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                                                                      abl,eness  of t.he Word of God ils-here expressed as a
   ._ ` M E D I T A T I O N .                                         per&nal testimotiy.
                                                                          It is not a dogmatic (statement.        It does not declare
                                                                      the objective fact that the Word of .God is always a
                                                                      light in darkness.
           Iti The Light Of His Word                                      On the contrary, it is the cotifession  of the poet con-
                                                                      cerning his own, personal experience.
                                                                          He knows that Word, and it  h.precious to him;          He
                 Thy word is CC lamq unto mi,!  feet, and CL          walks in its way, ,and unconditionally he puts his con-
             Eight-unto my path.-                                     f i d e n c e  iii. it. N,or did it ever f.ail him. Always it
  ~.                                      P s a l m  119:105.         pr,oved  to $im to be- a lamp-unto  his feet; and ,a light
                                                                      upon his path.
        A_ lamp unto my feet!     _                                       Unto my feet, upon'my path!
        And a. light upon my path is .thy Word !
        Such, emphatically, is the meaning of this part.                  Thy Word `is a light,!             _                    ,.
of the Word ,of God in the one hundred and nineteenth                                                   \
p&&i.
        N,ot upon the Word ,as such, which, in fact, is the            ,'  T h y  W&d!
theme of the entire psalm, but upon its function and                      Always that .Word is the Word of God!
.blessedness as a. guiding light, as a light that shines                  NE:ver  il3 it ,the Word of man, eve.n though it assumes
in the darkness upon my pathway,  ds I have to travel                 the for& of man's word.
it through the midst of the world, falls all the emphasis.                Whether it is the Word God eternally speaks in and
        That is the theme of this entire section.                     unto /Himself, the Word that is eternally with Him and
        The world in the m.idst of which'the psalmist walks           is God ; or whether it .is the Word, He speaks in  t,inie
is dark. He. is very much laRlided, and suffering is his,            through the works of. His hands, so that the heavens
lot, ,His soul iis.  continudly  in his hand. The enemies             d&are His glory,. and the firmament telleth His handi-
of _ the cause' of the Son of God encompass him, ase.                work, .Iday uato $2:~.  utter.eth speech, and night unto
constantly on-the alert to lay snares for him,  that, they           [night sheweth knowledge ; or whether it. .is the Word
may entrap him,b and seduce him from the way of.                     which from thg beginning. He sgoke to,us through the
righteousness, ,or destroy him in the way.           But .in this    prophets, and which he realized Iwhen Hesp'oke through
darkness, the Word of God is the ligh$ that: guides him,             the Son in the fulnesls  of time, exalting Him, through
a lamp unto his feet, a light upon his pat.h.            He lias     the cross, at His right hand ; or whether it` is that
sworn to keep it.       His desire is to be instructed in its        same Word, but now as it is preser.ved  f6r  us,`for  His
w i s d o m  ever more fully. Whateirer may betide, he               peopl!e  in the new diispensation,  in the Holy Scriptures,
does not forget it.      Though the wicked laid silares for          -always it is emphatica!lly  the Word of `God, and in no
him, he Idid  not err from the path of its directing light.          wise the word of.msn._
It is his heritage forever, precious to him mo?e tha?i                    It is the Word of which God is both'subject and
fine gold.      And to th& Word he has inclined his heart,           predicate,. the Word which \He speaks, alnd which He
that he perform the istatutes  of his God'always.                    speaks concerning Himself.
        And that is the subject of this particular passage,               God's  Word is always the revelation of %X living
a.s the original Hebrew brings out with emphasis.                    God Himself.
        And let us note, that the preQugn=s alaad  indispensE             And  thu'ough the Word which I-I; speaks TV us, by


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                  wh$' He' descends to our own `level in order to  ajddress            Always the resurrected Lord is the heart of ..the
              us in language we can grasp, He reveals to us Who and                Word of God !
             What He is, and makes known unto us the  .mystery -of                    `That  is why the preach!er  -of- that W.ord may never
             -,.His works, the. secret of His counsel, the wonders of              hesitate to speak of the risen Lord, whether he minis-
            .. His way, the fellowship of His covenant,  .the tgl!or.y of          ters unto that Word as he finds it-in Gene&  or Revela-
             His ever blessed `name, the knowl,edge which is eternal               tion, in Isaiah  or in Paul, in the Psalms or in the
             `j life...                                                            gospel according to John.
                         O'f  tha.t'Word,  which the Most [High speaks through         And al.ways that, Word, as Word ,of God, is "quick,
             Jesus Christ our Lord as the God of our salvation, the                and powerful, and sharper than-any twoedged sword,
             ' poet speaks.                                                        piercing even to the dividing asunder of. soul and
             :           It is ,His Word to His people, to the heirs of the        spirit, and ,of the joints and'marro,w,  and is .a discerner
                  promise,, -by which He calls .them : "Behold, I' your God !"     of the thoughts and intents of t,he heart."
                         And that Word is ever the same.                               This is the reason why the (psalmist, centuries be-
                         Whether it is spoken through Moses,  emphasizing          fore the dajwn of the fulness of time, coul:d simply slpeak
              to the people. of Israel that the Word is nigh unto them,            of "thy Word", without fear of being misunderstood.
                  or through Paul, teatihing  us that faiith cometh by the             The ,Word  may express itself in many cominand-
                  thing heard, and the thing heard #by the Word. of God;           merits  and statutes, but it etill is one and the same
_.-               whether it is the psalmist through whom it is spoken,            Word of God. `For God is One, and Christ is <One, and
                  and who relates' of his experience of that Word,  tast-ing       the Word of God is one.
                  it and finding it sweeter than honey  am'd  the honey-               It is the resurrection of the crucified- Son-of God!
                  comb, or -Peter, .presenting  it as' the power through               Jesus Christ, the Lord !-
            - which we are regenerated out of-  unzorruptible seed;                    Marvellous Word of God!
                  whether Isaiah complains that hardly anyone believed
                  his report, or John speaks of the Word that is become                                          .                    _
             flesh ,aad idwelled among.urs;  always that Word is the                   + lamp unto my feet !,
                  same.        0, to be sure, as the Word is repeat,edly spoken        And a light upon my path is thy Word!
                  in various forms and diverse manners, it gains in -3X-               The two predicates by which the psamist  describes
                  ness, in riches of `grace, in brightness of. its light,, in'     the Word of God in relation to himself, as he walks in
                  clarity of revelation. From the time the Protevangel             the midst of this world, principally mean th'e same
                  was spoken in the ea:rs-of  our fallen first parents, to the     thing, express one idea: the Word is a light that en-
                  fulness of time there was, as it were, an ever continuing        ables him to wallk confidently, hopefuhy,  though be-
                  divine exegesis of that first Word-of-  God in Paraldise,        yoml .the lightbeam of that Word all is darkness,
             through patriarchs and prophets, through shadows and                      A~familiar  figure the text contains.
                  ~ceremonies, through symbols and types ; and when God,            What dweller in the country, when in the  i&y
                  in theee lat,ter  days, spoke to us through His Son the          darkness of a moonless  night he would visit a neigh-
                  light of the Word broke through in all its glory and             hour, does not take with him aI lantern or flashlight,
            splendo?  of salvation; yet, essentially that Word never               that he be able to find ,his way safely through the
                  changes. It is ever the same             -.                      darkness? All about him it is dark; but he has a
                         And always it is the gospel!              _ _             "lamp unto his feet, and a light upon his  pa&h_"               Or,
                         An'd the gospel is the promise!  -                        to' use a more modern figure, the traveler by auto'
                         And the promise is Jesus Christ, the Light .of the        switches on the .headlights of his car .when the road
                  world !.,                                                        grows dim and the -darkness of the night descends upon
                         And the heart of that gospel is the resurrection of       him. Beyond the few hundred feet `of light flashed
                  Jesus  Christ from the dead! And the resurrection of             upon the road ahead of him, all .is dark; but- in that
            Jesus Christ is the center .around  which all things                   light upon his path he confidently speeds ahead to his
                  revolve, and unto whih all things must and #do- tend !           destination.                                                  1-e -, . .
                  For he is "the image of the invilsible God, the firstborn            Such is the figure.                           . .
                  of every creature : For by him were all things created,              And, although .:but a figure, it expresses a deep
                  that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and           spiritual reality.
                  invisible, whether they `be thrones, or dominions, or                For the believer, the heir of the promise, is a. pil-
       .          pruncipalities, or powers : all things were created' by          grim of the. night.        He travels through the darkness
                  him, and for him: -And he is before all;things, and by           of this world.    Night, pitch iblack night, descended on
                  him all things, consist.     And he is the ,head of the body,    the world in Paradise the first, and the sun went down
                  the church : who is the beginning, the firstborn from            when it was still morning.              It is the night of sin and
                  the dead i that in all things. he might have the  pre;           death, from the which there is:, as far as we are ,con-
                  eminence," .                                     -                . ahed,  no.`imy  out.     There is a debt w$:,mn never pay
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  the debt of our guilt.     There isthe  power and dominion                foundatiori  `of the world to be the firstborn among
of corruption, from which we can never deliver our-                         many brethren, the heaid-of His: Church,. rHe  went into
  selves.    There is the grim enemy qf death, the fear of                  the depth of our death, and bore all our sins away  !
  whom phrsues us all our lifetime, and whom we can                             He w'as made perfect through sufferings.!                             .
  never escape.    There is no way out into the light.               Nor        He went through  the darkness of our dealth in such
  @an we inveilt al -way.     All the wisdom of men, all the                a way that the way was forever  left open for all His
  $zilosoghy  of the syorld, is~'  vain, and prove,d.  itself               brethren to follow Him!
-- powerless to show the way out.                                               He obtained everlasting-righteousness and life for
      And through ?hat  ,da,rkness travel the heirs of the                  211 whom the. Falther gave Hiti, _ the heirs of the
  promise !                                                                 promise.
      For K that world they are born.         And u.nder  that                  And He beams His own  resurrection-light upon
  darknes  they are brough$  into existence.            And through         their pathway as they :Flk  through  t.he <darkness  of
  that da.lrkness  they must needs travel. The guilt ,of                    the pre@ent  night!                                             f
  the world is'their guilt. Through flesh-  and blood they,                     Thy Word!               . `,.I _ .-. .
  too, are under the curse of death, and pine away under                       ,A lamp unto'i&`fe&  a light u'pon  my path! .-
  the fierce wrath of God.  .Children of wrath they-                            A sure light, in which I walk confidently, for it is
  &e, by- nature, as also "the  others."           c           `,           the Word of God  that-  cannot lie !
      But. they ha!ve light in the ;diarkn&ss !                                 And ;a1 blessed .ligh't,  ihat fills me with joy in the
      Only, this time,  it is not a light which they flash'                 midst of ,s.orrow,  with peace in the mi`dst  of unrest, with
  upon their way from within: it shines from without.                       righteousness in the midst of sin, with life in th'e midst
  This light is not a  .lantern  which they can light, and                  of ;d:eath  ! *
  which they can ?arry,  with them  into the night: it                             0, ,glprious  lilght of Thy Word !
  flashes on `their path from the beyond.               It is not the              God 02 my salvat-ion  !
  .headlight  of their traveling vehicle which they have                                           .
  power  to switch on; its is.ource  rather beckons them
  froth  the distance!                                                             Unto my feet!.
      It~is  lhght upon  their  pathway from above!                            And. upon my path !
      The _souEce of this light is the Word .of God, the                           The confession is strictly personal.
  rksurrection  of -Jesus Christ from the dead !                                   The psalmist does not speak of the  light- of the
      For that resurrection of J&us, our Lord, nay, better                  Word in a -dogmatic  way; apart from his. own relation
   still, the risen Lord Himself, is the'  way.  out of our                 to that light: he speaks from actual experience.
  ;3arkness into the everlasting light of g1or.y  in God's                         He knows and loves that light. IHe walks,  in it.
   hea>venly  tabernacle!  An*d  the Word of-God through                    _ He, follows its direction.                   I% puts all his trust in it,
   that' resurrected kord is the light upon our -pathway,                   so that, rejecting $11 the would-be light of the woEd  of
  the lamp ugto  our feet!  .                                               man, he keeps his feet in the,light-path of the Word
      It reveals the way out of guilt into everlast& right-                 of C&d only.
   eousness, the- forgiveness of sin, the adoption unto                      And that implies,.that  the light o'f that Word shone
   children and heirs.      That Word of the God of our .sal- and shines in his heart. 0, to be sure, that Word is a
  ,vation  is the light, in which as they  tra!%el by itj the               light, is the only light that shows the way `through
   heirs. of the  promise have the assurance of  $b'e : way                 an`d out of the darkness, whether we know :afnd  acknow-
   out of the slavery anld dominion of sin into the..glorious               ledge it as such or not;                      But never will we chopse  the
   liberty of the [children of-God.    It shines upon'th&ay                 d;irection  qf that light by nature.                   $`or we are fdolish,
   out of the lie into the  truth  of the knowledge of,.G;od,               .enemies  of Go,d, always choosing the lie rather than the
   out of ci>rruption  into everlasting holiness, out of th?                truth, and loving the darkness rather than the-  light.
   lu+st  of the flesh into the love of God, out of death into              And, therefore, the light of that Word must  shin,e  in

 , life, out of the deptih  of hell into @he glory of God's                 our hearts, if ever it is to become a  lijght  upon eour
   presence; yea, even out of our present  eart,hly  im-                                                                            --
                                                                            p a t h w a y .  _.
   perfection into that heavenly height of  et,efGal  life, the                    `Or, t6 abandon the figure for a moment, the Word
  sz:sprice of which is the highest possible reallization,  of              of-God,  but emphatically ,a)s the Wofld 0)' Cod, the Word
   Go.d's bl.essed  covenant of friendship, so that we shall                which Gold  slpeaks ;quiek  and powerful, must be spoken
   see Him face to face, and  mkn,ow  Him even as we  atre                  to us, to our hearts, ,before  we are trsanslated  otit  of
   known! _ ' _'                                                            darkness into libht  !
      And all this blessed -light  streaims  upon our path-                        `Thy Word, my light : 0, glorio&  .&c'i !
   way .from the face of the Risen Lord!                                           Blessed~ be God ! The God of my. salvation!
      He died and:  rose again!                         --.                        Halleluja~h! -. *
      Be,  the Oqe' &tit; was mQint;ed frdm before the                                                                                    H .   H .
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     Contributing Editors: - Revs. J. Blankespoor,  A. Cammenga                                                                                                                                         ,With reference to the last point of the "Complaint",
 :P. De Boer, J. D. De Jong, H. De Wolf, L. Doezema, M.                                                                                                                                             I have demonstrated thus far, first of all, that the
     Grittersr C. Hanko, B. Kok, G. Lubbers, G. M.. Ophoff, A..                                                                                                                                     claim on.the  part of the complainants to the right of an
     Petter, M. Schipper, J. Vanden  Breggen, H. Veldman,  R. Veld-
                                                                                                                                                                                                    ir&tional  position must be denied them 
     man, L; Vermcer,  P. Vi,s, G. Vo,s, W. Hofman, J. Heys.                                                                                                                                                                                    : their position,
                                                                                                                                                                                                    that God seeks sincerely the salvation of the reprobate
           Communicatioas  relative to contents should be addressed                                                                                                                                 is not irrational, but presupposes an Arminian view of
     to REV. II. HOEKSEMA, 1139 Franklin St., S. E., Grand
     Rapids, Mi.chigan.                                                                                                                                                                             reprobation ; and, secondly, that their argument in
                                                                                                                                                                                                    support of this their contention is very superficial
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     fee of $1.00 accompanies the notice.                                                                                                                                                           reprobate, they directly contradict Holy Writ.
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     Entered as Second Class mail  at. Grand Rapids, Michigan.                                                                                                                                      general' observation,' frequently made by Calvin, that it
:                                                                                                                                                                                                   is not God's good plea.sure  that the gospel `be ,preached
                                                                                                                                                                                                    to all men, or even to the majority of men.          This is
                                                                                                                                                                                                    simply a fact, but this is also plainly expressed in
                                                                     CONTENTS                                                                                                                       `S.cripture, and it is .pointed  out in our Confessions.    A
                                                                                                                                                                                                    fact it is, for in the old dispensation the gospel was
MiDIB'ATION  -
                                                                                                                                                                                                    revealed, for many a century, only to one nation; and
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IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD .I..........................: I.................. 493                                                                                                                      at the beginning of the new dispensation the preaching
                                                                                                                                                                                                    of the.gospel  was entrusted to only a few men, so that
                 Rev. `H. Hoeksema                                                                                                                                                                  it must necessarily.require  many years before the tid-
                                                                                                                                                                                                    ings of salvation could reach every  ,nation.  And Israel
EjlITORIAik  .-                                                                                                                                                                                     is more than once reminded of this distinction, as, for
THE TEKT O F A COMPLAINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ..a . . . . . . . . . . 496                                                                         instance, in Psalm 147 :19,  2`0 : "He sheweth his word
                                                                                                                                                                                                    unto Jacob, his s'caitutes  and his judgme.nts  unto Israel.
THE LIBERATED CHURCHES IN THE NETHERLANDS..497                                                                                                                                                      He bath.  not ,dealt  so with any nation: arrd as for his
EXPOSITION OF THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM . . . . . ...499                                                                                                                                             judgments, they have not known-them.         Praise ye the
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Lord."    An,d the Canons of Dordrecht, II, 5, declare
           R e v .  H .Hoeksema                                                                                                                                                                     that the promise of the gospel "ought to be declared

                                                                                                                                                                                                    and published to all nations, and to all  pensons  promis-
THE'OLD AND ITHE  NEW CJOVENANT                                                                                               . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  / . . . . . . . . . . 502    cuously and without ;distinction,  to w/horn  God out of

MONASTICXSM                               . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I............... . . . . . . . . . . 504          his goosd plensupe  sends the gospel." NOW,  if the
                                                                                                                                                                                              -,    preaching of the gospel is strictly under the direction
           Rev. G. M. Ophoff                                                                                                                                                                        of God's pl,ea&re,  and i.f, according to that good

                                                                                                                                                                                                    pleasure, the gospel was sent to only a comparatively
EEN ,GEBED DAVIDS' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507                                      small immber ,of men, what becomes of this earnest

                 Rev. G. Vos                                                                                                                                                                        desire on the part of God to save the reprobates?
                          .                                                                                                                                                                             But I will remark this only in passing. The com-

C HR IST F OR B I D D I NG T O S P R EAD H I S F AM E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509                                                                                                             plainants might object that they ,do not claim that
                                                                                                                                                                                                    God sincerely seeks the salvation of all the reprobates,
     Rev. L. Doezema                                                                                                                                                                                but only of thos'e  that hear the gospel. I will, there-
                                                                                                                                                                                                    fore, conclusively prove to them from Slcripture  that
TEMPTED, YET WITHOUT SIN .,,~ ..,,....................  ..,...t  (1.. . . . . . . . . 511                                                                                                           by this claim they contradict, not themselves, for  this-
      ' Rev. J,A. HEYS                                                                                                                                                                              they admit, but Holy Scripture itself.    And I will do. so
                                                                                                                                                                                                    by quoting a few passa,ges  from Holy Writ that leave

                                                                                                                                                                                                    no doubt as to their meaning.


                                              T H E .   S T A N D A R D   B E A R E R                                            4 9 7  ;

        Turn to the sixth chapter from the prophecy of                    that they may emphatically see and hear (seeing see,
   Isaiah. It speaks of Isaiah's calling to  pr,each. And                 and hearing hear) with their natural per:eption, with-
  w.hat is his very speciaI  commission,?           Y,ou- find. it in     out spiritually understanding these thin&.             6. And,
  the following words : "Go, and tell. this people.             Hear      finally; that the purpose is expressed in the words:
  ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but                   "Lest they should be converted, an& their sins should
  perceive not.           Make' the heart of this people fat, ,and        be forgiven them."
  make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they                         Passages like the above (and we will quote more)
see with their eyes, snd hear with their ears, and                        plainly teach that it is God's good pleasure, not to
   und~erstand with their .hearts,  and convert, and be                   save, but to harden the reprobates by the preaching
  *healed." vss. 9, 10. Let the complainants admit that                   of the gospel.
   Isaiah is called to preach ,the gospel to Isr,a.el, and that,                The complainants contradict Scripture.
  through this, preachin,g the remnant accordi.ng  to the                                                                   H:H. .
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   election of grace will be saved.            And let them also
   admit that, according to the good pleasure of God, this
   same preaching must serve to the hardening and                                              -7-
   damnation of the reprobate.            They will have to admit
   this, for the text allows. of no other interpretation.
   And admitting this, `they will have to confess that                    -.
   their claim that G,od through the preaching of the                             The Liberated Churches
   gospel sincerely seeks the salvation of the reprobates
  .stands  in flat contradictioh with the Word of God.                                      In, The Netherlands                             -

        If there should be :aay doubt in -their minds, as to
  the meaning of the above passage from Isaiah, let them                        The following information, which contains a literal
  turn `to John 12 37ff. where we read: "But though                       copy `of a protest or letter sent by the Revs. M.' De
   he had ,done .many miracles before them, yet they                      Goede and C. Veenhof (well-known to former readers
   believed not on him: That the saying of  Esaia,s the                   of De Reformatie),,  and twenty eight elders to their -
. prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who                   consistory in Utrecht, and is, therefore, ofinial  and '
   hath believed our report? and to whom bath  .the arm                   reliable, ma!y serve to throw additional light on the
   of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could n o t                  cause of the schism in the Reformed Churches in the
   believe, because that Esaias  said again, He hath ~blind-              Netherlands.
                                                                                By way of introduction my informer writes that ' ~:
   ed their eyes, and harde&d  their heart; that they                     the above brethren had sent a protest to their consist-
   should not see with their eyes, nor unlderstand with                   ory as early as June 1944,  in which they had declared
  their heart, and.be converted, and I shoulld heal them."                that they could not adquiesce  .in the do.ctrinal  declara-
What, irl the light of these passages, becomes of the                     tions made'by the Synod in 1942.      The following letter
   vain theory that God, in the preaching of the gospel,                  is a further. elucidation of that `former protest,.
   sincerely seeks the salvation of the reprobate, as the                       We must bear in mind that the protesting brethren
   complainants- claim?                                                   have not yet joined the "liberated churches."
        Or again, consider the explanation the Lord Jesns                       The document here follows in the Dutch :
  \Himself  offers to His disciples of the fact that He                         "Wij verklaren bij dezen:                             F
   speaks to the people in parables: "Aild  he said unto                        -1; Dat wij de uitspraak, dat volgens de Belijdenis
  them, Unto you it is given to  ,know the mystery.  of the               der Kerken het zaad ,des Verbonds krachtens de belofte
  kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all                     Gods te houden is voor wedergeboren en in  Christus
  these things are dolne in paralbles:  That seeing they                  geheilitgd, totdat het tegendeel blijkt bij het opwasse:l'
  may. see, and not perceive ; and hearing they may hear,                 uit hun wandel of leer:
  and. not understand ; lest at any time they s'hould  be                       kunnen aanvaarden als *de practis?he  omschrijving
   conv,erted; and their sins rniajy  be forgiven them."        Note      -zooals die van 1905-1942 in de Gereformeerde Ker-
   here: 1. That under the preachmg of the gospel it ie                   ken gold-van #den regel, waarnaar  wij met de kinde-
  given to the elect to know. the mystery of the kingdom.                 ren des Verbon,ds,  die imrners in ide gemeente Gods be-
o f   h e a v e n .     2. That they that are without are. the            grepen zijn, in ,de praktijk van het kerkelijk leven zullen
   reprobate.          3. T-hat  before their eyes the things of the      handel,en. Het behandelen van de kinderen des Ver-
  kingdom of God are tine in parables: every time a                       bonds naar ldezen regel sluit `niet uit, vraagt ook niet
  sower so& forth to sow, he enacts a thing of the king-                  als aanvullin, maar  sluit volstrekt'  in zioh den voort.
   dom of God in parable. 4. That the, Lord points to                     durenden oproep tot geloof en bekeering, de ernstige
  these enacted parables by His, teaching.           5. Tohat  this is    vermaning om te waken voor afval, en de in iedere
  ,done, not to seek the s%lvation,  of the reprobates, but               werkelijke bediening  des Woords met kracht  Gtgaanrte


 opwekking om zichzelf te beproEven  of men in*het ge-              des Vterbonds  op Zij:n, voor ons verborge?.,  tijd schen-s
 loof is. .            .                                           ~ ken wil.
      2. Dat de regel om de kinderen des Verbon,&  aldus:                  .6: Dat, t.a;v. d,e kerkreehtelijke kwestie, wij met de
 te behandelen, gefundeerd is in {het  feit, dat hun de be-         tijdens, de D,oleantie bewust en metteadaad  en rechtens
 lofte des Verbonds toekomt.       Deze belofte, die een toe-       aanvaa.rde kerfkrechtelijke  beginselen nog ten volle vast-
 zegging is van alle weldaden deca; Verbonds, ldat is dus           houden :
 van C'bristus  en alles wat Hij voo?~otis  verwop$en heeft                .dat de macht van deiz Berkeraad  nax haar aard
 en && Zijn Geest in ons toepast, is onlosmakelijk                 hooger is ,dan die der meerder vergaderingen, omdat zij
 verbade  met den eisch des-Verbonds om in de wegen `een Idoor Christus Zelf rechtstreeks gegeven en alzoo een -
 des Heeren te w,anldelen, de toezegging vail den zegen- `oorspronkelijke;  volledige, en duurzame macht is, ter-
 des Verbotid.s,  welken God in deti weg der -gelobfs-              wijl. de macht van ,de meerdere vergaderingen een door
 gehoorzaamheid schenken wil, en de dreiging met den                     Christus via de kerken verleende <en alzoo afgelei'<e
 vloek Id:es Verbonds, indien op zoo groote tggenade  geelz         m a c h t  is, bepermkt  en'tijdelijk.
 acht wordt geslalgen.  Deze eenheid van belofte, `eisch                  dat in de bepalingen van art. 31 D.K.Q. welke voor-              :
 en toezegging van zegen en v,loek .is, zoo  innig, dat de          schrijt,  dat de besluiten der meerdere vergadering
 belofte, inditi  ze daarvan gescheiden wordt, _ geh'eel-          voor vast en bomlig eghouden zullen worden, tenzij
teniet gaat.     In dezen onverbreekbaren- samenhang                het bewezen worde te strijden tegen het Woord Gods
.komt cie belofte (des Verbon,ds aan alle kind'eren der ge-         of tegen de artikelen in deze Generale Synode  besloten,
loovigen toe.               .-                                      etc., met het "bewezenworde" bedoeld wordt een Yoor-
                                                                    zichzelveq  bewezen achten, dat God! Woord de naleving ,
 _    3. Dat de Doop is de verzegeling van deze  Vrbonds-         .van wat goed gevonden is, v.erbiedt,, walarbij men uite!`-
belofte. In overee&tetiming  met de uitspraak van de                aapd verplicht is althans te pogen dit bewijs voor de be-
 Gereformeerde Synode van 1863 en met Prof; Linde-                 trokken kerkelijke vergadering te leggen, omdat anders,
bOom  en Idegcnen,~wier  conscientie  in 1905 moest wor-            naar liet oordeel van Prof;  R,utgers,  `<deze  bepaling
 den `gerustgesteld en ook -in,derdaad'gerustgesteld w&rcl,-        0iE5n  zou zijn.".
 gelooveb  wij,. dat volgens . de ,Belijdenisschriften  de                  en ,dadt het in strijd is met de D.K.O. een  ambtq-
Heilige Doop wezenlijk n is met  ,d#e besnijdenis.      Hij       drager te schorsen met volkomen negeering van de .,
bete.ekent  en verzegelt @et yat in den, sdoopeling  aan-           in eerste? instantie bij idie.schorsing  betrokken kerkei
wezig is, of verodersteld wordt aanwkzig te zijn, maar.            raad.
Ide beloft&  van het ~.genadeverhon$?n  het Evangelie'
geopenbaard.                                                       -'
                                  .__..
      4. Dat de Doop, `die iti ,overeenstem&ng  met Gods
ordinantin, dat .wil dus Feg&n, door van Zijnentwege                       Here `follows a brief diges- of the above letter in,
aangewezen ambtsdragers met de #door Hem Zelf vast-                 English :
gest,elde Dopsformule, en ,door Hem Zelf aarigwezen                        1. The authors `can acoept  the synodickl declaration'
personen wordt s&$iiend,  steeds, is een waarachtige en
                                           :                       thait th& chi!d-n,of the covenant must be considered:  as
,weldadige   D o o p .                                             sanctfied in Christ and regenerated, until the_co,ntrary
      5. Dat Ide aanvaarding  van.den in 1 geqoemden regel          appears, as a practica1 Idefinition of the rule according
voor het kerkelijk handelen  met de kinderea des Ver-              t.o which in the iife=  of the church the children  of-the
bonds niet insl,uit de noodzakelijkheid van het veronder-          covenant must be treated.                -
stellen, dies van het ianv+&rden met een hypothetiSch                       2 .  That  in the application   o f   t h i s  rule, -which  i s
oordeel, dat de Heilige Geest in het .hart van ,elk kind           b&sqd on the fact that  the pi"omise is for- the children
des Verbonds,, op het moment van den Doop, h.et on-                <as wel1 as for the adults, it must n,ever be forgotten.
vernietigbare weFk Zijner. wederbarende` genabe be-                t h a t  th promise of the covenant,  is insepapable from'
gonnen heeft. Wij kunnen deze veronderstelling niet                the bemand to walk in, bhe  w a y   o f   t h e  covenant, `.
aanvaarden. Vooreerst niet; .omdat ons God volkom:x                from th,e assurance of the blessing  of the covenaut .
.onkundig  heeft gehouden omtrent het tijdstip vn Len             to be had .in - the .way ,of fajth  Rad  o b e d i e n  e ,   a n d
aanvang  Zijner wederbasende   w e r k i n g   i n  de h,arten.    f r o m  the  t h r e a t   o f  the cum:e od the covenant  i n
der uitverkoren kinderen, en. het ons daarom ,niet past'           case of~ disobedience. Only in this ins,eparable  con- `.
daaromtrent veronlderstellingen  te .maken. En vervl-             nection <s, the promise  for the tchildren  of the cove-
gens niet., omdat naar het woord van Prof. Bavinck,                Inant.
.het Verbond aan de `weldaden des- V$erbonds  en dus. ook                  3. That baptism seals t?xe promise of the covenant, :
:aan ide wedergeboorte voorafgaat en het .ontvangen van            aot a certain present, or presipposed  grace in the
den Doop, die de verzegeling  is7q.n het opnemen in .het           children.
Ver,bond, niet noodzakelijkerwijs insluit het reeds ont-                   4. That baptism, pr,operly  administer&,  is always: :
vangen hbben van de welrladen .die .Go,d in den' weg              true &nd bene.ficierit.


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          5.` The authors, cannot accept the theory of pr&                    after the crucifixion to all the ,d&parted  spirits."          And

     supposed regenera$ion.  The moment when God per-                         Dr. Schz+ff  continues : "As such the descent  is a part
     forms the grace of-the rebirth  in !he elect childrer!                   of the uni%rsality  of the scheme of redemption, and                                 _,
     ,tif -the covenant is hid from us.              Besides, they are re-    forms the transition from the state of humiliation to
                                                                                                                                   .
     ceived in-the covenant before the work `of grace is                      the state of exaltation."                                __
     begun in them.         That they are thus b&ken  up in& God's               Whether or not "this is- the historical  ex&nation,  ._

     covenatit,  therefore, doas not _ necessarily imply that                 according to the belief ,of the ancient church," as Dr.
     they already received the benefits of the covenant.                      Schatff thi&s, we have no means td' verify.        However,
          6. Contcerning  the church-political question, the                  the explanation is rathep vague, and.it  is rather diffi-
     authors hold that the power 6f the consistory is higher                  ,cul.t to see how `the "descent  into hell" in this sense
     than that of th,e broader gatherings, klassis  an,d synod.               could be a part of the universality of the scheme of
     Art. 31 of the Church Order, in their opinion;  m,ean:s                  redemption.      Besides, it opens a wid,e  field of specula-
     that no one is bound to carry out the decisions of the                   tion as to the purpose 2nd eff'ect  of this self-manifesta-                     I
     broader gatherings if for himself he is convinced that                   tion of Christ to all the dead in hides.  Why should
     they are contrary to the Word of God or the Confes-                      C,hrist  t&us manifest Himself to all the dead, and what
     sions, proviced  that he is in ,duty  bound to bring b.is                coul,d such a self-manifestation add to the revelation
     objections, to the ecclesiastic@ gathering concerned.                    of Jesus Christ ,as  the Saviour of His people?
     It is contr&y  to the Church Order to suspend  office-                      We need n,ot  seriously Icons&r  t'he view that our
     beaxers'without  even considering their consistory.                      Lord, after His crucifixion, descended into. the place

                                                                              of desolation in order to suffer the tortures of the

          The consist,ory  6;i Utrechtm  deliberated upon `the                damned, neither can this have been the  mearning  of ,.
     above mentioned document, alnd reached the following                     the early church, if the explanation of D.r. Schaff given
     conclusions: 1. That it contains, nothing that is in                     above is correct.    Whatever the early chu?ch may have
     conflict, with the Con,fessi&s and the Chur.&h Order.                    tmderstood  aby  hades, it oertainly caqnot  have been  the
     2. That it opens th& possibility t,o restore.  unity, both               place of eternal punishment, for it w,as to all the depart-                '

     i.n the church of Utrecht and in the churches in general.                ed spirits that Chris! is supposed to have manifested`
     3. That the Consistory, therefore, wills  seek contact                   Himself. Besides, the notion that the  Saviour.  suf:
     with. the other churches, in-.order  that brethren and                   fered t,he torments of hell after  His crucifixion is con-
     sisters who are prin#cipa>lly one mdy  remain or again                   trary td the plain -teaching of Scripture.     Evident it is
     be gathered in the same communion of churches, and bt,                   that the Lor&,  after He gave up the ghost, cannot have
     the same communion table.                                                suffered the torm&s of hell in.bo,dy  aml soul, for His
                                                                 .H. H.       boay  rested.in  the grave of Joseph of Arimathea.             Be-
                                                                              sides, such a view would be in conflict  wit,h the word
_                                                                             our Lord addressed to the malefactor from the croSs:
                                                                              "Today thou shalt be with me in  paradti,e."       And had
                                                           .:                 He not announced in His next to the last cross-utter-
           The Triple Kfiowled@                                               ante : "It .is finished"? Surely, bhis triumphant out-
                                                                              cry was uttered in the consciousness that the' work of
                                                                              redemption, the .sacrifice  of reconciliation, had been

                                                                              completed  and perfected, and that no more'  suffering
An Exposition Of The Heidelberg                                               remtined  to be endured.
                                                                                  &r can. this possibly be `the meaning of Ps. 16 :lO,
                               Catechism .'                                   as quoted ,by the apostle Peter on the_.day  of Pentecost,
                             .                                                Acts 2 :27 : "Because thou wilt not leave my soul iii hell,
                                        Part Two.
                                  ._                                          neither wilt thou su,ffer  thine Hbly 0,no  to see corrup-
     >                      Of Man's Redemption                               tion."     The reference here is not the place of eternal
                                                                 ~ k
                                                                              torture,  but to hades+ the bodiless state of the dead.
_. ,                              Lord's Day XVI.
                                                                              In that state the  Lord's soul was in  paracrise,  and [His
                    _'                     4.                                 body lay in -the  grave. And the meaning of the pas-
                                                                       *--
                                  _                                           sage 
                          The  Descension Into tH*ell.'                                is that God would not'leave  Ch&t's soul in that
                                                                  .           disembodied state, oeither  would  He allow His body

           The thind possible explanation of the article con-                 to be swallo'wed  up by the corruption of the grave,
     cerning Christ's ,desc&sion  into hell, and the one which,               but II& would Iglorify  HiB Holy One in the resurrection.
     according to Dr. Phillip Schaff .( Creeds o.f Christendom,               This i;s,.  evident from the following: 1. .It may not be
     II, 46)) presents the meianing  Qf the `early church, is                 ignored that in Ps. 16 it is David' that is speaking.
                                                                              True, he speaks as a type of Christ, and ultim&ely  his 
     that it ref'ers to `(an actual  self-manifed&tion  of Christ                                                                                   "
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 tml                                    T H;j3.-`_.$  T-kNl3.A R lJ            B E AR E R
                                                          .-. .         . 1.                     _                    -.---_.  -.
 words are applicable to `Christ only. Nevertheless,               was obviously not to the hell of the eternally lost, but
 what is true' ,of  the antitype  principally, #and in the         to what we call the Limbo or detention place of the
 full sense of the word, is certainly predicated of the            souls,  of the just who lived prior to our  .Lord's  coming
. type.in  the first instance.    The words, therefore, must       into this worbd."  -                                          , *-
 also be:_appli&d  to David.      The psalmist was confident,           However, this bit of Roman Catholic exegesis can-
 an,d th,at;  too, with his eye on the  H,oly  Oile  that was      not stand for a- moment, even though there may  be-
 to come, that God would not leave his soul in hell, bolt          room for difference `(of opinion as to the t.rue  meaning
 through death would show him the pathway of life.                 of the passage in I Peter 3  :19,  20.      This. well-kpown
But it follows that David cannot be speaking of the                passage reads, as follo,ws: "By which also he went and
 place of eternal dajmnation,  but that he refers to  sjeeo'l,,    pr,ea&hed  unto `the spirits in prison ; which sometime
 the state of the dead.      2. On the. (dlay  of Penteco&  the    were disobedient, wh'en  once the longsuffering of God
.apostle  Peter is :not  speaking of Christ's deliverance          waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a pre-
 from the place of the damned, but of His  de1iveranc.e            paring, wherein few, that is, eight  souh.  were saved by
 from death, a>nd  of His glorious resurrection. This is           water."       Now"let  us note: 1. That ,the  apostle isnot
 evident from the twenty fourth- veme:  "Whom God                  speaking here at all of .a] personal descent of Christ into
 hath raised up, haviilg  .loosed  the pains of death:  be-        "prison", after IHis crucifixion and before His renm-
 (cause`  it was not possible t,hat he should be holden of it."    rection,  but of a going to  .preach  tab the spirits that. ,
 In proof of this, namely, that it was not possible  ths.t         were in prison after  His resuwectba ,ancl thyough  the
 Christ should be hol'den.  of death, he `refers to the pas-       Spirit. This is the simple and plain mesning,of the.
 sage from the sixteenth psalm.         The very purpose for       words.       The introductory words of vs. 19, f`by which"
~which  it is quoted, therefore proves that the apostle            refer back to the latter part of the eighteenth. verse  :
 Peter was not thinking of a .descent  of Christ into the          "being put to death in the flesh, bu't quickened by the
 plaoe,  of the da>mned, but simply of ha?cles, the.state  of      Spirit."      And, then follows  "By which also he went
                                                                                                      :
 the dead, land of Christ's .deliverance  from it.     3. And      and preached unto the spirits..i.n  prison." ,The  order
 this is, also- the application made of., this .text from the      of the phrases, therefore, demands that we. conceive
 sixteenth psalm by the apostle, when he says: "Men                of this m&ion  of Christ to the spirits in prison, as
 and brethreii,  let me freely speslk  unto you of the             having taken place after His resurrection.  Moreover,
 pariarch  David, that he is both dead and buried, and             .He  w'ent,  aot in His human  .nature,  or in His dis-
 ,his sepulchre  is with us unto this day. Therefore               embodied soul, but- in the Spirit by Whom also He
 being ~a prophet, and knowing that God. ha:d sworn                was quickened from the dead. And t.hrough  this Spirit
 with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins,              He is able `to send His, W,ord  down unto `the  spirits in
 according to `the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit          prison without a personal descent. 2. That the apostle
 on his throne : He seeing this before spake of the resur- by the phrase "spirits in prison," certainly cannot desig-
 rectioiorn of Christ, that his soul was. not left in hell,        nate the Old Testament saints, unto whom heaven  wa3
 neither ,did his flesh see corruption."                           not `supposed to be opened until the coming of Christ.                . .
        1,n the light of Scripture,  ther,efore,  the view that    For-they are-described as.  those "which sometime were
                                                                                                                    ~ . . -.
 Christ personally descended into the place of the damn-           disobedient, when once the longsuffering of  God waited
 ed there to suffer vicariously the pains of eternal tor-          in the da'ys of Noah, when the ark was  ,a' preparing."
 ture cannot s.tand *
                        .                                          Now, this so very clearly  prefers  to the ungodly of
        Roman Catholic theologians'appeal  to I Peter 3 :19,       Noah's day, ,when  the righteous were persecuted all
 20, to support their view that Christ descended into              the day .long,  and God saved them by the waters. of, the
 what `they cajll Limbo, a. portal of hell, in order to:,de-       deluge, that one can only be amazed  at the curious bit'
 liver thence the Old Testament saints, to whom' heaven            of exegesis that makes, Old Testament saints out of
 was not opened until .Christ's  own aeeent  from death            them. 3. That the apostle does. not speak with one
into glory.       Thus in "Radio R,eplies,,"  the Rev. Dr.         wor,d, nor even suggest in any waly, that these "spirits
 Leslie Rumble gives the f,oll.owin,g  answer to the               in prison" were delivered. an'd taken to heaven by
 question why Christ descended into hell: "Christ did              Christ,.     The text simply informs us that He `preached"
 not go to hell in the modern and restri,cted  sense of            to-them.      And thle  word used h.ere for-"preached" does
 the word.      At the time when the Apostles'. Creed was          not mean at all that He preached the gospel unto them,
_ composed, `the word. hell was us,ed to designate any             but simply th.sit  He proclaimed, announced something
 state of existence low,er  than heaven.     After his (death,     as a herald.     And besides, Scripture knows nothing of
 our Lord's soul wenlt,  says St. Peter, to preach to those        a Limbo, in.whieh  the Old Testament saints were kept
 spirits that were in prison. T.hat is, he joiaed  those           until heaven was openeld  for them by Christ.                  .__
 souls which were detained from the fulness,  of heaven                 For all' these reasons we must reject the Roman
 anld who'were  alwaiting  the opening of heaven to man-           Catholi(c  view of the .desceasion  of ,Christ  into hell.
 kind by Him. This d,e&ent  of Christ's soul into hell                  Nor does the Lutheran explanation,. that, afte~~~.His
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                                           :THE .STAN,DARD  BEARE,R                                                                                         GO!
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  death and before His `resurrection,, Christ descended                         in the agony sf death as the expression of God's just
  into hell to proclaim His victory to the "spirits in                          wrath.                                          .,$_, `..:.
  prison)' find support in the text from Peter 3:19,X).                                 That. is- the meaning of the deazension  into hell.
  It is, indeed, quite in harmony with-that passage to say                                Hence, the Catechism, coartem$ating  this desoent
  that Christ announced His victory to- those spirits that                      into hell in its' relation to an,d significance for the be-
  persecuted His people, and mocked ait His cause in the                        liever, `explains that it assures the latter, even in his
  world,. but this word of victory was ~roc~airned by                           greatest temptat,ions,  thajt  he is ,saved, delivered from
  Christ, not between. His ,death and resurrectio,n, nor                        the wra%h of God and the torments of-hell.
  by a persdnal  descent into. hell, but-after .His resur-                                  Many are the temptations. And let LLS remember
  rection and exaltation, and through .the Spirit that is                       that t&e German word that is translated by',`%empta-
  g i v e n  Hjm.                                                          tions"  here is Anfechtungen.                        It has a a,lightly. differ-
        We conclude, therefore, Ithat, whatever may' have                       ent connotation 1 from tempt&ions.                       It denotes that
  been, the significance of the clad& concerning the                       the believer is assailed, from within +d from witho{&
  desoens'ion  .of Christ into. hell in the minid df the ea;rly                 t,o move him from his sure ground o$ confifience in
  church; Scripture knows .of, no such descent i*nto  the                       Christ, of `his a,csurance  that his sins are Zorgivqn,
 .pl+e of the damned, nor of such a -self-manifestation                    an.d that he has obtained. etetinal righteousness and life
  of Christ to all thedeparted spirits.              .                          by m,ere grace.. His own+onsci$nce accuses him, s.in
        And if the arsticle in the Apostles Creed that speaks              from .within .w:ould bring h*im to doubt, thelvalley  of
._ of .this d<escent is to_ be retained, the explanatioh of. it                 the shadow. -of death appears, $0 testify. that God's
.offered by the Heidelberg Catechism niust be adopted,                          wrath is still upon h-im, the world laughs at his con-
in spite  of the fact that  this is not its historical&ean-                fidence, the,-devil assails his assuk7ance..                                     . .'
  i n g .                                                                                   Can, he, then, be saved?
       Christ i en,dured `inexpressible anguish, pains, ter-                                     In all tlies.e temptations, however, he clings by f&h
  rors, and hellish agonies."                                              to the death ,of the Son of Go:d, that finished it all, which
        He enldured them in all his sufferings, but especially             was :a] suffering of hellish agonies in his stead; and:;in`
  on the cross, And even on the cross there is a gradual                        his behal,f.
  increase  in his suffering of these hellish agonies.           This                       And from the -darkness of his' present death, and
  is evi,dent from all1 that occurs-on and about the cross.                     from the depth of .his,  gve:atest temptations, contemplat-
 During the first half of the six -hour period  pf.`the                         ing that ,death of the Son of God,, that ideath even unto
  crucifixion, the %us$ill  sheds its light upon the awful                      tlie b_ottom  of hell, ;a,nd clinging -to It;hat  Son .of Cod,
: spect%cle  on Calvary, the enemies have the audacity to                       Who. died and was raised, he knows that nothing re-
  mock and jeer at the crucified One, and ihe `Lond  Him-                       mains to b`e done, .an,d that he is for ever  idelivered  from
.self .tin,ds it possible to take interest. in the things .aIbout          toiments   o f   h e l l .                      .
  {Him,  praying f6r His enemies, Icommitting  His m&her                                  ' The ,death -of tde Sbn .of God is. the sole `groutid  of
  to the care of the disciple whom He loved,  and assuring                 his' confide&e.
  the penitent malefactor of final salvation.             But during                             Nothillg  can separate him from Hii.love!
  the last three hours, the cross is completely taken out                                                          `,                          IH.  H .
o f  men's, h;inds. Darkilmess,  t h a t  :dread;Sul  s y m b o l   o f
  God's wrathful presence, descends, o,n the. scene                        . rs This is also .my reply. to t,he article by J. J.,IH. in $e
                                                                 ; the          p r e v i o u s  Stan$ard Beare?.
 *enemies, amazed at .the fearful otien,.cease from moek-                                                                                `. H. H.
                                                                                                                                    -
ery, and grow silent; arid for the space of `three $ours
.. the @ucifiecl One is completely wrapped up in His
  own suffering: lnot a wor(d  is hear,d from His lips.
  Then, .a.lmost at. the en,d of these last three hours of. Hi%                                       Day of judgment, day of wonders!
  passion, He makes it known that He has been descend- .                                               Hark ! the Qumpet's awful  sound,
ing into -the depths, that He has, indeed, reached the                                                Louder than a. thousand thunders,
  very bottom of .,hell, in the question of amazement:                                                   Shakes the vast creation: round!
  " MY God, my God, why hast  thou forsaken me?"                                                     H o w   t h e   s u m m o n s  .._
        What md,oes it mean?.                                                                         Will -the sinner's heart confoupd !
        The answer follows presently: "It is, finished!"                                                 _.
        The measure of suffering, and of. obediende, is                                               At His call, the dead -awaken,
                                                                                      1'. ...
  filled.    All that was to be borne of the  wrath of. God                                              Rise-.to  life fro&  .,earth and sea;
  against the sin of all the elect, had been endured ,even                      .                     All the powers of nattire shaken
                                                                           -
 to the end. Nothing, ~emphaticatlly nothing, remains to                                                 By His look prepare to. flee:
  procure. for us eternal righteousness and life.                               ._                     Careless sinner,          . `1 I_
        The &G `of Gad-~@  &ted all -there  ia to la6 tacltcd                                         What  /will `then hecome  of thee?
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        -The  Old andthe  New Covenant                                  shall ma"xe  an atonement for him-the original has,
                                                                        ;and the priest ahall make a covering for him with blood
                                                                        before `the Lord;        TheOmeaning  is that the priest shall
             .-(Cont,in;u.&m  bf an chide wnder   t h e  abqvi!         cover the offender with the shed blood of his animal
              cap&m  appearing in. the previous issue).                 sacrifice.      "And,`? so -we read further, "it shall be for-
                                                                        given him for anything of .a11 that he bath done in tres-
.:      That l$ere  %was actually such a symbolical-typical             pas$ng  therein." Lev. 6 :l-`7. The sin was forgiven
      satisfa>ction,  -forgiveness and sanctificatiohj  is. &O          him, .be he reprobate or. elect, penitent `or impenitent
',-proved  by the transaction that consisted in Aaron's                 in his heart, if only he allow himself to ,be covered by
      laying`both-,hands  upon .the head of the. scape-goat and         the blood .of his typical sacrifice;        The .liajw  did not re-
      zconfessinlg  over him all the iniquities of the children         quire that he be asked if. he were truly penitent or
 of Israel  .s+`. this goat's bearing upon him all their                that he be told that his sin wou1.d  remain unremitted,
      iniquities.     The passage that,.zets  forth the instructions    if he ,repented  not;     It-shows that the sin was not trully
      .for .this  -ceremony  reads as follow, "And Aaron shall          forgiven, that the pardon- bestowed was only of a
 .lay both hands upon the head of the live goat, and con-               symbolilcal-typical   c h a r a c t e r .   A n d ,  .as long .as the
      fess over him all the iiniquities of ,the children of Israel,     .pardoned  .offender refrained from walking in .gross
 and ;a.11  their transgressions. in .a11 their sins, putting           sins, .whioh,  in the commonweajlth  ~of  I s r a e l ,   w e r e
' them  upon the head of the goat, land shall! send him                 capital crimes that called for the extreme penalty of
      .away by the hand of .a fit `man into the wilder:ness;            ,death, he-the pardoned offender,-would continue to
 :.and the ,goat shall ,bear upon him a3 the iniquities into            share in the typical prosperity .of Can~a~an,  be he ever
      the land not inhabited; . . . ;" Lev. 16 :21, 22. Now             _so wicked in his inward parts. But if the pardoned
      it must not be supposed that we have to ,do here with             reprobated'offender walked in gross sins-if he dese-
      an empty form, that by the imposition of hands  ab-               crated the Sabb'aith,  if :he committed adultery, if he
. solutely nothing was laid uopn` th'e head of the live                 prostrated himself bef,ore the-shrine of, azl, idol, if he
.goat and that consequently this ' crea.ture bore `upon                 lblasphemed,  the law required that he ,be put to .death,
      .bim absol.utely ,nothing. Were this true, there-would            becut off from the land of the living, thus'be banished,
-be nothing in the entire -ceremony to which the term                   through death, from the presence ,of Go:d  and his
      shadow,  syrdol,  type, could be-made to apply. Besides,          brethren.. For such sins, the typic,al sacrifices .did_ not
      if this scripture ,definitely affirms that the "live goat         avail.        This .banishment  of the. offender from the
 shall -bear upon ,him all the in$quities  of the people,"              sanctuary of God -and the l.and of the living in Canaan
 it will not do for us `to -say `that  -s&ual~ly. the animal            w-as  t,ype of the everlasting desolati80n `of the `doomed
' bore upon hi,m nothilng  at-all.         What it bore was their       in hell. For Israel's temple ;was !&type  of the sanc-
 iniquities, thla!t  is, the guilt of their miquities,  the guilt,      tuary above and Canaan was a type of bejaven.  Here
namely,. the ,-obligation  (and this is guilt) to suffer  ~the          we have come upqn the basic reason of the great fear
 penalty of their s&s, not the real penalty-the goat.                   of ihysilcal  ,death even on the part of the true believers
      was incapable ,of ;s;uffering this--3hus,  not the real           in Israel.      Through delath they were cut off from God's
      penalty, which is everlasting death, (but the symbolical-         house, the only house'f God they knew of, to wit, the
      typical replica. of .this punishment, namely, physical            sanctuary in the earthy Jerusalem.               T.hrough  death
' `death, and,. being ,driveln  into that uninhabited land.             they were cut off from God's people. Through death
      Consi,der  that this ceremony involved also >a$ goat that         they were exiled from the only heaven of which they
      was slain for the sins of  ,the people.     Thus, in this old     knew, namely, the earthy Canaan. The writer of the
      covenant, the animal was appointed by God to stand in             epistle to the Hebrews makes mention of this fear of
      the offender's room, to momentarily, (for the time being,         #d&h on the part of true believers.             I quote," Foras-
      free him, by dying din his stead, from the penalty of             much then as the children are partakers of flesh and
      physical Ideath. B,ut even that freeilng  from,this  death        blood, He-namely, ChristLalso Himself likewise took
      lacked reality, for the sagcrifice. had to be repeated            part of the same ; that through death he might destroy
      <every day .at the sanctuary.     Besides,, when the offend-      him that haid the power of death, that is, the devil, and
      er's hour of death,woul,d strike, these sacrifices could          deliv,er them, who through fear of ,death were all their
      n o t   a v a i l .                                               lifetime subject to bondage," Hebrews 2:14, 15. The .
             Jht there is still more proof that there was such a        reference. here is to the saints of the -old covenant, and
      thing as a symbolical-typic  forgiveness of sin and-              the writer tells us indirectly that they  w,ere in f,ear of
      salvation in the obd  covenant.      Consider this scripture      death all, t'heir lifetime.     From this felar they were de-
p a s s a g e .      "And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, If          livered by the revelation of atonement, resurrection
      a soul sin, end commit a trespass against the Lord. . . .         and glorification. of Christ; for this revel,ation  ,direc;tly
      he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord,               set b,efore them for the first time the realities of the
      `a ram without blemish, unto the priest,
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  of the ol,d covenant.    The sole cure for the fear  of ,death    typic-al ,covenant.     At this time an'd at this @ace  this*
  is the resurrection of Christ. Here we have also come              old typical covenant and its law. was added, imposed  -:
                                                                     upon the true covenant of gralce  .a& its promiseithe
  UpOil  the reason of the disconsol,ate  grief of' the exiled
  believers in Babylon. They had been banished from                 covenant of grace that the Lord four hundred ,years
  the only city of God-the earthy Jerusalem-of which                previous. had established-with Abraham. But this typi-
  they knew . They had been banished from the only                   cal covenant and its law did not annul the covenant
  house of God-the earthy-temple-of which they knew.  _ of *grace and its promise.                      Let us. quote scripture' _
  They ha,d.  been `banished from. the only heaven-the               also here.     "Now to Abraham and his seed were the
  earthy Canaan-of which they knew.             In the light- of promises made"-the promises of- the true covenant
  these observations such psalms 8s Ps. 137 `take on of grace.                     "He, s&th.  not, And to seeds, as of many ;
  m,eani!ng for us.    "By the rivers ,of Biabylon,  there we       but, as of one seed, Aed to thy seed, which is Christ".
  sat down, yea, we wept, w.hen we remembered Zion.                  This text forms-the conclusive proof that the covenant.

  We hanged ,our  hearts upon the willows in the midst __, established with Abraham, was, in distinctio:n  from the`
  thereof. For they t*hat carried us away captive re-                covenant established, with Israel .at Sinai, a true cove- :
  quired of us ,a song ; and they that .wasted                      nant of grace and that the covenant established  with.`.
                                                   LB required

  of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the sons of Zion.              Israel was, in distinction from this true covenant. of
  How sh,all ,we  sing the Lord's song in a strange land?           . grace, a typical, covenant, a type of- the true.         For, the:..
  If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let thy right ha&forget            apostle continues,. "And this I say; that the. covenant,
her cunning.       If I do not remember thee, let my tongue         that was ;onfirmed  before of God in Christ-the:true
  .cleave  to the roof of my mouth  ; if I prefer not Jeru-          covenant of grace-,the. .&w--the  law.  of- the typical...
  salem above my chief joy." And Psalm 126:  `;When                  covenant-which was four hundred and thirty years-
  the. Lord turned again the captivity of Zion; we were             ,adter,  cannot disannul, that. it s.houbd maBe  the prom-
  like them that dream.      Then was #our mouth filled with        ise-and ,the covenant to which. this promise belonged
  laughter, anld our tongue with singing. . . ."                    -0b none effect,".        Gal. 3 :l.6,  17. No indeed, .that
       It, ought to be plain now that .a11 the things of thi        typical covenant with its law did not disannul the true
  old covenant were symbolical and th,at therefore, ,as              covenant .of  grace *with  its promises.. -This  true cove-
  the writer of the Hebrews ltells us, this covenant was            nant with its .true  promises abided everl~astinly.  And
  symboli~ca~~typical,  that it (was  not. the true covenant        by- these promises the elect in Israel continued. to live..

  of grace but a shadow thereof.                                    through the ages of the ,dispensatio:tioa.  o,f this typical
       This ,old typical. covenant, according to the prophet        covenant and .its law.      Why was this typical covenant.
  Jeremiah, w.as established. with the people of Israel at          with its la!w added. to the true covenant of grace with,
 :Mt.  Sinai.     The report thereof is conta~ined  in the          . its promises? Paul gives us the answer, "But before
  book of. Exodus, chapters 19-24 inc1usiir.e.  The people          f,aith came, we were kept under the law, shut  up unto
  of lsrael  were come to Smai:  The Lord communicated              the faith which +oul,d afterwar.ds  be revealed.' Wher.e-.
  unto Moses the ten command~ments  an,d a' number of               fore the lewd  was       our schoolmaster to bring us to

  precepts which are contained'in  chapters 21, 22, 23,             Christ, that we might be justzified  by faith;" Gal. 3 :23;
  which in turn were communicated by M,o.ses  unto the              24.     Just why and how this: should: bring sthe  believers.

  people, who, when. they bald heard, replied with one              unto Christ, is a matter with. which we now cannot
  voice, "All the words which the Lord hath said we will            deal, fo,r  the lack of time.
 d o . "    T.herfeupon  Moses wrote all the words of  t,he                In the light  of all that ha3.thus  far been.presented,
  Land;     Rising up early the following morning, he build-        it,`ought  :not  to be difficult to .understand.  and explain
  ed (aa altar und,er the mount, and twelve pillars, ac-            all that the Scriptures_ have to say about this old cove-
  cording to, the twelve tribes. of Israel, and young men           nant in comparison with the new.                      :

 sent by Mose3, offered .burnt  olfferings  sml sacrificed                 Of course, this old covenant. waxed old and  vlanished

  peace offerings of .oxen  unto the,Lord.  Moses took              away, when the body, the  reality, made-its appearance
 half of the blood ,and put. it ,in basins ; an,d half of the       in the fulness of time. This ol,d  covenant <with  its
 blood he:,sprinkled  upon t,he altar.     Thereupon he took        t.ypilcal  ordim:nces  and institu,tions  had to vanish away
the laws an.d precepts__that  he ,had written--called in            1s it was but a shadow. .
 the sacred text, "The.Book  of the- Covenant'" and again                  Of course, this old covena,nt  was a covenant- with.
 read-.them  in the audience of the people, who again               members in whose inward parts the Lord wrote not
 answered, "All that the Lord  bath-  said, we will do.`,           His law by virtue of their `being  .in this covenlant.
 Thereupon Moses took the blood. of the sacrifice and               Writing His laws in the Iinward parts of His ,elect  is a
 sprinkled it upon the people, and sdd;.Behold  the blood           doing of the God and -Father of  Christ  whereby He.
 of the covenant' which the Lord- hatih:.made  with you             .truly regenerates them, thus, awhereby  IH~ realizes in':
 concerning all these'words.' ' So, at this time and at             them ,by Christ's spirit the fruits of -the atonement of

 this pbce di,d  the Liord.  esta'blish  with LIzmel  this old      Christ.     How-then co&T  He write His laws in the. in-


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       ward  parts of.  His people by -reason  of their being in          not `disturbed if. on.ly they allowed themselves to be
       this typical covenant, if this covenant was but a                  covered by the shed blood of the typical sacrifices and
       sh:a.dow,  reposing upon a sacrifice-the animal sacrifice          walked not in gross sins, thus Ikept themselves out-,
       by ' blo_od-that  likewiFe  wfas but .a shadow?. And               wardly clean like the Pharisees.                   But the coming of
     therefore this typical covenant tias also broken. God's              Christ spelled the vanishing away of that old covenant
       law was notin the hearts of its members;          And              in which such men were secure.                           Hence, they must
                                                                SO we

       also understand why this t.ypical  covenant ?v% a cove-            now truly repent in their hea!rts  anId bring forth fruits
       nant with inferior, that is; typical promises.            That     of repentance or be.destroyed.                 Let t.hem  ta.ke heed; for
       covenant, being typi:cal,  1 could not ,otherwise  `but. hold      the axe is under th,e  tree, and every r&i-fruitbearing
       forth. promises that were typical, rn?mely,  suoh prom             tree will be hewn down .and burned.
       is& :as long  life  in the ,earthly  -Canaan..and  the promise                                                                   .G.  I!&.  0 .
       of an earthy prosperity. in Ms. earthy Canaan.          And so                                                              ._ `.
       it. .is also. understandable- why the -members elf .this           *                                        _.
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      typical  covenant should continually be saying to one
       another `6Know  the ,Lord,`.' should be co:ntinually  XX-
       horting  one another .to .serve  :the  Lord.     The .reason
       again is that this covenant .was but a shadow, that thus                - :      :, Monasticism -                                               : c
       its mem,bers  were not God fearing, ha!d  not the law of                                                                           ._,
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      -God in their inward parts by reason -of  their being                             _                   ..,                                               1;
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       in this covenant.     Hence, they ,had to beurged  to zerve             _ Monasticism. is but another term for Asceticism.
       the'lord . They had to be to@ in unbroken continuity.              The -ascetic,  in course of time, forsook  life  and re-
       The admonition, the prompting of the law "Serve,                   trea!ted-into  a monastary and therefore the way  ,of life
       .know,  the Lord', is only for: sinners, not for a holy,           `that took on a concrete form in him  acquired.the  name

       sinless man, with the law in .his i,nWard parts.          Says     Monasticism. The origin and nature of asceticism has
       Paul, "Knowing this- that the law  `is not made for                .be& treated  fully and. critically in ial previous article.
       a righteous man, but `for the. lawless and disobedient,            Thus isn this writing w,e are occupied Iwith  ot,her  phases
       for. .the ungodly. an,d for sinn,ersj  for unholy ;a!nd pro-.      of the subject. First its development.  _
     - fane, for murderers of. mothers, for ,manslayers,  for                  Monasticism passed through four stage9  of .develop-.
       w.horemongers, for them that d,efile themselves. &tli              ment. Its roots are traceable as far back as the first
       mankind. . -. ." I Tim. 1:9, ~10. For such is-the law,             centur-y  of. our Christian era.'                 A l r e a d y   t h e n   m a n y
      .the .admonitions  of the law. `-Hence, in heaven, among            Christians had the,custom  of setting aside certaindays

       the redeemed made perfect, the law is,-silent.          In hea-    fok self-examination,  devotion, and dedicating their
       ven, on the new- earth the people of  ,God will-not say            lives to God anew.          ,On such .days they were also,wont  .>
       to one another, Know the Lord.         For there will, beno        to'fast :and to appropriate the [food  that was saved by .-
       sin there, on the new. earth. But there. the  law. will            their abstmence  to the maintainance  `of the poor breth-
       bein the inward.parts  of men. And.,the  law.in the in-            ren. Y If th,ey were persons of material -means, they
       ward parts of aman does #not urge the man to know                  would give a large portion of their  tear-thy  possessions..
       the Lord. It is when the law. is external to a man that            to the church, treasury or to the poor and ,thenceforth
       it comes to hi,m  whith these promptings not only,_ but            provide in their neccesities by their own industry.
       ,curses  him to hell in his sin:;  T.hus, that from which          They also remained unm,arried,  lived in seclusion, and
       Christ through His -,atonem,ent  delivered His people is           spent their leisure in prayer*and  meditat+.                           This was
       not the law, not the law in the inwbard  parts,, but the           monasticism i.a-its  embryo state. It formed its first
       law as external to us.      The law in. the inwar.d  parts is      stage of. development in whi4ch the ascetics were `un-
       the. royal-law of liberty of ]which  James speaks when             organized and continue,d  in th,e church. In the second
       he. says, "If ye fulfill t,he royal. low according to the          stage, the ascetics withdrew themselves from the  societv
       Scriptures, Thou ,shalt I,ove'  thy neighbor as thyself,           of men, even from the society of one another, and took  -1
       Thou ,doest  well."  . .                          ,.               u,p their..abode in the wilderness.                 Her.e  -they received
           It is &I the light of `what has been presented that we         visitor$  but rarely, and- only when the- occasion was  "
       can* @XI understand John's  ,preaching  of the baptism             unusual would they appear in the citi,es.                      A hair shirt.
       of repentance unto the remi,ssion.of  .sins, .his.saying  to       and' 8 wild beast's skin was their clothing ; paIt' and :
       the, mdtitude,  :;O_gen8ertition  of vipers, Bring. forth          bread their food, and. a cave  their  ,dwelling.'  They:                                  _
       fruits therefore .worthy of.. repentance. . . . a&j .now           prayed much in their solitude, afflicted their  .bodies;.

       also  the axe is laid un.der  ,the  root of the trees: every       and fought with  satanic powers:                 This form of ascetic.-
       tree therefore  whioh bringeth not forth good fruit is             ism.or  monasticism is <known as &chmeticism-  from  the. -
       hewIn down, and cast into the .Fire.".  -As was -said, the         Greek "anachooreoo"  to retire (from human society).                                           '
- carnal seed.  in Israel, .though`they  repented not, were
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  E a s t - i n  Egypt, Palestine and Syria-but was rare                  chose to live with wild beasts rather than with men,
 _ in th,e rougher climates of Europe.        In the third stage ' .and they avoided looking at the face of a woman  .as'
  of development-290-400-the ascetics organized to                        though it were the face of a devil.  -, Some buried them-
  form congregations of. a&et&  or `monks.              This form-' selses in pits,. leaving only `a small hole at the  top.
  or type is known as coenobitism  from the Greek "koinos                 through which to breath.           Others, regarding the earth
  bi,os'l  oommon life. It first appealred, as had anachoret-.            too vile to touch, lived in iron cages hung from trees.
  isin, in Egypt and from there it spread, through Pales-                 Some &would  thrust a hook through their back and sus-
  tine and Syria, to .the West. It was this form of ascetic-              pend thems-elves  for half an hour at a time, feet utter-
 ~isin that ,became known as "monasticism" though this                    most, over~a  Ifire.     Some la:y on beds that bristled with
  word, from the Greek "monasterionl.'  also- means so&                   iron spikes . At Astracan, .one Johi was found `in the
  tory and this denote one who liv,es alone. Thus a                       vestibule of, a temple t?ith his body naked and shrivelled
  monastary is a congregation of ascetics  -or monks. up and overgrown with hair li,k% :a `wild beast and ex-
   (monks, also from. the Greek "monasterion") : At its.                  posed in this  po,sition to the severe winters, of  -that
- head stood B superintende~nt  .called "abbot!`, or if the climate for twenty years. Another, Tapasonias, had
 congregation was formed of women "abbess. :The final                     his-body imprisoned in an iron. cage, with his head and
  and last stage of development' was reached when the                     feet outside, so that he could walk but neither sit nor
  separate congregation ,of monks organized to form                       lie `down.       It is la+ question, of course, .holw much cre-
  monastic orders. These we& unions of a number of                        ,dence can be given to these wierd tales of self-cast.iga-
  cloisters under one rule or common government.                          tion on the part of these hermits, but. that they went                   _
      Of these four types. .of asceticism -,an~ohoreticism                to horrifying extremes in their attempted mortification
  fwas characterized by greatest abnormality. T:he fol-                   of the corrupt heart, there can be no doubt.
  lowing exsmples;  taken from, a page of `Schaff's  His-                      The hermits-and this was their `error-limited
  tory of the Christian Church" illustrate the!.  fanatical. the fl&h to the lower nature ,of man an,d imagmed that
  zeal of this type.     Paul the simple, prayed daily three              the. mortification of the old man of sin consists in  `re-
  hundred times, counting his prayers with pebble3 car-                   pressing and destroying. the appetites, desires and im-.
  ried in his, bosom, IHearing of laJ virgin who prayed'                  pulses of this nature through the affliction of the body.
  seven hundred times a day, .he. was troubled in his                     According to Scripture, the body. of this death includes
  soul.    When at table, the anohoret, Is&ore,  was moved                `certainly the depraved spirit of man and mortifying
  to tears by the consideration that he, who  w&s ,destined               the, flesh is ,beintg  doee .when, :aj man ceases from sin
  ,td eat angels' food, should have to feed on material                   and walks, by the mercy of Go& ,in newnea3  of;life.
stuff like `the beasts. -Macarius the Great would eat                     The anchorets limited sin especially to the sexual  ,desire _
  but o(nce a week, and slept standing `as leaninlg on a                  and impulse and to bodily hunger and thirst, which
  staff. Ptolemy lived three years ia:lone  in's water1es.s               they regarded as being by' ,themselveg  corrupt. B u t
  wilderness and quenched his thirst Iwith dew which he                   sin is more than-an unholy sexna.11  impulse.       Sin is also
 ,collected in January and December and preserved in.                     pride, unbelief, :deceit, .hypocracy,  sel,fishness; rebellion
  `earthen vessels ; but he fell at last a vi&m  tom madness              agamst  God. But the anchoret was prou,d  of his. self-.:                     .
  alrid debauchery.     Worms crawled out ,df, the teeth of               ,denial and he boasted :not in Christ's cross but in the
  one Batheus,  by reason ob his extreme abstinence. ' .Alas              power of his (will to endure the pain of his self-cast@-
  passed his `eightieth birthday anniversary without on&                  t&s.          It is a question how much  of true religion was
  having #eaten bread.      Symeon lived thirty six years on              present in these works. In manly  cases nothing cer-
  top of (a, pillar f,orty feet high, where he spent his time             t a i n l y .
  in praying, preachmg and fasting, broken by `one meal                      .' The founder ,of anchoretism was St. A,nthon.y. Born
  weekly. St. Anthony .never .combed and cut his hair                     in 251,. he was the offspring of a Christian  Coptic
  or washed his -feet andhands, as he ideemed ascetic holi-               ,fa.~mily.     His propensity for the way.of  life of the her-
  ness incompati~ble  with cleanliness. Another anchoret                  mit ~asserted itself already in his boyhood ,days.             Of a :
  w'ent almost naked ,in the wilderness.             The younger          quiet and-contemplative nature, he shunned the--society ..
  Marcarius exposed. himself six m.onths to the attacks                   of his playmates and despised learning. But he  was
  of gnats of Africa by lyicng in the swamp of the desert.                faithful'in the attendance of divine -worship with his :
  He was, so badly stung that he  ,could be recognized o.nly              p a r e n t s  .anid listened to the ser.ipture lessons wiM
  by his voice.    To school himself in patience and meek-                marked attention.          In his eighteenth year he heard
  ness, St. Symeon buffered  himself to%e tormented for                   read in the chur,ch the scripture, -"If thou wilt be
  a long time by twenty enormous bugs. In Mesopotamia                     perfect, go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor, ;
  was found ,a class -of monks who lived I on `grass  with                and thou shalt have treasure in heaven  and come and
  the wil,d ,beasts of the .;mountains.   A k e p s i s m a s ,   i n     follo;w me."        This word, spoken by Christ to the rich,
   Cypress, spent sixty years in the same cell wi.thout                   young ruler, was the voice of God to Anthony, and
  seeing or spea!king to' anyone.         Many of these manks             it ,determined his-life. `.He divided all .his real estate;
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 which consisted of three hundred aera3  of, fertile land,            it ra,n  8 strain that was pagan. Doubtless,  Anthony

 among the vill;algers.  In a.ddition he sold all his per-            tias a true C.h$istian.      And we marvel at his power of
 sonal prop.erty  for t,he  benefit of .the  poor. and thence-        self-denial.. But, the ascetic in him was .r,,ot of grace,
 forth dwelt solitary ig the neighborhood. Aspiring                   He was a good mian .despite  his asceticism.  Many of
 to a still higher level of holiness, sotie  fifteen years            these anchoret,s  were worthless men,. sh,ififtless,  lazy,
 later, te took"up  his abode in a tomb far .from  men,               igvorant  and illiterate.      Anthqny  represented the  bet-
 and thus be&me  the  -founder of anchoretism tn` the,                ter class amoag them.
 strict sense.     Th'e next twenty years of his life he spent            This brings us to the question whether anchoretism
 in `the ruins of a castle  and finally settled on mount Gol-         finds any support in the Scriptures.        ??he advoc;stes  of
 zim ,seven  .miles  from the Red Sea.,  . :Here,  ,ge prayed         anchoretism claim that it ,dld, and they refer to the
 without ceasing ,battled  with th'e devil, labored. at               <examples of Elijah, E&ha al?d specially  John the
 basket making, according to the maxim, "If any will                  Baptist. ,Of bhe bzptist  it is reported in t,he  Scriptures
 not work, neither shall he eat," lived on bread and                  ttiat h,e "grew,  waxed strong in the spirit, `was in the
 salt and ,dates,  drank nothing but water, ate but. once             wilderness until the day of his  chewing unto Israel
 a. day and was ashamted  that be sh?ul,d  need earthy                (Luke 1:80) ; that he drank neith(er  wine <nor strong
 nourishment.        *Only  rarely di,d  he leave his, solitudk.      drink (Luke 1 :l>) ; that he had his raiment of damel's
 During the persecution under Maximinus,  he visited the              hair, an,d,  a leathern girdle about  ,his loins; and bhat
 condemned Chr'istians  iri prisons, encoun12ged  them be-            his, meat was locusts and wild honey (Matt. 3 :14).
                                                                      Thus,, the baptist was, a nazarite.       But the question is
. fore the judges, and accompanied them to the scaffold.
 The heathea feared to lay violent hands on him.               In     whether. thie nazarite institution belonged to the  sym-
 his hundredth year, he visited for the last time  Alex-              bolical-typiod apparatus of the Old Testament  Dispen-
 andrila  to witnes3 for the orbhodox  faith of his friend            sation  and with  this apparatus waxed did and vanished.
 `Athanasius abainst  Arius, for he hated heretics and                away or `whetiher  it abided <and  whether the `way of
 would. have nothing to do `with  them.         Christians. and       life it inculcated was cartied,  over  .into  thk  Nkw Testa-
 heathen, the sick and the poor, visited him in his soli-             ment' Disp&&,ation  and set bef,ore  New Testament
 tude for ~consol&ion.  .He exhorted to prayer, labor,                Christians as ian example to, be. copied.       Not certainly'
 care of the poor, and love of God.       He possessed a ready        the .latter  but the /former.  IHence,  the-life of the apostles
 wit an,d sound -sense. His -mind was keen  ant his                   was. not- a hermit life.     Peter was marr(ied and travelled
 thbught original.       In. the .conclud,ing  paragraph. of h%       about with. his. wife.       Paul sssumes  one marriage for
 biography of. his friend Anthony, Ath#2na;s,ius  pjys                the clergy  ai the ,rule.     It shows that anchoretism and
 this tribute to his character,, "From this. short narra-             monasticism in general is a humanly ,devised  service of
 tive you may judage  how igreat  a man Anthony was,                  God..and  not rarely 8 sad distortion of tile  Christianity
 who persevered i:n. the ascetic lilfe from youth to the              of the Bible..    It was not  in$icative  of spiritual strength
 highest age. In his ialdvanced age he- ,never  allowed               [but.- of spiritual,- Iweaknas.     It is not a local but a
 himself better food, nor change *of raiment, nor did                 spiritual.sepaPa$ion  from the world,that  the s&iptures
 he even. wash his, feet,  yet he continue,d  healthy in all          enjfoin.  It is not abstinence from food. and drink that
 his. parts.      His eyesight was clear to the end, and his          the Bible- demands but- the moderate use thereof.  .And
 teeth sound, thongh by !dng  use wore to mere stumps.                the i,deal  set before. us in Holy Writ  is iating  and_
 H'e retained also the perfect use of his .hands and feet,            drinking. to God's glory.
 and was m'ore  robust and vigorous than_- those._who  arr?                                                           G .  M.  0 .

 accustomed to chaqge  of f'ood  and clothing and to
washing. His &me  sprea,d  from his remote dwelling
 on the lone  mountain over' t,he whole Roman Empire;-                                  GHANGE  OF ADDRESS

' What gave .him his reknown `was: not hi3 learning, for                 The address of the ,undersigned  iS now:
 he .h$d none, nor. worldly wisdom, nor human art, but                                               343 Eastern Ave., S. E.
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 kndw,  that the Lord w.ila not only take holy monks to-                                            Rev. G. M. Ophpff
 heaven ,but give them celebrity in all the earth, how-
 ever deep they may  bury themselves in.the wildern&s.!'

 Doubtlss, Anthony was a man of true goodnees  in the

 heart of. his disposition. And Athan&us  was the-                                           CLA_SSIS  EAVST
 greatest of church -fathers of his  &ge.      That. this (great,                                        _-
 and good man could icvax so. elequentJy  enthusiast@                 will.meet in.reg$ar  session D. -V., Wednesday, Octobgr
 about the way of l'i&e of-i monk, reveals the peculiar-              3; at 9100.  A.M. at- the First Protestant- Reformed:
 temper of the Christianity of that  *day  and..age.     It `W.as-    Church  of Grand.Rapids,  Michigan;

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                    :Een Gebed DaVi.ds                                  Maar Hij .is pi%eindelijk vgrhoord, anders `ware er -geen
.,'                                                                     verlossing -en zaliging motgelijk  voor Up en mij.
                                                                             :`fBewaar mijne ziel, want. ik ben Uw gunstgenoot  ;
             .            (Psalm 86) .                                  0 God,. mijn -God! verlos Uwen knecht die op U be-
       Deze psalm is een mengeling va,n gebed en prijs,                 trouwt."                                               .
. van roepen om hulp en het grootmaken van `s Heeren                          In het eenste vers bouwt de`zanger zijn smeeken
naam.                                                                   op zijn armoede, doch hiq is zijn pleitgro,nd  zijn rijk-
        Hij is gedicht door David, doch ,doorleeft  ,door               dom. Daar zeide hij: Heere, hoor mijn gebed, want
 Christus. .De Messiaansche klanken zijn helder en                      ik ben -,ellendig en nooddruftig; ,dol& hier zegt hij :
klaar.                                                                  Belere,  hoor mij want `ik ben heilig (zoo  mag het woor.
                                                       s
        Het begin is een kl;a>gen,d  roepen tot God van!wege            vertaald worden.) Er staat hier in  .de Hollandsche
 bllende  en nooddruft. De uitdrukking "want ik ben                     vertaling: gunstgenoot, doch het Iwoord -dat in het oor-
-el-lendig en nooddruftig" komt meermalen voor in de                    spronkeiijke `gebruikt wordt heeft meer dan een be-
 plsalmen  : 40 :18 ; 70 :6 ; en 109 :22.     Het is ,een uitdruk-      teekenis. Het -is een zeer rijk `woord. Echter, hebben
king die vaak  voorkomt in ,de beschrijving van onzen                   al die .beteekenisFen  -dit .gemeen, dat het ziet op het posi-
 nood voor God's tiangezicht.             Wanneer we nagaan             tiepe en niet op het negatieve zooals in het eemte vers.
tin wlat verband #dit tweetal woorden voorkomen, be-                    Davi,d wijst hier- op het feit, dat hij deri Heere toe-
 merken we, dat de d$i,chter  den Heere heenwijst naar                  behoort en daarom in Zijn gunst mag deelen.          Hij wijst
 onze ellendige t0estan.d waarin  we verkeerSen  va,nwege               den Heere er op, :dat Ih$ij  op Hem betr,ouwt.
,de gevolgen der zonde.          We zijn ell,endig en nooddruf-               -Die woorden vinden. huti, volle vervulling in Chris-
tig. Een commentaar op die twoorden vinden we vooral                    tus. Zooals -niemand anders het doen kan,  kon. -Hij
 in psalm 109, `Waa.r  dit heetal. woorden ook gebruikt                 zeggen :- IHeere,  hoor Mij in Mijn klagen, want ik ben
 worden.          Ellendig* en nooddruftig zijn wle, als ons hart       heilig! Kom Mij te hulp, want Ik betrouw op U! En
 in het birinenste van ons :doorwond  is.          Dan gaan we          ,de. Evangelin zijn de commentaar. Keer op keer
 heen als een sch.aduw die zich nei,gt en worden we                     wordt het feit van Jezus' .zoedeloosheid  en h@il&-beid
 omgedyeveti  alrs  .een sprinkhcuaa.         Dan struikelen de         geaccentueerd. Ni,emand  ,overtuigde Hem van zonde
 knien en wordt het vleesch doormagerd,  zoodat er                     en Hij was de Geheiligde des Vaden::, afgescheiden van
 geen-vet aan-is. Dan zijn we de smaad der goddeloozen                  !de zonde en toegewijd aan den Vader.
 en als zij ons dan-zien; zoo schud-den ze.h-et hoeft.                        Nog'een derde pleitgrond v8lg-t er van God gihoord
        Wie bemerkt hier niet het beeld. van  ,dlen lijdenden           te worden : Wees mij gemafdig, Heere, `want eik roep tot
 knecht des Heeren?                                                     U den ganschen dag !
        Als er ooit iemand elleidig en nooddruftig tgeweest                   `Wie Uwer die ,dit leest kan .dit vers:n.abidden?     Hoe
 is, ,dan is het de ChI$stns--Go&. B,eroofd  .en  b e r o o i d ,       vaak is het gebeurd, dat gij den  g%x&en  dag gebeden
moest hij al struikelende zijn pad vinden onder den                     hebt? Ja, ik stem toe, het kan en het is geschied  .dook
 last des tolorns  Gods vanwege onze zondeti,- totdat er                sommigen onzer, doch we voegen er bij  : hoo@ zelden;
 geen pad meer was.            Er `was -zelfs  geen stukje aarde        Ook hier. ,merken we het : :deze psalm ir; Isbllereerst,  of
,om op te sta!an, gen straal van licht of leven en Zijn                Jiever, op zijn diepst ,de klacht van Messias.      Want van
 ellende en armoede en nooddruft was. zoo  groot, dat                   Hem mag het, neen, moet het gezegt worden, ,dat Hij
 Hij zeide: Gij legt Mij in het'stof .des :doods.           Ellendig    tot God ,den Heere gesmeekt en gebeden heeft alle de
 is ver van huis te zijn en nooddruft (is die to&and                    dagen Zijns `vleesches op aarde.          Vlzn Jezus moogt gij
 waatiin  men missen moet al die dingen en zaken die                    het zeggen, dat Hij immer Godesbewust  was.           Hij ver-
we ,noodig  .hebben voijr ons welwezen en` onzen wel-                   bond alles aan God, ten allen tijde.       Leest slechts Hebr-
vaart.                                                                  5 :7. Daar legt de Heilige Gmeest er nadruk op, ds,t CUP
       Welnu, :die toestand v2:n  ellende ,en armoede wordt             .He.ere  Jezus gedurende de dagen Zijns vleceches  ge-
 door David gebruikt' om ials  pleitgrond te dienen- ter                beden (en smeekingen  opgezonden heeft tot God met
verhooring.  Heere, ik. ben' ellendig en nooddruftig:                   sterke roeping en tranen.
neig Uw oor en verhoor tiij !                                                 Nu dan, Heere, ,den gansclxen dag roep Ik U aan
       En dat is correkt.                                               in al Mijn angst ,en smart. Wees Mij ,nu genadig!             -.
       .,Bij God is.eeq volheid van zegeningen die juist pas-                 Waar bidt David eigenlijk om als hij om genade
sten bij onze armoede.          En <de Here wil er om gebeden          vraagt.? Dan vraagt hij om schoon, liefelijk,  laanvallig
w o r d e n .                                                           te zijn.    En men wordt dat alleen als, God ons aanziet
       Dan komt Hij ook en verho&t  Zijn volk, dat schrei               in genade. Dan verdwijnen de schaduwen van zwarte
end `tot [Hem vlucrht.                                                  Ieelijkheid  en (wordt alles lieflijk.
       Doch Christus ,dan?                                                   De Heere -Jezus heeft gevraagd- om d,e schoonheid
       Die is ook vrhoort;  doch -eerst nadat Hij een eeu              en ileJ&heid en groote glorie, `waarmede we Hem
$igheid  yti. `%llqnc& -en nooddruft" :geledew  h e e f t .             zien bel$eed,  asn ,de rechterhand Gsds in dew troon,
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 En ,op grond van het middelswerk van Jezus, mogen                               Doch de I_ieqe  yergeeft  ons onze misdaden en het is
 wij ook zeggen met I&vid:  Heere, `wees mij genadig,                            weer vlak voor .Hem.                      Hij heeft- de zonde zoo  ver weg-
 want ik roep tot U den gans&& dag., En dan yragen                               gedaan, dat het is lajlsof  zij geworpen zijn in een.
 w i j  sok  o m  glorni voor onszelf.   E n   d a t   m a g .   D e            oceaan vn eeuwige vergetelheid.
 Heere heeft ons ook vertel,d waarin- die glorie bestaat.                            Hij is goedertier,en, ja, groot van goedertierenheid.
 We zingen er van in ps~a~lm  68. Daar zien w den                               ETgens .s&at, dt Zijn goedertierenheid geweldig is.
ellendige die ee& nederlag tusxhen. twee. rijen van                              o v e r  d'ie Hem vreezen;
 tiohelsteenen,  als vleugelte< eener. duive, overdekt met                           Goedertierenheid  is ,die deugd onzes Gods,   ` w a a r -
 zilver' ;en welker vederen zijn met uitgegraven geel                            door [alles in Hem gedrongei? wordt. om Zijn volk wel
 g o u d .                                                                       t.e doen. Het is de zucht, de hartstocht Gods:"om  T_T
     En dat alLesIs  ook nog beeldspraak.            Maar het be-                te zegenen,  mijzn broeder! .,
 teekent toch, ,dat het kind Go& dist `verhoord is, zee?                             En ioo is de Heere voor allen`die Hei aanroepen.
 schoon en, lieflijk zal zijn in djen dag van Chri$xs.                               Ge moogt het, zoo zeggen: alleen Gods  volk'.`ioept
 Hier op aarde ellendig en. nooddruftig; `doch in, deq                           Hem aan.              Het is het onderscheid tusxhen  den C,hris-
 hemel en nu al in e beginsel : liefl.ijak als "de cgordijnen                    ten en den naam-Christien.                               De eerste roept Hem a&n,
  Salomo'LS"l                                                                    zoekt Hem; in de gedachten en. overlelggingen  des har-
    En al die_$flijkheid der genade is eigenlijk niets                           ten, in ,_beG  morgenstond  en den av.ondstond, alle de
 anders d1a.n het belonken van Gids  oogen :die op ons                           dagen z1Jn 1,evens.
 .nederDiet in genade.                                                               En hij roept God aan omds* hij dat bemint., .HPt
    Dezelfide  gedachte ligt in het- volgend,e vers, nader                       gebed des godvruchtigen is hem .een genot. Hij mag
 uitgewerkt. Eerst, een roepen om ,de genade Gods.                               gaai?ne tot.zijn  God naderen. Het is -hem een levens-
  En dan een vragen om de verheuging d&s harten, of                              behoefte. Het is de- _ermometer, van zijn geestelijk
  der ziel.      Het is de ervaring van deze zegen: De Heere                     1 even;                                                                          . . .
 ziet op mij en gedenkt aan mij !                                                    En Gods  volk roept Hem gaarne `ala!n, om_t zi.j
     Ik zou U lwillen vm:gen `lezer: als gij iveien moogt                        getrokken wordenY_  Want wij weten doorgaans niet
 `dat God aan U denkt, als.gij  `weet en ervaart ,dat Hij                        wat wij ,bidden  zullen zooals het behoort, doch de, Geest
 U genadig ia,, springt dan _Uw  ziel n'iet op van ver-                          Gc$s  [smeekt, bidt en loopt God aan  Ia!ls  een water-
 he!ugi,ng? Ik ZOU willen zeggeti,  dat al zou de geheele                        stroom, n.& zuchiingen  die onuitsprekelijk zijn.
 wereld tegen mij zijn en iek wet&  rni3,g  dat God vor                             En Hij, hoort !                Mijn God hoort !               Hall&jah  !
 mij is, ik ,zal  opspringen .van vreugde en verrukking.                                                                                                   G. V.
     Daar vroeg Jezus om.' En David. .Ei gij en ik.
     En Jezus en David hebben het ontvangen.               De Heere
 heeft verhoourd.
  En w'ij allen zien Jezus, met eer& en heerlijkheid
_ bekroond.
     En in beginsel &va.ren  `wij alreede de I genade, de
 lieflijklleid Gods,. ,de verheuging der ziel, het opsprin-                                                         ANNIVERSARY
 gen van blijidschslp  in den Heere onzen God.
     Voorst bejuisteren  we den groild va,n al deze waar-                            On September 7, i.945, our beloved parents,                           - _
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 ,heden. .; _                                                                                                 REV. GERR1.T  V0.s

     Want Gij, tHeere, zijt goed en gaaree  vergevend&                                                                     a    n    d
 en van groote goedertierenheid allen `die U aanroeljen.                                                 MRS. CHRISTINA`VO.S-Treur
   __ Datar hebt ge het.         David Wep [den Heere aan en                     celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
 noemde veel redenen op, waarom den Heere, hm zou                                   .We, their children,  extend to them.  our most sineere  and
 hooren. Doch hier is de grond. De Heere zal mij  .g.                           hearty congiratulations,  and together with them we bless OUL
. nadig .zijn, want Hij ics, goed.       Daar hebt ge het: het                   Covenant God Wbo  has spared them f.or one another and for us,
 is met slechts n woord gezegd.                                                and it `is pur sincere praper  that the Lord &ay  continue to blees
     Doch [dat cene mwoord vraagt om verklaring.             En de               them in His love and mercy.
 Heere geeft het.
     De Heere_toont  Zijn deugd van goedheid hierin, dst                                                  Their grateful  children:
  Hij gaarne vergeft.  Wat iwonder  troost voor GodS                                                                     Mr. and Mrs. Jhn  Poelstra & family
  volk.    0, we hebben het gezien en bijgewoond en                                                                                  Redlands, Calif.
  ervar;en, dat wij soms vergeven, omdat we. er niet van                                    -.
                                                                                                                           Peter, C. Mo. M. M.
 buiten kunnen: Id broeder beleed zijn kwaad. Doch de
                                                                                                                           Narilyn
  Heeye  heeft er schik van om ons te vergeven.              Tracht                                                                                  `-
                                                                                       \
  urn ey. ip te kgnenF           Wij ~h&&xk mww gezmc$&                                           <


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                                                                 Jesus forbade one to speak of Himself to anyone.        Here
    ,Chtiist  Forbid:ding  To Spread                             we can only limit it to the  dem'ons.      They alone were
                       -ais  F a m e                             forbildlden- to speak of Him as the Son of God.        It. was
                                                                 not -a&?ording  to His good pleasure that devils should

    Any and every subjiect  that relates,  to the Christ is      be His messengers.      It was not pleasing to Paul either
 of chief interest to the disciple of Christ,.  Christ's fol-    that known evil spirits s.hould bear testimony to them.

 lowers of all ages, those who earnestly seek salvation,         Therefore th'e  stern  rebuke, "Be quiet!" And, for
 carefully observe all that is written concerning the            further .consideration  turn to Mark 5 :19 where Jesus

 revelation of the Servant, of God.     And, the.above  sub-     orders the one out of whom he had cast out many ,devils
ject has often been the consideration of Christians.             in the country of the Gadarenes, "Go home to thy
    That Christ forbade_ someone to speak of His work,           friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath
 and to spread His fame abroad is a fact..  However,             done for thee, and bath  compassion on thee." This
 this. cannot be His purpose and command `in every sense         should c:ause  us to consider that, although it was not:
 of the word. s If we consider that He came to reveal            Christ's desire to have demons publish His works-and
 Himself to us and that He ,did so wit,h  a glo.rious  ac-       Name, ?nevertheless  it was`  His desire upon occasion to
 lcompaniment  of.signs and wonders :we must come to             have it known what the Lord had accomplished through

.a qualifying explanation of this subject, Christ forbid-        Him.
 ding to spread His fame.      This requires ,a study of the      In another connection Jesus also  (gave  !a command
 passages in which t,his  is expressed a,nd  a .conclusioa       about Himself.      We find  in Matthew 12 :l-9 `that Jesus

 upon the basis of a conception of the revelation of Jesus       had an argument witll the Pharisees about t.he sabbath.
 Christ as is given in the -Scriptures.                          They had reprimanded Him for allowing His d$isciples
  First of all your careful consideration of the  Idata          t,o do that :which  was unlawgful.    In conclusion-t.he  Lord
 is necessary for an appreciation of the problem  !and  for      had silenced them with the most significant words,
 certainty of arriving at a correct conclusion.,                 "For the.Son  .of Man is Lord even of the sabbath #day.",
    In Matthew 8 :4 w,e  read these words of Jesus, "See         Thereupon He entered one of their synagogues and
 thou tell no man                                                behold a man with a withered han,d was there and t:hey
                      ; but go thy way, shew thyself to- the
 priest, (and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for  R        asked Him whether it was lawful.  to, heal on the sabl
 testimony unto them."       This is His word to the leper       bath days, In verses 11, 12 of chapter 12 you may
 whom He healed, by putting forth His hand and touch-            read His answer. In verses 13 and 14 you read that E
 ing him.    This is also found in Mark 1:43  and in Luke        Jesus performs the miracle and that the Pharisees went
 5 :14;  .However,  this, is not exactly the same as His         out and held'? council against Him how they might
 other commands to tell ;no one.       Although He tells the     destroy Him. Jesus withdrew Himself and-the multi-
 leper to speak about it to no one, in this case there is        tudes followed Him, and IHe healed them all. Signi.fi-
 very likely the reason that it was more in harmony              cantly  we reatd  that He also charged them, that they
`with obedience to the law of Moses, that he should.first        should not make Him known, verse 16. This is: data
 fulfill it before pub&hing his recovery.                        lfor our consideration of the question, how must we
     Other passages we wish to call your attention to            understand Jesus forbidding to spread His fame?.
 have mlore  direct significance.    In Mark I :23, we read          This much ii. clear from this passage and  cont,ext'
 what Jesus commanded the :unclean  spirit which had             that Jesus was well known at this time.       He was known
 cried out "what have we to do with thee, th'ou Jesus            to the Pharisees. He opelrly  spoke of Himself as the
 elf Nazar,eth?  art t,hou come to destroy us? I know            Son of Man. He proved His power and authority  bd-
thee, who thou .art,  the Holy, O,ne of God." Then `we           fore their face.    (He wa,s  also known of the multitudes;
 read,. "And Jesus rebutked  him, saying, Hold thy peace,                                  .
                                                                 They followe~d  Him. From this it is evident that it
 and come out of him."      The word for "hold thy peace"        wouldlbe  foolishness to understand the, words of Jesus
 was probably. originally: as Souter explains of slang           in verse 16 to mean that Jesus did not #desire  tanyone  to
usage and is. `fbe  quiet !" This shows that there was           know Xim  as the Son of God or Son of Man or to think
 intense feeling in Jesus' command for silence.         This     of Him as the Christ.     His previous revelation of Him-
 incident, remmds  oft the, almost sim'ilar  occurence  to       self already contained that definite purpose. He co~lld
 the apostle Paul ,in Philippi  when an aevil spirit gave        not mean t.hat  ianyone who wished to contend that Jesus
 testimony through a damsel that "these men are serv-            of Nazareth was a man mighty in word and deed and
 ants of the most high God"; about which Paul was                liklely  .the revelation of God, the Christ,  <that  he should
 greatly troubled and finally commanded the evil spirit          keep silence. At the beginning of His minisiry  Jesus                 .
 to come out of her.                                             did not forbid the first disciple to testify that  He,w!s
     Concerning Christ's command we ca:ri conclude that          the Messiah. We read in John  I:45 that Philip told
 He forbade the evil.spirjt  to spread His fame, but we          Nathaneal that. Recall too, that John imroduced  I!@

 cannot conclude without any other qualification, that           to the people as the Lamb of God.


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      Concerning this passage in Matthew 12 : 16 I thi.nk             to spread His fame with definite words to that effect.
  we may say that Jesus did not wish the multitudes to                These are all .in. connectioti  with His miracles.          It is
  publish His whereabouts.; becaqse  He knew the.Ph&ri-               especially at.  t.hje time of sach  manifestation of' glory
  sees sought to destroy Him.        The context brings us to         that th.e command is deemed necessary by Christ.              We
 that conclusion.      He -knew their intention and He als:)          can also consider that some of His a&ions were a dlear
  knew-it was not yet His hour.        Therefore He withdrew          indication that He refused to- spread His fame.            Recall
  dnd .aLso.  wafrned  -this multitude which seemed to be a           His action after Hi`s mighty miracle of the feeding of
bel.ieving  foilowing against .giving  His whereabouts                the five thousand as recorded in John 6.          In verse In
  away.      The expressioti-  Jesus uBes also  ind,icates  this.     we read, ."When  Jesus therefore'  perceived that they
It.,,is  not a command forbidding to speak about Him,                 would come and take Him by force,  to. make Him a
  but a' command not to make Him known,  or-as  the word              king, He depacrted  again' into a mouatain himself
  shows, visible ormanifest.       Clearly it was H&. intention       a l o n e . "
 to .warn the'multitude upon whom He perf,ormed-  mir-                    In co~nclusion~ I would like to make the  follo\iing
 acles  of. the daager  He was  in.                                   observation :
   8 -So far forth we ,have easily .concluded  the apiardnt               1. That at ,no' time was it Christ's purpose to
 reason `why- Jesus--ga,ve  an instruction concerning Him-            himde His identity, to keep secret that He was the
 self.      There remain several passages which refer more            Messiah. At no time did He deny it and whenever
di%ectly  to bur subject, in which Jesus. seems to be con-            confronted, &t,h  the question H,e gave sufii'cient  and
  cerned wit,h His fame, which are more difficult.                    definite lafnswer.      This is contrary to the theory of
      In.Matthew  9 :18-27,  Mark 5 :43;-and  Luke 8 :41-46'          secret  Messiahship  as held Wrede, The Messianic Secret

 we. read of the raising of the  daaghter  of Jairus. In              In The Gospels, and R. H. Lightfoot, Hidory  And Inter-
  Matthew we read that the fame ,hereof  went abroad                  pretatio,n  of the Gospels, as referred to and criticized
  into .a11 the land. In Mark and Luke we rea!d  that                 in N. B .Stonehouse's book, T&e Wit,ness  of Matthew

  Jesus gave those intimate disciples anid the parents wh3            and  Mark  t.o C,hrist..

  witnessed .the  miracle the charge that no man should                   2. Positively it ,can be `mainbadned  that it was His
 &n&v  it.                                                            desire and purpose-.to reveal -Himself as the `Christ of
   .: If we cqmpare  this .miracle `With the' raising of              God. So the borerimner'had  to prepare the way for
  LaB&rus  from the dead, which was performed with the                H.im ; had to introduce Him as the Lamb of God ; and
  deliberate intent`ion  .that  all might know that .the              so He Game  to I%s own. It was `His purpose in the
  Father sent Him, we cannot Bay t.hat  it w!a,s  Jesus'              parables, to reveal the mysteries of the. kingdom of
 polilcy'to  remain  in `secret, or tb keep IHis`power  from          heaven. In the miracles it was His purpose to show
 ,&itig.  manifest, to all.    We can only conclude that He           IHim`s-elf  a the one sent from God.
 had a.particular  reason to comma,ntd  not to tell any one               3. This purpose to reveal Himself required a deli-
  of. His raising the daughter of Jairus. `That particular            nite method or mode of revelation because of those to
 .reason  ,is someho,w  connected with His method of con;             whom He revealed Himself.- It hla,d to be a revelation
 trolling `the manifestation of Himself so that it would              in the flesh.    It could not be through angels or other-
  coincide Iwith His hour and so that it would be above               %ise. -The  mode of revelation had to be according to
  all a perfect manifestation bf Himself as the true.                 fallen humanity also.          Because of 2 sinful man, care
  Christ.     Edersheim in connection with another mi&.le             h?d to be shown by the Christ that He revealed Him=,
 we already mentioned comments about Jesus' attitude                  self perfectly as the true Christ.      No false impressions
 in keeping His -work secret, acS;  follows                           might be left.
                                                : "Rather do we
 once more g&her h?w the God-Man shrank from the                      2 4. This method that Christ chose was perfectly
 fame coimected  with miracles which as we have seen                  adapted to reach, His purpose with  respect  to belief
  were rather of inw&.d  `and ,outward  necessity tha:n  of           and unbelief.         His `parables and miraldes  for those
  choice ii His Mission." Vol. I, p. 496.      To do otherwise        who believed were means to give `them power to receive
 than H,e did would.have  been to make  Himself known                 Him. Even believer.s,  however, had to be led from
 as the Jewi desired Him to.  be and that would be as 2               unbelief to faith.          Because of their unbelief some
_ Jewish  Messiah and not as the Christ of the Scriptures.            things&  upon occasions had to be tiithh.eld  from-  them.
      The same-explanation can be given of the miracles               Compare His' transfigufiakion,  before three disciples
found  in Matthew 9 :29-31, Mark 7 :36, and Mark 8 :26.               with the command to tell no one Until. after the re'sur-

 But in all these the same results-took place.        1nstea:d  of    rection.  His parables and miracles were at the same
 keepilug quiet, they proclai_t'ned  it so much the mom.              time a savor of death  unto death, given to give tin-
 Although we may say that Jesus knew that this would                  believers th&  correct conception of' the Christ and to
 take  place, we cannot jtidge  [Him to desire that  the              guard against -them having an excuse, .or seeing ia
 opposite.of  what He command&d take place.                           Him-an object of Ifalse  hope. Mark-4:11,  12.
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                                                                                   the reality of His temptations,  but in BQ doing .they
             Tempted, Yet -Without Sin                                             deny His Divinity.         Can He sin, then He is `no mars
                                                                                   God.       Others fearing tb do this find it eaasier  for their

          The subject that was assigned us. bore the hiih                          consciences to maintain that He coulid.  not sin but that
  sounding title, "The'Non  Posses Peocare  of Christ and                          the temptations were peal  only in the sense that  if, you
  His Temptations".                   Fearing that we might frighten               and I had been there iiistead  of Christ, iwe. would have.
  away borne ,of our readens  by such a title iwhich they                          been sorely tried..     To th&m then His tempt&ions were.
  were not alble  to translate, we have t,aken  the liberty to                     such only  from our viewpoint and from the viewpoint.
  treat_,  the same material `under the title above.                   Briefly,    of the d6vil;      This view fi:nds no support .+n; .Hebrelws  . .
  our essay deals with the impossibility for  Christ  to sin                       4 :15 &here  Scriptur?  plainly .enough  states that He
  and His temptations.                                                             was tempted in all points even as we are.                 Worth
          That Christ could not sin is taught us in Scripture                      noting here is the fact that Christ's temptations  are..
  and f,oUows  frbm th'e  very fiact that He is the.  Son of                       placed on the same level with ours.         They were,`as real
  God. Although Christ assumed our  fl&h and took                                  as our temptati,ons  are.
  upon l%imself our human natqre,  as to His person He                                     We Fust  therefore tgo out from the Scriptural view- :
  is and remains the Second Person of the Holy .Trinity.                           point of our theme and maintain both the Non Posse :
  He is God and therefere  He cannot sin. John even                                Peccare of Christ and the objective reality of His  `. .
  tells us in I John 3 :9,  "Whosoever is. dorn of God ,doth                       temptations.       The question primarily t,hen is, How can
  not commit sin                                                                   a temptation be real to one who cannot succumb to it?
                           : for his seed remaineth `in him : and he                       One thing to.consider  is that Ch&Xs temptations:.
. CaAnnot  sin, becauee  he is born of God." John is her;?
  thinking of t.he  lilfte  of regeneration which we receivs                       were' unique and as to their content iquite  different.
  from ..God  and ,according  td which we begin to live as                         from the general ruti of .our temptations. IHe was :
  God's ,obedient  children.                  Much more then must it be            tempted with  something wherewith He only could be
  maintained that He Who is the Son of God by eternal                              tempbed.       At the same time tie  may say that many of
 regeneration of the Father through the  Sljirit, Whose                            the temptations which for us are sore trials would
  .person  is not"born  or created but is Divine, tie cannot                       not and could `not touch Him at all.         He -was  tempted,
  sin.                                                                             but at the same t&e'we maintain that many things for
          That  He was tempted no one lean deny: Scripture                         Him would. not and <ould  not be temptations. The
  literally -speaks of His tempt&ions, even stating &hat                           devil could  not t`empt  Him to cotilit adultery, to steal,
  He was driven  of the Spirit into tlie wilderness to be                          to take the Fatl-ier's name in vain, to make an image  :
  .tempted  .of the _,Devil.                Thus these t~wo facts, that He         or desecrate' the sabbath  or any such sins.             Because
  cduld  not sin., .and  that He was tempted, are both taught                      our nature is `corrupt and filled with carnal lusts, we
  in Scripture.       Both a?e  spoken of -in one text in Heb-                     oa,n be tempted into committing every possible kind  of
  rews 4,:15 where we read, "For we have not, an high                              sin.      IHis thoughts were pure and  Hi_s desires. were
  priest which carinot lbje touched with the fkeling  of our                       right,eous and His human nature did not crave  the sin.,
  infirmiti&; but was in all points tempted like as we                             ful- things that our natures desire  not only but after
                                                                  \
  are, yet without sin".                                     :                     which they also lust.                         ,
          Now it wilLbe sensed  by this time that the pri&ary                              ChQst's temptations it will be noted always centered
  question that will "have  to be answered in. this essay is,                      around His work as our:  Redeemer, especially as our :
  How can it po&ibly  be a temptatiboti  when it is im-                            High Priest  Who would bri*nig the supreme sacrifice.
  possible for Christ _to sin?- If it is a foregoa:e  co%                          of i%s own life to the Father for our sins.  IHe was
  elusion that He will not yield, yea  that He cannot yield,                       always tempted by onle thing or another, in one way `or
  can  it really be constdered  to be a bemptation?,  If t,he                      anolther  to for,sake  the lway of the cross, the way of
  Devil cannot make Him sin, can the Devil then really                             snfferings  and deaith  in order to save His people and
  tempt Him to sin?              It is ao temptation for a blind man               enter into His kingship  and Kiligdom.             He was tempt-
  for. you to place a gorbidden  book `before him. IHe                             ed to escape the agony of hell which His High  Ptiestly  --
  cannot see that the book is there, ;nor  could he read it                        office would deiriand of Him.        He was tempted to leave..
  even. if he were told that it is within.his grasp.                       The     us in our sin and seek for His own flesh-comfort,.
  obscene -and corrupt advertisements on the billboards                            pleasure and life. He was tempted to forsalke  the::
  of the theiatre  will not tempt him to go in  andsee the                         Father's will and to ,prescribe  a will of His own.         -This.
  show when you lead him pzst.                           He cannot be tempted      unique ,element  in IHis temptations is to be observed ix
  by,such        t    h     i    n     g     s    .                                &very  one of His temptations that is recorded in Holy
     Similar reasoning. has led some to maintain that,                             Writ.
  Christ really was tempted and thati these temptations
                                                  ---                                      When He was. tempted at the very outset, of ,His I
  were very real but ,that  they wlere  such o,nly  because                        ministry in the wilderness, He was suffering Ialready

  Christ could sin.' Thus in their minds they maintain                             from ha&g fasted for forty days and  Iforty nights..


.,The agony of this, of course, could in no  #way compare               teachings. The underlying idea. still is  +hat  He can
 with the great& suffering He would have to endure                      have a kingdbm without the :way  of suffering. Of
to save  His people, .and  so the d&l  tempts Him to lezve              course,: this is never true.      The nature of all tempta-

 this way of suffering before the greater misery  c~~rqet.I!            tions is just exactly that. `They always present somc-
 whereby He would atone for our sins on the cross.                      thing which canlnot  be attained or if atrtained,  some-
. T.heref,ore  he came with, the suggestion that Christ                 thing which -is not what was expected. The wayand
 change the &ones  into bread." He would have Christ                    the objects the devil presents are  alwa:ys full of decep-
 pay attention and be concerned with the  needs'of  His                 tion. He is a liar from the beginning. There  was no
 own body &her than the needs of oursouls.             II& would        kingdom ,for Christ apart .from  this  way of the cross
 have Him turn from this way of sufferinlg  and seek                    and its suffering. To disobey God may  bring  a man
,. His own .good.        He Iwould' have Him seek the honor             prosperity and honor for a short time, but it all is con-
 and ateem of men, all .men and not the elect alone,                    sumed in the torment of hell.
 land he would  have Him seek His own glory and not                             It would be a great mistiajke  however $0 maintain
 that of the Father.           Therefore he comes with the              that this escape from suffering .and death in itself
 second temptation anld  urges Him to cast Himself down                 was not appealing to C,hr:ist.      Apart entirely from the
                                                               In `-
: from the pinnacle of the tern@@@  in the eyes  of man.                si,n that such an esuape  would involve, the mere escape
 this way again, so `the temptation ran, Christ wo~lcl                  from p:a.in  an.d death certainly had its appeal to His
 have a kingdom with@ the physilcal and spiri.%al                       human nature.       His human'nature was exactly as ours,
 suffering Hte would have to endure upon the cross.           All       sin excepted.      We often forget that His human  nature
 men would marvel+ at His  Eeet and the fact that the                   was a human  nature.       His flesh  $hran,k  from pain.. He
 angels were subject unto. Him so much that they wou!cl                 felt it as much as we do, and His human nature  wa?
 bear IHim up lest He even dash His foot against a                      not unaffected by its presence.          In Gethsemane  He
stove.         In the third temptati'on  this becomes e'speciallv       cried out that His souls was ,exceeding  sorrowful even
,glain  ..vhen t&e devil suggests that Christ bow down                  unto death. His ?numan nature very definitely was
 to him and as .a reward receive a41  the kingdoms of the               touched here by that which the devil used as  a tempta-
 earth.  Here.again the heart of the temptation is a~                   tion. Because in His human nature  He could suffer
attempt to turn Christ awa:y  from the suf1ering  of the                pain and agony of body and soul and could also enjoy
c&s and to present a way  td glory and honor in the                     food, drink, rest alnd health, H< wae able to observe
 .way  of disobedience to the .Father.          He presents the         in these temptations that to do the Father's wiii meant
 .matter  to ,Christ as though t,here  is f&r  more to gain             suffering for Him,`that  to atone for our sins meant
 and a:n Ieasier  road to travel than the one upon which                great agony, while to leave  this way of the cross would
He has set out.          The way of the cross brings Him one            be 6ajr more pleasant f.or the flesh.      This made it very
 ki_qgd,om and is realized o.nly through the most terrible              really a temptation. As far as the humn nature yas
agony of God's wrath;           The devil promises all the king-        concerned that which the devil proposed had its ap-
 d?ms of the earth and does not in,sist  upon a `greaD                  peal.      The cry that was rung  out af Hiin in dark Geth-
suffering to lattain  ,it,  but he promises it ,dnly for the            semane when He prayed that if it be `possible this cup
 siinple.and  painless act of bowing `down before him.                  might pa.:s fro&.  Him shows that, the temptation was

.: Thus, it was with all the temptations of Christ.                     real.     It shows. that an lesmnpe  from tthis awful suffering
 When He has fed the five thousand with bread, they                     di,d  very relly  appeal to His human :nature.
twanted  to make Him their king.           The devil was in this                Howeter,  since the person  that dwelt in that human
lagai:n seeking to tempt Him away from  t.he way of. the                nature was the Spn of God, the second person -of the
 cross.        Here again M@S a chance, accor,ding  to the              Holy Trinity, the will to deplart  from the Father's
temptation, for Christ to enter His kingship and king-                  way, "110  matter how appealing the escape from suffer-
dpm without the suffering and agony of Calvary and                      ing was to the human nature, never appealed to Him at
Hell. In Gethsemane when IHle  saw more fully what                      all.     That after all determines whether one sins or not.
 thi.s .wq b:eld for ,Him, He was once more tempted by                  The moment  that he begins even to will to go another
 the devil to t,urn  about and not travel t&t way.           Who        way than the way of obedience he sim.              To be able
would have continued down  that road for men who                        to see that the way of disobedience brings more bodily
w;ere  so_ unconcerned about his agpny  as these slee$ing               comfort `rather than God's will that is sin.         This was
 disciples?        Then again on the cro2s  they tia:unl;  Him and      never found in Christ. He could not  ,even  for one
 challenge Him to comic  Idown and show them His pow:er.                moment do that, and in His prayer in Gethsemane He
The devil again~  stirs them                                            adds, "Nevertheless not my will but thy will be done."
                                    ~;p.  to stop Him if possible

 from continuing in the way of suffering. They will                     His will to obey the Father never wavered.          To escape
believe _on Him and accept Him as their $ing if He will                 suffering appeale:d  to l&s human nature, but not for
only come  down. `He is. tempted to `leave us in our sins               one'-moment  did it appeal to Him to escape suffering by

 .in- order to vindicate His own na>rne  and to prove His walking the way of disobedience.
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                                                                                                                                                     Catechism and Our Own School - The.... R.V. 423 18 `21 :
                                                                                                                                                     Catechi,sm  Preaching is Ministry of the                                                                                                                                             `_
                     INDEX TO SCRIPTURE `PASSAGES TREATED                                                                                            Word - Debate - Resolved that . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                                                 R.V.        165       7 .. 21
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               A.P.. 167 7 - ,21
                         TEXTS                                                                                                                                   Continued                        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .               A.P.        184       8           21
      Gen. 1:l ........................... .                                                                                  hf" `y;* g1.
                                                             ................................ ti_p                                                                                                                                                                                                                         186       8           21
      Psalm 
      Psalm          37:25
                     5l :15 .cMe;i:  .). .......................................                               `H:k:          290    13      2 1     Charity - Tde Deaaonate and Civil . . . . . . . .                                                                                                         :*Hv        374     16            21
                                                    ......................................                      H.H.           97      5     21      Christ Forbidding to Speak Hid Fa.me  . . . . L:D:                                                                                                                    509     22            .2i ,
      Psalm 75:16  (Med.) .....................................                                                 H.H. `145              7     21      Christian Education - We Heartily Agree ,H.H.                                                                                                                         198.      9           21`
      Psalm ll9:65,                  66 (Med.) ................... . ......... H.H.                                             1 1          .21     Christian Education in this `Century -,
      %salm  119 :`74  (Med.)                                                                             - H.H.               49 3' 21              History  of (continued)                                                         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .            M.G.
      l?salm  119:84  (Med.) "::::~::::.::::I::::::::::_::::::  .H.H.                                                         193 9 21               Christian Home - The Radio and the . .  ..S.T.C.                                                                                                                      3;:     1:            ;:
      Psalm 119:93                 (Med.) :................................... H.H. 405 18 21                                                        Ch&stian  School Discipline - The Prin-
      Psalm 119:lOl  (Med.)                                                                                                   449 20 21              ciple of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.H.                                 208       9           21
      Psalm  119:105  (Med.) :::::::::::::::::.:::.`:: g.HH*                                                                  493 22 21             `Christ Our Intercessor                                                        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .            H.H.         1:;       4           2 1
      Eccl. 5:2  (Med.) ........................................... H:H: 309 14 21                                                                              ,Continued                      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . l......                      H.H.
      Matt. l : l - 3 (Med.) .......................................                                            H.E           121 6 21               Christ's Sdnship and Ours .: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.                                                                                 198       !           f :
      Maftt.  22:11-14                  ................................................                         J.D.         376 16 2'1            Chnist's Tempt&ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3.A.H.                                                                   511     22            21
      Matt. 22:31, 32 .......<. .......................................                                         H.V.          396 17 21             Christus is Opgestaan .: . . . . . . . . . . .  I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                 H.H.         285     13           .21
      Matt. 22:35-40 ........ et.. ...................................                                          H.V.          485    21     `21      Church Qrder  apd Our Ow,n  Scholols-The  R.V.                                                                                                                        423     18            21.
      Matt. 24:30 .............. ..........................................                                      J.B.         487    21      21      Church - The Doctrine of bhe  Early . . . . . . G.M.O.                                                                                                                439     19            21
      Matt. 27:9 ....................................................... H.D.W.                                                11      1     21                 Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  G.jM.0.                                           460     20            21
      Luke 16:9 .........................................................                                       .G.L.         398    17      21                 Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .G.M.O.                                             481     21           _ 21
      Luke 23:33, 34 (Med.) .................................                                                  H,H.           237    -11    .21     Clark - Text of a Comp1ain.t  .Against  Dr.                                                                                                               H.H.         174       8           2l     .
      Luke 23:42              (Med.) ........................................                                  H.H.           261    12      21                ,Continued                       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `I.._...........  y.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                              221     10            21
      Remans  6:lO  (Med.) ...................................                                                                469    21      211                Continued                      ................................................                                                               HH*:*        240     i l           21
      R.omans  8:14  (Med.) .................................... EF 381 17                                                                   21                 Continued                                                                                                                                     H:H:
                                                                                                                                                                                               ................................................                                                                            264     12            21
  I'.Go.r. 1:15 ;. ............... .......................... . .......H.D:W:                                                 302    13      21                 Continued                       ...............................................                                                               H.H.         288     13 . . 21
      I Cor. 15:20  (Med.) ......................................                                                             285    `13     21       . .       Continued                       ...............................................                                                               H.H.         312     14            21' ;
  .I1 Car. 12:16b ...............................................                                              HH.:.          290    13      21                Continued                                                       ~4..
                                                                                                                                                                                               ...............                          ............................                                          H.H.         336     15            21
      Phil. 2:`7          ..........................................................                            J.-B:         115     5      .21      -         Continued                      ...............................................                                                                H.H.         360     .16           21
  Hebrews 1:3, 4 (Med.) ................................                                                       H.H.           357    16.     21                Continued                       ..... . ........................................ . H.H.                                                                     384     17            21
  I Peter 2:1, 2 (Med.) ..... .............................. H.H.                                                                                              *Continued.                     ................................................                                                               H.H.         408     18            21
  I Peter 2:4, 5 (Med.) ....................................                                                   H.H.            ;:     :      t:                 Continued                      ...............................................                                                                H.H.         432     19            21
  I Peter 2:9 (Med.) i.. .................... .l..... .......... H.H. 169                                                             8      21                 Continued                      ................................ .I............. H..H. 452                                                                          20            21
  I Peter 2:11, 12 (IMed.) ....... . ............I.......... H.H. 217 10                                                                     21                Continued                       .: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                  H.H.         472     21            21
  I Peter 2:21 (Med.) ......... ............................. H.H. 334 15                                                                    21                Continued                       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1..                  H.H.         496     2 2           21
  I Peter 2:24 (Med.) .......... . ............................. H.H. 429 19                                                                 21     Clark - Treatment of the Case of Dr. ..:.                                                                                                                              352     15            21
  I I Peter 2:1 ..................................................... J.D.J:                                                  137     6     .21                Continued                       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . .
                                                                                                                                                    --                                                                                                                                                               Y.    362 16 21
                                                                                                                                                    GLA  - Cqontri'bution  against........Frank  Rottier   3 0 7   1 3   2 1
                               = INDEX TO ARTICES  TREATED
 -                                                                                                                                                  CLA - Contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. A. Van Putten                                                                                                    117      5 `. 21
                                                                                                                                                    CLA - Reply to J. Gritter . . . . .H. A. Van Putten                                                                                                                    329     14            21
                          TITLE '                                                                           Author Page No. Vol.                    CLA - Reply to H. A. Van Sutten  . . . . . . J. Gritter                                                                                                                213      9            21
                                                                       A          .                                                                 Common Grace and (the Two Tables of
  Aangaande Dr. Schilder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 222 10                                             21     the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.V.                                     485     21            21
  Abimelech's                 Fall ..i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.                          C o m m o n  grace in Schilderk  Passion
  &rq+hrhaim!s  Separatjw                                                                                                                           T r i l o g y
                                                                                                                                                                              ~11!,1,!.11,...~.1,!1(111'111(1(11111111..,,...,~,,,,,,,,,,,                                                                    G.L, 300 13 23


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      Communism and the Social Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                   B.K.     135                   EDI,TORIALS
      Concert  Servant of Jehovah-in Isaiah . . . . ..J.A.H.                                                                                   142      Z     ;:
      Condemned Without a Hearing ..................                                                                                 H.H.         4~6  2 1           Aangaande Dr.Schilder                                                       ................... .I ......... H.H. 222 i0                                                           21
      Conference - The ............... ........................ H.H. <52.  3  -.21                                                                                   Arminianism Gone Wild ..............................                                                                                             H.H.      124         6           21
      Confident of `a Glad Reception ..................                                                                              H.H.       49 3 21              Atomic Bomb - The ............... . ................... HdH.                                                                                               474       21            21
      Contradictions in Scripture ......................... H.H. 360 16 21                                                                                           Conferen'ce - The ........................................                                                                                       ::::       52 -1      3 1         21 21
                                                                                                                                                                     Condemned Without a Hearing ..................
      CONTRIBUTIONS                                                                                                                                                  Eureka Classis Incorporated .....................                                                                                                H.H.      174         :           21
                                                                                                                                                                     Evangelical and the Reformed  `Church-                                                                                                                                             21
      Contribution                          . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Gee: Ten. Elshof                                                   `Continued                     ..................................... . .......... ::* 1:;
      Contributi'on                         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . :..,...J. H.. Hoekstra 4 %  2:                       ;:               Continued                     ................................................                                                         H:H: 125             .:           f: .
      Co'ntribution                          (GLA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank                      Rottier          307 13. 21                     Continued                      ...............................................                                                          .H.H.     148
      Contribution (CLA)                                          . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,:H.A. Van Putten                                117 5 21                        Cominued                      ................................ . .............. H.H. 172                                                                     s7          f:
      Contribution (,CLA-Reply'  to J. Gritter)                                                                                                                                Continued                     ...............................................                                                          H.H.      196         9,          21
                                                        -                                     Geo. Ten Elshof                                  236 10 21                      Continued                      ................................................                                                         H.H.      220       10            21
      Contribbution  (CLA-Reply to J. Gritter)                                                                                                                                 Continued                     ...............................................                                                          H.H:      241       11            21
                                                                                           H.A. Van Putten                                     ,329, 14       2s.              Continued                     ................................................. H,H.                                                             266       12            21
      Contribution @LA-Reply  to Van Putten)                                                                                                                         Grand Rapids `Christian High ................. .;.                                                                                                         101         5           21
                                                                                                                    J. Gritter                 213 9 21              I Told You So ............ . ..................................                                                                                  :*HH*     100 5 21
      Contribution (Reply to G.T.E.) . . . . . . . . . . .JI Gritter                                                                           332 14 21             Liberated *Churches  in the Netherlands....                                                                                                      H:H:      474 21 21
      Contribution                          (Reply to J'. Gnitter)                                      . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                              Continued                     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . .                     497 22 21
                                                                                              Geo. Ten El&of                                   38.0 `16       21-    Propo,sal  ,of Local No.  12 - As to the . . . .                                                                                                 HH:HR:     28 2 21
      If 2 Peccavi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..,Geo. Ten Elshof                                                               :21    Protestina.Christian  Reformed Church of
      Ingezonden                          .......... <. .................... J. R. VanderW.al                                                  4:; 2:         2 1    KalamazGo  - ffhe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1                                                            434       19            21
      `Jericho Theology ............................ J. H. Hoekstra                                                                            257 11 21             Reformed Church in the Unit.ed  States....                                                                                                       ;*:*
      Musings on Motives .................... J. H. ,Hoekstra                                                                                   72 3 21              Schilder. and 0ther.s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                H:H:      2%        .1:           21
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        21            .
      #New&  ?morn  Oak Lawn ..... .................:.John Buiter 331 14. 21                                                                                         Separation in the Netherlands - The . . . . .                                                                                                    H.H.      452       20            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   _
      Proofs f,or the Existence of Grad ................                                                                                                             Text of a Complaint - The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                    H.H.      174-        8           21
             ._                                                                                D. Vander Wal                                                                   Continued                     .....................                                                                                    H.H.      221       10            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       .." ........................
                   Continued ................?...............D. Vander Wa,I                                                                                                    `Continued                                                                                                                             H.H.      240       11            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       :a.. ........
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ....................................
      Responsibility                            ................................ J. H. Hoekstra                                                                               Continued                                                                                                                               :H.H.     264       12            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ...............................................
                                                                                                                                                                              Continued                                                                                                                               H.H.      288       13            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ...............................................
                                                                                                                                                                              ,Continued                                                                                                                              H.H.. 312           14            21.
                                                                                                                           --                                                                                ............................................                                                   ....                                                 '
                                                                                                                                                                      _ C'ontinued                                                                                                                                    H . H . 336         15            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ........................                        . ...................                          .I ..
 `Cooperation as an Element of  _ Divine                                                                                                                                    . IContinued                                                                                                                              H.H.      360       16            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             .......................
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           *. .......................
      Providence - The Idea of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.D.W.                                                          159 7 21                        Continued                                                                                                                              H.H.      384       17            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ........................
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             (.......................
      Covenant of Sinai - The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P.D.B.                                                   489 21 21                      :Continued                                                                                                                              H.H.      408       18            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ...........................................
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         .I....
      Covenant - The Old and the N,ew . . . . . . . . . . . .  G.M:O.                                                                          477 21 21                 C o n t i n u e d                                                                                                                            H.H.      432       19            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ................................................
                   Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.           502 22 21                      Continued                                                                                                                               H.H.      452       20            21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ......................a........................
                                                                                                                                                                              Continued                                                                                                                               H.H.      472       21            21
                                                                                  D:                                                                                                                         ................................................
                                                                                                                                                                              Continued                                                                                                                               H.H.      496       `22           .21
                                                                                                                                                                                                             .......... ...................
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       . ..................
                                                                                                                                                                     We' Heartily Agree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                                     H.H.      198         9           21
      Deaconate and Civic Charity - T,he  . . . . . . . .                                                                             C.H.     374 16 21                                                                                                                    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      Dead to Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .            H.H.      437 19 21
                   Clontinued                     .........: ......................... .;A.. .... H.H.. 454 20 .21
      Death in Its Various Phases ..................... W.H. 454 20 21                                                                                               Education - Fairy Tales in Children's
      Death of Believers - The .... . .. . ..................                                                                        H&I.      413 18 21             Readers                . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._................                                       M.G.      400       17            21
                   Continued                      ...................                                                                                                                                                                                                                              . . . . . . . .
                                                                             :............... ............. H.H.                               434 19.  -21          Education in Thi:s  Country - Historry
      Death of the. Cross - The ........................                                                                             H.H.      365 16 21             of Christian (continued)                                                          . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...*..... . . . . . MC..                        13         l_     .21
                   Continued                      ...............................................                                    H.H.      386 17 21             Election at the C,ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.                                                      261       1 2
      Death of ,the  Son of God  - The ................                                                                              H.H.      3898 17 21                                                                                                                                                                                               21
                                                                                                                                                                     Element of Divine P.rovidence  -' Tihe
                   Continued                      ............................................... H.H. 410 `18 21                                                    Idea of Cooper&ion as an ....................... H.D.W.                                                                                                    159         7. 21
      Debate - Resolved That Heidelberg                                                                                                                              Ephraim - The Pride of ......... .
      Catechism Preaching is Ministry of the                                                                                                                                                                                                                               .... ............IG.M.O.                             130         6           21
                                                                                                                                                                     Essential Divinity of Christ - The ........ G.M.O.                                                                                                         460       20.           21
      Word                 ... ............ . ........................... ..................... R.V. 165 7 21                                                        Eternal Habitations - Friend.s  of Mam-
                                                                                                                                      A.P.     167 7 21              mon and .......................................
                   Continued ........... .l............                                                                                                                                                                                                                :..........!. ....... G.L. 398                                     17            21
        .                                                                            .. ....................                          fi.:.    184 .8 21             Eureka Classis Incorporated ......................                                                                                               H.H.      174         8 21
                                                                                                                                               186 8 21              Evangelical ,and  the Reformed Church ....                                                                                                       H.H. 53 3 21
      Debate. -                           Resolved That the Under-                                                                      . *                                   Continued
      ground Movement in _Occupied  Countiries                                                                                                                                                                 ................................................                                                        H ..H     76 4 21
                                                                                                                                                                               Continued                             .
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ..... .........................................                                                          H.H.      101         5           21
      is Revolutionary ............................................. .C..H.                                                                    22; l; 21                       Continued                     ...................... I ........................                                                        H.H.      125         6           21
                                                                                                                                     H.H.                     21              [Continued                     ............................... . ...............                                                        H.H. 148 7 21
                   Continued                       ...................................... :;. ......                                  C.H.     320 14 21                       Continued                     .... ............................................                                                        H.H.      172         8           21
      Delilah and Samson .......................................G.jM.0.                                                                        390     17     21              Continued                      ...............................................                                                          H.H.      196         9           21
      Denying the Lord That Bought them ........ J.D.J.                                                                                        137      6                      Continued                     ................................................                                                         H.H.      220       10            21
      Descension Into Hell - The .....................                                                                               H.H.      457     2 0    ;:              Continued                      ........
                   Continued                      ... .: ...........                                                                                                                                                        L.. ................................ .l... H.H.                                                     241       11            21
                                                                        i.. .............................. H.H. _ 499                                  22     21              IContinued                     ...............................................                                                          H.H.      266       12            21
      Divine Providence ........................................ H.D. W. 159                                                                                         Existence #of  God - Proofs for the 
      Divinity of Chri,st  - The Essential ........ G.M:O.                                                                                     460     2; ;:                                                                                                                                :. ........
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           D. Vander Wal 22 
      Doctrine of the Early Church - The ...... G;M.O.                                                                                         439     Z      21                                                                                                                                                                          . 1
                                                                                                                                                                               Continued
                   IContinued                   ............................................... G.M.O.                                         460                                                          ................. ............. D. Vander Wal                                                                        42 2 ;:
                                                                                                                                                                     Exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism
                   Continued ............,. ............................... :....G.M.O.                                                        481     :;     ::     Lord's D'ay  XII (continued)                                                                ......................                                                     2_  21
      Door D'en Geest Geleid ...............................                                                                         H.H.      381                             Continued                     ..
      Door Genade Vrij .................................. ;I.. ....                                                                  H.H.      469     21     ;:                                                   ..............................................                                                     Ei         Ei
                                                                                                                                                                               Continued                     ................................................                                                         H:H:       79         :           f:
      Door God's Arm Verlost ....................... . ...                                                                            G.V.      15      1     21
      Downfall of Heathenism in the Roman                                                                                                                                  . Continued ...............................................                                                                                H.H.      102         5           21
                                                                                                                                                                               `Continued                    ................................ .;..............                                                        H.H.      126         6           21
      Empire - The .............................................. G.M.:O.                                                                      157      7     21               Continued                     ...............................................                                                          H.H.      150         7.          21
                                                                                           E.                                                                                  Continued - Lord's day XIII ............                                                                                               H.H.      176         8           21
                                                                                                                                                                              Continued                      .;. ............................................                                                         .H..H.    198         9           21
      .Early  Church - Doctrine of .the . . . . . . . . . . . . .  >G.M.O.                                                                     439     19     21              Continued                      ................................................                                                         H.H.      -222      10            21
                   Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.            .460    20     21               Continued - Lord's Day XIV ............                                                                                                H:H.      242       11            21
:,                 @gtispaj                      . .                                                                           GMJ?.  481 81 23,
                                                        .."!...~...~"`!~..~...!~.,!..,~...~..,.....                                                                            Continued                     ... . . .. . . .. . .... . .. . . ,? ,......, .. ?? ...... ;...;.                                        l&H,,     266       12            21


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          `Continued            .::. .......... .................................. H.H. 291 13                                  Kuyper'ls  Conception of Christ's Human
          Continued - Lord's .Day  XV ...........                                      H.H.        315         14     :i        Nature as General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . !C.H.                                                        464       20                  21
          Continued             ......................e .................. ........ H.H. .338                  15     `21,      Kuyper's Stone Lectures - A Critique.... G.L. 65 3 21
          Continued             .................................................      H;H.        363         .16                         Continued                         ..? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      1G.L.'         i12           5               21
          (Continued - Lord's Day XVI z...........  H.H. 386 17                                                       ;;                   Continued                      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .     G.L.           140       ,,6                 21
          Continued             ...............................................        H.H.        410         18                                                                                                                                                                                                .
         Continued              ................................................       H.H.        434         19     ;:                                                                                                                 L. _- ,
                                                                                                   454 20
          Ciontinued'. ..... .; ..i.. ............................ L.. .... H.H.                                                Law                                                                                                                                                                               .A.
         Continued                                                                                                                             -  C o m m o n  
                                                                                                   498 22
                               ............................... -. ................ H.H.                               ::                                                                        Grace and the Two -;
                                                                                                                               Tables of the .................................... .:..............                                                                            H.V... 485 21. :. ,`21
                                                                 F                                                              Law - Liberty in Relation to ....................                                                                                             LD.            161           .7,:
                                                                     *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 : 21
                                                                                                                                Laws of Nature - Miracles and `the ........ S.T.C.                                                                                                           188           S-: 21
   Faculties of' the Soul ................................... H.H. 3i2  1 4                                                     Law - The Term in the Epistle to the                                                                                                                                  .                   `.
   Fairy Tales in Children's Readers ............ M.G.                                             ,400 17            ;:        Galatians .........................................................                                                                           L.D.            63           3 -: 21
   Faith - Relation Between the Four                                                                                           Led B y the Spirit ................ . .............. . .......... HLH.                                                                                         38       17 ; 21
   Kinds of .................................................. _........ H.V. 280 12                                  21       Les Der Historic  - De .............. ................. G.V.                                                                                                   38           2               21
   Firstborn of Every Creature ................. ..H.D.W.                                          302 13             21                  [Continued                        ...............................................                                                   G.V.            85           4..             21
   Flesh and Blood of Ithe  Children L The ....                                        H.H;        266 12             21                   Continued                        ............. i........;;........................ GlV. 105                                                                     5,              21
   Foreknowledge and. Predestination ........... C.H.                                                   16 1          21                   Continued                        ............................... ,...............                                                  G.V.           135
   F.reedom          of Religion ....................................                   P.V. -94 4                             Letter to ,Our  Servicemen - A ................ H,H.                                                                                                          150           ;. ;;
   Freedom of the Press in Peace and W,ar.. .. .C.H.                                               114 5              ;:        Liberated Churches in the Netherlands H.H. 474                                                                                                                         21                2 1
   `Friends (of Mammon and Eternal  Habita-                                                                                                Colnti,nue'd                    ...............................................                                                   H.H.            497       22                  21     .
   tions       ............._...................................................        G.L.                                   Liberty in Relation to Law ...........                                                                                                                                      7             :21
                                                                                                   398  1 7           21                                                                                                                                  ............. L.D.                 161
                                                                                                                               Light of His Word - In the ......................                                                                                             H.H.       ,493           22                  21
                                                               -G.                                                             Lord Departs f.rom Samson - The ......... iG.M.0.                                                                                                             413      .18                  21
                                                                                                                               Lord Does Wondrously - T.he
   Gebed D,avids - Een .. ........ .I........ .;.;. ........                            G.V.                                                                                                                                                                                                               8 :            .21
                                                                                                  ,507   2 2          21                                                                                                                   ........... .:.... GcM.0. ,180
                                                                                                                               Lord - Our .................... ....... .
   Gebed in Oorlog - Even                                                                                                                                                                                                      ......................... H:H.                                223      `10 _ 21
                                                    ..................... >. ......     G.V.       322 14             21       Lord's Supper .. .
   Gebed Om Genade Voor Genade ..................                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      11:
                                                                                        :G.V.      462 20             21                                                       ............................................ .G;M..O.                                                         249.                        : 21-
                                                                                                                               Locr.d's  Supper - Presence of Christ in the L.V.                                                                                                             191
   .Gebouwd Tot een Geestelijk Huis ............                                       H.H.                                                                                                                                                                                                                8             .21
                                                                                                        73. 4
   Geestelijke Eetlust ........................................                        H.H.             25 2          4f                                                                                                               -ix
   General Human Nature - Kuyper's Con-
   ception of Ch&&`s                                                                                                           ksx Mijn Volk Wou Niet ................ 1;. ...... G.V.                                                                                                       273       12 21
                                         ........................................ C.H.             464 20             21       Mammon and Eternal Habitat&is -
   General Human Nmature  of Christ-Refuted .H.H.                                                  266 12             21       Friends of                        .... ..................................................                                                      G.L.           398..     17.                21
   Gleanings from Twenty Years .................... W.H.                                                45- 2         21       Man's  Responsibility and God's Providence L.D. 419                                                                                                                     1.8                21
          Continued             ................................................       W.H.             96: ._z                Man Without a Wedding Garment - The J.D.J. ,376                                                                                                                         16                 21
          Continued             ...............................................        W.H.                           ::       M&t. 22:31,  32, as Proof of the Bodily
   God, Die `de Dooden Levend Ma.dkt ....... .: ...                                    H.H.        121           6    21       Resu.rrection                                                                                                                                                          17 21
 . God Speaking Through His Son ................ H.H.                                              357         16     21                                           ........................ .: ......................... H.V.                                                                396
" God%  Providence and Man!s  Responsibility L.D.                                                  419 `18            21         MEDITATIONS                                                                                                                                                                                      I
   God's Repentance                    ................................... :<....S.T:  C                91       4    21
   Gog and M,agog ............................. ..............i.P.D.13. 234 10                                                 Christus  Ss Opgestaan.  (I .Cor. 15.:20)                                                                                           ........ H.H.             285 1 .13.-                  21
   Grand Rapids Christian High School . ..i ....                                       H.H.        101 5              22:      Confident of a Glad Reception (Ps. 119:
          i                                                                                                                    74)          ..........................................................                                                                                                     3.             21
                                                                H.                                                                                                                                                                                          i.. ....... H.H.                  49
                                                                                                                               Door Den Geeat  Geleid (Rom. 8:14')' ........                                                                                                 H . H .   3 8 1 17 *                         21
Heidelberg. Catechism - Exposition of                                                                                          Door  Genade Vnij (Rom. 6:lO) ............ L.. .. H.H.                                                                                                    469          21                  21
                                                                                                                               El,eotion  at the Cross (Luke 23:42)                                                                                           .........
   (#See--Exposition  of the Heidelberg Cat.) _                                                                                                                                                                                                                              H.H.        261          12                  21      I
                                                                                                                               Gebouwd tot xeen  Geestelijk -Huis (I' Pet.
   H'ell  _-- Do the Reprobate Sin in ............ .G.M.O. 318 14.                                                    21       2:4, 5) .............................................
   History #of Cbri,stian  Education in This                                                                                                                                                                                                  t.. .............              H.H.             73. i 4'                    21
                                                                                                                               Geestelijke  Eetlust (I Pet.  2:1, 2)
   Century          .................................... .                                         `      1      3                                                                                                                                       ............        H.H.             25           2              2i
                                                               ....................... M.G.                                    God Die de Dooden ,Levend  Maakt (Matt.
   H,oly Impatience                 ...............I............................ H.H. ,193 _;                         ;:       l:l-3)            ...............................................................                                                             H.H.            121           6           .il
                                                                                                                               God Speaking Through His Son (Heb.
                                                                 1.                                                            1:3, 4) ..............................................................                                                                        H.H.        357          16                  21
   Idea of Cooperation as an Element of                                                                                        Holy Impatience (Ps. 119:84) .... .-:. ............                                                                                           H.H.        193               9.             21
   Divilne Providene                                                                              159
                                    ......................................... H.D.W.                            7'    21       I HaveRefrained  My Feet (P.S. 119:lOl) H.H. 449 _ -20                                                                                                                                     21
   Idol Worship - irhe  Motives of .. . ........ .;                                               417
                                                                                  .... A.P.                    18     21       Interceding On the Cross (Luke  23:33,`34)  H.H. 237                                                                                                                   11                  21
   If - Peccavi ............... :............... :Geo. Ten Elshof.                                              4-    21       In the Light of His Wohrd  (Ps. 119:105) ....                                                                                                 H.H.       493
   I Have Refrained My Feet                                                                       4::
                                                          ..........i.. ............ H.H.                      20     21       I Will Never Forget .(-Ps. 119:93) ........t...... H.H. 405 ?: ;:
   .IncomprehensibiIity                 [of God ........................               H.H.       240          11     21      ,Cnze  Zonden Gedragen (I Pet. 2:24) ........ H.H.                                                                                                        429           19                  21
         Continued             ..................................                                 264
                                                                          i.. .......... H.H.                                  Open aThou  My Lips (Ps .. 51:15) ................                                                                                            H.H.             97           5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      14                  ;;
   Ingezonden            .................................. J.. R: VanderWal .491                              2'4             Reverend Circumspect&on  (E&l. 5:2) ........ H.H.                                                                                                        309
   Inspiration of .Eoly  Writ - Plenary and                                                                                    Safe Refuge'-- .A (Ps. 75:lb)                                                                                                                 H.H. 145                      7              21
V e r b a l      ....... ..... ........... ........... ...... ............... ...... H.V.                                     Thou Hast_  Dea,lt  -Well  (Ps. ll!%%j"`Bi;`j::::  H.H.                                                                                                        .l' ` 1 '                    21
   Interceding on the Cross ...........................                                H.H..                                  Uitnemend Volk --%en  (I Pet. 2:9) ........                                                                                                    H.H.       .169.+-            s'             21
   ~Interesting         Discussion - An ....................                           H.H.       352                         Wandelen Als Vreemdelhgep  (I Pet. 2:                                                                                                                     .
         Continued             .................                                                  362                                                                                                                                                                                                 10                  21
                                                    l .............................    H.H.                                   11, 12) ..............................................................                                                                         H.H. 217
  In the Light of His-Word ..................... .: ..;..                              H.H.       493                         Zijne Voetstappen (I- Pet. 2:21)                                                                                 ................ .`*H.H.                 333           15                  21
   I Told You So ................................................                      .H.H.      100
   I will-Never            Forget ...................................... H .H. 405                                            Micah's Spurious Sanctuary ;:.:. ............ ..:..G.M.O.                                                                                                 458           20                  21
                                                                J  :. '                                                       Ministry of the Word - Debate: Resolved
   John the B&p&t  -The Significance of.. .... N.G.                                                                           that Heidelberg Catechism Preaching is R.V. 165
                                                                                                  467                                                                                                                                                                                                  `7                 21
  ,Jepthah                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   A.P. 167 7 21
                  ........................................................... G.M.O.
  Jepthah and Ephraim                                                                                                         Miracles  -.and  the -Laws                                                   of Nature.                                                                   188
                                            ...................................G.M.O.             1358                                                                                                                                             . . . . . . . . :...S.T.C.-
  Jepthah - The D'ays Preceding ................ G.M.:O.                                                                      .Missi&ary Calling - Our: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                  W.H.       345           1;                 ;:
  Jepthahb Vow                                                                                                                           Continued
                              ................................................ .Gl.M.O.           %l%                                                                   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . aW.H.             379 l6                           ~21
                                                                                                                              Monasticism
  Jericho Theology                                                                                                                                             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .          G,M.O.    504           2 2                21
                                   ........................... J. A. Hoekstra 257
  Jesus is Very God - This ..........................                                  H.H.                                   Montanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  G,M?O.
                                                                                                  176                                                                                                                                                                                   230           10
                                                                                                                              Motives of Idol-Woaship - The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                                  A.P.       417           18                 E:
                                                                K
                                                                -                           `\                                Motives - Musings on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.A.                                                                             Hoekstra               72 3 21
                                                                                                                              Multifiormity  - The Basic- Problem of
  pgmjs  l?f Phil,  2;7-- The                                  ...
                                                           ..... ... ..~~..."..! .... J. B,                    -5 21          the Church$                         ,.r,...,,..,,.r,,..r,.....~,.~.,,..,..,..,,...,,,,,
                                                          :                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A.P.  -402 -117.  * 21


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                                                                                                          N.. -.                                                                                     Reply to I-LA. Van Putten                                    ................... IJ. Gritter                   213-  9       21
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Reprobated. Sin in Hell - Do the ........... G.,M.O.                                                           318 14        21
Naar `t Kerkelijk Niet Naar `t  Confes-                                                                                                                                                                      Continued .............................................. ..G.M.O.                                      342 15
sioneel .Geweten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . H.H.  315 14 21                                                                             Respol:lsjibility                ................................. J.A. Hoekstra                               404 17        ;:
Natural Theology (Continued)                                                                                   . . . . . . . . . -. . . . . . . .         A.P.                61      3 -21          Resurrection - Matt. 22:31,  32, as Proof
N a t u r e s   o f   C h r i s t  - .The  Apolinarian  .                                                                                                                                            of the Bcdily ........................................ i......... H.V. 396 17                                                21
Conception `of the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...**. M.S. 214 9                                                                                 21.     Revel,ation  -                      T.he Authorship of the
Natures of Christ - The Nestorian Con-                                                                                                                                                              `Book of ............................. . .............................. J.A.H.                                  -20 1
ception of the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.V.                                                       118       6- 21         :Reverend              Ci:`cunispectil~n                    .......... i..                                      303   1 4     tll
Need for a Calvinistilc  Conference - The L.D. 278  12                                                                                                                                       21                                                                                   ..........: ... H.H.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            S.
 Netherlands - The Liberated Churches                                                                                                                                                                Safe Refuge - A .:. ................ I.. ................. H.H. 145. 7
in the . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                      H.H.              474      21 \    :       S,amson  and Delilah ...................................... .G.M;O.                                            390 17        :11
Netherlands - Separation in the . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                                               H.H.              -$E$  I 18       :       Samson and ,the Philistines ...................... iG.M.0.                                                     270 12
News from Manhattan, Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                                                                                             Samson - Birth Announced .................... G.M.O.                                                           180. 8        x:
News From Oak Lawn, Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                                                            331 14 1                 Samson - End `of ...................................... iG.M.0.                                                438 19        21
                                                                                                           0 .                                                                                       Samson Ftiding Occasion ........................ .G.M.O.                                                       226 10        21
 Offer of Sal&ion  - The Text of a Corn-                                                                                                                        1                                    Sam,son  Justified dn His Seeking Occa-
plai;njt                                                                                                                                      `, H.H.
                        ...............................................................                                                                                     384      BY              sion ............. ..*............ ............................ . (....... G.Mi.0.                             246 11        21
               Continued                              .................$.............................. H.H. 472                                                                                      Samson Possesses the Gates of  His
 Offer of the Gospel - Text of a Corn-                                                                                                                                                               Enemies              .................................................... . .....G.M.O.                        366 16        21.
plaint ........................ .......................................                                                                                   H.H.              408      18              Samson - Reaotions  of Unbelief to ........ G.M.O.                                                             294 13        21
 0 Herder Israels ...........................................                                                                                        #G. V.                 231      1 0             Samson's Seeking Occasion ;.:. .................... G.M.O.                                                     203 9
 Old and the New Covenant - The .......... GM.0.                                                                                                                            477.                     Samson - The Lord Departs From ........ G.M.O.                                                                 413 18        f:.
              Continued ............................................... tG.M.0.                                                                                             502      5;              Samson, The ,Naza.rite Judge ..................... G.M.O.                                                      154 7
 Old Man - The Outward M,an  and the .. ..J.A:H.                                                                                                                            276      12              Schedule for The Standard Blearer ............                                                      H.H.       477 21        ;:
 One Sacrifice - The (continued) ........ ;:. ...                                                                                                         H.H.                30,     2              Schilder - Aangaande Dr..........................                                                   H.H.       ,222 10       21
 Onze Zonden Gedragetn                                                              ................................                                      :.I!&             430'     19              Schilder and O,thers- .....................................                                          H.H.      241 11        21
 Open Thou My Lips .......... . ..........................                                                                                                      . . - 97              5              Sohilder  -. Condemned Without a Hear-
 Opent  Uwen Mlond ....................... .................                                                                                                                250      11              ing       ....................................................................                       H:H.        4 1        `21.
 Ordo  Salutis - The Unc.onscious  in the ... . ::i:                                                                                                                        328      14              Schildesr - I T,old You So ....... .                                                                           100 5         21
 Origin of the Soul - The ...... .;.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ............ ..... H.H.
                                                                                                               ............. .:... L.V.                                       88      4              Schilder's  Passion Trilogy - Common
 Orthodox-Church in Rus.sia  - The ............                                                                                                           B.K.              372      16              Grace in                .........................................................                    1G.L.     300 13
 Our Eternal King .........................................                                                                                               H,H.              103       5              School an Injunction - Our Own ............                                                          R.V.      423 18        f:
               Continued                               ..... . ............................... . .......... H.H. 126                                                                  6              Separat2on  in the Netherlands ................... H.H. 454 20                                                               21
 Our Missionary CalIi!ng ...............................                                                                                                                     345                     Servant of' Jehovah - The Concept in
        .Continued                                     ................................................                                              w":g:                   379     ::              Isaiah- ............................................................... J.A.H. 142 6                                         21
 Onr Own School - An Injunction .. . ......... R. V. 423                                                                                                                                             Sign of the Son of Man  in-the Parousia J. B.                                                                  487 21        21
 Our Sixth Synod ...................................... ...... J.D.J                                                                                                         443     i:
                                                                                                            -I?                                                                                      Sinai - The Covenarrt of ........... i............ ..P.D.B.                                                    489 21        21.
                                                                                                            r.                                                                                       Sin in Hell - Do the Reprobated                                                              :gIVM.g.          318 14       ' 21
 Placifism . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . .                      R.V.               304     13                       Continued .............::. ............................................                    ...        342 15
 Ralrousia  - The Sign of the Son of Man                                                                                                                                                             Smeekbede ,om Godswil ............. *................. G.V. 182 8                                                            ;:
 in the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                     J.B.              487     21              So&l  Lif,e  - Communism and the ........... B . K . 135 6                                                                   21
 Partakers of His Anointing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                             H.H.               150                     Soul - The Origin of the ..........................                                                  L.V.
 Pharaoh's Hardening Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GJ;MD;s                                                                                                     258     1 :             Soul - The Term in the New  Testame'nt...&T.C.                                                                 4:: 11        ;:
 PhiIistine's  Offend Anew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                 ,, . .                  270                     Soul - The Term in the Old Testament....H.D.W.                                                                 421 `18
 Possibility of Christ Sinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.A.H.                                                                                            511     ;;              Sphinx ,(Stalin)                      of M.oscow   - ` T h e ............                            J.-B.     347 15        ;:
 Power .of Public Opimon                                                                     :. . . . . . . . .  , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.D.J. 4 0                         2              .Spoken by Jeremy the Prophet ............... H.D.W.'                                                                  1
 Predestination and F,orekn,owledge                                                                                         . . . . . . . . . . . ,C.H.                       16      1              Stalin L The Sphinx of Moscow .............                                                          S.B.      3::  1 5      f:
  Plenary and Verbal Inspiration of Holy                                                                                                                                                             S t o n e   L e c t u r e s   o f  D.r. Kuyper  - A
 w r i t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                H.V.                        1              Critique              ............................................................                   G.L.       65 3         21
  Presence of Christ  in Ithe  Lord's Supper L.V:                                                                                                                            1::                              Continued                  ......................... ...................... t. 1G.L. .-112  5                       21
  Press. in Peace and War - Freedom of th; )C&                                                                                                                               114      58.                      C,ontinueci               ................................................                           140 6
  Pride of Ephraim - The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                       .               . .     130                     Synod - Our Sixth ........................................ J.:.?: 443 19                                                     ;:
 Primacy of the Intellect . . . . . . . . . . . ._..I . . . . . . . ::...... T                                                                            H.H..              288 .c                                                                                         T.
  Prinoiple. of Christian Schoioal  Dmciphne....l  WH.                                                                                                                       208       9             Tempted, Yet Without Sin ....... . ................J.A.H.                                                      511 22
  P.roof  of the Bodily Resurrection - Matt.                                                                                                                                                         Term Law in the Epistle to the  Galati~ans  L.D.                                                                             ::
.22:31.  `32. as . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...* . . . . . . ,: . . . . . . .                                    H.V.               396     17              Term Soul in the'New  Testament - The....S.T.C.                                                                4:; 11        ;$
  P,roof  for the Existence of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                                                                                   Term Soul in the Old Testament - The....H.D:W.                                                                 421 18
                               I                                                                                   D. Vander Wal                                              22       1.            Text of a Complaint (see Clark  1 Text
                                                                                                                                                                              42
                 Continued ......... I.................. :..D. Vander Wal                                                                                                                            Iof. a Complaint Against Dr.)
                                                                                                                                                                              28       ;
  Proposal of Local No: 12 - as to the . . . .
                                                                                                                                              . . H.H.                                               Thou Hast Dealt Well ...............................                                                 H.H.         1 1        21
  Protesting Fir& Chr. Reformed Church                                                                                                                                                               Time ,and  Content <of Bereshith in Gen.
                                                                                                                                                                             4 3 4 19
  of Kalamazoo 2 The .......*............................ H.H.                                                                                                                                       1:l        ............... ....... ...........................u......                            J.A.H.        394 17        21
  Providence - The.  Ldea of Cooperation
                                                                                                                                                                             159       7
 Ias an Element .of Divine ............................ H.D.W.                                                                                                                                       Uaconscions  in the Ordo  Salutis `-- The..
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ............     AP.       328 14        21
  Public Opinion - The Power of ................ J..D.J.                                                                                                                                              Underground Move!ment  Revolutionary ....                                                           `C.H.     326 l-4       21
                                                                                                                                                                             2::     1:
  Public Worship in the Church ...... ..............G.M.O.                                                                                                                                           Under .Pontius Pilate ................................... .I H.H.                                              340 15        21
                                                                                                                                                                             255
  Purpose of Abraham's Separation - The M:G.                                                                                                                                         11                        Continued                 ........................... v'................ H.H.                        363 16        21
                                                                                                             R.
                                                                                                                                                                             324     14                                                                                           . _
  Radio and the Christian Home - The.. ...... S.T!C.                                                                                                                                                 Van .De Rechters ...........................................                                         8G.V.     298 13        21
                                                                                                                                                                             336
  Rationalism                                   ...................................................                                                       H.H.                                       Very Gohand Righteous Man: ....................                                                      H.H.      291 13        21
                                                                                                                                                                             294
  Reactilons of Unbelief to Samson                                                                                                              aG.M.0.
                                                                                                                      ..............                                                                 Vow - Jepthah's                                                                                                108 5         21
                                                                                                                                                                             210                                                               .......................................... .G.M.O.
  Reformation - Calvin and the .................                                                                                                          H.V.                         9                                                                                    wt
  R&rmed  Church in the United States ....                                                                                                                H.H.                       1;               Wandelen                Als Vreemdelingen                                                                     217 10
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  Renewed Apostacy  and Repentance                                                                                                                                                                    Without the .W,ill  of Man ...........................                                              H:H:      242 11        21
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