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                                                                                                               Mens+ met' ons geworden voor menschen- ,
      "                                                                                                                 b e h o e f t e , , -  `:
                                                                                                              Voor lmijn overtreding tot zonde gemaas&,,
                                                                                                               Geslagen, gesmsad door dolzinning geboefte,
                                                                                                               Aan `t vloekhout' doorboord, door God. zel,yen
                                                                                                                        verzaakt !
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                    . . Qnze Zonden: Gedragen
                                                           ^ -/                                       :      Mijn redder; Mijn-Gol, mijn zondenve.rnielei,
                             Die zelf, onze zonden  in Zijn lichaam' ge-                                       Mijn meester, mijn, Heiland; mijn, Heer en,
                                                                                                           ^ --.        ,mij,n  ,God!-  / . .                  ' 9j _
                           dragen heeft Op ket .hout,  opo%  .wij, de zon-
                                                                                                               Mijn onheilverwinner, mijn levenlbezieler  ! I
                     , den afgestbrven  zijnde, der geffecht$h*ey:l                       . -'
                           leven' aouden;  ClooG Wercs. striemen .gij ge-                                    ,Gezegend, .geheiligd,- beslist is .mijn lot!
                           ?*exen xijt.                                                   .,                `- _j Voor U ,wil ik strijrden, voor IJ w.il ik lijden,
                                             :                                      -' :                      - Voor IJ- wil ik @ aarde :doorgalmen van lof!
                                                  i `-:       I&:& *.                                          Aan U wil ik ,adem en levenskracht wijden,
                 Onze zonden -`gedragen!             I t                                                   `_ Tot de ,Engel des levens mijn -slake uit dit
                 ,Hij. Zelf! \.In Zijn lichaam !         Itmmanuel,  i God met                                      -stof!.  `.
      ons !                                                                                                  En zoo -zingt het volk ma.n God; zijn blik door het
                 Van Hem, -de 6'zon~denv&nieler,"~ en dat met zijn                              geloof op dat. altijld wonderlijke kruis van zijn Heer
      dichtersoog, centraal op: het hout gericht, waarop Hij.                                   ,gevestigd,  het hem na.
* onze zonden droeg, zong Da  Costx                                `.
                                                                                                .'           `Hij Zhelf  heeft ,o,nze zonden gedragen!.
                   `,tI.k zag hem,. ilk gaf mij, j de hel is gesweken ;                                      .Daarin  ligt heel het mysterie van de verlossing,
                   De hemel .ging op,uit.Uw  Woord inimijn ziel !                         de vergeving der zonden, besloten!
 .                Ik zag hem, beloofd .aan den balling van Eden,                                             `0, ja!       Hij liet ons in Zijn lijden ook een voorbeeld
                   Als `t vlekkeloos zaad der, vernederde -rouw. ; I                                 na, opdat we Zij,ne voetstappen zouden navolgen. Daar-
                   Die `t dwangjuk der zonde ,te pletter zou
                           t r e d e n ,                                        _ " van,toch had -de apostel. in.het verband gesproken;
                                                                                                             Maar hoe ijdel zon zulk. een voorbeeld zijn voor ons,
                   Den kop van ,den Heltdraak  verbrijzelen zou!                                     die immers dood zijn dor de zonden en misdaden, `die
                   Ik zag ~Hem, voorzegd in den stam der  :He-
                                                               _ .                              noch. de `macht, noch :ook het recht hebben, om:in  die,
                           ` b r e e u w e n                                             . . voetstappen.,te  wqndelen, indien dat lij,den van onzen
                   Den -Spruit, die volblo.eid  in de rijpheid der                  '           Heer ook nietgeweest ware de. vernietiging der zonde,
                     ,eeuwen,. j                                                                     een *dragen onzer zonden, in onze plaats, ten einde toe.
                   Den scheidsmuur der .heidnen ineen storten                    _ ophet hout! :                                                     ., :.
                      d o e t !                                                                              M,aar nu is ook dat voorbeeld en zijne navolging
                  -Ik zag .hem, geschaduwd op Sion% altaren,
                   In offer  en wetboek -van Horeb's verbond!.                    . r           mogelijk geworden !
                                                                                                             Onze zonden zijn eens en voor altijd  -gedragen;
                   Ik zag. hem,- den Godmensc&  die `t al moest                                                                                           : <.                 _.
                                                                                                     weggedragen !
                     v e r k l a r e n ,         -. ~             . .
                                                                                                             Want Hij Zelf was het,_Die  ze droeg!- `-_
                  ..Door Isna.els zieners aan `t-aardrijk verkond!                                   Gold  uit'"God   i n   h e t  vleesch, Immanuel  ! '                                      :
                   Ik zag hem, den wortel van David's geslachte,                                -
                   Zijn heer en zijn koning `en' tevens zijn zoon!                                           De zondenvernieler ! ,
                 `. Den. God van hemel, d'tip aarde Verachte,                                                                                                             .
                   Geheiligd, ~verheeslijkt, door `lijden en hoon,                                           Wonderlijke mysterie! .-                         ' ...'                      ,
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               Menechelijke onmogelijkheid; mogelijk alleen `bij                          het eeuwige; volle; rijke leven inGods  hemelschen tab'er-
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            *God!                                                                         nakel  :`waardig-  maakt.
               Mysterie,`het -bepeinsen  in aanbi,dding  -waarvan de                       _ Immers 
                                                                                             b,          heeft.IBij  onze zonden gedragefn!  _         '     : '
            door Zijn vloekhout geredde zondaar nimmer moe ' : ,%n `:dragen is nog iets $$ers, dan ondergaan.                                               Het
            wondt!  I j.                               /..V                   :,          laatste .is Jijdelij;k,  .het  eer&%!  is ,dadelij!k.  Het lla.atste
            i.; ,Wat toch wil het zeggen : de zonden dragen,?                       I&    wil zeggen, .,dat we er niet aankunnen ontkomen; dat de
       .,hoe is het moge1ij.k  dat een ander onze zonden draagt?                          last des, toorns Gods op ons idrkt,  `en dat er geen uit-
       -Of ook : :hoe kan n de zonden van en voor  velen dra- ,' we_g is, zoodat -,we onder `den ,druk  -van dien last ver-
            gen? En hoe kan de zonde, die tegen de eeuwige en  on-                        gaan ; het ,eerste  wil .zeggen,  dat' IIi j door een wilsdlaad
       .eindige'majlesteit  Gods  bedreven werd, worden wegge-                            dien  last des toorns op Zich nam, dat ?%j ook onder dien
            dragen  in n ti jdsmoment ?                                                 vreesel'ijken  last, tot $$le:  di&te  der hel toe, aan de
              c Zonde. wordt gedragen in het -torschen-  van /den wet dey liefde tot Zijnen God vol,komenlijk  gehoorzaam
            vloek,  van den last des toorns  Gods.                                        was, dat Hij Zijn leven aflegde op het alta.ar van Gods
               -Want .zonde  is schuld, en schuld maa,kt  ons  voor-.                     liefde, rdat Hij. Zijne- ziel uitstortte in den dood  door-
            werp van .den  toorn Gods;  Idoemwaardig.                Zonde is             eene geheel vrijwillige daad, en .dat.@j alzoo  aan alle
       ongerechtigheid. Ze is overtreding dier- wet.                    En de             gerechtigheid Gods t,egenover  de .zonde  genoeg deed, en
            wet is; dat wij den Heere onzen God zullen liefhebben                         de offerande der- verzoening bra.cht,  <die eens [en voor
            met geheel ons hart,`met'  ,geheel  ons verstand, .met ge-                    altijd aan Gods  recht voldeed, en de schuld der zonde
            heel onze ziel, `en met al onze krachten.              Onophoude- wegnam:  Het laa.tste  wil zeggen,' dat wij in den .dood
            lij.k,  elk moment van ons bestaan zijn wij gehouden on-                      ondergaan,- en vergaan ; het eenste,  dat Hij ond.er  ,den
            selven  Gde op te offeren, en  d& met alle dingen en in                      zwa.ren  last des toorns niet bezweek,, maar tot het  einde-
            verband met alle schepselen. En zonde is overtreding                          toe staande bleef en overwon, de  ,zonde  vernielde, den
            van die ,wet.    Daarom is ze schuld, schuld, die,wij  nim-                   .doodverslond  ! . ; *
            mer kunnen afdoen, Idie ons tot in al1e.eeuwighei.d  doem-                        Doordat Hij onze zonden droeg, zdaarom  droeg Hij
                                                                                                              `t .,
            waardig maakt. Want de zondaar is in zijne schuld  . ze `weg!
       gebonden, is een slaaf der ongerechtigheid.                    Hij kan D En omidat  Bij'  het was, Hij Zelf, Die onze zonden
                                                                                          droeg, daarom heeft Zijn dragen der zoeden  voor ons
       zijne schuld niet betalen, noch-  ook wil hij het, noch ook
            kan hij het willen. Als hij zijne eigene zonden dragen,                       eeuwige gerechtigheid en-leven verworven! _
,C          moet, -kan hij slechts vergaan ldoor  den toorn -van den                          Het staat er immers  met nadruk, en a.lle nadruk
                                                                                          ditent  `hierop ook gelegd te worden,  Idat Hij Zelf onze
      ~ vlekkeloos heiligen ten rechtvaardigen God.                                       zonden gedragen heeft op -het hout.
       '       .Maar Hij Zelf droeg onze zonden!                                            Op het hout, ja, want dat hout was niet alleen sym-
               Naar Zijn eeuwigen- raad, waarin God .LfIem aan de, bool van den vloek, maar voor Hem ook doa:ger  van het
            spitse'  Zijner Uitverkorene Kerk gesteld had, -deed `de                      vloekende Woord Gods.          Zoo  toch had God Zelf gespro:
            Allerhoogste alle onze zonden -op Hem aanloopen, werd                         ken : "Vervloekt is een iegelijk, die aan het hout hangt."
            Hij voor haar verantwoordelijk gesteld, werd de schuld                        Zoo sprak Hij door dat hout ook p Golgotha.              En Zoo
            van-ldile  zonden op Hem.geladen,  Hem toegerekend, alsof                     hoorde en verstond de Gekruisigde het Woord Gads, en
            Hij de Zondaar aller zondaren, -de Schuldige slier schul-                     liet Hij ,dat Woord des kruises door hee1 Zijn bestaan
       ,' digen ware, en laadde de' Rechter van hemel en aarde                            dringen, om in ziel en lichaam  dien  vloek. te Idragen  ten
            de -last van Id,en  toorn en van den vloek,, die ons had                      einde toe.,
            moeten treffen en doen vergaan, in de ure des oordeels,                           Maar de-nadruk valt to,ch  hierop, dat Hij het was,
            op Zijne ,`schouderen.    En naar rdienzelf.d,en  raad -nam                   Hij Zelf, die alzoo  op het hout onze zonden droeg.
            Hij, de Zoon in het vleesch, gewilliglijk die plaats aan                          Daarin ligt het mysterie des kruises, maar daarin
            het hooft Ides Zijnen in, nam- Hij in volkomene gehoor-                       ligt ook het la.ntwoord  op..de vra:g naar de mogelijk
       zaamheid  der liefde den last dies toorns  op Zich, en                             heid van dat dragen onzer zonden, in onze plats, en ter
            droeg Hij onze zonden op het hout. En <door  Zijn-dra-                        onzer rechtvaardigmaking  en volkomene verlossing ; on
      .gen :onzer  zonden op' -het hout delgde Hij de schuld                              `daarin ligt tevens de reden van de. zekerheid, dat we
            nzer  overtre.dingen  uit, droeg Hij -onze zonden voor                       door .Zi jn dragen onzer zonden eene eeuwige gerechtig-
            eeuwig ,wegI                                                                  heid (en het eeuwige leven ontva.ngen!.              ,
               Ze zijn niet meer!                                                             Vraagt .ge, hoe het toleh  voor God `bestaan kan, dat
               En niet alleen .zij,n onze overtredingen we:ggevaagd;                      Ben ander onzer zonden droeg? Het antwoord is: 
                                                                                               -                                                            Dij
            zo0 zeker en zoo  vol_komen,  alsof ze nimmer geweest                         `was geen. an,der  ! `Hij Zelf, de eeu*wige  Zoon, God uit
            waren, lalsof  wij nimmer -eenige  zonde hadden gehad of                      God, n met /den Vader en den CGeest,  ,de Rechter van
            gedhaan,  maar door Zijn dragen der zonden op-het hout                        hemel en aa.rde, Die alleen souverein richt en beschikt,
            heeft Hij voor ons verworven eene leeuwige  gerechtig-                        nam onze plaats in! Wie zal Hem het `recht betwisten
            heid, eene  gerechtigheidT  die onverliesbaar is, en die ons                  om Zijne .groote  liefde en oneindige genade in den weg'
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                                                                                                               .                         _. ._ .
 van het `eeuwige en `volmaakte recht te opensbaren,  en                                      gij :daarvan  eet zult gij den' dood stervn!"  in dien
 Zlelf de zonden ,der Zijnen in Zijn lichaam t,e dragen do,d .liggen'wij krachtens het. oordeel. Gods  over ons.
 op het hout?' :~Hij Zelf!              D,a.t  is; Hij, Die van eeuwig-                       En, *d.at.oordeel Gods  is gegrond in onze schuld.                                                    Neem
 heid werd verordine&d, om. aan, de `-spitse der Zijnen
                                         ._. _.                                               de schuld weg, voldoe aan ,Gods  recht, en de .dood `is'
 te staan,.%oodat  `Hij hunne plaab  kon innemen in de u$e                                    verslonden!
 des oord,eels,  .droeg onze zonden, en droeg ze  w,eg !                                                   Dlaarom : .door Zijne, striemen !                     .
     Hijzelf!                                       +                                                      Alle onze krankheden- nam Hij op zich.. Hij heeft
     En omdat Hij het was, `den eeuwi,ge -Zoon in het dile krankheden geleden, gedragen, tot .in den vollen '
 vleesch, daarom ging Hij. .niet onder -in den dood, maar                                     d_ood te, door Zij,ne striemen; striemen, ja,door men-
 verslond hemi daiarom bezweek Hij niet onder den la&                                        scherFHem  aangedaan, maar waarin Hij la.ldoor smaakte
:;dei toorns, maar- torschte dien last ten einde toe; daar-                                   den'toorn .Gods tegen #de zonden, Idie Hij op het hout-                                                                 I
 om` -kon ..Hij in .n tijdsmoment aan' het recht G.ods  droeg! I                                                              '              `. -
 voltdoen !                       `)                                   i._                    .            Daarom h.eeft Hij de grond van Gods  oordeel tegen
     Hij Zelf! .                                                                              ons weggenomen, en met den grond-het oordeel zlf  !
     God Zelf-!  De Zoon ! 0 zeker, de Zoon in het vl,eesch.                                       .`:`Het recht verwierf Hij om ons te genezen van a.1
 Maar- .dan toch de Zoon `Go&.                     In Zijn- lichaam -droeg                    onze kra.nkhedlen, van *den dood ons te verlossen,`en ons
 .Hij `onze zonden op ht hout, maar het bleef toch de het .leven te xhenken !                                                                        .
 Persoon des Zoona,  Die'ze droeg, en Die den  Idood sma-                                                  n als de opgestane en verheerlijkte Heiland ver-
 ken kon, zooals niemand anders hem kon smaken.                                               werkelijkt  `Hij dat recht in ons!                                            -           J.
     Daarom verwierf di.e .kostbare  dood .fdes eeuwigen                                                   -Hij geneest ons door Zijne.@nade-!                                         I `.
 Zoo&  i n   h e t  vlees& eeu`wige  gerechtigheid!                                                        Aanbimdfdelijke   V e r l o s s e r !  _
. `_ En het eeuwige leven. !             Hemelsche  heerlijkheid ! :                                                                     P,P                                                  .'
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    ` M y s t e r i e  Ides kruises!                     - .>:                                            [Heerlijk doel!
                                                                                                           Gods  doel, en ,door Zijne genade ook.on$_doel!
     Mijn Redder !                                                                                         Wij mogen en:kunnen er+ willen nu weer,`in waar-
     M i j n   G o  l !  Mijnzondenvernieler!  1                                            achtige vrijheid, den levenden God.dienben,  ider gerech- '
  Want niet alleen-heeft Hij door onze  zonden,te  dra:  tigheid leven!                                                                   :
-gen onze schuld weggenomen,. door Zijn lijd- h_eeft                                                      `Immer&  genezen door Zijne striemen, zijn wij de
 H,ij ons verlost van de overheerscbmg der zonde en de zonden afgestorven!
 ms.cht  d e s  doods!* _                 .                                                                Neen, vergis u niet : de zonde is in ons niet. gestor-
    .Door  Zijne striemen is ons genezing geworden!                                          ven, ,en wij zijn nog niet volmaakt.  W3e in Idie inbeel-
     Genezing!         En ach, leidt uit ditwoord toch niet'af, ding zou leven, zou zilzh wel deerlijk vergissen, en zich
 .dat onze. toestand van nature, onz geestelijke ellendIe                                    diepe teleurstelling bereiden.                               Niet' de zonde ia gestor-
 en. -verdorve,nhteid,  eigenlijk niets andeas..is dan eene                                  ven-:  ze werkt veeler met verdubbel,de  kriacht. in onze                                                                     ~
 tij,delij,ke' ziekte, waarvoor nog wel' genezing is; zoodat                                  leden, om ons ten onder te brengen. Maar wij zijn -aan
 de natuurlijke .mensch wel ellendig is, maar toch nog                                       haar gstorven.                         Er kwam' een radikale .omkeer in onze
leeft, en hij er met wat goeden wil wel, Idoorworstelen                                      verhoading tot de zonde.                           Vroeger heerschte zij ; thans
 zal; mits Gods  genade hem. bijlstaat.                      Want door dit ie ze ontroond. Vroeger had ze recht om onder hare                                                                               _
 woord,' dat de apostel ontleent aan  Jesajla's profetie,                                    wet ons te brengn;  thans is ze va.n alle recht beroofd.
 wijst hij ,op die geestelijke krankhedjen, diezallen slechts-                               om over Ons -heerschappij te voeren:                                      Vro.eger  dienden
 openbarin,gen  zijn van ide ,werkingen des,,do,ods, in het                                  we haar als-gewillige slaven; thans haten we, -en be-
 mildden waarvan we liggen, en aan de overheersching :,strijdn we haar.                                                              Het oude is voorbij gegaan ; ziet, het
                                                                                                                                                                 . -
 waarvan we onderworpen zij.n.                           -; .`,                              is alles nieuw',`geworden  !                                                              , -
     Onze geestelijke blindheid, wardoorwe duisternis                                                     En -we leven ,der gerechtigheid'!                           ,
-liever hebben dan het licht; onze .doofhed, waard.oor  %                                                 In begins;el,, ja; maar lda_n toch wel waarlijlk  in be-                                              _
w e   h e t   W o o r d  Gods  "hoorenide hooren' Ten .niet ver- `.g&sei!                                                 _
 staan ; `onze  melaatschhei,d van hart en genegenheden ;                                                 We mogen en kunnen en willen God weer liefhebben ' ~
 onze lamheid en geraaktheid `en dwaashleid en van-den- 8' met ons gansche bestaan !
 !duivel-bezetenheid,  - altegader openbaringen van dte                                       Straks in eeuwige .volmaaktheld  !
 werkingen -des doods !                                                        L <            1, Altegader door .Zijne striemen!
    , ,Genezing ! '                                                                                       MijneHeer;   e n  mijn.God!
     Door Z,ijne striemen! _                       . ' :                                                                                                         1.                   _ H. H.; : '
     Want immers : "op den bodem alIer vragen ligt der                                                              . . , ;.
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 menschen zondeschuld !"
  j De bezoldiging .der zonde is de ,dood!                                            .-    . NOTICE :-As is eustomary,  the Standard Bearer wil1
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               P: De Boer, J. D.  ?e Jong, H. De Wolf, L.  Doezema,  M.                                                                                                                      plaint" makes use o_C qtiotations;:from  Calvin to prove
               Gritters,  C. Hanko, B. Kok, G.  Lubber?,  G. M.. Ophoff, / A.                                                                                                                tba:&  the great .reformer.*stippdats  its contention that
               Petter, M. Schipper, J. Vanden  Breggen, Hi Veidman,  R. Veld-s                                                                                                               God eqrnestly.seek6  the salvation of all men, reprobate
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                                                                                                                                                                                             saved," as i the complainants cont,end.  When Calvin
                                                                                                                                                                                             *writes "that God wills' not- the. death of a sinner, be-
                                                                                                                                                                                             cause h.e meets him' on hti Own accord, and is not only
                                                                                                                                                                                             pr@ared to receive &I who fly to his pity, but  h@. calls
                                                                                                                                                                                             them' to him' wit-h a loud' voice,  when he sees how they
                                                           coxvTl3NTs.
   I' ..                                                                                                                                                                                     are alienated  .4rom  bll hofie  of ,saf&y,"  he does not
                                                                                                                                                                                             teach  that God is tieady tu receive the reprobate, since

         MEDmATION  iL . ' ~                                                                                                                                                                 they do not Ibelong  to -those  "w&o  fly to his pity."                ,But.
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                       ,_ i                                                                                                                                                                  this b&comes  titich.,clear,er  in whlat  Calvin continues  to 
               ONZE ZOtiDEN  GEDRAGEN ."".."..`,..""`.....,.,...,~.,..,,,...,..... 429                                                                                                                                                                                       _ j
                                                                                                                                                                                             w%te in eiplanation  of: the same text. W.e  quote :                       '
                         Rev. H. Hoeksema
          :
                                                                .-                                                                                                                           "    `"God is said not to wish the death'of a sinner:                  How
        EDITORIALS  -                                                                                                                                                                        so?  since he wishes all to be converted.                    Now _e must
                ,-                      -_                                                                                                                                                   see  how' God wishe3.811:to  be converted; for repentance
               THE TEXT OF A  COllZPLAINT                                                 .,...,,.....................  i . . . . . . . . . . . . . :..a32                                   is surely his`peculiar gift: as it is his office $0 create
                THE PROTESTING FIRST, CHRISTIAN REFORMED                                                                                                                                     men, SO it ,is his province to renew .them,  and -restore
                CHURC'H        O F KALAMAZOQ                                      . . ..,.....................; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434                              his image within them.             Fbr ths reason  we are said to
                EXP.O~~ITION  OF THE I-IEIDELBER,G  cATEc~IsIM:  . ..1..434                                                                                                                  be his wtirkn&nsl?ip,  ithat is, ,his fashioning. (Eph. 1
                         Rev., l% HoeTisema                                         !                                                                                                        2 :16). Since, the&fMe,  repentance is a [kind. of secbnd ,
                                                                                                                                                                                             creation, it follows &hat its is not in/man's  power; and
 S A M S O N ' S   E N D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . ..*..: . . . ..*....... I'...,.......,............... * ..a. 43s                                                          if it is equlally  in God's -power  to `convert men as well
                THE DOCTRINE OF THE EARLY  CH'URCH . . . . . . . . . . .a.......  439                                                                                                        as to create  them, it fblldws  thit the/`rebrobate  are,n&
                      Rev.  G. M. Ophoff `,                                                                               i
                                                                            . ',                                                                                                             converted, because God does "not wish their conversion ;
  Wj$lj&ELUKZALIGti'                                       W               O     N        I           N              G                "
                                                                                          . . . . . . . . . . . ***)a . . . . . . . a* . . . . . a... . . . . . . . . . .      441           for!i,f  lie wished it;he  could do it :`an.d  hence it appears
                                                                                                                                                                                             that he does riot wish it.         But again they argue foolish-
                Rey..G.`Vos ;
                                                                                                                                                                                             ly, since.:Gdd  ld'oeis  not wish la11 to be converted, he is
                &JR  SIXTH  SYNOD                          .** .,,.,*..... . ..,. *:.;.... .*,.....,...,,,..,.....,,,.,..,.....443 , himself .decepiive,  and noi,hing can be certainly stat&
                 kev.  J .   D e  Jolig  '                                                                                                                                                   concerning his paternal benevolence.                       But this *knot is
                                                                                                                                                                                           , easily uritied; for he does not leave us in susDen;se  when
                DEATH IN ITS VARIOU.:"THASES .,.....................                                                                                      ,..... . ,....445
                                                                                                                               ,.                                                            he says that he wilshes  all to be saved.                   Wh$ so? for if
                       RFV;  W. Hofman                                                                                                                                                       no one repents without'finding  God propitious, then  his
                THE TERM "SOUL" IN THE OLD TES!l?AvENT                                                                                                   . . . .                             stinteince  i.s filled up.      But w.e n&St  remark that he puts
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                        Rev. S. Cammenga,                                                                                                                                                    on a twofold character: for he h&e  wishes  to be taken
                                                                                 ' _
  i:                                                                                                                           `_                                                            at his word. `As I h&e  already said, the Prophet does
                      --.__. . . _L_._._-.  _ ~ `. _                                                                                                                                         not'here'dispute  -with- subMy about his incomprehen-


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sib& plans, but wishes to keep` our attention close tom              remedy;; Just so it is with the conditional promises of
God's word.      Now;,what  are the contents of this word?           God which invite all men to salvation.             They .do not .
The law, the prophets,, and the gospel. Now all  are.                positively prove that .whi.ch  God has d,ecreed  in His ;
called to repentance, and the hope of salvation is-prom-             counsel, .but  declare only that which God is ready to do
ised .them  when they repent : this .istrue  since God re- . to all those that are brought to faith `and repentance.
jects  no returning. sinner : .he pardons I all without ex-              "But men untaught_of  God, not understanding these.
ception ; meanwhile, this will of God.,which  he sets forth things, allege that we here attribute to God a twofold
in his word does not-prevent him from decreeing be-                  or double will. Whereas God is so far from being
fore the world was' created ,what he would do with                   variable, that no shadow of such variableness lapper-`
every individual: an,d as I have now saild,:t:he  Prophet,           tams to Hi&, even in the mowt remote #degree.              Hence,
only, shows here, that when w.e have been converted                  Pighius; ignorant of thee divine nature of these things,.
w*e  need not doubt that God,  immediately meets us .and             thus argues :, `What  ,else is this but making of -God the
shows himself propitious."                                           mocker of ,men,  if God is represented as really not will- ~
      Now., <the Icomplainants  .would,  .most  .probably;'  ac-     ing that which He lprofesses  to will, and as not having
cuse Caivin of rationalism &me, he here. .unties a knot,             pleasure, in that in which in reality He has pleasure?'
the very knot which they claim cannot be untied.               He    Bxut if these two members ,of the .sentence  be read in
explains in what sense God can invite all men to s.alv,a-.           conjunction, as they ought to be--II have-no pleasure in
tion though ,He does not wish all men to be saved.           .His    the (death  :of th,e .tiwicked';  and : `But th& the auich%d  twr?L              *
answer is that, in this passage from Ezekiel He prom; from his way ami l@e'T-read  these two prupositions!in.
ises salvation. only to those t&t are .convaqrted  and, re-          connection with each .other,  and de calumny is ,washed
pent, and ,that, since -the work] of conversion and re-              off at .once.  SGod requires of us. this conversion or
p,entance is His creation, He, therefore, really promises            `turnmg away from our iniquity,' and in whomsoever:
ealvation o,nly to_ the .elect.    And thus it is evident that < He finds it &Ie' disappoints not such a one of the prom-
Calvin, in'this  passa.ge  from his Commentaries, never`             ised reward of eternal life.      Wherefore, God is as much
taught the doct,rine  of. the complainants, that God sin-            said to have pdeasure in, and to will; this `eternal life, as
cerely desires r.epr.o,bate  as well as-elect to be saved.~          to have, pleasure in the repentance  ; and IIe has pleasure .
      That this' is, indeed,, the' interpretation of `this text      in the repentance, because He invites all men to it by :
-as Calvin would `give it is still more elIearly evident             His Word. Now all this is in perfect harmony  .with$
from what we'find in- `~Calvin~s.Calvinism,`~  pp. 99,lOO..          His secret and eternal counsel, by which He decreed
We Quote.:             - *._                                         to convert none but aHis own el@ct.  None but God's
      "All this, Pighius loudly denies, `adducing that pas-          elect, therefore, ever turn- from their  wlokedness.  -And
sage of the apostle (I, Tim. 2 :4) ,: `Who: -will  -have- all        yet, the adorable God is not, on these acconnts,  to be
men to. ,be saved' : and referring to Ezek,  .18:23,  he             considered variable' or -capable of change, because ~3
argues thus: `That God willeth not the  ,death  of a sin-            a Lawgiver. He enlightens' all`men with the external
ner may be taken upon his oath, where be says by-that                doctrine of conditidnal  Zfe.       In this primary sense He
prophet: As I. live, saith .the' Lord, I. have'&--pleasu$e calls or invites. all men to eternal life. But in the latter:
in the death of the wicked that dieth,. but rather .that he          case, He brings to eternal life those whom He willed'
should return ;$rom  `his'ways  an:d live;"     Now. we reply,       according to IHis eternal purpose, regenerating by His
thatasthe  language of the prophethere  ..isan  exhorta-.            Spirit, as an eternal Father, His own children only."
tion torepentance,  it is not at all marv5ous~in  him' to                Now; let the complainants .admit  that, if Dr. Clark.                   *
declare.. that. he willeth. Fall men to$~e s&ygd...  .,.-For  the    had written the above; they woul,d  immediately'char-
mutual relation between thr`e&ti:  and- `pro&&s  shows               acterize it as a ,bit  of rationalism._ For.:  Calvin here

that such forms of spe&king  ar&~nd&onaE.  In this                   harmonizes Ezekiel 18 :23 with ,God's  eternal counsel

same manner God declared to the Ninevites, land to the               of election and reprobation, and'that, too, in su,ch  a way'

k.ings. of Gerar  and Egypt, th,at He would <do that that he explains the former in *the light of the latter.
whi,ch  in reality He. ,did. not `intendit  do, for their re-        When he. explains that in such passages as Ezekiel
pentance averted the punishment which He had threat-                 18:23  with God's'leternal  counsel of election and repro-
ened Q inflict upon them:' Whence it is evident that                 bation,,  and- that, too, in such a way that he explains
the punishment ,was  anno.unced  ,on condition of their              the former in the.light  of the latter.      When `he explains
remaining obstinate and impenitent.            And yet,' the de-     that in such passages as Ezekiel 18 : 23 God~promises                                 I
nunciation of lpunishment  was.positive,  as if it had been          co?z&tio?z&  life to all,`he  e&ently  means that through
an irrevocable `decree,. But after `God had terrified them           the-gospel God. declares that He will give life to all that
with the apprehension of `His `wrath, and had ~fully                 repent. ' And since it is God who must give repentance;
humbled: them as not (being utterly: desperate,` .He  en--.          in reality He promises  life only to the elect; and to none
couraged  them with the hope of -pardon, that they                   other.>  i ,'
might feel that there was yet left open. a space for                     And surely, the. complainaqts  will have to admit
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 that this `differs.' radically from their view, that.  God.                    that. cast them out, and forsake the truth,-yet, even
 sincerely seeks the salvation of all men, the rleprobate                       now we will refrain from further p discussing' the
 as well as the elect.                                 ."`.                     matter.                                                   I
  What the reformer -here  teaches is that although.                            _     I feel #constrained,  however, in virtu'e  of certain
 the preaching of th.e.  gospel by .men  i;s general and pro-                   information . I recently received; clearly_  to express
miscuous, the ,content  is always particular.' God saves                        myself on one or two points.
 those that fly to Him for pity.  an,d redemption>:,--that.                          First of ali, I here declare once mor.e  that I. must
 <come  to Him, that forsake. their wicked .ways,  .repent                      refuse all blame for the fact that in 1926 the church
 and believe. I                                                                 `of .Kala.mazoo.separated  itself from us, and refused to
   And this "condition" of salvation not one man                                organize' with us as Protestant Reformed Churches.  _.
 is able to'fulfill of himself.         God fulfills His own con-               `For this statement abundant proof <can  be furnished if
 dition. _ .He gives .grace  to repent, to believe,. to come                    necessary.- .For  the present,_let  it be sufficient  to n5ere-                  _
 to .Him.'  s .o                                                                ly make the statement..
    That is Refo$med:      To say that God sincerely seeks                            And secondly, I ,wish  to declare'bpknly  to the breth-               .
 the .salvation  of all that hear the ,gospel,  2,s the',com-                   ren in .Kabmazoo  that still love the Protestant Re
 plainants would have the ,preacher  .of the ,gospel  pro-.                     formed truth that I will rejoice in the day when they
 claim, is. Arminian pure and simple. -                        .                return to, us in the proper way. And such a way should
   I And if. they quote, Calvin,. they should quote : him                       not be dificult  to find for those that are of the. same
 fully.,~lest  they :a.scribeto  *that reformer teachings which                 faith. ' . -                                    _
 he always abhorred.          _                                                       I makle both these statements simply because from.
    We have more to say on this  subj.ect,  but this must                       a reliable source I received the information that I am
 wait till our next issue, the Lord willing.                               '    blamed, by members of that (congregation for the split
                                                      I H. H.                   between them and us, and that I do not desire their-
                                                                                return to us.

                                                                                      Both `these statements are false. \ .. _
                                   *                                                  And because I ,do not wish `to ,carry  the least re-
                                             `_
                                                                                sponsibility for the r.eturn of Kalamazoo's congrega-

                                                                                tion , 
 The Prbtesting  First Ch%ian  Re-                                                          to the Christian  Reformed' .C?hurches, I like..to
                                                                                remove this misunderstanding, -and here- repeat t,hat.

                                                                                they will be welcome in our fellowship if they desire
        formed Chtirch of TK&llaimazoo                                          tf3 return to us in the proper way.
                                                                                      Perhaps, th.e brethr,en  ,will try this -out.
    As far as I know the above is still the name of the                                                                                        H. H.
 congregation of which the Rev. H. Danhof is pastor.

    Recently, however, there :a.re  :a11 kinds of rumors.

 afloat to the.effect that eff,orts  .are being made to re:
 move the. word ."protesting"  from that .name,  to lead

that church back into thee  fellowship- of the Christian
 Reformed Churches, an.d thus  to make it:virtua.lly,  if

 not literally, confess that their stand in 1924 was an
 error, and that the "Three Points" adopted by the                                   An ,Xipnsition  Of The Heidebrg                                                  :'
 Sy-nod of Kalamazoo `are after all true d,octrine.                                   _.
    There are also rumors that the  -attempt  to rejoin:                                                   Cat&i&m
the 1 Christian Reformed Churches has, for the time
being at least, failed; but that the Rev. Danhof  expects                                                     Part Two.,             .
to .retire  from the minilstry  in the nlear  future.               ' -                                 Of Man's Redemption
                                                                                              -
  _. I have not written a word,about.  this situation here-                                                Lord's Day XVI.
tofore, partly~because  I had no direct, official  ~i'nhforma-                                                                                    D
tion about the whole matter; partly, too, because I  Ldid                                                         2.                      _
not consider it ethical to put my nose into what is  aft,er                                        The Death.Of  Believers. (cont.)
 all the business of that local congregation.
    And although to PS it would be a sad spectacle to                                 Moreover, it is only in the .body  of this death that  _
eiee that congregation, after they had gone through so                          b&evers  bare able'to  fulfill: their calling in this world,
serious a history as they have, ,after they have `once                          according t&o God's good pleasure `over them.                   For they
taken a stand for the truth and have been despised,and                          must, for a time, represent the-cause of the Son of God
persecuted .for it, return to_ the communion of those                           in antithaesis  to the world of -sin. L They must be to the
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   glory  of the `grace of iI3im that--called them in -all their                           the--death bf the Son of God &ubd blot ,out the-guilt of
   walk and convemation,  fight the ,&ood `fight of f?ith,                                 sin.      If -the  just wmth-  of God must falls upon L& we '
   land that, too,  in the midst of `a crooked and perverse                                can only perish everlastingly. For ever we must suf-
   nation.        And in this cause they  are called to suffer with                        fer death.. Bug the Catechism means that the $eath
-.Christ, agd so fulfill the, measure of His suffering.                                    of believers is no longer to be cdnsidered  a manifesta-.
                                                                                           tion  of the wrath of God, an execution of -justice, a.
- Hence; their regeneration and .glorification  `dannot  be
   simultanebus.              It is only in their present b&dy, ,in which                  punishment .for, sin.. It Js ctiqged ipto sbmething~
   they are "by nature" obe,with-the  world, and have all                                  else for them  thhat  are in Christ,. And this must be
   t,@n,gs  in ceommon  with nitural  man, that, they can                                  understood in its .full s&se.-  It m&t be.,applied,  not
   serve thi.s  high purpose of God,  and  be faithf,ul.  even                             only to thg  final momelit  of `dying, to our descent into
   unto death: Beli'evers,  therefore, must also die, even                                 the grave, but equally- to all that is implied in death,
   though Christ ~ldied  foa them.. For it is  ,ven them                                   to all;the  suffering of this present time; For we lie
   `of grace, in the ca&e  of Christ, not only to believe on                               in ,the  midst  of death in this world.  Dying we' die.
   Him, but lalso.t,o-suffer  with Him. Phil. 1:29.                                  .-    All the suffering and agony, all  thle  sorrow  tind grief
             And,` finally, that economy of things to which their                          of this present :time  `are very really  th8  oper&ion  6f
   ultimate and complete redemption  belongs ia liot yet                                   )death. When, therifoxe,  we confess by faith' that our
-  c o m e .     They  shall be gl:orified body and soul, and in-                          death is not meaht  ati a satisftiction  for sin, it also
   herit the kingdom of God, the incorruptible, and  un-                                   impl.ies that all. our present sufferings of soul and body
   defilable  inheritance, tha$ fadeth  not away. But this                                 are-no longer to-be  considered as punishment for sin
   kingdom of God is heavenly, ,and  to' inherit. it also the                              and expressions of the righteous  j.tidgment  of God.
   .body  of believers must be made  to bear the image of                                          For believers, -the sufferings of this  pr.tisent time
   the heavenly.                The l>eavenly  kingdom IanId the re-                       have lost their real sting.                        -            TV
   demption .of their  body belong together;                      `The one must             -      They are  no lon,ger  experienced as righteous retribu-
    wait for the <other.               H,ence,  the body of believers                      tion.       Even those iufferings  that *zippear  to ,be the
   cannot be glorified- .until the consuma-tion  of all things,                            direct result of certain concrete, personal sins,  idare  no
 the moment  of the'resurrection,  when,  God shall  make                                  longer to be considered as punishment for sin. If R
   all thiqgs  new; and create new heavens and a new                                       man is regenerated and called to- the  Xglit of life in
   earth in whi,ch  righteousness shall `dwell, and the taber-                             later life, &d .if in his anconverted  ,state  he should
   nacle of God shzll  be with men. Until that moment,                                     haye lived a life of  @sipation,  of idrunkeness  and
   the second ladvlent of our Lord Jesus'  Christ,;the  body                               adultery,. the effects  of this former 1Xe of sin are not
 -of believers must r,est  in -the  g?ave  and await the                                   removed by his regeneratiud.  ~I$e must suffer them.
  resurrection of the dead..'                                                              Yet, even that suffering is no longer punishment for
     But the Cz&chism  considers th& question   w h y                                      sin, ladId  niay not `be regatided  ai such., *For Christ adied
   believers must .also. Idie only from the viewpoint of its                               for ~11  our sins. He died all our death.                       His -d,eath  is
   juridical ,ground.              Death is the punishment of sin.                         a complete satisfaction for all our iniquities.                           The
   It ib an, enemy.             It is the expression of the just wrath                     (debt -has been paid in full. And God in His' j,ustice-
   of God. against sin.             But Christ`id.ied  !        Hie died instead           wil!. not ,exact  payment twice.
   of His own. :And  His death, the death of the Son  of                                           It is very itiportant  that believers apprehend this,
  God, is the com*plete  s&isfaction  for sin. ' I He overcame                             &oriouB  truth by faith, fully and clearly.
 : death. He removed' the ground of our  -cond'emriation.                                          %hey  often fail to lay hold of this  c.orrifort,              in the
   Would  it not .follow,  then; that, the ground of &ath                                  midst' of suffering, they will often `express themselves
   being removed, death it&f tius$  alre?dy  be swallowed                                  in. a way that clearly reveals their failure to consider
   up in vi(etory,  and ther6  can be no m&e death for                                     their misery `arid death `in the light of the  crotis  and
b e l i e v e r s ?         Why then is it that believers also die?                        of the perfect satisfaction' of Chrht  for all their gins.

   ' This question the Catechism ,answers  in a two fold                                   They feel that they have. `~des~rved"  jt all, and `that
   way, negatively  an,d positively.                                                       they suffer exactly because they are worthy of ldeath
             The sting of id.qath  is g0n.e:  death is, for believers,                     They d&are th& God is. righteous in visiting their
   no satisfaction for their sins.                                                         sins upon their. head, and that they have:  made them-                             ( -
     ' And the enemy of death has been changed into J                                      selves worthy of His wrath. .They  often,  seek a con-
   servant: it is become ,a passage into eternal life for                                  nection between. their ispebific  suffering ani acertain
   them that are in Christ.  -                        :                         -          sins in thkir past life,  and feel th&  the -former is the
             This is a most glorious confession which, .if we ap-                          extiression  `of God% just wrath upon the latter. 7 Thejr
   prehen'd it by faith, makes BS more than victors. through.                              must still make satisfaction- for ,their  sins !
rBim that loved  us;                                                  '                            Aed thus.they  err, because they fail -by fiaith  to lay
             Th.e ldeath  of believers is no, satisfaction for-.their                      hold  on the  perfect sat$sf?ction  and: atonement ol
   sins.        Satisfa&ion,  it ~could nev?r be, of course. ,Only Christ. :,                                                `
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     Let us not <misunderstand this.                                                  present seemeth to be .joyous,  but grievous : neverthe-
     ,The error in this attitude is not that they  appr.ehend                         less afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit' of right-
  in their suffering the displeasure of. God against sin.                            -eousness  unto'. them ;which  are exercised thereby."
God is, indeed, displeased with sin, also with thecsins                               Heb. 12 :9-U.
  of' Hiu children.' It is, therefore, .very  well that we                                  And all things work -together  for good for them
  humble ourselves before the f,ace of. God .iln our suffer-                         that love God, that are the called according to  Bis pur-
  ing and. misery; and.  confess that, if G,od should deal'                          pose. Rom. 8_:28;  `_
with us according,to  our transgressions; we would not                                `Although, therefore, also believers still lie in the
  be able to. stand before- Him, .b,ut would -have to perish.                        midst of death, ta.nd  taste death in all the sufferings of

__ in eternal fdeolation.  But the lerror.`is that in our suf-                       this present time, yet, for tbelm  i.t is no punishment,
  fering, and in our apprehension of the righteous judg-,                            no satisfaction for sin. Chr.ist died anld  rose again.
  m,ent of God, we do not lay hold upon Christ by faith,                             `He fully satisfied for all their iniquities. Asd.  the
 `a&d .leck  the. joyous assurance that all our sins are                             sufferings they endure must be their servant and tend
  blotted `out, so that our death is .no'  longer to be con-                         unto their eternal good.
  sidered a punishment for .sin. As Boon as, and in the                                     And thus it is with respect to their  final, physical
  measure that we sdo take all our sins and  su,f,fer'ings                           death and the grave.
 to the&o&,  `we do,,' indeed, confess-i                                                The catechism teaches us that the  #death  of believers.
                                                                                     is 
         "Lord, if Thou shoul&t  mark transgressions,                                   : 1. no satisfaction for sin; 8. an` abolishing of sin;
                                                                                     3. a passage:into  eternal life.
          In Thy presence-who`shall stand?"                                                                                  .
         .'                . ~                                              `..         Those that la.re in Christ die in faith. And even
     But we also triumphantly shout                                                  tho.ugh  judging  from outward appearances their death,
                                                                   :
                                                                                     appears the. same ,as that of unbelievers, even though
         "E+t ,with  Thee there' is-, forgiveness,                                   they pass' through the same struggle, and suffer the
          That Thy namle  may fear command." ...                                     same agony in departing from this present world, their
     God does,. indeed, ,chastise.&is  children, and there                           death is essentially different.     For as in that hour of
 is an element !of. chastisem.entl  in all their suffering: in                       death they clin,g  by faith to $h$eir,,crucified  Lord, they
 this:$resent.`vvorldl                      `.                    . :'               -know  that it is not the retributive wrath of God thnt is
  ia".But  there,is  a great difference between punishment                           upon them. in all the agonies of death, but His elective
 a%@ chastisement. Th,e former `is thz?  expression of                               love, delivering them from `d.eath  into life, and beckon--
 God's just .la.nd  condlemning  wrath, the latter is ah                             ing them home to the house of many mansions.                 BY,
operation of .His `paternal love, L "For whom .the Lord                              faith. they may truly die .in peace.
 loveth he chasteneth,  and scourgeth e.very son whom he                                    For them death is, indeed, an abolishing of  sin;
 receiveth.    If `ye endure chastenin,g,  God. dealeth ..with                       -The death of beli.evers  in Christ is not simply a separa-
 you as w,ith  sons; for Wh,at son is there whom. the                                tion of soul anId body.    It is much  imore.    It is the final,
 father ,chasteneth  not?         But if ye are without chastise-                    deliverance of the "inward man" from the bondage of
 ment, whereof dl are partakers; then are ye bastards,                               the "outward man" and from all that pertains to it.
 and not sons." Heb. 12:6-K  If we,are punished for.                                 Thus the apostle Paul teaches us in II Cor.  4:16_:.  f`For
our sins, there is no hope.                       For punishment m,eans  to          which. cause we faint not ; but though our outward man
 be just retribution. And the just retribution for our                               perish, yet the inward man is'renewed day by day."
 sins, eternal death.. But if .We ,are chastised, we may                             When the bel.iever  dies his outward man perishes com-
 rej&ce  in the chastisement, for it is meant for our                                pletely. To that outward man belong many things.
 good, and it tends unto life.                      Punishment for sin then          The earthly house of this'tabernacle  it is called in II
 suffering of this present time is `for the reprobate                                Cor. 5:l.       His body and all his earthly life,' his
 wilcked;  chastisement is the seme suffer.ing  for God's                            earthly experiences, his joys and sorrows, his earthly
 elect children., Punishme:it  is that suffering as i.t is                           :relationships,  .his name and po:i.ition  in this world,
 mixed with God's f.ierce? and holy anger; chastisement.                             belong to the `foutward",`man.`:     But to it also belongs
 is the same suffering mixed with saving grace.                             Pun-     the old nature,`.in  which the m.otions  of sin are still
 ishment ends in, destruction ; chastisement is for our                              active, in which operates the  "lati of sin," that wars
 good; for our correction and sanctification. For thus                               against the !`law of \his minid"  and brings him into
 the `Scriptures teach us: "F.urtherniore  we have' had                              captivity .to `th'e law of sin that is in his members.       In
 l&$&hers  of our flesh which corrected us and we gave                               death, this outward man perishes.       It is completely and.
 them ,rcverence  : `shall we not much `rather be in sub-                            finally destroyed.     And even_ though ,it is true, that.
 jcction  unto the Father of spirits, and live?                         For they.    death is suffering, and that the beli,ever  as well as the,
 verily for `a ,fe+days chastened us after #their  own                               unbeliever, as long as he is in this ,earth:ly.  hquse, does
 pleasure; but he. for our profit,' that ,vve  might be.                             not tic&to  be "unclothed" but"  "clothed. upon," so that.
 ,pi%r$akers  of. his holiness. `Now no chastening for the                           4-m  too \dreads-  and hatesthe dissolution of his earthly

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       house from a `merely earthly viewpoint; yet. by faith he                   ,of `the flesh may'no more.reign  in us; but. we may now                           ..
        may rejoice in the very suffering of death;  For; all                     offer ourselves a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the liv;
        his. life he had to fight against the motio`ns  ~of. sin .in              ing,,God.  '                      .
        his members, and frequently he seemed to suffer de-                          Already  we remarked that the better translation is :
        feat ii The sin that is within him was a cause of  pro-                   "Tlsat  by His powgr  (instead of : "That in virtue there-
       .found  sorrow ind misery to him. .&id now, ,as he fm-                     of") .our .old man is crucified, `dead, and bur.ied  with
        ally lays hh -weary  head upon death%  pillow, "he may                    him."          The translation .as it is in our-  Psalter might
      r.ejoice  in the, prospect of final jdelivlerance  from the                 leave  the `impression that the Catechism favors the
      1 body of this death, and of the enjoyment ,of the perfeet                  -moral theory of the' power of `Christ's death.               It is not
      liberty. of the, ch.ildren of .God.                                         in virtue of. the xd,eath  of Chr.ist-  merely that our old
                And so, the death-of  the believer is a, passage into             man is crucified, but by the  power of the very Lord
        eternal life.       The, inward man ,does  .not  .,perish.  It is         that died for us an.d rose again.
        the `new principle, .of  life, of the life of Christ in him.                  Nevertheless, this- crucifixion, death, and burial of -,
        And- that cannot die. It is resurrection-life. Death                      our old man, whi& is la'ccomplished, Iby .the  power of
        has no ad.ominipn over it.        With regard to the believer             Bis graoe  ,in us, is somehowthe  result,,the  fruit of the
        from the vie%vpoint  of that inward m&n our Lord  lsaid                   deaih  *of. ,Christ, a spiritu,al  benefit that was merited                  "_
       "co Martha : "I am the r,esurrection  and the hfe: he                      by Uiin in His ..death.                Centrally, the death ,of Christ
        that believeth in me, though he were dead,  yet shall                     is the death &the.  o1.d  man of ,a11  the elect. -When  He
        he live: And whatsoever liveth and believeth in me                        died,. they iall died as ,to  their .oid man ; when \He arose,
        shall never die." John 11:25,  26.            A,ccording  to his in&      they,.all  arose in newness of life. And .it is the appiica-
        ward man, the Ibeliever  is firmly rooted in .Christ;  the                tion of this power and -value  of Christ's death to the
        resurrection.        He passes through death, but himself                 individual elect in this .world,' that &uses the old man I.
      c a n n o t  ,die.                                                          tt~ die in him, so that the iticlinations  of th&  flesh'no
                This is ,not the place to Ispeak  about eternal life,             longer reign in him; &d ,he may offer himself .a sacri-
        and of the passage into heavenly  glory of the believer.                  fice of thanksgiving to.;God.  We,. therefore, confront
        immediately after death.           For of this the Catechism.             two questions.         First of all, we must ask in what sense
        speaks in Lord-`s  Day t,wenty-two?,  in connection with                  the death of Christ is the death of the old man.                   ,And.
        the/article  of the Apostolic Confession on life ever-                    secondly, how, does the application of this death of
        l a s t i n g .         -                                                 Christ to the e1ect  reveal itself in their life in this
               " All that need, be emphasized here .is that the &liar-            world? . In what sense is their old -man even now  cruci-
        acter  of death, in case of the believer, has ra.di,cally                 fied, dead, la.nd buried with Christ?                         :
        change&  through the-power of the Beath  of onr Lord,                         The teeihing  of the Catechism in this forty-third
        the Son of God.                                                           answer. is dirktitly  based on Scripture.               The instr.uctor
                It is no longer satisfaction'for  sin, it is a means to           refers us to Roman&  6. The apostle introduces' this
        ,deliver  us from the power of ,sin.                                 *    chapter with a question that might be raised by those
                No longer is death a terrorizing lord  :, he is`become ?          that would -oppoif;e  the (doctrine he had presented. in
      servant, opening. for, US the gates into the glor$ ob                       the preceding chapters, that of justification by. faith
        eternal life.                                                             alone,.  without the works of the law  : "What shall we
              _ And the grave, that dreadful tyrant that swallowed                ,say then? ShaiI we continue in `sin, that `grace may
        us up into everlasting desslation,  has become a passage                  &b&j qyi           The conclusion from_ the doctrine of free,
       `intp the glory of the resurrection.                                       grace and justification by faith that is implied in.this
              . We are conquerers,  yea, more than conquerors,                    question would seem to- be inferred quite logically.
        through Him that loved us..  F& death has ,no longer                      The death of Christ is the satisfaction for all our sins.
        dominion over us:            Our very enlemies  have  become)             When we are ingrafted  into Him by a true faith,. and                         '
                                                            ,.
       subservient to our sa.lvation.                                             ticcept  all His benefits, we..lay  hold  upon this satisfac-
               I Nothing :can `separate us from the 1ove  ,of God                 tion, and, `so to speak, by faith have. a genera1 indul-
        which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!                                        .gen&,  the iforgiveness  of' a11 sin; the sin `we ever com-
                                                                                  mitted, still commit, or shall commit in the future.                  In
                                                                                  `Christ we are perfectIy.&ghteous,  and that, too, with-

                                                                                  otit any work of righteousness *which ,w'e have per-
                                                                                  formed or. might perform.                  No amount  of gtiod works         _'
                                     D,ead To Sin.                                 can possibly increase our `righteousness,  or' make us
                In question and answer forty-three the ,Cateohism                 more perfectly righteous before God than. we are by
        calls` our attention to n pres,ent,  spiritual .fMt  of the               faith.in  Christ ; no sin on our part can possibly -deprive , )
        death .of the .Son of God 
`.                                        : the cru&xion, death,. and             us -of the perfection ofdthe  righteousness -we have' in
        burial of our ol&  man, so that the corrhp$%clinations                    Rim. NOW, then, what would appear to be more
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  logical O~a.n-thy-conolusioa  that tie h-ad better.+  continue:
  in ,,si-n;,  seeing'  that" there:  is.1 no%_  condem.nat,ion  -fb'&
  them that ar,e in Christ anyhow?*  Yea, to contiaue';in`
  sin WOK& yield `the benefit, thatthereby5the.:  po&r  of.

 ~Christ's  satisfaction and.  of the .&ace  `of God ~wou~d
  shine forth h mou'e --gloriouslfl':.  Let-:,us                                                        sin.. "that- grade
 m a y   a b o u n d . 1                                                       .: I -:,(, I_'                 I. ._i ('
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   . The.~Phili&ines&cckeded  finally in getting Samson'
 into their p$,ver;                                  They took him;  bored' out `his e$$sj

 brought. him down to `G&a,  bound~bhim'  in f&&e&  ,`of
 brass-n&de  .him_ grind in the prison:,housej  and! gave
. @l;lbry  to their god.                             In the mi'dst  of `their. j'ubilati'on~  h4

 pullel ."do wn over. himself and `them;  the temple  `of- the&
 ,god  where  they were congregated ~nd'hi$.so~lL~~e~~~~~~

the Philistines.  . The liberal i$erppretens.,pass  ,a harsli~
 judgment on n this: .last`:doi~g  of `. Samson. `f'The:%&
 scene of ,Sa+ori7s  `history  awaits yif,`: writes &ii2 ' dfi.
 their" numberj7"the,  gigantic effort,,  the awful  _reGenge;

 in which th,e.  ,.E$bre:w_  champion, ,erided  his ,days:  : := !`

 We, have no sense of vindicated p$nclple,  @en"?&  see
 that temple fall in terrible  ruin,:.but  & $.iril)' c$`Xs-
 appointment and'keen  .sorroe.:that  a` servant!  of Jeho$i

8 should have `done  this `in l&s. name:'  The' lor'ds  :of the
_ Philistjnes,  all the' serens,  `dr'chiefs',of  the'~many  cities
 are gathered in. the ample p$rch of thebuildmg.                                                                              ,True;
 they-, are' assembled at an idolatrous feast; : but` this
 id.olatry  is their religion  which `they' canno~;choose  but
 exercise for they ,knoi,w:  no ,better,  nor: has' Samson ever
done one `deed or spoken one word that~  coul,d:convince

 them ,of error. ,True,  they are metto rejoice  overVthei_j
 enemy and' they teal1  for !him  in cruel `vainglory?&  make:
them sport.                              Yet this is.the,.man  whd,for  his spor6andi
                                                                                                . _ , - .
 in; his revenge -once burned the standing corn- `of':`ri

*hole  valley and more than once went ,on sl'aying,Pl%&

 tines till he was .weary,'                                          True,.  Samson_  a,sa  pat&$c~
Israelite views these ,`people  as ene&`es.  ", .Yet~,"it~~~as~

among them that he first sought a_ wife  and afte+wa,rd.s;
pleasure. An,d now,, if he; decided to die that  $e-,  may'

kill-a.  thousand at once, is the ,self4n%en  death le$lan:
act. lof, su$ide.?,  `- If this was truly a` fine %ct  .`of self:-

sacrifice .what  good came of `it,?._  we ,do:llot_fm$  &a$,
this idreadf  uly&ed recon,$ed the, Phil&t&es  to.  Israe!

or moved `them to. belief: in *Jehovah.                                                         +` the. contrary
 these Pliilistines show  more' d&dly~  a.ntagonismzl.l  { `.i?
             T%i@  appraisal of the `doiiig;:that  ended Samsoii$'
career, on ~earth'is%roi@~                                           It. p&ceeds  `from'an  un&l$

ingness to ,l:et .`the ~Scr$ptur&s  ,s,p&&'  - `Let"&  .&$; ,f$l`ti;.
                                          __~. .-
thiX Toi4  scene  Qf `Sati histo+ -i:;l' its,TFrue  li$Bg;
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            tinrighteousness  3n .:parBcula&.  through $he"  `age&y  of:                    lbd .of God.. ,"He  was also now ex&@d.:  T$e  Lspd did.
           rl!l%:  servant SamsOn:  There. w`as  .no-  den$$g'  :tha6,`tbe                  remember  him and gave.  him:strengtb.                                         "&d&e  bowe4  -
            blows  that he liad.d$alt  theti  w&e thgstirok&  of&iaells                     himself;with  aa.U] his -might ; aed the h?u_se. fell .vpon -the
            Go'd. The ev?d,efice.waZtoo  :pl&.  .BButlthey;.  rep:&ttdd                     lords, and upon all therpeiple.  ther&n,::.?%  th& -de&$:
          -, not but` w~ere`ang?~  w&h  Gob i CMd `they `h&e, gotten.                       which he .slew  at `his death. were  pore tha_n%&y  which
            Him. &;th.eir  power,  hhey.$vouf&  hay@:  bo~~d.&nY,l$%                        he slew~iti his life.", `,It was a godcr.work~h~t,Sams~~.
            &yes and &&de  Him.1 gr5nd  in their: prison-house.  I. ::Fl@&                  b.`ere .performed.  ., Fdr. it.. _was .a :wo@ that: w&s done.
            they wo.uld::'  do ..to .%o'd,  they: Idid  to-:Samsshi,  yet - $s.o            in: .obe,d?enc&~  to' Go,d's .c@Ynand,-*imd6r.r..  the impulsg:of!
            to: God for Samson `: tias;. G&Ys .serir&iit.: `Then;,,!.with                   f&h.  and. ti, God's glory:. iHis p?tiyilig `for' slx&@%..
            Sam@ti.  eyeless;. fetie!rep  ,with -ir?s, and .t~urri@@.a%&                    in `order .that he might: be `avenged'  at:,o&&  of ;his!$wci;

            in tb$ir  :p`?iso.n;.they'  c&$$&8x~  6 .g+eat  feas$...&d  gtive               @nz,s d&es  `not mil&te._again'st  :the `saab6ve r appraisal` -of:
          glory to their idol.       The' &le&+?n  tias  &t&hded  %y :a11                   thi$ wor.k.  : T$ ..dec&as@  saints `in.. litiven @.rau $ti*
            th6iir:  tribes ana prinoes.  . Their ..+ipudence  reached                      id~i&itil  prayer;  " -H~o.ti'.lijng,  0 pord, :holy  b$:true,.
            iis acme ~ when they brought in `Sams:on  that he' might                        d&t  thou.&%  judge %nd aq$$e o.ur' bKo&.on  theti  $ha.t,
            mi,ke  sport -for them:--  It waS'.on  this  fetist  of thinks-                 ~&v&l1  &r&e e&h;" Rev; 6.:X6.-1  _                                      .+ *. .,.; - -. : - . `..
            &in@, and sacrifice-  that :they  filled th&r~:m&ure-  01                                 _'                      . . ...,`_ . . . 1:
                                                                                              _. . ,,. _ `.'                         . `;                              . -;. -& &__ **           I . .__
                                                                                                                                    .,.'
            iniquity. It `w&s,  oti i&is fe&slt  +,h&tY  their -:defi+n$  ati?                        . . .              /                                                      _, `,I..
                                                                                                                                                                           :                          .I
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           6 (kkj  attained :compl&&  and&ill .expre,+&on..  _Thus;M$y                                                                                   .                               ;:.. .,
            tieie. ripe fc+ $zdgmeh.t,  :and                                                1. _., -
                                                     _ God `destroyed. "then?                                                      , `.       --
            &!ough  the agency of                                                                                                                  .' .,
                                           Satiso~;  . G -     .' ).          . ~                                                                                                ._"
                                                                                            c `I.. ." - ...                                    ., `.           -                -. `.                 `.
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               `rkit there  & this qu&%onl Did Sambon- do' well?
            As&edly  `@ did `&il.'  %ib :siaii&  the Philistitiei                             : . .                                                                  ._. _..                       )_ .:
                                                                                    hii
            this ,o&asion  `tias ti `&x&l  %@rk.  The `L;d!d.  dad  `Cbm

            m@ded  him.; This c&&r&d  tias  impli&`in  his calli!lg

            accordiig  .to `wh& $6 ~~&t" be&-".to.  `d&~&  `. &$J'i
            &ople through &ki&  5+zir `Xg'aiiist  ' tlib Phi;listinez~
            Fro%; the  mom&&f hiiS  setidi&%l&ti&h  all th&ye2rs                            `f@libly  inspired  ,yritings jn` d&t~&~i&  f&m xl&`  p?d-
            of his,`judgship,  Be had.-s&iglQ  &ti&n.           It:w&-  of'ihc              due&o@  of ihk chur&  teach& and'frbm'the  .nirn@rotii
          56id th&  he `d<d,` &` And ' what he : had `sought:  he                           afi&?yphal  viro$k&-g&peiS,  A&( +d. &%+&-$ia$
            f&&d  over and over:` !l%e  :Fhilistiri&  `offetided:  %r'&                                                . . ,.
                                                                                       1    &eYe  Xoinp@ed  in the  fir&?  ftiuf `&&ur~iti.~  The sfioi
          . passed  against him repeatedly, -21s tie' havk s%n:  `rhe                       crypha were -fictitious St&es deZ@n&d  ,eiih&r-io  ~&IT
            treatnient  t,hey k;dw  `htid:`&ordZ(`hi&:  w& i`a&!ociou$                      the gaps  of`the  histsry  ,of J&us  z&l'th^e ap'ostles or to
            Th&y  1 borsd otit tiiib CwO ` &yes: %'hey: botind- dim `* witli                giorify` ?hristia&ty.  . From aim&g  all :ihes&  ,$irious-
            f&t&_&  of brass. ThGy'ma'de  hiti g&i-rd ixi their. p%on.                      wr'itings  the-`~&u&h  had` to dra&  its`-N&'  ?%stanie&
            Atid on tli&r 1 gretii'  .fe&t t&ejr &aped  tip&  hiti `their                   &non.               -F,or` tli$ ] task the &u@$ `was" ~u~a.~~fikd~~`l$
            tio&ke%ies  &d'  n&lledi&dn&  ~"Zf "`ever.  they !h&l &en                       $i& $pirit.                                    .' ..~ _ _                      -
            h&n' occasion, ?t wti  n&6.:-  I&s.  ,dut,y. twas' ble?r.  ;.@ was                  The O,?d Testaberg'Cariok.  `%i&  C&n cake  to%h.i
            cle&l to' h&x "T&e  `fb$`mtist'l%  &s&ed  be it, a) the &si;                    Ch&titin  c&&h from the'chu&h  bf th<Old  Disiehsa-
            of his oyn life.     It was' in that  cony@on  that'she'pra$                    tibp, a,$ $an&&ed  l$ Christ~XIiti~elf  a& His apost&&
            &l, I "Lord, 0 Lold  %dd; ?e$-iember  me; `I pray thee, and                     ' The Nez;j' Testamint  Canon. This &&`formgd  grad:.
            strengthen tie, I pray  thee, onI?.  &is once, 0 God; t&t                       tially  during the-f&t  four ~ce~turi&.  .Tiaces  `of it +j$
            .I may by? avenged  of %e:Phili&nes`$ofor  my-two eyes;`.                       pear.  &+dy  ' in' t& seco&l.  ,epist,l&'  ,df @&&.  i3.i t5) i _
            Hk knew;-  that hiti $ra.yer  $&s  l%iin;g Bns$ered'  fer &en                   ivhere             reference              is made to- `a `-c&&ti~n  of -P?ulytr,
            as he pr&y;ed  hlk*tooX  hold 6f %he third pillais  Tripoli  %$itih             f$istle&                  The `pa;sage  &&ds,`]"Ev$  ,gs.  our beIoy&
                                                                                            &ul:~.
.           the  ho&&  &too&  `and ba which if Miss go&e  upj -of the                                    . ". hat4 tiritteh  you, @ al&o   i n  h@"e&tles
     a      ,one with` his right band,  "afid;df  thk `othef with'his  l&t:.                speaking.  ,of these things ; in ,whic$ art? `s:om&, tl$@
           He mu&  x&v #die.`.  ,God so +illed.  `This  he kn@.  c And                      ha@ `to $e, uncer+o,od,  which they that are `u_$earne(
            he ?v&  &liin&-- tind &a?dy.       `?Let  iny iSoul die with the                a$Id  .tin$able  wre;$,  as they `dp a!so th8 other ,sc~~~~
            Philistin&."  These w&e liis i&,st.  words.  . A&l `the                         tures."             HFre Paul's  `e@stl&  ?re: placed $xig~ide7  04.
            PKilistines'  heatid,- as' they l&d aisb' li&fd' him dry `untc                  "otl+  scriptures".' By: ,circa  350 the,,  c&nrch  must
            h i s  God..  !&at w$s  &' mea$n'gftil'  cry. 1 `It s& `forth                   have. become unanimous as to the number of &&&.&
            G6d 81s. the .gource  of .his  :&en&h.  "It set                                 books;             On the' council of &aodi&a"  363' the `E&`tern
                                                                    ` 'fol%h  h&
            faith in God. How earnestly he cried. How  unwortliy                            church namid'a.ll  the books ,of  oup tiew  Te&&en%  wit&`
            and  iii-de&rriiifig.  he f& Kim&if  to be.       "L&d God-only                 the exception of the Apo&ly;pse.  I .-Of -tie African
            this once,_0  `Go&"`-@&@,  he`=had&dured  the .&a&%                             s$nod&, held in 393' at Hippd;  `aid 39? `at &r&a@., -eh&

            ink of the Lord, `hid T&ibi+d?iitis&  find&! themighti                          Western cliurch  `de&&d  i;h<se &me $&okS,~  i&&dini
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 the Apocalypse              .be the Holy Scriptures. and the          .in whilch these truths were revealed in history; It
                      to

 New Testament -canon was closed.                          *'          begins -with.  .creation  a-nd ends, with the resurrection
  (* : In. exegeting  the. sQiptures  the fathers had no               and life .,everllasting..  .The heart of it is the articles
 scientific method, observed -.no  formal set bof rules; of. faith in Chri'st. It. sets forth `only fundamental
 Sutih'a.  theory of- exegesis. still. had'. to be worked out; truths and is characterized by brevity, simplicity and
 M&h of the. interpretation was allegorical and mystical               comprehensiveness. The apostolic creed underwent a
fanciful. and vague; ungrammatical and unhistorical;                   gradual growth: This is-`indicatad  by the Variations  of
 .Or.igin*disti,overed.  in the Scripturesa three-fold sense ;         the apostlie's.  creed. `There were in existence several  j
 literal or historical, mosal  and spiritual.        This -he.laid     suclx creeds ;`and:they  .differ  not in .substance  but as to
 down, as a forma81  theory of interpretation.             As a re-    the form of theti'words..         It is the Roman symbol of the
 sult.:of.  this lack of sCientifici  Imethod,  inter'pretations       third or fourth century that Ibears  the ,honored  name of
 differed. But-this difference pertains to:  details. When             t h e  Apos,tolic  .Cre&.               "     `,
 it :;came  .to' the most important articles of faith the                     God and -,the Creation;     Almost all the creeds of the
 Scriptures spoke" but .one langaake  toall.  These articles           first centuries begin with a confession of faith of God,
 formed their  -rule of faith, analogia fidei ; and. they the Father. Almighty, maker of heaven-and earth, vis-.
 used it as `a working principle in their `interpretation of           ible andcinvisible.  The. church maintained the unity of
 the Bcriptures.                                                       God and opposed. this doctrine to the polytheism of the
     "The rule of fa@`"  of the fathers. It was the                    heathen.' The. f&hers rejected the pagan and gnostic
comm80n  faith of the_chur&.  It h1a.d not beennfderived               view a.ccording  to. whidh  matter as God' is untreated
 by exegetical .labor  directly from .the. scriptures. It              and eternal.      They taughththat  God creat,ed  the world
 had come to the fathers from Ch3rist and His apostles                 including matter by His ,aImighty  word.
 as orally handed :do,wn  in the unbroken succession of                       Man anid the Fall.    It was the faith of the primitive
 bishop&and  as living:in the original.la.postoli~  churche.s,         church. that God created.man.in  His own' image, in true
 such as those of Jerusalem, Antioeh,  Ephesus, and*                   knowledge, righteousness: and holiness, and th at man
 R,ome.     It is with this. tradition that the fathers w,ould         fell :by his' own fault `as tempted by satan.           But the
 encounter the .heretics:  It `is a <`fact  that at first the          depth of man's sin adnd  misery; the nature of sin and the
 lchurch,lived  .by this tradition rather than by the Scrip-           consequences of the fall were not deeply thought into'
 tures . . B,ut.there  `could  ,be,obj,ection  to this.    For this    before the Pelagian controversy.
 tradition must have been .derived  from the.,preaching  of                  The DoctE<ne:-of the Origin; of the S?ul., Theze  was
_ .the apostles and thus waso.in  substantial agreement                the "Traduicianism"  of Tertillian  according to which
 with the Scriptures.          As the A&s  and the ` epistles          soul and body comes from the parents. The Eastern
 indicate the,qposties  wmere much engaged in'the exposi-              fathers held to the theory  of "creationism".         According
 tio,n,of  the:truth,conts.ined  in their writings.        The sub&    to this theory, the body only is  deriv,ed  from the par-
 stance of this -exposition -was ihanded  down. by `the                ents by process, (of generation ; `the soul comes from
 ,church,  from one generationto the other as a compend                G,od  directly, and is. corrupted by' its contact with the

 of her faith, and it became a symbolum, that is, the                  body.      There was also's  third theory taught by Origin
 badge of Ch.&tianity  in distinction from u.nbelief  land             and bearin.g  the name .pre-existence.,  It teaches t,hat

 heresy.     It means.  that the prophets and the apostles,            God `created the soul of every human being in the'be-
 taken, now collectiv.ely;~gave  to the church not only                ginning.,
 the.  Scriptures but beside them also the substance of her             I     The Will  of Manz. .The Eastern fathers taught that
 creed, .of her. formulas of faith in ,whi,ch  she e%presses           fallen man is mar.ally  free and can thus will to do the
 what she believes to be the truth of (God's -Word.                    good as well as he can will to do the evil.         They thought
     Now the keynote of this  la.postolic  tradition is the            that ,only  on the ground of this conception could it be
 Confession of Peter ,and  the bapptismal formula fur-                 maintained that man is. a&ountalbl,e.          Man's volitional
 nished its trinitarisn  framework, The confession of                  power to wlill the good was weakened by the fall but
 Peter reads, "Thou art the .Christ,  the Son of the living            not .destroykd.         This view formed a very essential
 God." Matt.,  16 :16. `The baptismal formuFa reads, element in the doctrinal systemof Origin. `The fathers
 "Go .ye  therefore and teach all nations, .,baptizing  them           did not distinguish between moral, psychological, and
_ in the name of the Father; and of the Son, and of the                metapliysical  freedom of the will of man.          .On the other
 Holy Spirit." Matt. 28 :19. This apostolic tradition is               hand, they also uphe1.d  the Pauline doctrine of the
 known as the<  "Apostles Creed";                                .     imputation of Aldmam's  guilt unto all mankind and the

   .TTte,apostolic  Creed. This creed in its present form              propagation of his spiritual death unto all- by -genera-
 is n,ot of the apostles. It is post-apostolic. But its                tion. i .
 substance is of the apostles; In its present shape it                        The D.ivin<ty  Iof Ch&t. _ From the very beginning
 is the lexpresion-  of the faith of the Anti-Nicene church.           the Christian church stood' unshakably firm in her

, The order of the-truth which it sets `forth,  is the order           belief that C&M ia all that'the  Scriptures claim Him
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       to be, to w:it both Gery God  and real'righteous  man in                                                                                     `3
       `one perssn,  the true Messia,h  and the Saviour  of. His                                     .                                      Waning
                                                                                                              @elgelukq$i&e  1
       p'eople through His atonemer`lt;  7Upoq  this dotitrine  of                                                                                         .'

     .. Christ the minds aed `hearts of God's people  of the                                                        (Psalm 84 ; Tweede Deel)                     "
       anti-Niilcene  period iYere  -concentrated. This *doctrine
       was asserted :by the  fathers in their controversy  w:ith                                    We waren gekomen tot caan het zesde v.ers in -onze.
       herasy                                                                               ,vorige  bespreking aangaancle dezen psalm.                   Daar  staat 
                  ; it attained exppressioti  in the worship.  of the                                                                                                                 :
       church, in her prayers, cloxologies  and hymns of praise.                            "Welgelukzalig is de menslch  wi,ens  sterkte in U is, in.
       But, it took the church ,three  ce$uries  to produce  a.                             welBer  hart de gebssade wegen zijp."                                     3'
       logilcal exposition and' foqnulary .of this doctrine and,                              Een vers  zioals  dit, doet ons hart van vreugde op-
       of the doctrines  related t,o.it.                In.the  attempt  of s+mcti-         springen. Wat .luidt .d&t  anders dan het geschreeuw
       fied reason of the church to  know,t;hese  great lliysteries                         der kerk van' vandaag  ! ,,vLet er op :_ ial qnze sterkte is
       conceptionally "miqt+kes.  were.  ,@ade.                      The mddqs  of          in God.           En zulk een menirch worfdt  welgelukzalig  ,ge-
       thought. were- often inaccurate an$ ,crude. But this"                                heeten. In zulke  harten  zijn de gebaande (opgaande).
       was to be expected.           In their distiou.rses  on the diirinity                wegen. Ja, al onze sterkte  is in God.` `O&k  voor  het
       and humanity. of C,hnist,  the apqstolic  fatheri  held                              natuurlijke leveq.  Gistetia;vond  las ik de tirad6  van
       themselves to Biblical statements. Tb,e first church                                 Channing (een Unitarische  leider van naam) tegen
       father to make a.seTious  atte%pt  at.:development  of the                           het Calvinisme.  Hij ergetide  zich, zeide hij, aan  .,de:
       Christology of the S+ptur&  was Justin Martyr.                              This:    Calvinistische leer, YeIke  alles .wil  terugleiden tot &en'
      developmqt  re?eived  it7s first great impetus, was                                   almachtige  God die ietterlijk &es  besloten heeft .van
       greatly accelerated bj, the hqreti$  mode of conception                              den beginne; zoodat el; niets over gibleven  is voor.bns
       of the heretic Arius.              The true d&rine  triumphed in                     men,s+en  oin v.oor.  onszelf te besluiten. Zoo, zegt hij,
       the Council of Ni%ea  and (325).  was confirmed in the                               blijft er geen verantwoordelijkheid  over,voor  het schep-  .
       council of Constantinople; 38&,                         :!                           sel.          Doch,  z&$  hij, men ka6  het over.al  zien en hooren,
              In the Christological doctrine .&ere  are ::involved                          dat d,e Calvinisten zich  gaan  schamen voor hun leer:
_      three elements of truth  : .l) the divine nature of Christ j                         Overal  worden  de lijnen verzacht 6n bde schrille .kleuren
       2) the human nature of ,Ch.rist;  3) thi! .personality  in                           yerdoeztild.          Het s,chrikkelijke  en iafziehtelijke  van het
Christ and its relation,to.the  tw?`natqes.                                                 Calvi&sme  zit niet i.n de menschen, doch in een" doode.
              The Essential k&&y *of C&+.&:~.It  had Co' be .as-                            leerstelling, die met grooten spoed aan `t virdwijnen  is.
     Alerted against the Monartihi&ns.&sd  tbe'&onists  who                                 En, d&kt  er aan, dit qchreef  hij in de vcrige eeu.w.
                                                                                            Die man h5qd op de Kalam&zoosche  Synode moeien
      `saw in C_hr:ist  only ;z second Moses.: and .tig&nst  ihe
       gnoistics who placed. Christ in `a class with, :the  aeons,                          z i j n . .  Wat-zou   h i j   g e l a c h e n  heb<bben! . _                        i
       of their idea$  -world.            At `the beginning' of th!e third                          Dwars  t.egen  dien mia.n,  die Synode &n alle mensche-'
       century-circa `200there  were three Christologies                                    lijke geknoei staat  de- mooie tekst : Welgelukzalig is de
     contesting in Rome: 1) The  Motialistic  Monarchian                                    mknsch  wiens sterkte"  in U is.          Het bedoelt zeke'r  eerst,
       also known as Pat,ripass?an'  and C6bellianism ; .2) The                             Idat de kracht om naar Sion  te! verlangtin  en naa?  Sion
       Dyhamic  Monarchian ; 3) The logos Christology. It                                   te Q&den  in, God is.            En. terecht.  .Het klopt met de.
       wap the. last-named that triumpheld  in thj, council of                              rest van de Heilige Schrift  die &ltijd,  otieu?al en in
       Nicea,  325. The Modalistic  and Dgnamtii86  Monarchialis                            verband'  met alles  er' nadruk  op ,leg,t,  dat God het is
       had this in common. Both asserted  that God is only,                                 die alleen Sibn bouwt. `Als Sian  straks'  geopenbaasd.
'      that ~Hti is God and none else,. that beside Him.$here  is                           za.%l  worderi  in al zijn schoonheid, dan zal men het zien;
       no 6theF  God; but they stressed this to -the exclusion                              dat het denken,  het willen  en. het .stre+en  .am  Sion te
       of the iriperis.onla.lity  `in the. G&head;  Both refused.                           maken  vat het is cotipleet  Gods werk was.. .
       t6 di'stinguish  in the one and ifidivisible  essense  of God                                Evenwe]  moeten  `we we1  verstaan, dat g6' de tekst'
       tli.r,e$ hypostases  or perso&.  Th`ey  could not see `in                            ook nog verder nioogt toepassen.               Niet alleen  de kracht.
       the. trinitarian  conception ought else but.  an asisertion                          om Sion te lieven en te`bouwen is uit  God:  lalle *doen
      of. ,tritheism.  ".-Thus their -assertion' that .God  is one                          en &even, op allerlei gebied is uit `God.              En Channing
       and  or&amounted to, ati affirfiation  td the effect th&                             gevoelt het diep ,vernederende  van dit leerstuk poor :den
       He'is  numerically bne.in&sense'but  al&  in personality..                           in de zonde gevallen mensch.               H:et grieft de Engelen!
       They were therefdre  given the  name of `%onarchiahs"`,  `,                          Gods niet om te wet&, ,dat  de Almachtige en .alom-.
       one. ,principle.        But- &here  `was  also a differejnce  be-                    tegenwoordige  God hen onderhoudt, bestuurt  en onver-
       tween the two~.~classe~s  of Monau?chians:  Th@ Dynamite                             anderlijh aeidt  naar Zijfi eeuwig  saad_splan.                Daar  heb-
       Monqhians ,.denied  the essential,' yclivinity  of Christ.                           ben die Engelen sehik  vab.             Als' `een `klein  kindje*door
     The Modalistic tiontirihians  : asserted the essential                                 Moeder onder de armen genomen w&dt en zachtkens
       divinity o$ Christ.                __ "                                              geleid; din' kraait h$ van genot.               41s PI&US  het ons
       `a""1  "                                                      `G.`M..O.              toeroept; dat wij in, God  zijn en'door Hem gtidragen:
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 worden, iodat wij ons in God- bewegen, dan trilt zijn          dit`Baca  van Bochim afgeleid is i een vallei der tranen.
 ziel van onge!kende blijldschap.. Doch, ja; als men ~Go~cl      Hoe het ook zij, .dit dal heeft een. funeste beteekenis.
 haat, dan is zulk een leer verschrikkelijk.    Wi,e wil door    Dit' zagen -.ook+  Ide psalmberijmers.                    Die spreken, of
 zijn hater .omarmd? Doch die God liefheeft zegt: Het            liever, `die zingen van het steken der middagzn in `t
 iis mij goed nabij God te wezen. Nader, steeds neder!           moerbij dal,,
 Zoo werkt de liefde.                                                De cgedachte  is, [dat zelfs al moet de Sioniet  door het
        De tweed'e clausule verklaart de eerste. Al onze         dal der schaduwe des doods, dan zal hij, nog.geen kwaad
 sterkte is. in God, want -Hij heeft ons de gebaande             vreezeq.       Want hij stelt zijn God `daar tot een fntein.
 wegen in het hart gegeven.       Het hqrt is de mensch in       Ook zal *de -regen hen gansch  Wjkeli  j k- overdekken.                Dat
 zijn ,diepste wezen. Zooals Uw hart is zoo  zijt gij.           dit zoo  is .leiden wij af `van. de ,&ondgedachte  van het
 Wnt vanuit het hart zijn de uitgangen van ons leven.           dal.      De berg is de idee van den hemel  ; de vallei is de
 De eerste roerselen van gedachte en motief komen op             i.dee van de hel.      Op den berg schijnt de eeuwige zon  ;
 uit, het hart. Welnu, ,in dat hart geeft God de. ge-            in het dal zijn de bange schaduwen. - D schaduwen. des
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 baande wegen. Eigenlijk staat er: de opgaande trap-             eeuwigen doods.                        :
 pen!        Historisch ziet- dat op' d.e opgangen naar de               Zoo,  gaat het leger van God voort van kracht tot
 tempel; of zelfs op de opgangen van den berg Sions.             kracht.. Dit beteekent hetzelfde als wanneer Paulus
 Als men vanuit de landpalen van Israel naar Sion wilde          zgt,, dat zijn Evangelie een reuke is des levens ten
 gaan,. dan moest men. bergopwaarts. Sion was ge-.               leven. Het ziet o&den groei van Gods  volk.                     Vergelijk
 bouwd op .de sglooingen  ban den berg naar dien naam            Uw leven als,  kind van God zooals qge tien, twintig jaren
 genoemd,                                                        verleden' tegen de dingen aanzag en .nu.                       En ge zult
        En die gebaande weg naar Sion, die bergbekhm-            het ,meezingen : C&i gaan van knal&  tot kracht steeds
 ming van den Sioniet  .is in onze harten.      Wat schoone      voort. - '
 g e d a c h t e  !                                                 En het &de is de hemel daarboven bij God.                           Elk
      ,Denkt  .er eerst aan, dat er, `voorzoover het den         hunner zal verschijnen voor God in Sion.
 menseh aangaat, geen opgang naar de hoogte, is, doch             .  E n  (dat is ,de  h e m e l . .
 een neergang  naar de hel. In het hart van den  on-               Zalig zijn de reinen van hart want zij zullen God zien.
 wedergebor,ene is .de neergang  naar de buitenste,duister-      Daar hebt,ge het bewijs;         God te mogen aaaschouwen,
 nis. Men heeft de hel nu al in `t hart. Daarom is de            niet meer in en door die duistere spiegel  zooals~nu,  do,ch
 natuurlijke mensch `dan ook ~zoo diep ongelukkig. Zelfs         aangezicht tot aangezicht, dat is de he,mel der hmelen.
 in.zijn lachen zal hij smart hebben, zegt Salomo.                       In ,die gestalte wil bde Sianiet voor God staan.. Luis-`
       `Denkt er, tw,eedens, aan, dat Jezus de gebaande weg      tert, hij bidt : H,eere,  ,God  der -heirecharen,.  ?noor mijn
 naar boven is. Hij heeft een  weg,~ de weg naar het             gebed; neem ter .oore, God JFkobs.  Sela.. 0 God, ons
 hart van -God gebaand door Zijne nederige geboorte,             xhuld, zie en aanschouw het aangezicht Uws Gezalf-
 bitter lijden, kruisdood, begrafenis en opstanding met          d e n ! \ -
 de opgangen naar lde hoogte vanaf den berg der Olijven !                Wat een schoon biddlen!
 Daarom. zeide Hij : Ik ben de Weg. . . . .                              Zooeven sprak ik van Jezus.. Dat moet gedurig: I
        Derdens, die Jezus wordt U geschonken in het diepe       hier ook: 0 ja, David was historisch de gezalfde des
. hart, met Uw prsoon vereend in de mysti,eke  unie van         Heeren. Doch. slechts als een zwakke schaduw. Jezus
 het verbondsleven..  _ Zoo wonderlijk intiem zijn Uw            Christus is. de Gezalfd.+?  bij uitnemendheid. En dan
 hart en ,onze  .Heere`Jezus Christus, `dat Paulus zegt .: Ik    niet z ,bedoelld,  dat onder alle. gezalfden- des Heeren
 leef; doch niet meer ik, Christus Jezus leeft in mij.           Hij de eerste, die vornaamste is. ,O.neen.  Hij is sde
        En dat is nu (de beteekenis van die woorden in mijn      Eenige :Gezalfde. %r' is geengezalfde dan Hij alleen.
 psalm: in wiens hart. de gebaande wegen zijn.       E8 zoo      Als gij' ~andere zalvi.ng ziet en ~menschenkinderen  die
 verstaat ge het ook, dat al zijn  .kracht. in God is.    Al     gezalfden Beeten, dan. moet, ge er aan  .denken,  dat zij
 zijn kracht om naar God toe te gaan, vanuit de hel tot          ZQ% zalving deelachting zijn.                             '
 in )den hemel is- in God.     Dat heeft God bewezen toen                Zoo ook hier. IHet isJezus. die in dezen profeet van
_ Hij Jezus uit de Idoden opwekte.                              `Psalm 84 bidt. En in de. volheid des tijds zal Jezus
        Verstaan we het nu, waarom dien mensch welgeluk-         vaak !dezen ,psalm gebeden hebben., `Het past zoo op
 zalig geheeten wordt? Ben.@  niet duizendmaal zalig             Hem. Vooral toen Hij op het einde kwam van Zijn
 als `Jezus in mij woont,? .Ja, zeker, want dan moet             bitter lijden.. Toen het moerbezi&dal al donkerder en
 ik naar den: boezem des Vaders.       Daarnaar hijgt mijn       ,donkerder werdt en de schaduwen al langer werden tot
 h      a    r    t    .                                         de eeuwigheid toe. Toen heeft Hij  gebeen:  0 God!
        Voorts gaat het goed met zulk een mensch.                zie toch en aanschouw het Aangezicht_ van -Uw Ge!
        Somtijds loopt het pad na.ar den hemel door het          zalfde!      Want Ik bemerk dat Gij Mij. aan het verlsten
 dal `djer moerbezinboomen; In de Engelsche Bijbel              zijt.,
 staat er "the-palley  of Baca". Sommigen denken, dat                    En een:klein, o`zoo klein gevoelen wij.ook bij tijden
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                                          THE STANDARD B*`EAR.E'R.                                                                                      443.
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en oogenblikken. ,. En dan smeeken  we -God om Zijn                                              Our @xth  Synod
nabijheid. En Hij hoort altoos.                                                                                                               1
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    Ook is er nooit iemand geweest -die zo-geheel  en al
,de  volgende verzen.kon  b$dden  als Jezus dat deed.               En             ;Our -Synod  of 1945 -is a matter of thee past lagain.
dag in Uw voorhoven is beter dan duizend ! Wat kracht                           The details of its sdecisions, are rcorded  in the minutes,
van begeeren  naar Sion's top, naar  Gods woning, naar                          and presently when the Acts are published our people-
Gods  hart! Liever ,dorpelwachter,  dan .gewlend  aan                           wil1 be able to read  about the work which Synod per-
cl' ijdele vreugd in `s boozen tent!          Als .er ooit iemand               formed.     Thisarticle  is merely  meant as la brief report
gelweest  is die gaarne_naar de kerk ging, dan was het                          -mentioning  some of the most important  ,decisions.  1.
Jezus. Zelfs toen men in Nazareth ellendige slappe                              have not in my possession the minutes,  hence,  will, be
kost op,lden  kaneel had, was het de,gewoonte  van Jezus.                       unable to quote-decisions,or  enter into  a number .of  de-.
om op den Sla.bbat  naar de synagoge te gaan.                    Hoeveel        tails.    On the other hand 1 do believe that our reading
ij,dele  woorden ,heeft H.ij Id&ar  moeten hooren                En toch
                                                            !                   public is not first of al1 interested in a host of details
was Hij liever een dorpelwachter in Zijns Vaders Huis,                          but prefers a brief survey of  what'took  place.  ~Let'the
dan te wonen onder de spotters.                                                 kind reader keep in mind that. this report is somewhat:
    Iets ervan woont in U, mijn broeder. _ Daarom noe- eubjective in coloring. `a                                     .- :
men we U welgelukzalig!                                                             The customary pre-synodicl service was held in                                   ,-
    En Jezus wil jgaarne  bij God in Sion wonen,, omdat                         the First Protestant Reformed Church on the evening
God een zonen schilld  is, omdat  Hij genade en eere zal                        of June 5; Rev. A: Cammengs~~  president of the pre-
geven en het ,goede  niet zal onthouden hem die in op-                          vious Synod, based his sermon on 1 Cor. 3  :9 : "For We
rechtheid  wanidelt.                                                            are. laborers  together with God: pe `are God's:  hiis-                          _
    God is een zon.     Wel, de sprake van de zon'is  .dideh,                  bandry,  ye are God?s  .building."      Indeed  a fitting' text
lijk. Er zijn .menschen  Idie verdrietig worden.als ze                          for the occasion and a sermon which struck  the key-nte.
de zon vor een paar dagen niet zien;            Daar zit symbo-                for or synodi,cal  ,deliberations.  This sermon wil1 be'
liek in.    De zon verwarmt, koestert, bestraalt met haar                       published in the A:cts  atnd  `if you procure:  a .copy you
licht; maakt vruchtbaar, rijpt, doet zwellen van rijk-                          wil.1 be able fo red it in its entirety.
dom der vruchten.                                                                   On Wednesday morning, June 6, Rev. A. Cammenga
                                                                          `.
    En zoo  doet God met U, mijn zuster r                                       called th,e meeting  of the Syno'd  to order and opened'..
    Hij is ook.  schild,          schild.                                       with pra-yer  and t.he  reading f S,cripture.                     The "ad--:
                           uw                 `Als 1e duivel zijn
-vurige pijlen op U wil afschieten `dan is God het schild                       dress"     spoken of..&  article 7 of our synodicalrules  of
van Zijn volk.     Dile pijlen kunnen'ons nimmer dooden..                       order wlas  omitted.  `The president pro-tem presided`  __
En dat is vanwege #de  kracht  Gods  die door -en. in ons                       over the acceptsnee  of the credentials and the election
werkt tot de zaligheid. En die kracht. Godes  is het                            of officers.  As president of Synod `was elected Rev. R.
geloof.                             _                                           Veldman.      After the election  ,of officers the members '
    Hij zal U allen `die God vreest genade en ere geven.                       of Synod rose and `lia.tened  to the reading of the Public
Genade is liefelijke schoonheid.         Sion is schoon, zeiden                 Declaration by the newly elected president.              Synud now
we. Welnu, lde Sioniet  wordt.schoon  als Sion.                                 could formally   s t a r t  to  f u n c t i o n .  `.
    Ik heb hooren  zingen van `t zilverwit  en.`t  goud, dat                        The :first thin'g  done at this time'is. to e.ppoint  a'
op- haar vederen zit bij `t `licht der -zonnestralen.                           comrnittee  for Advisory Committees. This committee  : ;
    Dat schitteren en- stralen van Uw, verhemelscht~                            later reported  _and as a result  thr,ee  committees  of
aangezicht is de glimlac!h  Gods,  `die als een Zon zijn                        pre-advise were appointed.       In this-  connection 1 would  :
kin,d belonkt.  Dat is de hemel.                                                like to-`&ggest that in the futur,e  the work of these
                                                            G. V. ; ._          committees  be a littlle  more equally divided. It is quite
                                                                                out  of proportion if one committee  is finished by three:
    ~-,                                                                         o'clock in the afternoon while another committee  has
                                                                                to .work  til1 eleven  o'clock. iat night.           T h i s  may  b e
                    OFFHXAL  `NCTICE  - "                                       partly .due to .the constituencies  of the committees  but
                                                                                this can-not  very wel1  be the sole cause.
    The Ministers' Conference of Classis East  wil1                                 By Thursday morning these committeer  of pre-
meet on Tuesday, J.uly  10,. at 9 :30- A. M.; in Fuller  Ave.                   advice  were al1 ready with' their werk  and coul'd report.
Protestant Reformed Church, t'he Lord willing.                                  to Synod and give their advice:       It is riet .at al1 my in*
PROGRAM :-                         ~ .                                          tention  to report on every  detail. Due to the  nature'
                                                                                of the meeting there are always a  number  of reports
    "Supra and Infra in Bavin'ck  and Kuyper"  - Rev.                           which are handed in by standin-g committees,  such as'.
Geo.  Lubbers.            `. "                                                  Mission,  Committee, Theolgical School Committee etc.,  :
    "The Old-  an&New  Covenant." - Rev;-G.  M. Ophoff.                         and these committees  hand in their reports to the  com:
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           mittee of pre-advice which in turn brings, these matters                   6hat  is indeed `wo&h&hil&  Let's give them time, a?d
           before th'e gathering' of' Synod.            Most: of t`hese  routine      if you can, you may find an. opportunity to  h&p  them
           reports we will not bring iri discussion in this article.                  along with your, suggestions. .Of course you'll have to
           The method  of working tiith  committees of pre-advice                     wait until you ha%e examined their work thus far ac-
     is of `b0iirse.a  systematic and, tispally,  time-saving way                     coniplishec$        I.&d&stand  that.&heir  report: will be
           of- doing thinm.                                                           published, most `likely in the Standard B&arer.  __ IHere

                 .OJI~ `of t*he most importa&  matters Before Synod                   is a great field for preachers,  PO&,  musicians. .c,`
           `was our relation to the Reformed Church ,of Ut 8. .At                            Another important m&ter  was discussed by Synod
     various occasions we Bave heard an'd read qf these                               in connection with  the compilcatatlon  of our Protestants
           brethren,.,mos$  of them living in South Dakota. Last:                     Ref,ormed,  Church Order and all related matgrial. "We
           year -a conference was held between some of our men                       are greatly'  in need- of a handy booklet  which.  contains
     and a num'ber  of officebearers of the above mentioned                           the church order $proper, various decisions in connec-
           church. ..We  have  all. read about this in the Standard.                  tion with particulaf  articles, by-laws,' constitutioas;
           Rearer apd in Concordia. However, at our Synod-                            forms, etc.. As' it is, much 02 `this material is con-
           there weare  two of the+se'bre+hren,  Rev. W. Krieger and                  ceiled  in minute b3oks and. variotis Acts. of Synod.!
           Rev. -W. Korn, which honor@  us with their pres&nce..                      The committee f,or this task o.f compilation  had.  ESpent
           There also  was Ia, communication fr6m  the Reformed                       considerable tige  in preparitig  the above material for '
           Churbh of U. S. -proposing closer `contact  aed fellowship.                publication; but was not finished with its w,ork.  Some Y
           with our churches.. In this conneletion  the Synodi&                       translations must still be ri?ade, reftirences'for  tiarious
           Cotiittee  also advised Synod to seek closer fellowship                    .decisions have to -be, four@,  and diff,erent  .forms  have:.
           $t.li the above mentioned churches. Aster  some de-                        to be scrutinized and if need be,!changed  td be mad.e
           liberation, and after we had aL,o`heard`a  brief .a$drcss                  Protest;lant  RGforme`d;  and fit the need of  our  churches.
     I by Rev,. Krieger and.after  some light was shed on their                       Contjcary  to &stom'another  committee ;was  appointed
           communication by R,ev. Korn, our Synod decided to                          to ~finish this work and report:  at next' Synod.' The
           appoint a committee WI&O&  tasks  it i,s to study the. con-,               brethren `wh6 have to tackle this problem still h&e
           .iebsional  standar'ds  6f tlie Reformed Church of U. S.                   quite  a task on hand and tiust work themselves into.
           in ,order to come to a closer ecclesiastical intercourse.                  the material from A to Z.               However, the' matter is.ia:
           From both si.des it was felt that we, should -first be                     competent hands; Let's hppe th+,by next year, after
           better acquainted ;iyith each oiher  before w.e;can make'                  Synod will have lexamined  ,and if need.be  revised all the
           further commitments  which woul,d  `have as its im-                        compiled mater&l,.  the much needed booklet can be
           medilate  goal to recognize each `other as sister churches.                published: .That  .our churches, *abe &brely  -jn need oi
           -What will be t,he outcome of ail this we do not know,                     such a booklet:can  not be denied.
           but we have at least t&ken a first  step to .come  a little                       The report of out Mission Committee was not very
           cl6ser together. _ In the Holland we say: "Onbekend `e.ncouraging  or optimistic. ,Our churches still do not'
           -inaakt  onbemind."             Let's hbpe that': "Goed  bekend            have a man in the.field,;aed  the opinion se&med  to be
           mpakt bemind."-In  this, cbnne,ction  I might also men-                    quite general .that in the lithe of missions, the expressed.
           tion that at the request of the. Rleft&med  Church  of                     mandaLe  `of the church,  we are not  doing what could
           U. S. and- npon the  a&ice.  of.Iour  Theological School                  ,be done and' whtit  yhould be don&  , Synod, instructed its
           Cqmmittee,  Synod, decided to admit their students to                      mission-;committee  to survey the matter, of missiollg -
           -our Theological School  proviided  silch  ap$ica&  fur-                   an3 report next year.         Of-cburse  in the meantime thc-
           nish a testimoni,al  ofa their consistory as to their life'                mission committee has a mandate as circumscribed  by
           and wlalk.           W,e hope to meet these'brethren  again and            its constitution .aan`d  need not w&t with aby  definite
           `we woul'd nut be surprise& that one  .or two ,of their                    action in the line of mission woik  till next year.                    -
           young men will start their studies at our School  be-                           - j Syridd  also decided that the  Histo+y  of the Pro-
           ginnifig  t h e   n e x t  Bernester.  :.                        1,        testant Reformed Churches be reprinted an'd brougX
                 `" Sy,nod  also' dealt wit,4 a lengthy report `of the corn--        .up to date.        Nat"Lrally,  this task was assigried  to Rev.
           mittee for Psalter. revision. This coniniittee  has don?                   Hoeksemad.  the author of .the  book. Xev.  Hoeksema ex-
           gqod work thus  far but is not yet finished.              Synod -de-.      pressed willingness to also edit the added material.
           cide`d tb continue thle committee and gave them `a word                    We,  bejieve  this `tias  ? wise decision.         The history of
           .of encom?a,gerrient  as to the work thus far accomplished. .' ,our church,ishould  not be lost to the coming generation,.
           At some future Synod we eitpect  to- have `a: complete                     and' `it is also_  time  to bring our history up to date.
           report,. and-  after the material `has been examined  &nil                        We might mention that a committee was  tippdinted
     sdrutiniied  an'd adopted in i$s. .final  form' tie will be                      fork  correspondence with, the Reformed Churches: of
           ready to reprint Aa8  revised. and improved Psalt&T.  :This                the N.&therlands.  `What' tlid specific inandate  Of tXs
           `committee has quite a task on aits  hands but after their-                commi,&ee  is and how they must go'about their  work,'

           work is finished they will have accomplished something                     we do not `know.  `Xqerhaps.tFey  ivill  have.,to'  pick tie

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       this historical line as it wa.s interrupte!d  by the war `in                                                        Death In Its Various Phases
       1940. At' `that. time a committee for correspon,de,nce

       -was" appointed but of course they  I could not -do any
       w&6  due to th2 international conditions.                                                       John Milton, in his ."Paraidise  Lost?, gives *a. vivid '
            .I     Subsidies for' needy  churches was granted .as per,                       kid terrifying descriptio8n  of Death and. its origin.
       request sand as recommended by the Classes. What iye                                  According to t&e poem Satan is searching his way' out                                                                          _
       need verjr  much `is an `Up to date f,orm  Yor requesting                             of hell `to seek out the created  world in order to tempt
       subsidy.                  In the second place I do belie.ve  that .as a rule          m%n.                                He makes his way to the  "&es  of Hell". and.
       subsidies' should be granted as recommended by' the                                   `there he finds :
       ,Classes  but the Classis  should diligently i,nqtiire  abor$
       the needs of such needy churches as are  in its territory.                                                    `<On either ,side  a for@dable  Sha$ ;
       I -do not. dispute'facts  and figures `as they were given                                                     The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair,
       but I am a little afraid that Class&  `reoommends).  with                                                     But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
       the id&a in mind `Syrio,d  has. the. final say', .and. tha!                                                   Volu&no& aa.nd vast, a s&pent armed
        Synod `decides' be'cause  Cbassis so `retiommends'.  At                                                      )Vith  mortal sting: about her -middle round 
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       an$ rate ther.e  is room here for improvement of method                                                       A cry Of hell-hdunds  nev&  ceasing barked
       without embarrassing~anyone  or becoming penny-tight,                                                         With wide Cerberean  mouths full loud, atid
        I -.Ani this just about finishes my r;eport  which has                                                                      rung
       become mane lengthy than I anticipated.                                                                        k hideous peal: yet, when  they  list, would-
                   During all our Syriodical  sessions :a spirit of broiher-                                                        creep,
       ly love and cooperation existed.                              Tke brethren c$d not                             If aught disturbed their npise, into her womb,
       make the t&k of the president a difficult one.                            And:the                             _ And kennel there, yet there still barked atid
        president in turn presided  over the meetings in a  pBeas-                                                               h o w l e d
        ant man&+.                   Our competent secretary, Rev;. C. Hanko,                                         Within unseen. . . .
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        with his':a,ble  assistant, Rev'. M. Schipper,  did a fine                                .
        job ?n. recording the minut$s.                                                                                                                   . . . . T h e  other  shap?! ".
                                                          . And I understand the             \                        If shape it might+  be .called, -that' 
        way they have planned the publication of the.                                                                                                                            shs$@' had
                                                                                     &its
        there virill be a definite improvement over the'  past,                                                                   _ none
                                                                                                                      Dist.inguishable  in `member, joint, or'limb,
        espe'cially  in arranging thk m&ter&,l  together under                                          5 ,                qr substance might be. @led that shadow                                                                    _,
       its pr.oper  .$eading  in&&  of scattering itsall  -throu&.                                                                  seem'ed,  .                                                      P
        the book.                                                                                                          For each seem&d  -either;  black  it stood as
                    Next year D. V. Synod  meet;  in. Hull, Iowa. We                                                                n i g h t ,                      5 d                        . . ;-
        would s'uggest  that in the future the calling fchurch                                                             Fieqce  `as' ten furies, terrible ai bell,
        .when  notifying th.e `churches of the meeting of Synod                                                            And shook a dreadful da&;  what  seemed his
        always give the address of a lodging committee TV                                                                           head
        which the delegates can send a card  requesting lodg-                                                              The likeness 6f a kingly drown had on;"
        ing. We aa.*re tak%g  too much  for granted if w@ ,assume~                                                                                                                                                          :
        that-  everybodjr  has lodging arranged before coming to                                                When Satan and this last `described  "ghastly T&ror"
        Synod.  L                                                      -.                         la.re aboit to, ,fight,  the first desckibed  fig&e steps be'-
                  By -Friday aft,erndon,  about. three $zlock,  SylioL:                           tween them and calls Satan her father and  the `other
        was" finished  tiith' its task.                We enjoye'd  the  fellowship               her son. .She, "the  protress,  of hell-gate", goes .on to
       ,of one another, both at Synod and at' our home:  We expiain her Btatement.                                                                      Sat.an is her father for ilie
        felt the tie that binds. ' And in spite of `a shortage.  sf                          sprang from his hea,d  and is named Sin.                                                     She is also
            `points' in these dqys,  ,ihe  ,_catering  comn$tees  did ai"                         the;mother  ,of the other beast, by Satan.  .When shp
        excellent job .of f,eeding  the hungry delegates.                                         gave `birth  to this horrible creatures, ehe relates;
                    And thus  ,our Synod_ is history agdn, May the

        King of the Church bless th'e:la)or  of Syno$ in as far                                                                  : . .`.`I iled  and cried out `Death';
        as- the .tiork  acco=plished  -carried wla,y His divine ap-                                     " ' kell tremble: at $he  hideous name, and ,sighed
        proval.                                                                                                            From alJ.  A her ca"ves,  and &back  resounded                                                        '
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                    Rev. H., (Hoeksema  closed the &al session of Synod                           -.                                `Death' !!'                                                 .
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        with. prayer :and thanksgiving.
                          _ I                                                                            -it' the hearing of Satan's plan "t? te&&  the `h&man
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       a                                                                     J. D. J.             .race :.                           `.                    .                               _
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                                                                                                                           : . . . "bbth stiemed  h$ihly <pleased,  and .death -jr
                                    iOth                                                               ,r                  Gri`nned  horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
            .*.                              ANNUAIL  FI1EL.D   D A Y            : !
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0 .                                                                                                                        H i s -  famine.  shoul4  be filled,". 
                     '                      July 4 - Ideal Park :                                                                                                                . . .                         s `_
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       This imaginative and lurild  d&cription  of death               that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as

  has; perhaps, never been excelled for utter horrible-                 our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed  me", II Pet. I : 13,
  ness.      It epitomizes the terror of death that ha,s bound          14.     Then again death is compared to a tent : "These
 -men in fear of it since its entrance into' this  w.orld.             things said he.: an'd after that he saith  unto them, Our
  It personifies. death_  as a beast;, practically b,eyond  de-        friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go; that I may awake
  scription. I                                                         him out of sleep: Then sai,d  his disciples, Lord, if he
       In Scripture too, `we find that death .is often personi-        sleep, he sha.11 do. w.ell.  Howbeit Jesus spake of his
  fied as..a, terrifying figure.    .John sees in a vision : "And .`death  :. but they thought that he had #spoken of taking
  I looked,. and behold a pale horse: and his name that                of rest. in sleep", John 11 :ll, 12, 13. Filially,  it.-%
  sat on him was Death, and, Hell followed  with- him?                 said to be. a~ departure, a. going away : `Before I .go
  Rev. 6 ;8.        And again in R,ev. 20 :!4:  "And death and         whence I shall not return, evento the land of daikness
  hell were cast i-nto the lake of fire."        The thought of        and the shadow of death;" Job. :lO-~21;  I': . `. rbecause
 ' dVeath, and death itself; has always excited man's worst            man goeth  to his long home, and the mourners go .about
  fears. Mortals have ever ,endeavored  to banish the                  t h e   s t r e e t s " ,  Eccl.  12:5.
  thought of death from .mind.         .The  ancient -Greeks  ,con-            The `Scriptures also  clearly indicate three phases

  side,red'death  to be a twin brother of-sleep and diligent-          of death:  physical death, spiritual .death,  and eternal
  ly tried to exclude all that is revolting from the idea              or- second ,d.eath.       With physical- death we are all ac-
  of. death. Throughout the ages the attempt  has:been                 quainted and, therefore, needy  not quote many passages
  made to overcome this fear of death.         Today, too, death       to confirm it.      Ecclesiastes .9 : 1O'gives us a rather strik-
  is ,beautified  and adorned in an `effort to forget its              - ing .and  comprehe&ive  .characterization  .of physical
  ,essential  nature. .. \                                              death.     `We' r'ead  there : -"Whatsoever thy hand ,findeth
      Scripture, the Book of Life, speaks of *death through-           to do,      do it with thy might;.for  there is no work,, nor
  out.-     It addresses itself to those-who are in themselves         *device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom,. in the: grave, wither
  dead, lying in the midst of death and travelling to                  t h o u   g o e s t . "                    -.
death.,. It begins with death in  Paradiise.  From then                   % Spiritual delath is revealed to. us most clearly in
  on we rea.d,  time,and  again on its pages : "and he-died'!`;        the New Testament and is *definitely implied in  the
  for it is appointed for man once to die.         It closes -with     following passages-: "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily,
  death:. "the lake of fire", where the worm dieth ;not                verily, -I say unto you, Except ye eat. the flesh of the
and the  fire is not quenched. Well may he, therefore,                 `Son of man, and drink his blood; ye have no life -in
  w$ose  name is not ,written~ in "`The Lamb's Book. of                you", John 6 :53 ; "For to-be carnally minded is ,dea.,th  ; "
`- Life" tremble at the thought and certainty of death.                but to be spiritually minded  iis. life and -peace",  Rom.

       Death is described with various terms .and  under               8 :6 ; "And- you hath he quickened, who were dead in
  many figures in Scripture. It is spoken of as a re-                  trespasses. and `sins", Eph.:B  :1;  "But she that liveth in
  turn to the. earth, a regression to the dust: "In the                pleasure is dead while- she' liveth", I -Tim.  5 :6 ; "Then
  sweat ,of thy face shalt .thou eat bread, till thou return           when lust hath conceived, it .bringeth  forth sin: and
  unto the .ground:;  for,out of. it wast thou taken: for              sin, when- it is finished, bring&h -forth death", James
  .dust  thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return", Gen.              .I:15 ; "We know that we have passed from  .death  unto
  3 119, "Then shall ,the dust return to the earth as it               `life,  because we ,love  the brethren, He that loveth not
  was                                                                  his brother abideth in death", I John 3  :i4
           : and the spirit ahall.return  unto God who gave it",                                                              ; "And unto
 .' E&l.  12 :7.     According to other passages it is the  with-      the ,angel  of t.he  church in Sardis write ; These things_
  ,drawing,  or removal -from us; of the breath `of life:              ssith  he th.at  bath the seven Spirits*.of  God, and the
 {`Thou hidest thy.`face;  They.sa>re  troubled: thou takest           seven stars; `1 know thy works, that. thou hast a name
  away their breath, they die, and return to their dust",              that thou livest, and art'dead", Rev. 3 :I;
  Ps. .104.:29.  In many passages death is. figuratively                       So, too, eternal or.the  secon,d death, is also revealed
  pictured as a_ removal from the body:  a being absent;               to us in Holy Writ.            "And many of them that sleep in
  .a departure.        In these descriptions the body of life is       t,he  dust ,of  the earth shall, awake; some to everlasting
  compared to' a'tent  which dleatli  destroys : "Mine age is          life, an;d  some- to shame and everlasting corruption'), '
  departed and is removed from me ais a shepherd?s tent:               Dan. 12:2; "And.  fear- not them' which kill the body,
  I' have cut off like a weaver my life  :- he will cut me             but are not able -to $ill the soul : but rather fear him
  off with pining sickness: from day seven  to night wilt,             which, is able to destroy'.both' body and soul in hell",
:,thou  .make  an end of me", Isa. `38 :12 ; ."For  we, know Matt. 10 :28 ; "Then shall -he say unto them on `the left
  that if' our earthly house of this tabernacle were dis-              hand, ,Depart  from me, ye cursed, into ,everlasting  fire,
  solved, we have a building of God, an house not made                 prepared for the devil and his angels",. M&t. 25 :41;
  with haeds,  -et&ma,.1  in *he heavens", II Cor. 5 :I ;, "`Yea,      "Who -shall_ be punished with everlasting destruction.
I think .it meet, as long as :I `am in this tabernacle, to             from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of
  stir you up-by putting  you .M remembrance.; knowing                 `his power"; II `Them  .I :9 ; !`These  are wells without "
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  water; clouds that are carried Smith a tempest                        ways employs a numeral with the: term.
                                                       ; to whom                                                                 So, for'in-
  the mist of darkness is reserved for ever", II Pet. 2 :1'7            dance, in 
                                                                   ;                      Acts 2 : i4 we resd that` three .thousand souls
  "And death and hell were  cast .into  the lake of fire.               w'ere  added `to thee church ; that with Paul on the ship                      1
  T.his is the second d&h",  Rev; 20 : 14 ; "But the fkarful,           were two hundred seventy six souls ; and that in the
Land unbelieving, `and'  the abominable, and murderers,                 ark, few, that is eight souls were saved, by water.
  and whoremong&s,  aed .sorcerers,  and idolaters,. aizd                     Generally; it may be saild however that, the term
  all liars, shall have their part  in the lake which burneth           %&I~' in the New Testamept  refers to the inner seat
  ,wil&  `fire and  brimstone: which is the second dleath",             of the life of the ration&-moral creature.               That refer-
  Rev. 21:8.                                                            ence to thle  soul which identifies it as a spiritual, in-
      From these m.any  quoted passages it would skem                   visible, mortal substance,. gifted with volition and
  th&t the essential element  in #death  is separation from             understanding.            The soul is closely connected with
  God, the source of Life and all Good, while still in this             what is called "the spirit" (neuma) and usually exists
 life; therefore, a living. death.        Eternal or t_he, &cond        in connection with the body.
 ' death, incorperates  both t.he #element&  of physical and                  What, noti,  can we say of that soul? `We defined
  spiritual d,eath,  and is separation in the ultimate and              it as ,a substance.           Tliis is true from `.$-&, we said
  eternal sense.          Next time, the Load willing, we hdpe to       about the sbul that it p.ossessed  undtirstanding  and voli-
  rdevelop  this thought a bit and will make an attempt to              tion.          The. soul can. love and hate, may be gl&&  and re'-
  synthesize,some  of the passages here quoted.                         joice, b$ma,y also be cast down w.ith grief.               The basis
                                                      W .  IH.          f,or  thig conj,ecture  is found in .Matt. 26 :39,  "My ~~oul..is
                                                                        exceeding _sorrowful,  &en unto death."' Mdry says in

                                             .                          Luke 1':46:  "My soul sdoth magnjfy  the Lord."                   There
                                                                        we notice too that-the spirit-  is closely conn&ted  wit"?
                                                                        the soul, since Mary adds, "My spirit hath  Tejqiced  iu
         The> Term. "S6ul" in The Old.                                  God my Saviour."                                   -.
                                                                              That*  the soul is a substance .iive ma..y co&lude
                      Testaknt                                          secondly, from the fact that after separation of. sou!
                    .,                                                  and body,  the soul e@h& rejoices in heaven or is cast

      Very fitking it is for the Christian that occsisionally           down" in the desptiir of hell.
 his attention is called to terms found in the SCripturFs                  There are &ose  wlio maintain that man `has more
  which are- more or. less difficult for him to- define and             than one soul.,         Fact is however, that up.on  the basis of
  understand. Und'oubte`dly  the term "soul" as it ap-                  Scbipture  (of Matt. 16 :26,  an'd `J Cor. 6 :20),  man has
  pears in Holy ,Writ is one which frequently causes seine              but one soul, and that one soul-being in the 6ne  body,
  difficulty. _.                                                        determines the life of that body: (Acts 20 :.lO;  JarneT
 -. To .determin&  the meaning of the term "soul" as it                 -2 :269  .,     Were it true &sit man had more than one sdul,
                                                                        we-would necessarily have to maintain  that also Christ,
,is found in the New Testament, `we turi to the' originai
  Greek, and finId tha.t  there the word jxseuceh  is generally         who became like `unto us in all things except sin,  had
  employed to express what in English is called "soul".                 more than one Soul also.
  The word means "to breathe, blow", and refers in  s'ome                 Noiv  this one soul, given td our ind+i+dunl  bodies,
  instances to the "breath of life". (cf. Acts  2O:lO).                 was cres.,tedj  or given existence by Gosd.:  We notice                             ~
  Generally, the Greek word `for soul is not translated                 from the account of God  placing the breath of life' in _
  by "life", but by "100~1".        The conteSt  must determine         Bdam,  that wllere  Adam as to-Ris human frame .wa.s                           _
whi.ch of the two  should be used.                                      created out of the dust df -the earth,. God .ga.ve  him his
      The next question  we' must answer is': .What  does, 1 soul by breatKn.g  the breath of. &if e i&to him.                                 In:-
  the term soul in the New--Testament refer to according                mediately God formed Adam's  isoul,  '                     . .    '
  to different contexts wherein the term ,is employed?                        It .is not necessary here to `discuss the origin of  .tha
      It may refer to the life of man. So in Luke 12 :19                individual soul of men at.length.          Let it suffice.that  we
  the Rich Fool addresses his soul to eat, drink, and  bz               mention the spirit &=a  new-born babe `homes  not from
  merry.    -Then again the term may $efer  to the seat of              the par,ents,  btit  f+om  God, to-Whom  it sh:dl.  also again
  th.e life and emotions .of  the rational-moral creature.              return.                        _ .
  So Jesus, in .Matt.  10 :28 `warns against fearing those                   I*n .our &scussion  of the soul, especially as it is found.
who are unable to kill the soul,' but etiphaeizes  one                  in th,e New Testament, we must needs tbuch .upon  the
  should fear hiti who is a,ble  to destroy both soul .and              ,question  if `or ndt the soul is immortal.'                      : : :
  b o d y   i n   h e l l .                                                  The question of the immortality of the soul is:one
      Again, the ter? ml& refer 40 both the soul an'd the               frequently  discussed and often a&tiered  incorr&tly;
  body. An interesting' and .note-worthy  fact df the use               We maintain  that the soul is not immovtd,  .-but very-
  of ihis meaning  ,of the  term  ia that Scripture then al-            mortal indeed. We me aware of the fact_  that th+


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           spirit, or soul, does return tp God who made it, after                                   `Since then, we' are compassed :about  with so gre,at
      physical death. Also it is true that Christ through                                   s cloud of witnesses,.having  the :whole of .the revelation
     ;the  Holy Spirit went to preachthe fact of His resurrec-                              of.,God in the.Scr'iptures,  ,and .the  Spirit :of the riZen
      tion to the spirits in prison.' `(I Pet. 3 :19). But; this                            .Lord  within our hearts, let us j believe too, that our
     does not imply that the.soul  is immortsl  in so far as it                             `sorry  souls' ar:e,sav,ed from death and destruction in
           continues to live on.         Do not the Scriptures teach that                   and through our Lord ,and Saviour,  Jesus Christ !,
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(    td live apart from G.od is death?               Is not .death  separa-                                                                                                      ., ._ :                             S;  T .   C .
     ,-tion  from God?          Does not Christ warn us to fear `. ..,                                                 I . . ,:                                             {-`:_ ,                                                                          I .
           him: who is a`ble to `destroy both  soul and body in hell?                                                                                                                                                                  .
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      Indeed, the soul does ,qontinue  to exist, even in hell ; but                                                                                                               :
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      is thtit  soul, and. that presently "`spiritual? body of the                                                                    a.               IN`jEMQIRIAM  :, ._
           wicked n,ot in hell under the: touch of the wrath and                                  The Consistdry of th,e  Creston.`l%otestant  Reformed Church
     conden$ation  of the Living God who is a consuming                                     of Grind  Rapids: Michigan, `h'ereby'xvishes  to express its ~yin-~

     ~ fire? .That is ,desth,  death also for the soui of t,he                              .pathy.  to our fellow  elder, @II-. `S. I&per,  in the loss of his father,
           wicked.    Thus, we firmly maintain, rightly understood,                                                                                                               _ .;, ., ; 1
     the soul is mortal. j                                                                                                                                            J A M E S  tiUIPERS                                           ..,"
            So much in genecad  `about the soul. Our subject,                                                                                                                                                                                    \
                                                                                            who passed aw,ay'  on l&y 23, 1945. 1                                                                                                           "
           however, *calls  for. a more particular explanation of. the                              May the Lord comfort the `bereaved family and grant them
     t&m "soul" in the Mew  Teatamerit.                                           :
                                                                                            `the assurance that he has entered into the rest that remaineth
                 We gather  `from the Old Testament, but also in. an                        for the peop1.e  of God.                                                                                      _
     ever increasing measure from fbe New,-that the soul is
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           su.bject'to  dangers, su~bjetitto  fea-r;  (Abts  2 :43)  that                    .                                                                                                       John De Jon&  Pres.                                     _
      ?he soul must be preserved (I `Thess.  `5 :23),  that it `ex-                                                                              8
           periences opposition and is &gaged in war.fare'  and                                      f `,                                                                                            J'. Vanden  Engel,  Clerk. '
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     1 combat (I Pet. 2 :ll) , that the soul-is subj$t -to de-
           struction and_  `can an'd must be saved (Heb. `IO :39),                                                                                                    : .< .'
           since' th,e soul that `sin&h, it shall die.                                                                                      WEDIhIiG  ANNIVERSARY
                 The difference then, between the idea of the  ,soul
     prbper,  in ,the Old and in the New. Testament is this                                       `On June..9;`1945  our beloved parents,
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     `;The  Old Testament' saint, in tionsideration  of his soul                                                             `MR. ALBERT VAN TUINEN
           that it was subject to death,. looked forward `to the                                                                                                                 and .. ,.
     .*realization  of the `promise, that Go'd would not leave                                                               Mrs. A. VAN TUNINEN (nee `Bomers)                                                                                    .    -.
     ,: his soul i,n hell, `nor suffer His Holy One to see &r:-                                                                                                                                                                ,.
      `ruption. ,He looked forward to the Christ, who is cen-                               celebrated their 39th wedding anniver.sary.
           trally. the su&er?t-  of- this' confession of victory over                               Psalm 40:5-Many,  0 Lord my ,God, are thy wonderful works

     i hell and .the grave. The New Testament Scriptures,. `, which;thou-  hast done, and thy thoughts which are' to  usward:
     .however,  glance backward, and with greater and fuller                                6theyi*iannot  `be  `reckoned up' in order unto thee: if I would
     . . joy. glory in Christ Jesus of whom Luke. testifies in                              declare and spe&'  of. them, they are more than can be re-
      `Acts 2 :31 that His                                                                  m         e                m             b                e                     r     e        d         .
                                 soul wss  .not  left in hell (Hades),                               .*:                                                         :
     ,..neither did \His  flesh `see corruption.                 Fulfilled was                                                                                                         Mr.,and  Mrs. Gordon Van Tuinen
                                                                                                       i I.!`]                                              ,
     .`the promise of victory in the resurrection of Jesus..                                                      I                                                                    MIT. ,and  Mrs. Arthur Van Tuinen
                                                                                                                                                                                 Bernice.  +'
            '    But Jesus was .not  the victor over the `grave.as  an
      individual.         We ;kndw  that &en.:  Jesus arose, -we were                       Grand Rapids, Mich:                                                                   Raymond
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           raised with Him. `We are not of them thatshrink back

           unto perdition ; but of them that have faith unto the                                                              `20th ANNbAL  FIELD  DAY                                                                                           -. .,
      `saving of the soul.          Through'Him  we have the-victory
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           as to `our. soul and body,                                                                                                                 Ideal Park - July  4

      .          `Thus, our saved soul may  h&e hope, may fight the                                         $PBAKE&  -                                                           MU        S         K          ,- RE@RESHMENTS
           good fight of faith, an.d we may!  rejoice in .God  our                                                      ._' I
                                                                                                            Games and  Races for Children - Prizes.
     : Saviour .as did Mary of old. This is the beauty of the
     Scriptures, for while the Old Testament always pointed " I Ballgames between. single, and married .men.
           forward, by its types sand `shadows looking for `better                                                      Q
           things to come; the-New  T~estament  assures us-of the                                           Meet Old Friends - Make New Friends:
     realization -of all the promises of God.                   All things teen-

     ,ter  around the Christ, Who is the Son  of' God- and the-                                       Come .and- enjoy` one another's fellowship!
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, . first-bora of w&y creature.                                                                                                                                        \
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