vomnt~  X X I I                             O,CTO,BER   1,  1945  2  G R A N D  R A P I D S ,   MIC~HIGAN                              NUMBER 1
                   .'                                                                der onreinheid,  der_  ongerkchti~heid, de sfeer  de;  ver-
                h!iEDi'P`ATI,ON-.                                                    depfelijkheid, waarin,  qncler  ,deil toorn Gods, hij, die
                                                                                     daarin. verkeert,  ten  verder've gaat.
                                                                                         En het pas gebaarde  kindeke  is op die  wereld  a&-
      :                                                                              :gelegd.
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                   God'iWoord  Otitvangen                                                Wat uit het vleesch geboren is,  ,dat is  vl'eeschl I$
                                                                                     het  vdees& leeft in de  sfee_r, van het  natuurlijk-vlleesche-
                                                                                                                                  :
Lwht4%~+..   ,~                                                                      l i j k e .
                          .Daarom;   afgelegd   hebbcmde  &e  pwilfgheid                  Miar wat  naar- den Geest  !geboren is, dat is geest!
                         en overvloed `van  bozosheid,   .ontvan.gt  met                 A&s er, en  dat  wil  midden, in de sfeer  $an het ha-
                         xachtmoedigh&d  het Wooed,  `dat in  u geplant              t+rlijkivleeschelijke,  bet  isa.d der  wedergelqoorte   `door
                    worclt,  hetw'elk   u2.ue   xielen loan  zalig  make-n.          den Geest  geplant-wordt in het  biimenste hart door het
                                                            Jak.  -1  :%`I.          wonder der genade, en door  #de  perking  :des Woords
           ,,  G o d s   W o o r d   e n   G o d s   kintJ!  - .               ~_    ontrspruit  dat  z@!  der  lwedergeboor;te, dan  wordt,.   ,er
            Deze  twe6 hooren bij  elkander..                                        een  g&telij:k  kindeke gebaard.           E n   d a t   geestelijk
      Op het Woord Gods is Gods kind  aangelegd,  ei dat                             kindeke vindt  ni& kan  zijn levenssfeer niet  vinden,
JVoord, maar dan  ookdat  Woor,d  all.eQ is zijn  levens- in de  wereld.yan-het  nlatuurlijk-vleeechelijke. Daar is
sfeer.              -                                                                in heel de tegenwoordige wereld, waarin  hij yan nature
,'          Immers is hij, naar den  wille Gods,  dobr.dat   .Goord geboren `werd,  nietis  tdat. hem kan  doen  opwassen,  en
gebaard  eri een levend- kind  Go3s   getiorderi,  .opddt hij                        dat hem  tot'onderhoud van zijn leven  kin dienen. Im-
alzoo  @en  plaats  zou hebben  onde'r de eerstelingen  `iran                        mers is dat nieuwgeboren  kindeke  als  .zoodlanig  in de
G o d s   sche~ptieleri. Door de  levende en levendmakende tegenwoordige wereld een vreemdeling. Hij is  vreemd
kracht van  sdat Woord  schoot  het zaad der  wederge-                               aan  .de wereld  der vleeschelijke  lusten en  begeerlijk-
bborte,  dat  do.or  denHeiliien  Geest  .ih  heti  `$e?d  ge-                       heden,  want hij is uit God  Igebbren,  tiaar `Zijn  even-
pliant, op, en  werd hij een  .bewust,  leven'd kind `van God., beeld, in ware  kenilis, gerechtigheid, en heiligheid. E n
            En  zooals:.hij  do& het Woord gebaard  werd, zoo. Hij is van  boven-geboren, en  daar,om behoort hij tot
,kan hij  oak bij den  voortdyur'+$letihts  dobr dat Woord ,de eerstelingen van Gods  schepeele?,  rna2:r dan  va.n
                                                    .
Ieven. __                                                                            e&e andere  we?eld,  de hemelsche, waarin de tabernakel
            Als,  een'kindeke naar het  vleesch geboren en  yit het                  Gods bij de  kenschen zijn zal.                        ^
vleesch:geibqren   :w&dt,  din is het vleesch,  bei,de in  ,d&                           Al,s.  kwedergeboren   kindeke is  hij een vreemdeling
-bloat  llatuurlij,k@n   en- in `den  lgeest&lijk-zedelijken   z&                    in de'wereld,  &  dat.  we1  beide uit  natuurlijk oogpunt,
des  woords.. En  dan  ia het daardoor op  ,de  were1.d'.des, en in  geestelij,k-zedelijken zin.
`deestizes  aangeiegd;                      Van  Deb  natuurii& wereld is               Ook dat geestelijk  kindeke heeft'behoefte  aan  vo@d-
het  voor zijn hestaan en leven  afhankelijk.  _ In  de-sfeer
                                       .                                             se1 en drank; maar in heel  DDE  tegenwoordige wereld
idier  &ereid groeit het op. Hare  lucht  ,adernt het in,                            vindt  .hij niet,  w'at  -ihij tot, zijn  levenso,nderhoud   be-
haar brood eet  hei,  `haar water  dkinkt het.  Eq in  geeste- hoeft. Ook  ad.at  leven der wedergeboorte, dat  bdoor het
lijken  zin vindt het in- die wereld, wat  liet zoekt:  dc Woord gebaard  .werd,  is  een  ieven der  kennis,  doch de
begeerlijkheid  des  vleesches;   kn de  begeerlijkhei,d  der wetenschap der wereld kan  hem de  ikennis, waarnaar
,oogen,  en de grootschheid  das levens. Want de wereld                              dat  niyl,$e  leyen  ,d.orst, niet schenken. Ook dat  nieuw-
des vleesches schept  hair  eigen  levensyormen, en haar geboren leven  heeft zijne  beg,eerten,   doch heel de
eigen  l&en,%feer,  *de  sfeeT  m&r  leugen, der  .ijdelheid,                        te&q&oordige  wereld kan die-begeerten niet, vervtillen.


       2.                _        .I'          TiiE  ST-iNDAR.D.  BE,ARER .                                                             .-.
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       Ook  dat  geestelijk  kindeke  heeft  zijn wilsleven,  doch      ond,er  ons-.getabernakeld,  Zich met ons vereenigd in de  -
       daarrqee  etaat het  lijnrecht tegenover het  wilsleven intiemste gemeenschap  ; en tot  ens gesproken, niet
       Nder  w.ereld.                                                   slechts van eeuwige kracht en Goddelijkheid,  maar van
           Aan het brood  d&s levens heeft  Gods  wede&eboren           genade voor  genade,  woorden eeuwigen levens. Hij
       kind behoefte;  n%ar het water des levens dorst  zijn sprak, en  die Zoon in het  vleestih nam al onze  ongerech-
       hart; in  bet licht des  lev&q wil  hij wandelen  ; slechts      tigheden op  Zich, en droeg  ie voor ons, in onze plaats
       de. waarachtige  keimisse  Gods  kian hem bevredigen ;           eri ten  onzen behoeve, voor het aangezichte Gods naar
       zijn begeeren gaat  uit naar de  dingen die boven zijn.          en op de  plaats  des oordeels,  aan het  ,b%&e,  vreeselijBe
           Daarom vindt hij, naar het leven van  zijn  inwen- kruis  ; en  droeg die ongerechtigheden  voor. eeuwig wkg.
       digen mensch,  in'deze wereld  nergens, wat hi;' behoeft: Hij  sprak, en de  Zoon.in het  vleesch werd uit de dooden
         Alleen Gods  Woord  ,ka.n hem  baten.                          opgeyekt om onze-  rechtvaardigmaki.ng,  en werd  ver-
           Uit  -onvergankelijk  zaad,,  do&y  bet, Woord,  ;werd heerlijkt  aan  sdes Vaders rechterhand, bekleed met alle
       hij gebaard.                                                     macht in  hemel en op  aarde :  Ch.ri&us   de Heer !
           Op  Ndat Woord is zijn leven  a&ngelegd:                             Dat  is het Woord,  d,at God  vari den  aanbegiline der
           Zonder dat Woord,  zeg,  diat  het-mogelijk ware,  .zou      wereld-heeft  doen verkondigen door Zijne heilige  pro-
       hij pmkomen.                                                     `lfeten. en  patriarchen;  dat Hij in de volheid `des tijds
           Dat Woord alleen is  iijti-levenssfeer !                     heeft  yervuld,  dat Hij verdkr door waarachtige  getui-
                                                                        gen heeft  verklgard en  bevestigd,  d+t Hij  inl,de Heilige
           Ontvangt het Woord!  '                                       &hriften voor de gemeente van den nieuwen dag heeft
           Het  Woord:! Nadere  bepaling van dit Woord was              !xwaard, en  dat.IHiij  %o;g altijd  spreekt.  door  ,de  bedie-
       voor  ,de gemeente van Christus' niet  noodig:                   ning van dat Woord,. die Hij heeft ingesteld.
           &nmers,  .afgedaiht   nag. van het feit, dat in het                  Want Hij is het, Die Zijn eigen Woord spreekt, ook
       ,achttiende  vers-het  Woord reeds was  qmschreven als .a@  &t tot ons komt  td@x de  bediening`van menschen.
      -"bet woord  der  wavarheid,"  waardqoor de geloovigen                    En alleen als Hij het spreekt, door  <den  Geesit van
       gebaarmd  waren ten leven,  keat de gemeente geen ander          Christus, is dat Woord eene kracht Gods tot  zayigheid.
       goord, dat het  ontvangen kan.                                           Hij alleen, door Christus, in  ,den  Gee&, vergadert
           IHet  Woord,-dat is  voor  haar  &et  Woord, Gods.           en  vermeerdert en  Ibewa,art  .Zijne Kerk.
           En  dan  we1  bepea.ldelijk het Woord, dat  .God  ge-                Door Hem wordt dat  Woo.rd in  u geplant,  als--een
     sproken heeft, en spreekt, in  Christ& Jezus haren                 levend zaad, ook  als het naar de Schriften tot  u komt
       Heel;.                                                           d o o r   d e   predi!king.
.          Want ook spreekt. God  we1 door de  Idingen, die  ge-         -  Nobit baat een menschenwoord. Bij Gods Woord
       zicn  worden. En  .zfjne onziealijke  dingen  iworden van -1eeft  *de  gqeente, en bij Zijn Woord  al!een.
     - de  scbepping der  wereld  aan  we1 door  `de  schepselen                Ontvangt dat Woord !        ~Qntvangt   he&  m e t   zacht-
       verstaanl en doorzien, beide Zijne eenwige  kracht en            moedigheid !
       goddelijkheimd: En  we1 vertellen de  hemGlen Gods  eer,                -Maar is' er .dan ook ,maar eenig gevaar, d:alt i&e igeloo-
       e n   verkondigt  h e t   .uihs.pansel  Z i j n e r   handen  .werk. vigen dat  Wooed.  niet  zullen ontvangen-  .Is het dan
       Zelfs  start de  dab  ;a.an  den dag, overvloediglijh sprake     mogelijk,  dat dit  machtiige,   onjwederstandelijke Woord
       uit,  .en verkondigt de  nacht  aan den  nacht wetenschap.       Gods  ld,oor ons wordt afgewezen?  -Qf, indien  @et.  waar
       E,n ook dat is eene sprake Gods.- En  00% die  weten-            is,  ,dat het  wedergeboren   leyep  v&n Gods kind op dat
       schap is Goddelijke openbaring.         -                        Woord is aangelegd, en dat  bet-voor hem is het brood
           Maar  de natuurlijke mensch  hoadt deze  sprake in Idles leveas, waarnaar hij  hongert,`het  wajter des levens,
       ongerechtigheid ten onder.                                       waarnaar  ahij  dorst, het licht  de(si levens,  waarin hij
           En, ofschoon het wedergeboren  kind  van God  `gaarne        begeert te  wandele, is het dan  wel  sden!kba;a.r, dat  dit-
       ook op deze  spiake let, en- zijne oogen opheft naar den         zelfde  wedergebor.en kind van God zal yeigeren om dat
       hemel,  om. daar te lezen den Naam  yia!n Hem, Die al            Woord  te  ontvangen, om dat brood  tdes levens te  eten,
       deze  ,dingen  geischapen heeft-;  tech  kau hem dat  Woo~cl     en om dat licht des levens in  zi,jn hart en op zijn pad
       alleeri, zonder het licht dat  &aalt van het sangezicht          te  la&n schijnen? . . . .
      van den opgestanen  He+e,..niet  baten.  Zond&  de  in-                  Zoo  gestelld,, moet de  iraag beantwoord  Fordell met
       straling van dit laatste licht  to&h,  verkondi&de  s&.ep-       een  nadrukkelijB  neen !
      ping  we1 Gods heerlijkheid en eer, en  blijvea de  dingen,               Gods Woord overwint altijd.             E n   h e t   `wed&
      ,die gezien  worden,  lwel getuigen  vajn  eeuwibge  kracht en    geboren hart als zoodanig begeert en  ofitvangt dat
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       goddelijkheid,  .doch is en  blijft  het..toc'h eene sprake      Woor,d  z6ker.
      van toorn  en groote'gramscliap, van vloek en dood, die                   Maar vergeet het  niet, dat  er  metterdaed) een  ont-
      slechts  met, schrik  vervullen  kan.              -              va:ngen  onzerzij,ds  is van het Woord Gods, dat door  I$
           Doch God sprak Zijn  Woord in  Christus  Jezus!              pred?kin!g  -tot  i;na komt. De  werking van het  woord,
           Hij  sprak  en  ke;t  Wqord   -wqd  vleesch,  en  hee`ft Idat in ons  geplant wordt,  -is  Lr?immer   zooI  d&  de  ge-
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loovigen het  lijdelijk  .in  iilch opnemen. Integendelel,  zij       gebonden  legt; en.  waardoor. ge een dader van dat
ontvangen het door  ee;2 bewuste daed. Zij  &en het                   Woordi kunt  zija,- en wilt zijn,  oak dan, wanneer  dz .
brood des levens, waarnaar ze hongeren  ; zij  drinken gehoo&aamhei,d   aan  Idfat Woord u in moeilijke wegen
het water  .des levens,  waa:rnaar   ze  do&ten._. Door het voert  naar  fret  vlecsch,  zoodat ge in de  w,ereld  verdruk-
geloof  reageeren zij op  td,at Woord, zoodat ze het  op-             king hebt,. en  `bet  u  uit genade gegeven wordt in  ;I?
nemen in hun  hart en verstand en wil  can al  bun  be-               zaak van  C&r&us,  niet alleen in  IBern te  gelooven;  maar
geeren. En tot die reageerende daad  ,des geloofs  w-or-. ook  met Hem te  lijd@!
den.ze in dit Woord Gods dpgewekt.  -                                      Zonder die zachtmoedigheid voert de  hoo,gmo&  van
       En,  twcedtens,  vergeet het  `oak niet,  ,dat  :datzelfde. o:uden mensch  d,en  boventoon;  en kunt ge het Woord
wedergeboren kind  vtarn God in deze  w&eld, dat naar                 n i e t            sontvangen.
het  beginL3el des  nieuwen-levens  naar dat  Wooed  ver-                  Eil als  hiera&xi nog toegevoegd wordt, dat ge  zult
langt, naar het brood  *des.!evens hongert, en naar het               afleggen alle  vuilhei,d  ea overvloed  van boosheid, wat
.water des levens dorst, dat  nieuwe  ieven nog slechts               wil dat  clan anders zeggen, dan dat  `ge gedurig op  uwe
als een  :beginsel bezit ; dat hij nog  alt;jd met-zich  om-          hoede zijt tegen de werking van den ouden mensch,  dat
dna:agt zijne oude natuur, waarin de  bewegingen der                  ge  waakt en bidt, dat ge  dien  .ouden mensch en zijne
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zon;d;e  nag  altijmd  werkeh  ;  en  d a t   n a a r   .zijn  oudei werken. bestrijdt en doodt?
mensch  .dit  wedergeboren kind van God  aitgaat, niet                     Alle vuiligheid ! Dat is  `de smet, die u  iaankleeft,
naar het Woord Gods,  maqr.n&r de  leugen~der  wereld,                in uwe dude natuur. Ze kleeft  aan uw verstand,  aan
Ien de  begeerlijkheid des  vleesche3  en der oogen.                  uwen wil,  aan alle uwe begeerten. En ze  werkt in  u.
      Nia'ar, zijnen ouden mensch ontvangt hij het Woord              En  ,gij zijt  geroepen, haar af te leggen, haar het  recht
nimmer !                                                              te  on+zeggen over u te heerschen, haar den mond  te
        En  ,die oude mensch is  dikwijls  machtig, streeft           snoeren, haar ten onder te houden. Neen,  niet.  alsaf
Brachtiglijk om  wee?  6p den  troon~ te komen, om  #d&n              tge ook maar  ken  Ismetj~e  v(an de zonde zoudt  kunnen
boventoon te voeren, in het  leven van  ,den  wederge-
                                                                -     zwegzuiveren. Niet alsof ge met  `dat  :a>fleggen van die  ..
borene. .                                                             vuilighkid, en dan  we1 met nadruk van  alle  vuiligheid,
       .Vooral, waar  bet Woord eischt, dat we daders, niet ooit in u leven zoudt klaar komen. Maar  we1 zoo, dat
slecht,~  hoorders zullen zijn, spant die  oude  meusch ge door de  gracht der genade den,  oud(eg  men&h en
al zijne krachten  i.n, om het te  wedlerstaan.                       zijne  we&en het  bpperbewind in  uw  lev@n  volstandig-
        Vanda$r, dat er metterdaad  reden  is  voor  deze  ver-       lijk  bntzegt.
maning.              -.,                                                   En alle  overvloed van boosheid !
        Het  richt  zich tot den nieuwen mensch!                          Ne&, dat  beteekent  niet,  d,at  .ge met.  `d&t afleggen
        Hset  i;vil hem  a&q)oren om te  \Yahen en te bidden !        cult beginnen, als de werking  -der boosheid  zich wat al
        He! wil hem  sterken in den  strijd tegen de  bewegin- te overvloediglijk  oljenbaart.  Doch het  tiil  we1  zeg-
geti der zonde  in,hem !                                              gem, dat  de-vuiliigheid,  `die nog in u en  aan  u  kleeft,  zicb
_        Ontvang het             W6ord !         "     _
                                  -                                   gediuriglijk. in  allel*lei  booshei,d  wil  openbaren, in uw
                                                                      denkea en  will,en en begeeren, zoowel als in uw  spreken
        Met zachtmoedigheid ontvangt het Woord !                      en. handelen, in  geheel Gwen  wa,ndel  ;  dtit het wil  "over-
        En : "afgelegd.  hebbentde alle vuiligheid en overvloed vloeien, "  `en dat  dat  overyloeien der  booshelid zult  be-
van boosheid," ontvangt het Woord,  clat in  geplant strijsden met al wat in  u  is! ,
wordt.                                                                     Dat is  `die weg. Een  :aadere  weg  t,ot het ontvangen
      I  Ein wat wil dit nu anders  &ggen,  dia.a  ,dat  ge het -van het Woord  Gods, is er niet,  ieenvoudig  omdat geheel
Woord  alleen  in.  `den weg van  voortdtirenden strijd               uw oude mensch dat Woord vijandig is.
tegen de  beyegingen  ,der  zond,e,  .die in u zijn, en  die. ook H i j   m o e t   e r   o n d e r   !
in  u  werken, kunt ontvangen?                                           Afgelegd hebbende den ouden mensch, altijd  weer
        Zachtmoedigheid is immers eene genadegave,  ee_lie opnieuw, en  -rnbt  zachtmoedigheid. . . .
lgeestelijke  deugd_yan den nieuwen  tienxh, die  lijn-                    Ontyangt  het Woord !
ncht staat  tegenbver den hoogmoed en de  zellfverheffing,             Z a l i g   h i j ,   d i e   alzoo  d o e t !    -
die den ouden  me%xh  kenmexken; en zij, de  zacht-                        .Hij is een  hoorder,  eti'ook  een dader des  Woordq.
moedigheid alleen  ka.n u  `doen staan, en doet  i staan in           En  `dat  Wooed  maakt zijne ziele zalig!
*die  vetihoedling tegenover hkt  -W,oord  Gods, waarin  `ge               Ook  thans, want door dat Woord wordt-al  ,de  vol-
-bet  kunt ontvangen.. Het is die deugd,  waardoor gij  u             htiid des  -heils in  Christus  Jezus in zijne ziele  ingedra-
pernedert onder de krachtige hand Gods;  wa&oor  gij, lg.en !  Gena,de voor  genade,! Vergeving en gecechtig-
en dat  we1 tegenover dat Woord,  altijd  traag zijt  om heid,  vrede en  .de liefde Gods,  hope'en,  blijdslchap   ver-
te spreken en  rasch  0% te  -hooren; waardoor ge u  kunt             vullen  d,an de ziel!
en wilt  verootmoedigen,  -oak  als dat  Woord u  veroor-                  En  st,raks  wordt  <die zaligheid volkomen ons deel!
deelt; waardoor ge verstand  _ en wil  aan  &at Woord                      In  eeuwige  volma.aktheid  !                      H    .         H:


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                                    EDITOR  - Rev. H. Hoeksema                                                                           If I should refer to all the passages of Holy Writ
  Contributing Editcrs: - Revs. J. Blankespolor,  A. Cammenga                                                                        that prove that the complainants contradict Scripture
  P. De Boer,  J; `D. De  Jotig, H. De Wolf,  L.. Doezema, M.                                                                        when they insist that God sincerely  seek3 the salvation
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.MEDlTATION   -                                                                                                                      `are delivered unto me of my Father  ; and  .no man  know-
                                                                                                                                     eth the Son,  b.ut the Father; neither  knoweth any man
GO.DS WOO.RD ONTVANGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . ..I.......... I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1             the Father,  Bave the Son, and he to whomsoever the
              Rev. H. Hoeksema                                                                                                       Father will reveal him."
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EDITORIALS  -                                                                                                                           Let Us, in connection with this passage, briefly
                                                 ,                                                                                   notice the following points of importance:
Tti.E TEXT OF A COMPSLAINT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  -. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4           1. That Jesus  yhere  answers&. Answered whom?
THE LIBERATED  CHURCHES  IN THE  NETHERLAND~S....  5                                                                                 Evidently, the Father. But to what  Ido His words and
:EXBOSITION OF THb HEIDELBERiG CATBGHISM  . . . . . . . . . . . . 7' thanksgiving  herie contain an answer? To something  _
          Rev. H  .Hoeksema                                                                                                          the Father had done, and that,  too, through the preach-
                                                                                                                                     ing and  labors of  our Saviour.  I This is evident from
TIEE EXPLORATION OF THF TRIBiE OF DAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10                                                     the context. While the Lord preached the gospel of
           Rev. G. M. Ophoff                                                                                        I
                                                           .                                                                         `the  Bingddm  and performed His mighty works, a two-
                                                                                                                                    fold-  e$fect had become evident. There were the
E,&`N G;E.EXD DAVIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :.. . . ..a....................................... ,.13                     mighty, who always took the kingdom of  God by force,
              R e v .   Gi-  V o s                                                                                                   whether it  &as John or Jesus that preached its  .goeipel;
                                                                                   :                                                ,`and there were the miserable men of that generation,
OFF TO SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..~.........................................I5 whom Jesus compares to the- children- on the  market,
           Rev. R. Veldman                                                                                                 calling  untd their fellows: "We have piped unto  you,?
                                                                                                        ti                           and  ye have not, danced  ;  we  halve  .mourned unto you,
%.ROM' HOLY %RIT , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                                          `
                                                                     . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l? and ye  have'aot lamented." Never did they  enter the
           Rev. H. ieldmaq                                                                                                           kingdom of heaven. John preached it, but they  sIcid
                                                                                                                                     that he had a devil, because he  canie neither eating nor
Ii. F:P. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l9 drinking ; Jesus came eating  an,d drinking,  and they
DR. GORDON H. `CLARK - O.P.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21           callecl  )Him a glutton and  winebibber. To  John they
           `Rev.  Wz  Hoff&w                                    j                                                                    piped,  a& he would not dance; hence,  they mu&  hav,e
     :                                                                                                                               nothing of his gospel.                       Before Jesus they lamented,
A PIQNEEbRING MOVEMENT . . . . . . . . . . i ,...,...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
L .                                                                                                                      -,@g        and He would not mourn;  z&d, therefore, they rejected
          -Hormer                          C.                               Hgegsema                                                 His gospel. And in -connection with this latter effect
     :..                                                                    \                      I                                 of His preaching, the Lord upbraid's the cities, "wherein
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. most of his mighty  .works were  .done,  becauis'e they preaching of  ;tihe  gosped, are both,  a  ssavour of death
  r e p e n t e d   n o t . "  vs.,  2 0 .                              u.nto  #death, and a savour of life unto life: And 2. That.
       A twofold effect, therefore, had become manifest                 in  `both cases they.  ape a sweet savour  o:P Christ  *unto
  under the same preaching.                                             God. And the  preadher  ,of the gospel that is not  will-
      .?r. That Jesus ascribes'this  tniofold effect  tb the            i$ng to be such  ,a  swee% savour unto  Go.d in them  thqt
  work of the Father. He  is  the Lord of heaven and                    are saved and in them that  p&h, simply  c&-mot be a
  eai%h, sovereign  `also with respect to the  wo&k of  sal.- minister of  the Word of God.
  v&ion. The preaching of the gospel  becomeg  effe&iv:e                    B,ut  w h a t   t h e n ?
 ' only through His power and operation.                    And that        What.becomas  .of the  convention  of the compl&ants
  operation is  twbfold:  He hides the  thin,gs of the king- that God  ~since.Kely  see@ the salvation of all men, the
,doni of God, and He reveals them.                                      reprobate included, through the  p&aching of the gos-
       3.,  Th$t all this is quite  inn harmony with the  tar&h,        pel?
  that no man knoweth the  Son,- but the Father; and                        And what to think of  their  .final statement:  _"The.
that no-one can know the Father, but the Son,  an,d to                  supreme importance for evangelism of  vaintaining  the
  to whom the Son will reveal Him.                                      Ref,ormed  <doctrine of  .the  gospel as a universal. and
      4. And that the ultimate  peason and  cause1 of this              sincevse offer of salvation  i,s self-evident."?
  operation of the Father, according to which, even                         Do.  *hey, in this statement, not reveal their real  iri-
  under. the  preachong  o,f the  ,golslpel, He hides and  re- tention? They  fir,st claimed that the Reformed doc-
  veal,s,  is the good  plkastire of God:  `(E&n so,  Fat&r,            trine  elf the  gospel1  honprs the paradox,  she  contradie-.
  for so it seemed good in thy sight."                                  tion : God' wills to  saveball men  ;  1H.e  will,s to- save only,
      Now let  tihe complainants make plain that  -they do. the elect. Must they, then,. not preach  that paradox,.
  not flatly contradict  these words of Jesus, when they                if they  would proclaim the  full- gospel,  accordi.ng  to.
  ins& that God sincerely  sekks the salvation of `the                  their own contention? Must they not do justice to  that`
  reiprobate   through the preaching  (of the gospel.                   gospel,  ,and hide nothing  sf it, whether  :~n "evangelistic"
      May  &-further, just remind the complainants of  the              wor<X, or in the ministry of the Word in the  Chlurch?
  passage  in Rom. 9  :i-18?  And let  .it suffice to point                 But no; here they  .ta&ly  adz-r&  that, for evangel;
  out the main  .line of  *he apostle's  asgumenlt.           He ex-    isti,c purposes, their paradoxical gospel  ,is not suitable.
  plains the fact that many Israelites `had not obtained And so they propose to forget the one  si&  ,of their
  salvahion, while the  r,enmant obtained it,  from the                 paradox,-and to  ,present  the  gos$Fel only as  `a "universal
  govereign purpose  -of. God  con.cerning  election and                and sincere offer of salvation." And that. means that
  reprobation.        The Word of  Godc  h&d not become of they  inten,d  t.o limit themselves to  the  proc@mation
  non& effect,  even though many Israelites were not                    that God sincerely  seek: the salvation of all men.
  saved,  ifor only the  childr:en of the promise are counted               In practice, they  intend to preach an  Ar&nian
  for  fihe` seed.  A(nd these are the  .elect in distinction           gospel.
from the reprobates, Jacob in  8distinction from  EFau.                     Thei  ar,e afraid  o$ their  oti,n paradox.
  Even in relation to Israel as a  .nation God `remains                                                                      ti. H.
  e,overeign  to save whom He will : "I` will have mercy
  on whom I will `have mercy, and  E* will have compassion
  on whom I  :will have compassion."  ps.  1%.  And,, after
  he referred to God's  s0vg.reign dealings with  Pharaoh,
  he concludes this section with the words: "Therefore
  bath  he mercy on whom he will have  mercy;.and  wh?m                            The Liberated Churches
  he will he hardeneth.,'
      I  woul'd very much like to see  the complainanta. ex-                           In `The Netherlands                      *
  plain  thi,s passage in such a way, that  ,it becomes plain
  *hat they  ,do not openly contradict the Scriptures when                 Before I proceed to offer: our readers more  infdrma-
 . they  hold  tha$ God  sinceiely seeks the salvation of  the          tion concerning the  schilsm caused in the  Reiformed
  reprobates.                                                           Churches of the Netherlands, I want to say a few
     .-One more  passage, II Cor. 2  :14-16 :  "Wow thanks              words of  clazification   jn regard-to a statement I made
  be unto God, which always  cbuseth  us to triumph, and in the previous issue  ,of  ,our paper,  .and  on which the
  ,malketh manifest the savour of Christ, in them  thllt  tire          R,ev. H. J.  Kuiper reflects in  The  Bhnner  of Sept. 14,
  saved, and in them  t,hat perish:  Tb the  o.ne we  ar? a             1945. The editor writes:
  savour  #of death unto death;  an'd to the other the savour              "When we explain the nature! of  the  ;objectionti
  of  life unto life.' And who is  suficiennit   unto these             which the  scl$smatic  -group made against the official
,. things ?"-                                 .                         .&and of the Reformed  Churches (and of our Church
      The  point  here is: 1.  That  the  .apost&+ in their             as well) on the significance of the  co&ant of grace


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       for the children of believers,  it will become clear  h&v that the decisions of Synod were taken prematurely,
       utterly  inconcoiva~bl~e it is that the Christian  .Reformed i.e..  before the questions involved were fully discussed.
       Church should react to  $he position  o;f  the  Schildeir                  5. I am quite sure that the Rev. H. J. Kuiper states
       g?oup  `asp Rev. H.  Hoeksfma predicts in the  Staadaid                the  polsition  of the Liberated Churches  incorrectly'and
       Bearer  :of  Sept&mb& 1 when  be-  iwrites:                            quite ambiguously. This, I think, I am in a  povition
            " `In  f&t; as we receive,  wi`ore and  more. items of to prove even  4ow.  -f&d I hope to clarify this -point
       reliable information, we came to the  ,conclusion that  It             fully' in the near  f.uture.
 will not be an easy  .matter for  the Christian Reformed                       . 6.  My statement  tihat it would not be an easy matter
       Church  in honesty to  deter&o with which  part of the                 for the Christian Reformed  Churcfh  in,honestzj to `de-
       ,divided  Clurch they. will  inaintain the relation of sister          termine with which part of the divided Church they
       churches.'                                                             would remain sister churches, was not made rashly,
_~           "On the contrary we make  bold to say that  ,after               but  waist rather well motivated  ~Before my own mind.
       the Protestant  Rleformedl Church learns that Dr.  Sc:hil-             And  here,is my explanation of this motivation :
       d`er made no  ,obj,ections  ,again& the  .decision on Common               a. Fact  is that the  Liberatie:d Churches  `do  sot take
       Gr$ce by the Netherland  Synbd of  l942  - (a  .decision               the stand that they cannot live in  fello,wship, i.e. in the
       which  agrlees in every essential with  ,our Three Points              same  C,hur&commuai.on, with those who  _ take the
       of' 1924)  it will no longer feel  sympat!hetic  toward  ihim.         stand that  ,a11  fihe  Iehildrea  born within the scope of the
      Nor are  :we  st  all  sure that Rev. Hoeksema will feel                covenant are to be considered  regerierited until the
       inclined to  ag+ee with the covenant conception of                     opposite. appears. But they want freedom to  bel-ieve
       Schil'der  ctim  s&s;   namely,  & a t   t&e  blessing  o f   t h e    and `maintain their own  view on  this> matter.                This
      covenant  WI purely, an  e&e&& one so that  nil who are                 the  Syin,pd denied them by raising the  ,compromise-
       in- the  coven,ant  receipe its  Eull blessing. At  ,a11 events        conclusions of  Utrecht  1905 to  & dogma, binding upon
       there is not the slightest  possi:bilit$ that the Christian            all ministers and  candid'ates for the  minilstry,  and  *other
 . Reformed  Ch;rch  will hesitate for a single moment                        officebearers  as well as members. Those that `were not
       to reject that position."  `.                                          iti harmony with the  aynodlical <decisions  lhad no longer
      A         f,ew       rema&s:            .                               a place  -in the  Reforme,d- Churches. As  far as I know,
            1. First  ,of  sl!, we may be thankful- that the Rev.             the  Ghristia;   R,eformed   ' Churches  never took this
       H. J. Kuiper  .admits,  .though  otily  indirecbly,  that he - s t a n d .   1
       was wrong when, writing  prelmaturely on the matter,                      b. Fact is, too, that the  coventint  conception of the
      ,he  suggesi%d  that the  scihism in the  Netherland Church-            Li,berat$d  Churzhes, as far as I can judge now, is
       es concentrated around  Sc:h4der  and  commion  grace.                 eszent,ially the same-as that which for many years was
       The wrong  impressi0.n  that  WI&  left is, at least, re-              taught` by Prof. W. Heyns in  &hi  Theologilcal  &hool
       moved.  AnId that  @ the main thing.                    '              of the Christian Reformed Churches.  HeI taught this
            2. Let it  no!  ,be:deemed presumptuous by the editor             at every opportunity, in his Gereformeerde  Geloofsleer,
       of  The  Banntir  when I  cautiop  `h:im once more not to iln  his  Genadeverbonc&   i n   h i s   Catechetiek,  a n d   `h i s
      `rush into. print with strong expressions of opinion,                   Liturgiek. And I am sure that a large  number  uf
       until he has the official  `doc.uments and  inf,ormation               mi&$rs `have  t,horotighly  imbibed  hi& teaching,  antd
       from both sidles, and thoroughly, digested it;  _ He may               &at his  covenazzt conception is widely taught' and
      have to  ,alter  ,his  stan,d once more.                                preached in  the Christian Reformed Churches.
            3. That I felt personally attracted to Dr.  Schildler                 c. Now, I have  no" doubt, and never had; that for
       I will not  `deny. However,  ,so wese many of the leaders              ecclesiastical reasons the Christian Reformed  Churches
       in the Christian Reformed Church. And  ,my sympathy will  r,emain sister churches with the  synodical group
       for Dr.  &&il,der was not based  ,on the-conviction that               in the present schism. But if they will judge  honestly,
       he  sagreed  with.  us  on the  `tiatter.` of.  corm-non grace,        will  they, not have  greak-  ~diffi~eult,y to decide that  +hey
       although after he gave us a hearing,  anldi  as:pecially agr;ere- with those who make the decisions of  Utrecht
       after the meeting  iti  thle  Pantlin'd, he  seemed1 to come           strictly  Ibinding, and  leave-no-,room for those who ad-
.i closer to  uist. And there may  .be several reasons  T:vhy here to  $he  tH.eynsian  coaception of the covenant?
 he  di,d not protest against the  <decisibns by  the  Nether-                   Bat  about this question  more  lat.er, D.V.
       land Synod on common grace. I'- will suspend my                                                                                  H.  H. ,
      -judgment until  1 know all the facts.                                            -_
        4. I agree with the Rev. H. J. Kuiper, as far- as I
cau judge now, that  ii; is not very likely that I will
       agrele  wit.h  -the covenant  conceptibn  1 of  the Liberated                    Behold!, the potter moulds  tke clay,
- Churches; Nor  ido I  agriee-  Iwith the stand  taken by the                          His vessel forms himself to please:
,~  NetheXand' Synod in  thi,s respect.  The discussion  ,of                            `Such is our `God,  .and  su8ch are  w_e,  _
       this  point,;must  wait till- later.  ,It is my conviction                       T,hb  .si~,bjectts   of. his  <just' decree;


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                                    ,.      lSi      2    :THE  STAN-DA.Rl3   B E A R E R                                                           .`7:
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                                                                                             But it would se& that the brief  Qcussion  by
                                                                                          iwhich  t.he Catechism dismisses the  rS;stirreotion  $f
                                                                                          Christ from  the  `dead is disproportionate to  `the great
                                                                                          s6gnifica;n:ce Scripture  aXt?ches  to this glorious wonder,
       An Expkition Of The Hklelberg and the  central  place  given to it in the economy of sal-
                                                                                          vation.
                                                                                              Without the  resurpedion  of Christ,  t.he cross  re-
                                                                                          maihs the  `darkest page in  ,history.
                                  Part' Two.                                                  If Christ is not raised, our faith is vain, we are still  _
                         Of Man's Redemption'                                             in our  sins ; then there is no way out of our death.
                                                                                             I;t is not  ev:en too much to say that Christ's  resur-
                            LORD'S   D A Y   X V I I I                                    .rect,ion,  accord,ing  to the Scriptures, has cosmological
                 '  Q .   4 5 .   Wlhat   d o t h   .&he   resurncction   o f   Ghrist    significance, for precisely as the  fir&born from the
                profit us,?                                                               ,deid He is the  dmtbprn of every creature, by Whom
                                                                                          and for Whom all  things were  createid.
                  A. First, that by his resurrection he `has over-                           The:resurrection of the  Cmci`fied  One&hat  is the
                come death, that he might make us `-partakers of                          Gospel.                                   c
              , that righteousness which he  had.  purchased for us
  .             by  .hils  death; secondly,  w6 are also by his power                        Bence, the apostles, in obedience to their charge to
                raised  up to a new life; and lastly, .the  resurtiecti6n                 preach the gospel to every  creat,ure,  do, indeed, pro---
                of Christ is a  suie pledge of our blessed resurrection.                  claim  C'hrist  aasd Him -crucified,, but always  ,as the
                                                                                          Ohe Whom God raised  f,rdm the dead on the  third day.
                                            1.                                            Oti the day  tihen the Holy Spirit was poured out  into
                                                                                          the Church,  the  apositle Peter preached unto  the  amaz,ed
            :The  Faot  Olf The  Ri:urrection Of Christ.                                  multitude the Christ, whom, according to the determin-
         StrickingJy brief is the chapter of the Catechism                                ate counsel and  forek8nowledge of God, they `had cruci-
   on- the resurrection  of our  I,?ord from  the. dead.                         No       fied and slain,  but "Whom God,  h&h. raised up, having
less than.  Ieight questions. and answers were devoted  ito                               loosed the pains of  ,death, because it was not possible
  the  suffering and  #death of  Chrisit  in the preceding two' that he  sihould be  holden of it." A& 2  :32. And again :
  Lord's  Days. Four more questions are  ,answered,;  in                                  "Tbig Jesus God hath raised up, phereof we  are--all
  .the next Lord's Day, concerning the ascension of the                                   witnesses." When  bhe impotent man, sitting daily at the
   Saviour into heaven.                    And only one  qu'estion and                    gate of the temple, was healed,,  .and the  multitu'de! that
   afiswer are considered sufficient for the  expos;ition of                              witnes,se'd this miracle were  "fill~e~d  with  wond,er and
 . the resurrection of Christ from the dead,. Besides,                                    amazement at that  which  -.happened  unto him," and
  this one question  looks at that  resurrection.excltisively "ran together" unto Peter and John, Peter once again
 from a  soteriolog`ical point'of  jiew,  -m  lexpressed  i-n  the                        preached unto them Jesus,  Whqm  the  Jews! had killed,
   question: "What  dotih the resurrection of  Chri,st profit                             but "Whom  God hath raised from the dead,` whereof
   us ?" The fact, the -meaning, the central  significanoe we  a~ei witnesses." Acts 3  :115.   -And  w,hen,  oil the
   of this important wonder of grace are left entirely                                    following  ,day, the  rule_rs  of the Jews call the apostles
- outside of the scope  pf odr instructor's conception.                                   to  account for what  dthey had done, Peter boldly testi-
         It cannot be  `deqied  that'this  brevity is a  weakness                         fies : "Be it known  u*nto you all,  and to all the people
   in the  Heidelberger,  ;that it betrays a `want of -proper                             of  18irae1,  that  lby the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
   evaluation of this important, truth, which the preacher                                whom ye crucified,  whom  ,God raised from the dead,
  would seem to be quite justified to  supp&.                                             even by  him  ,doth this  mani stand here  before you
         We  d;o not say this, primarily, because we consider                             whole." Acts 4  :l& And when they were released from
   it  necessaw  that the  mini&&-of the Word enter into                                  prison the same  apostlies  "with great power. . . .  wit.-
  the field of apologetics,. to defend the truth  ,of the                                 ness of, the resurrection of the Lord  Jesugc" Acts 4 :32.
   rek.lrPcJddOn   .of our Lord  6efore the `Church of God                                Also in the preaching  ,of the apostle  P:aul, the resur-
   over against various forms of  mbder6 philosophy and. rection of  Christ  occupies a central place. In  P,erga
   so~calikd  theology that  .either  ,deny  lthe reality of the he proclaims that the Jews  conVdemned and  sleti  JesusI:
   resurrection  outright;  or give the term a new content                                "But  God raised him from the dead. And he  was,seen
. that  #deprives Christ's resurrection  ,?f  itms  significince man? days of them which came up  wi+h him from`
   and power. The truth needs no  apolqgy.-  The Church                                   Galilee to' Jerusalem,  whb are his witnesses unto the .
   proceeds from faith  &I the- risen Lord, Whose Spirit people. And, we declare unto you glad  ti,di;n'gsb  how
   she received,  an.d of Whose life she partakes. And the that the promise which  {was made unto  &he fathers, God
 I_ natural  tian receives not the  things  pf the  Spirit,  for                          hath.fulfilled   ,the same unto us their  +ildren,  in that
   they are spiritually  disc&n$dd.                       ,                               h$  Yh&$,  rais6.l up' J&u&a@iri;   .as it is' also  tiritteti


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 8                                            T-HE  ,FJz.ANTD.ARD  B E A R E R                        .
           - . . . .                              _  _    .-  .  _                               --.-. - _-__ __.
in the second  ps,alm, Thou art my Son, this day have                 pkarance to seven disciples at the Sea of  Galileei.` There
I begotten  thee." Acts 13  :30-33. .N,otice that here the were-  th&appearances to Peter alone,  and to James,
aesurrection  ,of the  Lord is presented as  the fulfillment          the brother of the Lord  ;  therewas the  manif@stati,on
of the promise of the  gospei;  and  ,even as the realiza- on the mount in -Galilee, to more than five hundred at
tion of that significant word- from  tbei second psalm:               ,on,ce ; and, at the  `end of that marvellous forty days,
through the resurrection of Christ,  Go'd has begotten                Ke,appeared unto them for the last time,  Iwhen he was
His Son. In the, synagogue in Thessalonica, Paul                      taken up from them `on the  -Mount of Olives..         "And  s
`"as his manner was,  &went in unto them, and three                   last, of all," Paul writes,  `the was seen of me also, as of
sabbath-days reasoned with them out  cf the  Scriptcres,              one born out of due time;" I Cor.  15%
openiag and alleging that  Christ  must needs have                       In all Scripture, there is, perhaps, nothing more
suffered, and risen again from the dead  ; and that                   marvellous  ,aild exquisitely beautiful than these gospel
this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ." Acts                  reports concerning the  reaurrecti,on. They are the
1'7  2,  3.. On the  -Areopagus  in Athens, he proclaims :            testimony of the faithful witnesses,  ,wholly  unpse-
`"Because` he hath  appoimed a.  iday,..& `which  he will             possessed,  ,as to the testimony  th,ey bear, simply report-
judge  the  world.in  righ$eou~sn&s  by that man whom                 ing  th,at  whi'ch they. could not fully  ,understand, but
he  bath ordained  ; whereof he  bath given assurance to              which they  &v and heard, and believed.
all `men, in that  ,he  that11 raised  hiin from. the `dead."            If, somehow, as  superficial  and,profanle critics have
pets 17  :31:           Before King Agrippa, the apostle `wit-        alleged,  thhese narratives had been invented by the
nesses:  : "That Christ  shoul'd  suff,er,  ailid  that he should     imagination of the witnesses, we would have had some-
be the  fir& that should rise from  the',dead, and should thing entirely different.
shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles." Acts                   No human  artmist, we-re he  ,of the most consummate
26  :23. And in the well-known fifteenth chapter of                   s,kill,  coul,d possibly have designed them.       There is
the first epistle to the Corinthians, the apostle  Iwrites :          only  ,one possible, adequate  &plan&ion for them :  ther
"Moreover, brethren, I  ,declare unto  yen  the gospel,               testimony of these  iwitnesses has its source. only and
which?I preached unto you," and this gospel is briefly wholly in the risen  Lory;-l; Himself.
isuni~arized  in the words :  "how that  ' Christ died for               For, let us notice,  first of all,, that all the witnesses
our sins according to the, Scriptures; and that he was                were wholly  uilprepared for the  revelration of the risen
buried, and that he rose again the  third day according Lord which, on  ;t?llat first day and after, they received,
to the Scriptures.", I Cor. 15  :l, 2,` 41                            and of  th'e  [which  thleiy  be&me the faithful witnesses.
 B,ut what is  the, meaning of that resurrection  on                  Not  :one  09 them looked  forwar'd  to the resurrection on
the third day?             What happened on that `marvellous          the third  day. In spite of the fact that the  Lorid had
first  Iday of  &he week that was able to raise the spirits           repeatedly assured them that  )He must suffer, and on
of the  <disciples of our Lord from the slough of  ld,e-              the third day rise again,  when'that third day  ,dawned:,
spondency  t.o the height`  ,of -jubilant  an.d triumphant            they all  istood in the gloomy darkness of  th'e cross, and
faith,  #expressed in the shout: "The  Lord is risen in-              could not see, nor did expect, the way out  th,rough the
d e e d ! " ?   ,          ".                                         resurrection of  Ch,rist. The  women  `went to the  sepul--
      To  an&& this question  iwe can do no better than,              chre to perform a last act `of loving. service upon  the;
first  `of all, to turn  OLE  attention to the gospel- narra- body of their  dea'd Master; and when they reported
tives concerning the resurrection  :of Jesus,  aed to let to the apostles what they had  seea  andr heard at the
the  World of God speak  to- us through the first  .wit-              grave, and how the Lord had  .met them on the way
nesses of that marvellous  <event.                                    back, their words  wlere to them as idle tales. Yet, they
      Th.ere  w,ere many  isuch  witn,esses. There  `were the one and all believed, and  gavetestimony of their faith
women who, in the early morning of that  first,  ,day of              that- the Lord had risen indeed.
the week, went to the sepulchre to finish the  `embalm-                  And then,  con,sider the contents of their testimony.
in,g of their Lord's body. There was Mary  Magd;alene                 How wonderfully it bears (witness of the fact that they
to whom the Lord appeared separately at the sepulchre.                simfply reported what they saw and heard! For, let
There were Peter and John who, upon the first report                  us  Iremember  that the resurrection of Jesus  Chrint from
of Mary,  w,ent to inspect the grave. To the soj,ourners the dead was not  a- return to us, but an advance into
to  Elmmaus the Lord appeared, in the late afternoon of               glory. Had the' Lord been  ratised as was the young
that first day, through the  word'&hi,ch  He  spake unto man  o:f Nain, or  this  .daughter of Jairus, or Lazarus,
them,  a,nd through the breaking of breed. And in the the matter  wou1.d have been simple, and the narratives
evening,,.&  thte same day, the Lord manifested Himself               of, the resurrection' would `have been quite different
to the  .disciples, without Thomas, as  hhey were gathered            f'rom  thoe'e we now have in the gospel. At the grave
with  cl,osed  cloors  ,for fear, of the Jews. A week later,          of Lazarus; there were eyewitnesses, that could and
He  appeaned again unto them, now  `parti@ularly to                   did. see the dead become  ,alive again, and ascend out of
Thomas, who was with them.' Then there  is1 the  ap-                  the grave.    Bmides, they could  produce the living


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      Lazarus  lwho had been  Id,ead, at any time, as evidence             marvellous  event. It distinguished  Cnrist's resurrec-
      of the  fact,of his resurrection.. He had returned to his            tion at once from all the typical  resllrrections that
      former, earthly life. Men  ,could have  fellowuihip with had, gone before as something that  transcen~ds  all our  '
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      him again, eat and drink and speak, with him. Not so                 earthly experience.  :
      the resurrection of Christ. His resurrection was  ao                     Then, secondly,  ,there is the testimony  ,of the empty
      r e t u r n . It  ,did  net consist in a  :resumption of His -grave, and  !of the "place where the Lord lay." That
      former mode of living,  -in  .the earthly house of his               the grave had  bieen vacated certainly assured the wit-
      tabiernacle,  but in an advance into  .th,e `glory of  -irnl         nesses, especially  whlen taken in connection with the
      mortality  and incorruption. A mortal and corruptible                later appearances of the risen  Lo& to them, that
body had been  ENown, but it was raised in immortality                     Chri.st had really-  riisen;  tha-t He was not merely alive
      and! incorruption.. A natural or "psychical"  cbody  had- in the Spirit; but  that His body `had been quickened
      bloen stored away -by Joseph and  Nicol&emus  in the and raised. They looked for Him in Hades, but they
      former's sepulchre, but it was raised as a -spiritual                di'scov!elred  that He was  not there.' But the testimony
      body.  -Hence, the reports by the  .witness'es of  th,e re- of the empty  eepulchre  ~6s not only negative: It  &d
      surrection must testify of two `facts : 1. the. reality of           not  01~1~  leave  Iwith  th,e eyewitnesses the indelible im-
      the  ,bodily resurrection of Christ ;  2: the  w3holly  ",other-.    pression that their Lord had left the grave: The
      ness" of the risen Lord, or  t!he [wonder of the  reslurrec-         nepulchre contained a positive testimony  .as well. It
      ,tion on the third day. And it is precisely these two                spoke rather clearly of  the- "otherness" of the marvel,
      elements that  maIke the reports by the first witnesses              of the  altoget~he~r   transcenclent~nature  of the resurrec-
      EO  marvellously beautiful.-                                         tion,    For let' us note that the angel that awaited
          Let us ask how this  revrelation of  the. risen  Lord the women at the sepulchre emphatically invited them
      came to them, and how the testimony  concerni~lag the: to "Come, see the  plaice where the Lord lay."
      wender. of the resurrection was wrought in them.                         But why this special invitation?. Doles -the angel
          First  .of all, we. must call attention to the fact, that merely wish to  i,mpreas  d,eeply upon their mind that
      unlikle the resurrection of Lazarus. and others, no one              this was,  in&eed, the  `grave in which Joseph  -and  Nice-
      was eyewitness of the fact as such : no one was present,             ckni~~s~  had stored away the body  of, the Lord? But
      no  ,one saw-the  Lor,d  &sue forth from the grave..  ,ClOs-         this was quite  suplerfmous.  The women had no  diffi-
      est to the moment of  the!  resurrectioin  approac!hes, it           ,culty to identify the sepulchre of their Lord.  ' They
      would'appear, the  nar.rative as given in the gospel ac- had  follow& in the sad funeral  proces.sioln on that sad
      cording to Matthew.         He tells us that "there was a-late `Friday afternoon  ~before the `sabbath. .They had
      great earthquake: for the angel of  theLord  des,cended              watched the two. friends of Christ bury the body.
      from heaven,  an& came, and rolled back the stone from               They had seen how the great stone was  .rolled before
      the door, and sat upon it." Yet,  ,even this narrative               the-  entrance.of the tomb. -`But what then?  .Was it the
      rema& silent about the  ,moment of the  relsurrection ,purpose `of the angel to render them doubly sure that
      of the Lord. Almost, as  we..read  this-narrative, a feel- the grave was empty?  rB.ut this. is  abs:un&              Thely stood
      ing-of disappointment takes hold of  u.s;  as', instead of           in the  gra$e, spices  `?eady for the last  ,&vice of love
      the sober "and sat. upon it," we expected to read :  "an8  _ they intended to perform upon the body  ,of their Lord;
      the Lord  #of glory  issaed  forth from His dark abode." and their first  glance assured them that  the grave was
      And  ,yet, we soon realize that this must not be. The vacated, and that they  could~ not accomplish their pur-
      angel did not' Ic$es,cend from heaven to aid the Lord of             pose. .BeG$es,  what. was this special place  where- the
,glory in  -breaking:.the bonds of death, and he  sdid not                 Lord had lain? How was it  di:scerGble  in  .distinction
      roll sway  th,e  &one  from-.the door of'the sepulchre to            from the empty space of  .the grave as a whole? Why
- make it  p.ossible for  .Him to issue forth from Hades.                  this  speicial invitation to pay attention to the place
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      It is,  in  ,fact, quite  pirobable that  the Lord had risen         ;whcre- the. Lord lay?
      before the angel descended  fromheaven. At all events,                   .Here  Iwe must -consult two other witnesses that,
      H e   that  sudd,enly   appleared   i n   t h e   m i d s t   o f   I-l% later in that  etame morning,  Icame to inspect the grave.
      disciples, gathered behind closed  doorsj.  had'no  nee&                 Mary Magdalene had  sccompanied:the  other women ,
of a wide  o;pen door to come out of the grave. And                        on their journey to the  ,grave early  s in the morning.
      the angel rolled away the stone,  "ant3  sat upon it," But  it is evident that she  dii8 not go with  them to the
      to' open  t,he  sepu!lchre- for  ,.inspection  to the: expect-, grave,.  aflid that  she. was not present when the angel
      e d   wilnesses,  a n d   t o   g u a r d   i t   agarins't  prolfane  i,n- preached to them the first gospel` of the resurrection
      truders,  - that might  destroy  the-wolnderful testimony            of Christ. -When, even in the distance, the women
      .of the empty  ,grave.  ,But this  `facti  that no one  Iwas         had noticed that the  heavy stone, that somewhat.  be:
      .present  .at the moment of the `resurrection of the Lord.
.-                                                                         latedly had become an object  of  ,anxiety  to them, was
      as an  eyewitn,ess,  was a factor in  I?roducing  in the             rolled away from the  I&oor of the tomb, Mary had at
      mind's  of the witnesves' the `CQUXd  .iI'i1~Wf3S+m   Q;f -that      oecq with  characterWc   inconsistency,  drawn  the  cck-


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  elusion that the body of Jesus had been  ta.ken away ,a11  their inheritance had not fallen unto them among
by human hands. And. no sooner had she drawn this                   the  trilbes of Israel.  Batthey were at fault. For they
  co.nclusion than she turned about to report both, her             had received an inheritance along with the other tribes
 .experience  and her erroneous inference to the  &&ples.           an,d the proof of it is the fact `that even at  lthat time
  Peter and John  ar,e at  ,onoe aroused by  thils, report of       the tribe dwelt  .in the  ,district of Zorah and Eshtaol.
  the *Magdalene, and -hasten to the  sepulchre. John               The territory that had been  alloted to them, extended:
  being the younger of the two, outruns Peter, and com- over  T.imnah and Ekron, as far as Joppa on the coast
  ing to the tomb first, stoops  do\mn to inspect it, and is        (Josh. 19 :41-46) ;  Ibut they had failed to  dispossess1
  at once struck by  the position of the linen clothes.             the enemy from most of this territory, despite the fact
  Peter, the more.  impletuous, as  `isloon as  ahe- reaches the that Jehovah  h&l  .commanded.         So, instead of  lenlarg-
  grave, enters into it, and `he, too, pays special attention ing their borders by making war on their heathen
  to the linen  clot.hes  $n which  the'body of Jesus  ,hscl:       neighbors, they resorted to  ,other  meains of [relieving
  been  wrappeld. Al;l,d as a special detail,  .he notices that the congestion in their homeland!. They  surprtie-an un-
 the napkin that had `been wound about Jesus' head,  waist          defended and peaceful people that. dwelt in the extreme
  lying somewhat apart from  the-rest of the linen  clothes:        north of Canaan. What was lacking to them is the
  in a place by- itself. Evidently, the two `disciples  dhcl enthusiasm of faith in Jehovah. So they  look&% about
  the very thing to  Iwhich `the angel had invited the              for a possession that had  ,ilot  bleen assigned to them.
  women: they saw the place where  then Lord had  lain. .Thils; to be sure, was  ,an unusual thing in Israel.  It,
 And  `we  ,read that "then went in also that other  ,diseiple, ;uTas another outstanding example of the lawlessness of
  w,hich  camle first to  t!he  `sepulclhre,  and he  Issaw, and    the times. The resolution of the Danites to look for
 b e l i e v e d . "                                                new possessions seems not to  have been hastily made.
        Now,~ what.  *did  Jolm believe? And why?                   C:ertainly, it was  Inot arrived at by a few adventurers,
        That  ,his belief was based on  ,what he had seen           w.ho cut themselves lose from  Itheir people but by the
  in the sepulchre is evident.                                      whole tribe. T.he envoys to whom the execution of. the
  But. what had he seen?                '                           scheme was- entrusted, wene chosen from `among the
                                                    .H..H.          whole. They were selected  men> famed  f,or  theiar  val,our
                                                                    anid thus,  8doubtles,s, rulers among their people. The
                             -                                      commission that the five of  t,he.m received-for their
                                                                    were five-was "to spy out the land and to search it."
                                                                    From the. house that stood. near by the place where, on
          THE DAY OF SHADOW&                                        the [evening of their first  day% journey, they came- to
                                                                    re1st, came a voice, which they recognized as that of the
                                                                    young Levite, who had hired himself out to Micah. I t
 The Exploration,of the Tribe of Dan shows that they knew the man. They  turned,in thither,
                                                                    a.& said to him, "Who brought thee hither? and what
                                                                    make& thou in this place? And what  ha& thou here."
        A,s already has been  poinhed out,  the` age of the         Tlhey were surprised to learn from the Levite's answers
 judges  wa!s# characterized by lawlessness. Inthese final that the house was a sanctuary and he its priest. But
  chapters, the sacred  writefr  tells  us  over and over           they  iwere  also pleased.    He could consult his oracle
 -that`evlery  man did that which was right in his own              about the success of their undertaking. For they were
 eyes,  <and  the'reason  he gives is, that there was no ill at ease, having addressed themselves to a forbidden
 king in Israel. The final  s8ection of the book of Judges task,  and knowing, therefore,  that  the' Lord  was not
 is formed  o'f examples of such  lawless:&ss  to the num-          with them in their venture. Yet they said to the
 ber of three.and the second of these is the exploration            Levite, "Ask counsel, we pray thee of God,. that we
 of the tribe of. Dan, the first one being that of Micah's          may  kn.ow whether our way  w;hich we go shall  ,be pros-
 spurious sanctuary, which has already been  tdialt with-.          perous." ,Posing as the  spokesman of God,  the Levite
The history of this  ,e,xploration is so closely interwoven framed  rthe  kind:, of reply that he knew they wanted to
 with  tlhe narrative of the idolatrous doing of Micah,             hear. "Go in peace," he said to them, "the way wherein
 that the two form one connected whole.                             ye  ,go is  b!efore `the Lord."     And the five went,
        The sacred writer prefaces also his narration of strengthened in their purpose by the favorable sense
 the doing of the tribe of Dan with the assertion that              in which they  Iexplained the communication. The
 "in those  `days, there was no king in Israel," because            capacity  Aof sinful men'for self-deception is great..
 he wants his readers to  kno&v that he frowns upon                    There  is a  ,different (explanation  `from the one given
 what he is about to relate- of  t,his  trible. In  Ithose days above of the statement, "When they were  <by the house
 the tribe of Dan, so  `we are told, sought them an inherit-        of Micah, they  ,knew the voice of the young man the
 ance  ,t9  dwell  in? the reason being  @,a$  ant9  "that  day     L&e." -It. $8 thi,s ; The- Leyite in ?YIlxica;1??~ &we v-m


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a priestly  dr,ess, which was  provilded-so the law  re-             and to enter to possess the land. When ye go, ye shall
quired. Ex. 28  :35with bells, in  `ordelr  that.their sound         come unto a people secure, and to a large land:  (for
may be heard when he enters, into and comes out of                   God hath  gk:en it into your hands ; a place where there
the holy  placeI.". The Danites, having passed  the night is no want of anything that  is in the `earth." Mark the
heard, in the morning, the  be1l.s of the officiating priest,        statement, "For God hath  ,given it into  yon.r hands."
.and thus learned, to their  asto.nishme@,  that  thcere was         Jtidgmg them by this statement, they were God-fearing
a  L'evite  there. If this is the right explanation,  the            men,  w,ho  peraeived and gladly  confesseld   t h a t   t h e
question that the five put to the Levite, "What  dbest               vi,ctory is God's  an.d that in  (His  strength they must
thou  heae,"  hats, this in it,  "T.h.ou, a Levite, here in the      conquer and that credit is due to Him alone for  sue-
temple of an idol.". If so, it is not likely that the cause          cess in arms. Jud,ging them from this utterance, they
of their surprise was their  fin'ding a Levite officiating place18 their trust in  the Lord and not in the arm  `of
in a  spuirious sanctuary.-                                          flesh, and believed that  Be would give victory. But
    %oming to  Laisli, the five did their work  swrell.              these.spies  must be judged by their deeds, as here, too,
Their observations were'  remarkabl~e.  They find the                deed@ speak  lou'der  than  wow&s. If they were men who
city  qui,etly devoted to industrial arts, after the manner          f,eared God and placed their confidence  in, Him, they
.of the  Zido.nians, from whom they `had cut loose  them-            would have  Iremained  at  ,.home  an$ have  ,done their
sielves.  Am&it felt  itsel~f  secure, that is, imagined  thfat      fighting there, freeing through warfare their allot-
it had  notlhing to fear from any of its far distant                 ments from  theilr heathen neighbors, as God had com-
neighbors and therefore it  (had not entered into re-                manded them  aby the mouth of Moses and Joshua. But
lations for mutual protection with  ,other cities and                from. that warfare they shrink, the reason being that
lived in a state of complete military unpreparedness.                the enemy at home was formed of strong people  Iwith
Such, doubtless,. is the  th!rust  <of the statement, that           walled cities and great. Though the  Low& had assured
there was no  magistratle among them. The word  fou.nld them victory, that warfare they  daned not war,  lbut
in' the Hebrew text  douibtless  must  b'el  rensdered not           they  woald  u,nuheath the sword against a handful of
magistrate but tyrant, warlord, military chieftain,                 `defenceless people. These men did not fear  GOI&. They
a man skilled in the arts of war,  surroundsed  by armed             trusted not in  Bim  blut they trusted in their military
troops. We are to think here of an oriental tyrant, who might, which they knew, was far superior to that of
without the consent of  th!e  inhaMtsnts   haid become their the little  oollony of Zidonians in the extreme north of
master, They lived without a despot. to  oppress..them,              Canaan. This military might was  %hieir  *god. From
"to put them to shame in anything", in the language of this might and not from the mighty `God of Israel, they
the text. --                                                         expected victory.  Anrd  thi.s might, they knew, would
    But the sacred. writer means to bring out that this              not fail them.      For the. victory  alway@; goes to the
had its  .advantages. They were without military leader- superior might. So it was then. So it is today. So
ship and therefore were  doomfed; should they be attack- it always is. I speak  mtiw of  maa!s wars  an.d not of the
ed from without. The spies  .oblslerved this-observed               holy wars of God and His people; And the Danites
that such a commander was absent, that powerful                     were  about,  to fight a  .man':s war. And because) the god
Ifriends were far away and that  militalry activity was              of the Danites was their superior military might, the
altogether wanting. It was thus a gladdening report                  five spies could assure them that god-the  goid in whom
that they could submit to their brethren, so different t h e y   trustiefd-would  g i v e   v i c t o r y .   T h i s   g o d - t h e   su-
from the report of the  spies:- sent by Moses. They,                perior military might-always gives victory to his
too,  ohad  co,me to a good land ; but to a land,  [whose            devotees, however  .godless and  h;owever.  godlelss  -the
people were strong, and whose cities were walled and                war. So it is  w'ell to judge these. spies from their
great, a  lan,d  peoplled  with.giants even. But the five            utterances, if only it be understood who that god was
could report that the land to which they had come                    of whom  ,they spake.                                      .
was occupied by an insignificant colony of  d'efenseless                 The Danites,  `hazing heard the  *report of the spies,
ZJd.onians,  without military leadership and without a              took immediate action.          Six hundred. families either .  .'
witngle walled city, thus a  lpeo.ple from which that  ,good        volunteered or were selected. "And there broke up
land could be freed  (with  .little effort. . If  ,ever men          from thence six hundred men, girded with  weapcnis  `of
were bursting with good news, it  <was -these five spies.            war." The expedition at that time was an unusual
Yet, on their -arrival  ,aQ home, they keep silence, until )event. It reminded  ,of the old  mar,ches  of Israel in the
they are asked, "What  <have ye?" Bat once they were diesertbut #differed radically from these. The remark
asked,.  -they instantly replied,, for  th'eir  thearts  were        that "they went up and pitched in Kirjathyearim, in
burning within them, as is  evi'dent from  t&  glcow  `of            Judah," and that;" on this  aacount "they called the  ,place
their  woadrg. They- said, "Arise, that we may  Igo up               Mahanneh-dan-meaning,  t he camp of  Dsn-unto-this!
a,gainst  them': for we have seen the land, and, behold,             day,`, tells us that the event took  plaae before the days
it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, of  Samson and- is therefore  to be put  betiween   Gideon


1%                         __..        .JXJ-E   STANDA'RB   .BEAR'ER                                           . .                                      -
land Samson;  Par the sacred writer, at chap. 13  :25,               i:ncloeed himself. in the midst  `of the warriors. What
connects the  f?rst  awlakening  of Samson to his life of a strange thing is sin.  Th,e priest had first betrayed
deliverer with this place.         The road that was taken           his God  ,an,d now, from mere vanity, -abandoned  hti,
w,ent over the  mountain3 of  Elphraim  aa'd led to  the benefactor, who had treated'him as a son,  ancir left him
house of  Mi,cah. The five spies  accompanied the colony in  the lurch and  joined himself to  .his spoilers ; and yet
of  rinigrating Danites  ani8 formed  the soul of. the under- he is  .eagerly snatched up as something valuable, and
taking.    "W,hat houses are those? ask- the Danites.                it is  @onsidered  a great point gained; when  such  ~hamls
The spies  infor.m them and  `6do you know," they said; as his carry  ,gods. who  :a&w themselves to  bie taken
"that there  is in these  honaea an ephod, and  teraphim,            by robbers.
and a graven image, and  a molten image,"  ii?. a word,                  The Danites assume that  t,hy might be pursued.
that here there is a private sanctuary, fully provided               Accordingly they put everything that  couldhot defend
with -everything  necessry to  such an institution. ,"Now ,itself before them, their little  on,@ and their cattle,  an4
therefore  consiltier what we have to do."                           they march along  ,ready for  instant  :%&ion. Meanwhile
 The manner of speech of the spies is revealing.                     Mica:h had been  tol,d of the theft. About  .the sanctuary
They did not tell  theisr comrades just, what had to be              Iwtas a little village that had formed itself,  iand the
done. For they  reaisoiied that it was too obvious to                people  are, soon collected. They `pursue;  $but  not in the
all that there was but one thing that had to be done.                faith of Godfearing  lmen, nor `with `the cause  of such
T&.e apparatus of Micah's temple had to be  seiaed, the men.                  The Danites; when they  -heard the  `cries of the
youlng  L+evite  inCclul&ed. There  was necessity. Hence,            pursuers,  acteld  as if  nothi.ng   ha:d -happened. Turning
they had- no choice. But why was there necessity?                    them about, they said to  Micah, "What aileth thee,
They had need of that Levite and his ephod and  tera-                that thou  comeset with such a company?" But when
phim for  l,earni.ng' God's will in  larder to be `directed          by Micah anger  th,ey perceive that he knows  all, they
thereby. But they lied'. That' neceas.ity  we  one. of               tell him that it were better for him  tq  b@quiekhe
their own creation'; For they  conld have inquired. in               mightxotheiwise  lose more;' for the people there, whom
.Jehovah's temple in Shiloh.  ' But  b,efore Jehovah they he `saw,  `were fierce men. And the  .Danites-went their
could not' stand, for their hearts were filled with                  way, and Micah had to  yiel'd to  scperior  power.  .. Com-
thoughts of  robbe@y  and death. Besides, they-desired a ing to  Laish, the  Datnites  [smote  tihem with the edge of
go18 and a priest to whom  they`could' dictate the  re-              the sword. `And  t,hey built a city  ;a..nd called the name
sponses  -to their prayers  `-for  ~LU~&S  in  a?ms  ailid `in       thereof Dan, after Dan their father.  And;. they set
whose temple they  c&d celebrate, by  aijproqridte   rk-             up the  ,gra'ven image  an,d  .the  Le$ite, whose name was
ligious exercises,  the. victory, granted. The  Danites- Jonathan, and the  Levites sons were their priests  :a11
would not face the  tr-uth. about themselves. And to                 the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.
justify their robbery, they made a  neaesisity of their                                                        _-                 G;  ,M.  0;
,desire for an idol and reasoned that it is right  to. steal                                                                                     -.
tor to commit any crime, if only there is. necessity.                                                    `_
So, having  learned  what, was to be had in  yondbr  idol-
temple, they  knew1 instantly what had to. be done.
Without  f.urther ado, they went thither. The six  hunr
-dyed; in their war-like array, took a position at the                                 W E D D I N G   .ANNIvERSARY   `.
gate, `while the  familiars.,   +he cattle; and the rest, of the
.train moved  ,off. . The five leaders went to the Levite.            On  Septem$m 20,  OUT  deas  parents,
T.hey  grebeted him, and he  permittedi them to enter the                                 CQRNEkUS             PASTOOR                     ..:  -
sanctuary, while `he' remamed at the gate. His lack-of                                                 and
vigilan,ce plainly reveals his  llukewarmness.. He was                              ANNkA   P A S T O O R - D o e z e m a   '  -.
but a hireling. And his temple was but the temple of                                                                      .:..
.an `idol, for which he could have no true affection.                hope  to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary.  .:.
The five  being..albhe  -in  .thetemple, took  all its treasures,        WIT are tha&ful that cup (Xo,d has spared. them these many
image and image  .o,rriament@,  ephod  .and teraphim and             iears. Our prayer is that God may bg with them .through  their
brought them forth, when the  Levit,e  avdidr,essed  them,           remaining  da.ys.
`What do ye?" ,as if he  ;womd  raise an alarm to prevent                                          Their grateful children:
the theft. But they knew how to deal with the man.                                                       Mx. and  M&.  T;  Helmus                      ;-
They proposed to him to  ,be  prie'st  ,to them, a whole                                                 Mr. and n/llns.  .Chsvs. Pastoor
tribe  rat,her than to a- mere individual, but-in that  case                                 `,          Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pastoor
to be still  anid  .60 come along with the idols, without                                                Mr. and  M.rs.  Otto  Huizinga
making a noise. And he accepted the  ,offer  withj'.oy,                                                        15 grandchildren.
took the  i&ds in his priestly  ham& and  .for security                .Grand,  Rapids,  .lKi&igan.-.                .


                  ~                                   T H E   --WANDARD  -Bj$iARER                                                    13.

                                                                           voi-en. Daar werd een  werk-gedaan, dat bezongen  zal
                            SIONS                     SANGEN               worden tot in  alle eeuwigheid. Daar werd het  [funda-
                                                                           ment gelegd waarop  (de nieuwe  hemel  ,en  de-  .nieuwe
                                                                           aarde zal  rusten;  daar verrees de berg van Gods  heilig-
                                                                           hei&      Principieel  :wer,d daar het heil  gewrooht,  .het-
                        Een C&b&d. Ikids i,                                welk U  zal  doen jubelen tot in alle eeuwigheid.  Ik vraag
                                                                           U  :.wat  werk van  `den mensch  i:s  dbarbij  gelijlk te  schat-
                                                                                                                            . .
                                                                           ten?
                             (Psalm 86 ; Tweede Deel)                          Als  ge het volgende  svers beschouwt uit dat oogpunt             .
            E.r zijn  .twee  za*ken waaraan  !ge een  goed  gebed kunt     dan ziet ge het  toppunt  va.n. des Heeren  werkjen. De
        herkennen : het  meene is de lof des Heeren en het andere          heidenen,  alle de  heildenen;  zullen komen om voor het
        is de  net+erighei,d.                   ,.                         Aangezicht  van dien vreeselijken God te  aanbiddeii.
            Hoe duidelijk  $omen- die  twee  zaken  .op den  voor-         W a n t   -dat  Aane~hijn  i s   Jezus  Christus  e n   die  d i e
        ,grond in dezen psalm  ;dieri  :we  .eenmaal   seerder kozen heidenen zijn de verloste  measchheiidl, terwijl dat  aan-
        voor  een. weinig  schrijvens.* vooral  bet, prijzen van           ,bidd'en  de `Hemel der ,zaligheid is.
        God is in  iaezen psalm  scheering en  insla;g.                        `En dam. weerklinkt het nog  eens weer in dezen
            "0,nder  ,de  goden is niemand U gelijk, Heere, en             zang: Want Gij zijt groot, en doet'  -wonderwerken;
        daar zijn geene  .gelij:k Uwe  we&em.!"                            Gij  alleen zijt  Gold!                                          :
            De  goden hier  ,zijn  ,geen afgoden: de  dil:hter  ZOU,           Van werken  :wordt het  bier  wonderwerken;"van
        er niet  aan  ldenken om  hetgeenj dat  met bestaat ook            de  schepping gaat het voort tot de herschepping, van
        maar te noemen in een  adelm met den grooten en  vreese-           de aarde tot den  hemel,  van  `bet tijdelijke  tot'  bet.
        lijken. God.  .Neen,   hij,  tbedoelt met  goden, het  aller-      eeuwige. Want het Wonder, het  ,groote  Mirakel is dit,
        voornaamste en het  .alleredelste-  van wat ge op aarde            [fiat God in  on&dige liefde een baan breekt door de
        oak maar kunt  vinden;  len dat zijn de  rechters  idler angstige en nare donkerheden van  zonde,  schuld, dood
        aarde.         Rachters  zijn, meer dan eenige andere  men- en verdoemenis en in het Aangezioht van Zijn  lieflijken
        schen in  .hooge plaatsen, de belangrijkste ambtsbe- Zoon voor ons komt te  staan.
        kleeders.        Zij  zitt,en in den.  reghterstoel en  moeten-        Wat kan  ,de-mensch   -daar tegenover stellen? Niets.
        recht  spreken  ahs  Go:d. El,ke  rechtbank is een  :vtooruit-     Het eenige wat hij  Ikan,  doen is  Idle  dingen, die ook nog
        grijpen  op hen  oordeelsdag. Daarom worden ze goden v a n   God.zijn,  t e   v.erknoeien.   Een  g r o o t   knoeien:";dat
       igen,aamd.                                                          is de  geschiedenis van de  men.schen op aarde.             .
           Doch ook dat volk is niet te vergelijken met den God                Rn de  dichter, die een geestelijk  !mensch is en  rclaar-
        des  hiemels. en  lder  a,arde.  -`God is  inqner.s de geheel      om een geestelijk gezicht heeft, heeft  dat gezien  op
       Andere?.  Allte  `itingen, het geheele  heelal met al zijne         aarde en hij is er moe van geworden. Daarom keert
        schepselen in  hemel en.  ,o!p~ aarde  tezamen. zijn  `in  ver-    hij  zich  in? zang en  jubel tot God om Hem  te  lolvlen
       gelijlking met God een niet en  ijdelheid.                          vanwege zijn wonderdaden. `En  zingt hij : Gij, o Heere,
           Dat gevoelt  en ervaart de ziel  diie God kent. En ook id'oet wonderen,  Gij alleen!
       heeft hij behoefte  ldit steeds  ond!er  woord en zang  te              Die wijsheid en. geestelijke wetenschap heeft hem
      - brengen. `t Zal  d.an ook  bet groote  thema der  leeuwen          een. groot verlangen gegeven. Hij heeft  gelbeerd, dat de
        eeuwigheden zija.                                                  mensch Gods geroepen is om op  d.e  paden  ,Gods te
           "En'  daa,r zijn  geennle  .gelij,k Uwe werken!" Dit            w>andelen. Van  .nature wandelen we ook op een  :weg,
       laatste gedeelte van het  8,&e  vers  bewijst het  eerste.. i&h het is  ,de weg die tot het verderf  leidtt;. Daarom
--     Wij kennen God alleen uit  Zijne werken, hetzij ge                  vraagt hij  d@  Hteere  om Zijn  weg  te mogen  leeren.
      blikt op den  Iwerk~en der  natuur of  idie der genade.              Gods  weg is de weg van Zijn  sdeugden en' wonderen.
       Ja, wij werken ook;  doeh wat zijn  onze werken ver- Gods weg is het pad  waarlangs Hij alles voortstuwt
       tgeleken bij die van God!  .God schept de aarde. en  ,de            tot het  eenigste en schoonste  doel: de verheerlijking
       hemel ! Beer  .op keer  al,s Gods  volk in  iden  Bijbmel  bidt,, van  Zijn Naam. Daarom is Jezus  Christus   Idie  weg.  '
        roepen zij Hem  aan  ds de God  #die de aarde en de                En zeide Jezds:  Ik ben de Weg. . . .
       hemelen geschapen heeft. En  we1  mogen zij dat  doen.                  We  hebben er  vcan gehoord in  (de zendbrief  aan die
       Wat wondere  i&aad is die schepping. Door een  schep- .van._Efeie. De  H,eere God gaat alle  dingen  wederom:.
       pmgswoord  kwamen ze  aan en  sindsdien  bewaarde  Hij              tot  l&m vergaderen,  beilfie de  dingen in den  hemel  en"die
       z e .   .Hoe  g r o o t   i s   G o d !   d                         op  `de aarde zijn. En  al dat  wederom  ,bijeen vergaderen
           Evenwel, des Heeren  we&en op het gebied der ,gaat  gexhieden "in  Jezus". `In `den Heere Jezus Chris-
       lnatuur mogen groot  zijn; die  der  .genade zijn grooter. &s,  zal- de geheele  seheppiing  aan Gods hart  ligge?
       En waar zullen  :we beginnen om  U iets van  die  geriade-          Goldi  zal,  dan  ,zijn  alles en in.  allen.
       w&ken te  sch'etsen`?  Denkt  aan het  kruis van Jezus                  Daa.rom  i,s  J,ezus de Weg van God. Rij is de Weg
       Christus,  waar God gewerkt heeft zoo als  no'oit  te van uit den Chaos tot `de grootste harmonic ten Elenheid :
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            %C                                            ` T H E   ST-AN-DAKD  B E A R E R   ,
              ,~
            "Ik in hem en Gij in Mij; opdat zij volmaakt zijn in                    baring  qijn Zoon, onze Heere Jezus Christus.  -Dat  is.
       BBn!"                                                                        idian ook trouwens zoo tot in  eeuwisgheid,.zooals de
                    Vanaf de  paden des  doods  yvil de dichter van dezen           dichter het zegt. Johannes   heeft,`-bet  gezien op Patmos.
       -psalm  <door God  gel,eid  worden op den weg Gods : "Leer                   In  bet  middsa van.  eden troon  (waarop  de Heere zit)
        mij, Heere,  Uwen weg!"                                                     is het Lam, dus in het hart van God. En als de  -groote
                    En  prakttich  is  da.t een  wa&elen  `iin de waarheid,         &hark engelen en  men&en  dat Lam zien, loven en
        met een hart dat  \-ereend  .is tot de vreeze Gods. Een                     eeren  zij.God in Zijn Naam.
        wand;el in de waarheid is  F,et  tegenolaergestelde van                          $00 zal ids  di,chter Gods  NaTam eeren tot in  eeuwig-
            ons  natuurlijk pad. Van  nature.   wa&elen we op de                    hei'd..
        paden  der  ~leugen, daar is  ide  kma;keling van de slang.
3                                                                                        W&m, David doet dat nu, terwijl ik dit  achrijf;
        Doich als het  licht van Gods pad ons bestraalt, en dat                     en wij zullen het met hem` doen totdat geen  maan meer
        is Jezus, het  Light der` :wereldl, dan  wandelen we op                     schijnt. Het is de  hemel op aarde.
       rachte  paden, de  paden  :der  waarh,eid.               En terwijl  we.          De dichter,  Davtid, heeft groote  reden om zoo te
       op die  pa:den  d#eu  reohts  wandeRlen, is ons hart  vereemdi j'oven en te  prijsen. Hij  zal van die  reden  spreken in
. tot de vreeze van  Gods naam. Dan is er slechts  6Qn                              het  vo1,gend.e vers. "Want, zegt hij, Uwe  goedertieren-
       beginsel, dat  on&  beinvloed$ en  dat'is het  begirisel  van heid is groot over mij  !"
       d e   Gol&vr,eeze. Daar  wan'delen we met vreeze en                               SGoedertierenheid   i,s die  tdeugxl vdn den God onzer
       ,&yen, want dan is God  daar  ueer dicht bij  ens, neen,                     Aigheid, waardoor  allies in Hem  dringt en.  w&kt om
       in  .ons.           Een vreeze,  &et  &Is van den  slaaf,  doch de           Zija  volk  goed te  doen tot in  all?  eeuwigbeid. Wat
       v&ze van het kind dat  qpziet tot zijn  val&er  in lieffde.                  heerlijke  ,gerdachte.  Z,oo groot als  Go:d is, zoo groot is
                    Op dat pad,  gelief&?  lezers,,  is bet  goed.  Da&r zal        Zijn hartstocht om mij  goed te  doen. Kunt ge daar
       het  verdere  van, dezen psalm van gewagen. Hoort het                        bij ?
       maar : "Heere, mijn God, ik  ,zal U-met  mij:n.  gankche                          En dat dit zoo is, zal David bewijzen. Luistert
       hart loven, en  ik, zal  l&en naam eeren tot in  eauwig-
                                                                           -        maar ;  hij zegt : "Gij hebt mijne ziel uit het  ondemte
       heid !"                                                                      des grafs  ,gerukt  !"
       -            Gor&lof;  ziedaar het  eeni,gste  medicament   !vloor een            Princicieel liggen wij, Gods  kindeneq in  i&en  eeuwi-
       bange en  ell,endig&  ziGI.  Davtd  ervoer dit meer. Het                     gen dood  yvla:n nature. Daas voad ons God. En  van
      &eb;eurde eens, dat hij met zijn  .ziel  een  tweespraak                      daar  haalt  IHij ons op tot  in het nieuwe Jeruzal,em  0~
       hield.  _ Ge vindt het in psalm 42. Zijn ziel was  on-                       zoo  altpoe  ,bij den Heere te zijn. Hij  ru'kt  .ons uit het
       rustig vaawege  de  ba!ren en de  ,golven  van Gods be-                      onderste  I.$& grafs.  H& graf is het voorportad van
       zoekelu&e hand over hem.  IHet was hem bang. Met  .een r$e  he% En  :de  goederti,erenheid Gods zijn Zijn  armen
       Ndoodsteek  hoonden.  hem  zij.ne  wederpa.rtij,dlers.   K o l k             van oneindige  liefde die grijpen,  neer-grijpen: tot  dat
       en_ afgrond loeiden over  zijn bange  mziel.                  Doch  h i j    zij onder mij zijn om mij dan voorts omhoog te
       schreeuwde tot God.                     En  God heeft hem  ve'rhooncl', halen  en mijn voeten te  zetten'op  den  Rot.&een. Halle-
       want hij  besluit dien  onvergetelij,ken zang  tiet het  heer- luja!  Moses' heeft er ook  van  gezongen  toen hij  ju-
     lijk slot:  Ik zal God,  mij,n God, nog  .loveil,!                             belde : "Van  onderea; eeuwige  armen  !" En  toen heeft
                    Met zijn  gansehe hart  zal  D,avid  Gb,d   loveri.             Go.d ons  uit  idie poel` van eeuwige weemoed gerukt.
                    Ja, dat is de  eeni.gste weg om  Golie  welbehagelijk           Dat is Zijn  ~goederti(erenheid. En  oak  -bier weer eens:
       te  zij'n.. Gaat  tech nooit tot God  `met een half, een                     dat is Jezua, Jezus is die greep van God  naa:r de diepte,
       halfslachtig, hart tot `God. God wil alles in U. Hij                         waar wij  geko'men zijn door onze zonde  e.n  schuld. E n
       eischt den  geheel,en mensch op. Met een  ha&f hart tot                      vanuit die  diepte heeft Jezus, dat is, God, ons  o,plgehaald
       God is  dlen  .Heere een  ,gruwel. Hij is  jaloersch.-  tOo;k                tot in den  hemel der hemelen. Juicht  nu,  kinderen
       heeft Hij  recht  op  <den geheelen mensch. Dat  leert GoldIs, altemaal.
       Gods volk.                         -                        .'                    Voorts.  wordt de dichter  bepaald bij het  tiegen-
                    .D'ain  Yvorden we nooit moede of  .mat- om den Naam woordige..  Hij ziet  zijn haters, een  ve$gadering  de:
     *' des. Heeren te  eenen.                  T                                   t y r a n n e n .
                    Wat  yvil dat  zeggen: hoe eeren we den Naam?                        Wat  ongelukekig  volk is  ,dat  tech. Stelt het U voor :
            Qe Naam  vm God, geliefden, is de  opexibaring  van David, Gods  vollk, is het  ee%ste  idat op aarde ooit gezien
      :  .Zijn  Wezen.  ,God openbaart Zijn  lieflijk hart in de                    werd. Later zal er van geschreven  word@&  in den brief
       .cwerkbn  Zijner  handen.  E n   w i j   leeren,  d i e   Zelf-opep-         aan  ,de  Heibre&s: er  staat, dat de  ,w!ereld niet  waard
       baring van  .Gold door het Hem  aan te  ze,ggen  ho6 is om idiat w0nder.e volk in bun midden te hebben : -"wel-
       lieflijk en hoe  sclioon~ en hoe  glorierijrk die openbaring kle!r de  wereld niet  waardfg was". Dat  volk van God
       is.  Altijd en  overal  wa:ar ge de voetstappen  vlan God                    beeft Jezus, den Zoon Gods in het diepe hart. En nu
      ziet  die van  vettigheid  tdru.ipen, zing-t  gie van  diletn. Naam.          is er een  ongelukkilg   %Ak,  .dat  h.et  altijd verzien `heeft
       Dat is Zijn  Naam eeren.                                                     6p het  volk van God. Dat  hoovaaridig   vojk  s,ta!at tegen
                    En .ook wederom hier &s bet. toppunt van die op'en- .cms op : zk.haten ens omdak ze het geproefd hebben, dat


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     wij  dragers  zijn-van   Goddelifk   zaa4;  en die God  haten
     zij. Dan  ga!at  d&  vergadering der  tyranneri  aan `t zoe-                         '     .    IIVHl[S'FEAR
     ken- om onze ziel te vinden, opdat  zij. op hun  .gemak die
     ziel mogen  trijteren en plagen,  do&n lijden  es  uiteinde-
     lijk  I&oen sterven in groote  smart.  De aarde  his  rood
     gevei-wd met het bloed der martelai-en.                         .                                   Off To School
            Ongelukkig  vlolk, zeide ik. Ge  hebt het  tech be-
     merkt, dat ik het goddelooze  vol.k~~daarmee  Mbeduidde?                        The  wro&  way.
     Want ongelukkig zijn ze.  Stra:ks  zullen ze zien Wien
     ze-  -doorstoken   h e b b e n .   W a n t   elke  ma&eling  Itie  `ze             AIS  these words are written,  -the short but pleasant'
     Gods  -volk  aan,ded*e!a is een aantasten van God, een  ste- -summer season has again come  to. an  e$d, and  s&001-
:  lken van hnn vinger in Gods-oogappel. Die  Zijn volk                              days  sure with us once again. Throughout the  country-
     aanpa'akt,  ratikt  Zijn oogappei  aan. Dat  is  centraal  ge; the  ,schools, have opened their doors to receive the
     schied in de  kruisiging van Jezus. 0, vreeselijke  Moed-                       nation's  ehildsen.     Our  awnn covenant children,  `tooi
     schuld van  Gol!gotha !                                                         ,ha,ve  retuu'ned to their respective  institutio$. of  lea.rn-
            .Gold,s  vfolk is  zeXs  za1i.g in al  huq  lijaden, want hun            ing,  anld on the  w:hole they seem  Iquite  .happy about it
-God is. barmhartig en  geiladig over hen,  lankmoedig                               a+l.  Wje  .parents are likewise happy. The summer
     en groot  van.  goedertiereniheid en  mwaarheid.           Zoo kan              months may be ever so pleasant from many points:of
     Paulus  zingen en  bidden in opgerui-mdheid  iri een  id'on-                    view, there is nothing like the satisfaction one  geti
`der en vonzig  kerberhol. En zegt Jezus: verblijdt en                               whelil  horn,,, and church and school  iall come down to
     verheugt U als ge om `Mijn Naams wil lijden moet.                               normal and spiritually profitable business  once more.
            Hoe dat kan ? We& omdat God  sterkte  iln  zwakheild                         Some  of our children (not many, we are grateful. to
     op!; hen  neerdaalt.  `Zoo  daa8 Zijn  kracht op ons in                         add) still receive their  e&cation' in the  instibutions of
     zwakheid  neer-! Zongen  wij dit niet vaak?                                     this world. The majority of  $herse,  especi,ally in  .these
            Dat weet David  `en daarom bidt- hij  voorts:  Wetid!                    palrts,  are high school students;  som;?., however, attend
     U tot mij en wees mij genadig,  igteef  Uwen  kn!echt the public grammar schools. In. other churches, sun-
     Uwe  sterikte -en  verlos  den"zoon Uwer dienstmaagd.                           dry reports  setem to indicate,  thi:-,, evil is increasing
            En  adat doet God.                                                       rather than  ,dle:creasing.         If so.  `the  situatio;l.  is alarm:
            Vain,  deer  j.eufgd  aan  heb;t  ,ge  ervan geaongen : Zij              ing, for this  would mean that ultimately the  Christi;:n
     gaan van kracht tot  krarfiht steeds voort !              Ook dit :             S&o1 is  doome& `However,  alsolhmong  .us there are
Vah  wien  bet,  volk-  2ijn  sterkte, heeft. Of ook: Hij is still  those  pare& who make themselves guilty of this
     de  .kracht  vlaln hunne kracht.                                     /     -    sin against  thei&chLijdren, their  chu'rch  And their God.
            EQ  ban is  `t'  goed.                                                   irow can they  120 it?  How can people who are born
f           Hij bidt en er  komt een  teeken ten  `goedle. Het                       ,a:nd raised in-the sphere  ?f the  covenant  begin to speak
     grootste  teeken  ten- goede is  ,de Zoon der  maagdi:   jezu!s                 of  peace of heast and assurance of-faith,  ~whe~i~~  they are
     Christus. God  verloste  Hem uit `t  ,doodsgevaar.   Zal" so negligent in their  Chiistian calling with  respect to
     IHij ons  niet met Hem alle  dingen.  schenken?                                 the  ,coven&  Is.eed Jehovah has entrusted  to their care,
            In Hem en met Hem  geeft Hij troost en  .hulpe.                          ia.a4 when  they so  deliberabeily  walk in the way of evil?
            Woord en  Gee& flaisteren mij  2n  .`t diepe hart  :- We  Camelot and may not  look for the blessing of the
     A&s  zal. recht  Bomen !                                                        Lord in that way. You parents are evil!
            `k Heb het  geloofidi en' daarom zing ik; daasom  zing
     `ik van getia !                                                                 Excuses Galore.                -
            Heere, hoe  wonderlijh  ziji? Uwe  bwerken !                                 These people have  .exfiuses, yes. Many of them.  *
            Oak weet het mijn ziel zeer wel. Wij  loven U  t,ot Shall we` l.isten `to a fiew?
     in  eeuwigheid.                                                                     Thea Christian  Sc'hobl  ,i:s. too  fia,r  f.rom home for our
                                                              G .   V .              childr'en.  Thiqxcuse is offered, naturally, where the
                                                                                     ybunger children are  colicepned. The distance is too
     /-.                                                                             great for the children to  wal,k,  and it is too incon-
                                                                                     venient for either of  the parents to bring them. Be-
                                                                                     sides, there are so  manmy  busy  Istreets  tlo be  cross& and
                               CLASSIS  EAST.                                        one cannot  l.i~v~e  irn!  constia,nt dnead of possible  accidents.
                                                               _.                    Hence, they send their children to the public school
     will meet in regular session D. V., Wednesday,  OctobTr                         which happens to be much closer to home. Naw  this
     3,  tit 9:00 A.M. at the First Protestant  Reformed                             exouse  may carry some weight in certain localities,
     Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan.                                               partieula+ly  in rural districts.             Generally speaking,
                                      X4  JC,NKER, stated  Clerk.                    hemmer.,  it.h$da  ao  watg. Did such  geqle not  move


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  to where they  .now  live of their own  voli.tion?  They [also in `the  lschools of  thb  w~rl& The knowledge of
had  `chibdrren  :at the-time they purchased  tb,e& homes ; +he  world, its science and  a.rt  &nd  culbure,.  and.  con-
  to say  +he  ~l~eia&, they  as. Christian men. and  %omeill          seqdefntly- its schools  ire the  `3?ruits  of common  graoe.
  looked  foir.wtird to  receivi.ng   chil,dren  of the Lord  ;- and The public,  schod is the  gift,of God's grace (common)
  -they knew that at a given age  chilldren must,  go: to              as..tiell as the Christian school (special).  That'ma!kes
  school.                                    :                         .the  ,public  school much more  :alcceptable, even to the
                                         ., . .
     ,-  IChristian  eduoaiion is much too expensive.           "We  ,Ch%ian, of, course: Little  wohder that Christian
just can't afford it. We can't  spend!,  o'u;r  least penny school interest and.  at+endance.are   011 the  cdecline. On
  for the school." This, if the truth were told (it usually the basis of the truth and of the antithesis, however,
  `isn't) would be found to be the main.  object,ionl.. O,il this  poisition is utterly impossible. The  public school
  the  `whobe  thip, sin also is rooted  @.  @ovetousness; `the        is the  sc&ool  cjf the  worl!d. It  do& not fly the banner
  love  .of money.     Now. tuition is  high, that is true  ;          of God's covenant,  nor  cou!ld  it ever  ,d,esire to do so.
  too high in `many cases, not from the  viiew@int  of the             It rests, not on the basis of  g&e, but of sin.                  -.
education received,  btit from the aspect of  fizmiljr in- . .             In our own  &cles the objection  iw. raised :  -the.
  come and  badget. The public schools are  free; A tre- present Christian  schobls are  SO far  8rom ideal,  espec-
  mendous  I$iffie.rence, especially for  Ohose parents who            ially for  ~!s  [who are  Protestanit   Ref0rme.d. They are
  Iwoak  -hard for  -`every dollar  alnd must count their              controlled entirely by  them. who  ,have cast us out.
  p&mies  ;to make  (both  encts, meet. Still, also  this.exouse, Many  teaichers do not know enough about Reformed
  is  witliout  mlerit, Have those who were unable to pay dloctrine  to  _ discern between  Arminianbslm  and the
  .full  tuit,ion not always been received  and-  p?ov.ided  for       truth.  ,Those~who. do know. their `doctrine are hostile  '
  iti' one form or another? Do not. the  poo?est  of the to the  ti&h as we see and love it. The principles,
  poor send their  chil&en to the  Chr,istian  school, if              which would really provide the  Christ.ian  schools with
  only the  wi!ll to do is  pres,ent?      H-awever,  !a,s a  rule a  sqund  a!nd permanent basis for  existeace  ang  woulcl   _
  it is not a niatter of  -poyerty  .with  these  people but of really make for distinctive  *e&cation, are rejected.  All .
  pure  ,carnalit,y. The money is there, but  it--s&ms   tq            this is  true,  ,of course. Etien, this,  however, constitutes.
  them such  ia waste  ,of money to spend it on  Christiaini           no.  re"ason  `to. send our.  child,ren to the schools of the
  educaticnl.. They feel that they get so little  in return.           world.    Whatever Jerusalem may  ,do, never may we
  There is so  inuch more satisfaction `in  s@nding pre- forsake it to go to Babylon.                               _
  cious  mbney for hduses and cars, for gas  anld  oi:l,  for'.          Many more excuses, are offered.  i shall  nut, take
  candy and smokes, for  .cottages-  and trip%  ;for fishing time atid space to dis~~~ss-them. H;a,ve  YOU nev&h%,rd
  and  bolwling  cand a host of other things..                        panents  fdefea3  their position by  saying, "I  -can't see
    Most of  tis, at-  one time or  other, `have  heard the            what is so bad about  the, public school. After  a,ll, .I
  excuse: if only the  Chri.stian  schools were  behter, mork          twent there too." T.he obvious  implictition~  is: : and look.
  Reformed  ; as it  hs they are so little better than those at me now. Am I one s6e.p  b,ehind those  who  reieived
of the world, That is  all:  ing&ious way of covering up the@  ,ed.ucation in the  Ch,rist,i?_ln   schools ? The proper
  ,one's iniquity ! Surkly,  people who send their children and honest answer to this question  would be: you  cer-
  to the  public school, to the world, to  Babylbn; outside tainly are behind those others,  espe&!lly in your  Bible-
  the sphere of  3 the  covlenant,  for their  ecluc&ion  ihould       knowledge.     To that rule there are few exceptions.
  not talk about the  Ch$tian schools.  T+ey have  for- Most of us  miilisters  have  had  the opportunity in the
  feited every  1;ight to  d6 so. That tdoes  :ilot mean, that catechism  c.lass to  cornpAre public school  chil,dreli with
  theire is no element  ,of truth in what they  say, but  even C:hristi;an  school children:              Generally speaking,  %I  P
  this  will not drive the conscientious  Chrjstiae into the           simply is no comparison.
'  world. He may  fed sad  :albput  prevailing  condit,ions;              And then there is the  ca& of Johnny, who was
  he will  eeier  .seek refuge and comfort' in.  Babylon.              ta&n from the Christian  schdol and  sent to the public
      Oecasiondly   the argument is  idvanced: the public school  beicause he had some trouble  yirith his teacher
  scho&  a,re not  -so dangerous  ;  &  need not be so  afraijdt `or  hiS -principal. <One day Johnny came home crying.
  to send our children to  these  .schools  fbr their  instzuc-        His teacher  had slapped his face, or his  priflcipal had
  tion ; the  edutia:tion   the? give is of a high character. 171   BoUi?d  it -necessary to punish the  boy. Who was to
  short, the public  ,schools  are  ,good enough.1 On what blame? Why, the teacher, of  couise-! Who  saild so ?
  basis ? According to what. standard can this. be  ,main-             Johnny  `did, and Johnny  ,does  -not lie.  1He had done`
  tained?  Holy can any  onei who is Protestant  Reforme.`; nothiillg wrong. He  never does. Ail of a sudden and
  assume this  position?  On the  b&sis  ,of  C,om.mon Grace  Iwithout   any `reason for  id'tiing so  ttiacl~er  hadd just
  `one may conceivably  fmd  support' for this position.               al.apped  hiw; in the face. As a  cons&quence  Johnny is
 After  all, God is gracious  tie  all  mai. He bestows many taken  5rom  .the Christian school and sent to  the  pdblic_
  ben+ts, much  kkflowledge  an!  iwis'dom and  virtue on all, school; H,e doesn't.  hmw!e to  submit to such  indighlities  !
  awl  24s  a%result  these is  still  ,Fuch good  in  the  world,     D$  moth& go  to see  the teacher  Or  the  principal?


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No, why  ihould she? Did father bring the  ma;tter                     Without God and His Word such education.  mu& of
to the attention of the board?  `-Certainly  .not !             Did    tiecessity  ibe false. -The Lord of hosts has  00 place
either in any way seek to learn  the truth of `the matter?             in all the thoughts of the  natur;ail man: How, then,
Not at all ; they might discover that Johnny  Id!id not tell           can he ever attain to the truth.
the  tru$h after  alL They  s.imply took their child or                    Such- schools are not for our  childrea;  that's cer-
childsren' from school  .and sent them to the  publilc school. tain.
Besi,d,es, look how  mudh money is saved this way. Such                    There are some things that, should not  even enter
parents.!   A n d   s u c h   C h r i s t i a n s !   _                into the  micnd of the child of God; that `a Christian
Why  Evil?-                                                            shoub3 find it impossible  to do.
    All these  alnd many other  e&iusles notwithstanding,                  SeHding his  chi.ldren to the public  schoo:l is one of
it certainly should be plain to all  Reform& parents,                  t h e m . '                                               I
that the public school is not the  schools far our children.                                    (To be continued)
It is the world's school, and the world is enmity  :a,gainst                                                                          R. V.
                                                                                         .-      _
God. There the fear of the Lord,  which is  the.  ,begin-
ning of all wisdom; has, no  plaae. There all is strictly                                             -    H-
this+vorltdly.       Is that,training the child  in4he way he
shoubdl ,go ? Is_ that providing the covenant  ,@d with
the nourishment it should receive?' Stones  for*b>ead   ;                               FROM HOLY- WRIT
serpenks  for fish; that's  lwha8t  suck  payenb  give their
Ichilclren.
     The  schools  elf the  worl'd are institutions of the lie,                           "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
built on  bhe lie,  an'd dedicated to  the lie. `They  a&e                             -gate, atid broad is the way, that leadeth to destruc-
such  becauge  they are purely humanistic, and  pure                                   ,tion,  aid many there  bje which go in thereat: Because
humanism  ia, the lie. They are this because  they  havle                              strait is the gate and naxrow  is the way which'lead-
no place for God,  and God alone is  THE Truth.- They                                 f eth unto life,  and few these be that find it."         :
represenk the lie because they  harvle no room for Christ,                                                               -Matt.  7:13-14.
and because  tlri'ey  igliore  an'd reject the  Word of  Gotd,
apert  frbm which there  can be  rio knowledge of the                      We may definitely assert that the "K`ingdom of
t$uth. Scripture alone.  reveals the  .tr$h with respect Heaven" is the subject-of  J.esu$? Sermon  & the Mount.
to all things, to `God.  and  mari, to Christ  aad our  salva-         Throughout this sermon in Matt. 5  :7 the spiritual
tim, to heaven and earth  anid! all things. In its light character of this Kingdom receives all emphasis. It is
alone we  7e.e the light. The Word of God is not a spiritual in `distinction from the earthy  (expectation1  of
pabra  textboo,k on history, or geography, or  scie'nce,               the  @ci,ples  on the one hand and  -from- the external
,or civics, or mathematics  olr  biology;Lyet none of these and sham righteousness  ,of the scribes  anidl pharisees
,can be  ,ur@erstood  without  the  r&elatibn God has given on the  other. This Kingdom of heaven is established  Iby
in His Word. The latter  S@e  rev+s the things  lnlot                  JesuEY.perfect fulfillment of the law,  and it is  woryked
seen, without  -wh$h the things seen  &re never appre- spiritually `in His people  through the Holy Spirit.
hended  in-their  proper significance  or true  perspectisvle. Need!less to say,  ou(r entrance into that Kingdom  is's
Scripture  alone'lays  down the  fuaciamental principles  ;            matter  ,of grave importance.                 This latter thought
gives  the directives*;  slueNds"God's light on God's world.           constitutes the  Wtord of God'in this text.-
That revelation of  Go'd the  (world rejects as foolish and                `We must understand, I am sure, that the viewpoint
izrelevhnt.  Therefore the world  a&ways lies  anidl  itis, of this text  ia not that of God as He leads His  people
institutions are institutions of the  lie. To deny this                into the  heavenly glory. God (encounters no difficulties.
spiritual, character of the public school is  to  .deny  t,he          He knows no strait gate  pr  ;narrow  Iway. The view-
spiritual character of the world itself.                   -           point here is  tha?? of our entrance into this heavenly
     All this  do-, not  mean,`that  the world  cannot give kingdom. We can enter into it only through a strait
us certain facts, and  <be technically correct  about them, gate and upon a  na?rbw way.  Andl inasmuch as this
It can teach that the Declaration of  In'dependenoe  was               i$!  t.rue, and these  ways lead either to life or  dest?uction,
siigned in 1'776,  alnld this is correct. It can teach our how  ur;gent therefore is  0u.r calling to  enter in at the
children that a line is the distance  ,@tween two  poi:nts,            strait gate.
and who  shall deny the truth of  tl@s statement?                          According to this  .text we must pass through  ihe  :
     Nev;erthel&s,  the  sducatio~~   of the world is  ftilse. strait  g&e to enter eternal life. Jlesus does not exhort
Education is  more than  th.e inculcation of mere, naked us `to enter in at the strait gate and upon the  narr,tiw
facts. It  expl:ains  them. It seeks to see them  in  their way,,  W.e  iare merely told to enter  .in at the strait
prope,r place and perspective. It inquires into the gate. The gate receives the emphasis  here: The  v&$
reason  am4 purpose of things, the origin! an'd the end.' , (narrow or broad) !follows upon the gate ain< is /deter-.
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 tmined by it., The strait gate  always results in a  nar-            the spiritual harmony  betw,een  ?ur  li:?es, and the will
 rbw  wlay. At the very outset we may ask  ourr:eljvles QE God. And  th&tigh this righteousness we enter  lise
 three questions which call for an  a.aswer  :                        eternal, fellowship with  God:  irZow in  p+nciIlle and soon
                                                                      in eternal perfection., Hence, the  ;wi,de gate of my text
         1. What is meant by life?                                    is the gate of sin and' .unrighceousness.
         2.  LWhat  is meant by the  gate which  le'a$ds  :           .    3. Thirdly, what is meant by our entering through
            u n t o   l i f e ?                                       the  is&a.it gate? `It is evident that Christ here is  speak-.
         3. What is meant by  Ientering   in at  I&&  strait          ing of  `our -personal  anlci conscious entering into the
            g a t e ?                                                 Kingdom of  Heaven  th?ough the strait gate. This im-
   1. First of  &I,- Christ  s,@eakis,  heIre of life and its         plies  +hree  thiirilgs.    It  impl,i\gs,  in the first place, a
,contra(st,  destruction. Destruction in this text must, of           conscious clinging unto  -the cross of Golgotha. By
 course,. not be  coafused with annihilation.  -  Annihila- nature we are  hop@llessly estranged  frojm God. That.
 tionl  is  taught  ,by the  Russeli;teu, and Universalites but       cross8alone  is our only hope. For on  th& cross Christ
 is  cl~elarly denied in the Scriptures, as e.g., in Matt.            died and  .reconciled us with the Father. To enter
 25  :46.  _ This destruction  refers to man's conscious and through the strait gate means therefore' that  iwe con-
 eternal ruin. Man,  whibe upon earth, lives in  a dream:             seiously;. by faith, embrace the crucified Christ. It
 world;  IHe  imagine. himself  rich in the temporary implie$+&ondlJ;,  a conscious choosing for the holiness
 possession of earthy treasures. But his  d&truction of the law of God. W,e must  coillsciously forsake` the
`awaits  him, when, at the  ea,d of time and  fdrevermore,            way of sin, put,  off. the.  011ti  main,  and turn unto the liv-
he  1~211  e_xperience the unspeakable misery of  bej;n#g             ing God and reach forward unto the  perfeztion in Jesus
 eternally  forsak,en  of  .God.  - He  lw'ill then be deprived of    Christ, our Lord. And it signifies, thirdly, that this
 alal his  poBs!eesions and taste eternally `the wrath of, God.       entrance through the strait gate  mu& occur  through-
 The contrast of this  dlestruction is  life. It is evident,          out our entire life. It is true. that this choice, in prin-
-in  the, light  #of  thle word "destruction", that our Lord          ciple, takes place but once. Bat this  one choice must
here refers to the Kingdom of  Hea;ven from-the  Siew-                occur  throughout  `our lives.
 point  of its  eterlial culmination.  Only,.He speaks of                  It is  e&dent from the text -that this entrance
that Kingdom from the aspect-of life. This life  referis, through the  staa,it gate is  .extrbmely  difficult. Does
.not only' to our  .public   j:ustifitiation  befbre the  eyes of not the Saviour speak of a strait gate and of a  n'ar.row
 all men: but  positibely  io the eternal, glorious fellow-           way? The reason for this  dif%ulty is  two-fob&  sub-
ship with-God in Christ Jesus in  heavenly  iglory, when              jective and objective. It is difficult,  sulbjectively,   be-
 we shall -serve` the living God  `perfedtly and forever- Icause of  us  who must pass through it. It is true  this&
more.                                                                 we are' renewed in principle. But it  iu  ,eQually true
    ,2. Secondly, what  iS meant by the  gra.tephich  -leads `that  w@ are- but in  princi,ple  holy. To be sure, our
into  lise?` The  St&it   gate'leaidis unto  life._and the wide       nature  is renewed in principle. Bnt this work of the
-gate leads unto  ,destmuction. The identity  ob' this  gate          &race.of God  "nas  beein  IwrFught  iti an  ,earthly taber-
which  lea.ds `unto life is  zbeyond  ev,ery doubt. The  en; nacle. Our old  n!a+tire does  :iltot disappear. Sanctifica-
tire sermon on the mount  th.rows light  qn'thics ques-               tion does  :illot imply the  ldjying of  -the old  knan. But it
 tion&, especially the  Beattitudaq  _ chap. 5  :20,  #where. refers to  OUT dying of the old man. And this  str.uggle
 Christ contrasts' our righteousness with that of the                 against. the  wor.kings  of sin  wibhin  us, continues until
Pharisees, and  chap&r 6  :33 where we are admonished                 the  end of our  .eartMy   &es. It is  ,difficult,  objlectively,
to seek the Kingdom of God and its righteousness. Our                 because the gate is  sd strait and the, way is terribly
 entrance `into the Kingdom of Heaven  ,can never be                  narrow.
anything else than `the perfect righteousness of  .Christ                  We may  ia;lso in this  cormection  note the relation
Jesus, our Lord.  Righteousnlesa  signifies that we are               between gate and  way. The  `cqncept "`way" in the  texti
 de&red by the Supreme Judge of heaven  tild earth                    refers to our  wal%k, our manifestation and path in the
to be in  plebe& harniony with His will and law. Wle midst  oif the  worbdi: The relation is that of cause  land
can speak  o:f  rilghteousness  in a judicial sense and there-        effect.  -The gate  detG?mines the way. My  choosing-
by emphasize the truth that, upon the declaration of for sin or  righteouseess  ,determines  ,definitely my "way"
 Gold as Judge,  otir  -gtii)t  has, been paid and we have            in the (midst of the world.
 obtained the  $ight to eternal life. And we can  `also.                   In contrast  (with the  difEcul*y  attenlding my  en-
 emphasize the spiritual aspect. and thereby refer to the             tfaluce- through the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven the
harmony between our own spiritual  1iSe  anld the  &ll way of  ein is `easy. The gate of sin  and  ulnrighte&s-
 of God.     The gate mentioned in this  text refers to               ness is extremely  wild'e. We pass through it  so easily.,
rightieousness   in this  two&fold  sense of the word. And To choose for sin and evil does not involve us in a
this  righteousn&ss  is ours in Christ  Jesuls'. He  la,lone          struggle with the  filesh. We merely follow our own
restored-us to favor with  GadI. He alone  wo?ks in us                nature,  walk according to our  own-  pleaisures. It de-


 mands of us no self-denial. And the j.way which- follo&. God rewards  aocordiirig to works.  Ufiri&teou~:tness is
 such a  choilge is  ,delightf.ully broad.  T'o  tcaivel upon the  &&way and pathway to hell; The  wages  of  @in is
-it  is's pleasure. Then we can go  .everywheve and  the- death.                  For  %od is the  God, of righteousness  atid the
 entire  aworld lies before us.  ,B&ides,  many, we  reac) wihked therefore  gather for themselves  treasures, of
 walk `on it. We shall not lack company. We need not                    eternal wrath. Th,e strait gate,  on the other hand, leads
 be  regarded  ;II~. outcasts  iand  the..offscouring   oif society.    to life. It leads to life  not because  of our own right-
     On the other  hanic$ it is  extr&nely  .dific;ult  to enter        eousness.' Christ is our  right_eoui2cness.  He  p&id our
through the gate of  t,he Kingdom of  Hieaveni The gate, debt  !and merited for  LB  life. `His work is our reward.
 we read, is strait, narrow. To embrace the  `lcross of- To  believe in Christ, to suffer for His Name's  Bake in
Golgotha. implies that I must renounce myself. Noth- the midst of the  wo#rld  bdeman& (eternal  .life on the
 ing of -ourselves  ca.n pass through this gate.               The      basis of the  ri>ghtleousness of God  iln Christ  Jes,us, our
,moment. we  behol,d any  righteouslness+n ourselves we                 Lord.
 will  find it impossible. to pass through this-gate into                   Urgently  .nec&ssary therefore is this admbnition.
the Kingdbm  -of  IHearvien.' To cling unto the -Christ of The gate and way  ob' destruction are wide. The  gate-
 Calvary implies that -we  know ourselves as  condemn-                  of life is  narrolv. Enter ye  ini not at the  Wilde gate,
 able,-utterly  unlwolrthy of the mercies of God  end that              but at the strait gate.
 Jesus alone  is. our  sal,via:tion. And therefore we must                                   c                                 H. V.
pass through this gate  alabed,  `ever appearing before                                                          _:..
the living  Goidr in  sarBkol,oth  and  .ashes.  Bsesid,es,  our
 entrance into the  Kingdom `of  Heaven is, also difficult                  "
                                                                                  "
                                                                                  I.`
                                                                                       ..

betiause of the way which  muwt  ivevitably   folloiw. That  -
 way is terribly narrow. Having embraced the prin-
ciples of the Kingdom  of God .we have renounced the
lu& of the  eyes  ,and of the flesh, and the  great.ness  of
life. We  aare radically different from those  whosg  goldi
is their  bielly, who glory in their  shamej  who hate the                                        .R.F.P.A.'
                                                                                                                              ' .       ,4
cro13s  ,ob Christ. T,he  &il.dren of the world  proceed'ia
a!ll their activity from the  p&ciple  of  sip and that                     Wle had  iill mind to begin this  :co$umn in an  eritirely
which is  belolw. The children of the Kingdom are di.fferent manner,  pephaps  by introducing the writers
moved  .by the  sear  ,of God. For this reason their path and  mtikiqgla'-statemtent  or two of  our plans for this
in `the.  worlt& shall be  miarrow. It is' narrow because rubric. Since the evening of September  20, however;
they must  .deny themselves the pleasures of sin for                    these  ha,ve appeared irrelevant and this article  must
-a (season. -It is narrow also  betiause the  wicked world              take precedence. The reason for this  should  be,come~.
hates  the Church  of>God and will persecute those who                  evil&ent  mu  wi;" proceed.    .-
seek the things above. And there  $re few that  fin< it,                    On the evening  .referr& to above,  th!e Reformed
Gold's people are a  ridiculed minority.                                Free Publishing  Associatioila held its Annual  Mlember-
   The ext,reme rd<fficulty atbending our e.iltrance through- ship meeting  iin the First Protestant Reformed  Ch.urch
the  str& gate is further  en@asized  in the  texi;  wheq. in Grand Rapids. The Board of the association had
Jesus informs us that "few there be  that find it." The expen,ded  aA  special effort in an  attempt  to'arouse inter- _
im,p2i'cati&  ia not  that,  al;1 men  -seek to en&r God's              est in thin gathering. Announcements  hai3 been  pl$ced
eternal Kingdom of  Heeaven.             Scripture  teaches us          in  ,OLW  papers  well in  advanlee of the date  ;  urgi:ilg all
,diff,erenily. All men do, however, `seek a certain peace members, readers and friends, of  the cause to  attmd.
and rest, a  heaven of their own imagination. But,  i:~ Besides this, several hundred  personal letters  bed been
all the  world3  setilking.  .f,or  peace and  rest/&w find             sent out to the  membem.  of  our Churches living, in
the strait  ga+e. The  wild!e gate, with its  broad`way, is             Gram& Rapids  an,d vicinity, who, it  `was expected, would
the choice of the  vast majority. Only a few will choose at least.  sh&v enough interest to attend  the  meleking.
shame and  reproach  asi  the-way to  etemial  :glory and               It was  certsiinly  dis&ea?tening,  therefore, to find only
peace.     -                                                            fifty members and one or two visitors  p.rese&; which
    Finally, the tone of the text  .is such that it  ,empha- was not  graatly above the average for  this,,meeting.
sizes  th,e urgent necessity of entering through  tlvs                     We rather pitied  these "feeble few" and would not
strait  .gate. It  iti imperative for  hs to enter through dave been, surprised if they too would have  decid!ed to -
this strait  gate  beca,u&e  t&e  gate  -and  way  which  ]ea,d-  - abandon the ship  .in  ho&essness.           Of course, we were
L&O destruction are  b$ad   an,d it is only through the                 wrong on both scores! As  iwe  li&ened to the beautiful
strait  gate  tina upon  t;he  narro,w  lvvlaly that we are led         and instructive `"remarks" of the speaker for  the  even-
into  ete(rnal life. The  brdald!  lwtiy  leads to  d.estruction.       ing  OLW  whole  view-poi'st  changed. They, rather, were
The narrow' way is the  way  of Life This must be.                      to be pitied who had missed this irispiring speech: and


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       who failed `in executing a glorious privilege which was         imegral part and  ,place it must have. The reason for
       theim, The remarks made proved' to be an  incentivie            this is the existing relationship-, between these two
       to  reznewed  courage  aind enthusiasm. The reason  fo,r .fundamental.principles-. The Sovereignty of God  ne-es-
       this change  of, attitude  shoald also become  evit&ent  a's    sarily includes that  a,ll, things, also our  salvaation. are
       we briefly  revi!ew the remarks made  aby the speaker.          motivated by the fact of God's glory as the  only end
            After the preliminary business had  bieen  dispoi3'ed      of all things.
       of `the Rev.  If. Hoeksema -arose to "make a few re-                It is of  that specific  Reformed truth that the Stan-
       marks". As usual-  t.hesk "remarks" turned out to -be dard Bearer wants to  ,be a witness. And that in dis-
       an  orde.red  anld  fin&held!  deve$opment  of the theme:       tinct& from the  oficial preaching or missionary task
       "The Standard Bearer as a  Witne&?. By way  elf in-             of the Church. Witness is testimony  ; and this witness
'  troduction the  speaker.rsjcalled  .the occasion and pur-           of the Standard Bearer is not institutional but free.
       pose of  th& organization of the R. F. P. A. It found           Therefore, the speaker emphasized, the Standard Bear-
       its occasion  lint the fact that in 1923 the existing Church    er is  Y,OURS! It does not belong to the institute but
       papers  wlere closed to the contributions of the Revs.          to all of the men  (and.the speaker. saw  ,no reason why
       H.  ?anhof   and  )H.  Hoeksemla. .-Thus the R. F. P. A.        the women should `be  exoluded from this statement)
      ,waw born  Iwith the express purpose  !of creating  ai> organ    to every believer as he is a part of the organism of
      through which the Reformed truth, as  maintaieed by              the Church. Throngh their interest  i;n; and  publical
      these two brethren, might  b,e defended, developed and           tioa of, the  Standar.d  Clearer, individual Christians
      maintained. The name of the organization emphasizes              have one of the most beautiful opportunities to exercise
      that purpose and aim-.  Reformed&indi8cates what                 their office of  believer--for the Standard Bearer is'
      `was  warn+++ as the contents of the  publi,cation. Free- YOURS-CURS !
       points out that it is under no  iastitutional   superviu,ion        That the Standard Bearer is a "free witness" means
       or control. That it is  81 Publishing Association reveals       that, it can never come under the power, or be used
      that its  pur'pose  is to  ma,ke propaganda, within and          in. the influence of, a corrupted institution.                    "This
      without, as a free body of Reformed Christians, and              organization is  -`one of the most powerful means to
      that more particularly, as a (witness.                           maintain ourselves", the speaker said.                    I t   iB  e v e r y
            !Cn the development of the theme: "The  Standand           believler's  wit,ness  overagaifnst   all  c o r r u p t i o n - i t   i s    '
       Bearer  )as a Witness", the speaker briefly asked and           free-without entanglements.
      answered three questions : What  `was to be  witnessled?             Once again the point was emphasized that the
      What is. it to witness?  and, What have been the `re-            Standard Bearer belongs to all of our men; all appear-
      sults of this witness?                                           ances to the! contrary notwithstanding. Those present
            It was pointed out that the content  OS that witness       were urged  to;tell the  bret.hren these things and  unge
. . . is  th.e unadulterated  Reform&$ -`Truth.      Though this       them  to. function  *in their  .office  -of believers in this
      meiaas the Truth as it is embodied  in  oQ.  Stanldards          respect.     Because of its very nature, the Standard  *
      it does not mean that these  .be simply repeated, but            Bearer, is one of the nicest forms and offers  ,a1 most
      that  they.are to be developed and  clefended against all        beautiful opportunity for every one of us  to`so func-
      attack, and  applile!d to  ,doctrine,  church polity  (arid t i o n .   -
      every sphere of  1,ife. This is the general  (content of
      that witness. There is, however, a more specific con-                ZD  coedusion it was pointed out that in the course
      tent to Reformed truth and the  specific aspect of it            of `its history the Standard Bearer has enjoyed both
      must be developed                                                criticism and honor. Because of limited means it has
                             speci~%~~U~~.   There is no longer, a
      great  ilove for, or  dievelopment  of,  specifi.c'Refor~med     been, easy to cast aspersion on its efforts and this ad-
      doctrine and principle, the  speaiker  sai,d. "Our calling       verse reflection was to be expected. Nevertheless, by
      is not to be general but'  s@ecific." He continued by            God's grace a tremendous thing has  :been done  and.
      stating that there are especially two truths which are           there are many reasons to be  grat,eful. There is clear
      ~~pecifica4ly   anld  unijquely Reformed.  Th-e basic prin-      and  direct evidence of the  mfluence of the Standard
       ciple of all Reformed doctrine is the fact of God's             Bearer's witness in our own  Chunches.  Less evident,
      Absomte Sovereignty  in! respect to  all things. This            perhaps, but fully as potent, has been its  inf,luence   out-
      is the truth that must dominate all  Ref,ormed  doctrine.        5% e our own idenomination.                It's  witn,ess has been
      The second principle is the Covenant  con'eept.  Here_ hear.d and regarded among various Reformed groups
      the speaker expressed that as he continued study and             in our  ,own~  ,country as well  as  in the Netherlands.
      `grew older he was becoming  m:ore and more  bonvinoed           Hence,  .. the closing directive : "It  ,behooves us to be
      that this latter truth is even more peculiarly and               thankful to God and then go ahead;  (work for the
      exclusively Reformed than even that of  G.od's Sover-            Standard Bearer with  alI1 our' might exercising the
      eignty. There is no  other group  o'utsid,e the Reformed         office of believer  !"
       Churches that gives to the Covenant theology the                                                                           W..H,  .,


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      Dr, &wdon IX Clark - O.P.C.                                    6ng him, the decision to deem the examination for
                                                                     licensure  suf%zient  for ordination and  the. deoission
                                                                     to..ordain Dr.  Clzrk were in error" was defeated by, a
    Since our  Em&or  has! been criticizing the Complaint            roB call vote of 16 to 20. Actually, therefore, the Pres-
aghinst  Dr. Gordon. H. Clark of the Orthodox Pres- bytery  uphe1.d and  approveid all the actions set forth
byterian Church we thought it might. be  hi&resting to               in this  motion. The complainants, thereupon,  ap,peded
inform our readers  concernling  both Dr. Clark  aald the            their case  to the General Assembly.  (Compz~rable  to
disposal1 of the case.                                               our S$nod)  .
    In 193'6 Dr. Clark  `was  invite3 to  become Visiting             Tlhe  Ge;nieral Assembly met in June,  X945,   anld spent
Professor of Philosophy at  Wh&on College. At that                   a great deal of its time on the, Dr. Clark case. You
time. Dr. Clark was  zi member and  ruling elder of the              will recall, from  the discussion by our Editor, that
Redeemer Orthodox  Presb$terian  Church, Philadelphia.               three main questions were involved. Two of these
After a  yeyXr's probation at  Wheaton  ,College, Dr. Clark          were of a Church  ptiliticsfl  na@re while the  .last con-
was  ellected Associate Professor  ' of Philosophy and               cerned the  idbctrinal  issues.          IConcerning  these the
made a permanent  member  df the faculty. In June,                   General1 Assembly made the following decisions :  .l:
1942, a committee of the Board of  TFustees of  Wheaton              "That  th.e action of the Presbytery of Philadephia,  iln
was  appoinked  to investigate  certai;nl questions which            denying that  *its `meeting of July  9, 1944, was illegal
ha/d! arisen regarding Dr.  Cl&k's  teaching. This  com-             and  i+s,  &tio:n thus null  land void, be sustained." 2.
mittee,lat,er  reljorted its findings and  came with several         "Thaw the portion of the complaint  w`hich requests the
recommendations which were  aIdopted  lby the  Bo:ard.               General Assembly to  askthe  Presbyt&y  of Philadephia
Conditions were laid down  .which  attemptsd to bind                 to  rdeclare  nurll and void  -the actions of the meetings
aed limit  Dr.- Clark in  his `teaching.         To these Dr.        of the Presbytery of Philadelphia of July `7, 1944,  re
Clark' replied : "On the  groun,d of religious  and!  mora:l         Gozdon H.  Clia;rk,  Pm; D., be declared unconstitutional
convictians.. . . .I am unable to comply  with the  re-' because it seeks in effect to  depo:e or `to unfrock a
quirements  recently  enacted by the  .Trustees,  :ainid I minister of the Church in good  ainid regular standing
hereby present my resignation `from the Faculty of                   witholut  filing  charg.es -or without due process of a
Wheaton  Colleg$X.        (Those  interes'ied  may  find a  corn-    trial." The third &&ion  `was the  o:i~~ly  concess?on. to
pletk discussion  o;f the, case in  the Presbyterian Guard-          the complainants,  aed  even  thkq was limited  "for it
ian: March 25 and April 25, issues  ,ofl 1943).                      m&es no mention of "Dr. Clark., It  was decided that
    Su.bsequent,ly,  Dr.  Clark  ;alpplileld to the  Presbytxery     "a committee- of five, none of whom' are members of
of  Philadel.phia of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church,               the  Pjresbyeery  of Philadelphia, be elected  by this
to  .be examined with a view to ordination. At a special             asseanbly to study the doctrinal  parts  of the  Icomplaint
meetQlg of the Presbytery (comparable to our  Classis)               . . . . aad! report to the Thirteenth  Gmeneral Assembly."
in  .July, 1944, Dr. Clark  ;was licensed  arnd in  August           We look forward with interest to the Committee%
of that same year was ordained to the ministry. At `report;  especialfly in view of the  t,horough  and ex-
that time Dr.  .Clark planned to teach at the- Reformed              haustive criticism of the complaint by  t$e  Erditor of  &he
Episcopal Seminary in  Philiajdelphia for one year.  ,At             Standar'd  Bearer. Watch for  it-you. may  find  evidez!ee
present, to  &e best of our knowledge, he is  t&aching in            of-"The  StandarId  Bearer as a Witness"!
                                                                                        _--
Butler  Unitreysi;ty.                                                                                                         W . H .
    Again& this action of ordaining Dr.  `Jlark, 13
members of  ,the Presbytery of Philadelphia  -brought
the  complai& being discussed by our  Etdito,r.  This
comp!l.aint was  finsit treated at the regular meeting of                                         IN MEMORIAM
the  Pr&sbytel"y  in-March, 1945. The result was,  ,as
stated  *by the Presbyterian  Gtia'rdian  : "The  presbytiery                1.t pleased our heavenly  Fakher  to take unto  kimself  our
cl,e.arly demonstrated to the complainants  bhat &en                 dear mother,  grandm,other  and  gcne~at-grandmother,
their mildest  r,ecjuest would be  refased  ani  *hat there                                    M+LS.  HOLWY&   BA'&
was, in  egfect, no use in  makin,g further  at.tempts  to' at *he age of 82 years, September 9, 1945.                   _
gain  .recognition for their position..`: Thiis. was  lemideil!t             Having the'blessed*.`assurance  that our loss is h&r gain, we
from the final action of the Presbytery. A motion                    are  comforted  in our bereavement.
"That the presbytery acknowledge that various views                                                      Mr. and Mrs. `John Ryskamp
`of  D,r. Clark as set forth in the  meetin;g of  Ju.ly  ?, 1944,                                        Mr. Jamles Vander Laan
are in error and  tha$ therefore the decision to sustain                                                 Mr. and  `Mtx.  Herman, Bats .
his theologitiall (examination, the decision to Iwaive two                                               Mr. and Mrs. `Henry  Bats
                                                                      .~.
years of  study  in a  theolo:gical seminary, the decision                                                 I3 grandchildren. . .
to pr&qid  to !icenise~D~r`t Clark and the action of kens- -~.  Gr&i  &.pids, Michigan.                      14  great-grandchildren,


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                                                                                   .~
            A.Pioneeri~~`Movemellt                                    `they  eajr, this certainly is not true.  `SGence  ,aind in-
                                                                      !&stry have certainly not reached the ultimate  i:nl  de-
                                                                      .~~eloplment. Emery day the old is  ,being set aside, and
       Approximately. one week ago I  `was  iapproached.  by          th.e  ,Inew is attained.      And these rrien of vi&on see
a committee of the Auxilliary with a  reiy:uest to  givle a broad fields for future development. Pioneering, they
talh.on  tshis occasion, your annual. picnic. An3 having              say, although it can  :no longer be carried on in the
accepted the  ilnvit&ion; I naturally  began~to ponder as             o11cQ tradition of a Daniel Boone, or of -a Lewis  asd
to what was  Yequired of me, and  a!s to what' I  shoujd              Clark, or in  <the tradition of our -own  forefgthers who
say; and I furthermore came to certain  conclusioi:is,                not  tyo long ago  settled  some  30  mliles away from  here
Iwhi,ch I  ,&al,1  pass on to  you in  the form of  a  cler:llsaa-    on the. shores of  La*ke  Michi,g?n-pioneering  is  not
tion-  od' intentions:  Ins the first  plac!e, what you wlli          ended.
hear  t~oniglit is not  t6 be classified as an-oration,  ,nor              And thus  also in  .th,e field of  educati'on,   Iy1ore  speci-
even as a speech, but  .as`a mere talk. For this I was                lically in the  fields of Christian Education,  nomiillal;ly
asked, and such you will receive. An& so also you  may at least  t,her.e is a  ssitisfied, self-satisfied,  Inon-pioneering
sit  here  tahis  svielliag without  a.ny fears as to  loalg-, gr,oup.           And there is a group of `pioneers. And we
.windedness, for such is the error, not of a  Ixeminarian,            &and  with, those who see aew  fie!ds to  conquer. Rep-
but of  a  min&ter. In the second place, my  t&k  t,onfight resenting as we  ado the movement  [for Reformed Educa-
is not to  -@artake   0-f. a  controvers,ial  nature.' We are tion, we  `are  .pioneeu?s. For  although  the name  Chris-
gathered this evening as  Auxi,lliary Members or  as `tian  Educatioil has its origin  fa? back in  l$&ry, yet
lmeinbers of  otir  sc.hool society; in short, as friends             that name as  .properly Interpreted  ,and understood has
of the  momement  for  Prot,cstant-  Reformed  Educatio:ill.          never  jret  ,becom& a reality, the  Fir& Reformed Chris-
A  co&troversi~al talk -would be out of place among                   tian. School  .of Redlands, California, to the  cofitrary
friep&._  And finally, you are not  {going to hear any-               notwithstanding.        We. are  ,pion&s in the field of
thing new this evening. Such  wojuld` be expecting- the                Christian  Eldncation.
impossible ; not only because there is nothing new                         And characteristic of  ~11  piontiens. and also-  .of us
under the  &n, but more  specificdly  bee&e speeches                   are  c.erta$ factors. `In the first,  place, that being  dis-
and talks -have been made  iti'.  c6,nnection with this               ,satisfield  with their  present position, they have  lain  ideal,
movement for some twenty years. And be it- said to                     a goal, for which they strive. In the second place; that
our  sham@, they  havie, not yet brought forth  any actual             in the seeking of that- ideal,.  there are certain dangers
f&it.. We  hav,e not yet, after  -twenty long  ye,tirs of              pecu!iar to pioneers.  Atid finally,  tliia$ in the attain-
independent existence as churches,, and  "a-fter twenty                ment of that' goal, any  .pioneer  hals certain needs,
long  years  of  instrucbion,  acq&ed our own.  e&cation~al            needs which would  :ilsot  arise, were he not a pioneer.
system. If we had,  -perhaps  this  ev&ing's talk  Fould                   And  $hel;efore. I have chosen to  ttilk  foi a few
be out of  pllace. But since we have not, you cannot moments  o n   t h e   t o p i c :
but hear an  old.story, and  one that is' fitting.                                 P`ioneering in  Chcristian Education.
  In our times tie once more are-hearing  talk about
pioneering, pioneering in the  -tiwentieth century.  This              alnd I  wouM like to consider with you:
is  Idue  to the fact of the social and  ecoa~om~ic  probl,ems
tihth our country sees on the horizdn of the  suture,                             1. Our High  Idgal.
and  which shall  .loom  up  :a8 soon as this  +ar-induced                        2. A  Lurking Danger.
prosperity  bf ours comes  to  .an end, when leads of                           3. Oar Pressing Needs.
fan-&lies  shall  ,once more  fa,ee unemployment. The                      1. Before we` picture  $0  .ourselves the ideal, which.'
quest.ion has arisen whether America has  not  reach$ed we as `pioneers  iseek, it  w'ould perhaps not be amiss to
                                                                      ,
the peak of its  developmen.t-;  Iwhetiher  perbslps she has -consider  what that ideal `is not,  ko  picture what we are
,not over-reached it ;  whe6her  pe?hap!s,  our  count-ry's Gearving. This would  pephaps   nlot be necessary  iif there
 population is not too iarge for our  la;:lid  alid its  r& were  not a possibility of a wrong  Iconception' of what
sourcles to support it. And to that  questioln  two ans-               we seek. But it is possible that in the mere excitement
wers are generally given. (On  khe one hand,  are those of pioneering,  in. the  &tire  excitement of  see:kignlg some-
Gho  s;ay.that~our`ultimate frontiers have been reached.               thing new, in the mere  excitemefit  -of sleeking some-
.Pionee-ring has  cdme  -to an end. And  in, that  atti&$e             thing which has the name  Protest,ant  Reformed, a
 is evinced  all element of  (satisfactionI,  self-satisfaction.       jntame `which is undoubtedly `dear to  our hearts but
 On the other hand, -are the more  progress-m.inded,   who             which is  -nevertheless  .a  name,-1  saly  dt is possible that -
answer "not  t,rue". GeographiGlly,  they say,  we may we after all  f&get our basic  i&al, forget  the  n&on                                 .
 have reached our frontiers,  althouigh some, with their why we are pioneers,  ind thus set our ideal too low.
`eyes on such  ricb'territorimes  as Alaska,  $or example,             And. therefore, before we  can really be inspired by our
 are even  bold enough  :to deny this, But  economioally,              true -ideal,  `iamy wrong one must  be.- rooted out; and


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  we must be  br,ought to -rationally  an& calmly  con;sid~~ stand upon a theory which holds that  the ungodly pro-
  what, we want.                                                      duces good,  &nd that we can use that  ;good,  pro:videcir
      And t&position which we  aFe about to abandon,                  we root out  tshe  ev<l  parts  of it  befone we give it to our
  the  id&d which  liay  n&  be ours,  i!s,  referfled.  to by the    children. A theory  whilch has brought about the  u:sie
  Dutch  phnase, "De  Schoo:l met  .den  Bijbehl". Perhaps, of  text+ooks  :which are crammed from cover to  cover
  we of the movement `for  Protest&t  Reformed-  Educa-*  - with  .evolution and materialism and pragmatism and
  tion would more frequently characterize  ,that ideal by             fr01~ which  tile teacher  ha,s  suppos&ly  removed the
  referring to it  as," simply "the . exist& Christian harmful, parts.                        We have had an educational system,
  slchools".    Whether  you are aware of it or  iiot,  andI which, `be it  conscious!y   o'r  sulbconsciqusly, has not
  whether  you  really  unders$anzd  what it means, those             been  ,positively  Christian as it has claimed, but  fund+
  are exactly the  schoois  whi,ch  we_  do not want: schools         menttilly pagan, while it attempted to, be  somethilng                            ,
  in which the Bible is an added something, schools                   i,mpossi,ble,  ~neutral~ly  Christian.
  which, very simply stated, are  similar in every respect                 And I would  li*ke to impress upon your' hearts and
  to the schools  of the state, except- that over and above           minds this evening that as we  belitive that our covenant
  the  i&,rnction given in  secul.ar  :subj,ects, therk is  oni?, life embraces all, every  sphere;all-our heart and  so&
  hour per day of Bible  instrudi~on,   anl$  classles  are begun and mind and strength, so our schools  mu::t instruct
  and- ended with prayer. And added to that there is                   our children in harmony with the precepts  .of God's
  a certain. Christian atmosphere in those  schools,  .ari            word.: We` must  `hav6  it&trut-Ytion which prepares our
  a;;tmos,phere  which  is. sometimes  depnecateid  as-beinig         chil,drefi for one  lifie; not two. And no more than  the
  worse than the  a%mosphere  found in the public  slahools.           ordinances of  God  ea.-n be  excluded`~from  any sphere  df
  We will not consider the` possibility that even the                 life, no more-may they be  eaclude$ from any sphere of
  Bible-  instruc$ion  given! might  possi,bly   be- thoroughly       instruction which prepares. for  that,  Xfe. Our ideal is
  r&ten  down. to the very core. We will not consider the             instruction  .that is permeated with the  @inciples of the
  fact that some of  these  slchools have  niade what are             Word of God.
  called concessions to the Protestant Reformed people                 - Then  !wie shall  have  schdols  to be  ,&ire  sirhere  dir,e&
  in the form of  allsowing certain of them  inI. the  bo,a;rds               s      -
                                                                      instruction is given  in Scripture; schools to be  sure,
  anid some of their teachers in the staffs. We  will not             w h e r e   t h e r e   is  ,prayer  atid  Ch&tian  m u s i c   a.ncl a
  mlention the fact  bhat  f,i$e  OF six year  o!ld children           Christian. atmosphere.            But., and this is important,  :'
  come home  :with some  .of the most corrupt and  slti.nl-           schools in which every subject is carried out to  t4e
  ing  Arminian' hymns  on  hheir lips and in their  littlk. ,ultimate.   There, for example, history  wiIl  be taught
  -hearts. We are  desiling  .not with  ilncidentals  but with        throughout with a  vilew  to its  -relation to  the people of
  principles : principles of- Christian  te8ducation.  And             Gold  a>nd  tq the  corni?g of God's kingdom  ;  anlzient.
  though all the  Bibli*:al instruction and Bible  histoiy history will then not  .he centered  ab6ut the  .thprou;ghly
  instruction  should  he  absolutely correct  (an.d we do            materialistic idea of  :the growth  an.d advancement of
  not  den.y its  necess,ity)  , and  tho<gh  every, teacher           c,ipilizaiion  but  wi.11  >e taught, throughout  with a  vaiew
  should be a member of the Protestant Reformed to  tkie  peo& of God in  the. Old  Ditpensation,  with a
  Chu&hes,  ahd though the children  should  silng  nought view to  .the relation of the nations of the  .world and the
_~ but the Psalms, yet  .if  %he  phrase "de  School  met-  ,den development of  $hese  nations  to the people  .o$ Israel
 Bijbel"  shoulldi   &e applicable to those  s&ools, those             and ultimately with a view  ..to- the coming of  .Christ.
  schools may not  be  `ours. Ilf you should take the Bible            Thus also  more recent history,  will.be  center&&  about,
  fro'm  such a  s,chool, you would still have a school ; it _ the idea  -of the preservation of  the Church in the
  is, but an  additign.    It-  is.  such- schools  that we must w&d  and ultimately with a  vie& to the coming of  the
 -very consciously  an,d  wiil.ingly   l,es&pe, not for any  inci-     da<y of the. Lord. IHistory  wo<l-d $&n be' taught, -but it
  d&al  corru@ions,  .but for the sake of  printciple.                would be reconstituted.' And  this  -must be done with
      Our  idea:!,  anld we  .would.  d!o  wiell to remember it        e v e r y   &bject.
 . and make ourselves,  t&oroughly   acqainted   with..& is             A-h&h  itc$eal?  E x t r e m e l y   h i g h .   A n d   o n e   that  i s
  much  hi;gher.    Itc is as, different,  fun,damentally, as          entirely different, one that has  nesrier before  &en
  light is  fr,om  d&kness, as  ;the  `chunch is  .from the world.    reached. `But not  imposs?ble of  attainmetlt.  Pioneers
The  IworM also  will1  up'on occasion  ~110~  the introduc-          we are, soldiers of the cross of Jesus Christ;, and under
  tion of the  Bibl'e alongside of other  -wO&s. We do not            His banner we mu&t go  forwsrd !
  seek a "school with the Bible", but. a school  based- on                -2.  But.  t h e r e   ame  d a n g e r s   i n   the  p&h!  D a n g e r s
  the Bible. We fall very  ftindamentally upon- the basis             which must be faced  ene we  yeabh the goal. Those who
  ,of common grace if we have  !a. school with  ~the  Bi!blie.        would keep us back from this  expeditioa-have often  ,re-
  We fall  `npon a  theqry which  h6lds to. a division of  life       counted! them to us.
  into  two spheres: a  (sphere  of the service of God,  +n,d              .There is, for example,  the financial danger.  You<ve
  9 sphere separated  fr&n God's service. We  WOUM hearId-it  explained a-s  olften as I. There  `is the danger,


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some say, that the pupils  oi our  sc.hool will not be                      lilac of  -demarcat&n between-  Church  .a:& world and
 admitted  to advance schools, because our school will                      would bring  `a tragic end to this pioneering movement
inot  .be &credited. There is the  rdlanger  t:hat we  wiY be               as it  -will ultimately bring to the existing Christian
 small and  unrecogaized,  F "Hastings  Stn~&   outfit".. school+. And we `need not apologize for  ou?.  effo-rts.
 There  i,s the `danger  th'at we  won? have sufficient                     We  are  not  separatistti,  we  al?e Christians. And our
 teachers, and that therefore; the instruction of our                       .ch?:Ndr.en  shall receive a truly Christian education, but
`chilldren  .will be inadequate.  Perhap;  you can add  a. most  emphaticaly  also an  eclzmxtio~z. Arid  thenefvre
.doza to this list. But did you notice, my  friealds, that                  our obligation as  par&s   iS  finst of all to  stl&y, in
-one of  ithese  supposed  dangers is a principal one? Did                  order that we may be sure of attaining our  id&: And
you notice  tha't all of them are but carnal inducements                    as to  supp,orting the venture financially, nothing, I
to cause us. to forsake this venture?  Doln't you. feel                     trust,  netid be mentioned.
that, all of them,  .wben tried by the standard of our                         And with' .re,gard to a  .teac-hing staff our need and
high  ild&l,  are found wanting? I will not say that we Xherefore our  d&y is  ladso  clear. Teachers in such a
need  noit concern  oursel.ves with those  matt?v.ss,  for school are a thing unknown. They must be  traiped as
that would be denying reality.                                              yet; The existing colleges do not  pro,perly   traiB them
        But  there  is a far greater  ,danger ;  great'er  for the          fqr our school. A  rcollege of our own is yet a dream.
 reason that it is a matter  elf principle. The history of                  But this much is true. We  mu+ first of all, both
pioneers  ,has too  often ended in  trageidy.  It has too                   p%renhs  and teachers, rid ourselves  of the idea that
 often ended in the tragedy of not  attainhg that for                       teaching is the lowest  among the  professi?ns,. but must
which. they  so&h&         Many of the early pioneers,  -seek-              learn to look npon teaching as a  hiigh calling,  avnd  reT
i.ng  -reli,gious freedom, when they came to  t.his free                    ward it as such also. And in lieu of a college,  ivle must
land were religiously sound. Many of the  proeperity- see  thadt`our  teachers are men or women  %th the same
.seeking  pi,onieers  spent  all their lives seeking a pros-                ideal as ours, not  ouly, but men  and women with the
 perity which they never found, but  &&ad in their                          ability and initiative to strive  for that ideals, and  ulti-
seeking  flound only  hardstiips  `and poverty and finally a mately to produce the necessary Christian text-books in
cruel  idieath at the hands of  emavages. And  Imany' more,                 the  vlarrious  fiieds. It is undeniable that our teachers.
 havill;g come to a  new land, were swayed from their must also be pioneers, and as time go& on, perhaps
 perpose, and settled  doiw:n  anld were satisfied, not  ha!F study  Igroups could be  organize16 to aid them in their
 iag attained their ideal. And that is our  Idjanger. Not                   tas8, in lieu of the training  we are now unable to pro-
 a..n  external;   once, but a danger in ourselves. And a very vide.
real one. And an understandable  onrel We have  :been                           That then is the  velnture  which we have joined.
 brought up in the tradition of the existing Christian                      There is much  reztson for gratitude, for there has been
 Schools. We -have never known anything  differeni.                         progress and `development already, But we have only
What is. more, only too often' our attention  has been' begun. We may not lay down our burdens now. This
 centered on. but incidental wrongs  in,those~schools,  for ,cause, my friends, is God's cause.                                       That is enough.
 exajmple, the errors in Bible  iilstruction or the corrupt                 Whethfer  we shall realize our ideal  perfec6ly or not, our
prayers and songs learned. An'd the danger is that we                       duty is plain.         We  lnay not  shi.rk. But as hardy'
 will  be satisfied if we have a school in  tihich these                    ,pibneers  :?vve must press  forward, every one perform-
 errors are not present: And then we shall not have                         ing  his duty to the best of his ability until our God
att@ed our ideal. If you have followed me thus far,                         sha&  call us  to the Church  triumph,ant.
you  w41, realize that, then we  Iw,ould have a school which                    And may the covenant  Jehpvah, Who has laid this
is  fundlamentally no different than any  sexisting   Chris-                [duty upon  ,us, bless us and  ,give us the grace to per-
tixn School, however Protestant Reformed it may be,                         form it.!                          .-               ,
 Of that danger we  tiust beware,  lest  .we falter  in this                                                                            H.  C. H.
 crusade.                     .     i'                  .-                  (T,he  above was a -talk delivered at  the annual  pfcnic of the
       `3. What then are our needs:!  Fundament&y they                      School.  Au&Ii&y  during Aug.,. and  wars  published upon request)
 ark one: Remain true  .to our ideal. Cling to  6ur Re-                                                                                    *
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 formed' Conception of the truth. Cling to it  ;with our                                                       _
 whole being ;  anld  get busy.           Get  busjr as Auxilliary                                                        *.
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.m&nbers and as School Society members.                       It, is our
 d&y  8s  well  ,as the  ;dtity of the board to make ourselves
 understand what a truly Protestant Reformed, or shall
 I say,  Rleformed, education must be. We must not suc-                               `Y  Rejpice, believer,  &--the  -IL&'                          _
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 cumb to the idea that if we only are separate  .arll  wild be                           JVho  makes our  caus& `his own ;
 al, right. We  may  nqt succumb to the idea of two                                      The hope that's built upon  his  `word,
qxheT;es, for that. idea will -ultimately  wi$e out  ei;ery                           ..  Can  ne'er  beg  o v e r t h r o w ,


