Evangelieal  Synordt  `of North  Ameriosl by  negular                                   O.ur  Eternsal King. (oont.)
    setion of  itrhie Districts and the  Gennieral  Confserenae  of                   Niow,  .as we  fdiscuss  the  king&ip of Christ in  con-
    the.  Evangel$ic@   qynod of  No&h  Ameriea  an:d  o,f  bhhe                  neetion  w,ith the twelfth  Loxd's Day  d  tour  Heildeaberg
    Genera1 Synod and the C'lasses ,of the Refomued  C'hurch                      Catechiism, we'must needs ll.imit ourselves to a consiider-
    in the United  Statejs, have adopted the Plan of  Unio,:                      atio;nr of  ;this function of  tour  Saviolu as an  aspeEt of  His,
    sub&tt&d  .to  t h e s e   bo&es  b y   t h e   Commissions   o n office in  gernferjsd. If we fail  to do  -this, we  wil1 be
s  C.hurch  U n i o r i ,                                                         t&mpted  also to treat  of.  Chriirit's  exaltatioa at the right
                "B'e  ik  resolved, first,  th:at the  Genera1  Synod of the      hand of God,  whereby He is raised to  bhe glory  lof Mis
    Re%obrmed  Church in  the  %ited States and  ;the Genera1                     present  ldomin.ion.,over   al1  things. Tbe. two  ,are, of
    Conference  lof  the  Evangelieal   Syn1o.d  `of North  America,              course,  clasely  connecte&            Y,et,  ,of. the  latter we must
    in  jloint  session  assembled  thi,s  ld,ay, June 26, `7 P.M.,               not  s,peak  &here, for of  this the  Catechism  speaks in the
    1934, in  the city  .of  Cleveland,   Ohji'o, hereby  de!clarle  thai.        nineteenth  Loyd's  Day, in  connecti'on with  hhe sixth
    the PBarn of  Union  has been.  tlegally  adropted  ;                         artiilcle  `o$  ;the  Apostolicum.          Here,  -tihereEoEe,  we must
                "Second,  that  ;th'e  union  o-f  th&  R'esormed  Churcli  iu    consildetr  hhZe kingship  ,of  *,our Lord  i;nl  co~nnecti&   with
    thle  United  States   &d  th&  &&n:igelical Synod  of North                  His name  Christ,  Messah,  bhe  Anoi8nted  mof God.. He
    Amerioa is'nro;w effected @$er the ,tiGrnle lof "The Evan-                    is the  Servant of  Jehovah, God's  offioebea.rer,  `!ord,ained
    gelied  and  Refiormed   C$ILWC~'   ;                                         of God the  F,ather,  and  anoinkeid  wiith the  H,oly  G%host."
                "Third,   @at:  the  consu&rnati~cin  `&f  t h e   unitoa  b e Arucli  this  coff;ice,  thpeefolfd  though  it be, is.  ,onle. In a
    formally  pr,onOunc&d  by the  P%.s,i&nt  sof.  tic  Genepal                 sense, it  may be  `sai;d to  culminarte in His kingship. For
    Syinlod  ,of  the  Refo?med Church` Ln the `United States                     the Servant  ,of  Jehovah,  Who as  prophet  -reveals  iand
    aad  +he  P.resident `of the Evangelieal  Smlod of North                      glorifies the  F.ather,  at3  Psiest  consec-tes  Himself to
    A.merica, in  tihre name of  ithe  Father, an:d of  th Son,                  God  ,antd  fulf.ills all  ri.ghteousn[ess, is as  !such  adso king,
    ancd  ;of.  +e  H.oly  Ghost  ;.  "  '  '                   I       ,         authopized  ,tO `be  `omer  th&  whole  heuse  ,of God, and to
                "Fou&h,  ,that,  pending  the  Idevotional services, this have dominion  over  al1 the works of God  in,His Name.
    Jloint  S,ession  be-  I%cl,are.d  .a!dj,ourned."  (i.dem, pp.  90,           Christ is  prie&  aftier the order  sof  Meh&isedec,   anId$
    91).                   "                                                      henoe,  -He is priest-king.
           If  thiS  means anything,  it implies  1  &at  al1 the
          `;                                                                          Also in His royal office, let it be remembered,  He. is


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  our  M&diator,   Who. takes  IOUIT  phce,  Who redeems man              of  the  fermer. But  ,himself   w$as not king over  al1  the
  as  the fallen king, and  delivering bim  from  the power               works of God's hands. He was made a  little  lower
  anld  domimon of  the  dIevil,  restores him  to his  office than the  ang~els,  though  ,destined; in the last Adam, to
  as priest-king,  ,alt the  -samre  tiime raising  him in that           rule even  rover  them. His dominion  was limited  to
  office to the  highest possible  leve1  ,of royalty and  ,glory.        the earthly  oreation. But  ,evlen  LIO,  he was king. He
  In  generd, we  already  Jrefer!red  to  :dl'th.is in: the first        was king,  ,as  sarvant  .of God. As  the  friend of God
  @hapter  Iuinder  this,  twlelfth  Lord's  Day. We  must  eow .in His  covenant, it was  $is  cal.li.ng to  acknowledge the
  draw  thle  dine  somevvhat more  definitely with  respec-i;            Most High  las his Lord, to love  and to serve  Him with
  to  %he royal  ,offisce  .of Christ.                                    dl  h.is  heart,  :aad  mind, and  ~0~1, and  strength  and
      Also  ,of this royal  (office of  Chnist,  thenl,  there  wlas      thu&,  :as  friend-servant  .of  the Lord, he was to rule
  a  refl'ectibon in Adam in  the  state  `of  rectitude  .in  Para-. over  al1  the earthly creation.
  disc. ,  F,or  Johe  fiirst man,  toe, was  ,king under  G,o#d,  ex-         The  f i r s t   servant of the  L&d,  however,  rebelled
  preslsly  ordaieed by God to  th,at  positi0.n  i,n the earthly         against his  sovereign Lord,  rej,ected His Word,  pre-
creation. For  Gold gave him  dotinion  `over the  bea&,s erred Me  lie of the  <devil, and became  the  latter%  ser-
  of  the `field,  lover  the,  fowJs of the  `air,  ,and  ,over the      vant. ,  An13   with  ibis  dlominion  be  .i!s  made1  subj'ect to
  fish of the  :sela. It must  be  iem,phasized,.  howe'ver, that         Go.d's  cu.rse  .and to the power of death.  There  Iare,
  man's   oirigina[l dominion was  llimibeld  to  the  `earthly           indeed,  remnants  #of  !h&+  original royal power  :and  ido-
  creation. We  dare  ,not  saly without qualification that               minion. And these  are plainly  visible in  $he mighty
  he was  ktig  `of  $he world, over  ,all  ,creati>on. Acdsam was .works  be  et% aocomplishes,  ,and in  al1  hits  attempts   to
  of the earth. ear.thy. He was  nat the  Lorid from heaven.              subj eet  ,aB,l things  under  ~him. Man constantly  struggles,
  Al1 things,  :in  heaven  :and on  eatrth, were  n!ot,  and  oouEd      even  :in the present  world, bundened by  the  curse,  t.o
  not possibly be, united  ,in  him,  .and  Idi'd not  bel.ong to         regain  and maintain  bis  aoyal dominion,  ,and  thougll
  hits dominion. It was,  .indeed, God's counsel  :and  eter- in  .the  attempt   he is  often  ,olverconie, he  idespises  death
  na1  purpose to  $ai,s!e man  ,to  that  :exalted. position in          in  the struggle to  attain to  tlre end he  bas in'view. He
  which dl things  woulcl be  subjected  under  ,hils  feet. makes  %he  wiorld about  bhim the object of  .his  seientific
  That  this  is true is evident  fr,om a  compUlriaon  ,of Psalm         investigation.  He discovers God's  ordinanc~ in  erea-
  8 with Heb. 2. The  psal,mist exclaims in  wonderm.ent :                tion,  and arranges his awn-life  acoar.dingly.          He  brings
  "What is. man,  that  thou  ark mindful  of him?  and the to light the  hiddlen powers  .and  wonders of  the  w!orld,
  son of man, that  )thou  visite& him?  Flor thou  bast and  presses them  ,into  Iris service. He  undenstands  the
  made  him  !al  littlle  lower than the angels,  kand  ;hast :laws  ,of  "the  seasons,  of  winds  ,and  rains, of  seeds  and
  crowned him with glory  ,an!d bonor. T~hou  maclest him of the  soil,  and  bel  ,malkm;  Ithe  earth  produce the  .best
 ,to have dominion  `over the  wjorks  ,o9 thy  h$anlds  ;  thou          possible,   crop. He  stud!ies the  llaws  `of gravity  land  gravi-
  hast  put. aU th&ngs undea his feet." 4-6. It is  trule that            tation, of steam  and  electrioity, of  light  waves and
  the  psalmi&  evidently,  ~still  coNnsi.ders man  .in  h,is  `ori-     sound waves, and  ,he  invents  many  lwoaderful  things :
  ginal  position,  and in his  ~dominion  ,over the earthly              telephone  )and  telegraph,  .radi,o  sand  televis,ion.  H          e
  creartion:  sheep  and oxen,  the  beasts of the field, the             plows  through the  .depth of  the  Islea, and  flies  Othrougl~
  fowl of the  ,air, and  the fish of Me sea.           But  .in the      spac'e. Be stud,ies itihe structure and ;Iaws lof the human
  epistle to  the  Hebrews  the  Holy `Spirit interprets  rthis           body, fights  >disealse  and  mdeath, alleviates  lh.uman  suffer-
  dominion as  having reference  to  al1 things. The,re the in!g  and  prodoags  human  life. And  h,e  surraunds  him-
  psalm is.  rinterpreted. as  meaning that  ,osiginally  man s.elf  tith  ,means to  enhanlce and  enrjioh his  life  i.n the
  w!as,  andeed,  m(atde  ,a  little  lower than  the  ang&, that worl,d. It is  tru,e,  that dl  lthis is but a faint  afterglow
  his  original  dominiton was limited to  lea&h~ly things,               of  man% original glory. It is als0  Itrue  that in redity
  but  that he was  ,destined   to  reign over  al1 the  waaks he  )accomplishes  nothing,  for  the  creature is made  snb-
  of  ~od's  hgands : "But  ene  in!  .a certain  pla.ce  trestified,     ject to  vanity ;  and  that in the  ultimate sense he  .is  al-
  s,aying,  What is  ~mstn,  th&t  thou' art  m'indful of him ? ways  defeated, for  he  idi%,  Bike the beasts  that perish.
 zor  the  Bon  *of man, that thou  visitest  him? Thou  mad- But  th.is  Idoes not  .alter  the  fa.&, that there is  a  certain
  est him a  littl~e  bwer  than the  #angels; thou crownedst remnant of  mlan's  .original   kingship. And it is  exact&
 him  witih  glory  ;anld  honor, and  ldildst set him  lover the beaanse of ithis remnant thiat there is a l&r&om ,of dark-
  works of  thy hands  f Thou  bast put  ,all things in  Islub-           ln'ess.    For in  the  spiritual-ethioatl  `sens& of the word,
~ jection under  {bis feet. Fos  dn  th,art he put  al1 things in man  beca,me  ,an  enemy of God, and  a slave of  the  devil.
  subj.ection   under  [hirn, he left  nothmg  th.at is not put           And thus  there  !develops in  this world  a  kingdom of the
  under him."  Hieb. 2 :6-8.                                              (devil,  that  wille  cuflminate  i n   t h e   worl.d-power   #of  t h e
      But  this highest  ,form of  universa dominion was                  Anti&rist,   in.whtifoh  al1 the  poZwers of creation shall
  not  die&ined to be realized in  the  fi,rst Adam. He was, .h!ave been  :exploited.  and pressed into the  eeorvi,ce of
  indeed, n image of Him  thjat was to  come. And of .man, but in  which,  a;t  the  Bame  time  the  measure of
  the kingship  lof the  latter  tihere was  a  ,reflt&tio.n in that      iniquity  shald be  filled, and the root-sin of the first


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man  A,dam  shall have  beoome  compl.etely  .rwealed  in                 the  lalst Adam, the'  Lord  f.rom heaven was the end
the  f.ully  ripened fruit  ,of  iniquity.                                of God's counsel.- His  own Son,  the  only  Begotten,
     Afll  this,  however, stands  strictly  .in the service  of          had been  ord.aineid, is  eternally  osdained  to be the  First-
 God,  and of  His  eternd good  pl'easure. For  .He had                  bonn of  ,every  ereaitu,re, King over  al1 things, in order
 provided some better thing  for  LW. And  before the  that as the Lord of His  ,ellect- brethren, and  with  them;
 foundation of  the  w!o,rld, He  :had  ordai:ned   His  Servant;         He  ,might  forever  :reign over  al1  thee  werk of God's
 to be King  IoNver  al1  thei  wcorkrs, of God's  ,haeds. Even hands.
 though it remains  truc  that the first  .man  phrnged  him-                Hnto  this end He  oomes,in   the flesh.                                :
 s.eIf and  ah1 his  posterity  mto the  ,abyss  Bof mhsery  ,and            And  `in the  flesh He  fights,  hhe  battle  agtainst  the
 death by. an act  `of  tiJlfu1  .disobe&ience,  a.nd  that  for          powers of darkness in  the  way of  obedienoe:, and He
 thi.s he is  ,responsible   60 his Lord  ; nevertheless,  also  hia      enters  int,o  the  strongholds  of  the  devi,l, sin, and  Ideath,
 fa11 is no  acci.dent  from  Go~d'~s  viewpoint, but must                fighting His  lway as  the  Kim,g  `of  Hie Church  ,leven
 serve  to  prepare  the way  for  Gold?s  bringing "the  first-.         tinto  the  ,&pi&  of  hel& "that  hhrough  ,deahh  be might
 begotien into the  wor1.d." Heb.  1:6. For God is  the Idestroy  h.im  that  ;had  ;the  powe,r  sof  sdeath, that is, the
 Lord. He is in  the  heaiven,s  and  perf#orm&   al1 His  goo&           devil  ;  and  dehver  them  3who  through fear of death
 paieasure. His  ,counsel was- never  frustratedl; His  `pus-             were al1 &here Zf eti.me subjlact to `bondage." Heb. 2 : 14,
 pose was  n,ever  ithwarted.  Always He  acoomplislhed  15.  :' And  ,He  is,  vietorious.  Perf& and everlasting
 al1 His  goold  nleasure,. even  thirough   the  rdevil's,   $emptai     righteou,sness  He  ,&&blishes  as the foundation of His
 tibn,  ,and  throsgh  the  faJ1 of man. Th'ere never  tias.  a. kingdom. Through the  adarkness of  adeath He breaks
 power  Ion  earth, in  heaven,  ,or' in  the abyss  `of  Ida.rkness      into the  glo,ry of  H&s  resurrecti~on. Aad! He is exalted
 thht  .realIy  .opposed   Hi*m,  or that  forced Him  ;to change         into  hi.ghes,t  g$ory,  in  o,rder  that, at the  right hand
 Hi,s  pl,an.  Though the powers of darkness, as far as                   of  the  Fathw,  clrothed  with  alU  -powier in  .heaven  and
_ ctheir OW;~ intention ,$, concerned, s& themselves against              on  earth,  H,e.  may  reign over  ,a.Jl things even in  the
 Him,  .and  vainly take  oounsl to  Idethrone  the.Almighty,            present  dispelnsation,  until  al1 God's" counsel is  ful-
 .and  @ough in  this  attempt   and  -purpos,e  they become fillad, His  Chur,oh shall have been gathered, His  .loing-
 gui&y  and  worthy.of damnation, the  falot remains that ,dom  sh!all be  perfe&d,   ,an!d He  s,hall subject Himself
 they  oan  ,only serve the realization  ,of God's  .eternal with  Hia,  kingdom, as  the  eternaJ.  Servank-King,  to the
 purpose,  anld  that  God, without  :deviation   from  .the Ra.ither,  that God  may be  al1 in all.
 straight.J&e of  ,H.is counsel,  ,attains  to His  purbose.                 This  mighty King is Lord  <of lords,  and `King of
   This  truth  must  b        e               lestablished.              kings.
  Naar  ,neied we fear  to- emphssize this  truth, specially                By  grace  H,e reigns over His  Churoh.   The  Cateohism
 in  <our  :age  with its mighty  emphasis on man.                        >instructs  US   t h a t   `Ghe  governs  LIS  by  bis  wor.d  ,and
    Gord is -God !                                                        Spirit." Be is King  !of  His,  Churoh,  but then as the
        And always He is th;e.Lord7 '                                     Heald lof tic bo,dy. Surely,  He! alone has  al1  legislative,
        His counsel  shalll  stamid,   ,and He  ehall do  al1 His good judi,o+aJ, ,and exeoutive po;wer  in khe C,hm&. He n$gns
 p1easur.e.                                                               over  bellievers  ind?vidually,  ,and over  the Church as,
        Salvation  is  .no  repair work, by.  which God  m.ends           a  w:hole,  ,organ&ally   an\d institutionally.  His  wil1 is
 Hi,s handiwork  mlar.red  and  Idestroyed  Joy the  devil and            QJ.e  onay  law. And to  that  wil1  al1 are  snbjrect,  taJs.0
 the powers  mof. darkness.  It is  the  reahzartion  of His those  t.hat  a.re ordained to be  office-bearers   in.  the
 leterna  pulrpols,e  in a  straight  line. An!d  ,aJl  t h i n g s ,   al1  Ch.ureh  ,on  ,earth.      Buit  H,e  rules by  Hils,  wor,d  and
 oreatures,   ,also the  devil,  als0 the  fa11  .of man!, must  D'Spirit, .and,  thecrefore,  b y   agrace.  Nat  only  b y   the
 he snbservient to  the  :acoomplishment  of His purpose.                 Wlord,  b u t   by the  Spi,rit, His own Spirit,  an,d  the
   H e n c e ,   ,although   through  Iwillful  ldisobedience,  .bhe Word  he  &,gns.                 F o r   e v e n   !as  H e   fought  t h e   battle
 first man,  the  kin.g of  rthe  earthly  c.reati'on,   f+lls  ac-       f o r   them,  anld  i n   t h e i r   behalf,  even  u n t o   !death,  so
 ,cording  to the  deterininate counsel  ,of  Dhe  Nlost High,            He  also  ,deJivers  them'from  al1 the  power and  domin-
 and in  ,onder  that'  thisi counsel mag stand. He  fell,  .in           ion of  de.  :devil. By  ,His Spirit He  lenlt'ers into their
 ,order  tiat He  wbolm God bad ondained  from  befohe  Bearls,  dethrones   th,e powers  ,of  %darkness  in that  he!art,
 the  foued'ation   of: the  w~dd  ko be  king over  ,all,  ,His.  enthrones,   Himself  by.  cthe  power of His  graoe,  and
 \Ser.v~a&  peer  excelle%ce,. the  firstbornl   *of of  every  orea-     from the  heast He  reigns over  them. .HG  makes  t h e m
 tuse,  a n d   t h e   firstbegotten   tof  the  dead,  the  HeacI  o f   His  willing  subjierA$a-by.   His  S p i r i t   a n d   Word.   H e   r
 the  Church,  might  come  into  the.  world, and  might  be  d  calls  them  Zout  ,of darkness into His  marvelous  hght.
 revealed  i.n  ,a,U the  .gl,ory .of  Hos righteousness, truth            Hle  wlrites  His  law in  thetr in.most  heartrs, so  thaf it
 and  graoe.,      . . .            . . .                                  becomes  their  @elight  .to  {do  His  wiB.  A n d   b y   H i s
    For that was  God%  leterna purpose. Not to perfect                    Spirit He  remaias+r*them;   and abides with  them  for-
 th.ings in the  fcrst  man. Adam,  tic  e&rthly king, but                 e v e r :   T h e   result  of-.tliat  spi~ritual  r e i g n   o f   Christ
to  unite.  them,  ,all  under the  .kingship   .of  the `lest. man,       over His  ,own is  th%t-   they  repent of  sin; and hearing


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 His, Word  f,ollo& Him  withersoever He  eads..  ' An:?                    .all  ithings,  even over principdities and powers, over
 thep  fight the good  figh,t,  leven unto death, that no  ene               the  &lers of this  world;:  over  al1 the  forces of  dark-
 take their  cr'dwn.                                                         ness,  and  aiU things are  subjected   under. His feet  evex
    Buit as  the King  mof His  Churoh,  He  alao defends                    now. For  alhhough the word of  tihe  eibhth psalm is
 and  pireserves  His own in  the  ~redemption  and salva-                   nat  yet completely  realizeid, and although "now we  sec
 tion He  ,obtaitied for  US.                                                not yet  al1  thitigs put  unIdier  him," we do "see Jesus,
     For the present, the  Chu&, though  retieemed and                       who was  madfe  ,a little  lower  than the angels, for  ,the
 victorieus in  ,her Lord,  is. in  the midst of  la1 hostile                suffering of death  crown&d  ,with glory and  :h&or."
 wlorl.d,  aixd  i13  suzarounded  by  enemi,es  that  al:ways aim           Heb. 2 :8, 9. And even now  Go.d  `nas set Him "at His
 at her  !diesitruction:   A:nld  Ithlough she  bas life,  etrernal          &xn  right  han,d in  heavenly  placies, far above  al1  prini
 life,  ,in her King,  s!he  stil! lies in the midst  &f  .deatll.           cipality,  ands  po+er, a n d   might,  .and  domi.n.iox,   la,&
 The  final victory, eternal glory in the tabernacle of                      every name  `titik. is named,  noit only  ie this  world, but
 God  and in  ;t;he  newa  creatlon, has not yet  b.een  ,reached.           also in that  which is to  come." Of this we must  speak
 And,  &ece$or.e,  t h e   baitle  .musL  stilt1  be  ,fought   b y          fu,rther in, connection  wi'ch  -the  nineteenth',   Lord%  Day
 the  Chur5ch   o f   C h r i s t   i n   +he  w o r l d .   She  lias  her of  .&e  Cat&ism.  But  even now it  must be  pointed
 battle, not  aga.inst flesh and blood, but  againt&   princi-               ou;t  %hat Christ  Uses this mighty power,  kh& has  beeu
`palities  a!nd power, against the  sulers of  the  ldarkness- given Him as  bhe  Anointield of  the  Father for the  bene-
`of  lthis  worlid,  argainst  spiriltual wickedness in high                 &t of His  Church, to  defend  anl&  preserve her against
                                                                             al1 enemies, to  cause  al3 things to  .work together for
 places,  Eph. 6  :12.  Besides!,  believers are not  yet  *de- her  elalvation, and to  lead her own  to  fir&  gl*ory.'
 @vened  rom  +he  b o d y   *of  this  death.  S i n   a n d   the            And  thus  Chrisit  wil1 aeign' forever.
 n&ions of sin  "are  stil4 in their  flesh.  Aad always
 that enemy  wi,thin  thee  &tes seeks  ati  &liance with                       For  wheb  al1  things  shall  :have  b,een  accompl,ished,
 thel powers of darkness  in  t&e  w,orlid. In  ;the  .n$s.t of;             the  l.ast of the  eleet  shall  ha)ve been  cdled,  the  measure
 *ajnd over against  ,all these  powers of  Idiarkness the                   of  iniquity  &a11 be  filled, Ha  wijl  come  `again  in  gseat
 Chnrch as a  whole,  ,an.d  be'lievers  indivicdually, must be              power and  glo,ry,  establish   .His eternal  Kiqgdom in  the
 preserved  anld  defended,  a.n!d  through  them  al1  t h e y new  ,creation,  ithat He  may reign  ,everlastingly over
 must be  aed on  to  ,eternal  glory  land victory. Yea,  they His  Ch'unch,  and  wit%  al1  Hits, people as  the roya!
 m u s t   he  m o r e   t h a n   victoris,  for  even  rtheir  enenxies    pr.ies%hoo@ over  al1  +he works  lo$ God's  ,hands. For
                                                                                         `.
 must,  lin  spiite  <of  themeel.+es, oooperate  unto, their  salva-        Christ  16  an eternal King. His dominion is an ever-
 tion,  and  the.  very  ,devil  may  only serve  khe  purpose               lasting dominion.  And  althou,gh  it is true  that He,
 being  the watchdog of  the Good  Shephend.  .                              as  the perfect Servant of  `the Lord,  wil1  aaso subject
                                                                             H,ims~el~f  to the  Father,   bhis does  nat  mean that  Hse
     And  ,also  thi,s  werk of defending  and preserving His                wil1 ever abdicate  .and  ceas&  to be  J&g. On  ;the  con-
 ChuTc'h  in  the  midst  `of  anid  +hrough a hostile world,                tnaxy, He is King forever, even! as He is an eternal
 belongs,  to, the  ,office of  Christ   ,as King. In themselves,            Prirest  after  the. order of  Melchisedec.  And in the.
 In their own power,  khey  `are,  nlothing.  They' culd                    eternal  kingdom of glory,  al1  &hings shall serve Christ
 nrever  stand  ,anld  qr&m&n  ,faithful  to  the  e n d :   Thtiy                                                                                                            '
                                                                             afid  HiS people, that they  may serve their God,  and
 wonld  b e   ,quite  :helpless  i n   hhe  mildst  ,of  the  pwers         He  may  bc  al1  anta in  al1 forever !
 of  Vdarkness.   But  Ch&t  preserves them. And'  this;                                       ,
 too, He  .does, as  far as their spiritual  pr,ese&&ion                                                                                                   -H. H.  p
 is concerned,  through His  Spirit  anid  Word.  Never
 He  leaves  .tiem. Always He  ,abides with them,  anld  la                                                                                -    -
them.  An!d  never  oan  they finally  fiall: away.  -NO  ,one
 can possibly  .pluck  them  out of  H.is hand. Even as
 He is at  &e  right  `h>and  of  God,,  iand  lintercedes  for                                                           IN  MEM~IUAIVI~
them,  ISO He constantly  Messes  tiem  w.ith  al1 spiritual
 blessings in  heav!en!ly places,  aed  preserv&  rthem  in                        The  ,Meq's  So,ciety of  $he  `l3ou~t.h  Protestant  Refokned
the  salvati.on  He  lobtained for  them; He strengthens                     C.hurch   expsessee  its  sincere Sympathy to  ene of  ik. members,
them in  thee  ,battlie.      H e   lkeeps  them  i n   tempitation:         Mr.  Howaed  Vander  Laan, in the loss if  bis  mother,
W:hen  they  s$umble He  raises  them up. And He fills
tiem  w.ith the hope  lof eternal  j,oy in the  mi&% of  $rxe                                                MRS.   J.  VANDER LAAN
suf?ering  of.  thiS present  ,,tim,e.
                     `.
   But  he'al,so  defeade them  by  His power, and  causes                    "  M.ay the  Lord-  domfort the bereaved according to  their
al1  rthtngs  in  this  present  `wIoY;ld  to  werk  togekher unto           need and ta His .$ory,
 th&ir  salvation!. For He is King, not only by  `grace                                                                               Rev;  R.  Veldman,  Pres.
*  cmx  HSB  C;hurch,  but  alsv by  Hin  mighty power QVBT                                                       a<a;                Ml?,   .c,  xhxanla,   Sec'y,
                                                                              _^,,.. - . . ..Z& .A..&  2 -..*&s .&m.^1.


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            The Pride :Of Ephraim `..`,.                                thirsting.sft,er  the  bl,oodl  ,of their fleeing  ,brethren and
                                                                        `therefore  `cut off their  only way of  escap:e by' taking
                                                                        before  bhem the passes of  Jordan. There they  slew
   The  war  iwith  l&e Ammonites  ,h2iid been won. God                 th:em  like  enemies  and  ,gave  them no quarters. Thee
had given  .vhctory.      T.he  ac+ersary had been subdued              would  ,not suffer one  Ephraimite   ito  cross.  the  .river
beso??  the.+ildr.en of Israel.  Jephth.ah was again in lalive; hence  they required  mof everyone  who  wisbed to
hi@ house  in  M.izp?h.-   Hje had done  wicht  bis  daughter           pass over  to say  Shi@oiet,h,  whioh  n'o  E&riami+e  .could
accondinkg to his vow. At least  two  monehs  must have do,  for.he  CQuld only  aay  Sibboleth. "Aed the Gilead-
gene  by  when!  $he  .men.  o f   Ephriam  .gabhered  them- ites took the passages 02  bhe  lordan before the  Eph-
selvles  together  and,  ma,r&ing  northwand,  Lame  . t o              raimites  ; and  it was  si, that  when the Ephraimites
Jephthah in a body. It  .was apparent  6hat they were                   w)hich were  esaa,ped  sasild, Let  rrue pass over;  tliat the
in  Kan  ,evil mood. They  demanided to know  wthy  Jeih-               meln  <of  GiJead  s!a.id  t~o  hiim, Art thou an Ephraimite?
thah had  f'ought  th,at  w12.r  with  Amman without  them?             If he  said,-  Nay ;  then  siaid they  un6o  him, Say nom
seei#ng  `chat  .the  ,Gi,leadcites  wene  hut  fugitives  of  Eph-     Shibboletih:   anld  h e   sai,d  Sibbaoletih:   $or  h e   coulld  n o t
raim among the Ephraimites and  ,among.  the  Manas-                    frame to pronounce  it  right. Then  6hey took him and
sites. Without even  waiting  for:  ,a  reply,  for  they.  weye slew him at  the  `ptassages  of  the  Jordan!;   and  thelre
violently angry, they  !shoute$.   in  Jephihah's  ears  th$            gel1 at that  tin-& of the  Ephrai5mites   forty  and two
they would burn  `bis house  upon  Bim  willh fire. It was thc&and."                    `The  Gil.eaditeia  wIere not content  to  ,defe.at
clear  that  t h e y   W e r e   n o t   t,rifliag.  Jeph+ha,h  r,emon- tbeir brethren  in  war; they  wanted Mem killed to the
strated  .$itti  them. These were  :his words, "1 and my last man. For  th'eir anger  was  fierce.
,peo#ple were in  great strife  with  the  chUren  `o:f  Am-              Yet the calamity  thta  overkook the arrogant,  he:srt-
mo,n;  snld  w,hen 1  !aalled  .you, ye  ,delivered   me]  ilot  out    less,  and  `hypocritical Ephraimites was  ideserved. FOV
of  their hands. And  wihen 1 saw  thait  ye  delivered me `cheir sin was great. They were  aetually  more  culp!able
not, 1 put my  lifie in my hands,  land  p&sed over against             than Amon.  They had  cr.osserdr   6he Jordan to  wage,civil
the  chtidren! of  Amman and the Lond  ,delivered   &hem war.  Thei.r  oonld,uot  w a s   a  disgrace.  I t   c o u l d   o n l y
into my hand;  wherefore  then  are'ye  come up  against                spring from  ungodliness.  .Th&r   sinb  when it  threatened
me  -is  lday, to fight  a.g&st me?" The step that  J:eph- to burn  Pephthah's   heuse, was.  aggravatred  by the  f&
thah  now took  -  through  !his  aid.s, he  .gathered  to- that  it  &u~~k at the  ,deliver,er of  Israel and  the restorer
gether  ,all the men of Gilead for  war  -  indiiastes  tha$ . of God's  law. It was  nation+;  treiseon: Yet  the men
t,@  Ephraimites, instead of  admitting their  folly  and of Ephraim had not  dlowed their  action!  $0 stand  out
Teturning to their  homes  .like sensible men,  persisted in  their own  minds as  treason. They  had not  afdmitted
ip  menacing Jephthah.  They even  may  :have set  firr? to  themsel'v& rand to one  another  bh& they were  .in  i
to  &s house as  they  ha,d bhreatened. This  much is  cer-             si&ul way. If they had,  @ey  wou1.d not have set  out
tain.  Tiheir  behavi,ur   continued  talarmtig.   I      t      cal14on their mad  venture.  Thus what  they had done is
for  drastic  a~cti~on. A  fire had been  .kindlecl by these            to persuade  themis:elves by.  $allacious  reasoniags  that
proud and u.nreasonable  men, tl&  .had to be extinguish-               th,eir grievanc was  re~s,l  anjd! that it justified  bhe kind
ed  wilth,out delay, if  ihalf  the,  nation was not to be              of  action  tha&  +hey had taken. Their  comp,etency as
plunged in  heivil was.       So  Jephth& lost no  timme  in deceivers of  self and of  o:ne. another  indicates  how
cal?ling  the men of  Gi'leardl  to arms. Ikmly be  imagined Uiat  they  ,had' allowed their  understiaadling  to be  dark..
thak  befotie  hh&  outbreak   ,of  the  ,onflict  *he  m e n   o f    ened' by  paision and  canna  p@&ei and  bhei.r  judgment
Ephraim~   wtere  sagain  tol;d to :desist from their  mad.-            to be  .warped by an imaginary grievance.  T*his  ~52s
ness and disperse. But instead ;of lallowing themsielves                their  first great sin. They were not  initellectually blind.
to be  .dissula,ded, thes quarrelsome men, bent  Pn  troeb!e,          In  their  hearts  they  knew  that they were sinners before
ra;i.led at  the  Gileadites as they  hsdr  ,done at  Jephtha$,         the  bord  ex,ceedingly. -But  +hey were  spiritually  per--
repeating the  m,onstrous   c&rge.          "Y:e  Gileadites  a r e verse.  Seeing,  they  ,did not perceive.  Tlhe  Ephr,aim-
,fugitiveis  lof  Ephrai.m  lamon!g  the  Eph.raimites  a n d           ites.  must  bre  kaken  bas  lan example of what  sir&1   pride
among  th,e  Man@ssites." T!hese  *were  hat,efljl  :and con! tand  arrogancy dotes to a .man, hoti that tiey idistort bis
rCemptuous   wo,rds,  calcdated  to cut to  tihe quick and              vi&ion,  pervert  bis judgment  and send  .lhirn  head*l.ong
to  pierce  the  sou!.  Thait  it was  dso in  a- spasm of              to  `bis  fall.  For  +hese were the si.ns of  Efihrai(m,  name-
rage  that  Eche Gileadites  now  $41  upon the  Ephrai,mites           ly  pride rand  arrogancy.
and  Idyove  thlem  away  as  smoke, is  eivi,dent from  the              These sins found expression first of  al1 in  the voiced
n,c&ice, "And the men of Gdiad smote Ephraim  be- grievance of the men of Ephraim. As was said,  they
c3-e  they  sai:d, Ye  Gi&s!diit&   are fugitives of  Ephrairn felt  +hemsjelCes  aggrievel&  because, as  they said,  Jeih-
among  the Ephraimites and among'  the  .M.anassites." t@h  had fought  ,that  wa> with Ammon  wikhout them.
T:he Ephraimites, as  total.ly  $ef,eated, entered  upon  a             ?u$  the sins of  the  mmn of  Ephnaiq  also found  .ex-
@ftmitious   flight.  BV!  the  enragecj  &?&ditea   were              prcwim   ia  tlwt  .vile  tauwt of  theias,  "Ye  C$leaadi$~s .


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  are  fujgitives of Ephraim  among the  Ephraimites   an$                  they  blonged,  an in.depenaent tr.ibe,  with its o%vn trib!
  ,am-Ong the Manassites." Let us  notice  that they  cal1                  rigllts. But  GoGording  to the  men f  Ephpaim,  Gilead
  thle  Gileaditeisi   "fngitives of  ~Ephrai~m".,' To grasp the            was nothing  b$  i;tself, had  .no tribl  rights-;  it  bl,ongd
  p'oint to this  .+aunt we shodd have  before  0u.r  mi& to Ephraim.  Y&  theie was  a.n.  iem.nt  bf  truth in
  the  following  historilcal facts.  1) The Gileadites, being this. Ascording`to Num. 26  :30 ff,  sorne  of  the  &scend-
  as they were the  ,ofFspring   `of Michar,  the: grandson                 ents of  Gileia,d   d%@d  we& of the Jordn  afid had their
  of Manasseh  belonged to  the tribe of Manasseh. 2)                       possessiouis  in Ephraim. Buit fugitives;  outlws, they
  Ephraim  an:d Manaseh were the  sans of  J'oseph.  In. were not.
  the  honse  d Joseph,  Ephrai,m  had  &he  first  .maoice by              .  -Jeph&hah  ;did not dispute  with  the men of  Ep.hrlti
  vitiue of  the  ,ftict that in  the blessing of  -Ja,cob   Ebhraim        about  the.  ju.risdiction of  this  t@ibe  ouIer the Gileadites
  was  preferred  ,before Manasseh. Let US recall how &hat                  in particular  anl& over the tribe Of Man&&h  in gneT1.
  Joseph "took  them  both, Ephraim  in  bie right hand                     He  wa.ived  ;this point. Judgirig frm  h$s  rply, he  tVeil-
  toward  Jaoob's  1:eft hand, and  Manairseh in  h,is  left hand           knew  and'  al1  along  ~haicl  taken  cgnii;nlce of  the  fa&
toward Jacob's  right  jhand;  and brought them to  him.                    that  Ephpim  aiid Manasseh  .had from of ld a  certija
  But  Israel  stretched  out  bis  right  hati,d,`  and laid it            unity of their own  n,d that of the two  Ephrim  tid
  up.on Ephraim's head,  .@o  wa&he yonger,  aed his                       the  chief  voice. 1~ his  reply  he  niaks  the  sta?tllng
  Ieft  &and  upon  Manasseh?s   !heaid;  guidi.ng   -bis hands nevelati'on  &h!a$,,  during  the  Ammonite  ppreg'ifi,   lie
  wittiigly ; for M~anss&<Wa~  ,the first-bokn'!. With his                  had  aoc'ordingly  also  appeald'to   the  ti-ibie of  Ephrim
  h3nds in this  position Jacob blessed  the  &o sons. 3)                   f,or help but  t?hat the appel  tiad  f$li%  ion  :deaf  efS.
  Ai-, a result ,of. Jacob's  raction, the tiibe of tiph.ra&  took          Ephraim had not  lifted  a'  ha%d;   an;d  ,had  thtils  tidiait;d
  the stand that the tribe of  Manassek;,   i.nolud@g  the thiat the  plight of  Jephthah and  5h~s-br;thrn   was of  fio
  Gileadites,  wm  compl&ely  uinder  .its  jurbdiction  an,d concern  to  `ther~.  Such  wer  t h e   fa&%. "1   ,a;nid  tiy
  therefore had not  the right of independent  action. peopl'e," said  J@phthah  to  phem, "`Wer  at  .g~~t  s~rife
  4)  .At  the beginning of  the  coln!quest, of  Clanaan,. tha             wi6h %he childr& of Amman ; and wheti 1 cal.l@d y, y&
  tribe  ,of  Man&eh  was divided  gaan!&  ,oneAhalif `the tribe deliTered me  in!&  out of  their  hrids." "Wha 1 cadled
  reoeived,  its pssession east  mof  tic Jordan  `where   it. you . .  ." The  text in the  original  reads, "in  tiy  pfi
  formed an `independent tribe,  empowered to take inde- and distress 1  c;ri.@d  unto  you,  .%nd  ye  deliv@ed  me
  pendent  ,action, if  need  he. And  this power that  par-                nat . . . "  JepMhah  hepe  spe2.k-s fok' hi-kself  nd  `bis
  ticular  br/a,noh   `of  ithe tribe  #of  Manaa-iieh  -  th,e  bran.ch    p:eo,ple. He  contimied  "And.when 1  B~W ye  de1ivTrl
  that  `wai by the name of Gileadites  -  h*ad now  exer-                  me  nat," `when 1  per.ceived  that 1  nd  niy  br"&`kir'en
  cised by  initiating,  5unlder the leadership of  Jephthah,               could  expcct  nothing  from  you  in  ,tle  ~y..of  .&lp,'  "1
  that  `war  with the  Aecmites. It  ws this  aotion on put  .my  l+fe in my  ow~~tiandisl," `1 :ha!&&d ?ny Wn life
  the part of the  Gilileratdites   bhat  h,ad infuriated the  t.ri,be      a'nd  athe  life of my. people,' "and  @ssed  oVer  ginst
  of  Ephr,aim..   Thei$  accusati'o.n was  that the Gileadites, the  chi.lldren of Ammon  a;nd  the  Lfd  .dliver'@d  theti
  thr,ough  that rdoi.ng, haid wantonly escaped,  `outrun, their            unto my hand." Jephthzh's   ,arsWer   Was  tiot defiiit.
  ju.risdiction;.lopenly  flouted their  `auth,ority. Hence, they He only  wants&  theni  to  nder&%$d.   thait  tic  hd no
  tauntin&y  laccepted! them as  fugitives  of  th,e  E,phraim-             intention  o f   flou!ting  thir  d.u*tho?ity,   thtit  ~h:e  .wo'uld
  ikes, i.e.  .of Ephraim's  author$y.-  This  ;w;as  -qui&ent              &.dly have  yielded the  pr'cedfii!  `Co  theyin, if  respond-
  to  accosting them as fufgiitimes ,of justimce,  vlaw and ,order,         iag to his cry,  they. had  only  t&ti up  aPns agaiwt
  right  r.uBe  arid  m,aking   them  ,o;ut  f o r   insurg&n.ts,   for the enemy.            H e   w a n t e d   th&n  t o   ndierstand  tha.t,
mn  wlho in  their  ,wickedness,   qhad  ri.sen in  `oppo!siti,on          through their  unwillinQfie&,  they had  cotipelled  him
  to  a  ,duly  `estia,bliihed authority. An~d to  sharpen  thhkir          and  hiis  brethren to take  iedepeindent  !actfon. If he  h'ad
  taunt  they added, "among  the Ephriamites and. amony                     .done wrong they had  rio  o1ne  hut  U-iemselves  to  blame.
  the Manassites are ye Gi.leadites fugitiv,es," i.e. ye, wbo His  concluding  questibn  to  then  ,ws, "Wherefore then
 , despiare  ,our authority,  never;theless   hame  your  posses-           are ye  come up  ,against  tic  this  &y to fight against
  sions, lamong `US," i.e.  `pe eat  .of our  good,bnd   ,and  en- me," `to  burn  .my' house  upOn me with  firei  and to lash
  joy  &ll  khe  binefits that accrue  from  Idweliln!g among               me and  my people with thy  tongu&`? 0ne  wou18 think
' a  strong,`capable,  and  well-ok?dered  trib'e, but ye refuse that, at the  hearing of  ithis,  the tien of  Eph,raim as
 *  ev'eii: to  &unsel  wi;th that  tribe  to say nothing of sub-. consumed by  shame and  remonSe,  wo,uld  halve  admitted
 mittiag  yours,elf  to- its  v'oice  -' ye'  :contemptible   out-          their  madn!ess  and  hutmbly'  sotilght  Jephthah's  pardon.
  laws.'  Thia, in' ef?iect, is  what they said to  Jephtha.11              B u t   t h e y   ,didn't.  F o r   they  &eye  pro&   and  w i o k e d
  And  ;this, in  effct is  w'h~it they  .sai:d  $0  the-  &leadites.      men. Just  what they  {had to  Say in rply to  Jephthah's
  But what  they  said  .wal;`.  nat true. T!he Gileadites  *did            defense,  is  nat`  s'cated.  The  sacred  nra?rator does not
  not  ,dwell  iaznong  the  Eptiraimibeisl..    As was  sai,d,  they       reveal  det%i$:. It is  prbable  ttiat,  in  8efefise of  them-
  had  ,$heir  pos&ssioas   &st  <of  the  Jordan  where, they              selves,  they'  Idenied  `tliat they  tia~cl  evler  received a  pet&
  formed,  togehher  with  +he tribe  of,  Manaeseh- to which               ti,on  .for help,  (as' if  ;they. had  %o  v?ait until  $hey  we?,&'


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       asked. lt is  oextialin that  they  persisted in threatening         He was succeeded by  Elon, a  qebulonite,  who judged
 J e p h t h a h   a n d   i n   !perviling,  the  Gileadites  in  general. Israel ten years. The  third.  judge  was  Abdon the  sol?
       05therwiee  Aephthah   wou$d  ,not have called his brethren          of  Hillel  whose  judgeship  lasted eight years. Ibzan
       so  +mrns.      In  the  aight of Jephthah's  Gevelatilon the        had  thirty daughters,  whom  he  gav,e in  marriage, and
       hypocrisy of  the men of  Eph.raim  amazes. Apparently               thirty  daug:hiers-in-law. Abdon, likewise,  hrad  forty
       they loved  hhe brethren! and in that love had so  lwanted           s.ons  aM& thirty prosperous grandsons.               These  ju.dges
       to help  ,poor  bret@.ren in  Idistress that  they started a         ditd not wage  `war  w,ith the enemies of Israel and  thus
       eivijl  `mr  beseause  J,oshua had  fought  h$is was.  wiltbout      had no victories.  Their  respective   car!eers were  thus
       their  assist,ance.  Qu%, as Jephthah  revejaled,  th'e  pli.ght+ uneventful.
 of brethren in distress was the  lleast  lof their  wtorries.                "And  hhe  ehildren of  Israel  .di>  evil again  (continued
       It  coul;d  n'ot  ,be  `otherwise. Love does not  `fight against to  ,do evil) in  the  sight  of~  Dhe.  Lord;  and the Lord.  de-
       Qnerthen  who.wrar God's warfare. Lto.vle boes. not threat-          livered them  i&o the hand of  the Philistines  forty
       en to  burn down  houses of Israel's  deliberers. But  in-           years.`?.  Th6 same  histo'ry  nepetits itself everywhere.
       jured  c a r n a l   pri!de  d o e s .   `Anld  l i k e w i s e   envy  a n d Not one  sin&e tribe is  Rxempted from it. The  history
       j             ealoulsy.                                              of Israel  ueder the judges is a history of sin, repeating
             There is  finally this question. What  `.did Jephthah          iitself over and over, and  (of  idivlne  grace, constantly
       have to  !do with th slaying of  the fugitive Ephraimites           ,devising new  means of  rdeliverance. "And the  children
       at  the  passes  -of  &he  JordFn. There  -are  f,our  possibili-    of  Israiell did evil in the  sigiht of We Lord and  servod
       ties. 1) He  #ordered it. 2) He  ,dild  eoit order it but            Baalim. And  the anger of  the Lord was hot against
       condoned it. 3) He  neithber  lorldered  CIXO~  condoned but         Israel  and  be  deliveredl   &rn into  the  han,ds `of the
       forbad it. 4)  Iit  to.ok  place  ,wi'chout his  knowledge. spoilers  .that  spoiled  Cem.  _. . .  Neverthehess  the Lord
       Which  o,f these  possi,bilities  contains  ,thle  facts cannot      raised up judges,  which delivered  *hem  out of  the
       be  determined  fro;m  hhe  text of  the  sacred narrative           hands:of  the spoilers. . . . An'd it  came to  pass  when the
       but must be  mjade  6ut on genera1  principles  of  Israel's         jw&ge was ,dead that they returnod anld  corrupted tihem-
       law.  AKI was  sai@  tihe sin  d  ?clhe Ephraimites was              selves  mor6  than  Cheir  fathers  . .  ."  Such was the ever
       great. It was  nati'onal treason  anti therefore  kust be            re-oocur.rin:g round of events in  the  time of the  judges
       pbced in the  category  with  .the  &ns  for  whileh the  of-        anld  `throu.gh   al1 the ages of the  Oaid Dispensation and
       feuuder,  accoFding to Isra&s law, had to be put to deat&            through the  centuries of  the uew. The  whole history
       Under  t h e   impdsie  o f   i n j u r e d   ca,rnal  prbde,  the qf the  church is included in those  o,ur sentences. The
       Ephraimi6es  had  brostied  &he  Jordan to  slay God's  pee-         !anger  *of the Lord  waxed hot against His people  nc&
       ple  and.a  god-fearing judge and  Ideliverer  of  Isral.           to  cons&e  them in His.  wrath but to purge them in
       They  wene  ,thus'avowed  enemies of  Go,d  and His people,          His  mer,cy. Withersoever  they trned,  they  would   col-
       as  &:ere  Dhe  su.rrounjding   heathen. As  such  they  also lide  with God's hand as against them for evil. Then in
       had  .to be  ,dealt  with. If  Jmelphthah   fdid not  expsessly      their  extremilty   they  would cry unto God.  And Hc
       order  that slaying at  .the  fonds  lof  the Jordan, he  must       would  send  ,deliverance,  so that  Israel  ~~ourl14  again see
       have at  J:elast permitted  iit  anld rightfully so. Yet in          HiS works. There  would again be  peace in  t&a land.
       slaying those fugitive Ephraimites the Gileadites must               But  another generation  wodd rise  that  kruew not the
       be  chtirgtidr with  mu.Eder, if  they"were  driven by carnal        Lord  neither  hhe  werk  t+t he had  w.rough?t  through
       aager. And  tha;t  bhey  zwere, as is  evideet  ,from  the  no-      His servant, the  judge, and the  nation again  .s@rved
       tice, "And the men of  GBead  +mote  Ephrai.m, because               b:aal.  Apastscy  woul,d  b e   fsollow'ed   b y   s u b j e c t i o n ,
       they  saimd,  Yle  are.  fugiititves of Ephraim . .  ."              whether it was  ,inflicted by eastern  `or western  ,nleigh-
             The  sa!cred  .w$riter  ,con&des   the history of  Jepl&hah    bor-t,ribes." Chapiter 111 of the book of the Judges  in-
       with the statement, "And Jephthah  juldged Israel  six               cludes   tic "five  princes  of the  P,hilistines" among thosc
       six  yea.rs. Then  -Idried Jephthah  the  Gi.liadie,  and was through  ,whom Israel  w&s  to  become  acquainted with
       buried in  sone of  the cities of  Gileed." Jephtiah's  lot distress and  war. The book began  wi+h  the  oppression
       was  extraoudinary. Hle wa& .despised anld rejected,.and             of the  M&opotamilan   king in the east, from  whioh
       had to  spend.  nearly his  whole life in exile. Finally             Othniel, the  hero of  Judah,  liberated  the people. Aftei;
       he was  Xaiaed up to  JdeliveE  the  very. brethren  -who tracing a  circular  course through the east and  north-
       had  tast  hi.m  fro,m their midst.       Though he gave up          east it  ends in  the  wieut; and the tribes of  Judh,  wit11
       everything  $or his  .people, the envy of his  countrymei            which the  nar&ive began, is  again! brought forward at
       threaten  to  burn&is  h6uee  - a house,  which  for their           the dose. As far back as  ohapter 7 we  read that God
       sake he had  mald,e  deso&e.  H,e was a great  hero of               "gave up  %srael  inrto  the  `nands of  -the Philistines  an,d
       faith,  who died as he had  ,live.d  - solitary.                     the sons of  Amman". "The  alchievement of Jephthah
             `Now  $ollo;ws brief  notices  concerning  three  jedges.      against Ammon is first  repoYsted.  The  jutdlges named
       The  fir&?  sof these  is, Ibzan of  B,ethl,ehem  who  jufdged       immediabely  afterwardisi  belong to northren tribes, two
       Israel seven years, died, and was  bur#ied.in Bethlehem.             to  Zebu,lon,  ?ne to Ephraim.  "Now  the writer  comes


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  tosp;eak of  $he great  conflicts  which  I&ael.had  rto wage
  with  the five  Philistin  `cities  `on the  toast  an!d which                                   De Les De.r Historie
  continued  to the  time of  D,avid. The tribes  especially                                                                                  -`
  concerned in these  oo&li&s  were Dan, the  western part                                                   (Psalm 78  ;  Sl,ot)
  of  Juidah, and  Simeon  encirded by  Jadlah. Onae  t.he                                 Tot  vertioeini,s-  toe lezen we van de zonde van
  men of  Juldah had  .won even the great cities on the                                Israel..  N.i:et alleen in dezen psalm, maar  doorgamna in
  sea  toast.  Afterwards  they were aot  o,nly unable  tc :die  stukk.an van  Go.ds  Woor.d  wkar de historie van  Gods
  maintain  possessilon  of  them but  through- their own                              volk ons  beschreven  w16rdt. De vorige maal trachtten
  apo&acy from God became themselves  dependent on                                     we  (om  .eenigzins te  verk&ren hoe  bij.na,  *in n vers  ge-
  them. Dan had  dready  long  .bselen unable to  held his                             $ohreven   wcrrdt van  G.ods toorn  over.Zljn volk  ,en  tege-
  ground  anywhere  ,emcept  i.n  the mountains. Now the                               li  jkertijd van  Zij,n  krootte barmhartigheid. De  Sli&el
  Philistines were powerful and free in  al1  the  Danite                                                                                           .
                                                                                       ter  ve!rklaring,ligt  in het  f:eit,  ,dat Israel  e&  ,?rg&nFch
  cities.  Chaprter  10:15   tel& of  tha earnest repentance                           vol'k  i,s,  b&staande uit  verkoaeinen  en  verworpenen`:  :h'@t
of Israel before  Gold.  B u t   sech  a statement is not                                                                                       `(.l .' Tj,LL ,
                                                                                       is  ni,et alles Israel  w,a8 van Israel  is.
  r&de here,  &hough  the history of a new  Jedge --
  Samson  -  *is  intfioduoed. Etieryw,hene   Nejlse the  narra-                           De  id&ep beschamende  geschi.edenis  zet zich  v&t  in
  tive,  bafore  it relates the history  `of the  Jud.gle, premises                    dezen psalm. Mochten we er van  leeren om  {dien  l!!@eFe
  that  Islneel had  cried  unto God,  and  thart~consequently                         te  vreezen en te  ,dienen en  s&uwen  al4e kwade  paai  in
  God had taken  pity  Non them. Now it is  remarkablie                                ijverig  ,op Zijn wegen gaan.                                         :.
  that  the narrative of  Samson's   hi.story  is  <hot preceded                           Vers 38 zingt van  Go&  wondere  ba;&&i4gheid.
  by a  simiJar  .r.emark. It is  a  po+nt  wotihy of special                          Vooral het  volgendIe vers (39) is  ontraernd  schoon   nis
  nbtice.  For  since the  history of  Israel's  apostacy is                           het gewaagt hoe God  "ged,achit  <djat zij  uleesoh   yaren,
1 repeated, that of  $i&  nepentance  woulid  li*kewise have to                        een  wind!  )die henengaat  sen  tiet  .wederkeert  !" Op .een
                                                                                                                                                      -..
  be `repelated. That whioh he does not  gelate,   rthe  n,arra-                       anderiel plaats singen we  +r  vang: "Hij weet, wat  yan
  tor must have  bel&irled had no  ,existence. And in  fact,                           Zijn maaksel zij  tic wachten, hoe zwak van  mo*ed, hoe
  no  su'ch  repentanlae   coubd have  <taken  place at this  time kllein wij zijn van krachten, en  ,dat wij stof, van jongs-"
  in Dan  .&d  Judah, as we  ,pead of in Gilead. The  his-                             d,  uijn geweest!" ,Onbegrijpelij,ke liefde  Gods !
  tory,  o f   S a m s o n   pr,oves  this.  I f ,   t.hei>,  such  a   m a n              Hoe  <dikwijls  verbitterden zij Hem in de  woe&ijn,,
  nevetiheless arose, the  compmsion  vhitih  Gold thereby                             deden Hem  sm& aan  in  (de  wiBd]enntis! Ziedaar, een
  man.ifested,  `was  called  f'orth by a few  believers  scat-                        waardschatti.ng  van ons leven in de  wereld voor  God.
  tered  here and  -there. The power  w.hich shows itself Ziedaar, een beschrijving van ons zondige leven. Alle
  in  the history  lof  Siamson is  likewise  `of  :an  inrdivi,dual                   zonde  .die wij bedrijven smarten God aan Zijn hart.
  character. It  b only  disconnected deliveranaes whieh                               Want  Gold)  heeft  eti afschuw van de zonde.
  Israel  receives  through  him. It is  no  &tire  natitonal                              Voorts luisteren we naar  eeni getuigenis van een  op-
  renovation,  aach as were  .br&iht. about by  fermer                                 stap:alen van de zonde : zij  Bwamen  alweder  .en verzoch-
  judges..  ,Hence`  the history of  Samsoil  differs  entir.ely                       ten  God, en stelden den  Heiiige  hina&s een perk! God
  from the history of the preceding  judg&."                                           een perk  stellien is het roepen, het  cunlgeloo;clg  roepen :
                                                                    G. M. 0.           Zou  Gold ons kunnen  verzadi.gen in  !de wildernis?  I  Zou.
                                                7.                                     Hij ons  waterstroomen kunnen  toezen:den  ifi een barre
                                                                                       zandwoestijn? Dat  do&  Gods volk,  omldat zij vergeten
                                                                                       "Zijn hand, aan  :den  dai toen-Hij ze van. dien  weder-
                                        IN  MEMORIiM                                   partij,der verloste." Z,ekerlijk,   Goldi  k a n   waterstroo-.
                                                                                       men zenden in  ,de wildernis en brood in de woestijn..
               After  a  few weeks of  `illness,   our  Lorql in His  wisdom           Hij geeft ons  immer,  Jezuis  Chflistus?  Zijn hand  .is
   took  Ram  our.  midst our beloved wife,  mother,-land   grand-                     A,lma&$ig   812' er is geen einde  aan  Idee sterkte  Gods:
:  moth'ec                                                                                 En  ,dan luisteren we naar  [de  groote daden  God's die
                                 ms;.  A N N A   G A N D E R   L A A N                 Hij voor  -1syael deed in Egypte en in  lde landpalen  van.
  at the age of 5'7 y&rs.                                                 0            Zoan.
                                    1 Thessalonians  4:13,  14.                            Hij stelde  teekenen en  wonderhed:en.        Dat zal waar,
                                                                                       zijn. De  vloed van den  Ni,@ werd veranderd  io bloed,
                                               Mr. James Vander Laan                   er  kwa,m  ver,mengi,ng van ongedierte tot verteering
                                               Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Elzinga          m en  vcorschen tot verderving, kruidworm  *die het  gewas.1
                                               Mr. and MES. How.ard  Vandbr  Laan      opvrlaiten en de  sprink:haan  die  al  hert groene opaten;
                                               `Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius  Boomstra       De wijnstok  `van den  jondendrukker werd gedood  dgor
                                              Frieda Vanter Laan                       hagel en den wilden vijgeboom door vurige  h+getstee-,
                                                and. nine grand-children.              riem. Het vee van  tden Egyptenaar kromde zich onder.
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   de hagel en hunne vette beesten verbrandde onder                                     En in  `de  tijden  der  r~ioh&s   gaaf  Gord Zijn volk over
  vurige,,.kolen. De  hittigheisd  van  d:efi  tooEn  Gods, mits-                   als in een smeltkroes  #djer  &ende. De  vijanldien kwamen
  gaders .  Zijn verbolgenheid en  verstooi-dheid  en  be: do.or God  `gestuu,ir:d  om Zijn volk te  beniauwen. Dan
  nauwdheijdr waren tezamen  `de  bo.den  v,aln veel, kwaads                        riepen zij tot God en Hij verloste ze:; doch  spoe.dig
  vocw  het  goddelooze  rot. Al1.l~  (die openbaringen waren                       waren-zij  vergeten den  r.otsteen  huns  heils. Desterkste
  tezamen  ,een pad  wtiarlangs   Ziiti  gro0t.e toorn  branldde                    jon;gelingm vielen door  hlet zwaard van  Filistijn, en
  tegen  tcle vijanden van  Isnaiel. De  ziel van  .dat  booze Ammonniet,  Idle jonge dochteren  werden! niet geprezen
  volk  len hun gedierte,  otitaok  de God  Ispaels  niet van                       in die dagen.  D,e Priesters  Go&. werden verslag& en
  ,den  do.od. Want  ,dje  eerstgehoxlenen  werden allen ge-                        de'we'duwen   ween.den niet. Een  ied!er  die:ed wat goed
  dooid voor de  ,oogen van  Z,ijn kinderen  jdie Hij  liefhad, was in zijn  oogea: En het  Woond  Gods  wtas dierbaar
  met een  eeuwi(ge  liesde.                                                        in  die `dagen en er was geen  oplen  geiioht. En  niem,and'
        Daarenkegen  hqd Hij Zijn  vo1.k geweid  ten  ,geleid als              wist h:oel,atig !
  schapen -Zijner ,weidre. En terwijl ze  `door  Go@ geleid                            Toen.lontwaakte God  efi sloeg den  god:delooze want
  wetid'eq behoefden  zij niet  `om te zien in  vreez,e  ei>                   Hij gedacht  aafi Abraham Zijn  ktieclht. 0,  W  &eteti
  benauwdheid, want God  $ad het beste van  d,e  heir- het, het is  omdak  ,in  ti:e  orga.n&ohe ontwikkeling  vail
  soharen   !der Egyptenaren  verdIo&en   HOL verzwolgen in                    Israel  eien  vollk  schuilt, dat  Hij  2iefge;had~ heeft met  teen
  het  rooide meer. Ze  konden  @rust voorwaarts gaan                          eeuwige  li&de. Toen heeft Hij  Zijn  tirm  lotbloot voor
  naar `het  Kanaan  *d:er belofte. Ondierweg kwamen zij                       al de heidenen. En hoewel Hij  .&e  zelfde  heidetien
  aan bij  iden Berg  Godrs., den heiligen berg waar `zij de                   gebruikt  had). als  en  .g&himY;d   si3hee;rrniea  om Zijn volk
  stem'-v&n God hoonde,  ldaie uit groote  lonkerheid  &                       te  kastijsden,  zeeft Hij  fioo;it  Vergeiten, dat  dit zelfde
  vuurcv&anxnen  hem  ixeriiep :  I,k ben  Gold!, Ik ben Uw God                heidenvolk-  uit  leuker  g&d'el0o&eid  Zijn `volk benauwd
  ,die- U uit  het  Egypteland  verl,os ! En  zoo zijn  z.e  do'or             had. Daaixjrn  `%log  Hij Ben  !ajan het achterste  en1 Hij
  Hem  geletd  .in  (de.  w'oestijn,  veertig jaren. Eri toen -de deed hun een  ee!utige  smaad,heil& aan." Dat deed Hij,
  Hieidernen kwamen,  Booa1.s  tielek, toen heeft  Hij  aa.n                   alhoewel de tent  v`an  Jozef  ,en den stam  EfTa'ims ver-
 Zi.jn knecht Mozes, kracht  gegeven .om  nijn  (handen om-                    worpen  wend. Hier zien  we, dt  la!l&x  niet Israel is
' hoog te heffen,  opdit  A.melek  .gelrY?elkt  mo,cht worden wat van  ISra&  :is. Er ia een eeuwige  voopverordinee-
  onder  rde- slagen  van de  dappere mannen  Iaraels,  aange: ring bij  Go;d.
  voerd.  [door  Jozua, den held  Gods.
        En  zoo kwamen ze voor  `de poorten van  hlet land  her                        Daarom staat  ,er  veEd#er, dat  Hij  rdGn stam van Juda
  bel,ofte.  I n   d a t   1:and  wloondie?l.  ,@e  .heidien,ea,  doch  z e    verkoor,  ,den berg Sion,  diten  H*ij  liefhad. Sion is een
  wenden  eenvondig  ;doo,r God  .Terdreven. De mate hun- berg,  w;!~cty;&p   bernpel en koningshuis gebouwd is. Sion
  ner  ,ongerechtigheid was vol  gewor&n en Zijn volk rijp                     is een  symbopl  en' type  vclill het  voik;  <dat met Hem
  om  #dsen typischen hemel te  ontvaxigen  en binnen te                       woonen mag en Hem  `dienen in liefde. Zij zijn het volk
  treden. Men wierp  ;hr& lot voor  ldle  erfeni,s die hen van                 wiens  .zonden vergeven  Zijn  ien  ,dat Hij bouwt tot  le.en
  God gew:erd.                                                                 Huis om  .$. te  woonen.  .
        Dat alles  heef$ God gedaan  *aan Israel,  .het volk  ,dat,'                   Dat volk,  tiat  u2tkerkoren en  bemtie volk word ge-
  H,ij'  verkbren had,  `opdat Zijn naam  iln  <hun  m+dden bouwd op  de, hoogten.                                    Het toont ons  dat de eerste
  mocht  woonen.                                                               aarde-&  niet de  gedaohhe  Gode waarin Hij rusten wil
   . . Doch zij verbitterden Gord den  Allenhoobte  door                       tot in  eeu&ghei:d. De  aa!r.de en den hemel woaden
  Hem  weder,om te `verzoeken, zij  hiel.diem Zijn wetten                      verhoogd tot' in  eeutiighei,d,  dooh niet in den eersten
                                                                                                                                       ,
  niet  .die Hij bun  gegeven' had. om als een pad `daarop                     &am.            ~
  te  wandden. Die  wette11  zijn als een  gl!anzend pad,                              Zoo kunnen we  lhert  merstaa.q   dat er. voorts  ge-
  als.  .een verlichte weg die naar  Idlen hemel  leidtde. I n sprokea   ,wordt van het  verk.iezen  van David, genomen
  plaats van naar  *den  Belere toe te  wandelen, keerden zij                  van de schaapskooien. 0, zeker, dat  beteekent   histo-
  terug en  hlandel:den  trouweloosli j k gelijk hunne vaders                  ri,sch eerst,  d:at  D,amild  eern  Konifig was voor  Is'rael in
  die  yoor hen  ,gewe& waren.  ,In plaats van te zoeken                       het welbehagen  Gods.                  DOG&  D a v i d   i s   typ:e  vafi  e  n
  naar  #de  aanspraakpl,aats' Zijner heiligheid, bouwden                      betmere  Dav.id,  .vae Jezus  Chrils;tus   d,en  Heere. Hij is
  zij hoogten  lom  idle afgoden  te.rooken en te knielen voor                 de  Beminlde van eeuwigheid, die Zijn  sohapn zal wei-
  gesnedtine  beelden..                                                        den en brengen in  Ide eeuwige schaapskooi daar boven
        D,at  allIes zag God en  ,Hij  hqorde  getier van groote bij God.  J!akob moet geweid en Israel, Zijn erfenis
  gold-del@xhieid onder  :de kinderen  <die Zijn  nasam  idiroe-               moet gebracht vanuit de hel tot  dfen hemel..
  ga. 0Een  .gro'ote verbolgenheid  weutd geopenbaard,                         D       AReen  zoo bezien kunt ge ten volle zingen het slot
  want Hij  TerJiet Zijn volk te Silo waar Hij gezorgd                         van: den. heepl.ijk@n .psalti  : :
  had  ~0.0~ een plaats waar God gezocht' en gediend wrd.
  Wie  ,denk.t hier niet aan  Eli, den koude en het  god,de-                             "Dus heeft  d;ie  Vo+st~&heerscht  met roem
  looze tweetal  zijnIer  zoonen?                  r'                                               en     zegen,           e
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                                                             THE  STANDARQ   B E A R E R                                                                      135            ,.
                                                                                                                                                      -_.     _.-
                           Godis  Tolk  oprecht en met verstand ge-
                                  weid,                                                            Communism and the Sobial Lik
                          En `t rijk  ,beschermid  ,d,oo:r dapper  krij,gx-
     I'                           b e l e i d ! "                                           The Social Lije of the First G%urch at Jerusalem.

                       Dat kan ten volle  allfeen van  J~ezus  zoo gezongen.                  T$-ie  Boek of Acts  gties  US  .a  bl-,:autiful   Dicture of  thc?
                                                                                                                        -
                       Want David was slechts een  mensah  man  .gelijke be-                social  Mei of  the believers at Jerusalem  after the  out-
           weging  als wij  `zijn.                                                          pouring of  the  Holy Spirit on the  sday of Pentecost.' It 3
                       En  ofscho,on hij een man  w.as  .na&r  Gods hart, heeft             eannot be said with  certainty  bow  lo.nlg this  ,ideal  con--
           ,ook  #hij  z:wagar en  #diep en menigmaal  overtreden;:                         dition  lasted  b u t   w e   d o   read  that  %he  multitude  o f   s
                       Docih Jezus Christus is de Herder  b.ij  uitnemead-                  thiem that believed were of one  heart  a'nd of one soul :
           beid. Hij heeft met  veris~amd! Jakob  gm:eii.d en geleid
-                                                                                           neither  said  &y  of  them.  thajt  ought of the things
           tot  tde eeuwige waterstroomen om te drinken, te drin-                           which he  .possessed was his own  ; but they.  had  #l
           ken.                                                                             things common". And further "Neither was there  any
                  .Hij heeft dapperlijk gestreden!  9 hoe dapper.                           &nong them  hhat lacked: for  2,s  many as were  posses-
           Hij heeft Satan en zijn  gans'che  heir vertreden; Hij                           sors `of land  or houses sold  th1x-n; and  brought the
           heeft  ,den eeuwigen toorn  ,Gods  weggetiagen; Hij                              prioes  ,of the  th.ings that were  isold, and  lai13  them
     *  h&ft een  /eeuwige  waandlijk   .bij  Z;jn  leYd,en gevoegd om                      ,dow8n at  the  apostle's  feet: and distribution was made
           Israel. gansche;lij,k te veyllossen ; *Hij heef;t dlem Heiligen                  unto  every  man  accor.ding   as,he had need".  (Ac+ 4 :32-
           Geest verworven.  som Zijn  Israel te verlossen van in-                          35)       This same  condition is  Idescribe3i more briefly in
           wonend verderf; Hij  lheeft  `doo,r  dienaelfden Geest                           th&  second   chahter  where we  read "And  al1  that  be-
           Zijn  la:anvankelijk  Rijk gesticht en  verme!er,dert het en                     lieved  ,wer'  together, and.  (had  al,1  it;hings  ,common".
           volt,ooi:d het ,door  Ide leieuwen heen. En ldloor  !tiienze;l$den                 In  ;therc  verses we have a  b,&autbful description of
           Geest zal  Hijs het ten volle voltooien en  ,openbaien in                        two  &cts, namely,  %he  communion of  &nts, and  Chris-
           !Qjn dag.                                                                        tian  stewar,dship.      These two are  related as  cause  and
                                                                                            g&ect. The  yery  fact that  %he  multitu,de of them  ihat
                                "Dan zal na  zooveel  gunstb:ewijaen,                       believed  were  of  :one  heart  md  of one soul' was the
                                `t Gezegend heidendom                                       spiritual  cau,se of  their  remarkab1.e  unseltihness  that
                                `t Geluk van dezen Koning prijzen,                          `Not even one  said  tiat  Fnvthing  .he possessed was his
                                Die  D&&Ys  troon beklom  !"                                `Own'.     Out `of  spi,ritual relationship  ;to  Christ   cam,e  2
                                                                                            social relationehip  to  ,one  another. In this so-called
                       I,n,dien  Illag zal Jakob gewied worden gelijk nooit te              `commtinity `of  .goods'  .we find a genuine Christian
           voren. Ze zullen  ,drinken uit  ,de  b,ek@n  ,der wellusten en                   socialism as  thrr  result of  indil?iidua,l   unity, a  socixlism
           verzadigd.  worde;? van de  kna&t van  `dren boom  tdes                          w,hich was the spontaneous  espnession of the love of
           levens. In  *dien  !dag.zulslen  ze  niet meer klagen : 0 God,                   Gold! in their !he.art!x
           vergeef  tocih mijne  sohuJd   en. mijne ongerechtigheid,                          However,  ithcee  words f  Scripture, describing  the
           want ze is  gpoot ! Want  ,dat  .volk zal vergeving van                          social life  ,of  the saints at Jerusalem, do not  teach  US,
           qqgerec:hti&hei~d  hebblen.  n Ze  staa.n  ,dan  ;a?.n het eind                  as some  !haxe erroneously  co:mluded,  that the right of
           de,r historie en aan! het begin  val? de  eeuw;i,ge geneug- por;sesision  of private property was  abolished,   ,and that
           ten die genoten worden  voo,r het aangezicht van  Golfi.                         the Christian  Chunch at  Jeru,salem was a communistic
                       Hebt ge de les  jder (historie gehoord?                              society. Some have even  coneludled from  the.  ;fact  thsC,
                       Zijt  ge  onderwezen'door  .den  H!eiligen. Geest  ,die in           `as  many as  wIere  possessoxx  of  lan:d or houses sold
           dc:?in  p s a l m   s p r e e k t ?   ,                                          them' amd' that  .t&e believers were  `al*1 accustomed to be
                       D.an  kaq het niet  ,aadens of Uwe  ,nieren verlangen                tgether', that  they dl  )dwelt  togerther as  ope  Eaimily
           zeer ia  UwbEn schoot.                                                           under one  .roof, and  al1  shane,d  alike from a  comm0.n
                       Daar zingt men  ,verlamgend:   "Waml;eer zal ik  in-                 fund.       This conception, has  l,ed some  sec&, to  farm
           gxn en voor Uw  kangezicht  verschij8nen?"                                       "Christian" ,communistic  communities  ,or  ' families.
                                                                         G. V.              Nothing  eoul,d. be further  fr,om the  trukh. They  con-
                                                                                            tinued  to  fown their houses and  .tiaintaX,n their own
                  -_       I     :  ;                                                       households,   f.or we  ,read  "aad breaking  bread from
                                                                                            heuse to  !hou.se,  dild eat their  meat with  gladness and
                                                                                            singleness of  beiart". Hence they  did  nat  al1 sell  hheir
                          God wil.1  ,oUr strength  &n$ refuge  prove,                      hoFes and  Band, but  only  wheruever there was need
                                In  al1  ,di&ress  a present  ai,d,                         then  these that  hadi in  -abuzidance  in land  `or housea
           .`.            ,Amd though the  trembling  earth  remove,                        w80uld  sell  them;  ,aad  lay the  price of the things  that
                  _
     " __  `_                   We  wil1 nat  Sgr npr  b,p ~iggayed,,                  ,    7;vkgy  st$d  &  l$v2  ap&$  $q&  If  it  w38  thF:  whwml                - -
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    rule  that  al1 disposed of  al1 their property,  then why ing, of  homes and  fa.m.ilies, of  st&es  and restaurants?
    sh&l,d' Luke  especial%y   recond  the  )eKample of Barnabas               o f   food  a n d   clothing.  Communism  ,ascribes  al1  t h e
 selling  a field for  this purpose.  N.eithrer do we  read misery of  mankind,  it'*  jeaiousies, hatreds,  lenmity.
    of  Armanias and  Sapph?ra that they  solt&  their  pos- m.uzder,  stelalin.g,  war, famine,  pestilente,  to one  cause,
    scss1:ons,  b u t   ltiait they  sold  a  possession.       The  very and  that one  cause is the possession of private property.
    S,&tement   ."Not~  one  *of them said that ought of the                   Abolish it, and  the  C,ommunist~ believes that poverty
    thngs  w.hzkh,  he possessed  was his own  ;"  clearly  im-                woul,d  Idisappear.' Then  the  irource of  aal evil passions
    plies that the  Tight of  poezlession was not  abolished,                  and crime would be removed. Jealousy,  sel@hness,  ego-
    bu*t  khat the  possessor  looked  upon  hi.s  proplerty   ,tis  a         ism would be  meaningl.ess,  and  whole  social  ,and  eco-
    trust  f.rom God  t? be  used"f,or the  we3zfare of all. Theg              nomic world  woulId be unified. The  whole of humanity
    possessed  !xJ:~  noot possessing,  and  feit'  that  they were            would  farm one happy  fwnrilJ,  San]& there  would be only
    but stewards over the  things  entruste  `unto  (their  care.              ,one  government, and  that by  the  pcople.
    The  eetion feeling of  bro'dherhood  was stronger  -than                    HenGe  Communism is thoroughly  materilistic.  Man's
    tht  &f centened  regard  which  looks on  possessions                     highesh  good is  l$e equal  enjoyment of this  world's
    as to  ,be  usled for  self.                                               gobds and his  greatest  misery-is  the  posse&ion of  eri-
       Tlhis  se1lin.g of property  and  .laying  thet  price of  the          vate property. It seeks to  apply  t h i s   matermEst
    `chings  ithat were sold at the  ,apostle's  feet was not  com-            ph.ilosophy not  o:nly  to the  economie   ,life of man, but  1
    pul\oory, but  etitirely  v&mtary,  `als is evident from  thr              to  al1  human  institutions and to  human  nature itself.
    words of the Apostle Peter to  Armanias, "While it  re-                    It penetrates the  very institutions of God,  lmarriage,
    mained,  :d.ild`it not  remaiti  tihine  iown? and  after it was           the family, the home,  the  relation of parents  -and  chil-
    soa,d, was it  nat in thy  power?" It  lust  also be noted                 tdren,  ithe  Chureh,  the School.  It is positively  Anti-
    that the sin of  Annanis   land  l$s  wif,e  lay not in their             C,hristian.    It' mocks with  the  (very  thought of God;
    withholtding  :a  aertain  amount of  the  ,money  +rn  the                it's  God is it's  belly. It  ridicules  the  faith and hope
    co,mmunity  for their private use  bu$ in their  f&e <of  these that  ideek Me  hhings   which are  !aibove. It  re-
    testimony  concrning  thiis, act. They `sought to leave                   gards  &e Christian faith as an  anti-eocial  force,  a  de-
    thb  impression   that they  laid  al1 of  the  pr,ice  ait the            vice  lo;E capitalism  to  su,bj.ugate the  ma,sses,  anld  there-
    ApostIles' feet, while in  seality they kept back part of  i!t.            fore as an opiate-of the peoplle. Hience it systematically
    Hence  khe'  juldgment of God  ca?e  upon  thcan  because                  seelasl  to stamp  out  al!  Christiauity, and  wil1 not  toler&c
    of  tihe  sin of  hypocticy,  and of lying.  "Why  hth Satan any  fai+h in the God `of the  Scriptures.
    filled  `tihy  heart  to  -Ze  to the  H~ly Spirit . .  ." "Thou             H!aving  abogashed  al1 belief in God,  communism  bas
   .h!s.st not  liel$ unto men,. but unto God" (Acts 5  :3, 4).                no  place for  the  -oral  law of  ;the Ten Commaadments.
    It has been  ,well stated that  "Annanias  was  a  pioneer                 The'sins of  mankind and its subsequent  mlisery are  nat.
    in  tihe founding  ,gf  Annsnias  ~club~s~, not  f  communistic           caused  by-  a  transgression!  of the  law of  Gold; but by
    societies'.                                                                the denial of Communism, and the possession of private
       I t   m u s t   ailso  bie  tobserved  +hat  the  .distribution  o f    property.  `Th12  ,sode  cause of crime  and evil is  Capital-
    these funds was not  ,determined by the  rule of equality,                 ism. .Hence not  the individual  criminal is to  blzime for
    but by the  tneed' of  t@e recipients,  ,a+s we  rea,d in  Acts            his crime, but  rather  ,%he  capi%alistic   enviironment  in
    4:35 "and  :distribution  W;USI  madie unto  every  rn,an  ar,-            which he  lives.     He  that  would be  :a,`savi&r of  man-
   cording as he had need". He&e  the  result was not at kin,d must  redeem  iit  from Capitalism, and from the
    all, as  some  sects  w'ould  haye  US believe,  that  aal had             right  to  posseiss  pritvate property. Hence  Communisn;
    share  ;and  shamed  alike, but  rath:er  that, "there `was-  net          is not  merely  an  economilc system, but it is  a  world
    one  aamong  them that  Ea,eked". Hence,  the  `eomrnunity                 aacli life view. It  is  EX philosophy  of  al.ife. It is in  its$f
   of goods' ,of  tle first  Chur,ch  wals1  no;t  ali equitabl  shar- a  religion.  The religion of man. Believe in  Commun-
    ing of  wedti, but  it was  izhe  .exercising of  Christi.an               ism, and  h,umanity  wil1  b,e  redeemed.           4
   stewartaship.
                                                        .  '                   A Comparisora.
 Communz'sm.
                                                                                 Froni. the  foregoing it must. have  becume  evi,dent
       Communisti  as in economie system seeks the  ab- that  ther is  nothing common between  the. Communism
   solu&   !a,bolition tof  all'prilvate  property,  and that  al11  the       of today  a.nd  tic  social  difie of  the  f i r s t   Chureh  a t
   means of  .producing  ,and  ,distributing  of  wealth be  eon-              Jerusalem. Yes,  ;the  Gon!e  is the  ,di.r7ect opposite of  6h.e
    trolled by the  pr,oletariat  lor  werking  class.          It is  op-     other. The  ene is  this  worldly,  carnal,  ,and  ti&erialis-
    posed  ito  the  profit system of  lenterprise,  an,d maintains tic. The other is  okher-.woFldly, spiritual,  and  heavenly.
    that  al1 the  accumubti~on   ,of  wadth  anld goods must be               The  ene is  rooted! in bve  to God;  +nd in love to the
    shared  coll~ectively  ,by  all.    It  mieans the  eocialization          neighbor, and  &erefore  exei&.es the  coinm.union of
-- of iand an@ industry, af, tmde, tminqmtation and bank- saints, and practices  Chriwtim stewardahip %he &her
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   is  .rooted in  ennity  ralgainst  Go#d,   and fosters  ithe  class-    only  aa.a  fa11  ,from justifying faith  and  .likewise from
   struggle.  ~  The one  inspire&l  the  pool- with  eamity over          grace and saivation  wholly aed  tu the end, but  indeed
   against Me  rich, while  the  other,fills  the  ,rich with love         often  d!o  fa11  from this  and are  :101rrC  forever," has  -no
   fsor the poos. The  ene is as  Esau  who  soad  hi.s  birth-            problem here  :at  alXl;    This  seems to be exactly  a text
   .right for  a mess of  pottage,, while the other is as                  which  provres bis point.
   Mose3  who  woul,d  rather suffer the  reproach  `of Christ               However,  there is in this  phnase,  ,especially  at  first
  than to  lenj'oy'the treasures of Egypt. The  sone seeks gl:&e, a great  dificulty for the Reformed  bel&er.  FOY.
   the city  whioh hath foundations,  whose  buailder  !and the Reformed  believer  denies  universd atonement. He
   maker.is  Gold, while  the other seeks the  world  an'd  the            confesisles  lismited atonement. "It was  the  wil1  Tof  God.
   lthings of the  :w.orld.- The  sone  seleks  salrvation by  Eor-        that Christ by  the  bl,ood of the cross,  whereby He
   saking the  Iworld,  denial  sof self,  lan,d  faith  in  Go;+,         conlfirmed the new  covenant  should effectually  redeem
   whi1l.e  the  ether seeks  salvati'on by seeking the  world             out of  al1 people, tribe,  natiion and  ,lianguage,  al1  thosc,
~  ,and  its lusts.                                                        and  t h o s e   only,  who  w e r e   frorn  etermty  chosen  to
       But  .even. though  i,t  ,is  truc  that  Vzhere  i.s  nlothing salvation,  aed  given to  Him by  the  Father." (Canons,
    of modern- Communism in the  social life  `of  ithe  frst             Second  Head of Doctrine,  article 8).
    ch.urch at Jerusalem,  there is,  however,  a  lessen to  ,the           Furthermore   the  Reformed  *believer  confesses  t h e
    Church  ,of  So.day as to  the  lobligati80ns  of  wedt&  and          perseverance  lof  the  eaints : "But God  who  >is  rich  in-
   the claims  tof baotherhood,  wliich is  hl:1 but universally mercy,  ,according  to His  unchangeable  purpose of  elec-
   rdisregarded.  The  spectre  `of Communism is troubling tion,  (does not wholly  ,withdsraw  th.e  Holy Spirit, from
    every  najti,on, and it wil1 become more ,and &ore formid-             His  ow!n  people, even in their  melanoholy falls  ;  .nbr
   able, as  the Christian  Churoh  loseis its sense of  stewar,d-         suffers them  to  pr,oceed so  far as  to  loge  the  `grac of
   ship. Not the  abohtion of  privatespnoperty  is  the  cure, .adoptlo,n,  aad  forfreit the  state of  j~u~itifi&i&i,  or  `to
    for  the hideous  facts  which drive men to  shriek  "Prop-            commit the sin  unt,o  ideath ;  nor  .does He permit  them
    erty is  tiheft", but a  &rturn to  the sense of  Chri,stian           to be totally  deserted, and to  plunge  themsel~es into
   stew&ship,  lau  .it was practiced  in the first  Chur.ch at etieriastin!g~ destruction." (Canons, Fifth  Head of  Doc-.
J e r u s a l e m .                                        B:K.            trine,  arti'cle 6).                                                 _
                                                                             Aad both  th,es:e two points of (doctrine,  lin@ed  atone-
                                                                           ment  ar& perseverance of the  saints,  the  R,ef:&rrned  be-
    Denving                                                                aiever  baBles  upon and  proves from Scripture. If we
            .           the L&d that Bought Thii were  writi,ng  about these  two  idoctrinal  su,bjeots we
                                                                           wo,uld  ' give textual  proof, now this is not necessary ;
       The  entir.e verse  `of  this  second  chapter  ,of 11 Peter        besides,  our  space is limited.  0u.r  purpose was  fbk'
   ,reads as follfows : "But  there  .were  false  prophets   also of  ,ll to  clearly  sitate  the  apparently insurmountable
   among  the  people, even as  thema  shall be  .fal&`&eachers            difficulty  of  .our text' for  the  Ref~ormed believer. The
   amon*g  you;  who  priivily  ~shall  brmg in  ~damn&l%e  here- text speaks of "Denying the Lord  that bought  the~n."
   sies, even  idenying  the Lord that bought  them;a&  bring A  Refoutmed   m'zi says : "That is  impossible,   thatis
   upon themselves  swift  jdestruction."                                  contrary  to  al1  lof Scripture." On the  ,other  hand'tlm
       The problem of the  par*ticular  phrase  which is  the t&  trealches it.  .'  How  can we  explain  this, what is  the
topic  cof  ,this  article'is  nat  tlrat these  fala,e teachers solution?                                                      ._,
   idenied'the  Lord.  Tha%f  course is  rather  characteristic            We have  already  eliminated   .the  Pelagian-A,rminian
   ,of  false  `teacher&. But  the point is  w!e  .are  tol(d by the solution.  Their so-called  aolution  sou#n!ds   very  simple:
   .apostle  P e t e r   that  .-these  false  te&hers   tdenied  the but  -they  come  to it  after first denying some  very
    Lord  thnt bought  them.  Uederstaading   thisb several fundamental `doctrines  .of  Smoripture.
   ,questions  arise  immediately  for the  Reformtetcli   believer.         Of cousse for the Rleforme,d exegete there is a'tempta-
    Naturally they  who believe  ,in  a  uiiversal':Cltonement            tion  that  he  tries to  explain  hhe  te& in  the  light of.his
   .have `no problem  .her,e whatever. They  wil1  reason' as dogmatics  antd by  a  convenient  twisting  ,of.  wlords make
    fellows :     "Christ  .atoned for  levery man,  woman and the  text say  somethling  altogether different than  what
    child.  ,under  the sun,  hut  whether' this  atonemeat is             i t   actually  ~expr&es.   Icame  across  ra  rather  clumsy
   to be  effect~v~e  in the case of  every  person  #dependfs explanation of  this kind!  i;n an old  Stan,dard-Bearer,,
    upon the illdivi,dual himself. He  Aust  believe,  he must Vol. 4, page  334.".  Some well-meaning,  ;good  Protest&&
    accept  C,hrist and His  salvatilon." It stands  `to  :reason if Reformed  ,brethren,  wiodd  .explain  th~l phrase as  foli
    that is true it is  rather  simple  anldi  !a&so  quite common lows            "Thesle false  teachers-  .denied  t h a t   the Lord;
   that people  dleny  the Lord that bought  them.                  L      Christ,  bought  thenz,  namely  His  p,eople." Now, that
       Agam,  there is no  difficulty  :here for  these  who  `deny may sound like an easy  way  ,ou;t  ,but  ,this is  defuritely
    t h e   pemeveranoe  o f   t h e   saint%.  T h e   Armini,an  who no  siolution. The word  them  :does  nat  refer to  the
   t eaches : "That the true believrs and  regenerate not Church as  such, but  very definitely  to. the  false teachers;

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Hence this  method of trying  to solve the problem  the the editor,  after first  .giving   a possible  intmerpretaition,
editor of the  StamlaridLBearer   called  .at that  time, and           whi.ch we quoted  already,  continues:  "There. is,  how-
correctly so  "inlegkunde."                                             evler, aocording  ;to my .opinion  a better interpretation,
   The  following  ,explanation  has  also been given as a              which  also explains why these words should be used at
possiblle  sd,ution. "The  clause `that bought  them:  Te-              all. The apostle,  then,  describeis, them from the  view-
fers  Q the  fact,  that these  faltsle  teacher.s   formely  be-       point Lof what'they denie$: that the Lod bought them.
longed to  th.e Church, were of the people of  Go.d  to  al1            They were false teachers. Aed  #denying the atonement,
appeara,nces,  in  the  external sense. They are  described             they  .denied  the Lord that bought them. They might
according to  &ei:r  f,ormer   ,confession  as those  whom  th e stil1  profess  to believe in Jesus, just as the moderns
Lord bought." (St. Bearer Vol. 12, page 320).  How-                     do, but they really  deny Him, seeing  that  they  deny-
ever,  galso this proposed solution  wiU not  ,do. Both  th:e t             h       e         trom."
text  and! the context definitely give the  impr&ion  that                We are  now  confrontied   with the  question': "Is the
these false teachers must be  ccmceirv'ed  ,of as stil1  be-            above explanation the  oorrect  wone, is that  what Peter
longing to the  Church. Tfhey are "among you," verse 1.                 teeohes  herle? Does the text  teach  that  khese, false
They bbor in the midst  `of  the  church, they  are  in- teachers  tdlenied  that  Christ bought  them,  >di:d they  ,deny
fluential  persons,  they  lare teachers.       "Spots  they  arai the  atonemeint   .by  the  bloacl of Christ?" Perhaps  $0~
and blemishes,  slporting themselves with'their own  de-                say  `tha.t is exactly the point  the text  iemp.hasizes.' This
ceivings,  wihile  they  feast  zuith  yo'u."  (verse 13). Hence,       is  truc, but the  qu,estion is still:  "How, in  what way
we are convinced t\hat the abome suggested  sol,ution does and  what  marmer did they  deny  the Lord that bought
not solve  the  lproblem.                               hl]             them  ?" Did they  qdo so by stating : "Christ did not
  Several  years ago' zone of the members of the  Hlland               buy  you, Church,  did! not buy  US,  Hi.s  bl:od did not
Men's  Soci:ety of  `our  FuUer  Aven,e-Church  went with              save ,us ?" In that case their  teaching could  very  wel1
the  follo'wmg question to  the  Standerd-Bleaner: "Hoe be  compared with thel tea,chings  of the moldernist. The
moeten Iwe 11 Pet. 2 : 1 Iv:er&aan?. - The (editor answered,. moder.nist   can speak  !highly  Iob  the Lord as an example,
among  ether  things,   ,as  flollows : "Ik  wi,l  cop twee dingen      a humanitarian,  the  kdeal man  whi,ch  w,e must follow,
wijzen.    1,n  -de  eersten plaats  ,op het feit,  .da?  .er in het    copy,  i.mitate, etc. Is  tha4t what these particular  false
oorspronkelijke feitelijk  3.eterlijk staat :  verloochentende
   ._.                                                                  teachers in the text taught?  After  careful study  o
den  ,hen gekocht hebbenden Heere. Dit wijst zeker op                   this text `we  .have  come to the  conclusion that this is
den inhoud hunner loochening. Hun loochening bestond just exactly  not  M&  they  taught.                          There  ils1  still  an-
daarin,  Idat ze ontkenden,  dat Jezus hen gekocht had.                 ,othler way wherein, another  means  landmethod  whereby
Ze vertraden het zoenbloed  van Christus. Ze  t,asten de they  ,codd  ideny the  Lor.d  that bought them. Let  lrne
kruisverdienirrte  van Christus aan en loochenden, dat                  explain.
deze  ver,dienste   .voldoende  kracht  had. In de tweede                 First of  al1 it is of  course  correctly  staited  when it
.plaats, dat  [deze1  menschen zeker  wel voor een tijd met is said  that we  lmust look  upon these `false teachers as
de  egemeente meeleefden. Ze behoorden bij  :de  zichtba.re             organioally  belonsging   to the Church of  Christ.  As1 to
Kerk.  - Ze  stonden  Idus voor  ,het oog der  men,schen                their  ,indiv.idnal  person the Lord  nev;er bought  them.
arangeschreven  als behoorende bij de  ,gemeente, die                   If  ithat were so the text  woulId  deny`the perseverance
Christus gekocht heeft met zijn  dierbaar~  blroeid. Organ-             of the  saints. NO,  hut  organically speaking the Lord
isch genomen behoorden ze bij  .de  ,gekochten.  Het is                 bou~ght them, they were members  :of  the Church,
er mee  ,als met  d,e rank,  :die wel in den  wijnstok is,  <maar       branches of the Vine,  called by  the name  `Israel.' The
geen vrucht  <draagt. Z,e worden  cdian ook als  gekocht,en             Churoh held them for  such,  and  *hes.- themselves  con-
behandehl,  m e t   de  ,gemeente;  e n   i n   .den  t e k s t   als fesis1e.d to be  such. They  eaid concerning themselves:
gekochten genoemd.           Welnu, dien  Heere,  di,e hen  <als        "The  Lor.d bought  US." In  fact 1  think they emphasized
%edeb der gemeente gekocht heeft,  verlooclhenen  zij  ; en that.                1 think  they uadeostood  clearly  ,the  *meaning of
zij  verl,oochenen  Hem juist in zijn dierbaar bloed!" . . .            the doctrine of atonement  and they  said: "W'el agree
 (St.  Biearer Vol. 4, page 284).  - A few years later with  tha.t, we believe it, we  teach it,  - the Lord bought
the  leld,itor of  the  Standard Bearer reiterated  ,his  opiniorn US."
that the above is  the  tonly and correct explanation.                    Let  US ask  the question  and- briefly  answer it : "What
W:rote he : "Ze (the  fermer  expl:anatilon)  is deze, dat de ,does it  mean  that  Uorist bought  us;:`whait  .is implied
apostel in  ,:de  woorrden:  >den  Heere, Die hen  gekwht               ia it and what follow&l  from this ?" That Christ bought
heeft, vedoochenende, aanldui.dt [wie en wat <deze valsche *  LM  implies first  !of  al1 that He paid  for our sins,  that He
leeraars verloochenen. Zij  verlloochenen  in hun  valsche justifies  US,  rthat He  saves  US to  the.  uttermost. He  :de-
leer, dat de  He.ere hen gekocht heeft,  m.la,.;w.  lhet zoen- livered  us  from the  curse of  sin. Second~ly, it  iimplies
bloed  wan  Chri&us  verlloochenen  ze." (Standard Bearer that He  dleli!vered  US from  the power  6f sin. Meaning :
Vol. 7, page 120).           In the  StandandiBearer,  Vol. 12,         Hte  d'elivered  US to be new  jcreatures in  Him; to live to
page 320, we meet  onoe more with  this text, and  there His  honor and glory,  to  walk in  sanctification.  He


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  bought  LIS  that we might be His  peeuI& people, hating nici,ous w'ay of life which is contrary to  the  teachings
sin,  crucifying the  old man and  1wal.k in  eewnesij! of ,of Scripture. If  they  mer'ely denied by word of mouth
  life.  -  And these two :  jasitnf%catbon  and  sanctification,' ithat  the Lord had bought them the world  w.ould  pag
  always  ,go hand in hand.' And  ,hen- is  where the pic- no  attention to  them. But just  because  they  teach
  ture  ,of the  false  taa,chers  fits  i.n.  T.hey said : We.are pernicipus  Iways, ways of flesh,  carna!  lu.sts,  using the
  of Christ, He  .bou<gM  US, we  ,are justified, we are His                christia.n liberty as an occasion for the  flash,  they  be-
  lown. But while  sayiillg  this  they  wal,ked in ways of                 come  ihe  ,cause  thait  `the  way  ,of  tvuth  shall be  ,evil
  elin, corruption,  ievil.  ,They brought into  practice : "Let            spoke'h df .'
  US sin that  grace  may  ,aboun@,  let the flesh have  its                    T.hey  a r e   oovetous   m e n ,   carn&l  m e n   w,hose  only
  .sway." An.d in  that  sense  they  -denied the Lord. Noi:                desire is  #to  enri.ch  themselves  wi+,h tbe  posselssicm:  of
  actually  in  wbrds  ,wherelby  tihey  c'ontradicted  the  ,doc- others, in order that their carnal  lusts and  covetousness
  trine  ,of  atonement,  hut by  thei.r  very deeds, their  walk `may be satisfied.  Hence, with  fieigned',  sabricated,   d
  of life. Their  ungodly  life  ,manifeste$ that  ithey were 1uMve  a n d   d.eceptive  w o r d s   ithiey  `ma*ke  .merchandise
  ,chiJ,dren  lof the  [devil in  spi-be  ,of the  fact  t h a t   they o f   you.'  ( v s .   3 ) .
  loudly  pro&imed  ,to be  chillldren  d God. The  .Lord                       P&v&,  stealthily they  bring in  ,d,amnable heresies
  :who bought His people  ,d&ands   that His  children  wa.lk               ?n the  Chu&h (vs. 1).  No;t by saying  `Christ  did  nat
 d in  new.m\ss of  lig?. For He is their Lond, their  Zab..                die for  you,'  ,but by saying  fC,h.ri#st  having  dieid  for you,
  solute -sovereign.       The  original  ,emphasizes   ithis by  us-       you are  f.me,   cm  rdb as  you  piease.' Of  scourse they
  ing not  th;e  usual word for  LoY;d but a word which is were  smooth;   deceptive,  ,but  that  neverthelesl~~ was thc
  transliterated   idespot'.  l'he  L o r d   i s   the  despot,  t h e essense  df their  treaching. (vss. 1-3). "Peter  intima,ted                                 .
  absolute  sovereign,  who  haai:,  .aso,lu;te  sway  and  who  r.e-       that  the  heresiles  tof which  she speaks were to be  intro-
, deemed  US for the  very  `purpose that  $e  walk in His zduced under the color of  hrue doctrine, in the  ,dark, as
  ways,  kneep His  ,precepts.        Now, if a man  walks  cor&            it were, and by  little  anld  little~; so that  the people  wo.~~ld  '
 .trary  to the precepts  of Christ,  jwalks  `al:8cording.  to  $he not  ,discern their  red  natur,e."
  flesh  land not according to the Spirit,  h& lies  when he                    Findly,  iwe  woul~d  ofer  als,  proof  lof  our  explatiation
  says : "The Lord bought me." His  !v'ery  rwalk  .of life is a            the description  w+ich Pieter gives  lof these  fa1,s.e  iteedl-
  denial  ,of  that Lord. Scriptu.re  says :  "Who gave  Him-               ers in  the  sequence  of this  second   rchapter  lof 11  Pleter.
  self  f,or  US, that He might  red.eem  US  from  al1  i.niquity,          (See  garticular;ly   VS?. 10, 13, 14, 15, 18,  i9). This
  and purify unto  .Hmself a  pelcu,liar people, zealous of                chapter  makes it  ,o!verwhellmingly  d.ear that these  %a,lse
  good  works." (Titus  2 :14). And  lagain : "But  ,as He teaohen2  ,deniled  the Lord  thait  boug.ht them, not  by'
  whicli hath  called  you is,  holy, so be ye  body' in  al1  man-         means of  fdenying  the atonement by  thie blood of Christ
  ner of  conversation."  (1 Pet.  1:15). These  false  te- `as  su'ch,  bu#t by denying Christ as  the  Lorad of  .their'
  chers  confessed Christ  with their  mouth  bu,t refused.                 life  an!d using the  christian liberty as ran  ,occasion for
  to  subje&  themselves to  Christ's  sover,eignty,  His  pre-             the flesh, to  sakisfy  their  lcovetousneisis  and  carnal  &le-
 cep@,  t h e   law  o f   the  Kin!gdom. In  lother  wo.rd8  b y sires. And by  delnyia,g Christ  +s the sovereign  `of their
  idenying  Him as the sovereign of  itheir life they denied `life, by  word  ,and  practi,ce,  they denied Him as the
  .Him as  thc Lord that bought  them. "If we  say  that Lopd that bought  ;them. "He  +hat  s!&h,  I  knoti  .Him,'
  we  h!a,ve  felaowship   wi+h Him,  and  rwal8. in' darkness,             and  keep&h not His  commandmenits,  is a  aliar aad  th$'
  sw,e  lbe: and do not  Uche truth." .(I John 1  :6).  An,d again:          trut,h  iD not in  .hi,m."                                            J .   D .
  "And hereby  tdio  wje know  that  wa know Him, if we keep
  uis  commandments.  He  thait saith, 1 know Him, and                                                     -
  keepebh not His  commandm&ts,  is a  liar,  an'd the  trut11
  is eot in him. But  whoao keepeth His' tiord,  irn: him                                                 IN  MEMORI~AM
  verily is the love of God perfeoted; hereby  knolw we                         In  the afternoon  lof October 28,  the Lord took  out af  our
  that  we,h.se in Him." (I.,Jo:hn 2 :3-5). And agaie: "In                  midst  our dearly' beloved mother  and grandmother
this  thee children of God are  manifested;  and the  chi!ld-
  ren of the  `devil:  whosoaver  !doeth not  righ+eoasness,                                      JESSIE DE YOUNG, nee  Keunaing
  is not of God,  tieitlier  be that  elloveth not his  broither."          at the aged of  `74  years.
       (1 John 3  :lO) . .And, finally :  "F1ollaw  peace  w.&h al!              Her expresse'd  longing and desire  was ,to be with her Savior.
  men,  and holiness, without  whi,ch  no man  shall see the                Jesus ,Chri,st  and in the fulfillment ,of her desire  is our comfort.
  Lord." (Hebrle@li: 12 : 14) .                                                                                        The Cbildren  :
          We are.co&+ed~;that  the rabove, last given iexplana-                                                            Mr.  andsMPs.   .S. Veltman
  tion, is the  only  possibl  and  therefore  ,correct  explaa-                                                          Mr.  and Mrs. H. Huizema
  tion. These  fals;e  tyaCher.s  ar,e not the modernist type,                                                             Mr. and Mrs. S. De Young
  but  they are  the type of  the extreme  anabaptists   and                         ,.    . .      -                            9  grandchiklren  and
                                                                                                                ` .
  anti-nominianists.         T h e   ,proof?  Threy  teach  a   per-                                       .               2               great-grandchil&en
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               Calyinism According to Kuyper's                                    tated. To  &presrent  Kuyper as  <having  advocated  this
                                                                                  ;dualicrm  iwoul-  be  unfactual.
                  Stone bectures - A Critique                                          There is  ,another  dna.listi8c  oonce,ption   $0 which  Kuy-
                                                                                  per's  view tap'proeches. This  is the  duiaJistic.conaeption
                                                                                  `whiGh  holds  +hat the  woyld  name into being and is
                                           111                                    pneserved by the  concurrence  o;f two  principles  equally
                 His  Dualistic-Synthetic  Conception `of History                 necessary,  independent  a'nd  eternal..                     W e   said  t h a t
                                                                                  Ktiyper'sl view  approaehes   this. Yet  there  :are some
                 To  attempt  a  compreh'ensive  criticism of Kuyper's            very  ilmportant  mcrd&atioias  So  notice.  H i s   sdual&tic
        Stone-Lectures, with some  regand to  ,details in an  ladicle             viaw does not postubte tw.o  phil'osophic and  eabstractly-
        ,oi  live  ty.pew,ritten  pages  would be  preposterous.  These           conceivetd concurrent  prin,ciples   w&hich are  eternai.  This
        leotu&s cover  every subject in the  encyclopedca, of                     is  evident'f,rom   .the  fa& that  &cording to  eternal  prin-
        -hu.man   knowledge.  Aed  Wat  ,is  -more  t h e   authorls cipl,es  there  i s   `no  Creatilon  i n   t h e   Scriptiural  s e n s e
        conceptio,n  of Christian  Encpdo,ped!ia  i,s  presupposed                neither  ia1 there  s possibility of  Provi!denoe. The  ,only
        throughout.  T o   unders;tianid these  l&tu~ee  ,one must                thing  Dhere  can  possibly  .be is  Patnth,eisti.  Even though
        bear in  mind.  that they were  written in  maturer  years                `as we  shall  presently  .point  co'ut, Kuyper's view is  dlual-
        of  K!ujrp,er's life and  tha$  they give in  ,abbceviated   farm         isti  iand has  ithie  appea.rance of  this dualism it differs  '  '
        bis.         etitire     Life-and-World-View.                : ,          in thesle foowing respects :
              Should we  voice  ,OUIT  lobjvections against  th,e  various            -1.  `I'he  author  o f   thee  Stone-lectu,res   holds  t o   the
.       ele$&ts  with  whiich we take issue in these  lectunes,                   confessilon  that the origin of the  rworld is  ont  ,of  ;the
        with&t".atie~prting  to point  out  iwhiat  t,o our  mind  is             one  Creatirvte   will of  ,God.                -
       the  &&s  error of the  au$hor,  we  woulrdr run a  bwofold                     2.. It is his  lconvi&.ion that the  world's   preservation
        risk.  Th  first is of  a  forma1  nature.  Because of the                (ProvUence) is  also .by the  on,e  wil1 of Almighty God.
        limibation  ,of  space alloted  US.. We  ooulsd at  biest offer           Al11  Pantheisti,c  clualism  ,denies  these  two  funda.mental  '
       mere  cataldgization  of  oyr  ,criticisms.           The  secoind is      points of  confession.
       more  seriouNi. W,e  would  fa.il to  sec  t&e  real:  .i,ssue  .be-            3 .   Kuyper  furthr   believles  bh&  ,all things were
        canse  we  had lost  jourself in the variety  *of issues. Th.is created  ,good,  both  creaturely and  eihically.
     is our  ,crilti&n   sof  ja great  many of the criticisms  &hat                   4. Sin  scoording  ito  Kuyper  entere& into  $he  world
       have been  gi$& of these  lectures.                                        b$  the disobedience of  bne  mak
               In  com$&ation  lof the. fonegoing we  wi.11  lim,it  ,OUF             -We believe  ;that these  four  factors  distinguish the
        criit;i:cism to  what we  consider  the  undeklying,  un'bibli-           vierw  `of  Kuyper  from  heathenisti,c  a n d   moderni&ic
        qaJ error in Kuyper's  tionception;   which in this  .case                Panthe'ism.  ,
       is  tantamount  to  the basic error of  the %ommon  gra,ce"                     Kuyp,e&  dudisun  begins-historically   lafter the good
       hypo;thesis.                                                               !world  thas  falIera  through the  si?  land  :disobed!ience of
                                                                                  Ada,m in Paradise. .He postultites two concurrent prh-
              This  basi,c  ,err'or of  the  quthor  ilil the  .interpse&ation    c+pZes in  .%he history of a  faNen  worl,d : the  hi&ory  ,of
       of  the history,  the  Iw:oild  and of  .mankind  is,  &at it is :         falEen  wzanktnd.  The  Q?WO  c o n c u r r e n t   principles   iare
       d~listic-sy7uthe-h.
         :                                                                        ",common   grace"  an(d  "saving   grace".  A n d   the  f r u i t
               Indeed this is  ,a  serieus  accu&ion, which  places   FZ          of these two kinds  #of  lgrace,  thus  Kuyper,  is  a  twofold
     ,.  twofold;duty   upon  ,ocur shoulders in  tliis writing. 1. To poiitive development in the history ,of ;the worlld. !l?he
        carefully  idefiae  1ou.r  terms, lest we perhaps  mi,srepre-             tone  proceelding   f~gorn  saviilg  Igrace is the  ,o,n& in  til?
<      sen$  the `late  Dr.  Kuyper%  vi,ews,  or  ithat  iwe be not              church  whbch  ,ends in the  final  gllory  ,of  `che  sonis; of
     t  '  mistakingly  ulnderstood  as  Idoi:ng-su'ch. 2.. To  s,how, in adoption. The  ether  tproiceeding from  common  grace
       `as  far as this is  .pdssible within the allotted  spacc -gutatranitees a po.si;tive good developmeht of wmrkind as
        tl&it  %his  &l  ind!eetd!  `ch6  erpor  :af  the author.                 such. Thns there is a 8dualistm  of principle in the world
               Wte  said  that Kuyper's,  rview  sof history was dualistic.       b o t h   w o r k i n g   p o s i t i v e   g o o d .   Tlhe  o n e   i s   str.ong;er
       What do we  imp1.i  ;with  th+ ? W,e: do not  k"efer in  tlus             and  mlor:e  emduring  thain  t,b,e  ether, to  b,e  sure, being
       judging of Kuyper's  conception to  tihe  Mythologi~cal                    r'egenerative, but the other is' .positively good being
       dwa&m  Izeld  .by  the-Persian  philosophens,   who  main-                 restraintive  lof  the  same  euil which in  regenera;tilon is
       taiqd  the  existente of a good  principle and  Ann  ,evil                 completely  overcome.
      -  pri,nci$e,  anld  who  thus explained the mixed  :state  ,of                  It is  dso  wel1  ko  take  notice of the  fa& that  com,mon
       the  +hings.,of this  presleat  w80rld,   sueh  thtings as,  sick-         grace,  ialccor,ding to Kuyper is  strkctly  speaking, not
       `nes&  aand  health,  poventy  and  riches, want  anld  :a,bund-           the  same  .as  P~~oviden,~e,   ;the  presenvlation   `of what God
       arn!ce,  eviJ  an'd virtue. This was  ;the  philosophy  ,revive$           has  once  creatively  `called  ilnto  exi.stence. According to
       by  Gnosticism'  iln  the early  church and was  also the h*im  icommon  grac  is!  the  ,restrai&ve  -infJuence in  the
        error of  .Ma&hi~anism against which Augustine  mili-                     el,ement of.  `fgovernment"  i.tn Providenae.                       And this


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   govelrnment  of  Provigdence  does  ,not  touch the  Iwhole of the way.  This  .mea,ns' that in  khe  f,undamental and
   creatied  khitigs,  blut  monly the  rationrall beings. T:hus  he pri!mord,ial   threefdd   .rel&onship of God,  fellowman
   teaches in  bis  Dic+a$eln  Dogmatiek,  Lotus   be  Provi- and  creation there is in  both lines   pos&ve good. Not
   tdentia, p. 94.  Tlie  same presentation  may  be  found merely  .in  tic  arlealm of  G&l's  special  grace of  the  re-
   im  ,his  "Gerneene  Gratie", pp. 380, 596, 600, 601..  In-                  ganerated man  ;  the renewed man  who  &ands. in the
   sbructiave  on  this score  iis:  ,also what ome  reads in "Van              proper  relationship  to God, his neighbor  is>nd his  .pos-
   Zonde Es Genade" `pp. 106, 10'7,  by H.  Danhof and H.                       seisions.     Not at  al1 ! In  the world of  .unregenerated
  Hoeksema.                                                                     man,  there is  .a  :positive good  in  al1 these  fund,amental
       In the  Stone-jectures it is  especially  thel  elemtent'of              re&ationships !
   t h e   positively-goed  demelo&ent  o f   mankind  a+s  such                     1. In  hhe restrain'ed  isinmer's   rY:elsLtionship to God.
   that is  placed on  the  soreground. This  the reader  ean                   Hence  as  a   religieus  being  their  i s   somethijng   goed.
   assure  #hisnir,elf  iof  #onee  m o r e   b y   reading  our first          T,here is ia fiallen man &ill  ;the "semen Y'eligionis" (seerl
   artiele in  the Nov. 1 issue of the  S$amldard   Bearer. In of  religion) and the  sens&  Idivinus (the-  rs:ense of God),
   fact Kuyper  tells  8u.s :  "`The   chief  purpose of my  lectur-            For  there is  tihe  light of  the Logos in  every man!
   ing in  tbis  icountry   wak, to  eradil&e the wrong  idea,                  To quote Kuyper :  "T,o be  suPe there is a  ,concentration
   that Calvinism  represented  an  exclusively  dogmatieal of religious  .lidght  amd  ,I.ife in the church, but  &en  ti:
   and  ecclesiastical movement." p. 231; Calviniom  is also                    thel  walls of  this  chuxch,  .$here  `are.  :wide open windows,
   ecclesi~a!stical, it  dso  f.ollolws the line  ,of saving graee,             and  the  iight  of the  eternal has to  nsbdiate  over  thp
   hut  th& is  no;t the  whole  skory. There is  bedei  this !whole  w,orld. Here is a city (common  grece, G.L.)
   .dso  anothfer  .ais$peet  ,o$ Calvinism  ania  that is-  the  posi-         whil&   every man  can  s8ee from  afaT. Here is the  holy
   tively good  developmetit in  the world as  worl,d  ,of  man-                salt  th&  qenetrates in  every  tdirection  (common  gn&e,
   ,lcind.                                                                      G.,L.) checkng  al1 corruption." p. 63, "Calvinism".
      Th%  Idua&rn   i.s  areflected  in  al1  o f   Kuyper'slater                   2.  Also in  man's relationship to his  feUowman. Not
   works. Iit  :is  Othe  ,ev#er-recurrin.g  theme in  :his  Dictisben          Imerely the  geborn  &.il;d  lof God. Bilt  the man  who  is
   Dogmatiek.  Olne  finds it in the following Loei: De                         under  the  operatiom; of  tihe nestraint of  si,n.           Of him
   Providentia, De  Pleccato (concerning sin)  D  Foedere it  can  be  aajid as  put-by  Bancr,oft: "The  ?anatic for
   (,ooncek?ning the  Covenan`t)  De Magistratu (concerning                     Cahvitiism was a fanatic  fol- liberty,  f,or in  the..moral
   the magistrates) .  _ In a word  iin  al1  the  subjects  tretiterl          wasfare for freedom,  hiis  creed was  a part of his  adrmy,
   boDh in "Calvinism" rand in his  "Diotaten  Dogmatiek".                      and his most  faitlxful  ally in  tha  battle." Hence it
   And  thi.s  dualism  ,is  refl,ected   finally in  bis  Lotus De foUows  ;that  heuse  also  matnkind  is in  !3! stage  ,of positive
   Con,sumunatione  Saeculi.  A%so  here Kuyper  speaks of                      development.
   t h e   t w o   alines  ,in  h&ory.  T h e   p n e   i s   "Caeati'o, lde         3. Finally in the  unrlegenerate  ,man's  ,relationship
   Anthrol;ologie and  #de  Har\martollogie  !( doctrine of sin)                to the world, that  is, in  Scitince and art.  This is  the
   met haas gevolgen  in de  "miser&  et  n?`ors"  (~misery and                 stand of  Kuyper in  Lecturerr; IV and V.
   Idleath)  em  `op de lijn  .der gratie ligt  (de  lotus  ,de Christo,            W*hait  ,mu&~we say of this? The  language here is
   De  Salr-te  (applhed salvatiou)  Ide Ecclesia." We said                     most  confusing, but  .when  read in the  br,oa,d context of
   this  Iduzlisni  i,s reflected  heo^e,  although   it  shoul,d be !1:1  ;the  lectures it is  "cIear that we here have a basis
   obvioac:  th!s:t  .it is  fiat  `directly taught.                            of common activity for believers  Sam&  none-believers
       What  s  most.  obvious is that  Kuyp,er  fais to bring                 alike.. In  Polit&,  religilon,  science land art ! And  thus
   this  dualism  to a  unity of  Conception.,  This is as  clear this  ,dualism  cof  bwo concurrent  graces we  have a  per:
   as the  ,day  when one  rasks  -+he  tquestion :  I;s there really fect  synithesis  bleitween the world  and the  church,  be-
   a  Consunwmtion  of this  h,igh  development of  .mankind                    tween "Jerusalem" and "Athens"!
  as mankin? ! Where is the  rcpenecl  frwit?  What  hap-                           What  our reaction ;toward Qis ,is !slnd tour evaluatio
   pers  to  .all  the  ihigh  Idevelobmeint of  nankind?              For      in the  iight. of the Scriptural.  and  Calvinistically   Con-
   accordimg to Kuyper it is  p.ositGve   demelopment  .of the                  fessional doctrine of the  to,tal  -depravi$y of man?  If
  htLman  Face.                                                                 thhi;s  kngiuage  .must of the  twofoX  graces with  i;ts  re-
       As  So.r  th,e  "Fu$ure"  `of  Ctommon  Grace Calvinism,                 sulbant  oonception must be taken  seri,ousl.y  ,all  ,it  can
KLiTper  i s   pessimisti& I;t  luas  stoppd  at the western mean is that  ;the writer has takEn the s+amd of P,elagian,-
  banks  of.  tihis  Amerilean   &ntinent.   "The one world-                    .ism !    T h i s   world  `of  mankind  a s   such  i s   t h e n   nat
  stream,  broa.d`and   fMesh"  where  d'oles it empty  its.  final             wholily evil! And  1518  far as the  duali;-tic   ocHnlzeption ia
  c o n t e n t ?   -Kuyper  ,does  nat  ;tell  US.  W h y   n o t   ?   He concenned  it is no$hing  else hut the conclusion of R,oman
  ,cannot. M,a,nkind `as such bas aot Comsummation  ! Thc                       Catholicism  .in its  ~d&trine  #of the  Superadlditum and
s  purely  "secularizeid   world"  God  ~will  deisitroy.                       that of  fallen man  "&  puris  na8turalibus't.            Certainly,
       Buit we ::lre ant@ipatiag. Let  US return  ito  jour  s?b-               the way in  whieh Kuyper  an,d Rome  arrjve  !jt this  con-
  ject.                                                                         clusion  idcffers. Bat the  final.  result is  +he  ;-;ame.
     S(uyper ia mt ,afraid $9 dmw @s duaM%s Ux all                                  bd Thais also ti? JXGW~ hut skaerrve! TUF: poaitiv?


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 goed world of Kuyper  .in  iks  development  mof seligion,
 politie&  sciencer and art ,and rtha<t  of the humanistic tcan-           The Concept "SerVatit of Jehovah"
 not possi,bly  .differ. Baoth @eak lof the npward ,develop-
 ment of  mankiuld. N                                                                                I                        n                       
                              O humanist has  any  objectilon  tr,
 tlis  Cialvinism  ,of Kuyper. One  may  obj,ect  and- say .
"Kuyper  wanted!  i t   al1  t o   Gad's  :glory,  .and  t h a t   the         With the  heart-cotisol#ing  words  "COmf*ort-  ye,  Con-
 humanist ob j ects to . 1  ahswer +ha$ t.l-$s latter remains fort  ye My  people",   the Divine  au;thor  ,of  bh&  prophecu
 but an  cmpty  phrase-;romewhat  lamely  iappended,  for  It given through Isaiah` befgins  +he fo!rtieth  chapter  ,of this
 ,d,oes not fellow f,rsom his ooncept$on !                                bogk  `of  proljhecy. Hellewith He  begins  Ithe  final  issec-
         The  f,ollow&@ from  Lectui7e IV:  "Callvinism and tion of  .this book, a  section  twhi,-,h speaks  `of  the  s&a-
 Sience"  is from Kuyper's.pen:  "h was  pereeived, on tion of  God's.peop1.e   iand  ,af the  glory  that awaits them
 the  coi&rary,  that  f,ar  Gold's sake,  tour  attention  lmsy in  ltie New  Jerasalem.
 liut  b&  cWithcl?aWn  frfoti  &e life of  nlature and creation  ;            In;  tluis  secticjfi of the  propehcy of  Isaiah  there  ap-
 the  s&djr of the body  regained  i$s  place  lof  hloinor  beside       pears this  concepit  lof  the  islervant  ,of Jehovah  which we
 the  shu.dy of  tic soul  ;  .and the  slocial  `orgaiiiz!stion  of shaal  briiefly  considar   iin  t.his* `essay. The concept is
 mankind on  ,earth was again looked  upon as  beting- as                 finst  menti,one& in chapter  41:8, 9, whre we read, `"But
 wel1  Iworthy an `object of  human  `scienas  as the  con-               thou,  Israel art' My servant, Jaoob whom 1 have ,ohosen,
 gregaition  sof the  !perf'ecit  sailnts in  h:eaven. This  also kh'e  seed of `Abraham  my  fri,enfd.                 Thou  whom 1 have
 explains the close  nelatisonship  exi&Zng  between  Cklvin-             taken  from the  ends  ,of the earth, and  es3led thee from
 ik+  (+he-Cominon  ,Grace brand, G. L.) and  Hu~ma~inm. the  &ief men  rthereof, ancl  said unto  $hee,  T.hou art
 In as  far as  humanism  end,eavored  to substitute  life ,my  :servant;  1  #have  chosen thee, and not  tast thee
 in this  wcnrlld for  the eternal,  every  Qa&nist   ,oplposed           aiwfay." The laext pass!slge whi'ch speaks cd.irectly of athis
 th@ Humanist. Buit in  a:si  much as the Humanist con                    servant  *of  Jeholvzh  lis  f,ound in  `chapteT `42 :l-4. In
 tefiteld  .himSlI  wilti  a  pl,ea for a proper  `s&n.owledge-          these  verses we find these  thought;s;   expressaa, "Behold
 nient of  secular life,  the  Caivini,st was his  prop&  ally." my  servant,  whom 1  tupholid  ; mine  elect, in  Iw:hom my
        Now Kuyper  separated  lif,e  im the  world  from  the            soul  deligh+eth; 1 have put  my Spirit  uptin him : he
 prinE@le of  vegenexation. He did  Dot  substitute  it.                 shalg  .bring  forth  jnd~~gment  &o  rthe Gentiles. He shall
 In  iac+uuaJ.  saot  both  Hiumanism  and Common  Grace not  cry, nor  lift up, nor  ,cause his  voice  to be heard in
eal+inism are the same. Only  thits  Calvinism  is far tha street. A  bruised  reed  shag1  he not  bre&,  and the
 .more  ,dangerous   thran  ;the  o&ight  .humanism for it smoking flax shall he not quench;  he  shall  bri:il.g forth
 carries a ,misleading  titkl!                                            judgment  .unto  hruth.  H e   shall  no;t  fail  n o r   . b e   d,is-
        In.st&d  sof  this  ldualistilc-Synthetic  oaneeption we          couraged,  til1 he have set  judgment in the  earth ;  and
 would  adivocate  hhe  ,organE  .unity  ,of  the  :hu,mam race.          the  islies shall wait for`his  law."
 Take  the  position that  every  ler&ure of God is good.                     These  twa  aplassages  .show  otie of the characteristics
 And that in  +his good  wortltd  (~Crea;tio;:~:-creaturehood)            lof  al1 the passages  ;tha;t  speak   mof'  this  servanrt  of,  Je-
bobh the unbeliever  aed  the  belliever live from two                    hovah. Ycou  wil1  ,have noticed  that in  bhe first passage
 antithetilcally  ,different  principlas;.  Thus  the battle of           quobeld  this  seavant is presented as being  thie  assion
 all ages is in this  Iwon:lld. And the  regenerisjted  new man           of Isralel wl&e tbe seizooed makes ene thi& immediaately
 looks in Lhope  for the  timp w.hen  what ,he  )~.ow clai:ms in          of  Christ  as  ithis  :s,ervant of  Jeh,ovah of  whom Isaiah
*faith,  may be shown to be  bis in.  very  Idleed. This  is. speaks. In  fact Jesus Himself quotes  Dhe  verses  whi,ch
the  diffi&lt  way  `of faith,  .but  ;it is  ;the way of  Gbld.          follow immediately  upon  these we  quoted  aibove in
        This is not  the  Ipositilon  of  Afiabaptistilv   Mlnichean      ohapter  42  when He  ,was in  Nazar'eth   and  told the Jews
duali;-m  (sec above)  neither the  Kupierean   coneurrenc;T             that He  tia;s  hhe  fuldllment  tof this  prophecy, so  tha,t
of  tw,o good  .pninciplmes,  .but  al1  things  .indeed for  the         there  can  b,e no doubt that in  chapter 42  this servant of
 King. W,hether  we  lelat  OF drink  ,do it  unto  tihe Lord,            J'ehomah  is  Christ.  T-his change of viewpoint  wil1 be
For  every  creature  mof  Gad is  goed,  an$  nothimg is'to be           f,ounicl  Dhroughout   ithe  variotis  passages.that  speak of
rejeated  wl-ren taken  with  thamiksgiving, for  it is  snac-            this  servati  lof  Jehavah.  Some speak  very  ldefinitely
tified  ,by the  Word  sof God  aed  rprayer !                            of  Isme1  aisI a  nation. In  ,others it cannot be  idenied
                                                           G. L.          thra.rt  Chxist is meant by  thlis servant. Passages  ,whitih
                                                                          speak lof this servant as `khe mstion Israel ,are : 43 i 16 ;
                                                                          44:21,   2 2 ;   45:4;  48:20. Adjdi,tionsd   pasirit-tges   %hat
                                                                          speak  plwinly  lof  Ckist  `are : 49  :5, 6  ; 52 : 13  rarnd  +he
                       CLASSIS EAST                                       entise 53rd  chapter  which  ;t;he  Ethiobjan  eur&ch was
wil1 meet  in regular session  Wed;a:esday,  Janlutary   10,              reading  and  whiah  Philip  ejxplains. to" him  as  having
at 9 :00 P.M., at the  Fule!r Ave.  P,rit. Ref.  Chur&ch.                reference~to  Chris&
                                       '  D. Jonker, S. C.                    In  chapter 49  wie  find  a  very  rem's&b!e  usg  :of  the


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expression. The  first  six  verses in  b&f  declare  ithi:s,               s.ervant  an.d  it is implied  iiu:  whak.  fol~lo\ws   tha;t Israel
<`. . . . the  Land!  hath called `me . . . .  and  saiid  unto was guilty  an,d  ;that He justified Israel by His  right-
me, Thou  iart My  se;l"Vant,   Israel, in  iwh'orn 1  will be iedusness.                  Unto  Lsrael He  imputed His righteoasness
glorified.    Then  said 1, 1 *have labored in  lvtarin, 1 have             and Israel in God's  reyes;  also becomes the servant of  _
spent  my  stiength for  nought and in vain: Yes surely                     the  Lor(d.  Eam as Christ  ,is  the  Israei,  tia)t' `is  the
my  judgment is; with `the Lord, and my  ~work with my                      Pcince of God  aqd  thet  Nation of Israel becomes  tihe
God.  Anid now  ,sail& the Lord  thait  formed  #me . . . .                 prince of God  because,He  stand& at  her head, so  Chris%
to  be His  servanit,  to bring Jaoob again  to Him . . .  ."               is  the  Servant of  Jehovah, and Israel  becomes   the.
    This  passae   is  remarkable  in: that  ik speaks of both              Serma!nt  lof Jehovah because He stands  t  her  head as
Israel  ani& Christ as  that servant in one  ,b,reath. Note                 Christ,  ithe Anointed of God to be  Prophet, Priest  ancl
verse 3,  "Thou  ,ant My  aervant, 0 Israel, in  whom I                     King.      Th'e  idea of the "Servant  .!of  Jehovah",  a s
Wil1  be  a@orified."            Immediately  following  t h i s   t h e    Delitzsch  snggests,  figuratively speaking  assulmes! the
servant  answws Jehomah  and  say&' "1  hawe  labored in' f.orm of a `pyramid the base  of which is  Isr.ael as  !e  na-
vain. 1 have  spenrt  my strength  ;for  .nought." Now if ition,  the  centia*  seztion  being  I s r a e l   acconding  t o
we  read the next verse we  slee  w.herein  that  tafbor  con-              election,  thee  `?l$ue  I s r a e l ,   Spirit.ua.1   I::,rael,  a n d   `t h e
sisied. We reed.,  "Nclw  sailti the Lord that formed  me                   Apex of  ;this pyramid being Christ, the  Secomdl  Adsim,
. . . . ;to  b r i n g   Ja,cob  a g a i n   .to  Him'  .   .   .   ."  W,h,i!r the Head  ,of God's Covenant people  Who has  ,f~~lfilled
the 6th verse bas  this expression  ". . . .  ;though  Israel               the  Covenant  ,obligation  for  21s  .in His  werk  ,of  senkg
be not gathered . . .  ." These passages  plainly  speak                    Jehovah as  tour head and thereby redeeming  lus  fibril
of  Chlrisit  in  Hi,s  werk of  rec!onciling'  God's.people  untp          the slavery of the  dev'il. In  the  firs  place  thfen  Chris11
Him. Thu.s  tin the  omle passage  Iwe have a  twofobfi  use                is that  "S&ain;t  of  Jlehovah" in that He  :s,erv&  Jeho&
of  this  lexpress,<on, "Servant of  Jehmah".   Stitll mora                 perfecitly  as the  head  lf God's .covenant people. In
the expression  here  ,also applies  80  .Ieahiah as  %he  :sr-            the  second   pl,ace Israel  aaco~n3iing   to  the  renma& of
Trant  lof  J,ehovah:   Iit is Isaiah  bhat complains that  he              election is  rChat  "Senvant  `of Jehovah" because in Christ
bas  labored-in vain. This  he does as  prophet,  anointed her head  :a11.1  the service God  Idemanded is  performed
by God's Spirit  ko  *represent Christ  land lead  H,is people an,d  Jehov,ah's  j u d g m e n t   !upon  h e r   becauSe  H!e  s e e s
t o   sepentanoe.  When  I s a i a h   s a y s   this,  h e   Idoes  s o    hier in  Chrkt  is.  that  sbe has served  Hi,m.
therefore as  pvophleitic   `of the  upparent  .hopeles;:;n.ess                  Howemer these passages  teach  LIS  sometihing  more
and  unfruitfulness  lof  Chrbst's  work  among& Israel.                    ihan  thi.s  .objedive  holiness  a n d   rightousness   which  .-
    Ntot  only do we  feel, at  once that  the term  "Sefvant               the  ele.ct have in Christ  a&l  :zIScording to  whilzh God
of  Jehomah"  ShouBd be applied  first to Christ  and then gdeclaties  them  t o   b e   Bil:;  seriants.  I s r a e l - t h e   tru
to Israel  .ber,ause of  Israel'si relation  to  Him, but a                 church in the Old  Dispensatiom   and in this  Mew  Dis-
consideration  of these passages  mentionad above  wil1                     pensation-also  is  `ch,e  "Servant of  Jiehovah" in  deed
l e a d   u:s  ito  t h e   same  condusi,on.   Consid:er   ,onlce!  that alnd not  merely  in name  ,3nd according to God's  jud.&
freqeently in these  passjaiges  Israel,  who is called  ithe               mIent. Here are  some  ,o the  tliings these passages
se?vmt  taf  Jehqvah, is  also presented  `as not  aerving .nlention as the  ser&e Israel  lperforms before  Jehova11  :
Him  an3 b&ng .guilty bef'or,e Hilm. Thie is  stabed  both                  a .   C,ontrasti.ng  41:8  with  $the  preveeding  verses  an3
directIy  anlrl'  ,indinectly.        Look  zup  ,ohapter  43 :23-25.       44  :l-8, 21-28 with the  verses 9-20 which appear  b#e-
Israel is  acoused  by Jehovah of  mot  sacpificing  buaat                  tmceen, we  3:ee  $hait  Isr.ael as Jehovah's servant  idoes  zot
ofierilngs  t'o  Him,  ;ain:d  indirectlly God dludes  to her               serve idols as  $he  beathen nations  rslbo,ut  her. b. Posi-
fzilure  rto  serve  Him  when He  declares in verse 25, "1 ltively we  :nead in 43 : 10  :and in 44  :8  that she  ,is  Gocl's
,ani He  %hat  blott,eth  out  +hy  tra.nsgr,ejssions". Trans-              wiatness  w.hich  socordOinin.g  to the  ,coi:Itext  means that she
gresrsions  su~ely are not  servilce. In the passages  whilrh               ctinf  esscs:  bhat  Jeh,obah is her  G:ad and Redeemer. c. In
spelk  #of Christ,  however, He is  ,extolled  for  His (perfect            43  :21 God  Hi,mself  Idle&ires  ;that Be  bas formed  Israil
serviae ;to jehovah. Chapiter- 53 is a be&ifu,l ldeclara-                   to `show  fc&h His  praises.  td. In  49:3  the work that
ti$on  tof His  mobedience in  l&niliky  a;n.d  lotvie to  Jehovah          Israel  performs as  the "Servant  tof Jehovah" is  that of
a&i to His people. He is THE servant  ,of  Jehovah   Who                    gl.orifyi,ng Him.  `l%%e  ave not  mepely works which
:has  fulfilled  tJhe  Law  tof God  for  US. He  bas  :s;erved             God  dem.ands of His  serrijant but they. are  works  @.ich
Jekovah   in our  stead  land  performefd  the  p.ast  servi,ce             s h e   ialso  lperfor.ms.   CEctpter   41:8-10   speaks  lof  t h i s
w e   .di:d  nat  perfopm  and  :oIwe  ;$nto  Jeho.y,ah.  H e   i s         "Serva&  #of  Jehovah"  being  Iz.hosen .and  ~caBed by God
THE servant of  Jehovah,  &d  thro,ngh' Bis  senvice                        Ijut  d;so  $hat -He  wil1 help, strengthen and  uphold her
He  bas  made Israel to  become the  slervant  ,af Jebovah.                 w,ith the  r,ight  .han.d  lof  His  arighteou-(ness.            Thi.s  1llloe.s
Listen to  chapte?  :ll, "He  &dl see  the travail of                       nat merely ,mearn: to dIefend .her from the physical enemo
Hi,s soul  anZ  shda.`be satisfied, by His knowlerdge  sball                hut  iJc  .means  th& He  wil1 help, strengthen and  upholrl
my  righteus   seq&t   justif   .many;  for  H,e  shall bear              her  wibh  the right hand of His  righteousness-whi$
th&  f&uity".         Nok that He  ia  o$led  the  rQhte9u8                 is  Chri$s$ THE  Servgnt   ~5  Jehsv&---t9   perfarm  righ&
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-eousness  aed to serve  Him: Becauxe the graoe ,of `God, if;hat "Servant of Jehovah"  be:,u%  of  Ohrist's   obedi-
 The Spirit of Christ  aed. the  life  lof Christ are! given `.ence aad the engraftin'g lof theisle elect into Him by faith.
 to Israel, she is  enabled to be the "Servant of Jehovah"                Israel as a  nation is  cal%ed that `Servant  of. Jehovah"
 in more  ;th;sa name. She is the servant of  Jehavah in because in  t.he  O4d  Dispensstion  God's Covenant people
.thought,  word.  anldl  deed.  -Thus the term "Servant of                were to be found  exclusively among Israel  with only
Jehovah'" as  applied  `to Israel  allso  meFIs "Servant a few  exoeptions.                                                                      I
 Jelrovah  .has made". The  emphasis- in  IR&;   rthe passages                          Whiea'this  body  ,of  the elect is  cal,led the "Servant
which  referte Israel  IdirecMy is  upon  the  fact that  God :of  Jeholvahl', God views these elect  mot from  the  view-
 chose  and  eal'led her. The  samie  thing  may be said  `in             point  `of  what they are in  them::,elves  hut as they are
regard  to those  passages  ;that  speak  ,of  C"nr.ist  as  the          j:udi.eially in  Chlrist  $heiqr  head  la&!  ,as  they- become
 "Servant  ,of Jehovah". T!hey  .all,  teach  US that  Ghrist             ,ethically  thrfough  the  wo.rk of His Spirit in  their hearts.
is  sent  by-Gold  and is  not:cou.r product at all.                      In  ether  Iwords  the elect are  presentejd   from  the  viaw-
     There are  many  ether  ,details in this concept which point of the  completion  ,of God's work of  salvati,on,  $ha.t
could be  noted,  .but  spjace  ldoes permit  more.  than a few           is,  from the  law of  sin and  tdeath and the slavery of  the
suggestions as  ho the  siohnese  ,of  this concept. a. The               devil, now  ti  keeip its  part of  +he  C,ovenant  ,obligation
 Covenant idea is  placed  emphatically   bef,ore  US in  the             by  serving God  th,rough.  His  grace.                                            Of  th&,  Isr,ael's
very 1st  .passage that speaks of this Servant of  Jehov?h.               redemption   from  ithe yoke of Pharaoh in Egypt and
 Chapter   41:8, 9  speaks  `of  thi;s; servant as  .being.  the her  retunn  out  ,of  Babylon.were. types,. and  thhis  latter
seed of Abraham, God's  "friend", with  whom He  .redemption becomes the occasion  `here for Jehovah to
establish,ed!  this Covenant.  b:  T,his  same passage  ithere-           teach Israel  anld  US of  thart spiritual sedemption which
fore  teaches  US by  implication and  1iterahl.y.  that  Je-             we  have in His  Se$vant,  Jesus Christ  our  Leid,  through
hovah's Servant is,  a  frienid%ervant. c. The  names                     W,hom we  ean  ,and do  become  His  Covenacnt  children
Israel  @nd Jacob  twhich are  erpeatedly  used  indicate and ,friend+ervants.
t h e   glory  o f   this  servitude.   Isr,aelI  means,`  "Prince  o f                                                                                          J. A. H.
G,od." Jacob  means,  "Tl-+  Sapplanter". Let no  -ene
ithin.k  that this  servituide  us  slavery and  dishonorable.                                                                                                 -.
Let  no  ene be  asham&  to be  `called  a  slervtant of Jo-                                                            -
,hoveh. T*hese  servants  .are prinoes  ,of God, Wis friends
shall inherit  the earth  and  al1  t& future  gl,ory,  -for
ithey  ,shali  su,pplant  the  wicked  who  noiw possess it.
d.  To  this Israel which  !is  Jehovah's. servant belongs                                                                            I N .   MEDIORIAM  .
the  churh. of  to,day,  Gentiles  as  wel1 as Jews  .accord-'
i&ng to 42  :l, 6  ; 49  :6.    e.  T,his  service of Israel as the                     It has pleased the Lord in His infinite wisdom $0 take unto
s e r v a n t   o f   J e h o v a h   h a d   8  @pica1  realizsition  when Himself  our  beloved  son,  brother  and friend,                                                              I
Israel returned  -from  captivity  to  ,return  t Canaan                                                                    P.F.C. BEN WEESIES
wh.ere  she again  buitlt  Jerus&m,   the City of  Go,d, and
His~ tie;mple antd serve&!  Him there. See &apter, 48 :20.                              He  died November 5 in a  German   Prison'Gamp   of  wouads
f. God uses thheathen  atiaons and  .unbelie~~ers  for the              he  received in  action  somew*here   i,n  France.
welfare  lof His servant.' See 45  :l-4  and  compare it                                We are  filled  with  `sornow and  our hearts bleed for  Ihim.
with Ezra 1 :l-3. In  connection  with  this,  41:8;  9  also             But we  ha.ve the blessed comfort  that he is  w&h  bis Lord  and
tea&es  `US  that  no one  ,can stand in  the way  `of God'a              Savios in  glosy  Whom he  ,served   so  faitbftilly,   ,and we  cm  say
hvork of bringing His people to Canaan to serve Him.                      with David: We  shall  go  to him, but  he  shall  n3t  return to  US.
He called  them  front  Ythe  ends -of the  iearth"---called                                                                               The sorrowing  family:
Abraham  out  to!f  U*r  `,of  the  Chald'ees  ai?ld Israel  out of                                                                      a  l
Egypt-qnd*fr~om "the chiefFmen ithereof"-f,rom  uaa!er                                                                                    Mrs.  Jennie  Weesies  (mokher)
Phana!ohts  crue1  y0ke;H.e brought  Iisraei  out  to Canaan                                                                              Mr.  ,and  Mx Evert  Weesies
and'through  Moses He  saiid  to  Pharoh, "Let My son                                                                                    Mr. -and  Mrs. Jobn Hamminga
go ;that he xnay aqve  Me", Exoldus  4 :23 ; 8 : 1, 20 ; 9 : 3,                                                                           Mr.  and  Mzx.   He,nry   Wees@
,.13  e t c .                                                                                               .L ,:                         Mr. and Mrs. Ebel  Mulder
                                                                                                                 Sf            i,
 .1 .' Smn&ing up  al#l the material,  we have here  plaoed                                                                             ?"hr.  ,and  Msrs.  Peter  Weesies
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b@!oKe  US in-  thais  looncept God's Covenant  -people as                                                                            `."!Mr. jatid Mrs. Jacob Weesies
Servant.  T&hat "Servant  sof Jehovah"  is.  the  entire:                         .                    ,,  ?I,"                      Ir'-`,  ?t%-: and  Mr;s.  John Weesies
body of  tbe  teleet  %ith Christ at the  boad.  C%rist  (ia  li.                                                                         Mr. and Mns., $$e& Weesies
the  "Servalnt  of  J&olvah" in  Himsdf  w.hich His work  :l;.  :f:  r:  4.  " ,  "'  .`.  -                                              l%i~s .Jennie  ;p&ies.
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of ,perfect obedience and love mani$fests.             The `body of Ir,r..                  -              `.                             Miss Gertrucle +jXoppen;bronwer
the elect, consiwtirng in bsth Jewa ml& Gentiles,  becorikea %&~&zoo,   Mis&igan,                                                                                              <'  ' -.
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