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                                                                          doop der Fbekeering en. dir bergevinlg der. zondm pre- -
     `-ME-IDITATI  ON                                                   diktre, had laten  doopen,   oti  .alle  gerechti.ghkid  te  ver-
                                                                          vuilen ; toen Hij; door ldat ,ibgaan en ldn&epgaan in het
                                                                          doopwater,  _ Zijn "deel".  vah  Gods  Vepbonld had  iaan-
                   Verzocht Als Wij                                       ,vaard,  @n trouw tot in tden $ood,.  ja, tot ilm den bangen
                                                                          kruisdoo8d,  aan den Vader gezwloren  had; toen uit.den
               Doen werd  Jexus  van  den; Geest  weggeleid -:hemel .de iHei&e Gee&  fop Hem was nedergedaald,  en lde
              in de  w:oest@n,  om  vt&ocht te  w:or&n   van stem vernomen was: "Dezb  iis Mijn `Zoon, Mijn  Ge-
              .den  duivel;  e t c .        Matt,h.  &:I-Ii;              Ii&&, in  Denwelken Ik  Mijn  welbehagen   Beb  !";  toen
    Toen . . . .  '                                                       Hij aldus door detrv Vader Z&lf was aangeduild, ook voor
_. `t Was  Go.ds tijd.                                                    de ooren van Iden Satan, al,s eden Ge'zalfde' ,des Vaders ;
    Het stond alzoo tip Gods program, zooals dat naar en toen Hij :a& zoqdanig .in I$e we&d zo,u ~c@tred&n,  Iden
Zijn ,well&hagen in `de [eeuwigheid  toit in de kleinster bij- -  strij,d  zou  aanbidden   Get  (de  machten d&r .duiste+s,
zon'derheden&,opgesteld  ioor dben Knecht des Heeren. rorn den kop ,der slang te `vermoyzelen.  . i . Doen- werd
    Want  -er zit  Goddclijke   wijsheid,   eeuwige  aood- Hij van den Geest weggeleid  in <de woestijn om  ver-
wendighieid  van Goddelijke ilogiica in bet lij,detisprk-olgram           zocht te  worden   van den  dvivel.
van den Christus, Die van ~eeuwi~ghelild  gezalfsd  is om des                  En toen .gas het juist het rechte -fioment vooF_rdeze
Vaderi welbehagen te  #doe&  `an Die van  Zijneq  Gold ev!e&zbeking.                                                    :
mocht   ,eischen-  \en `de  e&den  der  aar,de  ioudlen Hem                    Hij was immers' de Knkcht ,des Heegen. Hij  stoned
gegeven w'orden  tot eeue bezitting.                                      in en  voor Gods  ,eeuwig  &&ndschapsvenbond  in  IdIe
    Toen  Iwre3d  Jezus v&n den. Geest welggeleicl   .in de werel!d.  Hij moest den strijd des Heeren s;trijden tot;
woestijn.:                                                                in .den dood. En-in ldien strijd was Zijn groc& tegem-
    loch  h&en, ge behoeft' niet nieulwsgieriglijk   +e .vya- stander [de` Satan Zelf.
&n tnaar d&n preciesen  ,datum  !&an d'it `%oen". Daaro@                       Hoe  geptist `dani dat Hij `dien vijand juiist aan &et
geeft:Gods  Wooad  u geeli lantwoord. Het heyeft in Nonzen begin van- `den Bamp persootiijk, aangezi;cht  tot aange-
t?jld,  .iti  &ze  m&schelij~ke   t,ij,dsr&ening   ,gee&  belang. zicht, zou ontinoeten!                     I
De Evangeli,e verhal,en laten u niet zelden  in <den steek,                    Reeds nu moest het :blijven-,of  deze Knecht des tI!@eL
als ge hbn -onlderzoekt  met Ide b&d~oelimg  oh een nauw- -reri de  ve;rz&king  zou  Iwe&&aan!,   Ien tot  bet  .uiterste
keuvi'ge histoyistihe  beschrijving ,op .te stellen van Jezus' t o e   d e n   V a d e r   zou  gehoorza&er+  -.
"leven". Hlet is  .hun  er  ilnnners  n,iet. om te  doen, om                   Zoo was, in rd!en beg&e, `de eerste mensch.Adam
\hist,orie ;te schrijv{n,-.of Ieen "Leben Jesu" te keekenen,              verzbkht   gietiorden.   E n   ldj  tias  dnttiou%  gewo?deti,
maar om den erfgenamkn der jbeltofte  de vervuFiling ,deT -en ihad Gods. verbond. ,over&edei.
belofte  ;te verkondig&, h,et eva$elie, in .de ,opeinbaritig. -               Z,oo moest ,ook ,deze `I<neLht, aan het begin -van Zijn
van Jezu> Csh&st&,  sopdai &j in Hem zouden aanscilmu-                    l~oopb?~  op de  pro,ef  gestild  morden,  opdat  het zou
wen &;n.`kentien hen`G&d ihunner volkomene  zaligheid.                    mdgen blijken,. d& in Hem; Gods veribond :eeyyig vast
Vanclaar,  !dtat  idit  "t,oen',  &noeg.i:s   lam de  `Goddellijilte      l~igt.                    c .  I                   ./
w'ijsheid aal! te- ,duiden, in bet program van die .open-                      Valt  Hij in  dezen  $edsoonlijl@n,   &rijd  .met  ,sdei
baying.                 -.,     -                                         `dverste dezer were!+,-  dan i$ alle vel*deve poging Iom ,de
    `t  W,il  immers-aeiggen:  td&  de Knecht  des  IHeieren `<wereld" te  ,oberwinnen,  ij!pel.                                   \
op.het punt stond ,o& publiekelijk op te .treden,  born Zich                 ,Overwint   Hij  ,in  .dezeti  ilkamp,   HiJ: k&n  &."  $es  ,Ge-
in Woo)rd `en sdaad te ,open:baaren  als tden Christu,s  Gods. weldenaars huis binnien ,{.ri@+
.%oen. . . . toen Hij Zieh [door `den Wegbereider,  Idie tdefi                 Toen  `wend  Jez& van  (Ien ae&$ wegg&id  in  ,de
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 woestijn. . . .                                                               Vandaar idan ,ook, dat ,deze verzaeting we1 een Bdrie-
        Om den tijand te `ontmo&en.                                        -v&&g  karakter   moest' vertoonen.  #Christus'  atibt zelf
  : Op Gods tijd.                     ., _  -1                             was immers  ,dFi,evoudig:  Hij was  profeet  tom  Gpds
                                                                           W,oord te bewaren en te verkondigen ; prilester,  om Gods
        VerzoCht   sls  wij.  .   .   :                                    `$Huis te boulwenj  [den tempel des Heeren tie realizeeren;
        AJleexi  ma&T:  v@  -awaaxdrer   idan wij  ,oosit  m'erzocht       koning, ,oe het rijk vaq ,den vo@st der duist,ernis te ver-
 zouden km-m&n tyokld&,  b&ant Hij stond aan [de spitse woesten,  en Gods Tijk op ,eeuwige *grondslagen vati hetlig
 der Zijlaen, en tioest den strijid alleen strijden.                       re&ht~ `op te richten `en, te :bevestigen. En in alle deze
   _ En  oak:  zondfor zonde was en  lbleef Hij  temidden                  drie zij'den  van Zijin, knechtschap weird ,de Heilatid doos
 van tde zwauste  qr~ i+?pstie  .verzoekingen.                             den duivel aangevallen. In  #de  w&stijn ging het  iim
        We1  &as  d,e-  ,yerzoekin;?;,  &&deze,  .die Hem  recht-          Gods Woord,  `op de tinlie Ides tempels sorn Gods Huis, lop
 streeks van 8deil lduivel wend .a&~eda&, voile werkelijk- den hoogen Iberg.`om  Gods koninkrijk.                                +
 heid.                                                                         Hij  alleen, Die  Go+ Woord  lbewaaylde en Zijn  lof
        Ze was  `voile  werkelijkheid;   allereerst  iin, den zin, verkondigd,e;   H!ij, Die: als `bewarder en verkondiger
 ,dat ze feitelijk was, ,en ,plaats had in de VOOT `den Hei- van het W,ooz:d  Gods, irn (den weg der gehoo!rzaamheild
iland  objectieve wereld  Zijnier  ervaying. We molgen ,de Gods  Hui,4 boewde; Hij  tileen kon ,en  mocht IO& erf-
 verhalen tin ,de Evangel%e~beschrijvingen  niet l,ezen, al,s- genaamder wereld  zijn,  koning   ,onder   Gpd!
 of ze ,ons ,een gelijkenis  boden ; no& ook mogen <we deze                    Werkelijk was  ,de  verzoekiag,   ,ook al was  &  geeri
 sdgievoudige verzoeking van *den Knecht Ides IHeeren  ver- mogelijkheid  dat  ditmaal de Knecht  `des Heeren  zo,u
 klaren,  slsof ze alleen maar h!ad plaa+s  g&ad ions het vaki
 bewustzijn van den Verzochte.  Dit_  laatst,e   is. zelfs                     Wa.nt idlit moet we1 met nadruk ,gehandhaafd war-
 moailijk voorstelbaar op zulk eene. wijae, d:at totih `de `den: deze Knecht  ken niet  ,yallen.  In Hem lag Gods
 zondel,ooslheid  des  Heilandts  gehandthaafd kan  ,b$ij,ven.             verbyxd  eeu,wig vast. En `da%-`hi@" `
                                                                                                                         z mogelijkbeid
 Naen, werkelij,kheid was ze. De Heiland werd werke- van afval niet besbond, ,lag &et aan- &en&q  c&ang van
 Jijk naay [de wo:estijn.gelei;d,  schoon  bet er verder-niet ibui.ten af ; moet ook niet daaruit v@klaaid [worden, tdat
 soi  ..aankomt  $Fecies,  welke  .woestijin,   .h.ier-   ibedoeld   iS  ; Hij- maar Zijne mlen&heJijke natuur z,onder  zonrde was ;
tl3ij. hongeude Idaax, en werid,  aldaar werkelijk door `den/ maar is we1  hierdoor gewaarborgd,   ,da$ Hij rde Zooin:
 Satan in persoon  aangevallen;  Hij stand ,werkelcijk op                  Gods in lyt vJeesch was. De Persoon  des Zoons in Ide
 de ;tinne-des  tempels, en lop den hoogen begg, en Hem menschelijke   .natuur  k6n  aan den weg der  longehoor-
 werden  wwrelrkelijk al  de  koninkrijken   sder wereld  kn zaainheid geen oogenablik de yqorkleur geven:
 hunne ,heenlijkheid getofontd.                                                Taeh Iwas daarom de verzoeking niet.minder werke-
    Zeker,  look 500; Blijven er in IdLze drievoudige ver- ,lijk.                                                         .
 zoeking  elementen, die in 2x4 raam lonzer ,ge,wone er-                       Of was de last Zijlnis %j,dens  `min&r zwaar omdat
 varing niet passen. D,och aan (hare ,obj,ectieve werke- Zijn sterke schouders  lciien konden,,dragec,  en .er niet
 lijkheid v&t, in bet licht ;van het Scbriftverhaal, niet onder  konden  bezlwijken?                         Of  waren Zijn angst  ,en
 t e   t w i j f e l e n .   '                                             vrees,  Zijn pijn Ien smakt, Zijn bi'cterlijk bedrpesd  zijn
    Wlelrkelijk   was de verzoeking in  `den  zilq  idat ae,               tot  aen  ,dooid  foe,  Zijn  mverbazing  in:hiet   v&latien zijn
,gelijk alle verzoeking, ,eene- po'ging was, torn `den Kne!ch.t -van God, minder  .werkelijk,  omdlat het niet mogelijk
 des Heeren te verleiden,  den weg ,der gehoo;rz?arnheid                   was, dat Hij took maar een loogeqbl+k  er aan ken den-
 te verlaten, en eigen weg lde voo.rheur  te geven. Vo'o? ken  40111 den  sdrinkbeker te  ,weigeren  te  drinloen?  Of
 den IEeiland  was ide weg odes Vad,ers een lijdensweg.                    was Zijn bewuste keuze .van ,den weg des lij&$s minder
Hij moest igehoorzaam  zijn t,ot in *denr dood, ja, tot $den               vrijwillig, lomdat $Iij ei- nimmer aan lion `denken, ook
 ldood (des .kruises. En die drie verzoekingen  zijn hier- als Hij tot bet -&erste wer;d gedreven, ,orn eene anldere
.j<oor ,gekenmerkt,  ,dat de ,dui.vle+ `den Knecht des Heeren k e u z e   t e   .doen?
 eenen anderen  wleg  voorstelt,   teenen.   -weg van  ieigen-                 0, veeleer is het tegendeel lwaar !.
 willi:ge mschtsop&tba&g in plaats V~UI dien van lijlden,                    Niemand kon als  Hij, de  zond&oze Zoon Gods  inn
 van zelfbeho8ud  in plaats van zilfverluochening,  vati ,de het  vleesch,  de  bittegheid  des  .dood,s  `maken !
 eere  van menschen'in plaats VI&n Ide eewe  Gods, den weg                     Niemamcl ken als Hij' zoo !bitterl,ijk bedroefd woqyden,
 van *den valschen pmo&et,  van den ,afvhlligen  -pri;ester,               dat Zijn zweet wer;d  als lgroote drtippden  lbloejds!
 vau den koning  dexer  werelid'. . . .                             ~ .        Niemand' ken als Hij  `de-  vreeselijk  benauwende
   I Den %elg *van den .Antichrist !              -           -.           werkelijkheid tva~ den toorn Gods tegen de zoude er-
  . `t Ging iom Christus' kneehtschap,  om Zijn ambt !                     varen in heel Zij!n b&aan  !
        De  vraag  all,er  ,eeuwen-  werd   Uzier  aan  d'e  ,orde  ge-        Wie kon beangst w&den als Hij?
 steld, Iwie fkoning zou zijn, de Knecht des Heeren of tde                     Verzocht, ja; werkelijk  yerzooht.
 slfaaf des duivels  !                                   I                     Doch zonder zonde !,
  -. De  Christus of de Antichrist!                     `.                                            .'


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         Trouw aan het Wb,ord !                                     mensch   zal  ,bij brood  alleen  n&et leven,  maar' bij  alle
         Ook  als  alles in Hem  schreeuwt   `orn  broo,d,   klemt wooed, dat door den mond Gods uitgaat! .                -
 Hij Zich ve&rouwend  vast aan Gods Woo~rd.                             Uw gunst is meer dart 8 uitgezochtste  spijzen !
         ONok ~1s Hij schiler sterft van `hanger, is Hem Gods           Ik czal Uwlen lof verkondigen, ,ook al,s Ik meet  ster-
 ,gunst  meer ,dan `de uitgkaochtste  splijzen,  Zijne gosder-      ven' vam honger !
 tierenheid beter dan bet leventi                                       Uw Woolrd is mij een;lamp Poor Mijnen voet, Mijn
         Ook als -er nergen:s.hulp  of uitkomst schijnt te zijn,    pad ten licht !
 is Zijn laatste antwoord aan den verzoeker : De melnsch                Hoe lief heb Ik Uwe yvet !
 zal bij brood alleen.niet leven, maar bij alBe woord,  `dat            10, Mijn God!
 ,door  den mond Gods uitgaat!
         COf was Hij, `op bet moment ,dier eerste verzoeking,        , Trouw aan Gods Huis !
 niet tot bet uiterste gel&even,  ien ld,at we1 door Zijrnlen           ,Ook als Hij daar staat or-, rdle tinne des tempels,  vier
 God Zelf? Want het was ,immers de Geest Gods, Die honlderd len vijftig voet boven de Kedron  vallei.
 Hem in ,/de bange Ien vreeselijke swoestijn had geleid,  in            Beneden Hem staan de grootsche  tempelgeboluwen.
 een land .doren  mat, waar geen water was, en waar ;Hij Die tempel is imrners bet Huis ,Gods, "net Huis Zijns
 verkaerde  bij de  Wilde  beesten?   Alch ja, Hij verstond Vaders, Zijn ,eigen Huis ? `En zou Hij, >ooB ir7iaar het
 het, bier was de wereld lo:nder den $ast van den vloek Woord Go,ds, @et haastiglijk tot Zijnen tempel akomen?
.Gods. Hij  Ibegreep   bet, hiertoe was Hij in de  ,wereld              Daar beneden is ook.de  schare vergaderd, Zijn Folk,
 gekomem,  om niet in een paradijs,  maar in eene woes-' bet volk, waarnaar Zijn hart uitgaat. Het brengtdaar
 tijn ,den wil #d.es .Vaders  te doen,  .d,en vloek te dragen.      zijn gaven en offeranden in, Gods /HiLlis, het aanbsidt al-
 En nu drukte de vl'oek zwaar op Hem, `de v180ek Gods, daar den -God Israels. EI~I als Hij daar staat, tbolven op
 daar in ,de wqstijn, .en -Hij `,droeg hem reeds in den (de tinne des tempels, ziet Hij als in `t verschiet, dat
 steeds meer per&enden  honger. . . . .                             volk zich tegen Bern keerem i hoo,rt Hij als uit ,de verte,
         Hij werid van `Gold cgeplaagd,  verdrukt.. .  ; .          dat volk Hem wervloeken  ; `draagt Hij reeds hun smaad-
         En als Hij veertig'ldagen  :en veertig nachten- gevast heid, weet Hij .Zich reeds,door hen veracht, bespogen,                  --
 had. . . . toen kwam `de verzoeker tot Hem !                       gegeesel$  gekruisigd.  . . .
         Tom .was het de- tijd, Gods tijd, ja, maar fook  des
                                  .~                                    Toen. . . .
 cluivels tijd.                                                         Werpt Uzelven nederwaarts:  mask een  glorieus
         Eerder. ,dan lop dit uiterste moment mocht lhet -pleit spektakel ; :geef dit volk ,een teeken,  en ze zullen U leeren
tliet .beslecht  wor.den;  toen kon bet ook geen uitstel  meer als eden Messias. . . .                  '
 lij,denL: de Knecht .des Heeren' zou bet van bonger he-                Gij zult den Heere Uwen `God niet verzoeken ! Niet
st,erven !                                                          God in Mijn,  maar  Ik in Gods  weg  warndelen  is  bet
         Veertig is  immers  tien  maal  vier. En  vier  its het program!              '
 getal van lde wereld, van het schepsel;  tien is [de voile            Zoo wordt Gods Huis igeboawdl
mate naar  ,den  wille  :Go'ds.  Naar  den wil des Vaders               De getrouwe priester !
had de Knecht 4~1s gevast in de wolestijn  ;tot aan?l- bet                                         I
 u.iterste  van de  ,draagkracht ZIijner menschelijke na-
tuur toe. Hij hongerde  nu! `Ach, neen, versta :dit tech                Go,dts koningsknecht  !         I  .-
 niet zoo, alsof Hij nu voor- het eerst eaar brood begon                Ook ,dsar boven lop den <berg!
te verlangen. Maar alles, wat in Hem was, schreeuw-                     O,ok als daar sop ldien berg, ,wij weten niet hoe, ;Hem
de am ,om brood. Tot bet uiterste had Zijn God Hem al de koninkrijken der wereld  en  .hunne  heerlijkheid
gedreven. Naar Ibrood verlangde  Hij met heel bet be- worden   getoand.
ge!eren  van` Zijln  lichaam en  zJe1. . . .                           ,Getoond  ;en  .aangeboden!
         Toen! . . . .                                                  Want hoort (den `over&e dezer  ,we&eld,:- Dit is mijn
         Toen in deli honger ,de w,oestijn-vloek Gods zwaar gebied, cdeze wereld. Ik iben uverste van de koningen
op  Hem drukte. . . .                                               der aarde. De machten lder we&d zijn mijne knechten.
         T,oen Hij reeds  bet  bed der verbazing  begon  te Ik zit in -#die hooge plaatsen. I 1.k maak sorlog `en vrede.
zingen :                                                            Ik hen voorzittier  van der wereld vredesconferenties, ik
~  _.       "Mijn God, mijn God,  .waarom   verlaat                 geef w,erkelijke  leiding aan alle ,unions  en geaootschap-
               G i j   M i j ,                                      pen der werelId. Straks formeer ik een mooie wereld,
             En redt Mij  met,  terwijl Ik  zwoeg                   vol nvoorspoed  ,en vred'e,  ,leven en genot? weelde eln lust,
                  eni  strij". . . .                                onder &n hoofd, mijn .knecht : Ik Med U dat ihoofdschap
         Toen. kwam die verzoeker, en sprak : Red Uzelf : als aan. . . .
Gij Gods Zoon zijt, zeg tot ideze steenen,  `dat zij brood             E&a knieval voor mij, en `t is allies. vam U! . ; . .
worden!                                                                Den H,eere God la1leen  ,aanbid Ik! , Ga weg, Satan!
-' En  toen bleef Hij  trouw  aan Gods  Woord: De                      Gods' troswe  Kouiiingsknecht ! -         -      IH. H.  a


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 EDITORIA&   -                                                                                             .-                                                        Unto &his end He laid the iniquity of us all ollzl the
 THE LIBERATED CHURCHES IN THE  NE"rHE,RLANDS..292                                                                                                           Mediator J;esus  Christ, `who,  by his death and theshed-
 EXPOSITION  0F THE HEIDEDBERG  CATECHISM . . . . . . . ...294 Iding- of His iblood, confirmed the new and eternal testa-
                                                                                                                                                             ment, that covenant `of grace ,and reoonciliation.
             Rev. H Hoeksema -*  .-- .  _                                                                                                                           SThroucgh the Boly Spirit the Lord applies this sal-
                                                                                                                                                             vation, (obtained ,by Christ, to His own ; and in this
 HANNAH'S SONG OF THANKSGIVING . ..I... . . . . . . . . . . .: . . . . . . . . . . . . 298                                                                   graoe,   .once bestowed  upani them, He  merdfully con-
 THE PEACE OF VE,NIlCE .*..*.: . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301                 firms them and preserves them to the end.
             Rev. G. M. Ophoff                                                                                                                                       "2. In this covenant the Lord comes to us with the
                                                                                                                                                             .promise of sailvation,  and, ion its ,ground, with the (de-
 DE VERBONDS PSALM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..-................................ . . . . . . . 303. mand unto faith and -repentance..  These two; promise
             Rev. 61. Vos                                                                                                                                    `and -demand, are` so related to ,each .,other,  that man's
                                                                                                                                                             responsibility is fully maintained, while yet the Lord
                                                                                                                                                             ini His covenant is not `dependent on the a&ion `of man.
 TO THE UTMOST OF OUR POWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .:..305 For in the promise He (declares, not <only that whosoever
             Rev. J. A. Heys                                                                                                                                 beli'eveth   ,on the  So,n hath  eternal  life, but  1H.e also
                                                                                                                                                             promises the Hbly Spirit Who ,works faith in us, where-
  FROM HOLY WRIT . . . . . . . . . . ...' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  i . . . . . . . . 308 ,by He makes ,us partakers ,of Christ and dl.iHis benefits.
             Rev.  G.  Lhbhers                                                                                                                               Acoo8rdingly, He (works in the elect that which He de-
                                                                                                                                                             mands Iof alil, fulfilling tinto them all the promises of
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  PERISCO,PE . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . ;: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 the covenant, counting, not `the children  ,of the flesh'
                                                                                                                                                             !but `$he ,chilfdren !of the promise' for the seed.
             Rev. `M. Grittens                                    1                                                                                          l       "3. Accordimg-to  the Word of-God, the children of
                               -  -                                                                                                                               believers "are as Iwell as the adults comprehen!d,ed' in
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  the oovanant ,of God .in His Church, ;and they are sane-. the promise  iof the ,coveaant  *to a.coniditional-,offer  ("toe-
  tified in Christ,, so that they partake of the promise zggging")  ."
  and are placed under -the demand  `of -bhe covenant. `At
  &he same time, Scripture teaches us that not all are                           "               . .
  Israel that are of Israel.  Nievertheless, the Church,
  wh?le it is not given $ier to jtidage the- hiddern thin&, ' - Thus far the d,octrinal !decisio\aa af 1946.
  must Imake- no #distinction :betweeiot  members and mem-                  We have no- time,at  .prdsent,  to discuss these new
  bers; .but, trusting in I& promise  of God, and .in .har-             `decisions.
 ;m,O.ny  ,with the maamer of speaking ,of the S&i&cures,                   What strikes one.is  that ?che Synod, without ihaving
  considei  an!d treat  $h!e  &ilid;ren,   -u~1ess they reveal a mandate from the Churches they .uepresented,,  as far
 themselves as unbelievers, `as such that partake of the                as we k&w, now itiposles  tin entirely new set of dac-
  regenerating ,grade of l&e Hdly Spirit. This does not irinal  ,dec+arations  upon those Churches,  .and takes
 imply-that any ,definite  Ideclaration can ,be made, soa the .aw&y from them former  <doctrinal  Ideclarations that
 Ibasis of the W,ord oif God, iregarding %e time when the were cozjssidered binding upon them.                                  '  *.
 -Holy Spirit cqmmences  His regenerating afyork in the                     First  t,here  .iYas the  ,co~p~omise  of 1905. This
  elect; bhe Loud fulfills His promise accou;ding to, His is now declared void.
 sover.eig&  good pleasure in iHis #own time, ,whreitlier be-               N-&t  -,same   &he  td:ecisicnns of  Utrecht  1942. They
sore,  .during?   o,r after  Baptiism.  Further  woe declare wene. binding  10~:  tall- for about  ithree years. Refusal  -:
 with `our ,com;fession  that godly parents have no Peason to' bend their neck under th%ib synoldical yoke [cost many
$o. (doubt lof the lelecti'on and salvation of their clhil:dxal,        their office, and ,became the;occasion [of a very serious.
 ,wbom it pleases `Gold :to lea11  ont `of this life: in their          split _ in the churches. No? this. binding -. decision. is
 `infancy, since they mare holy, -not lby nature,- but in tilso #declared void.
 vi&ue  ,of the covenant .of grace. Lilcewise,  the parents,                Instead there, is, not ,offened, but `<imposed  on *he
  in the .education  of `Gheirr  Iahildren, are ever to proceed chu&es  .an entirely  new  f&mulation   `of  +he  ma;tter.
  from the pl?dmis$  of the covenant, &d to pleaId on its :Amd  uxow these are made  :binding,  ,ev;en- before the
  ground.  T)hosle  `who>  ila  unbelikf and impenitence,  ,dk- chui&es had an .op-pobrtunity  to study `the new Idlecisions,
 `spise the covenant of God, the  church must ,exclude and /before  the poor ,consciences  of bellieiviers  coul,d speak
 from her- communion.. l3y this she (declares that: such conrcerning %his new formulation.
 have no part in `the kingdom ,of IChrist, and $hat they,                   Far it was ;decicled' "t,~. add to this new f~oPnml&ioti
 as.  covenant-breakens  li,e  uinder  the  judgmetit   lof God that $his !niew [declaration serves to replace&&at `02 1905,
  as- long & they do not repent. Nevertheless, the C&rch                point 4, and that of 1942 ,concern+nlg the covena.nt of
  sl&l- Vc"all upon the ,,Lord  Ion the Ibasis ,of the promise grace, po,ints  2-4, and that, as @&iastical expression
 `N& the covenant; aleo in behalf `of th&e;backsli&rs.                  :of. doctrine it- implicitly h!as binding polwer."
      "4. `The  childrein of  /believers  arte  $0  .be baptized            What is next?.
o&  $he-tbasis   Iof God's  `promfse   ancl  ,oommand,   ,and  $his`        Will the-churches  ,hurnbly accept tihis new form&-
 .bipt@ni signifies and s&ls the washing aviTay of sins tion too? W?ll they not wake up to the fact that this
 through the blood an,d Spirit; lof Christ. Therefore the !group of lesmed t&ol~ogians, that vest themselves with
  Church thatiks ,am;d praises `the- Land f,or "His fatherly the supreme power and authority in.doc+rin&l  matter&,
  goodness and mercy which IH,e has shown to us and our                 does not quite Irmow (what  it is rdoinig?
  child.ren," and IZ&S all to f&h in the pirtomise ,Of the               *Ff -they don't, ,it is noit tihe fault iof the Synod.                      .
 @osplel  ;that comes to, them in holy baptism. Fior with-
  O$ faith the sacrament till not profit them, but aggra-
  vate $heir judgme&, even as also our confession lde-
  dares that the Lmgo:dJy  does indeed receive the sacra-                 -' As to the decisigns of this latest Synod in rega&l
 nient to his condemnation, `but not the truth of the io the [church-political quest,ions  involved in the pre-
  sacrament, which is Christ Jesus, without whom the .sent -controversy an,d schism! in bhe Reformed Churches
 sacraments would .be of no moment.                                     of the Nletherlands, we shall not. weatry  the reader bjr
      "51 The oovenant of the Lord obariigates  ,every  one to, a liter&l translatio,nr ,of theni.
  examine himself earnestly, whether he really `believes                    T          h    i     s          i         s      &,rdly-  necessary.
 in ihe Cthrist of God ,and brings Edtih `fruits of thank-                  For, ffst ,of all, the Lord willing, ie i&em~d to dis-
  ftilnessi for  `t,lie  ~Seriptures  deciare  that  Xomtly he  that cws this phase (of the matter becore  long. It is suf-
 &&ves anld is baptized shtill be saved,                                ficienbly important  to warrant a *separate  ,discti$on:
  : -. `Iul: harmony- wifih- the above, -the Synpd repudiates              land,.  secondly, the  rjrestnt  <or latest  idecisions did
 ,&ry.`view that does not do justice t,o the do&&a  of not  $rincipa'lly change  ;the  church$oliticai  `situation  "
  &%io~`and  I?$ the  refficac?ous  -opera,tilon   08 the  H&y at all. In general, ,it may b1e said: iha$ +he Synod of
 E!@it..iti  $hg dsctrine;of the covenant, ali`d that reduces           1946~~ustified  anld maintained the positim assumed by


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     the Sym~od tof Utrecht  1939-1943,  and of U-&&t 1943-
     1945.           i
        She does thins in f,ourteen  conclusions.                             THE TRIPLE KNOWLEDGE
            In the first it is decl-ared  &St -bhe w,ork lof the two,
     *preceding synods reveals that they wexe  motiviatie:d
     by the d,esire to serve the wellbeing Itif the! Churches.              An Expositioti Of `rhe Heidelberg
            T!he second justifies  &he action  ,of the  Synoid of                                   Ctitechism
     Amsterdam, 1936, in t,aking up the matter of the doc-
     trinal ldiff erences without mandate from` the Churches.                                         Part Two.
.           ?uhe .third defends the cllosed session mebho'ds sf -the               _`-          O f   Man's  R e d e m p t i o n .
     Synod )of Saeek-Utrecht.                '
            The fo&h declares the desimbility lof sendimlg re-                                    LORD'S DAY XIX
     po:tis about serious matters to the Churches, ibefore  the                                        2    .
     convocation ,of the Spods.                                               -
            The fifth expriesses  that there is no- need of's ,new                 `The Sig@ficanlce ,Of Christ's Exaltation (cont.)
                                                                                   :
     interpretation o;f Art. 36. D.K.16.  .                                        He rules; not only within -&e'idomain.of  His Church,
       The eixth conclusion ,denies that the sormer s$nods and by ' gralce ; ibut also in the realm of creation, and
     offered contradictory interpketations `of Ati. 31 D.K.O. ; loveer all the foarces (of' darkness in'this world, Iby His
     and  ,defend.s  the  syniodical  interpreta;tion   ,of  that  art- power.
     ilde : proof that any  Idecisicnn  d  `a  inajor  .body  is                   All po'wer is given unto Him, in heaven and son earth.
     contrary  td the  Wor,d of  Gold  <or in  coti%& with Angels and principalities and powers are .su!bject  unto
     the  Chtirtih  Onder  must  ibe given to the satisfaction Him.
     of -the body that made the decision.                                          hd- this bowey  He embl6ys,  according to the Gate- '
            The seventh dedaraitijon IexpEeisses  the #opinion that chism,  to defend and, preserve us against dl enemies.
     to con&m `oneself  to a doctrinal decision, may simply                   The Church is in +he worlcd. An'd in that Iworld she
     mean that 0418 does cnot feel himself called &penly to has many enemies. For the world is in darknless,  and
     protest against it, `or that <one simplf  acqui,esces  th'cngh `of the .Idarkness. Stie loves the <darkness  rather than
     for himself he is not oonvinced  of tihe truth.lof such a the light., But the Church is of ;the light, w&nesses  of
     idecision,  afta :he h;qs attempited in vain to convince t&e the light, and  wailks in  .the light.  rHenae, the world
     ecclesiastica gathering  concelrned  of  thhe  [error.          This ?nat!es  thg Church. -This is inevitable. If believers' are
     is rather  iImportant.   Arlud  stmnge,'  tQo!                        faithful they  marmot  be friends  `of the world;  The
        `The eighth  ,declares that the  -Churches have  %he frieni&hip [of the world is ,enmity with God; an$ who-
     right %o bear with an erring bl";ohher, pamifded  his error tsoever  will be a friend .of  the worlld is &he enemy of
     `does not colnceia.a fuedamental  principle of the truth,             Gqd,  Jas.  4:4. The wqrld 1,oves its own, but believers
     ,and he makes no propaganda EC& his ,ewor.                            #are  !not of  $he  w&d,  :annld the&ore the world hates
            The n,inth co.nclusion bewails the fact that the im' them.  ,John  15  :19. The more  faithful  the. Church
     mediately preceding synod expressed itself ambiguously [becomes, in her confes@on and walk, the mor.e  Christ
     about 8de$ega-f;ion of aggrieved metibers to Synod.                   beci;mes- manisest in he?, the more, bitterly the world
        Concltisions tien and eleven concern ,the pnolonged                will hate her; and Set :l$erself to idestroy her, and pvipe
     sessi.anins of the two former sjrnords, justifies them under out her very exist&&
     certain conditions, <but ,declares that such thing8 should                    And these  enemies of the Chur&h aTe powerful, ~a.&
     belohg to the great  exceptions.                  *                   they are able to use many tieans to reach bheir purpose.
            The twelfth conclusion {declares  *hat the Tad the Theirs are usually the; wisdom and power, the riches
     former Synod fiound itself Gbliged to exercise discipline &nd  yesourc$s,   the might  an,d  /dominion  of this .world.
     directly, may nlot have the effect'that,  in ;the future;             It is by way of emceptioln! that ;God's people are found
     minor assemblSes lelave such matters to the majoir  `as- in high places, oticupy positions of au&o&y  and honor.
     semblies. H,ere it appears ,as if the synod was afraid belong to the rich and  niighty'%f men. Hence, the
     of a boomerang!                                                       worl,d is in poiwer. It iS in a po@ionu  to employ various
            The thirteenth ,con~clusFon  maintains the suspeniion means- and methods  tb seek the  destructi~on  of the
     and deposition #of .pFofessors S&i%der an'd lGieyc@nus,                Church. Its wise  men. seek  to  ,entangle  b&evens  in
     ,and defends' the action taken against candidate H. their false sdoc+rine,  to',lead t.hem astray from the way
     Schild.er.                                                            of  t&h and righteousness.  Its powerful  rneL offer
            T,he fourteenth  ,conclusiion   ,explains'  the grounds tliem a name and  p&&ion,  honor and riches, the
     upqn which canididate  Schil,der ,waS refused admission treasures and pleasure& of Egypt. $0~ they make, the
     to the ministry of thee Word in the&formed  Churches. place of the  faithful very narrow, take away their
                                                            H. H.           name a.nd the?r job, l+eir place and &heir very bread;


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  and fill them with repr.oach, presecute  them, lest-e them thing that  wi+hhobds.   And' it is the power of Christ
  no stan.ding-ro'om  in the world, kill them a1!, the day Iby  Iwhich  the world is so.  ;rule:d  &at  Anti.chrrist_   1ca.m
  long.                                                      -"      appear `only in his owlI time.
  All through the ages  ,of this dispensation these                     And even in &he days of Antichrist, He will preserve
  attacks of.the.  enemies ihave beal; lauached aga.inst  &!h?e snd defen,d  His `own.  .A11 $hk forces .of the universe He
  Church in the world. And Scripture vlexy Iclearly pre- `shall m&shall to fight for lJ!Iis otwrnb and iwit,h the heat
  dicts that there will be more of ,such assaults in the Iof the Bun, the `destructive .elements  ,oE creation, hail,
  future. We  must:not  iexpect  that the  worl,d  will' as- fire, lacusts, wil,d beasts, eArthquakes, pestilence, and
sume a friendly attitude  ??olwaxd  the,  Chum&,  if the .the like, He shall ,op~o*e  .arid harass the enemy, until
 latter is faithful. On the contrary, +he time is still ooti- He shall consume him by &he sword that proceieds out-
  ing Iwhen there will ibe a' great tribulation, w,hen the o f   [His  m o u t h .                 .:
 very elect woul'd be d!eceived  if the idays were! not, short-         Christ is Lord over all, &u~rl! If;orever !
 ened, ,when the love ,of many &all:wax  co!d, and they                 F.or "he bath put all things under his feet. But
,' that refuse to woaship the beast iwill, nlot ibe able to buy when he saith all things ar,e/put under-him, .it is mani-
 ,or to sell. The .cruel sword ,of .the world-poiwer shall fest that he i.s ,excepted,  ,which did put all things under
 literally.be  turned against bhe Church ,olnce more: al::d him." I ,C.or. 15 :27. It is true, to ;thisit  is added: "AnId
 as never Ibefore,  in those ,days.                                  wlhen all things shall be sutidued  ~mto ,him, then shall
     Thus the Iworld seeks to Idestioy the Church.                   the #Son also be subject un$O him that put all things.
     Sh:e shall riever succeed, neither by her false philo- under hi-m, that ,God may be ,a11 in all," vs.. 28. But
 sophy, nor `by her enticing offers, nor thy her raving bh.is cannot mean that, ii1 &be end, Christ shall be de-
 fury and bioody sword.                                              prived of His present power:.over  all things, so that He
     `The Lond *of the Qhurck;,  Who loved her and gave shall not #bti king  Forever. :On the  ,contrary,  He shall
 IHimself -for  Iher, is  Lord  O;f  the  worl,d  also. He de- ire&n fiorever. Hiis kingdom: is an everlasttig .kingdom.
 fends and preserves her :against all her enemies.                   It shall1 have no enrd. All ihings s'hdl be united in and
     `0, He  prceserves  them all by His  !grace.   F#o$  He         under I%im in the new creatilon, (and that unt6 unend-
 diwells in them by His spirit, and abides with them for- ing ages of ages. Yet, even in that position, He is mow,
ever. He never forsakes them. Hie ever lives to make and shall' forever be, subject to God. The -power and
 i&e&ssiom for them. In the mid&t ,of.all these sulbtl!e             dominion ulnto which -He is Iexalted ci.s vested in His
 ,dangeys  He is able  Tao preserve His Church.  Wo dne human riature. `. In that nature the incarn&ed Son of
 can .pluck the faithful ,out ,of (His hand. He keeps them `God is'subject to the Father, and \He will be subject t$o               .
 !by His grace,                                                      Him also in ihe ai@wa creation.
     But He also dlefends  and p~ese~aes them by His pow-               Pri,est  Hle is forever, aft& the order ;of Melchisedec.
 er. The enemies lca(ntiot  touch them by IHis will and dir&-         G o d ' s   Serva&k.ing!   ;
 ;tion. This preservation i,s not such that the <enemy has
 no.power to make them suffer, and to persecute them
 even to the death. On $he contrary, it is the will of .our
 Land that  ;believers shall suffer with Him, and that
 they Pill the measure of His suffertug. `But khis de-                                            3 .
 fenBive `and preserving power of Christ .does so operate
 that, fi:rst of .all, the! e!,ect  ;shall never Ibe deceived-and                   The C,oming *of The Lo!nd.
 finally' Eall away; iecondly, the enemy .can attack and
 realize his . wicked. IdeviCes' *of ;dest.ruction  against the         "F'rom  thence he shall Icome  to. judge the quick atid
 Church. only url?lder  the .direction iof Christ, and $0 the        lhe  .d&d."
 extkni  that He permits  him; and, thirdly, affairs of                 In the Apostolilc  Confession, the Church inseparably
men and history Fr.c'& &Fe&tad-that  thk, wor1.d  remains connected `the final judogmegt  with the second, coming '
 ta house )divided ag&st itself, and cannot unite all its -Iof our Ford  from Beaven, ,abd speaks in olie breath iof
 forces against ;the &unch until the very end of time. t h e m .
 In wars and  conbentions,  in  economic  strife  ,amd  fdis-           The IH,eidelbeyg ,Catechism  treats this article! of the
 se&ion-in  strikes, .!boycotts,  and revolutions; the world confesiioilll  in question aavd `answer fifty two : "mat
 is  fightitig  it'self,   ,an#d  canmlot  di`rect all her  attemtioa comf;ort is it to thlee that Christ shall come again to
 to `the Ohu& tif Christ .in the world. But Scgiptune                judge i&e quick an,d the dea+? !I%& inz all my sorrows
 instructs us that, tow,ard the v&y end, the tioir:ld ,will, and persecutions <with u.plifted  head I -look for the very
 for a little &iil&, unite under one head. The man of &me person, whd hefore ,offe%d ,himself  for mk `sake,
 s;n im& come,  anld un.d& lhim t,he f&es of `darkness to the tri!btinal  .of God, and Thai removed  all' curse from
 wiil  unite'dly  ,&tack the tree  beiievers'.  H&vemer,  he me,' to come as judge from Be&en : wlho `shall casts all
 rniy not come `befo!&his  time. lA.lyays there is son&. his'and my ,e&mmies into everlasting cc&demnati&,  but


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 shall translate-me with all his chosen on& &to himself,               lievar tihat is supposed to be able to answer the qlles- -
 inbo heavenly joy! 2nd glory."                                        tion : ?Vhat comfort is it to thee that ,C,hrist  shill come .
         H'pweyer,  ,e+en though alsg  the' .Cate&iem #devotes         `again to judge the quick and the dead?"' is that ,of a
 only .one question a-nd $nswer  to these subjects, we &al,1 conscious faith, and iof hhe antithesis in r&tiouz:  to the
 Ihave .60 ,speak ,02 them separately.                                 world. It s,pieaks  :of "at1 my sorr&vs  and persecutions,"
         But let us f31rst pay attefition  to the spiritual note of looiking "with ,uplifted  head for the very same .per-
 `chat ,is struck there ;by the catechism, and to &he spiritu&         som, who  before  ~o~ffer&d  &&elf,  for my sake, to  the
 ,disposiiilon  #and attitude bhat is assumed iwith ,relation tribunal .d #God, and has removed la11 curse from me";
 td thhe ,ooming ,again of the Lord, and the final judlg- it makes  me&i:on   (of  .".his  `,and my enemies" in one
 mewt. We shoulld not loverllook ;thesEb Iwihen we preach ,l&eatih,  and it rejoices in the hope that  .in that day
 :on these ido&rlnles, especially sot in the `days .in -which these eniemies `of Cl&t .and His Chum& shall be cast
 we live. They, thi.s spiritual note and ,attitudle  assumed,          i&o everlasting ,cond&nation, and in the hope (of the
 a!re iall important. The  ,Catechism   does  not  inqtiire            justification and glorifi&t.ion  of bhe saints with Christ :
 into the (doctrinal implications of the future advent anld "he *shall translate me with all his chosen tones unto
 jtidgment, but asks: "What cornsort  is it to three that himself,:into heavan!ly joys and glory."
 Chtist  &all come again to judge the quick and, the                        But wheTe is this f&h manifest today?
 dead ?" The Gakecihism,  `cher.efore,  proceeds from the                   Where  are all  :ouir  "sorls.ows  and persecutions"?
 assumpition  that,  +o the believer, to the  Chri8stiai in tA.re we not rather gooid Mends with thk Iworld? Are
this  w.orld, his faith that the (Lord  will-come again to we not seeking ;the things t,hat are Ibelow rather than
 judge is  +  con&rt to him.                                           those `Chat are above? `Is it not -a fact that we amalga-
      In our own  [day, we might, perhaps, go a step mate and fraternize .with the ungadly, -atid that we are
 farther #back tham the Hei,del~ber&r,  anid ask the ques- not even willing to'!giv&  up tour `job f&r Clhrist's sake?
 ,t+on : "Is it a Icorn%& $0 %hee +hat' Christ shall pome And.lbeing so ,earbhly-  :and worldly-mhided,  hoMi could
 again tb judge the. qui& and the dead?" We are not we p.o&ibly, (except a8.a matter.02 dead tradition, speak
 living in a time when, ais a ~whole~  the Church iS living of Ctiist's enemies as jpurs, *and long dor the day when
 in !a propar lattitulde  ,with respelct  to the ,ooming agAin He shall come to iexecute jucigment and vengeance upon
 of her Lord. In that sense, the `&icle of the Aposto-. those enemies,  iwhom we here j,otied, whose f&endship
 Z~iczdni   concern.ing  this coming of the  Lo&, is more or           `we sought, and with whom we `enj,oyed  the things of
 iess `obsolete. As the ,expr$siow ?f the living c?m6oti t                   h    e     '         w,orld?
 of  f&h,  ,comparatiVely  few take it upon their lips.                     Let us remember thati the dllatechism proceeds  ZForn
 It is true, there asle rna,nry  today that prof@s to look and &he pre&ppositilon  ,6f the antithesis : the b&ever stanids
 long 3Dr a certain `<appearance  or manifesstatiqn  :of the Ear thecause of the Son (of God in confession and walk
 Lord, at mwhioh the faithful shall Ibe taken lout .09 this in the tiidst #of a world that lieth in Idarkness  ; lh&e,
 world, in ,order,  for a time, the time of tha'great hribu- the  knemies  ,of  ,Christ are his  enemies,-  and he must
 lation, to b& with the Lord in the ,air. Rowever, the suffer persecutions-for his Lord's sake.
 Apost.ol+c  .C,onfession does nok %ef& to such a `Yapture.`!               And it is ,ou$y in as fiar as Iwe assuine that position,
 It speaks of the `coining s&f oyr mighty Load to judge keep iour garments clean, put 801111  no uneiqual yoke w.ith
 the  qui.ck  Band  t,hte  idead !  It  rrefers to the  p!airousia;    the infidel, and are willing to stiffer for Christ% sake,
 it xhai in mind the end of this ,wolrld ; it sp.eaks lob the          that the `coming again of our Lord  !?an really  be a
`. final revelatiow  Iof the ri@hteous  judgment 6f God. Ahd ICOmifOrt  t o   us.
 the Ca.tecl&m  presentts  these truths, as do the Scrip-                   The [hope `of Christ's ,ooming and a sanct.ified walk
 tures  alway&, not as col,d  matters of fact, (but  ,as the in the world are insepqrably  conn8ecteidg.
 objects of the believer's jloy and comfort, longing and                    And  Iby the  same +&en, love 809  i&he [world  amd .the
 hope. And the ;que$tion may rbe ,raised : are' we ready comfort  ,c-f Christ's coming are mutually  excltisive.
 to  foll,ow the Catechism in this metihod  of .approach?              if we walk as the enemies  of the cross Iof Christ, "whose
 .It is not  ;true  .that  %o:r many  a Christian  today, the end is destructi&, iw!hose .Gbd is their belly, and Prhose
 SadTent iand bhe ju@$nent are matters that are either glory is in their shame', who mind ea&hly t$hings," we
 thoulght :of very litt&,  %or, wheti they <are thought  about,        `cannot ,Qe inherested  in tihe parousia, we ,hate to think
1 +hey are objects of fear ra;ther than 6rf hope an&lomg- ,of the coming again (of our Lord, and of the final Irevela-
 i"n.g ?                                                               tion of the righteous j&pent of God.
 W.hat  i s   wromlg ?                              -                       But if we are followers together  (of the apostles
      If you will alook  ,dosely at &he answer the.H;eidle!ltberg      of the Lord Jesus, amId ikeep our ey~ie! on them that wglk
 Catechism gives to `&is, qwestiim~  and compare it with &f&r their example, ,OLIY conversation is in yheavanl, and
 tihe life of the ,Clhurch in the  world SoIf  &P ,own day,            then Iwe look fr'om thence for the Savilour,  "whc~ shall
 it shoulld not be difficult to (discover what is wrong.               chainge ,our vile bordy; that it may be fashitoned like unto
      ;The  spi&Dal  ,disposi'cion   and *attitude of the be- his  ,glorious`boidy,   accardi.ng  to the  .working whereby

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       he  .is able even to  sulbdue all.  t,hings unto  himielf." spoke elab80rately  when He was still with us in the like-
       Phil. 3 :17-21. _                                                           ness of  sintful flesh.  `He  :forewarn!ed us  -that many
       -     This spiritual note of (ocr, H&delber&&  .in it&fifty things must still be acconiplished  before the enld can
       secon,d `quest&n ,ana ,an!swlef must not fail to draw&r oome. For "ye shall hear :of wars and rumors od wars,"
       attienition,  and' to receive :dae emphasis.                  -             and all +hese things must `come to pass, yet, the end
                                                                                   lies beyond them all. "F& nati,on shall rise against
                                            -         -                            matiron,  and king&m again& kiligdom: and there shall
                                                                                   be samines,  and pestilences, ,and sarthquakes, in divers
             Ap$roaching now the subj'ect  of&e second .&ming                      places. ,A11 these th&gs ace the beginning of sorrows."
       `of our Lord, we &ay..note  that -Script&e  everywhere                      watt. 24 :6-K `Then, too,`h'e warned us to expect great
       fixes the eyes of  <our  nope  .u.po~n   Dhat coming  eve@, tribulati80n  and  distsess   Ibefore the  re$mp$ion of the
       that final wonder. of grace.                                                end till-come. "For then. shall be great bribulation,
             It is true that the Word Id-f God also co~fotis be-                   su'ch as was not- sixice the beginntig of the world to
       lievers in this world with &he ihope of. gkory that shall this  timie, no,  nor ever shall be.  Anld except those
     be-their  p.ortion  .immediately   aftter' death, before  $he `days should  #be  shortened; there `should no flesh be
       resurrection.                  It is also  titie that  Scrptuvle speaks saved:  `but 5or the elects': sakes those ,days shall be
       of the cotming  #of Christ irn; .tic~% tih& ,one sense of `ahe s~h&tez+~d." Matt. 24:21, 22. And "immediately after
       word. He pro&s& :His ,disciples that .H& .wouBd no&
                                                             `.                    the tri:bulation  ,of those days shall the sun be darkened,
       leave them orphans in; the wtorld, that He would come and the moon ~shall not give her light, and the stars
       to them after  rHis. death  apd  resurr&tion. For He shall fall from heaven, and the pow&s `of ;the heavens
       wouBd pray the Father, and  I$ would give thlem an- shall  ble shaken. And then shall appear the sign ~8
       other Comforter, @hat he might abide with `ohem for- the Son ~ofrnalu  in heaven; :and then shall all %he tiijbes
       ever, ,even $he Spirit `of tru'ch, (whom  the world +mot of l&e earth -mourn, and ttiey shall, see the Son 09 man
       receive, rbecaese  it seeth,him  alot, neither knoweth.him; co&.&g in the yclouds 109 heaven with power and. great
       !but they k&w  &im, for be dwelleth with them, and glory." Matt. 24:29; 30.                               '
       shall  .be in them. John 14  :16-l% This promise  #was-                                                                       H: H.
       fulfilled on' the day Iof Fentecost.                   In the Spirit the
     glorified  Chri&  return!ed to His  ,own' to (dwell-with
       and  -iinj them. It may even be  saird that.  S'cri&ure
       speaks  of a ooming  15f the Lord thlflqughbut  the ages.
       To the high priest's question, -whether he were `the                                       ATTENTIOY  ! PLEASE !
       Christ, the Son of God, he replied: "Thou has! saild:                         Wheneas  Dhe material .tontained  in the wellknown
       neverthell& I say unto you, Hereafter ,Hhall,  ye see the broch.uTe  of the Riev. H. :Hoeksema, "De Geloovigen &a
       Son of man sitting .on ;the right hand .oi cower, ,and corn-. Hun-Za@l"; is pertinent tb the. present conhroversy in
       ing in the  clouds   ,of heaven." Matt.  36  :64. And the -the Netherlands, the Miss'ion Csommittee  ,of our Pro-
       phrase that is translated `%ereafter" is better rtidered test&t. Rlegormed Churches has [decided t,o reprint this
       by.  "5Tqrn  nolw  o&",  ,or "henceforth". Christ is com- excellent and instructive .work for *he .purpose  `of free
       i      n     g      !                                                       distribution among the Reflormed  people of the Nether-
              At the right hand0 :of God, He is io% idle, but con- lands. It @`the desire ,,of, your committee that these
       stantly active, with His gr.eat  power.                     And all His pampblets shall re`ach not :only the ministers and con-
       activity is directed towa?d l&e final goal ,of IHis par- s&tory members but also ' an,d ,especially  the laymen.
       ousia. Im! that sense itt may be z&d &hat He is constanrt;                  Since  khere is much  *contact   Ohe,se  `days  betwem our
      ly coming. He` is coming in-and through the p~~~e;aching                     peqple   iti  genepal and friends and relatives in the
        of. the gospel, `by .w,hi,ch He Igathers  /His Church until Netherlan,ds, and our peopl'e as a whole are in posses-
       the last one of- the. elect ghall have been called. He is sion of numerous ad#dreseeB,  we deemed it advisable to
       coming also  @rough all the  ,events  .o2  tihis  worl#d, in                enlist  thee aid  ,of  all our: people  I'll'. this worthwhile
     wars and  run&rs  `of  w&r; in unrest  mid aevolutions, undertaking. . The brpchures  Fre now ready gor idis-
       in  earthqu&&  and faminles, in tall the  -tm%mlt `of the - tributionr.                  In the very near future- we shall send a
       natilons.         F,o~ these events are so  Idirecte:d  by His numbs ,of copies to all tour ch&ches. Will %our minis-
       power that they lead up Do the "day loif Dhe Lotid."                        ters atid c&&tories  call them to the attention of their
            ,Y&, in  la@  Ianalysis,  .Scrripture  always  ,dinects  the ,.respective  congregations as soon as' tihey arrive? l&n!d
        eye `of lou_r-:hopie to the ~finil con$tig of C&rist,  &he last will the b,rethzen and sisters {of `our churches a%d us by
       wonder  ,qf grage, wh&eby  the histbry of this worlla miill                 obtaicning as many copies as `they  can use, free of
       ,be cl,osed, arzld `the "age `of .ages," the ,kingdom  of heaven l&arge, and sending them to their  nellatives and  ac-
        in all its glorF,and  perferction  will-be ush,ered  iu.              -    quaitiaeces in the Netherlands? Send  iextia.  co.pies,
              Of-this  lootiing,  His  piarousia,  the  Lord  Himself as many as' you feel will accompllish their purpose, so
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 ?h&t your friends an,d relatives across the sea can pass also have I lent ,him. . .j .":can he received as a correct
  them on to  their  friends  aed  con&tory  members. trranslation  Iof  ;the  Heb,rew tkxt at this  plaoe. Man
  Plea,se ! In +his way the committee will be spafled  mu& carrot lend to his Maker. _So,me trsnslate, "Therefore
  unnecessary. work, all our people .will b,e engaged'in the I- hav_e given him to the Lord." But ahhe_ H:ebrew v,erb
  work  `of  sprea&ng  the truth,  afid  sonie  meas"ure  of is shn-al, to ask, in the l3iphil. Dotibtless  thgei text must
  light may bia shed on the present conizoversy and con- be rendered, "Therefork also I have asked him $or the
  fusion1   in.' the Netherlands.  Caoneistories,   :%in_ldly  co- Lord ; aed he was asked -for tlze Lord as lolng as .he
  ,operate !                                                       livebh."  "And he (ior slie) worship.ped  &e! ,Lord there.
                                 The Mission  C~ommittjee.         And Hannah `prayed and said,

                                                                        My heart rejoiceth' in Jehovah,
                                                    --                  My horn is exalted ,in Jehovah ;
                                                                        My mouth is `opened wiide over mine ,enemies,
                E DAY OF SliADOWS                                       Biecause  I rejeoice in thy salvation.
                                                                        There is none holy, as Jebavsh,. :.
      Hannahis smg Of Thanksgiving                                      Fo~~lhere  is none  Ibeside  i&e&` .
                                                                        -And. there ,is no rock lil+ .ou'r God.

        In the way ,of her prayer, IGol3 woulid save Hannah,          .  .Talk  mo more so  iexceedingly   poutdly;
  accor,ding bb His wo.:OTd>by giving he!r a man-child. This
  was her colnifidence,  which was n!ot put to s'hame. $%e            I Let not agr:ogancy  come lout of thy mouth ;
                                                                            For the Lord is a  Go#d of  knolwJ:edge,
  bare a son and "called his nafie Samuel, saying, Be-                  And by Him actiofis are weighed.
  cause I have asked him `of the !L,ord."' Yet the :name                                                       a
  Samuel. is a ic.ompound  of the Hebrew Iword shamtxh,                     The bows of the ,mitghty men are broken,
  t,o hear,. and the noun el, ,God, so that khe! though> con-           And they that  stutibbed   Aare  girdted  with
  veyed his that she named him "heard Iof God" because                           strength.        :
  she asked him of the  .Lo?d.         It indicates that she                They that tiere  full: have hired hhemselves aout
  wanted  ,her child to stand  out  .in the mind  #of her                       .f opl ibread,
  p,eopbe as a living monument to  .God's   beaning  anrd.              And they th&t were hungry ceased (to hun!ger) ;
  answering her prayer  for. a  man:child:  She waited                      S.o that the ballr;en Bath bo&le seven,
  with going up $0 *offer  unto the Lord the ye&y sticri-               And  she. that  ha;th many  children   bath waxed
  fice until the child ,was weaned ,and could be sbnought              e        f e e b l e .
  60 t"ne sanctuary to abide there forever, tdouzbtless be-
  cause she deemed it impro.per  to ago np to the sanctuary
  as long :as she could not appear b&or;e the faice of Gold1                Jehovah killeth and maketh alive,
  with her child and thus perf,orm ;hler vo,w. Elkanah,                     Bringeth  Idown to Sheol. and bringeth  up.
  her husband,`was  willing that she have her way- il?~ th&                 Jehovah mak6th  pbor and maketh rich,
  matter. IDo -what seemeth  thee good;" said he to her.                    Bningeth, low and  `lifteth up.
  "Tarry until thou have  weafrred him ; only the Lord
  esta!blish  His word." The word `of tb,e Lord to which                    He raiseth up the soor out of the dust,
  this reply has reference is *he promise :of God implicit                  And lif&th up the izeedy ,out of th'e ,durighill,
  in IHis hearing and answering Hannah's prayer folr ,a                     To det alllong pririces,
  inan-child-&le pr,om.ise  that aclco'rding  to her vow He                 And he makes them; to inherit a throlne  of glory :
  would take the &il,d t,o Himself. an:d tihoBy Ided%i,cate                 Par the pillars of `the 1 earth are Jehovah's,
  him to IHis seTvice at .the sanctuary. When the' child                    And he hath set l+e world ilpon them.
  was weaned she brought *hi,rn to 4&e sa.netuary antd gave
  him to the Lord with  &he required  ..sacrifices.        She              He will keep the  fie:et of  ,his favored zones,
  br;ought thie child to Eli. But she .must idlentify herself,              dludi the wicked shall perish in <darkness  ;
   which she ,did in these lwolrds,. "Oh `my `L&d, as &hy                   POr not $y strength shall a man &$vail.
                                                                                 :
  son1 liveth,  my L&d, `I am the! w,oman that stoo,d by                                               i  *
  the'e  lherej   praying unto the Lord. For  th4s  ,ohild I                `I'he adversaries of J,ehoyah shall be `broken
  prayed; an'd the Lord hath given m6 my petitlofi &ich                          in pieces ;           I
   I asked ,of him; therefore al.so I' haye 1,ent ,hPrn to the              And out :O;f ,heaven  iwrip be thunder upon &em.
   L,ord ; and as long as he liveth he shall be lent td the                 Jehivah  rw;i!l judge the ends ,of the earth,
   Lord," It is *doubtful  whether bhh `clause, `*Thererefior,e             And  he  *ill  .give  strength   unto his ,king.


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     The above comes ldose to being a literal translati!on voice #of the Lord thy ,Gqd. Blessed shalt thou be icnr the
  from the  Hieibrew  of Hannah's song of  thanksgiving.            city, and blessed shalt thou ,be in the fiiel,d. Blessed
  T#he pray& or song with which ,we here Ideal is truly shall  ble  &he fruit  .of thy  .!body,  and the fruit of thy
  remarkable.      Mark you, it expresses  great  j:oy in ground, and the fruit oif thy `cattle. . . . And thqe ~Lor'd
  Jehovah and His  salvatiion. It  ,extols  His virtues. It sihall-make thee plenteous iof goods, in the fruit ,of thy
  directs words of r,ebuke  to the proud and the arrogant. -:boldy,. and in the fruit of thy cattle &td in the fruit
  It predi;cts the ,destruction  ,of the mighty, and speaks `of thy  grouaid.-  .  -.  ." (Deut. 28 :l-3, 11). In  ;the Old
  iof the ~st~~@h~!illing  of tbh,i weak, the d'epletion of the Dispensation,  being as it  r was  the  dispensaiion  of
  full, the satisfying of the hungry, the huitfulness of shadolws,   the. Lord would bestow upon the natiton aal
  the :barr#en,  and the enfeebling of the fruitful, anid ithen thiese  gifts, in the `way of' its keeping His covenant.
sets forth Jehovah as the  ,one who  .works all' these When the covenant was oroken,  these gifts wer,e tith-
  things, go.es !on to, Id!esc?ilbe  the Lord's gracious dealing ,hel'd and 6he nation was @sited with social and eco-
  with the poor and. the needyehis  favored ones, w,ho Ifiomic  ,disasDEys,  which,  ,according to the law, had to
  put their %rust lin Go'd-agairn  predicts +h,e ,de&ru&ion         inclu;de  also the  unfr.uitfulness  ,of the body. But the
  :of Jehovah's adversaries' snd ,ends with extoling bhe cuirsin!gs and blessings of tl-& law in ;th.eir  working were
  universality of Jehovah's  reign in and  thro.ugh  ILlis made tro pursue only the nation `on a ,w.hole and not l'ane
  kinlg.  Theil-;e  is this question.  Holw  Gould  H,annah's members  elf the  thieolzracy   !bOy  themselves.        Also in
  ,giving (birth to a Bon `be the cause of such rej,oici&g  on Israel, the wicked oftem  pvaspered,  while the Ibeliever
  her  par% and `giive rise in her soul. to a song of such might be ,plagued all the (day long and chasten& every
  themes as <her own personal salv&tion and $he salrvzttilon mofining. Such was the lot: of Hannah. Though truly
  anid exaltation Iof ,God's  people in general? Tco under- Gpd-fearing,  she w&s bapreri and `on this account #reviled
  stand  h:er  `:paculiar joy,  ii must always be  ,borne in all the day long by her adversary,. the malildotis  Penin-
  mind that it was the Id;ispensation  ,of shadows. Ai has nah  ,who, though wicked,  `i;vas  firuitful.  It was also
  already b,een explained;in the O%d Dispetisati'on, Canaan #of this woman that Asaph &as speaknig iwhen be saisd,
 was he&en for the `Ol~d Testament Church, foil--*here              "For  there are no  ba!nds  in their  ,dea;th:  but their
 `dwelt the God and Father  of  tour Lord  Jesus Christ strength is firm. They are not in  +ouble as  tither
  with H.is p:eople. Hence,  the `one great desine of..every        men ; neither are they plagued like ,o;thler  men!; There-
 beli,evi.ng Israelitess was to bear  clhild.ren,   ~041s. and fore .pride compasseth  th&rn ab:out as a chain; violence
  d.augh+eys, in o:rder  that in her generations, she: and covereth   them as a  garment. . . .  They are `corrupt,
 her house might ,aontinue  to have `a name and a .piace            and spea& wicliledly ,of ,oppr&sion  ; they speak loftily,"
  in ,God's  frzountry. When illll' Israeli&e died without an Psalm  73:4-g. It was from the  pers&uti,ons  of  ,that
 .&sue, his inhenitance went 6o another, a& hi,s place wicked `woman that the Lo,$d save5 IHannah  `by hear-
woulld know  him no more. That was equivalent to his ing and answeriqg her prayer  for a man-child. And
  being  bani,she!d from God's presence even in  td,eath; she was glad and praised *he Load her Saviour for the
  Jacob's ,de&ir(e  was to `be bnried  in. Canaan. .And such `salvation that he sent ,her. Thus a [right ucrderstand-
  was also the Idesire ,of Joseph. He too$ an oath lo:f the ing  Iof this song  requires  that, we  perceive1 that the
  children :of Isk;ael, saying, God shall surely visit ,you,        strife between Peninnah and Hannah was not a oom-
  and .yle shall icarry up my lboln& &om hence. ,Certain            man quarrel betw.een  two women  vieintg ifor th,e affec-
 it is that a &iBdless mar-riage  caused sadness `of soul, tions of a ,man, .but pather the working of ither enmity
 if those,.so  afflicted;were true c;hilrdsen.,of  God, as was beDweei?l  the serpent brood and the seed .:of the wo'man
  Hanntih; for tl&ugh a God-fearing Iwoman,  she :b.ore in, set  @by God at the dawn  ,of  his%ory.            It was thus a
 iher body wh&`&as  generally regaaded as the mark of manifestation lof the strife 16f ithe ages ,bet\ve:en  dark-
  divine  disfavo&is But what  caus:ed her  Igr_ea;best   !gtief ness andi light with the light always t@e victor. The
 was the tauntg'of that wicked Peninnah ;by whom she' spilrit `of the serpent :bmood  was revealed in Peninnih.
 .was being  ,des&sed  amd  ,held in visible contempt  ,on          The ambition of Ithis broold  stirreid  in her bosom. Her
 account  ,of shei--barrenmess.  And in all likelihood she aim `was to destroy Hannah's faith in God. But the
 was quoting tlie Pew words ob the ILond in degence ,of faith  lof Hannah was  indestr6ctable.  The  tritiph
 her stand that !t$e ,God-f earing Hannah, ibeing childless,        Iwas theref,ore  hers. She overcame sher adversary not
 was the lobjec$.pf  (divine ldisfavor howov`er God-fearing by  opposinlg reviling to  Ireviling,  +hus `not by the
 she might ap.p&r Ito bk. For the Lord, in commanding `weapons  of the  filesh, but  lby  puttinlg her trust in
 :His people, .ha!d`-said by tbe mouth `02 Moses, "And it Jehovah anid by castilig herself uplon Hi& mercy. .Thus
 shall come to  j:`pass,  if thou;  !shalt  hearken  ,diligently    she p&evailed ; and her victo+y was Iher faith.
 unto the voice':d'f bhe Land thy G?d, Do ,observe and to              T.here$ore her heart ,rejoiced'in Johavah; and she
 &o all His co@mandFanrts : tihi& . I commanded ;thee Iwa's IConscious of being filled with courage and power,
 thjs day. . . ; $hat al,1 6hese  `blesiings shall come upon of which the source ,waS Jepovah, to bless His name,
 thee and ove@,ke thee, if thou shalt beajrken.  unto the           declar,e  His gloriles, rebuke `the piride sf.-her enemies,
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and  p%Toclaim   and?  foreOell1.  their  abas$ement.    In the `of the mighty are bmroken,  and they that stumble are
w,ords  `of the song, her born was exalted ilnr Jehovah ; girded with strength. .They that ,w.ere full have hired
her mouth was opened wide over her enemies;becausb                  th@rnselves  .:out for bre?d, and they I$& Iw&e hungry
she  &.joi,ced in the Lord's salvation. She next  s&s were filled ; so that the barr:n haith borne seven ; and
forth the onlyness and absolut.eness of' God, iHis infinite she that bath many tchi@en .hath waxeidl feeble."
tralnscendlence  !over everything earthy,  *human,  .creature-         And *b&c&use  Hannah would have God's people con-
ly, and His perfect  ,devotilon to self. as the  ~ondy and. sider that this cometih  from the eLor$, she continued,
incomparable God. These -ideas %re indicated by her "Jehovah' killeth and ,maketh  alive, B,ringeth down to
aw;ords,  "For there is none  :b.eside thee." And thus it Shea: (the grave) -anId bringeth up. Jehbvah maketh
follows that, ifi tl%e,wobds  ,of her sang, "Therg is none          poor. and maketh rich, i bringeth lo&w and lifteth up." _
holy as Jehovah and there is no rack llike our God." B.bt  ,doulbtless  there is  more in  the&  wopds.  To kill
These words'set falnth the onlyness of Go'd by the names is  al& to bring the  soG1 near  $0  deatih  ,by  ,extremest
ho@ and rock. As the H'oly One, He is the Uui;ohange- suffering-making- alive is saving from dea!dly sorrow
able,  Immovcable;   6n:  IH~S faithfulness `toward His unto safety and j,oy. Thus at Deat. 32:29, "I kill and
people, unshakable and  indestr&tibl,e  in His trust- I make  alive ; I wound atid I heal ;" Psalm 30 :4, "Thou
worthiness. And this rock is "our God". He chose hast brought  up my soul from the grave. (Sheal), thou
His people in Christ ana makes +hem His po,ssession                 hast  made  me dive," Psalm  71:20, "Thou who  hast
by His  ,grace so that He is "our God". .  -                        shown us great and sor{ tronble, wilt quicken us again,
    IHaving exalted Jehovah. in her song, Hanii?h ad-. atid wilt brinlg us' up from the ,depths  ,of the earth." .'
,drejsses w,ords iof censure to the ungatcily. Let &em aot Psalm 86  :13,  "Great `is  thy mercy  ta&vard  me,  Fd
inGrease  .to speak paoudly ; let not arrogancy come out ;thou ihast [delivered my soul from the lowest grave."
of  theiir mouth. The soul of the  wi,ckad   .is haughty There is `then n0 {reference in this .part of the sang
aiad shows itself in haughty talk, directed  itowar;ds t,o the physical resurre&on .of the dead. D'oub;tless  -in
God's believing people. Reference heye is not tom the this verse the prophetess `(IHannah) cojncentrates  solely
heathen  ;that  ,dw,elt on Israel`s  Iholrders, but to  -the on God's dealings with I&s ipeople (the `believers) . The
enemy within the ,gate, to the carnal seeId in the church thought set  Zorth is  ;t;hat..sorrow as  eel1 as joy,  ad+
that, in *he language ,of the psalmist "utter and speak varsity  -as' well  .as prosperity come to  ithe believers
hard things; boast themselves,  break  in pieces  thy ;by God's fatherly hand ;  .and  futihelr that He sub-
people and afflict thy heri;tage!;  slay the Iw$dow and-rthe merges  His  pklple'  in  :deepest  suffering in' order to
stranger, and munaer the f&he&zss," Psahri 94 :2-6. create  $or  rHims.elf the  ppportunity,  so to say, to  save
But let them consider that, in the wands ,of HaJnnah'-s ithem from all their &ubles, that He rriay bte  geared.
song, "The Lord is a Gold `of knowledge and by Him This ~.;thoL&ht. is continued and further. dev!eloped  in.
actions are weighed." He knolmps all the deieds and all the lines that follow. "He raiseth up the poor so,ut of .
&he words of the wilcked.  IHis eye piences  `eiren to the tihe dust, and lifteth up' the needy ,out of the Idunghill,
,&viding assunder of soul and spirit and is a discerner             to  siet  :mong  mnces,  anid  to make  ithem  inherit the
`of bhe t,houghts and intents ,of the ,heart; in his sight th,Tone  of glory;" This language agrees almost word
all things are naked `a,nd lopened, and no man can with- for woKd with Psalm 113 :7, 8, "He raiseth up the poor
idraw  firom His rule. It  .&s plain that Hannah was -out Iof the !dust, and lift&h the needy out ,of the dung-
mindlful- of the fact that  she was  but  IOIW of many shill; th& he. may set him with princes, &en wihh the
harrassed arid  zwiied  `by  the  haters of  ,God,  done of princes of his people." The p,oor..and  the needy are
many -who fight the goad fight, and *h&t, as minidrful $he ,oppressed  believers in Israel, whose expectation.
of this, she merged  heyself in &he m&y, iti the .nation is the Lord. "Dust,' and "dunghill" are  lworl-ds  de-
according to the  electi'n,  iti the  chur.ch upiversal  in slcriptive   .of (deepest dishonor and disgrace.  ,One in
fact; and that., looking Forward `from her own stirrife -this coladition  was, as it were, beipg trampled by men?
and from *he triumph `a$ her ,OWUY  faiith, slve extended definitely ;by the violetit men, who feared not God anld
her song intio a large outburst `09 prais!e to. God for' His had no regard for His people. Thus bhe "raising and
saving love to al,1 His pe!ople in Christ. This comes ont lifting up" inidicate  the gracious intervening  <of  ,God
especially in Itbe sequel `oif Dhe song.                            whereby  &hame  and contempt   care changed into  ihoXnor
   Having exhorted the  proutd  t,o  ,recollect   &hat  Jle- and  glolry,  that consists  `iti the  optpressed   #ones  (being
hovah weighs actions,  ~she  pr80claims the  .ooluduct of made to sit in the comiany of noble's  an,d- princes, on
the  H,dly and Faithful  ,God  Sowar,d the ungodly and the throne  ,of  aglory. An& this  salutary government.
the ,go~&ly Iby a sharply comrtrasted  ,&angel  in their rk of God, whereby H~~`saves His people `cannot fail, for
spective  lots.' The idea Bet  fo&h is that  thie strong He is Israel's miighty $$d ; "the pillars OS the earth
who will be  somethinlg  in.  thems,elveti  a;r;e  sdestr;08yed;    are Jehovah's, ,anrdi  he liath.set  the world ,upon them,"
and that-the weak %vh6 despair :of themee!lves  are made meaning that IHe is the Creator and Su&ainek* of the
strong.  Thus in  ;the words of the  son!g, "The  bows              earth, a;ntd therefore by; His power exercises .unlimited
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  rule over t.he ,earth  ,and in the hearts ,of all mankind.
  Thus "`He will keep the feet of His favored  ,ones,                         THR(XJGH  kQE  AGES
  and thei wicked shall perish in darkness ; For not by                                   -1
  strength  shaP a man prevail.                  The adversaries of
  Jehovah shall ,be ,broken in pieces ; -and [out of,.heaven                         :
   will He' thun,der upon them. Jeh0va.h  will judge the                       ..    The  P>eact& Venice                             .
  enlds .oif the earth, aed He will give &re@h unto his
  king." So doles the songculminate in the prediction                       `As `lve saw, the lfong .war between the papacy and
  #of the rul(! of God in the manifestation Iof His- justice the emperor {over lay investiture was terminated !by
   towards the godly and the un,godly and in extending the Concordat of Worms, `September 23, 1122. As was
   His kingdom-  `over the world in the person  ,of His explained, aocording  to the' arti:cles of this Concordat,                              -_
   anoi&e,d, who in the first instance was king Davi'd as the bishops in their capacity ,of tempolral rulers, con-
   includin!g  Sol'omon,  and in the final instance Christ. tmued in-the possession of iheir estates :but as vassals
   Thus, these last words ,do not, as the critics maintain, of the emperor` and thus under his._overlordship.                   Only
   assume the existence  bof a king but the promise of as spiritual- rulers shouW they Ibe subject to the .pop,e.
  oqe.                                                                   T:heir ielecti,on  should be the sole taskof the &erg-y and
       Hannah's song is gospel. As there is bnt one gospel, the peopl,e  with the king approving the.choice and the
   the themes of her song are Idisoennlible  .in ,every plro- pope as repre,sented  :by the archbishop confirmi8illg it.
   clamation `iof the gospel in the ages that preceded. Thus' the emperor [waived the right of appointing the
   The "king",  :of. her song is the "see$" ,of the w'oman bishops ;--but he was allowed the so-called touch :of the
   that shall bruise the head of the serpent, Gen; 3 :15 ;               sdeptre   iin  .-token that `the  #bishop  receive,d from him
   He is the %eed" .in whom all the nations ,of the earth his temporal possessions and power as a filef. `,Such
   wil.1 be blessed,, Gen. 12 :3 ;- H,e is the Shil:oh to whom were the articles {of this rather ambiguous `concordat.
   shall be the gathering of the people, Gen. 49 :lO. And But in subscribing to them the pope (did not mean to
   Balaam prophesied that "Out `of .Jacob  shall come he relinguish nis daim to the supreme lordship :over  the'
   that shall havIe `dominion. . ; . . .Num. 24 :19.             Then kings of thle earth, in particular ,over the emperor' of
   there is the law of %he king in Deut. 17. The thmlgs the Holy Roman Empire, in their capacity of temporal
 of  wlhich  iHannah spake  lhad been beard  :before,  flor it rulers. In his own leyes the .pope; uader ,God, was still
   was the gospel that she proclaimed. Only, as filled the heaId over all things in, state and church, the lord
   with t.he*Spirit ,of prophecy, lw:hose representative and #of the earth and its fulness, from w,hom  the kings of
   instrument she was; she shed upon the .gosplel, upon the earth, as his vassals, received their power and
 its pr,omise,  a new light. Bnt it was the same gospel. dommion, so that, according to. the w'ay ,of thinking
   The hope that the Lord would raise up a king,- who of the pop!e, the emperor, in: [bestowing-upon the bishb,ps
   w80ulid  save His `people from their troubl,es and deep their tomp,oral'po+$sessions and authority was granting
   sorrows, was already  livinig.               Hence, that Hannah out the pope's possessions,' and this also.:by reason of
 lived at a time when the nation  `was still  wi&out  a the `fact that these possessions, this vast amo,unt  of real
   kin,g, cannot be adduced against the view that the song estate, represented the accumulated gifts of the faith-
   is .of her but of one who lived w*hen  the king was in ful blestowed upon the church in the ages of the past.
~- existence. Besides, the sa.cred `writer p.uts the song in The pope, therefore, had 1 insisted that the right to
~-- her mouth. There is certainly no arguing with  the app.oint the bishops. belonged t,o him and not to the
   S c r i p t u r e s .                                                 emperor.    The latter agreed to this and the result
                                                   _ G.  33. 0.          #was the Concordat of Worms.- However, the ,emper&rs
                                                                        - of ,Germany dild not long hold themselves to this agree-
                                                                         ment. Soon they again went to appointing  bishop,s.
                                      .I                                 They .even made direct' war upon the pope, their' aim
                                                       .                 being to bring the papacy :in subjection  to themselves.
                            ATTENTQN!                                    The papacy in turn made  rel,entless  war  upon the
                                                                         emperor, its aim beimtg to maintai~ll;i.tself as the supreme
          Very soon now- work will begin on the reprint .of judiicial power in ,chuurch and state through the subjuga-
   Rev.  Hoeksema%  book : "The  Protestamt  Reformed tion of the ,emperor. As has been explained in a pre-
   Churches in America." If you `desire that pi&ures  of vious article, church and state, according to the pre-
   church properties shall lbe included in this hook, isend vailing concepti,on,  formed: a Christian commonwealth.
   cuts or pictures at  (once to either the Rev. B. Kok, According to the papal party it was the pope, according
   cHu8deonville,  Michigan, ,or the Rev. R. V'eldman, 1436 to the emperial party it Was the emperor, ~$0 formed
   Kalamazoo Ave.; S. E., ,Grand Rapids, Michigan.                       under ,Go.d the supreme judicial power in this commoa-           i_
                                 -          T.he Mission- Committee.     wealth,  Each&emperor   anId pope-strove to subject


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   the other to himself. Each strove to9 free-himself flrom ments of ,baptism and /extreme  unction alone could be
   the yoke ,oif the ,other,  when the other wo8uld momemt-      administered. At this; time- Frederirck (surnamed by
   arily ,prevail. Each strove to resist the encroachments the Italians "Barbarossa" redbeard) was in Italy with
   <of the :oth.er uipon what he Iconsidered  to be his`domain. a::p:owerful  army to rsceive  the token of royalty frsom
   The war  --Iof lay  invistiture  is but a chapter in this the  Lombard,s  and to be crowned  )sy the pope. The
   carnal warfar,e. And `w!e no'w pass *on to its next chap- pope was w.illing only oih: condition that Frederilck  order
   ter-a chapter that covers the years that intervened the  executi,on of  Arnold a popular  agitatoir  `of  w.hom
   the adoption of tie ,Concordat  `of W,ojrms,  1122 and the more will be said in t;he sequel. F,rederick  complied,
   peace of Venice, 1177.           '                            kissed the pope's toe, and was crolwned. The rebe&on
      Henry, who had acted so  ~crimimally   towar,d his of the Roman people was speedily suppresseNd.                      But
   parent, Henry IV, expired in 1122. Having no issue, Fredericsk and  IAdrian  (did not live in  pea.ce for  l,ong.
  she  ,bequeathed his dominions to the faithful  Ho,hen- "Who <shall be subject to the other?" was the question,
  staufen, the third great  ,dynasty  #of  the emperors of #or, "Who shall be  th,e  i:greater??" Both wanted to  ibe
   ,Germany. In 1138 this family,. in the person of Conrad the greater. So A&ian; spoke ,of Frederick's empire as
   III, was able to capture the imp,erial&hr,one  and the his ,gift to the emperor. This was more than Frederick
struggle between the papacy and `the emperor for could endure. He marche!d into Italy with aln army to
   supremacy  co~mmenced  anew. On the one silde stood humble Milan and other  rebellmus   Lomband  <cities.
  `the pope, supported Iby France and an unGerman fac- This accomplished, he convoked a diet that rendered
  tion in Germany. On the ,&her side stood the emperor the d:edsion  that the emperor he&d his empire by inde-
  Idetermined to defend .the prerogatives ,okf state against .pendent ,divine Bright and not by the ,will (of the po,pe.
 the :elncroachments  of the pope and `to brijnig the papacy Adrian  ha&  ,rno,re  fau1.t to  find with Frederick. He
   undoer :his control.                                          rebuked him for taxing, certain papal :estates,  ,demand-
      Conbrad  !died in 1152. Being  witlmut an heir to inlg that he should recognize the papal {claim <of feudal
  the <throne-shortly before his rdleath  his !only son Henry rights pver them. The i incensed monarch replied that
  hajd expired in the bloom of youth-his nephew Fsred,er-        instead `of his being a vassal of the pope, the latter
  ick was elected empjeror at Frankford.' Besides ibeing was a vassal ,of the emperor. A war of letters follo,wed.
   remarkable for the handsome and manly appearance, Finally  Adria,n was  dgcided  t,o excommunicate his
  an'd the ,genuine German cast {of :his countenance, Fred- ,emperial foe; but he died tbefocre  he ,could execute hi,s
   erick, .according  to thle standard of the world, was one .intention. He Iwas succeeded by Alexander III, a pro-
  (of the ablest of the Holy R,oman emperors. He vigor- fessor at Bologne, and ti distinguishe!d  canomist. With
  ,ously maintained the independence of ;t;he monarchy, this pope the conflict  iassumed a serious character.
  as  `a  Idivinle institution,  qgainst  ithe  cl$aims  ,of the The'cardilnlals were ,divided in their ,c:hoilce and a minor-
  papacy to supreme lordship over the temporal rulers, ity, Ifavorablle to the emperor, elected an anti-pope, who
  He set `at eonght the Conlcondat  of Worms by control- assumed the name of Vivtor IV. Frederilck  8recojgnized
  ,ling, the electiton of bishops and thereby made himself Victor, rchinking  thereby to gain lao,ntriol ,of the papacy.
  complete master elf both state and `church .in Germany. Victor now  ,excommunicated Alexander. The latter
  In Rome the papal cihai@ was occupied- by the able and replied by ~excommunlicating  Victoir  and Frederick and
  energeti'c  Adrian IV, a beggar, raised  t,o the  #most, thereby instigated revolt in Lombard ,and ,division in
  exalted'position-in Christenclom.  `He was an English- the  ,ealtire  patriarchate;   Iof the papacy, so that the
  man in  Iw!hom these extremes of  fortunie  mret.       The church was rent rby another schism. France, Spain,
  R'omans demanded that he resign as temporal ruler. and  Englancd   held with Alexander,  while  ,G&many,
  IH:e refused and placed &he city &der the interdict. Hungary, Bohemia, No'rway and Sweden sided with
  This wa,s one of the pope's most effect.ive  weap.ons  for .%&or.  Italy was rent in twain. Rome and Tuscany,
  enforcing the suibmissisbn  of men to ,his `.will, .the other being under the power of, the ,emperor,  supp,o&d  Victor
  being excommunication. ,The latter was Idirected  against `while the' proud commercial and. manafact~uring  r&tiles
  individuals. It separated the person from all relatioi:s       of Lombardy gave their allegiance to IAlexander  mostly
  with. his fellow-men. It released the subjects fr,om out of antipathy toward IFrederick,  iwhom they refused
  their  :oath of allegiance to their king. Any one  pro- to recognize as their temporal  lsord.   He crushed the
  ylidinlg the  excommun.icated   ,one with  flood or shelter revolt with  ,a mailed fist; Milan was razed to the
  was penalized  `by the  church. The excommunicated ground and its population ,scattered.
  person was `shunned as though he were  infected iby a              Victor. IV  died1 in April' 1164. `He was  ,succeeded  _
  comtageous ldiaease ; and if he ,died $e was refused the by Pascal III. So there were  still1 two popes.  .Alex-
  rites ,of .;burial. The interdict was +directed against a ander now formed a league of Lombardy [cities against
  city, provil;:ce,  or kingdom. It closed the- churches in Fredierick.        The folk&r@ year &he `emperor ,a fourth
  the regi,on and siien'oed  t$he bel1.s. No marriages could time marched into Italy with a strong army, captured
  be confirmed and no burial rites performeid. The sacra- Rome and enthroned Pascal' III and was once more


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cr?owilled.  There.upon he planned  +o  ;c;hastise  the  re-       zal zaad zien: ien (dat zaad zijn-alleen die van Christus
belli,ous  Lomhbards ; but  4lis army  Iwas decimated  by zij,iu; gekend in eeuwige liefde en verkoren  pm te zijm
the Roman fever  an'd al.1 Lombardy was in league tot  p@j._s vae Idea DrieEenigen God.
against him. He .was obliged the?efDre  to recross the                Evenwel.: -"`indien   Zijne:  kinderen  Mijne wet  ver-
Alps for'saifety,  which he'Irlir1  almost a fugitive. Pascal laten en in Mijne  reeh"uen niet  `wlan!$elen,   indiea zij
III d+eld and ,Calixtus III was el,ected as-his 8uccessor.         Mijne  inzetiingen   -ontheiligen en Mijne  geboden niet
A fifth time Frederick marched into Italy only to be houden,  zioo zal  Ik  hulil;ne  `overtreding  met  `de  ro@de
defeated after a telririble  $aughter in a pitched  ba;ttle bezoeken, `en humne longerechtigheid met plagen."
with the Lombards. Broken im spirit and in *his sitate                Hieruit leeren wle eerst, sdat het !geloti  in Jezus als
of mind despairing of ,ever rbleing able t,o beat down ;the bewijs, dat wij van eeuwigheid (bemind  zijn, .geen  vrij-
f,orces supporting Alexander, Frederick forsook Calix- brief is tot ,de euonde ,en de onge.reehtigheid.                    Het is leen
tus and madie his peace with his rival; kn~own as the fdroef feit, idat Gods ivlolk zoddigt. En zonde is de ovler-
Peaeie of Venice. It was  r&ifieA in the presence of tredinlg van de wet, Gods rechten, Zijn  inzettingen
cardinals, arch+bishops,  bishops and a vast multitude en geboden. Wij sfir,uikelen  allen in vele, zegt Jakobus.
that  hll,ed  %he public  squaire, 1177.  Frederitck  pros- E$en men&h &ei in. woorden .niet struikelt  i.s volmaakt ;
trated himself bef,ore AlexaFder, and the page in tears .ij en `die zijn er niet ,op aarde! En, ik heb $et van mijln
raised him up atid ,gavte him the kiss ,of peaoe  am(d re- pi-ilste jeugd  gehloord, Gods  volk zondigt  duur.! Al
conciliation.- Glad tidings #of the peace were sent to all heeft <God  mij lief, Idan is d& geen neden `orn te de&en,
parts ,olf Christendosm.    The scenes of Canossa.were  re- ,dat ik nu maar raak l'even kan en mij niet storen aan
enacted iln Veriibe.  IA;fter  ten years of exile, Alexander Zijn wet. Hij zal ons  pl&&i  .a!s  !w;ij  .Zijn-.wet  over-
entered Rome, March 12, 1178. The attempt ofj Fsred- treden.                                    -  j
feai,c.k  to make  himself master ,of the papa.cy `en&d, in           Zod zien wei, dat de "duiiendjarige  rijkers'f h&t mis
the triumph of &he papacy over him, But his lordship hebben, als-zij zich zetten tkgen de w4et. D,e wet moet
over the bishops (of Germany co*ntinued. As to Alex- ;Iliet  meer  gelezen   noch  bel;keekt,   zo,o  zeggen ze. Wij
amder, in li'79 he was driven into exile by the Roman zijn niet meer onder ,de tw,et, `doch onder de genade.
republic.     T~wo  years later he died. The coffin in                H,oe zit dat?                  /                r
which his remains were  carr,ied to Rome for burial                   Het  is  toch waar,  ldat  wij onder de  genzud,e zijn?
were p&led wihh .mud and stones by the Roman gopu-                 Christus  heefit  tech  alles  bLtaald?  Allle  omze.  zonden
lace. Insults such as -this  sholw that  the people  ,of tech betaald? 0,ok de zondeb van de toekomst  ? Waar-
Rome .had as little love folr the popes as had &he s,ecular om verbindt God dan den &ede aan he& houden der
power anywhere! iri the ,papal patrianchate.               ~      wetten ,6n inzettitigen ?
                                           . G.  ti. 0:
                       -                                              Dat dit 266 :. Dx+ wet ,Gods is vervukl in 66n woord :
                                                                   De Liefde  Go,ds!  Liesde  tot God en liefde tot den
                                                                  naaste. Welnu : die wet' h&eft  Jezus vervuld ; en die
                                                                  wet-vervdlende-Jezus  lwoont IN in ons door Zijn Geest
                                                                  en Woord. E,n telkens ,wannear we tegen ide wet zo&i-
             SION'f8  -ZANGEN                                    - gen, zondigen  we',ook   tegen.  Jez6die in  Ions  wioont.
                                                                   Chr.istus   .is het ieind'e der <et, zegt de chiliast ,en da?
                                                                  haal,t hij daarmede de Heilige Schr.ift ,aan;.we  stemmen
                                                                  bet volmondig toe.
              De VeibOnds Psi&n                                                          Doeh d& beteekent  ,illiet,  dat Chris-
                                                                  tns .het reinde van de wet iS in .den zin, `dat die wet uit-
                                                                  gedaan heeft, dat we nu klaar zijn m,et de wet.
                 (Psalm 89 ; -Vijfde Dleel)                                                                                    Einde
                                                                  is hier  doeleinde.   Christus is het  cloelein&e  cler  wet.
   We hebben gezien,  .d& Psa1.m 89 het {eeuwig v&bond IHet was God er om te doen, ,om Zijn WI:* ,die Hij den
van Gods gknade $ezingt  en Idat idit eeuwig verbond  vast stervling zet, geschrevlen te hebben in hui:l~ diepste ,hart.
ligt in David, den betenem David, onzen Hleene Jezns Daaron?  is  J.ezus  versehemefi,  daarom  vervtild Hij die
Christus. Van  IHem  zingen we daarom: Een  eerst-                wet, voor ens, ,doch ook  ,d!oor ,ons. *Om ,hek nut helder
geboren  Z,o,on, door al  Zijp  breeders  `t eeren; als en  klaar te  zeggeiz:  als  h(et  cloeleinde  bereikt is, dan
Xoning zal Hij z$f de honingen regearen;  Mijn goelder-           vervult ieder kind van God de wet, naar ziel en &haam
tierenhei'd  Zijns rijkstroon eeuwig stijven ,en Mijn ge- tlot in alle  leenwigheid.           IY%emelleven is niet  daili het
maakt verbond m&-Hem  .bestendig Ibl.ijv:gn !"                    iviervullen .van de wet Gods. :
   Omdat ,dat zoo is, is er ,dan ,ook eeuwi:ge  zaligheid             Bovendien, een ieder kilhd van God vindt uit, dat
voor iijn  zasd; en:  Idat. zijn  iw!ij, de  kerk van Jezus bet  preci,es  zoo is als  !er hier  !gele&d   woadt.   I;nd,ien
Christus.     A1.s  IH,ij  bet eeuwig verbond in  ,den tijd we ook slechts  eenigszins zondigen ltegen de wet .Gods,
geopelnba%rd  heeft in Zijn lij,den, sterven en veurijzlemis,     dap .ontvnillgen wij ,ons loon. in een aan vrese gespeiznd
,dgm zal Hij zaad zien! is de juichtoon w&n Jesaja. Hij IhaY;t.   Om  een  Aqmerikaankhe  idioom  te gebruiken:


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 No one geti aw& with. anything ! Zoo  spoedi,g   Itij ,e;nl  IOnzeh  ,Geest  leideti  als  .de  Goede   )Hel?der  langs de
Bondigen !komt God met Zijn ,roede  ,en met Zijn plagen. lange en bange lwegen van zonde en genade. 1.k zal
-Dat biehoeft nog niet `eiens  bijzonidere  Ibekoeking  te zijn n'aoit  veranderen. Ik &l h,unne  zonid.en bezoeken,.  doch
i.n~ den zin van vreeselijke- slagen,.  zo'Qal,v  bet wegi&men 3%  zal  $1  Mij,  ,gotedertierenh&id  U geduriglijk en  be-
van  ibeminde kinderen,  ,of  i&s  dergelijks.       De roede  stiend$glijB  geven:.  tot  :+et  thuisibrengen  der  schapen in
 en *de plagen zijn ve.el meer ,de 6nvred!e\  de smart in het .de aeuwige stallen.
hart. Ik  heb  vele  jaren  #ergens  lgelezen van  iemand                 Geliefde lezer,  Uw /zaligheid ligt vast in <de lonver-
ldie zeidie: Als men im haat-i!eeft,* dan sl+t met een gat .andedij.ke  liefde.  van $et Verbolnrd,  dat Godes is,           God
in zijn hart.       E,~I  d& is de bezoekende  God1 God  .en  Zijn-vqlk  zijn in Jezus  Christes  ineengestrengeld
yleageext   direkt tegen  dlae. zonde,  tbbij' Zijn kind ook. van  alle eeuwigheid.                 Dat ziet Gad voor  Zich van
Da-t  ibedoelt  Mozes,  al?  hij zegt : Wij vergaan  idoor eeuwigheid tqt  eeuwikheid. En daartegen  lie&  Hjj
Uwe toorn en door Uwe gr.imr@gheid worden  wij ver- nooit. %Iij kan dat r$,, want Zijn naam beteekient  de
schrikt. Ik weet  Gel,  ,dat het  dear niet  yitsluiltend~ Getrouwe !                         I
gaat lover de zon!d;e van Idle uitverkorenen,  doch die zijn              Daarom' is  ede  troqm van  J,ezus  als de zon en  ,de
ISY.I- ,ook !bij gerekemd. Als Mazes zegt : w$veigcuxn door ,tiaan.             -
 Uwe too?-n, -dam slu<t ,h.ij zichzelf  in dat w;ij in.                  -Dat is beeldspraak.' Er ligt in de maan en de zon
  Bij de  goddebozen  is  .die roede en  paage  `voor  - eefi sprake  -en die  sprake is  venvald in  Jekus.                 Di,e
eeutwig. I+& einde daarvan i.8 de hel.                             sprake is (de igetuigenis  van brouw ban. Gord:. Die ge-
   Doch niet zoo bij de. kerk. I-                                  tuigenis is 266 trou;, dat niemand er tieer op let. Of
    .Luistert  maar : "Maar Mijne  goedertiexxnheid  zal ge moet er juist .bij bepaald TiViordetnl.  De geheele  wereld
I,k van Hti niet wegnemen, Ien in Mijne getrouwheid                vari alle ,e&wen rekent er op. Als de menschen,  recht-
niet  Ifeilen."                                                    vaardig.en !goddeloos,  iaan slapen  ,des avo:r$s ldan is er
    Let er :op, cdat hier staat:  "z)cIn Hem", en niet "va?7u niet ieen die bij zilchzelf mijmert: Ik hoop, dat `de zon
hen", !gelijk ge zouidit verwachten. Immers,  bet ging . en de maan hun loop vo!brengen,  zdodat.  er morgen weer
over het zaad van Jezus. Indien zij  zondigen,  ldan zonsopgaxxg is ! En +a,rom Boen we !dat niet? Omdat
zqu de  Heere hen  bezoeken  met plagen  en de  mede.              we igewoon gewo'rden  kijn aan Gods g&rou&igheid;
Nu  `zou men verwa;cht,en,  dat er  op no'u volgen : ldoch               Als ge weer eens rge zon ziet im haar schitterende
Ik- zd Mijn sgo!edertierenheid  nie$ Iv'an hen .y,egFemen ! praeht van gouden  stra1en, dan moet  `ge  ,denken. aan
    Daar zit een mooei les in. We den hier, dat we God, Die in Jezus staat %e schitieren  vioo~ elks oogen!
alles ?qezi.tten en genieten ,om Jezus ;wi& Als wij zondi- _ Hij zal zijn ,als d-e zon)en ,de maan in triestiigen,na&t.
,gen, sdan komt God met ,de roede. Doch dat ,Hij` ons Ge.zult er  troost   uit  putten.  De  Born  :en  *de  maan zeg-
weey  :opsoekt  .en  terugkeert   +n Zijn  straffelvcile  hanId gen -ens geduriglijk; ,o,ok  als we er niet naar luisteren :
homt ens %oe ,om Jezus wil.                                        Ik iverander nooit ! Ikizal altijd Mijn verbond lgestand
    Al de zaligheid ,die woe v& tijd en eeuwigheid.zul-            ldoen! Ik zal U, .o Mij$ PO&, nboit vendo'6me-n ! Neen,
ien  genieten is  eerst in Jesus; en uit  J&z&  vl,oeit  !di& maar Ik ~a~1 U steeds! :l?iade?  tot.- Mij. lx&ken, totdat
zaligheid  in de kerk.                                             -Mijn:Zoon en Zijn troon met al Zijn zaad zullen s&hit-
    En tiaarorn zal de He@&Zijn~ goedertierenheid ni?t teren in bet nieuwe K;oninkrijk!
van Hem wegnemen?  Hier is het  antwoord;  f`Ik zal                     . D!oeh nu komt e6n gedeelte in- ,dezen verbondspsalm,
Mijn verbor@ niet ontheiliigen,  em hiert hetgeen dat, uit Idat ,menigeen heeft vetibaasd.. Van vers 39 Bat en me$
-Mijne lippen gelgaan  ts,, zal Ik mliet. veranderen. Ik heb vers 46 is' het een verhaal van enkel ,ellelnde Iem smlart,
&5ns ;gezw,oren  bij Mijne ,heiligheid: Zoo Ik aan David Er staan  vreeselijcke   dingen  in. ."Gij  zijt  werrbolgen  .
@eg!. Zijn zaed  zal in  eeutigheild  zijn, en Zijn troom geyrden  tegen Uw Gezalfde;  Gij  &!bt  :het verbond
zal  voor Mij .zijn  .gelijk  de  -zoti. Hij al  eeuwiglijk  - Uws  knechts tie niet  tieda@;  ,Gif  .hebt Zijn  tro& ter
bevestigd worden  gelijk ,de .m&an, en .de getuige-in den aarde `nedeigest,ooten  ; ~ Gij ,hebt Hem met schaamte
hemel is  giet~ouw.  Sela  !"                                      ;over;dekt  !" Ik heb slechts bier & ,daar een greep  ge-
    Bet har.t ITan dit gedee,lte  ligt longetwijfeld  in dat: daan en de ergste ni#ttdPukkingen  tovergeschieven.
"niet veranderent. Wat is `bet-anders,  d,an rde megatieve               Hier ligt een moegijkheid, eem probleem.
vorm -van Gods heiligen Naam:  J&ovah!  Die- "Ik zal               _     Ik heb aangetoond,' cd& ,de HelId dire: h*ier .bezong&n
zijn.die Ik zijn zal!" Ja, "&nils heeft God gezworen !" Iwlordt wel. David de Koninlg I.sraels was, `doch dat we
En Idat "B6ns" is :de stille ,eeuwigheid.  Van, eeuwigheid meer moeten zeggen, ,dat we, namelijk, hier oo'k en
heeft ,God jets gezqgd. Hij heeft l&geveeT  dit gezegd: in den  idiiepstem  zin,  Tezus  Christ&  moeten zien, in
In U Mijn Zoon is al Mijn welbehage;nr! Em in U zal Wien lhet ie:eufig verbond ,God.s vast is.
al ,Onze lieflijkheid en,heerliijkheid  ,gezien  lwonden. En             Dus rn;oetien al, die ~%eeselijke'%ngen  ook op Hem
in U zullen alle gesla,&ien der axde gezehend  worden.             toegepast. .
Gij  zult ze  we&ten  als Onze  Vertegenwoordiger.  pan                  Doch hoe kan  dat?;                      -.
gesla&te tot geslachte. En Gij zult ze ,door OUTS Woord                  Neemt nu het ergste van all'es inr di,t -gedeelte. Er

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        stnait in het 40ste .vers: `(Gij hebt het  vezbond. Uws `wordt  de Kerk aan het hart van God gestrengeld. Let
        Kneehts  te niret gedaan !" Hoe kan Idat?                 '          ,er op, ,dat het gewillig lijden van Jezus in ,onze plaats
         Wel,  iaat  ,ons eens  &en.                   . .             ,     ,openbarin& is van de heerlijkste liefde ,die ge U ,den&en
            Wat is  bet  verboond? In weinige  w+rden: het is kunt.-  Daarom zal  .,het  E(ruis  thema  blijven  to!  i.iu
        de :omstrengeling van God & Ziijn volk ~QI Jezus Chris- eeuwigheifd van hemelschen zang en lof.
        tus. .- Paulus zegt ; en dan spree& hij van dezelfde zaak :              Lee& nu ,de afzonldferlijke vexxen van dit verschrik-
        Qns .leven Is met Christ& vleEb@rgen in Go;&. _                      keliJ'k gedeelte  en ge suit u* Jesus zien. J:a, en ,ook met
            Nu kan dat niet, in dyer eeuwigheid diet, indien ,er krilling rv'an het hart, ztilt ge Uw~ zajigheid zrien.
        geen betaliing komt vanI een eeuwige-schuld. Gods yolk                        Gij  he'bt -Hem  +!rstoo$en  en  verworpen,  Gij' zijt
        heeft verdiend  `om-van .Gold verlatix te wond.en  tot in venbolgen gew,ondea tegen Uw Qezalfde !
        de?.  eeuwigheid  in de  he1 der-  verdoemden,  Wij zijn                 Ik beken  het: ik kan kr niet bij. Ter eener zijd&
        kinderen des  +oorns  ,gelijG ook  Ide anderen.  Wij zijn is Jezus  ,I-&  objekt  van  Gocls  eeuiw$ge  liefde en, ter
        em  vervloekt  ras en tkinderen   ides ,d,uivels  vaunt in'ature.    a!ndeL-er zijde, is  uij  veriaten,  ve&ooten;   gaat Hij .
        Dte Heidelber!ger  Catechismus leert ens, dat alleen als ,onder,in  de  baren van  Gdds  verbolgenbetid.  En van&
        er teen )!Ilddelaar Gods en der menschen komt,  die `b&de de ,diepte  bhooren  we whet sc@eeuwenS  rvlan, Messias.
        God en mensch is, wij wederoti in .genade kunnen aan-                    Ter mogelijke verduidelijking,  ka? ilk er Idlit nog aan
        genoman woTdenr. A81s dat ,gebeu&, zdian is er ibij dien toevoegen: God, DrieEex& zag op Hem- &ijn zonden
   (Held hdp beschoren  poor Israel:              _                          en  sch&d,  mij!  iongerechtighkid  en  mervloeking. Toen
            Welnu, dat gebeurt ! V,eEbaast  U idan look niet `oiv;er is Hij een vloek gewonden !'
   ,dit  gedeelt.e! Wat  g& in d:ie verzen leest  i.s  eer,st  we1               ,O God ! Ik  :smelt weg bij  heit zien  Jan  zulk  6en
        van toepassing op een gewone Koning in Israel Idhe een reine, ,hemelsche Goddelijke  liefde!
        veldslag veriiest, do.ch is ,den ldiepsten.  zin `hebt  ge inI           iH& zal hemelsch leven tot in alle. eeuwigheid semen!
   Id&e verza, een ibeschrijving van Goilgo&ha.                              om U eenigzins daarvoor  t& loyen en te prijzen.
  s=       Het viabond,  zeiden we, was de. omstreng&linga deir                  %Je $eginnen  nu al, Heere!
   liefide Gods. ,Dan w,ordt het stil ,eti vredig ,daar :in die!                 Em'.tech : het is slechts.  pen starmelen !
armen Gods. Dan  schreeuw;t.men  niet.  Doch Jezus                                                                               G. V.
        Christus moest dat mjssen rv:oor. . . . (rik had bi@a ge-                                             .,
   sohrevlen  vo,or  tijd en wijle : ,onge&enaarde  dwaasheid ! )
   leen eeuwtghecd  van i,ijlden. En Bet hprt van &et lij den
   van  Cbristus is juist  Idit:  IHij  gevoelde   Zioh van  ,God
   verlaten !
           H3bt ge ,er we1 eens op gelet, d&t tik vaak bij id;ien
   schreeuw op Golgotha ui%ko&? Dat doe ik met opzet.                                                                      I
   Wanrt daar hebt ge het hart en ,het dieptepunt van het
   Ylijden van Messias. En als ge `de  $&de Gods jegens                       TQ  The  UtqKistiof  Ymr  PsWer
   U lwlilt mneetqn,  +n mbet be ldien s&reeu)v ,gebruiken
   tot maatstok! .Kunt ,gie daarbij-?                                        R  his to  $e  doubDe:d whether thene is any reader
           Keert  nu  berug naar die  verbazing, dat  tier  koti of these lines, if he be one: brought up Jn a Reformed
   staa.n : Heere, Gij hebt'het werb.o&`Uws  .kne&ts te niet Church, who has never heard the `above Iwo&s, "To the
   bedan.n!. Herinnert U dat het verbonld de omstrengk- utmost ,of your pdwer". It is .also to 6e exp&ed $hat
   ling vari [de armen Gods is ; en .ge' zult zien, dat i.n ,deze all parenlts  of &e Reformed 8a.it.h are able at ,xonilee- to
   wbordein  hetzelfde :hezqgd wordt als in -@aim. 22, MWS tell where thi.s phrase ii fbund. Every parent in the
        1: Eli ! E'li ! lama', sabachkhani  !                                R&xmed Chtirch@ gas g&en &he promise that he! will.-
           Ter' verdui:de$jking  nog %Qn woord : Wlelzerdijk.  is `!*to iJhe utm&t of his po5weg' ibring up his child in the
   bet verbond nooit verbroken,  d!och vanuilt het !sm&e- fear  ,of God's name. It is & tihe thind and l&t question
   l-ijke loo,gpnn&  eti de eryaring van Messias was het ;vrfel that is asked those who pa+ent theiT chti,dren  for ;the
   zoo. Let er tech op,`,dat Jesus Idervreeselijken  voltooid                sacrament .of ~H:oly Baptism that we find %his expres-
   verleden.  tijdsvorm gebruikt:  Waarom  helit  Gij  Mij sion.
   verlaten!  Voor'Zijn, smartelijk  gevo&l,  lznd  %od Hem                      In a series ,of five essays we plan to sonsidsf this
   verlaten!  _                                                              promise we have given +nd .whereinl we declare that we
           En dat woadt hier vooruit ge1eden in lden verbonds-               w.i$l instruct our  c.hildreln   :"in the  afotiesaid   dootrine
p s a l m .                                                                  . . . . +o tihe utmost of o.nr, power?`.
        Neen, wezenlijk' niiet  verbroken,   d&h juist  ,het                     It is not being written merely folr. those who have
   tegen6vergestelde:  tetijl Jezus hangt te brullen can d.reaidy   made  +his vow.  Wie trust that  ,our  yolung
  -bet Kruis, zakt het eeuwig Konin.&rijk op zijne funda- people will also carefully fol&o;w us  ip the discussion
   menten neer.  Joist door de  -verrlating  mm  M&&as of this  vi&i  prolblem of  ?xlucation.                           It  is well for us


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  who have made this VOW to be reminded :of our promise mean. fear in t&e sensd of fright an@ dread. We are
 arnd its significance. It is also beneficial1 &r those w:ho well aware of 6lie fact t@at the word "fiear" comes from -
  as  y&t are single or  ohibdless  btik  wlho some  ;day will    a ,verb whi& mea,ns "tp tremble" ,and that it is oftien
  &Q take this vuw ,on *heir. lips that they .may `Ido so ,u&d  +ha$ way in  Scriptuire.                   Tlhus Iwe find it in Gen.
  inrtelligen~~y  and  ,sincerely. Our  tw,o predecessors in 3 :lO when .it is said of Adam that he was afraid (fear-
  this department have treated ;Dhe field ,of education in ed) after he had etaten Lf the forbidden fruit. Bnt tie
  the school and in &he [church, and we felt that a; series .believe  that tie solutioh is to be &md exactly `+here
  ,of essays oa education in the home shoul~d now appear too. As mati is by nature, as he is apart from regenera-
  in this dbpajment.                                              tion and the comforting word {of God that his sins are
      Woe oonsider -it m important qu'estio,n for us to ask forgiven  him for Chiris+.sake,  he must tremble before
  ourselves,, "What di,d I apromise to ,do to tie utmost .of      Go'd anld has no reason!+0 do aza&hi.ng but tremble in
  my plower  ?" With this `question ~w,e will deal `in &his fri$ht anld dread. However  ;when  the word fear is used
  first insta,ll,ment ualder our Igenapal  headinlg : "T,o The in  conjun&on with the believer who sees God in
  Utmost Of Y'o'ur Power?`. Theme are similar questions qhrist,  this fear .of %hd Loid ceases to ,be fright and
  that `demand Iconsi&ration. We ought to ask, "What dread. The believer h&s  no- reason  ifor such a fear.
  is that power which I mu@, us& $0, &he u;tiniost?  -1s iit His  f,ear  rbecomes  one  : of reverence and  awle.  The!
  phy+d poawer ? Mental?  Sp:iritual? Financial?  (Or doctrine  icontained in &e Old anld New Testament is
 is it all of these together?" W,e ,ought to ask o,ur,selves, given to work such a fear in us and not a fear of
  "What is  ;the  ut.most   #of MY  p,ower,  and am I  usin: `fright and dread. God need  simply send an  earkh-
  it al-1 to fullfill MY .*promise?" IAnother  ques;tion   that quake or thunders aad iightnings  to, work such a fear
  presses for consideration. is, "Can I improve my present in man. But when He `de&es to work in His people
  methods So bhat I can ti:se all my power, and is it pos-        the fear of revertinlce!  aGd awl&, He speaks to us m His
  siible %r me to increase my power?" These anld rela,ted Word and reveals Himself to  u's in the Son  lof His
 . matters we hope t,o treat in the issues gof the Stanidard he.
  Bsearer which are to f,ollow.`,                                     Did not tie angel say unto Zacharias, "Feay not"?
                                                                  Were not these same  I words  spoken to Mary the
  Wha.t  cl&l I  prow&  to perform to the utmost of  m,y mobher.  ,of Jesus? . The, heavenly host broke sorth to
  powier?                                                         sing of the Christ childis birth and thereby explained
                                                                  to the shepherds why thiey need not fear. !@he women
      In the second question asked in the Baptism Florm,          at the empty grave Iwe& told not to fear -because &hey
  menti'on is made of the doctrine contained in the Old soughf Jesii;s Who was ,drucifie:d  Ibut is now risen`&om'
  and .New Testament, in .the artides .of our ,Christian*         the dead. There is no fear fof the wrath of ,God possible
  faith and `chat is taugh*t hene: in this Christian Church. for  $h,ose who  bel'ieve  .ihe  do&&e contain&l in the
  To this  ~doctrln~e the  &ilind  questi,on, of this Baptism Old and New Testament. The Psalmist also sings in
- F,orm ref,ers when it ?sks, "yhethef you intend io see P:salni 2'7, "Jehovah  is,  .my light  a!nd my salvation.
  this child when come to years of discretion, ins&u&ted Whom shall .I fear ?" Sliould our reply be, "Let .us fear
  and :brought up .in the aforesaid Idoctr&e, #or help .or God"? Not if we mean fear in the sense <of fright and
  cause it to be instructed t&rein to the utmost of your dread of  His wrath.  Fe is our salvation, and  t(hat
  p.ower ?" In brief than we have promised to instruct ,d,oies  hot simply mean  t!at He saves us from  ,a11  ,our
  our  #ahil,dren  in the  dtoctrine  contained in  l&e  B&p- earthly enemies. It means  thait He  ihas saved  `ui
  tures  a; it is  taught  `i& the Protestant Reformed spiritually in Christ thpough Whom He has saveci us
 Churches.                                            _           f r o m   H.is  o>wn  ,w,rath.  '
     It is sour intention to consider this doctrine from the          D,oes  that mean %hat we must n,eVer speak .of Divi,ne
  vie'wpoint of the heading of this department, "IN HIS pimishment to our  ,childnen? Does  it mean  that we
  FEAR". Ifi `other w#or,ds we (would  have you .,consider never  warn  ,&tern  ,of  Gtid's   terri$ble wrath? Does it
  with us that we hev;e promis'ed  to itistruct ,ouIT children mean that we may never explain to -them $hat mai
  in  t~he Fear of  tihe Lord.  `Goid has given  *us the Old Ought to tretiblie  exceedingly ,be$ore  Him? 101f course
  and New Testament wi.th 6he do.ctrines  they conhain in not. The Scriptures  ,aye full of such things. But  ~
  `order  that :we may fear Him. We `wou41d like to say the `fact i-emains that as Ibelievers  w&have tie reason
  a few things about this fear ,of the ILord which must Bo fear that wrath ,of ,Go'd.                     We must teach &lr child-
  be found in our Ichi,l&en. A man ,must first know whit rejz of *hat Wrath, hut &e;wise must they be taught
Iwlopk  he is caPed to do bef;ore he can pu.t his shoulder the "peace' with Gord thwo'ugh  our Lord J~esus Christ"
  or  hiis mind  .b&.ind  it  and  can exercise his  POiwers, tihi& R,dmans-5 :l tienr$ons  iti `speaking of .oLlr "being
  me@al ,or physical, to ..acsompXsh.  it.                        justified by, fiith".          That  flea? of  `hhe Lord is surely
     The w'ord fear as. used in the' expression, "the fear " an- eternal reality whileh j shall .remain with us sorever
  of. the Lor,d",  has a beautiful meaning. .' It does  n6t eves in healvlelnly  glory. Does not Psalm 1IL;10 declauye

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  that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of `wisdom?          those well known &&d's,  "The fear of the Lord is t@
   Surely that wisdom ~w1i.11 repmain,  with us, yea, even beginning of tiisdom." T~Jie  first, part of the Psalm
  lbe  perfectied,   iti `heavenly  &r$.  Si,milarly,  "ohis  ife&r' overf,l,~ws  with declarations ,of ,God's virtues and gives
  which is the beginning lof wisdom will never l&a%e US. these  as  ;tihk  ,reasoa why  He  `ought to be feared. I t
  What is more, in heaven that fern will not @ave ainy declares that His works are great, honorable.  and glor-
 trace (of &he element :of sright and dread of God's wrath. ious. .It  speaks  ,of His  rightcIou,sniess,  His grace and
  -That wil.1 ibe ,quite impossible. And here below, when compassian~. It speaks  of His  good;aess in providing
  we tea& the doctrines oontained in &he Old and New m&t for those that feaT H&n. His faithifiulness  to His
  Testamiernts,  ,we te%ch Christ And %he go013 new@ `of the cov@nant is menti,oned, and it is stated that He sent
  ,gosp~~l  that in Him w;e h.av,e j.ustification  and reconc%a- red-emption. unto `His people. tHis name is holy. and
  tion anld f$owship (and fellowship. excludes the idea reverend, the Psalmist  also  declaritis.                 Then, after
  of  fright  anld dread) with  IGod.                             qeaking of al,1 these virtues `of God snd that His name i.
      What &hen must iwe teach 8onr..&ildren  when Tire is reverend, the Psalmist Ideclares  tihat the fear .(revei-
1  teach them the  fealr"`of  the  Lor;d?  We teach them a ence .in lo,+e)  of the Lord is the begi.nniing (of wisdom.
  fear of  rever!ence  and awe.  T:his  fear is a profound He .who sets these virtues `of God aand_loves  Him be-
  respect 5or and solemn wonder besore  Gold in lovw It `cause of theni is'wise. He pho sees God's IWO&S about
  means that we teach our' &ildren Gold's vitiues and him and asteri*bes  them to nature, fate, providence  or
  glory so that in love they may nespeet IJilrn and *marvel t,o his gods of ,w)ood ,&nd stti'e is not .only bl;ind, `but is a
  before Him because they-  behol,d  Him in His glory. f,ool, and has not even the beginning ,df wisdom. He
   The  tiore  ,one sees the virtues  102  %another,  tihe more J&O deanrs the Lord points dnto I3.m anid. in a pr,ofonnd
  respect  m,d  rever3ence  he  wilil,  .haSe for that  ,ai:le. A respect  f,or His &taes ibows ibefore  Him as the CGod             ,
  newi presildent, f,or example, is ele!cted. Yiou know llittle >of all glory and virtue. If .our childnen are nlot taught
  `or nothing about hi!m. , +&e speaks to you, and what he that fear, then the whole: education they receive is
  says, yea even the way be says it, determines to a ,great       absoluitely wiotihl,ess.    They still do not knolw a 6hing
 deal yl.our respect for him as a leader .and publi,c ser- that is .wotih knowing.
  vant. He has been in  `offi,cie  $or a year. or  .two. If           Of course, we are speaking of the covenant &gild in
  he has done little and conlditions bleeome  worse `rather Iwhose  hea?% God has  ilnipianted  His love. It is  that
  than better, your respect f,or ihim Idiminishes ,accordinlg-    child ,alone who can be taught the fear of the Lord, for
  ly. It happens sometimes t&at a.man ,does such ,great this  Irespect  for His virtues must be  r;o,oted  in  love.
  bhipgs, more than ,pou expected or tlmught oou;ld be There is a respect of frighi anId ,dread.  Tihe man who                            .
   accomplished, that yonr reverence and respielct  for him goes lion or ti,ger  hlmting, respects &e  Nstretigth and
  may .evlen Ibe classified as Iawe. His deeds fill you with cra%tiness :of his foe. Ther&u;e he takes every possible
  !wqnlder  and amazement, and gon wonder ajfter him.             precauti,on  because he fears what may happen to him
      Su& is. the case with us an& ,our att,itude  t,owalrd       ,otherwise.  It isnot ,a fear in 1,ove. The devils likewise
   our fellow;men. Siill more musit it be `our attitude to, fear God  anid'.walk   deli'cately   befolne  ;%%irn, but their
   God who alone does wondrous things.  Besore Him respect  f,or IHim is not ro,&ed in  liolvle.  The covenant,
  ;wie rea1J.y `ought to stand ini awe ti the wor,ks  ,of His regelnerated  ~cihihd can resp;perct  IGod's virtues in love be-
  han&s. And we have  padmised  that to  $he  ntmos~ of cause God Ihas implant.ed His love In trhem.
  oui power we will, hold before Ioulr children the virtues           When one does so fear God with the reverence of
  a*nd praises of ,God as- He reveals them. to, us in His love, he will1 [wonder before Him. He wil$l stand in awe
  Wolrd in ,order that @hey may respec;t Him land wonder bef&e Him, and if I maPy put ,it .that way, he will staqd,
   after  H.im. Israel was commanded to  ,do  t&s.  Rlead figuratively  sp!eaking, with  ,his  mou%h  wi'de open in
   P:salm `78 for a  cle,ar  ,example of this. Israel was.  40 amazement at what `he sees of God. And he ,behol#ds
   hanid do& from generatiori to generation tihe mighty God in the tremendous. w,ork `02 creation  anlci: provi-
   w;orks.  of God isn Egypt, at- the: Red Sea, in the wilder- dence   `or  Icontemplates His sovereignty, His holiness
 _  ness and  ini the  ,promis&  land' that  each  succ&ding      or righteousness, or stands' <at Calvary ,or at the empty
   generakiom  also might fear God. In our Psalter we grav:e, he will  .be  sp;p!eeoihless  with an awe rooted  ia
   si'ng, "Let  lohildreri  Ohus learn  from history's  Jight prtifound  love. He stands breathless. God is so great,
   to hope in .our Goid and walk ,in His sight, the God of so just, so wis.e, so good! #He will fipd himself thrilled
  l;heir sather to fear and obey, and ne'er like their X&hers     in his intiost being..as  be beholds God as the "WihoJ.ly
  to turn from His iway." `l&at applies still ;today;  and other" li:ke  unt6  (whom there is  nan,e other. He  is
  that is what tie promised t,o do unto .$he utmost of our thrilled' in his. soul that $hiS *Gold is  this God forever .
  po'wer, namely, to .teach  ,our -chibdren So hope in 6heir and eve'r. That is the fear :bf the Lor:d.
  `God, walk i:n His sight and &ar and obey !Him.                     Such a [degree  we do n&t find in our ,children. Yet
      Psalm 111 is also very intere&ng *and &lightening ;i$ is ther!e. Our children .d*o not .cry out in their soul,
  in this regard. In the last .verse  of the Psallm lwe Y:ea@ "0 .God how good thou art". They Ido not with *hornas
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       say, "My Lord .stnd my  ,God". IBowever  in their own called  The  Jfulness  lofrHim,  Thai  fillled all  .in all?`.
 .  childish way and  aoeording  to their  Ages they  .will Furt;her fi11 idem 3 :19 the ap.ostle  expresses what his
       manifest. this sear. List,enit,o  them sing once, "Jesus fervenllit  ppayer is fear the Church, ihe. intent of which
       loves me this I  kn6w.  Par  $h~e  Bible tells  me so.!' priyer is, as `&e apostle (expresses it "that ye may be
       There is  the fear  ,of the  LoFd.. If we  telaoh   Miem  ajl &led with tiZZ the' fu,Zn&s ,of God." `Finally, *e woul'd
       &he  thillgs. `the Bible-telb"  +heni so, and if we teach quote. idem 4 : 13, `where,  speaking of tie. divine intent
       them all the `doctrines contained in the Old and New l&f  Dhle  ,offilces   institutbd' by the risen and glorified
       Testament,  *heir fear will  inicrease.                                              Christ in t.hhe Church, the apostle states, tihat the pur-
          We had three other- remarks `WI& bntenided to malqe! in pos.e and  fun,cti#on  of  :th<se   ,offices is, that all th.e
       &is first. installment. Our allottied space is moire than nedeemed  ,ihould ,come : "unto. the  &ity ,of faith and
       up. and  t,o  fin&h  wo,ul.d take  tlob much  e%tra room.. !of the h,owle$ge  ,of the So,lu of ,G-od,  unto aDfull-grown
       Let. us note *hem` no'w,  and ;the Lord Iwilllingj we will man,  utito bhe measure of the stature of the fi&.e&a
       ,discuss  them in the next issue. 1. Anobher impo&ant. ,of Christ." -
       element in this. fear is trusting. in `God: `2. Only ihose                              And tao. call attention, to the two instances, where the
_ who fear God thus ,wiB @hey &m, ;the theo,ry ,qf Com.- tam under consi~deration  is employed .in the -book of
 mon  `Grace to the ,aontrary. .3.. The fruit ,o$ this fear` Colossians, we  n&ice  first  :of  all- what  wle read in
       wil~l be praise to God, and that is. the high purpose for Colossians -1.: I?... In, this passage the apostle js speak-
       whi,ch .we  ,ane  redetimed. All  inst&ctioiilt  whei&er in ing lof God's Son iiT the. flesh, as He is the F.irstAborm.
       the home, in, the .,school  #or in th.e church must serve. of  al:1 creatures and  &e  Fir,+born-  from the dead:
  that purpose. But more of &his later.                                                    As sue& this Son in th? flesh, is *he Pre-eminent `One
                                                                           J. A.  H,
 .-                                                                                        .in  bhe. flesh, the First  iri all  $hings.    Of Him  .the
                                                  .;                                       apostle here states, that it was Gotd's. good-pleasurle,
                                                                                           ;that "all  the  fdness  should  dwell-in  Hinm",- In  ;tihe
                                                                                           sar& vein of tho,ught, and- that, to& over against all
                                                                                           Gnostic philosophies, tde apostle stahes in idem 2:9:
                   FROM -HOLY                                             iJ..  -          `.Yor ., .i~ .Him ,dwelleth a& tlze futness of the Goclhead
                                                                                           *b,odily".
                                                                                               In the above quotattilons  we! have underscored each
                                                                     ;                     time the term "fulness,`i We are obviously interested
                  I`                      unto a dfspensation  of the fulness of times,
                   .     :     .     .
                  to .sum up all things-in CAri& . . . Ieven in ,Him":                     in &his element in all these quoted passages. Fulness,
                                                                                            (Pleeroma). has as its fumdamental  notion that of the
          The terms  _ "fulness" and  ."dispensation"  +n the full m,ecrsure of anything. It is the full basket ,of bread-
       phrase "unto a dispensation of fihe Xulness of times'" crumbs in Mark 8:.19,_20. Tghe difficulty in det&mim-
       st$ call for `expositilbn. Attenti.on  has. Ibe'en ,cdled,. in ing t,he texact m,eanlng 4f this tieym in a given case is
  our' former artifcle, t,o the term "times".                                              the. fact, t&at it can. `be taken both a-ctively and pas-.
          The conception "fulness:of  times'? is: i;nldeei&  a knotty silvely. When taken actively, the  "fuln&s" is viewed
       one. It is Inloot at ail1 so simple .a matber  to sgrasp; i$s. from  `ohe  viewpoj$t.  of  its being filled  $1~. It is &hen
       distinst~implicatio~~ as this might `seem to be at first the last crumb -that fills the basket... Taken passively,
  glance. This .was -also true <of *he term "times", taken however,  it is. simply the  ~yhole  ,of  ;the  ,c!ontent,   $5
  by itself. But all the more .is this ,so, Iwhen we &gin entire~9ull.  measure.  : .  :  _.-  :
  to consider these "$imes" in a6nnecti~on  w&h the idea                                       O,bv&usly, it is  t.his'  di~stinct~q~  of the active and
  of "fulness',`, and, thus, speak af the "fulness of times".. -passive sense of the terni "fulness" that has ,o!ecasiosed
       It is tiheni  no teasy matter to  *grasp  it,s import and to, bhe di.spute about the proper translat$on  ,of .g.phesi+ns
       pin down its meaming.                                                               1:23. If  *he  kerm  rbe taken actively the  sense-o:   ,?&z
          .After no ?ittle consideration of @is mat&,. it ap- passage is- "the filling0 dp of Hi)m, who'.is tbeing  filled
       pears to us, that the :orux ,of the: &-&ire question hinges by  a.11  im all". On th6 ! other land,.. the se&i of t$e
  on the correct interpretation.  !Of- the term  "fuln&& pas,sage,  when taken  pa,ssivel$,  :`ati&  *as  @Veti  -in  our
       In `the Greek this term is `$l,ee~oma"`.                            `l&is  term  +,s English  translatiorns  "+he  fulz&s of  Hi&,  thit  fiIleth
       a very common  ,one in  H,oly  Wri.t, especially  in  this till in all". Which ;of these twti peiiderings is i&e proper
  .+vzitings  `of the apostle Paul.  Anlid again;  im Paul's, one, in t&e li-ght of al;1 t$at S-ciiptdre teaches  us about.'
  writings this term i_s most pEominent  in his <epistles to. God and rH.is Son, is as clear as crystal `to any brttiodox
       both  the Ephesians and &he IColossians.~                                           student  #of the  B,ible.  Itlis,  0s  co&se, the latter. An.2
          Turning lolur attention to the term,,' as we meet thus -the sense .is also :of the &her p&&ages  that we
       with it in Ephesians,. we notice  -&at it is  einployed have quoteid froth the wtitin'gs ,o;f &he $p&e.' _ -
  by the writer in $hte following passages. In. Lcl-iapter `Thus it is also `with the  restiliarit'  slense of the
       1:23.  tee  ChuTch as the Body of  Cicrist, her  Hlead is phrase  ander  considieration,   w&e&&r:   $h`e  term  "ful-

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ness" be taken in- the.active or in the passive sense. taken place, the measure of time allotted the Gentiles
iHowever, which of these two renderings is the one shall1 ibe f&d up. And, to mention one mo're ain@tance
the apostle. has in mind, ia not so easy $0 #decide i,n of this use -in thle Gospels,, we call' attention to John
this case, as in the one given in-chapter 1:23.              ..    `7 :9. `~ The Saviour here .is speaking with His brothers
     IOne is inclined to state Izategorically,  that it Gust according to the flesh. They would have Him go to
here be considlered  to be taken in -the passive sense,            the feast of tabernacles and demonstrate His power
whereas the term can have inlo ,other  meaning in the and thus gain popularity. But Jes~ls `declines to do so,
other instances in twhi'ch it is given here in this Epi:stle.      saying : "my time (season) is  not yet fulfilled." It  ._
But, it seems t,o us, that suicli a conclusion w~o~dd  not         is true, that it is not ,clear  whether Jesus is here looking
fit the ,case abefore us, land that-for the very cogent lba,ck; whether the view-point is that of not having ac-`
reason, that dn the ,cases given, .-we have instances, of oomphshed ,all' tlhe work yet in Galilee and thus the
the term, as this-refers to God and His Christ. A;kd time made ful)l, or whether He means the time has                                         :
here we do not ihave, as with man] ,amd all &at isof not yet come, for me to ,go to. Jerusalem. P,ossibly the
time and the Creature, a filling up, a coming to that remark is in  order,  that if the latter  wene intended,
point where the full -measure is attained,' tor reached. the Lord woul,d have stated ~"my time is not yet come",
But the m'oment the idea (of "fulness" is' applie,d  to man, instead  `of  t`not pet fulfilled". On the  Ibasis of this
to  tile creature, to time, history, one does not  ,dea'; latter observation  `wle  lw80uld hold that the "not yet
with that which &corn-es. Here we, incieed,  deal with fulfilled" refers  to--that  event that  .must take place,
,the  fill&g IQ?.                                                  those acts ,of Jesus that must ifilrst be performed /before            .
     From this it  sl&d  /be perfectly  lucid,~ that one the "time" is just  ibrought,   to the full point.  W.hen
cannot merely "jump ,at &iclusions" in ,regard to the that point is reach&, Jesus wi?u. not tarry for another
use  ,of  .the term  ti  tour; text, but that  awe will  shave mioment !
to carefully study this phrase  i2y  th,e  hght  ojf  ,other              There is one outstanding ax,d w$l-known  passage ,
Scripture passages that speak of the idiea of fulness in the writings `of the apostle Paul to which attention
as this `applies to time, t,o the Igreat epochs .of aGod's mu& be called in this connection. It ,is the passage re-
mighty deeds in history. ?&at we are in this passage oord)ed  in- [Galatians  4 :4, where we read the following :
dealing Iwith history in this sense we have repeatedly "But when  the  fa4nes.s of  time ,came,  -God  sent forth
pointed  :out; and this was the Iburden of our former His Son, Iborn of a woman, `born under the law". This
,arti,cle. Tlhis should ibe kept shjarply before-our mind, passage may very !well be considered the nearest parallel
lest we go off the track in this matter.                           passage in -the Bible <of the phrase, that we are dis-
     That we do have instances in Scripture where the c u s s i n g .
idea of "fulness" is that -of the last crumb. that fills                  There is, however, an important difference in the
the basket,. the last ,drop  ,of water .in the bucket that jnst ,quoted  passage, that distinguishes .it from the one
fills it, the last event in time that makes time fulil, under consideration.. Tlhis difference is not in the term
shoul,d   lbe evident, from a few quotations from the `ffulness". The ditfference  is-in the term "times". . . . In
Gospels. 1x1 Mark 1:15 we read of. the Key-note and our passage this is in the plural. To this plural tense.
of the Theme -of Jesus' preaching. It is given @ the and its `resultant meaning' we called attention last
brief and terse saying: "T,he time is fulfilled, and the week. But in .Galatians 4 14 we read the singular, we
Kingclom of, God is at hand,  repent  ye and believe read "time" I ( Chronos) . T'his  Idifference  in  n.umber,
in the gospel". From this quotatilon it is evident,, that as ,well as-in. the term employed is due to the difference
in the mind of _ Jesus the "epochs" (of the Old Testa- in view-point. And this different viewpoint is in
ment of the typ.es'and  shadows had run their :co,urse.            turn to ,bse explained from the ,difference  in the su:b-
They had arrived at the end, their Tel'os in His appear-           ject, that is tbeing discussed. by the apostle.
`anIce.    It was  His  zippearance   aed preaching, His                  If we may anticipate upon our  concl.usions=  ijni
death and resurrection, that `puts the "last ~crumb~' in regard to these two parallel passages in their respective _
the basket", and with this last ievent, time was just resultant .meanings just a `bit, we Lwould say the follow-
being, made full in the very present moment. That is 3ng.  -In  Gal:  4:4 the viewpoint of the apostle is, on
the shade ,of-meaning  that the perfect tense gives us the one. .hand, that `of _ the : time of JKSLIS' birth, the
in the .Greek. And, Do tour mind, this is an illurminating Word being' made flesh, ,and from this viewpoint look-
point. The same hhought is expressed in Luke 21:24. ing :back. On the lother hand, it should be observed,
Here Jesus, speakinfg of the fall aed ;destruction  of the_ that the apostle tdoes mlot designate this >entire  period
earthly, typical  Jerusalem, says: "anid they shall fall from the time `of the "Beginning" (Gen. 1 :l)  .up till
by the edge of the- sword, and shall !be $ed captive into the time <of Jesus' birth, in: its various epachs, as. he
all the nations ; and Jerusalem shall cbe trodden `down does this in Eph. 1 :lO. Just here he. is not interested
of the Gentiles, anti1 the times (epochs; proper seasons)          in this aspect. IHe loo'ks at all these "epochs" to which
of the Gentiles lbe fulfilled. When the last event has we `called  attention in our last article on .the "black-                    Ij


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 .board",  as one whole of time.' The fulness of time in theni the entire history of the world from the Coming
 which Jestis  came, is evidently, the last drop in. *he of CGhrist in the fliesh oh till His Second Coming in t,he
 [bucket of water, that fi.lls it. T,his is clear  Srom  tihle Last Day in `glory. .Let -us not forget that in history
 fact, that Jesus was born .when  this fulm,ess `%ame". Ivr+e are not dealing *with a mere physilcal measure, such
 From $his passage Iw:e conclu,de inr regard to the term as the  sanld in the hour-glass. We are  Idealing   with
 "fulness `of time" that .it ,evidently  refers to the last history ! The figure that C&ist eniploys bo teach us
 event of time, that  ifills the measure of time, the this, is that otf the harvest, of the ripening !grain. This
 measure that had to be filled, ihe events th&t must grain.has an ,eed, and the &Id is not that it ceases to be,
 take place "under the law" as the Taskmaster to Christ, or  that it is nierely  ended  .anywlhere,  but it must  lbe
 ere He could come. .But  Iw,hen all the  ,generations             brought to its ripened `state of the finished fruit.
 from Adam to Mary ?nad Ibeen born, vcihen all the ,curse                   The "fulness of times" is that point in time, when
 of the law hard ,been  revedled .in Israel, then Christ time is,indee;d full, bro,bght  to the full point. But this
 cokes, and there is not a .moment Idelay ! At this.point full p'oint is not attaimed  by grad%ual development, lbut
 of time, when the measure of the Old Teistainenrt  is sull, by the Wonder of grace:  in Christ*Jesus,  inr the Mystery
 Christ.is born from a wjoman,  born under the law!                of godliness. And in this $ulness of times we at oace
     It is ,our convilction, that in the phrase "unto a dis- have, according to the $%riptures, the summing up of
 pensation  ,of the fulness  <of  times" the  tern  @Zness all things.
 must *refer to the fillinlg up lof time, it is the last ievent             ?\his took place cent&ly in the Cross and resurnec-
 that makes time full. That much seems to !be clear not tion. There$ore the .f`enid of the ages" is so uniquely
:only  from  the parallel  passtige   irn Galatians  `4:4,  .buit [differ&t from ithe fepodhs  that want .befone.
 also in the passages' .from the :gospels,.  particularly
                                   I                                        The consideration $0: Wi.9 must wait till the f,ollow-
 Mark i:15.                                                        .fllig  issue.
     The question, however. remains,  ho`w we are to con-                    ._                                         G. L.
 ceive of this in this parti'cular phrase. The answer t,o,
 .this question `depends in good part ,on the proper con-
 ct+&on  .of the term "dispensation".  In  Greek   bhe
 te?m  for dispensation is "oikonomia".  Liteu'ally  the
 term means : House-law, household arratngement. Hence                       .' CONSISTORIAL UNION MEETING
 it is "applied to the id&a of stewiardship,  ,one who man-                 The Cinsistorial Union will1 meet at Hudson&e on
 ages the affairs of another: Thus Paul speaks of tjhe
 `coikonomian" the stewardship, ,the trust, $hat God has lLpri1 4 at 8 :00 P. M.  A!1 present and former  con-
 intrusted  unto him, in ;tihat  IBe h&s plaased on him the sistory members are &ged to be` present. Rev. W.
 privilege anld (duty to preach among *he Gentiles the Hofman will be the speaker of t,he evening.
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unseafchabile  riches of Christ. Obviously,  -when  this                                                     The Committee.
 term is  applie'd to God in our  text, this  Fiousehold
 management of lGhe text is altogether .unique. It here,
 then, refers to God's work ifn the history of the world.
 It must refer to `the actual realization alf $he p&an of
 God, `which is the `order  `of the day and of God's HoLise,                              CLASSIS  E A S T
 in hist,ory, as this history is l:ed to the full measure.         will meet in regular s$ssion  Wednesday, April 3, at
  "Dispensation" is surely more than time-&pan. It 9 o'clock A. M. All matters for Synod must be brought
.is more  than the bare equivallent  of the distance of time to this meetinlg of Class@.
 from Pentacost  to the Parousia ,of Christ. Ylet it cer-                                                 D.  Jonker,  S.. C.
 tainly is not at .a11 (divorced from it; yea, it is most
 ~clo,s~y wiapped'up in it. 1.t is tJhe affect of the effect,                                           -
 it i.s the rea&ing Cause. It is the Faeherly Provide&                                          . .
 of God, whereby He rules and Idcrects, and sbrimgs `all             r -
 things at the feet of His Christ, Lord over all !                                   STANDAR" BEARER-  DUES
    Thus we can understand, that it can be conceived                        Ftor information as ;to when your su)bscription  Ibe-
 of and be presented as .being identical -with *he "time" comes due, you will find tihe n!umbers which inl&icate  th&
 that  <brings all the "times'., to  .their  ftiil point!  .Not month and year stamped iwith yo:u? ad,dress.
 only does this construction fit the case here, $ut it is                   We have- fouqd that payments made by means oif
also a  ,good  Gk;eek  const.ruction  of the  genikive   case. the mail is less comfusin&  and mulch delay is eli.minated.
 We would  call  "fulness   iof times" genitive  of  identity      Therefore we ask  yo.u< cooperation in making your
 with `<dispensation".                  *                          payments  ,lbj  mail whenever possible.
 ~ The last drop that fills the measure  (of times  ,is                                        T$e Board of the R. F. I?, A.


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                                                                               &-&her  flash  - "Sunday Schools zbegin to teach
                  PERIS-COPE                                              religJqn by comics". It was hailed as a great success.
                                                                     by the general  boarid  of education  of. the  Method,ist
                                                                          Clurch at its three-day  confererme.  Seven hundred
                                                                          th'ousand icomic-picture texts wlere p'ublished each week.
YOUTH SAYS :                                                              Teni other denominations were granted permission to
        In a recent P~o,ll of High School students a rather use the same material.                        :
lange cross-section was asked if .they shodd like morje                       Quite what you ,mi!gght expect in a generation brought
help in, solving their personal  prolblems,  and where up #on pietares,  movies and comics, but nevertheless a
they would look for this help. Fifty percent of them generation which lives. in a so-called Christian coun-
 said they wanted the  $elp of their parents.                 !OillY t r y .
 eight percent wanted the advice of teachers and a still                       Cause: A generation  brlought  ,up on the notion
 smallter percentage  Iwould seek this advice from the                                 that it ,meedjs  to be entertained ; a genera-
ministers.                                                           c                 tionl which has gone lentertainment-macl  and
        Again, concerning sex lecluication,  sixty-six percent _.                      play-crazy;        I
stated a desire that such education sbo41d Ibe given                         Procedure : Make their instruct,ion  a matter `of enter-
 in the home, a smaller pencenta,ge idesired  it through                               ,tainment. A play- and :@ture-crazy gener-
the school~s, `a still smaller percentage sought it fr,om                               ation refuses to : think or meditate. .Give
the doctors and a negligibly small number w&c&d seek                                   them ,religion,  by all means they need re-
it from the churches aed the ministers.                                                ligion, {but .$y pictures.
        This perhaps does not make us ministers feel too                       Resullt  : Profanity.
important. `Our advice, at least among them? seems                             If we near a play- and  pilcturemscl   genleration,
not needed, and not `sought. -Whether this  n&lects we, too, w.ill find oulrselves  confronted wit:h the prob-
upon the students .or upon the ministry is a question lem ,of bow to .intstruct  them' in the Wlolrd `of God. . . .
you may decide if yon please.                                             because it's so dry the way the Bible gives it..
        But the striking thing. is that, even among these                      The radio has its dramatized, "Light of the W&l";
high school students, worldly perhaps, (although most- the Roman Catholics are making "spiritual movies",
ly  ch~wzl~   members)` the majority of them feel that now &ome `the scriptural comics. . . .
the .H.OME is the chief center of le;ducat8ion  and co;Lm-                     Alas ; ,alas ; the foolishness of the preaching.
sel.                                     .                                     But does this not agree: well with what Paul has
        ;This is true. We  d'o  n'ot care who says it, it told us, namely that the preaching of the Cross' is
is true. The #Home is the place wher'e personal prob- ifoolishness  to the world. They not only ,call it foohsh-
lems  Nought to be aired,  ,&vised  and treated.  T,he ,n:ess, it I$ foolishness to the world-wise.
home sho#ul,d give the sons and `daughters sex ed.uca-
tion. Even the moden' world understands bow signally                                           ****
important is. the home, at least t,hey think` `back on A WEEK AT OUR SCHOOL:  %
what the home `usedY to be, and they wish it wonld
be that again. But. . . . if salt have lost its savour                         H,ow  .wo,uBd  you  ,like to visit  xour Protestant Re-
and its quality, how shall it jbe restored?                               formed Seminary for a week. Come along. We'll
        May ,our homes stan,d lout prominently `as the chief go from class to  ,class, day to  `day.                  Courses change
center,s  for advice, consolation and instruction of. the fnolm semester to semester anid this weiek Iwe find as
next  ,generation;  and let our young ap!edple  be  abl,e to &l~lOWS  :-
answer that they have anId: have had such ,homes.                              Monday:  N!o school.  AD old  cust,om. Students
                                                                          often ,out .preaching  and cannot .get back ton time for
                          * * *  0..                                      Mtonday   sessi'ons.  A  (day of nest after a busy  Sab-
                                                                          ,xbath.
PICTURES:                           '                         .--              Tueqhy : Eight o'clock finds the students at school.
        "The Movies Go `To Church" is flashed across our Strictly at eight o'clock in comes Rev.  :(Prof.)  *) H.
News  .paper; And this country has a ready-made Hoeksema, It was rumored about that he `was once
audience of sixty million people, and, "that doesn't a minute late for his class, but I doubt whether this
include the  &Sunday Schools,  iwhich have the most was more than a rumor. I  ,do re+a:ll. he -was  ,once a
avid movie fans 109 all". James Kempe Fried&h has half minute late-and we chided him for it. Later he
 proved that "the Bible and the lb.ox-office" wlill mix. co;nvinced  us that the school clock was thirty seconds
Several hundred r,elilgious films have been made, but fast.
"the boom is just beginning".                                                 The first thing T.uesday m,orn.ing  is cha<pel exencises;
        I suppose the boom is just bjeginning.                            The professor reads, in ,Greek,  from the ,book .of. James


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this- morning, explaining v&&us. iw,ords and passages instead `of at ten, but ,only filve minutes of it.. - Then
as he goes. He- then ,opens  with .prayer. Dogmatics the `class. turns its attention- to the New Testament
is. next. Today the  olass. is busy with  E:oclesiology           History, havilig.ju8t"$riished-;t~~-pe~io~d  of four hun-
(study about the Church). The Professor asks ques- dred years before Christ. At about ten-thirty the
ti'ons,  the students answering them (for not) and dis- subject is Confessions, briefly igoing over the various '
cussiofi--follows.     At about nine-forty-five comes Exe- Confessi,ons  and studying what  the. Church  -ibefore
g&Isis, that is, reading the Bcble and .giving the-.meamng        us- confessed. Finally they. have Dutch, when `one of
from the #original. text. Eaczh student has to. exegete the students  renlders   ashort essay in what is com-
,on'e verse each- ,week.     In class one ,o,f- the students monly called Dutch (although the professor oftenre-
reads tie exegesis after. which foll,ows  criticism -and minds, them that it isn't `Dutch). Again one- ,oif the
comments from the  cl&s  `and from the professor. .students  cl,oses  with `prayer and school is out  - for
After this  the  imstructor   *gives them the exegesis of today.                            /         . --                     _
h.is ,own, thus .teaohing  the class to interpret the Bible.       Fyidccy  : Professor Ophoff  `.cond.ucting  .dass again
Act ten o%l~ock  comes `a [few-minutes of recess, current' starts at eight :o'clook. First today the profess&finds
events are discussed, #debates  are begun, lunches are out how well the stud:ents  have studied thei,r -Church
consumed etc. At -eleven ,o'cl,ock History of Dogma, History. Then comes Bible History in .which the pro-.
how  w'e got the Apostle's  Creed:,  dogmas, principles fessor hands out typed sheets of his- explanation and
of religion ,etc. Then follows a study of Latin #during inker.pretation.  Then ~o%clock,  and that welcome recess.
whi:ch the class reads from St. Augustine's  Ctonfes-             Next is  Isagogics   (l.ook it up in. the dictionary) and
si,ons and this  cotitinues  until  noonl. One of the exegesis and .that  day they. were treating the -book of
students closes with prayer. &ft;ertio:on-no school. Hosea. The last half-honr is spent on Hleibrew  vocabu-
The  stuident is -in his room, getting his assigmnents lary stu'dy and the students, repeating the voca.bulary,
finished. `The-professor is in his room, making more. sound like they are st&tering.or  hiccoughing-but it's
       lVod-nesday  : Behind the instructor's idesk stands Hebrew.. .
the Rev. (Professor) G. M. Ophof, and at eight o'cl'ock              ~Thanks  to my repo&er for this Periscope.
the students are all in their places. Opening exercises.             I hope you enjoyed: this wleek at ,OUF School. Per- -.
A-full schedule waits, there Js no time to Ease. Church haps we will soon see `some .of you young men there,
Polity, first thing after opening.. In the `back  <of taking the lessons.                        j                          M. ,G.
oulr Psalters you find- it called the Church Manual.
Prospective ministers  oulght to  know. what  .rules  oif                                               -
,order are necessary in the Church and the professor                                     NO.TICE-'                 _ _
can tell them that. At abo,ut  .mne io%lock commences                 The Theological School  Cojmmittee will meet Friday
the study  *of Church History. Today the lesson is <evening, April 12, in the First-Prot. R&f. Chunrzh.
about the  Rleformation,   ,dangers, trials  and  trou,bl!es                                            Rev. J. A. Heys, .Sect.
.of the Churcih  in yealrs `gone by.' This  is`foll,ow,ed  jby
Bible History and hhen comes ,a~ short  ,but welcome                                       A             -
recess. Next comes Tyipology an,d the professor finds
out whether the stuldents -know -what feasts Israel ob-                                 - I N          `MEMORIAM
served and ,what .these_ feasts meant. What is the Pass-
over? What .is the Sabbath? The students are anstier-                 On February 25,. the Lord took unto Himself our dear  wife
ing.  well1 this morning and the professor is delighted. and mother,
N'ow comes Hebrew reading, that is, reading the Bible                       M.&S.  A N N I E   P&MMEL--Kooiker
ini -the `Hebrew. langua.ge. Sometimes one lof the stu- at ,the age of fifty years.
Idents has to write some  IH,ebrew  ,on the  :blackboard;             Tlhough  we  ,are deeply grieved and greatly miss the joy
To the visitor it looks l&e a board f~dl:  ,of dots, da.shes,     and cheerfulness  !she brought to  our.home,  we are grateful to
scratches and chicken tracks. This over; one of the -the Lord for  :a11 that He  Ihas given  )us in her;  trueither do we
students closes w,ith prayer `and school closes for the mourn as those who have no hope, for the Lord has relieved
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day.                                                              her from much suffering to be in glory forever with Him whom,
  _Thw*sday   : Prof.  JZoeksema at the  Idesk. School by grace, she loved and served.
starts' at eight oUock. The instructor reads, in *Greek,              "Blessed are they  who& die in the Lord".
from the book ojf James, commenting as he ,goes. He                                                    Herman  W: Kooiker
then. opens with prayer. -Dogmatics i,s the next &lb-                                                  Mr. and Mrs.  Wrnl  Kooiker
jlect `and today the lesson is about Baptism and the                                                   Mr. and Mrs. L. Wallinga
Covenant. A general discussiton follows and the Nether:                                                Clara
lands controversy is brought up for discussi'on.                                                       P v t .   Albert
    R;eoess happens to be at nine-th,irty  this morning.                                                 and 1 grandchild,


