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                                                                                one body, baljtized into the Ldrd atid all had been made
   -M~~ITAT  I,ON
                                                           ._                   to drink into one Spirit ! Oh, yes, they were one.
                                                                                                But not in the manifestation of their life at Corinth !
                                                                                They were divided,  tiiskrably  .dividcd,  because they
                                                                                allowed the flesh to dominate them. -.
                  .,The.  Spejech  Of  Love  i                                                  They were a very gifted church; but they did not
                                                                                realize  tlla$ all  the& gifts were wrought by the self-
                    "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of              same Spirit of the Lord, and that therefore t&y all
             .    angels,. and have not charity, I- am becorn?  as sound-       were  manifestations of the one body of Christ.
                  ipg brass, or a tinkling cymbal."                                             But, Paul will teach them. He will tell them in
                                                        - 1   Car.  13:;.       detail how that .every diversity of gift is by the Spirit
     Whit does Paul'meah with this astounding verse? `of God which they all, have. reckived,  and -that, there-
     Well, you must know. that things were not ,as they fore, they should be one in that Spirit. `-Yes, my dear                                            -
  ought to be at Corinth. There was a division in the children, (he will say)  `%here are .differences  of- ad-
  church: Some of the household of ,Chloe had told Paul ministration, but only one Lord 1
  about the sorry state  qf affairs at the church of                                             There are  siso  diversities of operation, but the
  Corinth.         There were four different parties there. same God which worketh all in all! '
  IAnd it seems as though all the members were included                                   Yes, the whole preceding chapter speaks of these
  in the four parties that are.mention'ed. Everyone said  :' .differences  and diversities that are `wrought by the
  I `am of Pa61 ;. and I- of Apollos ; and I of Gephas ; and                    one Lord, and the .one-Holy  Spirit, and the one gldrious
  I- of Christ.!                                                                God operates in them all.
     A sorry state of affairs, indeed!                    .'                                    `Corinth's church should be one. Even with all the
     They shbuld `not speak that way.                                           differences and variety of .giftB and talents.-
      Instead-of that, Paul tells them that they all should                                      Yes,.`they  may be zealous unto the obtaining of the
                                                                                best gifts that are showered on the church, but .Paul
 _ say the same thing. You may read $hat in the first `will show them i;he `only way, the better and .excelling
~ chapter of the epistle from which we have chosen qur way to. receive and employ them:                                                . --
  text. . .                                                                                      And that way is the way of love! _
     And they should say the same thing because of the                                           Paul  beans to make them conscious of the root from
  fact `that they all enjoyed the fellowship *of God's Son,                     which all real gifts grow, without which the gifts will
  Jesus Christ, the Lord. Surely, if the Lord. Jesus in- work nothing but discord.  (
  spires you .with His Holy Ghost, you will not go alpout,                                       It is the love'of God! If that love motivates me'and
claiming  al! kinds of allegiance to men whos'e breath is my gifts, I am unto His praises- forever. And that,'
  in. their nqstrils?                                                           after all, is the only purpose of the universe, mankind,
      Qh, they did have that unity in the very depth of                         the -world and those that live' therein, time, space,
  `their,hearts.  There is no doubt about that. They are                             eternity, everything ! Even -the wrath of man: shall
  "the church 6f !God which is at Corinth, them that are, praise .Him ! Even the devilshall be to the everla:ting
  `~&C$%l in Christ Jesus, called -to be saints, with all -glory of God. If -that were -not true, there would be
  &at' `% eGery  place call upon the- name of Jesus Christ no. devil; you.may be `very certain about that. God has
  our Lord,~ hot-h their!s and o&s !"                      ,I I                      created everything for His -own honor- and pleasure,
      In the. inner man -they all had the ,Holy VSpirit. if even the wicked for the day of evil.
  :Christ and ;by -virtue_` of that Spirit, they were one,
        t                                                                                        Oh yes, it makes a .world of difference whether `I
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 am to IHKs- gonor and praises positively or negatively. and the w%otiderful  sozig .and m&c of the world. They
 It makes a terrible lo& of difference whether I am- to                 will say : Yes, -but they do not even think of God ; how
 His praise ip. heaven or in hell!                                      can they act from the principle' 6f hat&d ?              -
    But `wh& I name the Name of Christ I must be                           Oh, but they do. Every `one, always, either acts
 divorced fr@n evil. I must praise !Hini positively, that from the love of God dr the hatred of God. There is
 is, I must  sing my song  .of harmony and  beauty. I no  neutralitjr  at all.
 must speak $he 1anguage"of -love.      ;  "' .             . .            Let us take the case that was advanced: they do,not
    And  .that was not found!Iati C@inth. That is; it even think *of God ! Is that not terrible? Not to think
 was not manifested. But Paul will rebuke them and of `God?  Hor,rors!  He.is so near to us that we move ifi
 teach them so that haply. they may %ttirn and begin to Qilim and have our being in Him ! And IHe formed us
 seek and `to find' one another Inca syniijhony of praise for but one purpose : to speak and to sing: and to write
 of God  in. Christ.                                          t o            His--praises
                                                                                        ! And if we do- not, there is onl-y pne
    If I speak the tongue's of men and of angels. . . .                 other answer: we hate Him!.
    What mighty concepts !                                                 Sometimes that hatred is conscious: that is bitter-
    The tongues of men!                                                 ness indeed. Sometimes it is not. What of it? When
    That includes the spoken, the sung, the written  ind God is utterly igriored and negated by modern man so
 printed  word  of man. But also  the  ,tiusic of  man. that they never even curse Him any more, that is'ihe
,Oh, there is a world of speech in the world.                           worst manifest&ion of hatred ever. -Horrible!
    And it does not sourid  as though it were a sounding                   .Ah, if only we love ,God ! And. then listen to your
brass and a tinkling cymbal.                                            crooners, baritones, tenors, soprano's, and singers of
    Much of it sounds so beautiful; so smooth, so booth-                melting, loves. Or listen to mellow talkers, spoke they
i n g ! IThink of the world of literature, of the many                  ever so sweetly, or the man with the golden throat and
arts'and sciences, of the world of music !             I           the a.dmirable-  accent, and then you will grow angry,
    Do you still remember that wonderful voice of for they forget Gdd. They use their throat which is a
Franklin  Delano Roosevelt? I would sometimes forget gift of God. They use and employ the "laws" of tiusic
what he was saying, just so I could hear that voice, ' a-nd the vocal cords which He made, but they will never
that high& voice !                                                      think ~11 Him. It calls for the Judgment Day!
    Especially now, since we 811 have the radio in our                     And this is true of the whole world of speech of
`homes, w'e hear much music which is so near to per- man ,
fection, I mean, formal perfectiqn.                                _       If the love of (God is in it, well and good: you will
    How can the' Holy Ghost call all `this speech as a enjoy the speech that is-pious and pregnant with God's
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal?                                   praises. But if +hat love is absent from your produc-
 - A sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal are men- tion, you better be afraid for the conseqences. There
tioned in order to tell Corinth that all speech that has                is only one kind of vibration that will abide forever:
not its root in. the love. of God, is discordant, ugly,                 it is the sound of. adoration of. God !
abominable in the ear of a perfect (Gbd !                                  If we would cast the text of Paul into a positive
   `How are these thirigs to be explained?                              form, we would read this: If I speak with the tongue
   ,It will- become plain to you, beloved reader, if you                of man, motivated by the love of God, I shall be as the
know God !     .                                                        sound of:a sweet melody in the ears of God!
    If' you know .not IGod, I despair of con+incing  you                   And why?
of the. truth qf my text. But if you know and  love.                       The answer is. easy: because I shall be an echo of
Him, you will live this text every day.                                 His own song of eternal Covenant Love!
    There are only two fundarhental principlss  of the                     Love : what is it?
life of `man. The. one is the principle of the, love of                    The  key-yrord  in the text is love. Improperly
God ; and the other is the principle of the hatred against translated  charity.
God and His anointed, and that is Christ.                                  ILove : what iS it?
    Now Paul nieans that if you speak from the prin-                       Love is God; ,and {God is love ! I John 4 :8.
ciple of the hatred-against God, you are a discordant                      Paul has given us- some sort of definition of love.
note in the universe. In such case it is abomination You will find it in  Coil.  3:14. There he says: "And
to listen to you. And if that is the case you will be abbve all these things put on charity (that must be
`muz_zled  bye and bye. There will be a time that all the translated: love) which is the bond of perfectness."
spe&hmaking,  writing, singing and music-making will                       `Therefore, we may say, first of all, that love, the
be stopped. At such time the whole world will stand love' of God, is the bond of perfectness. -If you are
silent aid every mouth will Be stopped. G'od will not perfect you are bound to the perfect God.
suffer discordant speech unto all eternity! Perish the                     The same Paul tells us in Coll. 2:2 that love is the
thought !                                                               atition  that knits us tog&her as brethren of Christ.
    I hear voices that will defend the beauteo& speech                    The same language is used when the love of' David


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  and Jonathan is described. They were. knit `together                 Everything you hiar `in heaven is about that won-
d in love.                                                          derful Lamb  ,of God, the gift of His heart. `Every-
         I think that -we may say that the love-of God; in thing you hear is about  the love of  .God. And with
  Himself, is that virtue where He is bound .together, knit faces that are beaming with love they turn themselves
  together in  [His own glorious eternal being. God is to the heart of heaven, to the-throne of God, and they
  `One in Himself, beca!lse-&t!e  is love. Father, Scn and tell Him in a great variety of voices and of music
  IIcly ,Ghost  are knit together .in the sphere of infinite        that they love Him in their  ttirn.  *And that turn is
  perfection, the perfection of their Covenalit Life..              eternal.
   That life of  ,God's love  is.maqifested in the' Gift of            so: speak to Him of love, and you shall. not be a
J-e&s Christ our Lord. .For God so loved. the. world sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
  that He gave His only begotten .Son that-  w"nosoever                I would beg of you not to divorce the creation and
  belie&h on Him should not perish, but have everlast- its fulness from the central story of. time and of
  ing life ! There you have the manifestation of `the eternity. For  that is what the world is doing. No,
  love of ,God.                                                     they do not speak of God anymore. They neither curse,.
         God wanted to show to you and me how utterly nor do they bless. They do something that is worse
 lqve!y He  was-.and is and shall be unto  .a11 eternity.           still. They have taken the world over and have placed
 Therefore.: the, world, the fall, the redemption'and the           God outside the door of the Universe. And they speak
  giorification  .,of all things.                                   n o `m o r e - o f   H i m .   .
         And the end will show that being "knit together"               Oh yes, they speak. With- tongues of men, and
  and that `<bond of perfectness" !                                 sometimes it sounds as though the angels are singing,
         You will see that.all,things shall be united in Christ,    so beautiful, so sweetly melodious! -
  of things that are in heaven, and on the earth and under             But let us Dot be deceived; They know not God,
  the  eartli,  And in and through.  Christ that new,               neither will they know  IH!im. `They hate  IHim. But
  glorious, Zovely world shall be. united to God, ~6.7 that they will use His "laws" and creation material. And
  God may be all and in all.                                        they have made their compositions. They speak and
         Now then, if you have that love of God in you,             they do sing. They will also sing of love, but it is not
  ydu better- speak with the tongue of man. And- it will the love of God in Jesus Christ.
  be well. You may not say it with so many wbrds, but                   But their sbeech and their music shall damn them
  I assure you that your speech will- be an expression forever !
  of that, wqrld .and life view of which we spoke just                  But thou? Speak thou to Him of love! Speak of
  now. You will search and f&d the cdnnection  betweeti             it in accents sweet.           iSing,- oh sing, of  your Re-
  all things and the God who created them, and who is d e e m e r   !
  rushing ali things'to their rebirth.                                  No, you may not be able to sing and to speak as
         They warble in the world : ISpeak to me of l&e !           fluently and as sweetly, as to form, as the world
         Indeed, that is exactly what (God is singing to His        speaks and sings. It is well. We must wait a tiliile.
  saints !                          I                               Contifiue  to sin& and to speak of His love. The time
        And He has a wonderful Right to sing that song will come that your song and your speech will be more
  and demand that you speak with the tongue of man of               beautiful than-the speech and the song of the angels in
  that eternal love.         (,                                     the `night of Bethlehem.
         He has done it! Did He not do it?                              And  after these `things I heard a  great  .voice of
         Go to the Place of. a Skull ! It is a little way from much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia.!                     -
  then old Jerusalem. And there th'e L&d God has-sung                   It is the echo, the everlasting echo, of ;Go$`s song of
  IHis song of love ! IHave you not heard it? I assure l o v e !
  you that the sound of it has gone out, over all the earth.                                                                      G. V.
                                                                                                          .-
  You h&e heard of that song of love from your earliest                                                    -
   i n f a n c y .
   .     And He wants to hear the echo from out of your                                         IN MEMORIAM
  heart.
         They tell me that when man is smitten with a great            De  Hollandsche  Vrouwen Vereeniging  "Bidt en  Werktl'  de;
   love, he will hear nothing but of that love and bring Protestantsche  Gereformeerde Gemeente te Orange City, Iowa
   all things in connection with it. It is well. _ .Only God wenscht door  :dezen hare sympathy te betuigen met h&en leeraar
   has t&e right to demand just that, and --He does. He             en'Z.ijne  familie in het verlies van  hunne  moeder,
  wants you to always speak to Him of love, and to con-                                   MRS. LJOHN PETi+ER-
   nect all things in heaven and on earth with that central         trooste de Heere hen allen  met Zijn Woord en beloften dat zalig
   story of Jesus and His love !                                    zijn de dooden die in den  Heere sterven.
         Listen to ,the heavenly scene in the revelation of                                             Namens onze Vereeniging,
  John the Divine.                 `0                                                      .              Mrs. M. De Jager, Sec.
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       C0ntributin.g  Editors: -, Rev. G. M. Ophoff,  Rev.  G. Vos, Rev.                                                                                                                                                 Rev.  I'Ghysels writes about the parable of our Lord
       R. Veldman, Rev. H. Veldman, Rev. .H. De Wolf,.Reb. B. Kok,                                                                                                                                                       which is Commonly called the parable of the Wheat sind
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       Rev. W.  Hiofmari.                                                                                                                                                                                                    He writes as follows:
            Communications relative to cqntents  should be addressed to _                                                                                                                                                    "Our Lord's warning against judgifig-his-counsel
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                         their children, friends correct friends, ministers cor-
                                                                               -                      -                           .                                                         ~                            rect members, tbachers correct scholars, older people
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         correct younger ones, wiser people correct the unwise.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         In fact, this is our duty  as  .Christians.  As the  Bibl,e
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                                                            .-                 - CONTENTS -                                                                                                                              voke unto love and good works !"
                                                                                                                                                                               .                                             "One rather remarkable thing about the tares in
      MEDITA&ON:-                                                                                                                                                                                                        the Master's field id that they can through the gospei
      THE ,%PtiECti  OF.LOVE . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l.............. 505 and by the grace of God be changed from tares  to.
                 Rev. G. Vos.                                                                                                                                                                                     wheat. And the wheat that is already such can be-
      EDITORIALS:-                                                                                                                  1               -                                                                    come a better variety. And this should be our constant
     WHEAT AND `TARES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . T: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ,5bs endeavor-to make the  tar,es wheat,  and the wheat
      %O$RESPONDENCE  WITH THE -NETHERLANDS ,..I...........  509                                                                                                                                                         better!"                       _             I                 :
                 Rev. G. Vos.                                                                                                                                                                                               And a& the close of %he skcond meditation on this
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         p a r a b l e ,   h e   con&d&:
      OUR DOCTRINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :512                                                                                              -j
                 Rev. H. Veldman.                                                                                                                                                                                           "We need to remember  that in the kingdom  of.
     THE DAY  ;F  StHHkDOwIS ,........................................~..................                                                                                                                                God we do not subscribe to  tlie fatalism that  says,
                                                                                                                                                                                                      515                "Once tares, always tares." Tares can become wheat
                 Rev: G. M. Ophoff.                                                                                                                                                                                      and wheat can be much itiproved !"
     SION'S  ZAI+G,EN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519                                          In connection herewith I would like  to  ask. the
                 Rev.  G. Vos.                                                                                                                                                                                           Rev. Ghysels a few questions.  -.
I'ERIS.CO,PE                              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  i . . . . . . . . . .._..I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522       First, Do tares  ever become wheat? Are  `not  the.
                 Rev. W.  Hofmari.                                                                                                                                                                                       parables true earthly pictyres? _ If they are not true
     .INDEX TO THE STANDARD  BEAREii I...,............................. 525                                                                                                                                              eirthly pictures, what, then, shall d&ermine their
                 Rev. J. Howerzyl.                                                                                                                                                                                       exegesis?  )        ..                             ,.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Second, is not your exegesis  impdssible?  Where
                                   _/  ..                                     -             -              -            -                                                                                                do  yoti  read that  tares  m&y  become wheat?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              `.`.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Thirdly, is' not your exposltlon  ( 3) & this par.able
                                                                    CL&IS  nA.tiT                                                                                                                                        a denial. of election and ,reprobation? Imagine, if you'
     Will meet in regular session .at the Second Protestant will, that the preacher may proceed from the view-
     Reformed Church of ,Grand Rapids, Michigan on Wed-                                                                                                                                                                  point that all may become wheat?
     nesday, `October 15 at 9 o'clock A.M.                                                                                                                                                                                  Fotirthly, -@id you not create an anti-climax in your
                                                                                                                        - D.  Jonker$. C.                                                                                concluding remark? Is it no%' clear from `your stand-
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 .point &at you dught to have concluded thus 
                       -                                :. Tares          bond der genade of die htiilsbelofte (Gen. 17 :11, 13-
 may become wheat and wheat may become tares?                             14 ; Doopsform@ieE)  ?       .-
     Fifthly, do you not see that all this belongs not
 in the churches that call ,themselves-  Reformed, but ,that               Deze  punten zijn van  belting, omdat zij  (hoewel-~
 it properly- belongs among the Methbdists, the Remon- geen officieel  aanvaarde leeruitspraken  van onze G&e-
 strants and the Arminians?                                             formeerde kerken),  tech den  gedachtengang  weer-
     I  x-o&d conclude that this parable teaches that geven, van waaruit bezwaar werd gex@akt tegen de. -
 tares remain tares  even until the  *end of time,  Bnd synodale leerbeslissingen.
  that they. shall be destroyed. And the wheat remains                     Het lijkt mij dienstig, allereerst te letten  .op enkele
  x&eat and is gathered into the barns of God at ,the dajr              hier genoemde t,eksten. I&en wij beginnen met Hand.
. of the great `harvest.                                                2 : 39, i vo&al bekend uit ens- `doopsf ortiulier : want u
                                                G .   v .               komt de belofte toe en uw kinderen, enz.
                                                                           Opmerkelijk is hier de Statenvertaling,  die oak in
                                                                        ons  doopsformulier  gevolgd is. Er  staat` immers in ,
                                                                        den grondtekst alleel!  dit simpele woord: want voor
                            A-
                                   --                                   u is de belofte en voor uw  kinderen   (humin gar  estin
                                                                        hh epanggelia)  .' Wie zich dus blindstaart op de letter-
                                                                        lijke bewoordingen van den' tekst, zonder te letten  op
                                                                        den samenhang, kan er zich van afmaken met te zeg-
        Cwrespondkmce   With  The                                       gen: hier wordt niets  verkondiga  over de  vraag, of
                      ?Jeiherlands                -                _    die belofte aan elk van de daar aanwezigen geadres-
                                                                        seerd is. En' wie'zi& niet weet vrij te maken van de
                                                                        synodqle gedachteninfectie, denkt er natuurlijk dade-  '
                                                                        lijk `weer bij, wat hem .ook voorgehouden tiordt bij
     This is the third article, written by the Rev. Doekes              den doop ip de synodale geme`enschap;  ."u komt de be-
  of the Reformed Churches, Art. 3l;of the Netherlands,                 lofte toe", dat is nog maar een algemeene zegswijze ;
  in answ,er  to the 4 questions which our -Editor asked
 .hiti, and which are found in Volume 23 of our Standard het meet straks blijken,  of dat woord `we1 volle waar-
                                                                        heid inhield voor ,dezep gedoopte!
  Bearer, l@arch 15, 1947, page 271. This third article
  appeared in De Reformatde, July 12, 1947, page 325.                      .Maar wie zich gehoorzaam de situatie op den Pink-
                                                                        sterdag indenkt, die moet we1 terughuiveren voor deze--
                      U`  EN UW  Z,iAD.  _                              opvatting.  Immers, Petrus richt zich'in zijn toespraak
                                                                        uitdrukkelijk tot de Joden te Jeruzalem. We1 zeg$ hij'
               (Antwoord aaxi Ds. Hoeksetiaj                 ..         in  VS.  14:. "gij Joodsche  mannen en  gij  allen die  .t&
  . Hoe spreekt de Schrift ? In de taal, die de synodes Jer%zalem  woont", maar terecht  teekent  1Grosheid.e
  van .1942 en daariia ons wilden qpdringen:' dat de-volle              daapbi j a8n : "van heidenen, al zullen die zich in dezen
  heilsbelofte "eigenlijk" alleen de  uitverkorenen   toe- tijd we1 te Jeruzalem hebben bevonden, is- in dit ver-
  komt? En zboals Ds. Hoeksema het sterk heeft~ uit- band geen sprake, vgl. vs. 22, 29, 39". Tot deze Joden
  gedrukt, in woorden die herinneren aan de beruchte                    nu richt Petrus de scherpe beschuldiging, dat zij den
 taal van Toelichting en Preeadvies: "Het is eetivoudig Zaligmaker hebben gedood. De toespraak grijpt hen
  niet wa'ar, dat `God in den (Heiligen Doop iets belooft en            aan ; ze  worden  "verslagen in het  hart", en vragen
  verzegelt a-an alle  gedoopien"?                                      bevend: `wat  moeten wij  nu  doeri?  En dan  komt het
     IOf `is het naar de ISchrift, wanneer de bekende groep evangelie voor deze Christusmoordenaars: bekeert u,
  van indertijd vooraanstaande  bezwaarden  in de "Very                 en ieder van u late zich doopen, en -dan zu!t ook gij          .
  klaring van gevoelen" (Nov. 1943) haar meening  o.a.                  &en Heiligen Geest ontvangen-want  u  komt de  be-
  in deze p&ten formuleerd*e:                                           l o f t e   t o e !
                                                                            Het is duidelijk, dat dit laatste de grond is, waar+
  2.. dat God in Christus zijn genadeverbond heeft op-                  op  Petrus  `zoo  vrijnidedig "een  ieder" van die  aan- .
     gericht met de  geleovigen  en  h?n zaad (Gen. 17,                 wezige Joden roept tot de verzoening  en vernieuwing
    %.`7;  aGal. 3  :14, 29)  ;                                         van  Christus' gemeenschap. De belofte van' den H.
  3. dat daarom a!le kinderen  der geloovigen verbonds-                 ,Geest, zooals die jn Jo@1 3 is gegeven, maakt deel` uit *
     kinderen  zijn (%Pand. 3 :25) ;                                    van het  geheel  der beloften ("de" belofts),  die God
  4. dat al di'e k&deiren heilig (1 Car: 7 : 14) `of in ,Chris- eek'tijds aan Israel heeft toegezegd. Daaraan ontleent
     this geheiligd  zijti (1  CoU;.  1:2,,`Doopsformulie?) ;           Petrus Qjn aandrang oni tot Christus te komen. Maar ; .
  5. datderhalve atin al die kihderen de heilsbelofte van als het.waar  is, vat d&&modale  theorie ons wijsmaken
   dai  verbond  toekomt (Hand.  i  :39)  ;                             wil, dai zou Petius die verslagen menschep  daar v6& -
  6. dat `dus voor al die.kindere,n de--doopSbediening  :Is hem gruwelijk hebben  misleid. Hij zou ieder  .van
     beteekening en verzegeling aan. hen van het `ver-                  lien hebben opgewekt  om met diep. berouyv over zijn


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        zonde,  maal:.  to&, met  dankbare  vrij'tioedigheid tot             Here follows the translation : `-?s . .
         Christus te komen op grond van de hem toekomende
        heilsbelofte+erwijl er. ,dan' naderhand' een dispuut                             Y&J (AND' .??OUR  SEED.
        behoorde te +orden gehouden, 6f die belofte we! waar-                          (Reply t;o t& Rev. Hoeksema)
        lijk voor ieder van hen bedoeld was geweest! Voelt                   How does Scriptwe  speak? In the langudge which
        inen' dan nieti, dat `daarmee aan Gods openbaring  gruwe-         the Synods of 1942 and those that followed would force
     d lijk onrecht wordt aangedaan? Dat men van Hem een -upon us: that the full promise of salvation "properly"
        God maakt, die (naar de teekenende uitdrukking bijv.              onljr belongs to the elect? And even as Rev. Hoeksema
        yan Qs. Ponk) `(een slag om den arm houdt" ? Het is has strongly expressed it in words that call to mind the
        dezelfdk miserabele gedachtengang dien wij tegen- notorious language of (the) Elucidation and (the)
        komeli in de Verv&gingsformule: "bouwen op de be-                 Preadvice : "It is simply not true that God promises
        lofte", maar ondertusschen die belofte disputabel stel-           and seals something in Holy Baptism unto all baptized
        yen.:; .  .:
         .'                                                               persons" ?
                  J& maar-zoo  hoor ik iemand al zeggen-verliest             Or is it according to Scripture, when the wellknown
        u qu niet teveel uit het oog, dat uw tegenstanders  hun           group of, at the time, prominent aggrieved persons
        argument ontleenen  aan de S&rift, b.v. -aan Rom. 9?              formulated their opinion in the "Declaration of Opin-
        Inderdaad,  nien beroept  zich  daar op  ; en wij  zullen         ion" (Nov. 1943)) among other things, in these points :
        daar volle aavdacht aan-geven.
        "1":`;                              Het gaat er hier niet 2. that God in Christ has established His covenant of
        om;, dat wij bang zijn om Schrift met Schrift $6 ver-                grace with the believers atid their seed (Gen. 17:7;
        gelijken (integendeel!) ; maar om de vraag, of de ver-               Gal. 3:14) ;
        $.&j$ing.   we1  z{iver getrokken  word&   *of hier geen 3. that, therefore, all children of believers are covenant
        vooroordeelen van een verdorven menschelijke  logica                children (Acts. 3 :25) ;
        :in.`t spel zijn.                                                 4. that all those children are holy (I Cor. 7 : 14) or
         -- In ieder geval moet ieder toegeven, dat onbevangen               sanctified in Christ (I Cor.  1:2, Formula of Bap-
        Ilezing van den tekst in sand. `2 ons Ieidt `tot de con-            tism) ;                                _..  .'
        :clusie, dat de  belof%e bestemd is voor  alle  itoenlklaals      5. that, consequently, the promise of salvation of that
        aanwezige.Israeiieten  ea hun kinderen. Zelfs Dr. Gros-              covenant belongs to (toekomen aan) all those child-
        ,heid,e geeft dat bij den tekst als .volgt weer: "De be-            ren (Acts  2:3,9)  ;
        ,&fte is voor hen, voor allen, -die daar staan. De Joden          6. that, therefore, for all those children the administra-
        :i&eetiden  wel, dat de belofte van hen was. . . . maar            tion of baptism is the obsignation  and sealing unto
        :zij kenden  niet -den zegen -van het feit, dat de belofte          them of the covenant of grace or that promise of sal-
        ..voor hen was, l&n troost  bracht en vreugde; zij zagen            Sation  (Gen. 17 :ll, 13, 14; F.ormula of Baptism) ?
        de belofte niet goed". rHet blijft bnbegrijpelijk, `dat              These points are important, because they (although
        :iemand, die dit  schrijven kon, zoo vinnig heeft  mee- no officially adopted dogma's of our Reformed Church-
        geholpen.  aan. de vervolging van. gereformeerde mede- <es) reveal the lice of thought out of which. objection
        IjToeders,  die het precies zoo volhielden als hijzelf he! was made against the synodical decisions of doctrine.
        .in den hierv66r geciteerden zin had gezega!                         It may-serve a good purpose, first of all, to attend
        cl:. ' I Trouwens, het moet ons niet ontgaan, dat de exe-         to some of the texts that are mentioned here. Let us
        -hese;   die-rhet  " u komt de belofte toe
                             _                        " feitelijk alleen start with Acts  ,2:39, especially familiar from our
        -lop' de uitverkorenen last zien, met kracht is ntiar voren       Formula of Baptism  : For the promise is unta you, and
     ..  .gebracht -`door de Wederdoopers. Calvijn heeft  zich to your children, etc.                         -
        %c  sterk`,tegen   .verzet. Bij Hand. 2 :39. schrjjft hij :          Noteworthy is here the translation found in the
        ."Dezi:  `pl.a?,ts  vireerl,egt  afdoende de  Wederdoopers,       version of the l%ble, authorized by the States of Hol-
        w'elke  de kleine kinderen, geboren bit geloovigb  ouders, land (Statenvertaling) , which translation is also fol-
        .vaq den doop weren, alsof ze ieen leden der kerk waren. lowed in our Formula of Baptis;. In the original text
     . .Ze trachten er zich uit te redden door een allegorische ye find, indeed, only this simple word : For the,promise
       .opv&ting en verklaren' "kinderen" als "die geesteli jk 1s  u,nto ~JOZ(,, and to your childken  (hu$n gar e&in h&
        geboren zijn". Maar zij vorderen niets met zoo groote epanggelia) . Therefore, whoever star& at the literal
      .  .onbeschaamdheid". Een dergelijke opmerking maakt wording of the text, not taking into ,ticcount  ;the con-
\       .Calvijn opnieuw bij Hand. 3 :25: En datzelfd,e verzet text, can dispose of the niatter*merely by sayirii : noth-
        %egen de doopersche theorie is ook bekend u& ziin Insti- ing is procl&medhere  Regarding th& question, whether
        @tie en zijn polemiek tegen Servet. Natuurlijk zou nu that promise  is-addr,essed  to each one present  there.
        .achteraf  kunnen blijkenj  dat die exegese der W*eder-           And he who does  not  know how to liberate himself
        doopers- juist was. Maar de oude strijd, die.er  al over from the infectious, disease of synodical thinking, at
        gqvoerd  is, moet ons ,dubbel voorzichtig maken.                  once accompanies that first thought with the' other,
               `P,.                                     L .   DOEI(ES.    of course;-: which accompanying thou&t is also held


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      before him at the administration of baptism in `the w&ether the cornparis& is correctly made,  whether or
      synodical fellowship : "the promise is unto you", that not prejudice,s,of  a corrupt human logic come into play
       is merely a general expression;. it will have to appear -at this juncture. \                                                   Y--F=
                                                                                                                                     .---
.      presently whether that word contained, indeed, the full           At any rate, anyone will have to admit that an un-
      truth for this baptized child!          ,                       prejudiced reading of the text in Acts 2 leads us to the
          But whosoeveti  endeavors obediently to bring the           conclusion that the promise is destined for all the
       situation on -the dajr of Pentecost to his mind, must, I&ael.ites  that were present at that time and  their:
       indeed, shrink back from this conception. Peter ad-            c h i l d r e n .
                                                                                      Even  ,Dr. Grosheide renders such when
       dressed himself in his address ,expressly  to the Jews         w&ng on that text, as follows: "The promise   is fqr
       at Jerusalem, did he not? He does say in the 14th them, for all that stand there. The Jews indeed though&
       verse.,. "Ye men  oi  Judea, and' all ye that  dw&ll at, that the promise was of them.- . . . bht they d<d nc&
       Jerusalem", but, Grosheide co?rectly observes here :           know the blessing of the fact that the blessing was for
       Y$ere is no question -of the heather4  in the context,         them, that it brought them cqmfort and joy ; they.&@~
       even though there must have been such at lthe time in not clearly see the promise". It remains inconceivable
       Jerusalem, compare the verses 22, 29, 39". Now then, that someone who could write the above, so fiercely
       6 these  Jews Peter addresses the cutting accusation assisted in the persecution of his reformed brethren-
                                                                                                                                       4:. . ..p.
       that they have killed the Saviour. The address grips who maintained the above cited sentence exactly as h,e.
       them ; th$y are "pricked in *heir heart", and trembling- had said it!
       ly they ask : what shall we do? And then comes the`                For that matter, it ought not to escape us *ih& thz
       Gospel for these murderers of Christ: Repent, and be exegesis which ~virtually reduces the "the promise is,
       baptized every one of you, and then also you shall unto :jou" to the elect only, is strongly brought to the
       receive the Holy Ghost-for the promise is unto you!            fore by `the Anabaptists. Calvin has strongly opposed.
          It is clear that the latter is ground on the basis -it.          -4nent Acts  2:39, he says: "This passage con-
     i of which Peter so boldly calls "every one" of those            clusively refutes the Anabaptists who. keep the little
       Jews, present `unto the reconcihation and the quicken-         &ildren, born from believing parents, from baptism,
       ing of the fellowship of Christ.  The promise of the as though they were no members of the church. .They
       Holy Spirit, as. given in Joel 3, is part and parcel of try to save  themselvtis  by an allegorical conception.
       the whole of the proniises ("the" promise) which God           and explain "children" as "those that are spiritually.
       had pledged  ito Israel in former times. From that born." But they do not progress at all with_.so  great
       Pet&r draws his &gent appeal to come to Christ. But :mpadei?ce". A like observation Calvin makes again,?. -
       if what the synodical  theory would want to make us            anent Acts 2  :25. Arid  tQe same opposition.  again&
       believe i.s true, then Peter, would have horribly deceived t!.ic Anabaptist theory is also wellknown from his I@.&&.
       those dismayed men, standing there before him. He              tutes and his- polemics against Servetus.        Of.. course,. '
      yvould have roused every one of them to come to Christ,         i: c~ulc! now appear, after all, that this exegesis of the
       with profound repentanoe for his sins, but also, indeed,       Anabaptists was correct. But the old conflict that was
       with grateful`boldfiess, on the basis of the promise of waged about it, must make us  cloubly cautious.
       salvation that belorigs to him-while later a-disputation                                                   L. DOEKES.
       ought to be held whether that pkomise  was intend'ed,                                                            G. V.  "
       indeed, for every' one of them ! Ddes one not feel that                                                                            .:
       in  so doing we inflict  ..a horrible injustice to  IGod's                                                                        `.  ,_.
                                                                                                                                I          ~I
       repelation? that we make of Xim a God who ~(accord-                                                                            `:  LLr
                                                                                                                                         ..1.
       ing to the graphic:expressiqn,  f.i. of Rev. Vonk) "fences
       His  angwers"? (This Holland idiom leaves no good                         .
       sense in- English when litera!ly  translated,.-but the idea                            IN MEMORIAM
       is that 2 per&on' vLho "een -slag om iijn arm houdt",
       does not commit himself to, a definite answer on which            The Men's Society, the Mary Martha'Circle,  and the Young
       you c&n at oilce rkly. G.V.) It is the same miserable People's Society of the Fourth Protestant Reformed' Church.
       line of thought which we.meet  in the Formula of ,Sub-         hereby wish to express their heartfelt sympathy to the  nag?:
       stitu;tion : <`to build on the' Ijromise",  but `in the mean- family, who mourn the departure of a beloved wife akd mot@,.
       while to make  that promibe disputable. . . .       _
          Yes, but&us,  i hear  sotie one  say----do you not                                MRS. JOlHN  XIAGER                                   . .
                                                                                                                        .
     lbse sight of too much that. your opponents borrow               The sister entered intp her. eternal rest,  .peacefull$  and.  _
       their argument froni *he Scriptures; f.i., from Rom. 9? confidently, on Tuesday, August  19; after an illness of several
       Indeed., they do appeal to that. It is not the question months. We"thank  our covenant .God for His marvelous grace..
      here that we are afraid to compare Scripture with May He  com&rt the  beieaved  family  ,and teach them to  say,
     r Scripture (the contrary is true!) ; but ithe question is "I opened not my mouth; because Thou sd!Ldst it."
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                                                                     reason that the locus of Theolpgy must be given the
                OUR  DOCTRINE                                        first place in the orde@y treatment `of `(Our Doctrine".
                                                                     Beautifui is, therefore, the first article of -Our Con-
                                                                     f&&n df Faith, and we quote:: "We believe with the
             .'  The  Knowledge  Of  God                             he:&, and confess with L;he mouth,. that there is one
                                                                     only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God ;
        -The subject of this`article, "The Knowledge of (God!' and that  iH;e is eternal,  uncompr"eherisible,  invisible,
     refers to our' knowledge of God Himself. Dogmatics              immutabl.e, infinite, almighty, perfectly `wise, just,
     (the subject which would furnish us with a systematic good, and the overflowing founttiin of all good." The-
     arrangement of all the knowledge of, IGod out ofi thye ology treats the doctrine concerning :God Himself.
     Scriptures) is commonly divided among the six follow=           1 The first matter which we will discuss, as in this
     ing loci : Theology, Anthropoloty, Christology, ISoteri-        article, is the knowledge of God. The  Knowledge  of
     ology, `Ecclesiology, and Eschatology. These  names             Gods has been denied by the agnosti'c  and -the mystic.
     refer, respectively to the doctrines concerning God,            In a certain sense this can also be said of the atheist.
     Mani Christ, Salvation, the Church, and  the Last Strictly speaking, however, the atheist does riot deny
     Things. As we stated in our first article. of Sept. `1, the knowledge of God but the very existence of God.
     this order  is also followed in the 37 ;Articles,  `Our Con:    The agnostic and the mystic deny His knowleclge. `The.
     f,ession of Faith. Iti a certain and real. sense of the word "agnosticism" means literally the d&ial of know-
     word all of dogmatics, all knowledge is Theology, know- tedge. He denies that God can be known. He proceeds
     ledge of God. Of God, and thrdugh God, and unto God from the principle that be will believe only that which
     are all things-Rqm. 11:36. Whatever-we study `should his fi?ite mind can comprehend and understand. The
     lead us to God. This lies in the very nature of the case existence of ,God cannot be proved by logical reasoning.
     and is as it should be. Herein lies  atid  sh6uld lie           Hence, God is therefore the unkn?wable. Agnostici&-&
     fundamentally the' difference  between `Christian and we understand, rejects -the Holy Scriptures as  the_
     Public education. God is all and in all. It is well that        revel&ion of the living God and it is rooted in unbelief.
     we thoroughly understand. this and, also practice this          It is not honest. It does not ~reject the knowledge ,of
     truth. It implies that in. all that. we are, also in con- ,God because-God cannot be known; Fact is, the human
     nection with all things, and in all~that we do, w& musi mind cannot undefstand  anything. The farmer cannot
     live unto the glory of the living God.                          understand the transfo?mation of a single kernel. of
         In Dogmatics, however, the name, Theology, applies          corn into a full ear of corn. Yet, he, does not doubt in
     only to the first of the six loci. Some have questioned the spring that he will have a crop in the fall. And
     this arrangement and have, suggested that Theology this applies to everything. Hence, the agnostic does
     should appear at the end instead of at the beginning.           not reject the knowledge of IGod because God is un-
     `They argued that the knowledge of  Gsd iq only possible knowable, but only because, .& unbelief, he rejects the
     after we have learned, for example, of ,Christ and of `revelation of the living God. He hates that revelation
     salvation. Do we'not read in Matt. 11:37 : "All things          and therefore rejects it.
     are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man                     The false mysti?  also de&es the knowledge of -God.
     knoweth  ihe Son, but the. Father; neither  knoweth             We recognize them in the emphasis which they lay
     any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whdm-               upon the inner speaking of the Holy Spirit in distinc-
     soever the  @on will reveal him."? It is, of course, a          tion from the Word of God; They lay all emphasis
     self-evident fact that our knowledge of God depends             upon the "inner voice". -`The word of Scripture is a
     and follows upon the doctrine of Christ. Neither does           dead letter. It all depends upon the inner speaking
     it make.any difference whether we imderstand know- of the Spirit in our'hearts. .To understand.the  fall&y
     ledge here merely in an intellectual or also in a saving of this conception is of the gr,eatest practical iniport-
     sense of the word. AU knowledge of iGod comes to us             ante. Many-children of God deprive themselves need-
     though the Son. However, although it is true that .lessly of the only comfort in life and in death because
     &lthropology  and Christology are first as far as our           of their adherence to this -view. Assurance of faith
     receiving the.knowledge  of God is concerned, this does and of p'ersonal salvation, so it is claimed by them, de-
     noi ah&r the fact that God and the knowledge of God pends wholly on the questioti  whether we have heard
     :;.I'~ yeally first. This is actually true. Of ,God are we      this inner  v&e of the Spirit.  `Of course, we do not
     apd of God is the Christ. Of ,God are all things. God .deny the inner speaking and -operation of the Holy,
     is first. Besides, the knowledge of God is first also in        Spirit. But, and this we mdst understand, that !Holy
     the sense that our knowledge of Him determines our              Spirit speaks anto and iti our cofisciousness only th.ru
     knowledge of all things. `The' conception which we the Word. of God. To reject that -Word of God as the
     have of iHim is basic. If we proceed from the e?olution-        only medium of  ri
                                                                                       ,  ivine Revelation implies the&ore
      istic theory or the mode&  conception of God such will         t!lat we separate `ourselves  from  i.he one  .and  only
     .also be our conception of all things. It is for this source of--personal assurance and comfort. The false


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  mystic, therefore, `denying the Scriptureb as the only of Isaiah will reach its ultimate fulfillme& in the here-
  source of personal assurance and knowledge of God, is after when the knowledge will completely fill the new
  consequently guilty of a denial of the knowledge of.God.     heavens and the new earth. *And well-known are also
     %od can be known. This is scriptural. The reader the words ,of John 17 :3 : "And this is life eterna!, that
  must bear with the undersigned when he, in this article they mght know Thee the only true ,God, and Jesus
  and subsequent articles, quotes profusely' from the Christ, Whom Tbu hast sent."
Scriptures. Ta.quote  the Word of God is of ,the great-           The  b&is for this knowledge of the  &d is His
  est importance. To be sure, not all who quote abun- self-Revelation.  This lies in the -very nature of the
  dantly from the .Scriptur.es  are therefore necessarily case. God is the unfathomable God. Scripture abun-
~ well-versed in the Word of God. Neither does spiritual       dantly verifies this. The Lord is high and greatly
  strength always accompany  -such knowledge of the exalted-Isaiah 57 : 15 :"For thus saith the high &lld
  Bible. On the one hand, it is possible to quote pro- lofty  ,One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy.;
  fusely fro& the Woyd' of God but .utterly  fail to com- I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is
  pkehend the true connection  between these various. of a contrite spirit, to revive the spirit'of the humble,
  Bassages. And, oh  tlie other hand,  mzre intellectual and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." /H-e is
  acquaintance with the Bible does not necessarily imply great and we understand it not-Job 26 :I4 : "Lo, these
  spiritual knowledge of -the truths of  :God's Word.          are parts of His ,ways  : but how little a portioll.is heart
  Nevertheless, everything  else being equal, knowledge of Him?' but the thunder of. His power who can under- '
. of the Script&es will tend to the increase-of our faith      &and ?" ; Job  36~26: "Behold, God is great, and we  ~
  and. spiritual knowledge of Jesus Christ, our Lord. know Him not, neither can the number of His years be
  Jesus  !Hlimself allswered the devil in the wilderness searched out." The Lord is incomparable_Is. 40 :18,
0 three times with direct quotations from the Bible. We,       26 : "To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness
  too, should familiarize ourselves-with the Word of God.      will ye compare unto Him? To whom then will ye liken
  And the. Scriptures certainly teach US that God can be $Ie, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." He lives *
  known. We read in Acts 17:23: "For as I passed by, in an inaccessible light-I Tim. 6 :16 : "`Who only hath
  and beheld your d,evotions, `I `found an. altar with this immortality, dwelling in the light which no man, can
  inscription, TO, THE UNKNOWN GOD. W'hom there- aeproach unto ; Whom no man hath .seen, nor can see :
  fore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you." to Whom be, honor and power everlasting. Amen." He
  God was surely unkliown to the Athenians. This -un- is above, every creature and every need-Job 22 :2, 3:
  known God- Paul w&ld declare and reveal unto them.           "Can a,$man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise
  In Rom. 1:19 we read : "Because that which may be may be'profitable  unto himself? Is it any pletisure  to                                  .
  known of God is manifest in them ; for God hath shew- the Almighty, that thou art righteous ? or is it gain                  .
  ed unto them." In Hebrews 1 :I and 2 we read : `"God,        to Him,: teat thou makest thy ways perfect"; every                   _
  who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake' in change-James 1: 17 : ."Every good gift' and every pm-
  time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in feet gift is from above, and  cometh down from the
  these last days -spoken unto us by His Son, Whom He Father of lights, .with. Whom is no bariableness, neither
  hath appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He shadow of turning" ; time-Is. 41:4, 44 :.6, .48 :12, `Rev.
  made the worlds." In ,Jeremiah  31:33-34 we read the 1:8, 22 : 13 : "Who hath wrought and done it, calling
  beautiful words : %ut this shall be the cqvenant that the generations from the beginning'? I, the Lord, the
  I W;ill make with the house of Israel ; After those days, first, and with the last; I am He. . . . Thus saith the
  saith the Lord, I Will p.ut my law in their inward parts,    Lord the King of Israel, and his R,edeemer the Lord
  and write it in their hearts; and will .be their ,God,       of ;Hosts;  I ab the first, and I am the last; and besides
  and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no Me there. is `no God. . j. . ,qearken  -unto tie, 0 Jacob `.
  more every man  his neighbor, and every man his and Israel, My called ; I am He ; I am the first, I also
  brother, saying, Know, the Lord::  for they. shall all am the last. . . .I am Alpha and Omega, th,e begin-
  know me, from the least of them  unto  th,e greatest ning and the  endiiig, saith the Lord,  whi,ch is, and
  of them,  saith  the  Lord: for I will forgive their in- which was, and which is. to come, the Almighty. . . .
  iquity, and I will remember their sin no more." ,Here I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,
  we read lit&ally that men shall know the Lord. In the first and the last." And the Lord is above all                                   '
  Isaiah !1:9 appear the we&known words : "They shall space-Acts  17 ~27, ,28 : "That they should seek  th8
  not hurt nor destroy.in ai1 My holy mou+ain : -for the       Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him,
  earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the though .He be not far from. every one of us : For in
  w&ers cover the sea." This word of the prophet at- ,Him we'live, and move, and have our being ; as certain
  tained tinto jts partial fulfillment in the New Dispen- also of your own poets-have said, For we are also His
  sation. When the knowledge covers the earth in dis- offspring-.", etc. #etc.
  $inctioq from the Old Dispensation .when this know-             God, is, therefdre,  the unfathomable God. `Hence,
  ledge  ?f Jehovah was limited to Israel. And this word all knowledge of Him -is based only upon -Divine Self-

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             revelatioat  `Dvine revelation implies three t&ings. ' In throughout  %he ages man refuses that God be king
            .tl%` first. place,` the: "Self'! in "Self-revelation'? is sub-' over him. He  would. be a king  .unto himself. This
            jective. , Gdd must do the revealing. He must speak. refusal to acknowledge the living (God permeates all
             This  ,-is a  Iself-evident  truth. God is the infinite, modern thinking today. From this sin, however, we
            ,$ran$`cendeqt ,God.: He must tell us whs and what iKe have been delivered by Divine grace. IOur sinful pride
             is. We catifiot determine who and what IRe is. `This has been destroyed and a spirit of humility and con-
             .constitutes  the sin against the see&d commandment. trition has been created  withi,n us by the Spirit of
            ,To make a graven -iFage of God, of the things in the           Christ J_esus, -our L&d. We have not only learned to
            `+$avens abqve or in the earth beneath or in the wateks         acknowledge the living God but have also learned to
            ..under the earth, implies that we determine `the nature .lmow ourselv&  as condemnable sinners who had the
            ,angl tl!e essence ,of God. `ThiB. is. fundamentally the brAzen impudence to rebel against Hi?n and say within
            , sin :of Modernism, yea, of all heresy. God must speak our hearts that there is no `God. Our l&dud and stub-
            `to .~!p of Himself; Secondly, Divine revelation is Belf-
                  I .-                                                      born hearts have -been brokeI! and crushed. ' The &ult
             revelation in the sense that "Self" is the Object of this      is that we now love God and no longer d&ire to under-
            i.revelation, God must not only do the speaking, but He. stand Him. It is now our longing that He mayLever
            .milst speak of Himself. And this, too, is a self-evident remain *God .and that we may know -and love Him as
             .tr.uth. (God is God :and beside& Him there is nbthing. such. ,God we' would .serve~  exactly as the. Incomp+-
          `What would or could possibly be the content of this hensible `and Unfathomable God.
          ,1 .speaking of God.but Himself? He alone is the absolute            To know  ,God implies in the first place that  we
            ,&eality. Apart from Him there  ,is nbthing.  Hence,            Know Him in  His  revel'atiofi.  And He has revealed
             also in this sense, Divine  R&elation is always  Self-         Himself in all the w,orks  of His hands and.in iHis Word.
            `revelation.  ' All  ,the works of  His hands  alid all  qf     We must bow before that revelation. To assume a  0
            ,@ripture speak to us concerning the greatness and neutral attitude toward God's speech cdncerning  I&m- .
           . power and wisdom and all the virtues of the Lord. iHe          self and permit the natural mind to determine whether
            $ great and greatly to be praised; His greatness is the Scripture or any part of that Skripture is the in-
            ,wseq*ihable-Ps.  145 :3.. And, thirdly, Divine revela-' spired word of the Lord (which in itself is quite im-
            ;t`ion  .implies  that the Lord create a  qreature who is       possible) is spiritual folly. and conceit. God has spoken
            : able to receive this revelation of the Lord, tinderstand      and we must listen. Never may we question the revela-
            :if as a revelation of the unfathomable IGod., and sing tion of God.  ..
            ,;tnd speak of it .unto the glory of Jehovah. `This the            To know (God implies in the second place that we
            ,I&rd did when  LHe created man. For man,  although know Him with all our being. We must know Him
     .      &eated of the dust df the ground and therefore, also            therefore with _the heart, in love. `This, of course, is
            adapted to the earth and having things in eomlnon with the purpose of God in His Self-revelation. It is exactly
            * the rest of the living creatures, .is herein distinguished    as <God, the Unfathomab1.e One, that He would be recog-
            ,*<y:om  all c?eatureS  round'about him, thit he is adapted     nized and feared and adored.  IScripture   eqphasizes
            $0 the living God and-so created that `he .can interiret this spiritual knowledge, of .Love., -God knows IH!is own
            $he: speech of God in nature  and in the Scripture. with such a knowledge of love. "For $he Lord know&h
            .,Tn brief, therefore, Revelation is the act of %od where-      the way of the righteous ; but the tiay of the ungodly
            `I$ He speaks to- us concerning Himself in a speech             shall perish"--Ps. 1: 6. "For wlidm He did fqreknow,
            :whibb ,.we `can understand. It must be perfectly clear He also did' predestitiate to be conformed to -the image
            :-&at  all-`knowledge of the infinite, alone blessed Lord,      bf His Son,.  that',!He  might  be  the firstborn  among
            .]yho, lives in in&ccessable  light, can only then be known many brkthren"-Rem.  8 :29. -"Nevertheless the foun-
            ,-by ns if -and when He reveals Himself to us. 'And this        dation of  ,God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord
            $-did. in all the works of iH!is hands and in His Word.         knoweth them that are.Hi&`+2  Tim. 2:19. And it-is
            -.`_ :As far as the content of this knowledge of God is ,evident from the Scriptures that  ,also  ,God's people
            -,coi&rned   w.e must not confuse knowledge of  ,God            know the Lord in -that spiritual sense of the  ,word.
            `with comprehension of Him. To comprehend the Lord Tkiisis evident from'the passage of Jeremiah 31.:33-34,
            .@plies that He fits into our human thinking, that quoted above, where our- knowledge of.God is the .fruit
            -notiling of Jehovah is unfathomable. Then all  mys-            of that operation: of` the Lord  .whereby  He puts His
            .teries  disappear. iHe may then be .great but His great- law into our inward parts and writes it in our hearts.
             ness ,is not unsearchable. This constituted the sin And this L is also expressed in -John 17 :3 where the
            $f ..Paradise arid it is repeated throughout the; ages. knowledge tif the Lord as .`tbe  .one, ,only true ,God is
            ,I? :Paradise.man. would be as God, determi&.g what presented as experienced by us through  the Lord Jesas
            &s gqod and evil. `There Adam aspired unto the living Christ. This latter passage does not merely qean that-
             God, desired and attempted the wiping out <of all .dis- Jesus-revealed the Triune God but also that we know
             tinction between `himself and the Creator, would put that God through the atoning  blood and spirit@ power .`_
            :+i&@f,..&pon the same level with his Maker. And of that Christ as. He .operates  within I-$$. qw :f;hrough "'
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 His Holy Spirit. The knowledge of God stirely  implies,
 therefoye,  that we know Him `in our hearts, that we               THE DAY OF SHADQWS -. .' .`,
 1~110~ Him with a spiritual knowledge of love.
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 being.. IHence, also with the mind. .When  discussing                 .kmat&an's   Delivefance.                       ~.?
 .the knowledge of God the distinction has always been
 made between the Cogeitio Dei Insita.and the Cogntio            Froin  their vantage,  ioint the  watchmen  of Saul
1 dei Acquisita, the Innate "Knowledge of God and .%he see the .Philistine  .host rapidly diminishing, as'it were:'
 Acquired Knowledge  .of  (God. The  Conitio  Qei Insita melting away. `They can ,even see the Philistitie&b6a$:
 is the knowledge of God -within us, with which we are        ing down  on6 another. Their outlook is that  clo&.~
 born. `This does not imply, we'tinderstand,  that every Baul, to whom the watchmen doubtless report, suspecti.:
nian is born with  infiate ideas of  :God. If we were that `Jonathan has much to do with that wild corn-`:
 never instructed in the things of God we would never inotion in the camp df the Philistines. He is mindful'
 attain unto asi knowledge of Him. But, .the Cognition of the spirit df his son, knows the felts of daring of':
 lSei Insita does imply that every man is born with the       which he is capable. So the king orders the  people;  `.
 imperishable idea, conviction of the livng God; This that are with him numbered, and it is found that Jona- I.
 is due to his peculiar .cre&ion.,  Map is simply born a than and his arm&-bearer are missing. The  wl$ol`e
 creature. He has been- created.. He knows, therefore, thing must now be clear td him. Jonathan has attackefi
 t&at he was made and that he was inade by a Creatoy.         that Philistine garrison in  Michmash. And  what+he;:
 Beside's, man was created in the image of ,God. This watchmen reported is'the result. Saul's task is now
is an incontrovertible fact. As i&age-bearer he realizes      clear to him. The Lord has given the enemy ir$O the;'
 that, he was made after an original patt&n,  the eternal hands of Israel. Saui's unb6lief has been put to shame:`.'
 a@d Divine Creatqr. It is true that modern science           He should n6w pass over and deal the enemy the finish?"
 ridicules  -this thought, ignores and rejects it, but the ing blow. But apparentiy the unbelieving king is still '
 fact remains nevertheless. And in addition to this,          afraid., For he delays. The tumult' in the. camp "of-1
 man `was  created a  seyvant..  This is surely a  self- the enemy might soon die down. He would then be f?c-
 evident fact. He is surely npt his own Lord-he did .ing a foe fully r&overed from its fright and as seIf2
- not make himself. He is surely not the Lord of creation possessed and formidable as ever. IAnd his own army <
 -he did not make the `heavens and the earth. And it numbered but six hundred unarmed  and trembling
 is also certain that he cannot control or determine men. Besides isn't it just possible that the watchmen
 eithel-  his own destiny .or the things round about him.     are mistakkn. The Philistines may not at all' be beat:"
 He is not lord but a servant. This, too,  iS indelibly ing`down one another. The great noise `that rises from"
 printed in his consciousness. `The servant is- conscious their camp may have another explanation. So what is
 of his Lord.  Then. there is finally the general testi-      Saul to do? It occurs to him that he can do no better,
 mony of the Holy -Spirit  Who does not leave Himself         than to pray, seek counsel of the Lord, by means of the
 unwitnessed in the hearts of men. We can, therefore, .Urim and the Thummim. Though there js no need of. .
 speak of a Cogq,itio Dei Insita in-the above sense of the this s'ince the will of the ,Lord is plain, the unbelieving.!
 word, although we understand that this knowledge has king, who has already indicated that he is determined",
 in itself no spiritual content. The  Cognit<o Dei  Ac-       to rule without `God and His directing word, de&es to .
 quisita is  the*.acquired  knowledge of God.  W,e also       do just  thatlseek  counsel of  the Lord, but only  b;tiz  '
 squire knowledge of the Lord through study and in- caus'e he is afraid to do what his hands find to do;-
 struction. Besides, this is our calling. Surely,. we afraid because he makes not the Lord his expectation..'
 have no higher calling, also. as l?rotesta& Reformed         Then, tdo, he.may be recalling that ,it was.`said to hirk; :
 young people, ,to busy ourselves diligently with the thot his kingdom will not endure and conSidering .tiat-
 things of the. Lord;  a+  IHe has  Kevealed  Himself in henceforth he had better make a special effort to pacify "
 Nature and, in Grace. `Only, this Cognitio Dei Acquisita,    God. ,God might change IHis mind.
 the acquired  k,nowledge  of God, must be  ljrompted            So Saul orders Ahiah, the highpri,es$ whdm he has
 and tiqtivated by the love `of :God. .God  we must love with him there.in  Gibeah, to bring the ,ephod  (not Ark. `,
 and adore; ' God must be worthy of all our meditation, The Septuagint had ehpod. This, doubtless is the,cor-"
 and stqdy. God is great and. His greatness is unsearch- rect text). While ,Saul talks with the priest, perhaps
 able, and it mu.st b,e the longing Of our heart and mind instructing him what to ask and how to  frame't&
 to see~lHim as such, that He may ever become greater,        qu_estion,  the noise iti the host of the Philistines con-' *
 more glorious. and' incotipreheniible; now and forever. tinues and even increases in volume. It is plain that
 May we; as Protest-ant Refortikd :Churches,  more and tile  panic is permanent and growing. Already the
 more understand hour calling also in th?s Pespect, and enemy is as good as, beaten; Saul no longer feels any
 the blessing of Jehovali will remain with us and upon mQre need of the word of God. He says `to-the priest,
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 that the host of the Philistines is being overtaken by may be avenged on mine enemies,' `are his very words.
 a disaster of the first magnitude, the king can muster      Does Saul mean to proclaim a religious fast, thinking
 enough ,courage to. go- and see for himself what goes that the Lord will be pleased at seeing His people strug-
_ bn there in the camp of the enemy. He and his people       gling on the battlefield, warring IHis warfare, ,as un-
 assemble themselves. They come to the battle and sustained by food? It is not unlikely. Saul still has
 behold ! It is as the watchmen repo$edj "Every man's that war on his hands ; and there will be other wars
 sword was. against his fellow, and there was a great- when this one, h%s. ended; and Saul needs God's help
 discomfiture." ;Saul's courage revives.  IHe is,  again     and favor. And that favor must be bought or merited ,
 the brave king of yore. The Philistines engage in a by acts of penance, such as voluntary hunger and thirst             1
 wal; of self-extermination.     The terrible crisis has on God's battlefields. Besides, he has doubtless been
 passed. He s&es with his own eyes. And he jives not         deeply effected by the announcement that his kingdom
 by faith but-by sight. As to his army, it grows now will not endure. Henceforth he will be more con-
 by leaps and bounds, now, that the enemy is beaten          siderate of God. He will clo more for iHim. And (Saul
 and the danger has pAssed. .The narrative reveals that      also carries out his resolution. With Canaan cleared"
the host of the Philistines included also Hebrews, `of Philistines, he even goes so far as to build ah altar
 p+,opers of war, it must be, who had been pressed into unto the Lord, something that he has never before
service against their countrymen, better said, who had       done. Saul will do anything but humble himself under
voluntarily joined the ranks of the enemy to save their      God's hand, repent of his sin, and resolve to walk
 lives, their homes, and their positions in life. With iti the way of obedience.
-the Philistines beat,en and in flight, they are free men       Yet it is doubtful whether Saul proclaims a fast at
now; and they join `the Israelites that are with" Jona- this. inopportune time purely in the  interest of  his
than and Saul. The Hebrews who had hidden them- `religion. He must have another purpose, his real pur-
 selves in thickets, rocks, high places and pits, do like- p&e. For iVs the people of the battle field, pursuing
wise. Nqw they do come forth out of their holes ; and        the fleeing remnants of a beaten Philistine army that
the+ j.oin their brethren in the pursuit of the Philis-      shall eat no food all that day. It is not difficult to
 tines.. The army of Israel is again a multitude of imagine the reasoning that Saul used in arguing him-
 armed `and brave men, now that the enemy flees, and self into the position that. it is `expedient and even
every ma,n's  sword among them is against his fellow. necessary that the peop1.e eat no food until evening.
 Saul, too, is brave nbw, and he craves action-now;          While they eat the ,enemy escapes. This, by all means,
    The writer closes this chapter of his narrative with must not be allowed to happen. Those fleeing remnants
t$e: statement, "So the Lord. saved Israel that day;         must be run down and slain to a man. The military
 and the btittle passed over to Bethhaven."                  might of the Philistines must be permanently broken ;
  . . There is a big difference discernable between Saul's and the Phil&tines tafight a lesson that will never be
 behavior  *before and after the `discomfiture of the forgotten. So let  tl@ people forget about food and
 Philistine host ,by the Lord. Prior to this event Saul -wholly give themselves to the `stern business of the
 sat still in Gibeah, -too afraid to bestir himself. Now day. `They  can always eat-eat when it is evening.
he is -all action in his eagerness to prosecui;e  the- war and then eat at their leisure. But let there be no eat-
with the Philistines. And nothing less than the com-         ing and drinking  duri<.g the day. Just for  one day,
 pl&e annihilation of their fleeing armies will satisfy let them b,e- wholly occupied with getting on with the
 him. Not a man of them must be allowed to escape.           battle, considering that it is the Lord's warfare that
Such is his determination (15 :36). But the flame of they war. Just for one day let the people forget that
his zeal is being fed by carnal ambition. It, is not a they have .stomachs. The cause is worth the sacrifice
 zea! of  God's  h&se.  `$Ie is  up and doing, now' that,    tiertainly. Having stuffed themselves with food, the
to quote his very words, "I may be avenged of mine people w'ill feel little inclined to again get going, so
,enemies  (14  :24).    The Philistines %re his enemies.     that far too much time will be spent  in eating and
 He must be avenged. ' It is his land and his people that drinking.' `There is but one thing to do :  tiharge  the
 were  spoil.ed.  What  the Philistines did, they did to people with an oath to leave food alone for the day.,
 tim, not. to the Lord. Their presence in Can&an was            Such, doubtless, is the argument that Saul uses
 an insult to his person. Accordingly, it is k;is warfare on himself and also on the people, and by which he
 that must now be warred ; ' his cause that must be :persuades. himself that it is right and necessary to
 advanced ; and the ends of his kingdom that must be         prohibit the people to. eat- food today. So he adjures
 promoted to his glory. And he is the man to do it.          the people, "Cursed be the man that ea$eth..  . . . `let
    Saul loves and seeks -self. This explains his fool- that man be reprobate, and let him perish by the hand
 ishly charging the people by an oath to abstain from of God'." Saul: is zealous for the Lord, yet not for the
 food till the evening. It -is an action that he tdkes Lord but for himself. The thing he does-adjuring
 under the impulse of his self-seeking l&e. "Cursed the peogle-he  does in the inordinate haste of a carnal
 be the man that eat&h food until the kvening, that I ambition. Hence, the thing he does is.foolish, unutter-


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  ably so. .Ankbody can see this. How can the people            17 :lO) y Eating flesh on which or under which vas
  persi&antly  give themselves to the grim business of .blood, was like murder and adultery, a gross sin, that
  the clay as unsustained by food?  _ Their task is  an         cou!d not  be covered by the blood of  Isr?el's typical
  arduous one. It spells extreme physical ,effort in which sacrifices. The people commit this sin. Though the
  the wear and tear on the thews and sinews of the body         blame rest on them, it is Saul who has needlessly oc-
  is great. If  so, can the people fight on empty `stomachs? casioned their sinning by his adjliration.
  What ails Saul-anyway?! He goes about with a mind             Being told what goes' on, Saul complains to his
  warped by carnal ambition, so that ,he is blind to the informants, "Ye have dealt treacherously (this is the
  needs of his people on the battlefield ,and just as un-       word that is used in the original text), `dealt treacher-
  .willing as blind to give these needs due .consideratioq.     ou+y with me',"' he would -have them understand.
  He is hard and cruel and imperious in his carnal haste        Saul is concerned about himself as always. The people -
  to bring the war with. the Philistines to a successfui        lose-for  him the help of God against his enemies. That
  issue to his own credit and glory.                            sinning must stop. Saul takes immediate action. H.e
      But the people stand in awe of Saul's zeal, not being has a great stone brought to him.. Next he commands
  able to  discern--God only knows the. heart-that it his informants  to `"disperse themselves among the
  springs from carnal self-love. So it happens that the people," and announce that everyone should bring his
  people,obey their king to a man. The one exception beast "hither" ,and  slay them "here," on the great
  is Jonathan.                                                  stone, that ther,e be ho more sinning against the Lord
      Jonathan, who is ignorant of his -father's adjura- by their eating flesh with blood. `Then Saul builds
  tion, unwittingly offends by eating a littlk honey. that that altar unto the Lord. /He will do all he.can to re-
  he happens upon in the wooded region in which the pair the damage that may have been -done to the deposi-
  pursuit takes place. `Ohe of the people sees. Thinking        tion of God.
  that what hi; witnesses is a wilful transgression of             Saul must realize, though he admits it or not, that
  Saul's charge, he speaks words that are plainly meant         in adjuring the people he committed a great blunder.
  `as-a rebuke. Says he to JoFathan,  "Thy father straight-     Certainly, in their weakened condition the people have
  way charged the people with an oath saying, Cursed be not been able to carry on as they would have, had they
  the man that eateth any food today." But the rebuke been permitted to parfake  of food. It is as Jonathan
 is  ill;deserved.  The fault lies with Saul.  lA,ccordingly    said:  th,e slaughter of -the Philistines was small as
  Jonathan replies, `"My father bath troubled the land.         compared to what it would have been, had -the people
  ISee, I pray you how my- eyes have been enlightened;          tiot been prohibited to sustain themselves with the spoil
  because I have tasted a little of this honey. How +uch of the enemy. Far too many.fugitive Philistines are
  more if happly  the peop1.e had eaten fre-ely today sf the still alive. They rest now from their mad flight under
  spoil of their eeemies  which they found. For had .there      the cover of the night. Exhausted and worn out by
  not been a much greater slaughter among the Philis-           the exertions of -the day, they would be ai easy-prey,       .
  ,tines ?"                                                     for Saul and his people. Saul knows-knows that h`e
      As the day draws td a close, ISaul receives the first has opportunity to make good his g;oss folly. "Let us
  evidences of the foolishness of his adjuration. IHaving       go down after the Philistines by night," says he to his
. on their empty stomachs a'ddressed themselves all the         people, "and spoil them' until the morning light, and
  day long-to the grim task of running down and slaying let us not leave a man of them." The people fall in
  fugitive Philistipes,  the people are famished and faint. with the idea. "Do `what seemeth good unto thee,"
  Like raven&s beasts of pray, they fly upon the sheep,         they say to Saul.. The word is passed around, and
  and oxen, and calves that form the spoil of war, slay preparations are made for immediate departure. It  \
  them on the ground and "eat upon or over the blood," occurs not to Saul to ask`counsel  of the `Lord. Perhaps
  `blood being on the bodies because: they were on the = he is too excited by the consciousness, of having made
  ground, and "so with the blood". The people violate .~a gross mistake. But the priest now comes forward,
  the command of God in Lev. 19:26, "Ye shall not eat "Let us draw near thither unto the Lord," is his counsel
  on blood," that is, no flesh under which or on which is to the king. Saul hasti't thought of that. The inquiry
  blood. This is based on the fact that "the life of the of the Lord is conducted by the priest through the
  flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon Urim and the Thummim. "And Saul asked counsel
  the alOar to make an atonement for your souls: for'it         of the' Lord." "Shall I go down after the Philistines ?
  is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul, (Lev.        Wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?" There
  q.:ll) . ._ The offetice  was grave, as is plain from the     is no reply. "But he answered him not that day." The
  following  scriptupe,  "And whatever man there be of Lord is silent. Some on,e has offencled ; and unless the
  the house of Israel, or of. the strangers that sojourn        offender is apprehended- and punished, the Lord will
  among you, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will           pot help but will be against his people for evil. Saul
  even set my face against that soul that eateth blood,         therefore takes immediate action, for, though he is
  and will  cut-  h@n. off from  amorig  his people, (Lev.      devoid of saving ?aith and believes not in wonders,


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 he is mortally afraid of God as all unbelieving men Saul. So the only thing for `Saul to do is to spare Jona-
 ape. His heart tells him that with the Lord1  against than and lose God's help. But he wants God's help. At
`him, the  ~venture  must fail. 60 he commands the least he dare not set out on his venture ofeeling  that
 chiefs, "Draw ye hither, all the chiefs of the, people;        God is-against him. So he wants God to speak  and
 and know and see tiherein  this sin hath been this day.        reveal his mind. For Saul wants the.fleeing  remnant
For as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, thpugh it          of the Philistine host extirpated. For if the military
 be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die !" The chiefs might of the Philistines is not broken, the Philistines
 draw nigh.       They disperse themselves among the will `triumph over him in the end. And Saul is deter-
 people and make inquiry but learn nothing. "And mined that this shall not happen. In a word,  he. is
 there w+s not a man among the people that answered un$willing  to accept the consequences of his foolish and
 him." The notice reveals that the.people realize where- cqrnal Bcljuration. Thus he is resolved to retain God's
-in the  offence consisted, and who the offend& is.             help by all means, resolved therefore is Baul to sacri-
 Sonic one' has eaten food and thereby violated Saul's fice.Jonathan  to his vile ambitions, and this as willing-
 oath; and the offender is Jonathan. -The people know ly igriorant of the fact that if he slays Jonathan he
 all this. Those who had witnessed Jonathan's eating loses God's help anyway. Rightly considered, there-
 had told others and these again had told others and so fore, there is but one thing for. Saul to do : he must
 on until in less than no time perhaps the report spread        spare Jonathan and in t&e dontrition of heart bewail
 thru the camp. But the people decline to expose Jona-          before God the folly of his csrnal adjuration and, im-
 than. For ,Saul has just decreed with a? oath that the plore  th,e Lord's forgiveness. Then Saul .will live and
 offender shall pay withhis life. But, as the sequence df the Lord will'be his eyer present helper against all 6is
th.e narrative reveals, ,the people are determined that the     enemies. And the victory will be his, and his victory
 `sentence  shall not be carried out, knowing, as they do, wjll be his faith.
 that the offender is Jonathan. So the king takes re-              But Saul was not the man to acknowledge his guilt.
 source to the Ibt. iHe demands that the trial be. first He was not capable of true penitence, as he was devoid
 between him atid Jonathan `on the one side and the             of grace. So he keeps him to his resolve that Jonathan
 people on the other. The people raise no objection.            die. For he must have God's help against those P.hili&
 They shy to Saul, "Do what seemeth good unto thee." tines. And having heard Jonathan out, Say1 is ada-
 Yet they silently decide for Jonathan's exemption from mant, "God dc) so and more also: for thou shalt surely
 punishment. `Saul prays for a perfect lot, "10 Lord ;God die, Jonathan."                  ._
 of `-Israel, give a perfect lot," is his prayer. The lot          It. cannot be too difficult for Saul to decree Jona-
 is cast, and Saul and Jonathan are taken, "but the than%  death.  .There is every reason to believe that
 people escaped.?' The trial is now between Jonathan Saul thoroughly-hates Jonathan, as he one day will,
 and Saul, and Jopathan is takeh. Facing his son,, Saul hate David. For Saul is reprobated, while Jonathan
 says to him, "Tell me, what hast thou done?" The truly loves the Lord. `The two therefore have nothing
 question is rudely curt. Saul. is bitter and angry. in cgmmon  in a spiritual-ethical point of view. Be-
 Jonathan replies in words calculated to set forth ISaul's sides, Jonathan must sti=ike Saul as being a self-killed
 adjuration in all its gross folly.and wickedness. Says         son, who does much as he pleases in his father's king-
 he to his father, "I did but taste a little honey with         dom. Twice `he attacked a Philistine garrison without
 the end of the rod that was in my hand,`? `I did eat           first  gairiing permission of Saul; This was little to
 in  the heat of battle just a little food to revive my Saul's liking; for being carnal he iS proud and .jealous
 famished and weary soul', "and lo, I must die," `die, .of his honor. It must have moved Saul to the quick
 because thou in thy folly and carnal haste didst adjure        that in the r.ecent  crisis, while he sat still in Gibeah;
 the beople,  as if it could possibly be a sin in God's eyes    too afraid to bestir himself because he believed not in
 that the peo.ple in the heat of battle refresh themselves wonders,  Jonathari Was m&&g himself wonderfully
with the spoil of the enemy ? -0, the folly of thy adjtira- conspi&ous by his works of faith and spiritualheroism.
 tion! And now `I must di%, because I ate, and ate in           ,That  ivas more than Saul could endure. For Jonathan
 ignorance of thy oath? As if the Lopd on this account re&ei&s  all the ho&, ai appears from the sequence
 is willing my death. To say that He is, is too ridiculous of the narrativk. And to climax it all,` Jonathan lost
 for words, and just as wicked. Nay, my father, the sin for Saul the help of God against those fleeing rennia&s
is thin& Thou didst distress the people by thy folly.' of .the Pl$istine army, Saul's wr&@ knows no bounds.
 Thou madest the people to -sin., The fault that so many        Jonathan shall die. "Thou shalt &rely die, Jonathan."
 of the enemy escaped is thine.' Such is the thrust of             It is &w time for the people to assert themselyes ;
 Jonathan's brief reply.  -                          :          and so'thejT  do. The words  that  l&hey speak supplement
        What now is SaX to `do?. God will not help unless       Joriathan's argument. "Sh& Jonathan die," say the
 Jonathan be put to death on account of his violation o people, to. Saul, "Jonathcin,  who, hath wrought, this
 of the oath. :On the other hand it is not' the Lord's great salvation in `Israel?. God forbid !" `How utterly
 will that Jonathan die. This is plain to all, also  td         inconceibable.  that in `the sight of God Jonathan is the


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       real offelider !' And now th,e people, too, take ,an oath                Het is een schoone psalm..  tiij  vertelt ons hoe
       in ,opposition  to that of' Saul. They say, "As the Lord David van plan is om in zijn koninkrijk te  handelen
       liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the lnet gerechtigheid en gerichte,  doch ook met  barm-
     - grol?nd  ; for he bath wrought with God this day. So hartigheid en goedheid. Een schoone combinatie  !
     the people rescued Jpnathan that  he died not.`.' But                      `Tech hebben we hier meer dan net maar Davids
       it was only by & mighty effort that they succeeded in ioornemen om  zich correct te gedragen in zijn rijk.
       this. So determined was Saul that Jonathan should We beluisteren hier het tioornemen van Messias om
       die.  -                                                           Zljfi Koninkrijk te regeeren naar de  volma,aktheden
           That Jonathan,is' r&&d out of his hands by the                 Gods.  Een echo van dezen psalm beluisteren we  in.
       people according to the will of God certainly, means Openb. 21:2'7, waar ges$roken  wordt van de vervulling
       that Saul shall have to reap the consequences of his' van David's rijk en stad en huisgezin. Daar zien we
       vile adjuration. In its flight Saul's curse is made to hoe in dat rijk, stad en huisgezin niets inkomen zal "dat
       return to him. He will have to bear it. For the -Lord ontreiniit en gruwelijkheid doet en leugen spreekt" !'
       refuses to break his silence this day. The counsel that                . Direct bij den inset beluisteren we Davids vreugde
       was sought is not given. J&s will.rem+ins  hidden. Saul over de  fundamenten van het eeuwige  Koninkrijk
       sets not out on his contemplated venture. iHe dare Gods. En- die- fundamenten' zijn :. `de goedertierenheid
       not.  Those fugitive remnants escape. The military :en  bet  recht Gods. Tezamen  spellen  zij het eeuwige
       might bf the Philistines is, not broken, and thus the              Eva1;geli.e. Beziet ge d,it Evangelie vanuit het oogpunt
       Philistines do triumph ,over.  Saul in `the end; For the van Cod ten overstaan van Jezus Christus, den Heere,
       Lord is not mocked.                                                dan is dat evangelie een zaak van het onkreukbare
I          What an amazing zeal Saul displayed on that oc- XC&~, en verdwijnt de  Mati van smarten  achter de
       casion.  And much of  .the language that Saul used ~.rolk~r van een eeuwigen  too&. Beziet ge hetzelfde
       seems to indicate that it was the zeal of God that has             evangelie vanuit het oogpunt  van God, ten overstaan
       consumed him. He swore by the nam,e of the Lord God van het volk `Gods, dan is het een zaak van lout&e
       of Israel, "which saveth Israel." Apparently he hated goedertierenheid.  Doe  ie  tezamen  en beide  recht en
       Jonathan, his own flesh and blopd for ;Christ's s%ke.             barmhartigheid schitteren van de goudglansen der
       But whether he realized it or not,' actually Saul was in goede  hoodschap. De vrede en de gerechtigheid kus-
     ' the service solely of his own carnal ambition. Thus :sen elkander. (Op bet kruis van Golgotha' ziet ge ze
       it was not the zeal of God's house that burned in his             beiden. Jesaja zegt, dat Sion door recht verlost wordt;
       bosom, but a zeal whose flames were fed by infl..u&es              en in tientallen van psalmen wordt God. geprezen van-
       from the abyss. His heart is the d.evil's  playground, wege Zijn goedertierenheid die tot in der eeuwigheid
                                                                                                                             r
       and soon .the narrator will be telling how that Saul is           is.
       wholly in the`possession of an evil spirit.                       -      We doen, echter,  we1 om te gedenken, dat die twee
                               -./                         G. M. 0.       deugden, evenals alle  -deugden.   ,Gods, volmaaktelijk
                                                                          EEN zijn in God. Gods gerechtigheid is een goeder-
                          .                                              tier& gerechiigheid,  en Zijn barmhartigheid is altijd
                                                                         naar het reinste recht. Zoo lezen `we in het boek der
          __                                                             Spreuken,  dat de troon gesteund wordt  beide door
                                                                         recht en door weldadigheid: Spreuken 16 :12 en 20 :28.
                  SION'S:                      ZANGEN                     En ook in dezen psalm ko& het' uit, dat` die beide
                                                                         -heerlijke  deugden <Gods iti Hem &3n zijti, want in het
                                                                          eerste   vers staat,. dat David zal  zingen van  .goeder-
                                                                         tierenheid en van  recht,  doch hij voegt  &  aan toe,
                De  Be8often  Iikns.  Iisnings dat hij, dat  ,doende, van God  psal~~ingt: Dezelfde
                                      (Psalm 101)                         God die Jezus  Christus wegdrukt in de vreeselijke
                                                                          Godsverlating, is de God die in en door dien lijdonden
         Dit is weer een psalm van David, en het too& o& .Borg, Zijn volk tot'zich trekt als uiting van onb?+ipe-
       lets van zijn hart; van zijn .koningshart. Het verhaalt           lijke liefde. En die beide werkingen zijn Bkn in God.
       oils, hoe hij van plan. is te  handelen "in het midden                   Zoo zingt David van  recht en  gereihtigheid,  doch
       zijns  huizes".                                       . .         ook van goedertierenheid. -
          Van dezen,  psalm is gezegd, dat hij gestuurd`werd                    U zal ik psalmzingen, o Heere!
       tot een ontrouwen minister van den hertog van Saxe-                      In deze eeevoudige  w_oorden  beluistert `ge het doe1
       Gotha wiens ontrouwheid hij uitgevonden had. En va,n scbepping en herschepping. Dat is het einde vail
       van toen aan iYerd het een spreekwoord' in het land. alles.
       Wanneer een dienaar dbs lands `iets deed, da_t verkeerd                  Eenige dagen geleden hoorde ik .een klein jongetje
       was, werd er van hem gezegd: Hij zal spoedig des zeggen : "God is nice !" Ik zei tegen zijn Vader: Daar
prinsell--psalm te lezen  kriigen!                                       debt ge eigenlijk bet inbegrip van alle theologie. Net


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        maar een paar kleine woorden, door een klein kind van den lof Zijns Naams; Die weg is de weg der op-
        gesproken, doch wat wereld, wat eeuwige yereld van rechtheid. Het is de  .deugd waardoor wij  waay zijn:
        gedachten, worden  in die drie woorden vertolkt. Er h@X binnenste en innerlijke hart paart zich daar met
        zijn arme stakkerds die zich w&l duizendmaal.afvragen  :             de  dadeti en het wodrd. En dat is Jezus.  IOf  beter
        Ben ik een vati' de gekenden ? Ben ik een kind Gods? gezegd : dat is IGod in Jezus Christus.
        Hoe kan ik tech te weten komen, dat ik binnen ben, en                   Dien weg zal David in oprechtheid iewandelen.
        straks niet beschaamd uitkom?                                           Doch dan ziet hij met. zijn geestelijk oo& dat hij
                 Ik zou willen vragen: wat dunkt U vati God? Dat             dat alleen, in e&en kracht,. niet doen kan. Zoo -kunnen
        kleine kind had geen problemen nog. IHij zal be straks we er in, komen, dat  hij  d&n  diepen  zuchi slaakt :
        we1  krijgen.  Doch nu gaf hij onbewust  uiting  aan Wanneer zult Gij tot mij komen?
        l-ret antwoord voor de zoogenaamde bekommerden  : Wat                   Alleen als de Heere tot ons koqt kunnen wij dien
        dunkt Y van God?                                                     Weg bewandelen, oprecht en verstandiglijk. Want Hij
                 Werkelijk, daar hebt ge het antwoord, het eenigste          is de kracht van.otize kracht.
        antwoord. Als ge van ha&e Gods lof bezingt op aarde,                  0 En dan zal `t gaan.
        -kunt ge nooit verloren gaan; .                                         Dan zullen we in het midden van ons huis wandelen
                 Wat anders is er, op  atirde of in den  hemel? We in de oprechtheid van ons hart. Vers. 2:
        zljn het er over eens, dat het boek van de Openbaring                   Het gaat nog, om een heele vertqoning  te zijn van
        op  verschillende  plaatsen Let ..hemel-leven  beschrijft. wijsheid erT verstand in `de wereld, buiten ons huis.
        Welnu, valt het U vreemd op, dat die beschrijving van De mensch wil bedrogen zijn.
        den  hemel  -eigenlijk niets anders is dan het zeggen, het              We kunnen het oak ver brengen in de kerk, waar
        zingen, het uitschreeuwen van onuitsprekelijke vreug- `t  volk vergaderd is. -Ni& `zoo gemakke1ij.k als in de
        de, omdat zij God zien in Zijn wondere deugdenbeeld? wereld waar men verleidt  en wordt verleid. Want in
        I Z$ spreken toch immers dat deugdenbeeld uit ? Ze de kerk is er het scherpe gezicht en het onderkennende
        roepen  IHem al maar toe: U zij de dankzeggitig en de hart van de kennisse  Gods.-   Maar `t  lkan ver gaan.
        eer en'de heerlijkheid en de kracht en de macht en de Judas.wer&niet  gewantrouwd  door zfjn me&e-apostelen,
       majesteit tot in `alle eeuwigheid ! E,ater  hoort Johan- z&s nog niet in den nacht toen hij Hem verried.
       8. nes, dat zij al maar zingen met een stem als van groote               Maar in ons  huis  daar kan het  ha&t niet. Daar
        wateren : Halleluj'a  !               En dat woord  beteek*ent   een: kent men  or& zooals nergens elders. En daarom is
        voudig dit: Looft den He'ere ! Welnu dan, hebt ge den het zoo schoon als men deie heerlijkheid vindt in een
        hemel in Uw  hart?. Dat weet  ge  `toe11  w&l?  Psalm-               mensch, `dat hij in. oprechtheid d.es hai-ten wandelt in
        zingt.ge Gode ? Waarom mag ik niet zeggen, dat het het  midden van zijn huis.  IGezegend   ik die woning.
        den man we1 zal gaan die den Heere van harte looft                   Daar woont dan ook vrede.                      .  -
        e n   p r i j s t ?                                                     En zoo wandelde David, maar alleen, omdat Jezus
                 Er is evenveel verschil tusschen den man die <God           Chris& ~66 te midden van Zijn II&is gewandeld `heeft.
        vreest- en dien Heni `haat,  als er verschil is tusschen David's oprechte wandel is het7 resultaat van Jezus'
        den hemel en d,e hel, tusschen God en Beli.al. Die twee oprechten wandel. Zoo loopen  de lijnen.                            `.
        soorten van menschen zijn tech kinderen van die bei-                    Jezus zal .U nooit bedriegen. Met open gelaat, als
        den? (11~ heb er ecn hekel atin bm *God en Satan aan. cle heldere Spiegel van een oprecht hart, staart Jezus
        te duiden door het woord b&en) :                                     U aan en vraagt : Wai dunlit U* van l&j ?
                 Een psalmzingend men&h behoort bij God in den                  Als Vader an Moedq%% wandelen iri bet midden
     `heniel.                                                                van bun huis, dan gaat bet goed. Dan wordt het kwade
                 God gaf hem psalmen in den tegenwoordigen nacht. geweerd en dan wordt h&t goede beloond. Dat is vrilcht
                 En dah zegt David, en het is ver-vuld  in ,Christus         van. oprechtheid.
        Jezus, "Ik zal verstandiglijk handelen in den oprechten                 Zoo knnt ge het verstaan, dat de volgende verzeri
      w e g ".                                                               cles Konings gezindheid beziligen in het verdoeri  van
                 We hebben hier eigenlijk niets anders dan hetgeen           de goddelooqen  en het beloonen v&n de goeden.,
        we alreede besproken aangaande het eerste vers, met                     Elk  htiisgezin  van`.Gods  volk moest  264 ingericht
         dit verschil, dat in bet tweede vers de waarheicl van het zijn. Dan zouden de godcieloqzen  zich grootelij& ver-
        eerste vers kalm beredeneert wordt. Verstandiglijk hap- wonder& en zeggen: Wat veelheid van vrede!
         delen in %een oprechten  wig is juist het psalmzingen                  Ik zal geen be!ial&& voor mijne oogen stellen !
         van  ,God. Dat zit  z&i:  tiijsheid en verstand zijn die               -Een belialsstuk is. een werk van Satan.
         deugden, waardoor wij de beste wegen kiezen tot het                    11~ zal het niet voq tiijne oogen stellen, vi1 zeggen,
         bereiken  van het hoogste en heerlijkste doel, n%melijk,            dat hij er'een afschuw van heeft. ,H@t toont de inner-
         de glorie van. Gods deugden. Daarom wordt Jezus lijke heiligheid van den Koning. Hetgeen tien bemint,
         beide den W6g en de Wijsheid genoemd in de Heilige stelt men voor zijn oog. Met -welgevallen  ziet men op
        .Schrift : John`14 en 1 Cor. 1. . Jezus Christus is de Weg het goede -en men verafschuwt het kwade. Van Job
         waarlangs  d*e  VerbondsGod  wandelt tot het bereiken stand, dat hij was wijk&de van Bet kwaad. L


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      Het is de leugen en het leugenwerk. Spreekt  Satan.          Ze-  moeten verdelgd  worden! Dat  `zegt David en
 uit  zichzelven, dan liegt hij.  Welnu, het hart des Christus !
 opr&chten wil er zelfs niet op zien.                              Amen, zegt :het kind +an God, en l-iij  kruisigt d&
      Ik haat bet -doen der afvallingen, het zal mij niet neiging van' zijn  duden  metisch.   Hij bidt: Bewaar,
 aankleven.                                                     o God ! De deuren van mijn mond.
      Dit past bij het  ,voorafgaande,  in  tweegrlei zin.         "Xe hoog van oogen is en trotsch van h&t, dien
 De alvallige en belial behooren  bij elkaar ; en het voor      zal ;k niet vermogen.",
 oogeti stellen  past op de aankleving. Men kleeft dat-            Z&t  ge`tiel,  lezers, dat de duivel  achter alle  on-
 gene aan wat men &mint; men houdt zich verre van deugd zit ? hooge oqgen -zijn hoogmoedige oogen. En
 hetgeen gehaat wordt. Het doen van afvalligen is het een trotsch hart is. letterlijk een opgeblazen, groot hart.
 daen Satans. Hij is de groote Afvaliige. En zijn doen `l'e*groot, Veel -grooter dan ,God- het maakte. tin alle
 is hetgeen gruwelijk is en afschuwelijk. Dat doen is .- die ondeugdefi zijn echt, duivelsch. Paulus waarschtiwt
 verre van het oprechte hart.                                   ons om diet ho6gmoedig  te zijn en te vallen in de ver-
      Soort Zoekt  soort, zegt men. -Dat is correct. Welnu,  _ leiding des  Satahs. De groote hoofdzonde, waaruit
 als men 266 begenadigd is, .dat SGod -tot ons nadert en alle andere zonden voortkomen, is de hoogmoed.
 woning maakt in het hart, dan zullen de concrete gel              Wat is eigenlijk de hoogmoed en de trotschheid?
 volgen niet uitblijven. Dan "wijkt het verkeerde hart             Het is eenvoudig. dit: men wil  grooter zijn dan
-van  ens", en "dan kennen we den-booze niet". Het is men is. God maakte ons  266 groot. Men  moest  te-
 een veeg teeken, als men door Satan's kinderen  bemind 1 vreden zijn. Satan in den staat van  zijn rechtheid
 %-or&. Die den Naam des Heeren  aanroept sta.af van was een  schoone  engel.  .Hij had een wondere plaats
 ongerechtigheid ! De Hkere heeft -voortijds  getoond,          bij God. Maar hij verstoutte  zich en  Wilde  als  {God  *
dat er een diepgaand verschil is  tusschen Israel. en zijn. En dat is ook  zijn val  -geworden.  God heeft
 Egypte.. De baren en golven van de Schelfzee waren             hem verstooten.
 verschrikkelijke getuigen'van dit  verschil:  Het  very           En dat .helsche gif spuit hij zijn geestelijke  Find+'
 schil der harten. -Een verkeerd  hart is een hart- dat ren in.
 verwrongen is. Dat is de gedachte, die- in het oor-               Maar  J&!us wil  ze  niet. Zij zullen niet  Germogen
  spronkelijke woord zit. Het is een hart dat de lijnen -bij den Zone Gods.
 van. de. scheppingsordinanti& verloor, en, meer nag,-             Waarom niet ?
een hart, dat die lijnen verwrong. All& in dat hart is             Hij heeft <God  li,ef. En God zal eeuwig `God zijn.
 in zijn tegendeel  jeranderd. Armzalige  harten!.                 Dat te zien, te willen ,en te loven is de hemel!             '
      Die van zijn naaste in het geheim achterklapt, dien                                                   G .   ` V .
 zal ik verdelgen !
      Zelfs de wereld weet van dit  -euvel. Ze zijn niet                   -  .  .
 266 .blind, dat zij niet weten hoe alles eigenlijk niet is
  zooals het zijn moest. Maar zij lachen er om. `Daar is
 het verschii  tusschen Isr&el en Egypte.                                                  NlOTICE
     .Niet lang  geleden zag ik een  spotprent  in een  der.
 bladen. Vier vrouwen waren tezatien geweest in. het               Candidates Gerald Vanden Berg, who has accepted
 namiddaguur. Zij  hadden wat gekaart  ,eri wat thee' the call of Grand Haven, and Edward Knott, -who has
  gedronken. Maar er nioet altijd &5n iijn, die het eerst ,accepted  the call of' Fuller Ave. to become home mis-
  weg moet. En de  schrijver  bij die prent  beklaagde sionary for the Protestant Reformed Church, will be
 . hem of ,haar :die het eerst weg moet. De plaa% stelde... examined ,at the .October meeting- of ,Classis  East ac-
. het geheele tafereel in- het licht. Met de hoed op en cording to the following schedule :
 de mantel a&, spoedde die- eerste vrouw zich naai de             S&mons.
  deur ; en de indere drie wachtten, .wachtten ! Men kon            Dogmatics I & IILRev. B. Kok.
  het  Op de  aangezichten  lezen: de drie toonden inner-           Dogmatics III & IV-Rev. H. De Wolf.                   '
. lijke Plijdschap  3n het vooruitzicht vail naar hartelust        Dogmatics V  & VI-Rev. J. De Jong.
  te lasteren ; en die &ne toonde.angst voor datgen.e  wat           Controversy - ReS. W: Hofman.
  ze wist dat volg& zou. Meesterlijk geteekend ! Ja, een            Knowledge of our Confessions-Rev. IH. Veldman.
  meesterlijke teekening  van een helsch werk! Achter-           . Knowledge of the Scriptures-Rev. M. Schippef.
  klap !                                                            Practica - Rev. M. Gritters.
      Achterklap   behoeft  geen leugen te zijn om  zijn-            Sermon Critics-Revs. J. lI?eys and R; Veldman.
  helsche  oorsprong te verraden.  /Het kan waar zijn,
  alles waar, zuiiere waarheid, en tech passen in den           The Synodical. delegates of <Classis West are requested
  mond der duivecen. U3et'komt alles aan op het motief.         to be present.
  Men zegt de.divgen  niet uit liefde, maar uit haat tegen                                      Classical Committee :
  haar die wegging en het niet kati hoor@                                                             R .   Veldman.


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                                                                 and most efficient time system on the market today.. It
               PERISCiOPE.  I'                                   will add much to the efficiency of our school."
                                                                    "Building -and Play-Ground Improvement" is next.
                                                                 Here we are told. of.: "Extensive alterations .and re-
 Christian. School. . . .    \                                   pairs. . .  .' redecorated in a  light, sight-preserving,
    We came across a Christian School news-sheet' pastel coloi-.  . . . New play equipment. . . . `The liew,
 recently which attracted our atteiition. Since the time attractive kindergarten room will be a place of' joy
~ is at hand that children will return to school, its pnr- for our beginners, and a sti&ce  of pride for our parents
 pose tias to make propoganda for the particular school and-patrons. . . . atteniion  this summer is parficularly
 which issued it and alsb to attempt to influence parents. centered in the playground. i `. . When all this work
                                                     ..
 to send their children here.                                    is completed. . . . will have  2  playgrdund  which is
                                                                 second to none in-the city."
    While reading this little pamphlet, two thi?gs drew             Finally, after an appeal is made for money to cover
 our attention; In the first place, we were struck by the expenses for these improvements, ti paragraph of
 the gredt and overwhelming emphasis that was put two sentences, entitled : "Appreciation", is added. Even
 upon the physical and formal advantages and aspects this is not free of the same materialistic  note: `fThe
 of the schqol. From the sheet, these appeared to be,            Board is grateful to God for the blessings of the .past
 by far, the dominiting  characteristic of this Christian year and the generous giving of the supporters of. . . .
 School: Consequently, in the second place, we were who have made it possible to take care of all our cur-
&so struck by the lack of spiritual emphasis. It is rent financial obligations. We face the new  school
.true, the ordinary and expected remarks were added year with faith atid courage for continued progress
 but the characteristic tone of the entire four pages 6f         in the furtherance of Christian education of our c&e-
 information was materialistic.                                  nant children, with increasingly better facilities."
   Let's  ta1re.a  look at it. The important feature of             It is not' our purpose to judge either the Board,
 the front page is an artist's sketch of a beautiful pro-        teaching  staff or the equipment. Nor do we have an
posed new building. This is-followed by a  seri& of argument with this particular school ; for that reason
 heading and delineations. The firstcdeclares  : "Teaeh- we have carefully avoided using its name.. But we feel
 ing Staff complete". Under this is the .announcement definitely that the emphasis is wrong. The only con-
 that the "Board is prepared to open school in the fall          clusion one. can come-to from reading the above-men-
 with a complete staff of well qualified teachers. . . .         tioned `pamphlet is this : "It's wonderful ! Surely as
 carefully seletted". According to further'information           good, or better, than any Public School so why shouldn't
 this means: "Each member. . . . will meet the certifi-          I send my children here." But, as far as the informa-
 cation requirements of the State. . . . and be in `pos- tion advanced is concerned, the question still remains:
 session of the proper certificate: . .  ;" A  ?esum6 is Why  should we send our children to the Christian
 then given of the staff. The. teacher's are described as :      school? [And the still more basic questioh : What is a
 `fhighly recommended. . . . particularly successful. in         Christian School? What determines the qualifications
 her work. . . . highly successful in teaching beginning of teacher's text-bodks and equipment? Must we be
 reading. . . . graduate. . . . A.B degree. . . . The edu-       guided and judged by the utilitarian standardi of ef-
 cational qualifications and practical experience of these fi&ency,   sicular  .education   and materiel?  Where is
 . . . `.will be a valuable asset. . . .excellent record . . . the positive directive ?
 rich experienqe in personnel work. . . . candidate for             The general impression left upon us by the reading
 Ph. D. degree." (Only an occasional remark is made as of this little news-sheet was that ,it appeared to be an
to the spiritual qualifibation or Christian character, as, apology and defense of the Christian &hool plant over-
 for exampl'e, in the` closing paragraph, rather by-the- against the Public institutions, rather thau a `positive
-Way, as it were: "We are happy and grateful that we             statement of basic Christian principles of education
 may face the new school year with a full staff of highly and their value. If we. do not maintain, and send our
 qualified, Christian teachers all meeting the require- children to Christian Schools, for principle reasons, we
 ments of the educational standards of our iState. May face a lost cause.
 God bless them ri.chly in their work with our covenant                                :k  * :i:     :E
 children."                                                 .
    The next he_ading is: "Textbooks Are Brought Up- Refoy,ed  Church  h  America.  .  .  .
 to-Date", where we are in-f`ormed  of "new, high quality           The-,General  Synod of the R. C. A.. met in its 141st
 texts. . . . the best available."                               -session this year in Holland, Michigan. Among the
    Of great importance, apparently, is the "New Clock more important actions which will be of -interest to
 and Bell System" which had been the memorial by the our readers. are the following.
 last graduating class. It is described at great length             The Synod unanimpusly decided to  remain affiliated
 both as to appearance and operation as ". . . .the latest with the Federal  Couficil of Churches of Christ in
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 America;  a definitely liberal  organizatipn.  Hbwe<er,           University. Though never ordained he served 3 years
 as though listening to the .voice of conscience, the Synod as pastor and later as Editor of the Christian Herald.
 also instructed its representatives to the council to take At present `he is on the staff of  Reader's  Digest  as
 a position consonant with Biblical Christianity, which roving editor.                    '
is an indication of the chtiractei  of the Federal Council.            `The thrust of his speech was tihat the modern Pro-
 Upon reading this decision two sad situations strike us,. testant Church is failing her .mem.bers.  Much of what
 neither of which, however, are surprising if one is at he said is not only interesting but reveals a striking
 all acquainted with the present trend in the Reformed insight into the evils of modernism. According to Time
 Church. Tl?e first is the fact of affiliation itself and he said, in part, as follows: "I think th,e first business
 the unanimous decision to continue. No Church Tivhich             of the Church is to iedeem me. :And I don't. mean to
 desires to maintain the Reformed truth and prof.esses             redeem me in merely a social sense which convinces _
 to be Reformed has any business in the Fideral Council.           me that the Golden Rule ought to be my Confessidn of
 In fact, we feel it to' be a reflection on the whole of           Faith. By redeeming,me,  I mean personal redemption
 Reforined Truth that a. Church which still bears that -the "process by which I'm spiritually shaken apart
 name is so connected. In the second place, the fact and spiritually put together again, .and from whitih I-
 that delegates to the Federal CouncilXmust be instructed          the personal I-emerge a totally diRerent person. . : .I'
 to maintain Biblical Christianity is a sad.commentary                 "The first reason for this failure is that the Church
 on conditions within the Federal Council not only, but -the modern, modernist Protestant Church-rates me
 even &ore so,' on the present state of the R. C. A. and altogether too highly. It has been dn6 of theglories of
 goes far to explain the decision to remain a member Protestantism that it has put the emphasis- on the
 of the Federal Council.                                           Individual, on Free  ,Will and Free Choice.  But the
     Also discussed tias ihe proposed union of the ke- net result may prove to be disastrous. . . . I'm simply
 fqrtied Church with the United Presbyterian Church. not as good as modern Protestantism assumes  me to be.
 This-merger has been "in the process" for some time.              I haven't got the spiritual stuff to do on my own what
 Though the *General Synod deferred action until its modern Protestantism expects `me to do. The Church
 session of 1949, and hence delayed the possibility of has failed me because it has given me too much.free-
 actual union until 1950, it nevertheless instructed the dom and too little discipline. . ; . It has assumed that'
 coml@ttee.for  union to speed up,progress on the issue.           all I needed was the right hand of fellowship.  . . ."
 The Union Committed  was instructed to prepare Art-                   "Ever since my Sunday School days I've heard it
icles of Union covering such' matters as `Constitution, `dinned into my ears that I'm a child of ,God, that I'm
 Liturgy, Article of Doctrine and Worship, etc. If made in IHis Image. It seems to me that those who
 these are approved `by the General. Synod of `49 they             lay so much emphasis on my bearing such resemblance
 will be sent to the 41 Classes of the denomination for            to the Almighty are not only mistaken about me, they're
 ratification and the merger will be consumated in 1950.           also mistaken about history."
 Previously the' U. P. Church had taken similar action.                "Man was  mad!- in the image of God in the first
     Finally, of interest, is the instruction to the Board chapter of G'enesis. He didn't stay that-way very long.
 of Education to study the possibility .of establishing a          In fact, he only stayed that way until the t.hird chapter
 new Liberal Arts College in the far West, pdssibly in ,of Genesis. -Then he had what the Theologians call a
_ Lids Angeles. At present- the Reformed Church mairi- -Fall. He's never been t.he same since-not on his own
 tains two such colleges, one in Holland, called Hope,             . . . . The whole of the Bible and that whole of the '
 and Ceetral College in Pella, Iowa. We might add to ministry of Jesus, as-1 understand it, were designed
 this our personal reflection that if the proposed insti- not to persuade man how godd he is on his. own, btit
 tution is to  bear_ the character of the two existing how evil h-e is on his own. And how good, by the
 schools we would consider it an unnecessary  duplica- `process of redemption. . . . he can become. . . ,"
 -tion and addition to hundreds of like schools already              Mr. lHigh.tiloses with the following suggestion as to
 in existence; Reflecting the character  of the Reformed the tiolution of the problem: ."The  Church we need will
 Church generally, her sch`ools ,have also lost their dis- h.ave. .  : . more of the Last Judgment and less of the`
 tinction`through synthesis.                                       Golden Rule. It  wiil  tiot only have a Living  `God, but .
                         :,:  :,:  :,:  $                          a Live Devil. Its Heaven will have a Hell for its alter-
                                                                   native. Its objective-so far as I'm concerned-will
 Modernist  vs.  M.ode&sm.'  .  .  .          `-                   not  b'e my cultivation but  my rebirth. I. might fail
    From the August 18 issue of Time magazine we that kind of Ch@rch but. that. kind of Church could not
glean the following. It is a report of a speech deliver- fail me."                                -
 ed by Mr. IStanley  High, before an interdenominational                                       *.*:  *  *'
 group in which he indites modernism: ..Mr.' High, ac-
 cording to information furnished, is a Congregational-            l&.ssi~  vs.  Religion.  .  .  .
 ist and graduate of the Theblogical  School of Boston                 Every now and then reports trickle out of Russia


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  which give the lie to a-great deal of the "prop,aganda" the'conglomer&e treasures of her handbag in search of
  which we heard during the war years, concerning Rus- a small coin. Failing in this the woman closed her
  sian's attitude toward Christianity. Since  we were purse, and folded her hands, intending to appear in
  then Allies much "oil" had to be spread to attern& to            an attitude of worship while th'e plate passed in front
  quiet the well-grounded fears of many Americans re- of her. The little girl, who had brought her`envelope
  garding Rdssia's defiance of IGod and positive Atheism. -from ho&e, realized the seriousness of the situation-
  Now that the tables are turned, somewhat, ahd Russia's           that someone should be at church without an offering.
  need for us has been' allepiated,  the truth again ap-           So the little tyke pushed her envelope into the' woman's
.. pears that `nothing had ever changed.                           hands with the words, "You may put this in and I'll
     The most decent report by a British Churchmen's hide tinder the. bench !"
  committee states that "thk Soviet government is still                                                                     W. H.
  hostile to all- religions". The report, which was de-
 livered to delegates from 53 nations attending `a con-
 ference of the World Sunday Schopl Associatidn,  de-
clared further: "neither persecution nor anti-religious                                      -  N O T I C E   -:'
 propaganda have been able to exterminate religion in
 R u s s i a .                                     .                     _  Corrected  itinerary of Dr.  Schil$er's  `lecture tour
   "The Atheism of official Russia remains and there.. in the Middle West-and  West:                                                 ,'
 is  po  equaiity between religious and anti-religious             -  WEERE                WHAT ?               `- DAY          DATE
 movements. Some freedom of worship exists but it id Hull                                  Lecture         Wed. P.M.           Sept. 17
 a static freedom, for there is no.freedom of -religious           Orgnge City             Lecture        Thurs. P.M.          Sept. 18
 teaching  atid consequently no Sunday' Schools, Bible Sioux Center Lecture                               - @Friday P.M.       Se@. 19
 Class& or similar Christian organizations."                     Orange City              :Sermon          Sunday A.M.         Sept.  21
                                                                   Sioux Center            Sermon
                  I           :i:  :i:  :i: :r                                                            Sunday P.M.          Sept. 21
                                                                   H u l l                 Sermon . Sunday eve.                Sept. 21
                       C L I P P I N G S   -                       Doori                   Le'cture        Tuesday P.M. Sept. 23
                                                                  .Mennb,   1s.  Dt LecturB                Wed. P.M. Sept. 24
Playing  Church.  .  .~  .                                        Menno, S. D.            Sermon           Thurs. P.M.         Sept. 25
     In the Moody Month& of July 1947, appeared aa                Edgerton                 Lecture         Friday F.M.        Sept. 26
 *editorial  under the above title and signed W.F. Though -Edgerton                       Sermon           Sunday A.M.         Sept. 28
 simple and amusing it gives us something to think  -Doon                          ~      I Sermon         Sunday P.M.         Sept. 28
 about; How far are we removed from this sort. of  Rock  Valley                            Sermon          "Suqday eve.        Sept. 28
 thing?-if not in  practise  yet in principle?                    Redlands                 Lecture         Thurs.  P.M.          Oct.. 2
     `"One is concerned at the lethargy of most Christian Be11flower                      Lecture          Friday P.M.           act. 3
 people. They are going through some motions ISunday Bellf1ower                           Sermon           Sunday +M.            act. 5
 after Sunday,  &tli?,he enthusiasm of an absent-minded. Red1ands                          Sermon          Sunday eve.           act. 5
 fourth grader during his daily cal&thenics.session.              Manhattan                Lecture         Tuesday P.M.          act. 7
     "My children play doctor. `They play store.  Oc-'  Manhatttin                         Sermon          Wed:P.M.              act. 8
casionally they. play church. They line up the chairs, _ Note:  Laecture and  Sermqn in  Menrid,  S. D.,  &ill be
 a;s many as they. Can muster, and then put a f.ew dolls          in the Gernian language.
 here  and there to`make  up the  `:congregation". There                                Committee for the Schilder Lecture Tour
 `are always vacant seats. They have all of the parts of                                for the Middle West and. West.
 the' service. Sometimes their. singiig is -nothing to                                                               Rev.  G .   vos.
 write `home about, and the offering may be just a few
 bottons and other odds and ends that happen to be
 handy.                                                    .      Nqte :-Dpe $0 lack qf #ace`& this issue the material
     "/These children, if aske&what they are doing, guile-        of Rev. Heys and k,ev. Lubbers has been omitted but
 lessly exclaim, "We are playing church." But the                 will be printed in the next issue pf the Standard Bearer.
 adul_ts who "play church" put on a show that is not                                            A
 funny ! They leave the seats empty, while the preacher
 declar,es  that "there is no' other name under heave-1             -       :            -  B O U N D   COJ+IES   -                        ~
 given among men  wh&eby   w,e  mustObb_e saved." But                     lA,t  ppesent  c&s&tories dr societies of our churches
                                                                                                           .
 they are not concerned. The ushers pass the offering have  the  opportufiity   .to  pur:chase a  complete  set  of
plates, and the people put in whatever happens to `be bound Standard Be'arers.
handy.                                                                    Literature; books;- and back issues of the R.F.P.A.
    "When the'time for the offering came in one church, will now be loaned out to our readers with the per-
 `a little girl noticed a rather buxom lady fingering over mission of our librari:an, Mr. M.' Woudenberg.

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                     hdex .FOP Volmie .23                                                                                                                                                                                          A u t h o r   Pag.e   N o .
                                                                                                                        HebrewsTg% (Med.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .`..... le........ H.H. 361 16
                                                                                                                       James  1:l ........................ ....................................................
             TNDEX  OF SCRIPTiRE  PASSAGES TREATED                                                                     James 1:2-4 ...................................... .: .......................... E%:                                        z        t
                Text                                                                   Author Page'No.                 James  .1:3, 4 ..... p.............................. ..............................
 Exodus 34:34 ............. ................................................... G.L. 501 `21                           James               1:5 
                                                                                                                                              .........I........... .............................................. .;... g;.;;.  ;
 Leviticus 18:5 ..................................... . ........................... G.L. 330                           James 1:6-B .:.............. ............................................. i ... HIV: 114.                                           5
        Continued ..........................................i........... . ........ G.L. 356 ::                        James 1:9-11 ..................................... .; .......................... H.V. 136                                            .6
 Deuteronomy 30:12-14 ................................................ GL. 330 14                                               Continued ............................ .:................ :. .............. H.V. 162                                        7
        iContinued ...................................... i.. ../.................... G.L. 356                         James  1:12 .................................................................                                        H.V. 188 8
        Cqntinued ....................;. .. .;:...................................... G.L. 380 .::                     James 1:13 ..................................................................... H.V. 212 9.
 1 Samuel  2:31 ....,.... .................................................... G.M.O.                84 .4             James 1:14-16 ..................................... ......................... H.V. 237 10
 ,I' Samuel 5 ........................................ ................... ....... G.M.O.            10                James 1:17 .................................................................... H.V. 260- 11
 I Samuel 6 ................................................................... G.M.O.               34 A James 1:18 ..................................................................... H.V. 284 12
 I Samuel 7 ......................................... *......................... G.M.O.              36     2          James 2:14-17 (Med.) ......................... ........................ H.H.                                                         1
 I Samuel 7:12 ................. ............................ ............ ...... G.M.O.             57     3          James 2:20-23 (Med,.) ................................................. H.H.                                                4:
 I Samuel 8 ................................ .................. ................G.M.O. 105 5                           James  2:25 (Med.) ................. .................................... H.H. 193                                                   iii
        Continued ...............................................................G.M.O. 132                 6          James 3:1, 2a (Med.) .................... ............................. H.H. 433 19                                                               .
 I Samuel 9 ..................................................................;.G.M.O. 181                  8          III Peter 3:13 ................... .; ............................................ H.H. 465. 20
 I Samuel 10 ................................................................ G.M.O. 204                    9          Revelation 4:l (Med.) ................................................ IE!$.I!& &3: 21
        ,Cor$inued ............................................................ G.M.0: 231                             Revelation  21:5  (Med.) ..............................................                                                              7
        Continued ... ......................................................... G;M.O. 253 FL
 I Samuel 10:17-27 ........................ ............................ G.M.O. 278 12                                                       IN'DEX   O                    F             SUBJliTS   TREAiED
 I Samuel 11 ......................................... l....`.................. G.M;O. 302 13
        Continued ............................................................ G.M.O. 346 15                                                                                                -A-
       `Continued .............................................................G.M.O. 373 16                                             Subject ,                                                                                Author Page No.
 I Samuel 14 ............................................................ /....G.M.O. 423.                             Aalders?-A Different . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.H.           22       ,l
       IContinued ............................................................ G.M.O. 492 t:                           AI1 Enduring Love .......................... ..........I................. H.H. 217 10
   ' Continued .. ..... ........................................ :. ........;.G.M.O. 515 22                            All Of Him ...... .; ...`..................................... .................... H.H.                                             5
 I Chronicles 21:10-15 (Med.) ..... ..........I.................... H.H.                             97     5          Ark of God Delivered-The .................................... G.M.O.                                                        1":
 II Chronicles 1:.3 ................................... ;.;. .........<....... G.M.O.                82                        Continued ............................................................ G.M.Q.                                       34       ii
Psalm 19:4 .........`. .;............................. ............................. G.L. 475 2:                       Ark-of God in Kirjathjearim-The ........................ G.M.O.                                                             35       -2
 Psalm .68:18 .................................................................... G.L. 402 17                         Assurance of Membership ................................. ....... H.H: 126
       Continued ...................... .I ................................. (.... G.L. 428 18                                 ,Continued :. ....................... .z.. ................................. H.H. 150                                        !y     .I
 Psalm 92 (continued from Vol. 22) ........................ GV.                                      15                Authority ....................................................................                                             166
 Psalm 93 ........................................... J.. .......................... G.V.            62 4              Authority~Ecumenical  Synodical  Problems ........ Ez:                                                                       4       :
Psalm 94 .......................................................... ..I............. G . V .   88                      Autonomy of' the SLoeal  Church
       Continued .............................................................. G.V. ,112                                    (See under  IChurch  Order, Art. 79, etc.)
       Continued .............................................................. G.V. 159                               .Avignon  Popes-The'................................................ G&.0. 133                                                       6
       Continued ......................... :. ..... ................:............. G.V. 184
Psalm  95 ....,................................................................... G.V. 208
       Continued ........ ............................... ......................... G.V. 232                           Baptism  Form--=Our   (continuedfrom  Vol 22)                                                                       C H     18       1
Psalm ,96 .;. ............................... ;................................. .... G.V. 256                         Barthianism .................................................... :.;. .... I::::'W:H:. 215 9
       Continued .............................................................. G.V. 280                               Basis of Ecumenical Synodl-Confessional ............ H.H.
       ,Continued .............................................................. G.V. 303 :s Beloften Eens K&rings-De -................................... G.V. 5:;  2 x
Psalm 97 ......................................................................... .G.V.. 326                          Body-The. Resurrection of the ................................ H.H. 295
       Continued ............. .................................................. G.V. 352 15                                  Continued ............ .;................................................. H.H. 319
       `Continued ..................................... .............: ..;. ........ G.V. 376 16                                                                                      -tL                                             "
Psalm 98 .......................................................................... G.V. 397 17` Calvinism-French ............................................ ........ W.H. 264 11
       Continued ..................................................................         G.V. 424                   Catechism and Parental Cooperation ..................... W.H. 310
P,salm 99 ............. *. ........................................................... G.V. 445 :t                     Catholic Hour--The ..................................................... W.H. 240. :x
       Continued .......................................... ..!. ................. G.V. 471                            Catholicity of the Church-The- .............................. H.H.
Psalm 1.00 ...................................................................... G.V. 495 z! Centenial ................................................. ...................... W.H. 26; 1;
Psalm 101 ......................... ............................................. G.V. 519 22                          China ............................................................................ W.H. 264
Proverbs 1:9 (Med.)'..... .............................................. H.H. 145                          -7          Christ-Child as the Lord of All-The .................... H.H. 121
Matthew 2:1-12 (Med.) .............................................. H.H. 121                                          Christian Education-Godly Instruction ................ M.G.                                                                 1 6
Matthew lo:34 ................... ................. ......................... H.H. -465 2:                                     Continued ..........;........ ;i.. .... ..... ..... ......................... M.G.                                  3`9
Matthew 11325-27 ...................... .............J........ ............. H.H.                    55     3                  Continued ........................................;. ..................... M.G.
Mark 2:17 ........................................>. .........._ ............... HIH. 467                                      Continued ............................................................... M;G. .. !;:
Mark 2 :27 . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                                           ............................................. H.H. 467 ;i                           Continued ............................................................... M.G. 110
Luke 23:44, 45 (Med.) .......................... ................ .... H.H.' 265 1 2                                           Continued .$. ........................................................... M.G. 135
Luke 23:45b (Med.) ............................... ..................... :.I!& f?; 13                                  Christian Education-How Much Are Parents
John  l:l-6 (Med.) ................. .............../......................                                8                   Interested ? ........................................................ i ... M.G. 135
John 3:16 .................................... ...+. ............................ a, H:H:  464.                        Christian Education-Living in His Fear ............J.A.H.' 499 21
.John 3.117 ............................ !.......................................... H.H. 465 3                        Christian Education-Off Genter ............................ M.G. 110                                                                 5,
John  17:8-11 (continued from Vol. 22) .................. A.P.                                    46       .2          Christian School :. ................................................ ;......;. W.H. 522 22 .
       icontinued ...a........................., ............................... ;..A.P.          72       3           Church-Assurance of Membership ........................ H.H. 126                                                                     6
John  19:18  (Med.) ..................................................... * H.H.  -241                                        Gontinued ............................................................ ~.. H.H. 150                                           7
John 20:16,  17 (Med.) .....I............................. ............... H.H. 313 1':                                Church Merger .................. .......................................... W.H. 287
3ohn21:1-14 (Med.) .................................................... H:H. 337                                       Church Order-Article 27 ................................ .... ....G.M.O. 182
Acts 2:1, 4 (Med.). ...................................................... H.H. 385 2                                  Church Order-Article 31, Dr. Ridderbos and....G.M.O. 394
Romans 5:8 (Med.) .................................................... -H.H. 217 10                                           Continued ..............................................................G.M.O. 418
Remans 10:5-B ................................................................ G.L. 330 14                                    Continued .............................e.. .......................... G.M.O. 441
       Continued ................................................. .; ..A........ G.L. -356                            Church Order-Article 36 ........................................ .G.M.O. 157
       Continued ....................................................... ........ G.L. 380                             Church Order-Article 68 ...................................... G.M.O. 157
Romans  lo:18 .................. ............................................ G.L. 475                                 Church Order-Article 79 ................... .". .;. ................ G.M.O. 157
I Corinthians 13:l ........ !. ......................................... ~.. G.V. 505                                         Continued ....,.................;....... .................................G.M.O. 207
II (Corinthiam, 3:16 ..................................................... .G.L. 501.                                          Continued ............................................................. .G.M.O. 228
Ephesians 4:8-12 ....................................... ..................... G.L. 402                                       C,ontinued ................ ................. ............................. G.M.O. 250 11
       Continued .............................................................. G.L. 428                                      Continued ......................................... -. ................. G.M.O. 274 12
Philippians 1:3-5 (Med.) .............................................. H.H. 409                                              Continued ................ .............................. !.............G.M.O. 298 13
Philippians 1:27, 28 (Med.) ...................................... H.H. 457                                                    Continued-Dr. Ridderbos and
                                                                                                                                                              .........................................................................
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  g..MM.g.        322
Hebrews 4:14 (Med.) ................................................ H.H.                         25                          Continued ....... I                                                                                          . . . 348 :d;
Hebrews 4:15,  16 (Med.) ............................................ H.H.                        73       f .                Continued ................................................ ..............G.M.O.                                     370 1 6

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   Church Order of Protestant Reformed Churches  W.H. ,358 15                                                                                                                                         Ingezonden 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  JJ.R.  VanderWal 192                                                              8
   Church-The Catholicity of the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.                                                                         -7      1                       Inter-church Correspondence i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..s..... J.H. 503 21.
   Church-The Commission of the                                                                                                                                                                       `Ladies Aid Sales. . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ . . . . . . . . . . . H. A. Van Putten 292 13
       (Conference Speech b,y Rev. E. Buehrer)                                                                                                                                                        Light  in the Fog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .L.  Doekes 268 12
          Resume s................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                                                                                                                                                 W.H.                 .94                             Mystery-The ........................................... ..L. Doekes
          Discussion __                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           316 14
                                         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.H.                                      W.A.E. .and the Chr. Ref. Churches ....:..:...;..: .. J.H. `503 21
   Church-The  COInmunion of ,Saints I..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 1;:                                                                                                                Promise ?-Unto Whom is the ......... .L.  Doekes
         IContinue, d . ..*...* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 1.99,                                                Promise ?-What is the                                                                                                                                       g.  ;;'
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      .................. L.. ....b. Doekes
  ChurchLThe                      ~-  .--io  -.-_.
                                  Distinpui&.ing Marks of the                                                                                                                                         Weighed and Found Wanting ........................... J.H. 503 21
   (iconference   S p e e c h   bJr Rev. R. D. Steubbe)                                                                                                                                               You and Your Seed ................................. L. Doekes                                                                                               509 22
          Resume ..................... ..................................... ....... W.H. 116 5                                                                                       Convicting Office of the Spirit
          Discussion ............................... .:. ........................... W.H. 117 5                                                                                             (Continued from Vol. 22) .................................... A.P.                                                                                                     46     `2
   Church-The Election of the .................................... H.H.                                                                                               31 2                       Continued ................. ........................... .................... A.P
          Continued ................................ ..............................                                                                                   54  .3         Correspondence ........................................................... W.H. 2:: 1x
         <Continued ................................ .............................. EE*                                                                               78  .4         Correspondentie Met Nederland ..........L. Doekes-H.H. 222 10
   Church-The Gathering of the ................................ H:H:                                                                                                  80  h                       Continued :....................................... L. Doekes-H.H. 268 12
   C o n t i n u e d ............................................... ............... H.H. ,102  .5                                                                                                C,ontinued .........................................L. Doekes-H.H. 316 14
          Continued ............................................................... H.H. 126 6                                                                                                    Continued ....!. .................................. L; Doekes-H.H. 340 15
   Church+The Idea of the ............................................ H.H.                                                                                            7 1                        Continued ........................................ ,L.. Doekes-H.H. 460 20
          Continued ............................................................... H.H.                                                                              39 2                       Continued .......................................... L. Doekes-                                                                                                  468 21
   Church-The Idea of the                                                                                                                                                                         Continued .......................................... L. Doekes-                                                                                                 509 22
      (Conference Speech by Rev. H. Hoeksema)
         Resume .......... ........ i.,.............................. i.. ............ W.H.                                                                           43 2                                                                                                     -D-
         Discussion ............................................................ W.H.                                                                                                Dame-Reply to Rev. C. P. -Undoing the
                                                                                                                                                                      45 2
 _ Church-The Holiness- of the                                                                                                                                                             Blunders of the Fathers
                                                                                ....... . ............................ H.H.                                                                                                                                       .........................................                                                       196 9
   Church-The Multiformity                                                                                                                                                           Deliverance, Jonathan's
                                                                         of the .......................... .H.H. 17;                                                          iii                                                                              ........................................... G.EE. 615 22
         Continued ..............                                                                                                                                                    Demand of the People After a King ...................... G.M:O:
                                                              ............................................. . H.H. 1.99  ,9                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       105  .5
   Church-The Reformation of the                                                                                                                            *                        Depose a Minister ?-Can a  Classis  .
      (Conference Speech by Rev. L. Doezema)                                                                                                                                               (See under Church Order-Art. 79, etc.) .
         Resume .... ............................................................ W.H.                                                                                               Distinguishing Marks of the Church
                                                                                                                                                                     138  6.
         Discussion ............................................................. `W.H.                                                                                                    (See under Church-Distinguishing Marks etc.)
                                                                                                                                                                     164 7
   Church-The Tension of the-                                                                                                                                                        Doctrine-Our .............................................................. H.V, -489 `21
      (Conference;Speesch  by Rev. H. Vkldman).                                                                                                                                                  Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.V. 512 22
         Resume ................................................................. W.H.                                                                                               Drie Kruisen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.
                                                                                                                                                                      68 3                                                                                                                                                                                        241 11
         Discussion                                                                                                                                                                  Driewerf  Heilige-De
                                      ................................ ............................. g.E                                                             .69 3                                                                               . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .          445 19
   Cliurdh-The  Unity of the                                                                                                                                                                     Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                                                                        ........................................                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2;
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            . . 471 20
  Church Union .............................................................. W:H: 19;                                                                                       ii
   Churches in Netherlands-The Liberated                                                                                                                                             Ebenezes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GM 0                                      ..57    3
      (See under Liberated %hurc.hes,  `etc.)                                                                                                                                        Ecumenical ,Synod ?-Reformed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...' J:H: 503' 21
   C.L.A.-A Closed Shop With .a Loophole ............ H.H. .294   1 3                                                                                                                Ecumenical Synod-The First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.K.                                                                               23     1
         Continued ................... . ......................................... H.H. 364 16                                                                                       Ecumenical Synodical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H;H.
   Clark  CaseAThe  Missionary Monthly- About the H.H. 244 11                                                                                                                                    Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.HI 2:                            ;
   Classis  Depose a Minister?--ICan  a                                                                                                                                                          Continued ,..........................: . . . . . . . . . . . :: . . . . . . . .../.... . . . . . . . . H.H.
     (See under Church Order, Art. 79 etc.)                                                                                                                                          Equmenicity                             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :...,...w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .W.H. 3:: 1:
   Clipping the News .................................................... W.H. 383 16                                                                                                Editorials
   Clipping `the News :. ...................................................... W.H.                                                                                                       Closed Shop with a .Loophole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.                                                                        294 13
   Clipping the News ...................................................... W.H.. 2;;  2                                                                                                                Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 364 16
   Closed Shop .........i.. .............................i....................... W;H. 310 13                                                                                              Coming of Dr. .Sohilder--The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 343 15
  Closed Shop With a Loophole-A ....................J. IGritter 364 16                                                                                                                     Correspondentie Met Nederland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 222 10
   Closed Shop With a Loophole-A ............... ;I?. Battier 450  .19                                                                                                                     ,           ,Gontinued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 268 12
   Closed Shop With a Zoophole-A .......................... H.H. ,294  1 3                                                                                                                              Continued ..,..: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .`H.H. 316 14
         Continued ............./.................................................. H.H. 364. 16                                                                                                        Continued ........................................................... H.H. 340 15
   Coming of Dr. Schilder-The .................................. .H.H. 343  1,5                                                                                                                         Continued ........................................................... H.H. 460 20
  <Coming to ,the Throne of Grace .... ...... .................... H.H.                                                                                              z73 4                .-Dr. Schilder on Common  .Grace ............................. H.H. 172                                                                                                         8 e
  Commendation ............:. ............................................... W.H. 310 13                                                                                                  Ecumenical Synodical Problems ........................ H.H.
   Conu@ssion,  of the Church-The                                                                                                                                                                       Continued. ...................... .................................... H.H.                                                                                2:     ;
      (See under Church-Commission of the, etc.)                                                                                                                                                        Continued .................................................. ,........ H.H.
   Common Grace-Dr. Schilder On ............................ H.H. 172 8                                                                                                                    How history is Perverted ...................................... H.H. 195:                                                                                                      :
   Common #Grace-Three Points and *Four ............. H.H.                                                                                                                   4             Intolerance ............................................................... G.V. 484. 21
         Continued ................................................................ H.H. 1:: 5                                                                                            .Labor Laws and the Unions ................................ H.H. 388 17
         Continued ............................................................... H.H. 125                                                                                  6            Just for Once ... ........................................................ H.H. 292 13
         Continued ............................................................... H.H. il48                                                                                 7            -Missionary Monthly About the Clark Case-  H.H. 244 11
  Communion of Saints-The .................................. .;.. H.H. 175                                                                                                   .8            0, Shades of 19.05 ...........a..-........ ............................. H.H. 220 10
         Continued ..................................... .................. ....... H.H. 199                                                                                 -9            Our Eschatological Age ........................................ H.H. 272 12
  Complete Commentaries of  John Calvin ....,......... W.H. 47x9 20                                                                                                                   Our Position ............................................................ H.H. 174                                                                                                  8
  Concerning the Covenant ................................ L. Doekes                                                                                                 340 15          . Please, Strijdende Kerk ........................"....... . ..:. .... H.H. 412 18
  Conclusions of. Utreeht Binding,?-0, Shades of                                                                                                                                           Sarcasm, Sophistry, Evasion or What .............. H.H. 436 19
     1905 .......................................... ................c......l.. ........ H.H. ,220 10                                                                                     Smoke  Bereen ........................................................... H.H. 124                                                                                              6
  Conference Data ................,. ....................... W. Korn--!G.V.                                                                                          407 17                Substitution-A ......................................>.c.. .............. G.V. 484 21
  Conference-The Second Annual ............... .s;...........                                                                                                                              Three Points and Four ....................................... ;., H.H. 12                                                                                                      4
         Continued :.....................................-...................... $E-                                                                                 ifi -2 3                           Continued .......................................................... H.H.
         Continued .............................. i............................. W:H:                                                                                .94 4                              Continued ....I.. ................................................... i H.H. 125                                                                                  i
         #Continued ...............................I ..?. ......................... W.H. 116 5                                                                                                         ,Continued ............................................................ H.H. 148                                                                                   7
         Continued .............................................................. W.H. 138  .6                                                                                             Wheat and Tares ...................... .............................. G.V. 508 22
         Continued ..................... .Q.. .................................... W.H. 164 7                                                                                              Yes, Something More Concrete Please .............. H.H. 220 10
  Confessional Basis of Ecumenical Synod ............ H.H.                                                                                                           52 3            Education (see under Christian Education, etc.)
  Contributions:                                                                                                                                                                     Election. of the Church-The .................................. H.H.
             Closed Shop With a Loophole ........i.. ......J. ,Gritter 364 16                                                                                                                    Continued.`.:. .......................................................... H.H.                                                                                    Et     i
            ,Closed Shop with a Loophole ................F. Rottier 4 5 0   119                                                                                                                  Continued ...................................................... ........ H.H.
             Concerning A. C. Van Raalte                                                                                                                                             Eli's Father's House ................................................ G.M.O.                                                                                                  i:-    4 4
             (F. Dresselhuis, P. Prins) ............................ .W.H. 477 20                                                                                                    Empire and Papacy at Peace-The- .................... G.M.O.
             Concerning the ,Covenant ..................... L. .Doekes                                                                                               340 15          Eschatological Age-Our .............................. :I.. ........ H.H. 2;;  1;
            Contribution ..................................... J. .H. Hoekstra 286 12                                                                                                Eternal Life ................................................................. H.H. 368 16
       . Contribution ....................... ............:G. Ten :*Elshof 436 19                                                                                                                Continued ............................................................... . H.H. 390. 17


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                        S u b j e c t                                                                                    Author Page No.                                                       S u b j e c t                                                   Author Page No.
                                                                           -F-                                                                                                  A Different Aalders ................ ;. .......................... W.H.                        22      1
     Faith-Saved Through an Active .......................... H.H.                                                                                                              Correspondentie Met Nederland
     Fellowship in the Gospel ........................................ H . H .   40:  1 8                                                                                                (See under Correspondentie Met, etc.)
     First Ecumenical Synod, ............................................ R.K.                                                                     23            1              Ecumenical Synodical Problems ........................ H.H.
     Forgiveness of Sins-The ........................................ H.H. 201                                                                                                          Continued ...... ........................................................ H . H .   2;:        ;
            Continued .............................................................. H:H .. 223. 1:                                                                             Please, Strijdende Kerk ........................................ H.H. 412 18
     Frederick  II and the Papacy ............................ ....... G.M.O.                                                                      13            1              Smoke Screen .......................................................... H.H. 124                       6
            Continued ........................................... .;......... I.. ...G.M.O.                                                        38 2                         Three Points  a.nd Four  (,Common Grace) ........ H.H.                                         76      4
     French Calvinism ...................:&.-. ....................... W.H. 264 11                                                                                                      Cont.inued ........................................ ....................... H.H. 100          . 5
                                                                                                                                                                                        Continued .............................................................. H.H. 125              6
     Gathering of the Church-The ................................ H.H.                                                                             X0            4                      Continued ...................................... ........................ H.H. 148 7
            Contmued :. ............................ i.. ............................. H.H. 102                                                                  5           Licht in Den Mist .............................................. L. Doekes                       268 12
.       . Continued .................................... .z.:. .................... .QH.H.                                                       126             6           Lied. der Ruste-Een (continued from Vol. 22) .... G.V.                                            15      1
 .GerecIitvaardigd Uit de Werken ............................... Hii.                                                                              49            3           Light. in the Fog ................................................. L. Doekes                    268 12
     Gereformeerde Kerken-De-Statistics ................ W.H. 430 18                                                                                                         Living In His Fear ............................................. ....... J.A.H. 426 18
     `t Gescheurde:  Voorhangsel ...................................... H.H .. 289 13                                                                                                   Continued ............................................................ `J.A.H.        448 19
     Godly Instruction                                                                                                                                                                  Continued ...................... ...................................... J.A.H. 473 20
       (See under Christian Education-Godly, etc.)                                                                                                                                      {Continued ............................................................ J.A.H. 499 21
     Gospel and Our Social Life--The ............................ M.G. 306 13                                                                                                Lord Saves Israel-The .................................. -. ........G.M.O. 492 21
            Continued ................................... ........................... M.G. 328 14
            Continued ....... ......................................................... M:G. 354 15                                                                          Marrying .................................. II.?......................... w it                   166
            Continued .............................................................. M.G. 378 16                                                                             May We Help  Train Your Child ? .............l.......... J.A:H: 160                                       ::
           Continued .............................................................. M..G. 400 17                                                                             Meditations :
     Grace' Church of Kalamazoo-The .......................... H.V. 335 14                                                                                                      Al,1 Endu.ring Love ................................................ HH. ,217 10
     Grace-Riches of ............................................. .I......... H.H. l69' 8                                                                                      All of Him ..... ........................................................ ... H.H.                     5
     Ground of Justification-The ....................... ............ H.H. ,439 19                                                                                              Christ-Child as Lord of All-The ...................... H.H.1 11:                                       -6
                                                                          -Hb                                                                                                   Coming to the Throne of Grace .......................... H.H.                                  73      4
 Healing of the Papal Schism-The ......................GA 0                                                                                     227 10                          Drie Kruisen ............................................................ H.H. 241 11
     Heaven-Our "House in .......... ...................................f H:H: 225 10                                                                                           Fellowship in the Gospel ...................................... H.H. 409 18
            Continued .............................................................. H.H. 247. 11                                                                             (' Gerachtvaardigd Uit de, Weaken ........................ H.H.. 4 9                                    .3
 Heere Dienen met Blijdschap-Den ..................... .... G.V; 495 21                                                                                                          `t Gescheurde Voorhangsel ..................................... H.H. 289 13
 Heere  Regeert-De .................................................... .G.P..6   2   3                                                                                          `s Hemels Geopende  Deu.r ...................................... G.V. 481 21
 Heere Vroolijk Zingen-Den ............................. ."........ G.V. 208                                                                                     9              Holding Fast Our Profession ..........f.................... H.H.                               25      2
            Continued .......................................................... .:.. G.V. 232 10                                                                               In the Darkness ...................................................... H.H. 265 12
 Heid.  ICatechism  (See under  /I'riple Knowledge)-                                                                                                                            In Hope Van hat Nieuwe ...................................... H.H. 145
_ `s Hemels Geopende Deur ....... ................................. G.V. 481 21                                                                                                 Into Heaven Itself ................................ .................. H.H. 361 1:
 Holding Fast Our Profession .................................. H.H.                                                                               25 2                         Niet Vele Meesters ................................ ................. H.H. 433 19
 Holiness of the Chu.rch-The .................................. H.H.                                                                                                            Opgestane Heer Des Huizes-De ........................ H.H. 337 15
 How History is Perverted ............................... _. ....... H.H. 19:                                                                                    ii             Risen, Not Yet Ascended ....................................... H.H. 313 14
 How Shall I Prepare My Lesson ............................ J.A.H. 186                                                                                           8              Rachab's Werkend Geloof ..................................... H.H. 193                                 9
            Continued .........................wq...q. _. ...................... :.J.A.H.                                                       210              9              Riches of Grace ...................................................... H.H. 169                        8
                                                                                                                                                                                Speech of  Love+--The ............................................ G . V .   505  2 2
 Idea of Justification by Faith-The ....... ............... H.H. 415 18                                                                                                         Striving for the. Faith of the Gospel .............                                H.H. `457 20
           Continued .............................................................. H.H. 438 19                                                                                 Vervulling ................................................................ H.H. 385 17
 iIdea of the Church-The .......................... ................ H.H.                                                                                                       Zalig Door een Werkend Gelo.of .......................... H.H.                                  1      1
           ,Continued .................................. ............................ H.H.                                                         3:            ;          Mennonite Migrations ................................................. W.H. 404 17
 Idea of the %hurch                                                                                                                                                         .Millenium-The .................... ;...; ..............I................... H.H. 321 14
           "(See under Church-Idea of etc.)                                                                                                                                             Continued ......... i:...................................................   .H.H.     343 15
 In Hope Van Het Nieuwe ........................................ H.H. . 145                                                                                     7                       Continued .................... .......................................... H.H. 366 16
 In The Darkness ......................................................... H.H. 265 12                                                                                       Missionary  ,MonthIy  About the Clark Case-The H.H. 244 11
 Infra and Supra ........ ..). .... ................................... . ...... H.H.                                                              78           4            Modernists vs. Modernism. ........................................ W.H. 522 22
 Innezonden-De  Gelooviaen  en Hun Zaad .........                                                                                                                            Multiformity of the Church ...................................... H.H. 177                                8
                                                                                     0           J.R.  TTanderWal                               192             8                       (Continued ...................................................... ........ H.H. 199            9
 Instruction-Godly                                                                                                                                                           Mysterie-Het .................?. ..........
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1 ;;;`......................L. Doekes         316     4
     (See under Christian Education-Godly, etc.)
 Into Heaven Itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,H.H.               361                          N.A..E. and the Christian.Reformed  Church ..... ..... J.H. 503 21
 Inter-Church Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.                                       563 $7                       Netherlands Reformed Church ................................ W.H. 263 11
 Intoleran~ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.P. 484 21          N'etherlands-+The  Liberated Church in the
                                                                           -J-                                                                                                              ee under Liberated Churches, etc.)
 Jabesh-Gilead Delivered ................................ ..-....... G.M.O. 347 15                                                                                           NikdiIer ........................... . ........................................... W.H. 332 14
 Japanese Christianity .... .... ...................-.................... W.H. 190                                                                              8            Niet Vele Meesters .;........... .......................................... H.H. 433 19
 Jehova Regeert ............................................................ G.V. 326 14                                                                                     Nieuw Lied Den Heere-Een.. .................................... G.V. ( 256 11
           !Continued .............................................................. G.V. 352 15                                                                                        Continued .........b..........................,.......................... G.V. 280 12
           Continued ......................... ..................................... G.V. 376 16                                                                                        Continued ................................................................ G.V. 303 13
 Job-Godly Instruction ...................... ..*.................... M-G. 16                                                                                             . Not Many Masters ...................................................... H.H. 433 19
           `Continued .............................................................. M.G.                                                         38            ;            Novd Scheme ...............................
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                111 ;;`...........:........ ........ *W.H.    263
 Jona.than's Deliverance .................................. ..*.......G.M.O. 5"15 22
 Jonathan's Venture of Faith ..................:. ............G.M.O. 422 I8                                                                                                  Off-Center-Christian Education ............................ M.G. 11.9
 Just for Once ............................................................. . H.H. 292                                                                                      Office of Elder and Deacon-Term of .. ..............G.M.O. 182                                            i
 `Justification by Faith-The Idea of .................... H.H. 415 :i                                                                                                        Om Het Verbond ................................................ L. Doekes                        340 15
           Continued .................................................................                                        H.H. 438 19                                    Opgestane  Heer  Des Huizes-De ........ .................... H:H. 337 15
 Justification-The Ground of .................................. H.H. 439 19                                                                                                  0. T Quotations in The N. T. .................................. G.L. 308 13
 Justified by Works, ........................................ ............ H.H.                                                                   49            3            Our Position                                                        .:
                                                                                                                                                                                                       ................................................ .... ........... H.H. 174 . 8
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 King of Samuel's Witness-The ........................... jG.M.0, 153                                                                                         `7             Papacy at Peace-The Empire and the                                               AE&M.C$          60; 3
 King  Phillip  IV and Pope Boniface  VIIII........... :G.M.O.                                                                                    86            4           Pa.pacy--Frederick  II and the. ............................................... . . . .            15 1
 Knowledge of God---The .......................................... H.V. 512 22                                                                                                          Continued ............................................................ caf.0.          38 2
 Kom, 0  -God Der Wraken .........................................                                                                                                          Papacy-King Philip IV of France and Pope
           Continued ..../. ........................... .;............................ 2;  118:  :                                                                             Boniface VIII .............................,.............................. rG.M.0.             86,     4
          Continued ........................................ ....................... G:V: 159                                                                               Papacy-The Avignon Popes ...................................G.M.0; 133                                     6
           Continued .................................. ..............................                                         G.V. 184                         i           Papacy-The Renaissance popes ............................ GM.0. 254 11
                                                                          -L-                                                                                                           Continued (Pious II) ..........................................G.M.O. 277 12
 Labor Laws and the Unions ............................. .: ..... H;H. 388 17                                                                                               Papacy to Avignon-Transfer of the                                                  p&I.;.   :cg 5
Liberated Churches in .Netherlands  :                                                                                                                                       PapaI  Schism-The ....................................................................... . .             8


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                                 .Subject                                                                                                  Author Page No.                                                          S u b j e c t   '                                               Author Page No.
                             Continued ............................................................. G.M.O. 206                                                                            9
            -..                                                                                                                                                                                             Continued ....i.. ..................................................... ..J.A.H. 258 11
                    Papal .Schism-The. Healing of the ...................... G.M.0. 227 10                                                                                                                  Continued .... I............,.................... ......................... $`.A.H. 282 12
                    P.hilistines and the Ark of God .............................. G.M.O.                                                                              10                            -Self-Examination ........................................................ H.H. 126
                              Continued ..............................................................G.M.0.                                                           34.  ;                               Continued ............................. L.. .............. ................ H.H. $150*        ;
                    Playing Church ........ ................................................... W.H. 522 22                                                                                          .Shades of 1905,O ) ................. .."................................ H.H. 220 10
                    Please, Strijdende Kerk ............................................ H.H. 412 -18                                                                                                tins-The Forgiveness of ........................................ H.H. 201                            9
                    Pluriformity of the Church-The ............................ H.H. 177` 8                                                                                                                 Continued ............ ,......................... i.. ...................... H.H. 223 10
                             Continued .....................................i .:.............L.......... H.H. 199                                                                          9         Smoke Screen ................................. ..".......................... H.H. 124                6
                    Postwar France .......................................................... W.H. 404 17                                                                                            Societies-Searching the Scriptures ................... J.I.A.H.  2 3 5   1 0
                    Promise ?-What is the .................................... L. Doekes                                                                            460 20                                  Continued .............................. >.............................. J.A.H. 258 11
                    Promise ?-Unto Whom is the .......................... . Doekes                                                                                  486 21 .                                Continued ..................................................... ..-....J.A.H. 282 12
                    Fsalm-Een ................................................... ................ G.V.. 397 17 Speech of Love-The .............................................. .;.. 1G.V. 505 22
                             Continued .......................................................-. .... ..... G.V:, 424 18                                                                             SpiritThe  Convicting Office of the
                   Fsalter.s-New ............................................................ J.A.H. 498 21                                                                                                  (Continued from Vol. 22) .................. .............. A.P. -46 2
                                                                                             -c-                                                                          .'                    ~           `Continued ...............................................I......... ....... A.P.       72    3
                    Q u e s t i o n s   :                                                                                                                                                            Striving for the Faith of 'the Gospel .................... H.H. 457 20
                         Did Christ Suffer in Both  His. Human and                                                                                                               _                   Substitution-A .................................................. .......... ..G.V. 484 21
                         Divine Natures? ..............................................il...;. H.I& 466 20                                                                                           Sunday  SchoolHow  Shall I Prepare My Lesson..J.A.H. 186 8
                         Fr;gveV?hom   does-   Sa.tan Derive His Evil                                                                                                                 '                     [Continued .......... ........ ...........................................J.A.H. 210
                                              ................ i.. .................................................. H.H. 466. 20                                                                   Sunday School-May We Help Train Your  Ghild..J.AiH.   160.  t
                         How can we Reconcile John 3:16 with the Ex-                                                                                                                                 Supra and Infra ........................................................ \ H.H.                78    4
                             hortation-Love Not the World? . . . . . . . . . . . . ..I..... H.H. 464 20                                                                                              Synod of 1947 .............................................................. C.H.  45~1.  19
                        \In How many Ways is the Term World used in                                                                                                                                                                                       -T-
                   . Scripture ? . . . . . . . . t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 464- 20                                Tabernacle of Shiloh Forsaken-The ..... ........ d... G M 0                                   82 4
                         Questions on Church Polity  ~(See under Church                                                                                                                              Temptation  ,or Trial ? ........................................... ..i .. `H.:v:              41. 2
                             (Order,  etc.)                                                                                                                                                          Tension, of the .Church-The ......................... ;. ......... H.V. 141                          6
                         Please Explain John 3;16 ; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ;:H.H. 465 20 *                                                                    Continued ..................... i ................................. ......... H.V. 166        7
                        Please Explain Mark 2:17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 467 20                                                                 ITension  of the Church:
                        Please Explain Mark 2:2'7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 467 `20                                                                      ee under Church-Tension  :of, etc.)
                         Please Harmonize Matt. lo:34  and John 3:17....  H.H. 465 20                                                                                                                ThreLSCrosses .............................................................. H.H. 241 11
                        Was- David Justified in Ordering `Solomon to                                                                                                                                 Three Points and Four ...... ........................................ H.H.                    76  - 4
                             Punish Joab ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 466 20.                                         Continued .............................................................. H.H. 100             5
                       -Was Solomon Justified  in.  Deliying  Bathsheba's                                                                                                                                   Continued .... ..A'. ....... .............................................. H.H. 125
_                            Request Regarding Abishag ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . H.H.  466. 20                                                                                      Continued .................... ................................. .; ....... H.H. `148         t
                        Will This Very Earth be Our H.eavenly  Home                                                                                                                                  Transfer of the -Papacy to Avignon ................... dG.M.0. 109                                   5
                             After the Final Judgment, 2 ;Pet. 3:1,3 ? . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 465 20                                                                                               Trial or Temptation ? ...................................................... ...              41 2
                    Quotable Quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.H. 166                               7         Triple  Knowledge:The  (Lord's Day XXI)                                        . g.Hv'          6    1
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Continued .................................. i ............................ . ~H:H:    31 2
                    Rachab's Werkend Geloof _.... ?!I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ::. H.H. 193 `9                                                                                           [Continued ............................................................... H.H.         54    3
                    Reformation of the Church                                                                                                                                                               Continued .;........................... ..". ............................. H.H.               4
                              (See under Church-Reformation of etc.)                                                                                                                                        Continued ................................ .................. ............. H.H, 1:;          5
                   Reformed ? ...... a.. .................................................. .:..... W.H. 239                                                                                                Continued ................................... i.. ........................ H;H.        126    6
                    Reformed Church in America ................................... W.H., 522 820                                                                                                            IContinued   .`.........................................................   ;.;. H.H. 150      7
                   Renaissance Popes-The ........................................ G.M.O. 254 11                                                                                                             IContinued _. ............................ *. ............................. H.H;- 175         8
                             lContinued  (Pious II) ........................................ G.M.,O, 277 12                                                                                                 Continued ............................... *.............................. HH. 199
                   Rent Veil-The ..... ...................................................... H.H. 289 .13                                                                                                 Continued ............................... *. ............... ......... I.... H.H. 223 1:
                   Restoring the Kingdom ............................................ `G.M.0.                                                                       373 .16                                Continued-(Lord%  Day XXII) .... ................. H.H . . 225 10
                    Resurrected Lord of His House-The ..................... -H.H. 337 i5                                                                                                                    Continued ... ............................ ..;............................ H.H. 247 11
                   Resurrection of the Body-iThe ............,.................... H.H. 295                                                                                                                 ~Con?tinued .............................................................. H.H. 295 13
                             Con.tinued ............................................................... H:H.                                                        319 ::                                  Continued ............................. ..".............................. H.H. 319 14
                   Riches ,of (Grace .............................................;:i :......... /H.H.                                                              16'9 8                                  Continued ..... >. ....................................................... H.H. 343 15
                   Ridderbos and Article 31-Dr.                                                                                                      '                                                      Continued ...... ........................................................ H.H. 366 16
                         (See under Church Order, Art . . 31 etq.)                                                                                                                                          Continued ........................... P.. .. .............. ............... H.H. 390 17
                   Ridderbos and Article  79-Dr.                                                                                                                                                            Continued-(Lord's Day XXIII) a.. ................... H.H. 415 18
                              ee under Church Order, Art. 79 etc.)                                                                                                                                          Continued ..........................:G.. ..-. .......,................ H.H. 438 19
                   Ri'es, Not Yet Ascended .... ..-..........;.....................                                                                               -313 14                                                                                       -.
                   R:rnah `Catholic Intolerance ................................. .;.. -ti+*E*                                                                      311                              Unity of the Church .......................... .k. ................... H.H.
                   Russia ..................L.C. ..........................................................                                      w:H: 263 :j:-                                              Continued ................................................ ............... H.H.         3:  4
                   Russia ...................................................................... .....:.. WI-I. ,359- _ 15
                   Russia ........................................................................... W.H. 382                                                                                       Van RaalteiDr. A. CI                                 ??
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              .........          I.. ...................... W H .477 20
                   Russia vs. `Religion ......../. ................................... ,........ W.H. .522 iii                                                                                       Van Spronsen Views U. S. >....................................... W:H: 334 14
                                                                                             is-                                                                                                            Continued .............................................................. W.H. ,359 15
                    Saints-The Communion of ..................................... H.H. 175                                                                                                 8                IContinued ......................... . ................................. W.H. 383 16
                             Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.. 199               -                Continued ............................................................ W.H. 405 17
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                                                                                                                                                  --.--. 292 1:                                             (Continued ............................................................ W.H. 430 18
                   Samuel Displeased ..... ............................................... lG.M.O. 129                                                                                     6                `Continued ............................................................ W.H. 454 19
                   Sarcasm, Sophistry, Evasion or What .................... H.H. 436
                                                                                                                                                                       -- 19                                {Continued ................. . ......... ................................. g.:. f3F3 4;
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                                ...................... `................................. .......................G.M.O. 178                                                                8         Vervulling ...................................... ...............................
                   Saul ICommanded .... .................................................. lG.M.0. 231 10                                                                                            Victory Over' Nahash ..................................... ..........&li.O:                   302 13
                             `Continued .................; ....... ................................... :G.M..O. 253
                   Saul-Jabesh-Gilead Delivered ........ :i.. .. ...............IG.M.O.                                                                             347 :ii                          What is de IBelofte ?                           ?!?.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ...............              ................L Doekes       460 20
                   Saul-Lord Saves Israel ........ .................... ..../.......iG.M.0. 492 21                                                                                                   Weighed  ,and Found Wanting ........................... :I.. ... J.H. 503 21
                   Saul-R.estoring- the Kingdom ............................. ,G.M.O. 373 16                                                                                                         Wheat and Tares .................................... I....................  8G.V.  508 22
                    Saul-The Kina of Samuel's Wi,tness ............:...lG.M.O.                                                                                      153                              World Peace and the U.N.O. ..........,......................... W.H. al6                             9
                    Saul-The  Vicky  over Nahash                                                                                             G.M.O.
                                                                                                      .............................                                 302 1:                           WorhTlh;U;zlmn  How Many Ways in Scripture-
                   Saul Without Excuse ............................................. ;.@M.O. 202                                                                                           9                                    ............. ............................ .................... H.H: 464 20
                   Saul's Disobedience ................... i.. .......................... G.M.O. 467                                                                                                 Worry: ................*. .......................................................... %I-& ;5"; 1;
                   Saul's Going to (Gilgal ............................................>G.M.0.                                                                      423 4: Write Your  `Congressman-zg;ylhop ............                                                                 . .
                   Saul's Public Election ...........d.. ..>. ........................ jG.M.0. .278 12
                    Saved Through an Active Faith ........ ;. ..................`H.H.                                                                                    1 1                         Yes, Something More Goncrete, Please ................. H.H. 222 10
                   ,Schilder on Common Grace ...............................;.1... H.H. 172                                                                                                          You and Your Seed ............................................ L. Dpoekes                     509 22
                    Schilder-The Coming of Dr. ................................... H.H. 343 1t                                                                                                       Zalig Door eenwerkend   ,Geloof .............................. H.H.                             1    1
                   Scope of Ecumenicity--Proper ................................ H.H.                                                                                                                Zionism .... ........................................................ ............ W.H. 258 12
                   Searching the Scriptures ........................................... J.A.H; 2% 1:                                                                                                                                      Index Made by Rev. James Howerzyl.


