 VOLUME XXVII                         <September 15, 1951 - lG&nd .Rapids,. Michigan                              NUM-BER 22

                                                                        uit Christus bekomt het geheele lichaam den wasdom
                                                                        des lichaams. Alles, `letterlijk alles is uit God, door
                                                                        God en tot God. Neen,.  de Pelagiaan kan niets doen
                                                                        m e t   E f e z e .
- De Wasdom des Lichaams- van                                               We willen wat schrijven over bet- thema:  De Was-
                         Christus                                       dom des  Lichaanis van  ,Christus;  Eerst zijn  samen-
                                                                        voeging ; dan zi jn -groei ; en, eindelijk, zijn volwas-
                                                                        s i n g .
             Uit welken het geheele lichaam, bekwamelijk te-
           zamen gevoegd en tezamen vastgemaiakt  zijnde, naaT                                 *  *  a a
           de werkin_g  van elk deel in zijne  mate, den wasdbm
           des lichaams bekomt, tot  zijns  zelfs  opbouwing,in             Eerst dan de sameniroeging vari het Lichaam Van
           de  Kefde.                             - E f e z e   4:16    Christus.
     De pelagianen kunnen niets doe; met den zendbrief                      Ge hebt alreede  gezien, dat we het hier te  doen
 aan de  EfeziBrs.   N&t, dat ze  we1 wat kunnen  doen                  hebbeti  met beeldspraak. Het gaat over een lichaam,
 met de andere  deelexi van de Heilige Schrift,  ma&                    over de samenvqeging  van een.lichaam, over zijn voeg-
 we bedoelen, dat vooral de brief aan de Efezi&s  geen                  selen, over de werking van e!k deel van dat liehaam,.
 grond biedt voor de gedachte, alsof de mensch van                      en van den  wasdoy des  lichaains. Een groeiend en
 nature  zich kan  spoeden tot God. Het  etirste  hoofd-                gezond lichaam. ligt aan den tekst ten grondslag, als
 stuk spreekt van de eeuwige verkiezing tot zaligheid ;                 beeldspraak gebruikt.
 het fweede van den absoluten doodstaat des zondaars ;                      De kerk van Chrisfus is maar geen aantal zieltjes
 het derde van de veelvuldige .wijsheid Gbds; en het                    die.behoudep  word&. De gemeente van onzeti Heere
 6ierde van het lichaam van Christus, en de heerlijk-                   Jezus Christus is niet gelijk aan,een hoop.zandkorrels,
heid van het Hoof& hetwelk is de Heere Jezus Chris- _ die 10s en zonder ,onderling  verband  naast elkaar kom-
 tus: Ik zou  zoo zeggen  willen, dat vooral de  zend-                  en te staan of te  liggeti.- Neen, de Heilige  Schrift
 brief aan de Efezigrs zeer huishoudelijk is ingericht.                 legt nadruk, bijkans op elke bladzijde va: den Sijbel,
 Neen, de Pelagiaan kan er geen vitiger achter krijgen.                 dat de gemeente is een volk, een natie, een organisme,
 In de verzen van liet onmiddelijke verband  had Paulus                 een lichaam. God zag Zijn volk van eeuwigheid als
 deze ,gemeente  vermaand om tech te komen tot de eenig-                een lichaam, dat haar Hpofd,  Jezus Christus, zqu staan
 heid des geloofs en der kennis van den Zoon `Gods,                     tot in  alle eeuwigheid als  eqn monument van Gods
 tot `eenen -volkomen  man, tot de mate van de grootte                  heerlijkheid en deLigd.  En, zooals we meerdere malen
 der volheid val? Christus. De gemeente had hij yoorts                  gezegd  hebben,  Christus is het  Hoofd van dat volk,
 vermaand om negatief niet  als  kinderen  te zijn die                  van dat lichaam. En  ,we  worden  .in den tekst  ver-
 lichtelijk bewogen  worden.  De  gemeente   meet   266                 maand om op te wassen in dat Hoofd. En om dat
 sterk staan, dat zij niet medegeioesd wordt door allen                 te doe& moeten we de waarheid betrachten in liefde.
 wind der leer, door de bedriegerij der menschen, door                  En dat laatste wordt nader verklaard in den tekst.
 argiistigheid  om listiglijk tot dwaling te brengen.                   Het lichaam wast op uit het Hoofd. Dat is eigenlijk
 Daartegenover moest de gemeente betrachten de waar- ook zoo mei een menschelijk lichaam. Alles wat noo-
 heid in liefde,  en dat  doetide opwassen in Christus.                 dig is tot voeding en laving en groei van dat lichaam
 En dan v~lgt onze tekst, die spreekt van dat opwassen is eerst in dat Hoofd, en  d'oor  het Hoofd groeit bet
 in Christus. Die eerste phrase- van mijn tekst werpt                   lichaam. `En zoo komt- het  licpaam tot den vollen
 direct een heel heerlijk licht over- de, waarheden die in wasdom des man%. Totdat -eindelijk het hoofd en het
den tekst  bebandeld  worden;   "Uit, welken", dat  is,                 lichaam te. zarqen mogen zijn tot prijs en heerlijkheid


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  `van Hem die beide het Hbofd en het lichaam Wilde,             hier  van. een kind, `dat moet  komen tot den vollen  -
  verordineerde, en het tot $ollen~ wasdom bracht.               wasdom des  &ans. Elk gezond kind  schreidt  voort
    Laat ons nu. eens. de bfzonderlijke deelen van deze          tc$dat   .het gekomen is tot de  giootte van den man.
  vermaning zien. Er` w`ordt  gesproken van de saarn-            En zoo gaat, zoo moet het ook gaan met de kerk vau
 yoeging.      Het lichaam ,wa&.%ati sprake is is te zamen       Christus.                                      0
gevoegd. Dat kan  .niet  -anders zijn dan de  wederge-              Merkt hier allereerst op, dat alles principieel aan-
  boorte. Van natuye zijn--`we  niet in het Lichaam van wezig is bij een kind. Daar zit een schoone waarheid
Christus. Van nature  behoor&  we een ander  organ-              in. Als iemand ingelijfd wordt  in' het  -1ichaam van
  isme toe.      Dat wil zeggen,  bet  -organisme  van het       Christus,  dan ontvangt hij of zij den  Christus niet
  gevallen, verdoemelijke menschelijk6  geslacht, dat we1        bij stukjes  en' beetjes.  Ne&n, zoo gaat het ook niet
  sch6on pronkte.en'praalde  in het eerste Paradijs, ma& bij de idee van inlijving. Als een tak in een boom in-
  .dat door, de moedwillige ongehoorzaamheid van onze -ge&t  wordt ontvangt die tak den geheelen boom.aan
  eerste.ouders  geheel en al verloren ging. Neen, van           eens. En zoo Took in de gemeente. Als .een ziel inge-
  nature zijn..we niet te zamen gevoegd met het li&aam           lijfd wordt in  ,Chri,$us'  ontvangt  zulk een ziel den
  van mijn tekst. Net andersoni i' van nature staan we vollen- Christus aaneens. Alleenlijk, zij ontvangt den
  vijandiglijk tegenover beide dit Hoofd, Christus, en           Christus  tiaar de mate-van het kind. Bij het  be&in
  het lichaam dat samen gevoegd wordt doo? de eeuwen             van ons geestelijke leven hebb'&  we vat aan den vollen
  heen. Maar dit ziet op de wedergeboorte, het'mirakel           Christus. Direct ontvangen we het verhoogde en ver-
  Go&. Het is,.een geheel heerlijke geboorte uit God en          heerlijkte  -Beeld   IGods in dien  Christus  en uit dien
  van boven, van uit den hemel. Zoo komt de gemeente .Christus. Maar  slechts naar de mate van  bet  jon@e
  .bij elkaar. De werving is van  G,od  en- niet  vali den       kind. Voorts  moeten we groeien.  -
  inerisch. Ge  hebt- daar vaak van gezongen uit den                Wat is dat nu? Wat is die groei.va< het kind van
  zeven en tachtigsten psalm. Dan iegt ge met den                God, en van de gemeente van den ,Christus?
  Heiligen SGeest: er is een rol waarop God de volkeren.            Om het antwoord op die vraag te zien merken we
  ziet,door de eeuwen heen, dan zegt ge: deze en die is          op het laatste word van onzen tekst, en op de eerste
  daar, dat wil zeggen, in Sion, geboren! In een andelve         clausule van het onmiddelijk voorafgaande vers. De
  psalm lezen we, dat Hij ons heeft gemaakt, en niet             groei Tian het individueele kind. ,Gods, mitsgaders de
  wij, tot schapen Zijner weide. De te iamen voeging groei van de gemeente van  Christus in haar  geh6el
. is van'. God. Daardoor ontvangen we de inzetting in            bestaat in de;betrachting van de- waayheid in cl& sfeer
  het Lichaam van  Chris6us. En die inzetting is  "be-           der~ liefde. `Op de vraag wat de  waarheid.  beduidt
  kwamelijk" gedaap. Dat. zal  waar zijn! Die  inzet-            naar haar inhoud, zouden we willen antwoorden,  dat
  ting in bet lichaam van Christus 3s zoo bekwamelijk            dit DDE' geheele ZGodsopenbaring  insluit. Ze ziet op het
  &eda&, dat ge er nooit meer uitkomt. Ge zult nooit >kennen   van God, zootils Hij Z&h geopenbaard heeft
  meer Jeruzalem uitgaan', als ge daar 66nmaal geboren           in Christus, het Aatigezicht  des Allerhoogsten ; het
  iijt uit water en'geest. ,Ge wilt er .niet uit ea ge kunt      ziet op dieti Christus in Zijn openbaring, -eerst in bet
  er niet uit. Het is een Goddelijk, volmaakt weyk. Dat          Oude' -Testament in de versehilende typen, symbolen
  lichaam is voorts ook vastgetiaakt. Dat ziet klaarblij-        en schaduwen, en vervolge&  in Zijn verschijning in
 > kelijk op. de bekeerilig  en op het bewuste geloof. Want, -de volheid des tijds, Zijn -Persoon,  lijden en sterven,
  immers, die vastmakilzg gatit door de "voegselen der           opstanding en hemelvaart, Zijge zitt6n aan `s Vaclers
toebrenging".          De geloovige is  ,actikf in het  vast-    rechterha&,  Zijn leeringen en profetiBn,  Zijn beloftcn
  maken van het lichaam.  *Ge  gevielt, we hebben bier           een  permaningen,  en  alles  wat betrekking heeft op
  we1 eene beschrijving van het heerlijk monument van ,dien Christus. Maar er is meer. Het ziet oak op de
  Gods welbehagen, maarhet  is' ook tevens een verma-            kennis van zichzelven, de zonde, de gerechtigheid, de
  ning tot de gemeente. Het vers staat geheel en al in           roeping tot heiligmaking, de volmaking en het eeuwige
  zulk een vermanend- verband.         Die vastmaking gaat       l'even. Kortom, zooals we zeiden, de waarheid in dit
  doqr ons bewustgijn,  .in kennis, vergadering van ken-         verband moet verklaard worden als de geheele Gods-
  nis,  .in vertrouwen van harte, en in gedurige  aan-           openbaring  in het Aangezicht van den Christus. En
kleving  a&n  elkallder,  en  tezamen   aan God  in en door      dan maar niet een bloote  intelectueele  kennis,  maar
  Christus,  onzen Heere. -De gemeente is een lichaam.           -de kennis der liefde. Ze is geestelijk  van aard, en be-
  Ze is uit Christus, ze is saamgevoegd do& den Heili-           slaat  ,den'  geheelen  nieuwen mensch  in-  `verstand  en
  gin Geest, vastgemaakt door Geest ell Woo@ en dat hart, dat door den Heiligen Geest verlicht. is. En het
  zeer bekwamelijk.                                              betrachten van die waarheid  moet gedaan in de sfeer
                            *f?%?rli                             der liefde. 3traks claar rne%T  `over iii het laatste punt.'
                                                                    Dii groei nu moet geschieden  naar de werking van
         -Nil  verder'. Er is sprake van groei. Er is sprake. elk  deel' in zijne mate. Daar hebt ge  Uw-  roeping.
 van den  wasdom  des  liehaams.   Ge hebt het voorbeeld         Niemand in de iemeente is ' daarvan buitengesloten.
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 Dat geldt  ,etin  ieder lid der levende gemeente  van          vbllen wasd6m. En wat is `die vollen wasdom? Dat is
 Christus. Dat is onze du:e roeping.  Van. nature zet-          de  lief,de Gods.  .Ms. het lichaam en  zijn  Hoofd den
 ten we onszelven tegen den naaste, en tezamen tegen            vollen  wasdom.   ontvangen  hebben, dan zult ge  zieni
 `God en Zijn  -Gezalfde.   Maar in het leven der  ge-          dat het alles zal blinken .en schitteren van de liefde:
 meente, hetwelk van God en vati boven LS, worden-we            Gods. Het  voorbeeld   hebt.  ge in Christus.  Fn  no&
 geroepen om elk deel iti zijn mate de waarheid  te be-         dieper:  bet, diepste en schoonste  voorbeeld  hebt ge in
 trachten' in de  sfekr der liefde.  <Da&.   bretigt ons tot    den Vader  Christi.              Hij spaarde Zijn eerstgeboren
 een schoone waau'heid. Elk ~levend- lid van Christ.us' Zoon niet, maar gaf Hem over voor de gemeente. Op-
 gemeente heeft iets wat het geheele liehaam mist..             dat Hij mocht zijn tot op&baring van de`liefde Gods.
 Er is iets individueels in elk Christen. Er is groote En Christus Zelf heeft die liefde gedpenbaard. Leest
 verscheidenheid van gav& en talenten. Er zijn geen             Efeze  5:l  en 2:  Daqr staat het: "Zijt dan  navolgers
 twee Christenen die precies gelilk zijn;- `Strikte iden-       Gods  al$ geliefde kinderen, en wandelt in de liefde,
 titeit is er Qiet.- Die is er in het k0ninkrij.k ,der natuur.-- gelijkerwijs ook Christus ons liefgehad h&eft en Zich-
-niet ; en die is er ook niet in he% Konifikrijk -Gods. En      zelven voor ons heeft overgekeven  tot een offerande
 wat de Koning U gaf- in Zijn eeuwige genade moogt en een-sk&htoffer,  Gode tot eenen welriekenden ruek."
-ge niet alleen voor Uzelven be houden. Die ondeugd" Daar h&bt ge het voorbeeld, De Vader gaf den Zoon;
 van, zelfzuchtigheid ho& `niet thuis in het.Koninkrijk         de Zobn gaf Zichzelf ; en de Heilige Geest ging_.alreede,
 Gods. De individueele gaven zijn U  geschonken   tell :rond voor bijna  ze,sduizend  jaren om dien Vader en                                          --
 bate van ht geheele lichaam. Opdat.  het lichaam te-           -dien Zoon. aan de gemeente te schenken. Dat is tot;
zamen-op zou groeien in sehoone  eenheid  en harmonie.
                          .                                     navolging. En  er  hit  e'en schoone vermaning in den
 De tekst spreekt imtiers van alle- voegselen der toe-          fekst. Gaat uit tot .de andere,  leden  en tezameii.naar
 br&ging?         Dat ziet op de  toebrcnging van elk lid       God. `God hoort en  mint het lichaam. "Tracht om'
tot den groei-van het geheele `lichaam. Zoo inoet het slleen te genieten, -alleen te leven : -bet gaat niet, want-
 in elke' gemeente, en zoo moet het in de geheele alge- God hoort U  @et.  Allis wordt genoten als  lichaam;
meene.kerk van Christus van alle eeuwen. Een lid kan            nief als afzonde$lij%e leden. Een hand.van niijn lich-
 de onbeschrijfelij& heerlijkheid van bet' Hoofd niet aaq kan- alleen niet het leven c&s lichaams leven in
 openbaren.  `,Om dat  t$  doen is het  tioodzakelijk,  dat     welzijn en  gezonheid.                 Als mijn hand  alleen is en
alle leden  tezamen werken en tezamen groeien. Alle blijft dan verrot-  het en kqmt om. En zoo is het met
gavei moeten aangewend tot h@ B&e doel: het heer-               de Christenen. Alleen in de samenleving  aer  leden
lijke Hoofd openbaren-  Anderszins z&den we krijgen             is er zaligheid en welwezen. Elia zegt: ik been allC&n ,
zooiets als  tionstexachtige   leden  en dwergachtige  le-      overgebieven,  en hij klaagt. Neen, zegt -God: er zijn
 den. j Er rqoet volkomen  baimonie zijn iqhet lichaam. hog `7000 overgedleven.
 Indien dat geschiedt, en in de mate~dat het geschiedt,             Gedenkt daaraan, mijne vrienden, en beleeft  het-
is er geregelde, gezonde groei. Indieti  niet, dan krijgt       geen ge vaak gezongen hebt: Hoe  goed, hoe lieflijk
men een_ wangedrocht.  _ `En dan wordt de naam .van             is `t als `zonen van `t zelfde huis ale broeders samen-
 God  gelastqd  onder de  Heidlenen.  En zoo zien we            wonen.        -        -
vele gaven en vele  talenten,  zdoals vriendelijkhkid,                                                                        .G. Vos.
gave tot vermaning, t,ot $ertroostilig,  verdraging, gp.-
duld, .tiatigheid,  wijsheid, verstand en kennis, nederig-                                  q   q   :H q   -m.
he@, vastheid, volharding, beslistheid, en -duizend an.-
dere gaveti. Alle die gaven moeten aangewend tot den                                        IN  MEMORIAM
,groei van het lichaam van Christus, tot de, openbaring           On Sunday morning, August 12,-1951,  it pleased God in His
,der heerlijkheid van hef Hoofd, en tot prijs van den tall wise  C&n& to take  ~from  this life' to heavenly glory  6U:r
DrieEenigen   #God.                                             dearly' loved wife, mother and. grandmother,
    Hoe kan dat? Ziet 012 de eerste twee woorden  van                               MRS. KATHERINE WIERENGA
                                                                at the age of 61 years.
, mijn tekst : "uit  Gelken", en  .dat is Christus.  All&         We feel the loss of her, who was so--dear to us, greatly there-
kracht en macht om dit te doeri gewordt o"ns uit'het -fore we sorrow deeply, but God  the only Comforter, in this
Hoofd; en dat is Jezus Christus.  ,Ontbreekt  U die  .. time of  sor?ow  surely comforts  -us, so that we may also re-
deugd om de individueele gave .U geschonken te ge-              joice, $nowing.that  her mrsny afflictions  are past, her desire to
bruiken ten bate van het lichaam? Gaat dan naar Jezus go home is fulfilled. When our task here. is finished God will
en smeekt Hem om door Zijn Woord en Geest in U                  also take us, and we will see her a;gain,  in all per&&ion.                  "Thou
                                                                shalt guide me with Thy Counsel and afterwards receive me to
te wer~ken. En dan za! `t gaan.                                 glory.-Ps. 73  :24.                     The bereaved %xrnily,
   . En het doe1 van dit alles ?                                                                              Mr. Wm. Wierenga
                                                                                                              Mr. and  Mrs. L.. Wierenga
                       *-  A  *  IX
                       -.'           ,                                                            ._  M a r t h a   W i e r e n g a
                                                                                                              Mr, and Mrs. S.  Schaafsma
    Dat het lichaam van Christus mag &omen  tit-den             0la.k Lawn. Ill.            -                   and 2  &and  childl"&   -.
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          Communications  .relative to contents should be addressed                                                         `One of the items  in the report which the Reverends
          to Rev. H. Hoeksema, 1139 Franklin St., S. E.,  G?and                                                         , de Jong and Kok delivered about our Protestant Re-
          Bapids 7, -Michigan.                               '                                                          formed Churches in the old country, and Particularly
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          to Mr. J.  Bouwman,  1350  .Giddings  Ave,., S. E., Grand                                                      to Prof. Holwerda, was that "sqme emitted a totally
          Rapids 7, Michigan. Ann`ouncements  and Obituaries must                                                        different sound".
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          fee of $1.00 for each  noti'ce.                                                                                   The comparison. implied-was between  th_e teachings
          Renewals:- Unless a definite  rgquest  for discontinuance                                                      of Revere_nd  Ophoff and the undersigned,. on the one
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          subscription to continue without the formality of -a re-                                                      ly different sound", on the other hand.
          newal order.
                                      Subscription Price: $3.00 per year                               *                    Now  whatever  the expression "`totally different
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                                                                                                                         and perhaps eyen a principal, difference. You don't
     -                                                                                                                   speak of a totally different sound when it concerns,
                                                                                                                         say, the sound of several different horns of automo-
                                ,~                                                                                       biles. In that case the sound is not totally different,
                                                                                                                         but is rather similar. .But when it concerns, .say, the
                                                                                                                         sound of the roaring lion and that of the song of the
                                                                                                                         nightingale, you-no longer speak of similarity, but
                                                                                                                         of  .a total difference. .
                                                                                                                            Of  sqme such imp6rtant  and profound difference
                                                                                                                         the brethren de Jong and Kok were aware, according
                          -.                                                                                            -to -their report to Prof. Holwerda, as existing in our
                                             C O N T E N T S                                                             churches. There exists withiil6ur churches,-according
M E D I T A T I O N -                                                                        s:                          to them, a profound and important difference between
          De Wisdom Des  Lichaam:s Van Christus  . . . . . . ..____________________  505                                 th& teachings of the Reverend Ophoff and the `under-
                        R e v .   G .   Vos                                                                              signed, and &hers. Now it must be remembered that
EtiITORIALS-                                                                                                             the teachings of the Rev. `Ophoff  and the undersigned
          A Tptally Different Sound. ____..._____________  ~______.____..__. _ .________________  iO8                   `are, without any doubt, Protestant Reformed. What-
          Our Distinctiveness and -the Declal&iolp  ______________.__.__________  510                                    ever  Prot&tant Reformed principles  haye been. de-
                        Rev. H.  Hoeksems                                                                                veloped, have been, set f,orth by them. It follows,
          ,Our Answer to L. Van, `Huizen . . . . . . . . . . . .._.......~..... 1______:  _____________ 511.             theiefore, that according to Revs. de Jong and Kok
          Why Not Protestant Reformed . . . . . ..-.............-........................... 511 there is a Very important, and even a total, difference
                        Rev.  H.  Veldmari                                          <                                    between the Protestant Reformed truth, as taught and
. OUR DOeGTRINE-                                                                                                         developed by the Revs. Ophoff and Hoeksema,  and
          The Hkxaemeronl or CrBation-Week  ______________________________ __________ 
                                                                                                             515
                        Rev. H. Veldman                                                                                 the teachings of the others which the brethren have
                                                                                                                         in mind.
T H R O U G H   T H E   A G E S -   `i
          The A.rm%an Reaction __________.....:  ..__._________ ~____________~ _________._ _ ____ 518                     - We ask: what are the  co&ponent  parts of these
 The Arminian or Remonstrant Struggle after the Death                                                                    totally different sounds?
                 of Arminiuls,  1609..r:  _______________.._._____________________.~.....  519                              The brethren de Jong and Kok do not say.                q
                        Rev. G. M.  Ophoff                                                                                  But by this time we are, perhaps, in a position to
FROM HOLY  WRIT-                                                                                                         catch some of those sounds rather plainly. And it is
          Exposition of Acts 13-32, 33ff ____________________..........~....~............ 520
     a                                                                                                                   my purpose in the present editorial to analize seine
                        Rev. Geo. C.. Lubbers.                                                                           of them.
Iti HIS FEAR-                                           /                                                                   There is, first of all, the rather definite sound of
          Back to School (3) .._.______________..____________________...........................~  523                   strong sympathy  for Liberated doctrine, even for
                        kev.  H. C.  Hbeksema                                                                            their doctrine of the covenant., This too I gather from
          Ind& to Volume 27-....-  ____.. _/ ____.___..___ _ ___________~ . . . . . . . . . - _____.___..___.__  525     the report of the Revs. de Jong and Kok to "Prof. Hol-
            .           R e v ;   J .   Howerzyl.   -             .                                                      werda. According to them, such a strong sympathy
                                                i _'
t                                                                                                                        exists in our. churches. And, if this be true; it sug-


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gests indeed a totally different sound from what has         The implication seems to be that unless you preach
always been heard in our churches.' I dare say that          and teach that man on his part must fulfill certain
if in anything the Protestarit Reformed churches pre-        conditions in order to be saved,, you cannot hold hiti
sent a very distinctive dnd definite conception, it `is      respdnsible' before God. `To me this is a very sus-
in their view of the covenant, including. their view         picious sound. The objection that the Reformed
of the promise, of baptism, and related questions, and       churches and  R,eformed  theologians cannot maintain
that too in connection with the fundamental truth of         the respqnsibility of man has always been brought by
election and reprobation. The .Heynsian view of the          those that deny the absolutely sovereign grace of God,
covenant (which is the same as that of the Liberated)        and,-in fact, by those that deny fhe absoluteness a.nd
is that the covenant is essentially the promise ; tl$        freedom of  God.`s justification of the sinner.  And- I
the promise is an objective bequest, well-meant,  .for       personally have heard the same indictment since the
all that are born in+the histoi+al line of the covenant ;    very beginning of my ministry. Now it is not my pur-
and that therefore there is .a certain covenant grace        pose in this connection to deny or gainsay the accusa-
for all the  tihildren born under the covenant, head         ton that we either deny or ignore the responsibility of.
for head and soul for soul. This doctrine we rejected        man, - that is not the purpose of this article. But I
as Protestant Reformed Churches ever since 1924. If, ,do deny that in our churches that responsi_bility  was
therefor,e,  it is  true  that within the bosom of our       ever ignored. And I do detect a queer  atid-  v,ery
churches` there is strong sympathy for. the Liberated        strange sound in the recent emphasis on the responsi-
conception of  the covenant, this certainly constitutes      bility of man in connection with the emphasis on con-
a "totally clifferect sound",                                ditions.    In this. I again detect a totally different
   Secondly, there is the unmistakable  soulid of a          sound.
conditional theology. This, by the way, is .closely  con;       That some ,emit a totally different sound among us
netted with the preceding. Heynsian theology is in           is reflected in the recent attitude toward the preaching
verjt great need of conditions, and even pr.esents  faith in the Protestant Refdrmed Churches.            Some now
as a condition which man must fulfill- in order really       openly disagree with and criticize the very same
to en&r into and remain in the .covenant  of ,God. Ac- preaching. they formerly enjoyed. They will probably
cording to, Heyns, the promise, is well-meant for all.       allege that the$ detect a different note in my preach-
Gbd, on His part, really objectively bequeaths all the       ing. But this is, of  cdurse,  absurd. After almost
blessings of salvation upon every child of the cove-         40 years of preaching I certainly could not change its
nant. Whether; however all will receive the promise          contents even if I tiould. But .to put this to the. test,
,depends,  negatively speaking, on whether by their .I recently pretiched  some of my' old sermons. And I  -
own wickedness they will not reject it. ,God is sincere      preached them very nearly literally as .I preached
in promising salvation to all. the children that are born    th,em before.    rI"he outlines,  - and they are very
under the covenant-  tin condition of faith. But ac- .broad,  -  are' open  fQr inspection to anyone who
cording to all that has beend ever proclaimed and be-        wishes to see them. Yet, some of these same people
lieved in the Protestant Reformed Churches, the pro- that in former y-ears enjoyed the very same preaching,
mise is not for all, but for the elect alone, even though now criticize' it. And about one of those sermons I
it must be p<oclaimed pro&scuously to all to whom            even heard  that it was terrible. The trouble is, of
God to His good pleasure sends the gospel, and- not          course, that the different note which they imagine they
even only to the children of the covenant. Faith, ac-- detect in my preaching is in their  ?wn soul. It is
cording- to the Protestant  Ref,ormed  view, is not a        only a reflection of' the  totally' different sound a-
condition which man must fulfill, but a `God-given in-       m o n g   us.
strument whereby the sinner becomes partaker of the             Finally, that some emit a different sound from
piomise and of all the blessings of salvation in Christ.     what heretofore has always been believed in 0~1% chur-
Again I say that in this we may indeed discern a             ches is also reflected in `the--strong  reaction against
totally different sound from- what has always been-be-       the Declaration of Principles. No one can possibly
lieved and Maintained in our churches.           J           deny thai the Declaration of Principles is based. four-
   Thirdly, there may be- discerned in our churches          squarely on the Reformed  `Confessibns.  No one can
the queer sound of a  .strange emphasis on the re-           deny that it certainly is the reflection of what since
sponsibility of man. I speak of  a queer  sound for          1924 was .believed -without a doubt in our. churches
two reasons.    In the first place, according to this        as  th,e Protestant Refqrmed, truth. Yet the reaction
"sound'L  it is alleged that in our churches m,+m's- re-     against that simple and `clear exposition of Protestant
sponsibility is; if not denied, nevertheless 3gtiored to     Rsformed  <truth is nothing short of amazing. I do
a large extent, And secondly, this .soupd  is queer be-      hot have to repeat the objections that have been raised
cause it alleges that unless ypu. teach' and-preach con-     against it. They  .are  well known. And I claim that
ditions, you ca;not maintain the responsibility of man. `either from a church politial viewpoint, or from the
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 view'poirit  of the contents of the Declaration, the ob-              _ It is not my purpose to write a lengthy criticism
 jectors have no ground to stand on. Also this opposi-                of, this article. Only I briefly wish to point out the
 tion against the Declaration o'f Principles `is to me a              faulty logic that is naturally implied in what I con-
definite proof of the fact that the Revs.' de Jong and                sider the chief proposition whicil'the writer attempts
 Kok reported  cor?ectly to Prof. Holwerda, when they                to prove : Adoption of the declaration w,oulcl mean the
 said that some emit a totally different sound..                      loss  of  OUT  clistinct<v~eness  as  Protestant Reformed
        All  the& reflections upon the totally different              Chzwches.
 sounds, in our churches lead me to the conclusion that                  I can briefly cast the chief-contents of the brother's
 it is high time that the authors of these different                  article in the form of a syllogism. as follows.:
 sounds draw up a declaratidri of principles of their
 own, stating definitely what, according to their con-                 d 1. The distinctiveness of the Protestant Reformed
 viction, is' the confessionally  tieformed truth that                Churches is that they stand on the basis of the Three .
 should bemaintained and taught in our Protestant Re-                 Forms of Unity without any addifion or particularisa-
 formed Churches.                                                    t i o n .
        Do not say that this is entirely unnecessary be-                 2. The-Declaration of Principles is an addition to
 cause the Confessions are sufficient. For this is not                or particularisation  of our Confessions.
 true. It  is no longer a question of the Confessions,                  3. Ergo: if we adopt the declaration we. lose  0~7~
 buf. of the interpretation of the Confessions. Many                  distinctiveness as Protestant Reformed Churches.
 claim that they are confessionally Reformed, yet are                    The trouble with this reasoning is +hat the minor
 not. The Synod of the Christian Reformed Churcheb                    premise ,(the second propositio&)  must be proved and
 of Kalamazoo in 1924 alleged that the Three Points                   cannot be proved, for the simple reason that it is not
 wer'e  confessionally Reformed. Yet nothing could be t r u e .
,farther from the truth. The Liberated teach that the                    `Over against the above syllogism I off& the fol-
., promise of the covenant is  ai objective bequest to               lowing: .
 all the children that are born under the dispensation                   1. `rhe Prot&tant Reformed Churches stand on the
of the covenant. And they maintain that this is con-                  basis of the Three Forms of Unity pure and sin&e.
 fessionally Reformed.            We emphatically deny this.             2. The Declaration of Principles simply sets forth
 That which has always been maintained as confession-                the clear  tea@hng of the Confession with regard to
 ally Reformed in our Protestant Reformed Churches is                 some important `points of doctrine.
 clearly set forth in the Declaration of Principles, ac-                 3. Ergo: in the. declaration we niaintain our dis-
 cording to the Synod of 1950. Now let those that emit tinctive position as Protestant Reformed Churches
. the totally different sound from what has always been               and declare it publicly over against others.
 maintained  `as the truth in our Protestant Reformed
 Churches clearly set forth' their ,view and convictions.                If the Rev. Hofman is able to contradict the minor
 It is easy $I criticize and to ass'ume a negative attitu&e           premise in this syllogism, I will gi!ant him the validity
 dver against the Declaratidn  of Principles, which is                of his argumentation. As it stands, however,. he is
 the simple reflection of the Protestant Reformed truth.              simply begging the question.
 But let those that emit the totally different sound as-                 In 1924 we never questioned the authoriti  of the
 sume a positive stand, and in a few concise and de-                  synod of the Christian Reformed Chuiches to  inter-
 finite declarations, which all can understand, -set forth .pret  the  IConfessions.  If the Three Points had been
 their views.                                                         nothing-more than. interpretations qf the Ctinfessions
        Then we probably will get somewhere.                         we would gladly have subscribed to them. But we
                                                             H.H.     claimed and clearly proved that they were corruptions
                                                                      of the *Confessions.. That was our` sole objection.
                        -    I     I    I    -                           And if the  .Rev. Hofman can do the same thing
    Our Distinctiveness  -and the                                     with the Declaration of Principles the synod of our
                                                                      churches must never adopt it.
                     I  D e c l a r a t i o n                   _        But this chief -issue he does not' even touch.
                                                                         He is begging the question.
        Under the heading "Our Distinctiveness" the Rev.                                                              H.H.
 W. Hofman, `in Concordin of LAug. 30, 1951, writes an
 article in which he expresses some very true and                                          El  El  El  El  El
 worthwhile thoughts. All the more deplorable it is,
 that, when the reader approaches the end of his article, ATTENTI,ON! Delegates to the Synod which re-con-
 he discovers to his amazement that it is, evidently, venes S,ept@mber  26th at First Church, Grand Rapids :
 chiefly written to launch an attack upon the Declara-  If you need lodging please contact the clerk: J. M.
 tion of  Principlei3.  ..                                           Faber, 1123 Cooper Ave., SE.,' Grand Rapids 7, MichI

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                               <  -                           which, the ILord willing, will meet this month, to re-
    Our Answer to L. Van Huizen                               ject the Declaration of Principles. Is this not a potent
                                                              argument in favor of its adoption?
     In the Concordia  issue of August 30, 1951, appears                                                    H. Veldman
 an article written by L. Van Huizen. The writer of
 this article expects an answer (I imagine from the
 undersigned) but concludes with the statement that                                          El
 he-does not intend to reply. My answer-will be brief.
     There are many things in this article upon which                Why Not Protestant Reformed
 I could comment. This I  find' unnecessary. I have
 written much in connection with our experiences in                   Continuing with .our discussion of the article which
 Hamilton. A refutation of, anything I have written           appeared in the Holland paper, Het Gereforkeevd  Ge.-
 until now has never appeared. The undersigned chal-          einsblad, we -quote the following: "They came to the
lenges  L. Van Huizen to refute whatever ,I have writ-        declaration that Israel could not enter  ,Canaan be-
ten in my past articles. Resides, may I  remi.nd  our         cause the Lord did not will it, `but not because they
 readers .of the following : .`Hamilton's terrible action refused to be' obedient to Him. .Applied  to our daily
 whereby they deposed the undersigned, which, Van             life, this declares that it is not unbelief which carries
_ Huizen admits in  -this article to have been wrong,
 church politically, is simply .defended  by the observa-     us away from God, but unwillingness on God's part.
                                                              Although they loudly admit that they completely main-
 tion that they were  -forced to this wicked action.          tain the responsibility of man as according to the con-
  Forced by whom?- Of course,  Classis East of the .fessions, there is no place for this in the practical
  Protestant  ,R.eformed  Churohes. Must I say more ?         life of faith."`-- end of quote.
     Moreover, in this article the writer gives his rea-      -       ,Of all the untruths which appear in this article
  son for the course of events in Hamilton. This article      this is probably the most brazen. Fortunately, I am
  speaks of the "fall and failure of Rev. Veldman as          able to lay my finger on the sermon to which this
  minister here in Hamilton". Permit me to state or           quotation must refer. And, even  if_ this quotation
  to repeat the following: Hamilton`s departure from          should not refer to'this `particular sermon, the sermon
  our midst is due to the fact that they refused to walk      from which I now will quote should certainly refute
  as a Protestant Reformed`church -and consistory. They this malicious and foul slander.' I preached once on
  refused to endorse the binding decision which was           Heb. 3 :19 : `So we see that they could not enter in be
  passed, almost unanimously, by'classis East of Octo-        cause of unbelief ." At the conclusion of this sermon            :
  ber, 1950. They simply insisted on accepting Liber-         elder Hart remarked that. he- enjoyed the sermon .im-
  ated members, as such, into the fellowship of the           mensely, and that to him it had been like sitting in- a
 Protestant Reformed Churches. The sole issue which           church in the Netherlands.  1Of course, `we must re-
  the undersigned maintained, also as a basis for the         member that one statement, namely, that they re-
  acceptance of members, revolved about the question               ceived what they liked and the rest they accepted in
.- whether the promise of God is for all or only for the      the bargain with eyes half shut. I preached this ser-
  elect. And I challenge Van Huizen to prove tlie con-        mon with the intention of showing the congregation
trary.                                                        that our churches believe in and proclaim the responsi-
     Finally, I must add a few words as an answer to          bility of man. In fact, one hears sometimes the re-
  the following statement. which appears in -this article,    mark that we ,would "prefer" to ch,ange the` wording
  and I quote: "Rev. Veldman claimed that he was the               of this text so that it would read : So we see that they
. only one who still preached the pure Protestant Re-              could not enter in because ,God did not will it. May I
  formed truth." The writer claims that he can men-                assure the churches in the Netherlands that we have
  tion names of people where I said this. He also adds        no desire to mutilate the Scriptures ; we leave the Word              '
  that this-is unnecessary because I have a good memory.           of God as it is. And now- I will quote rather exten-
  Well, I must confess that my memory fails  me; I                 sively from thissermon, and I kindly ask the leaders
  therefore ask Van Huizen to furnish the proof for                of the churches in the Netherlands the question
  this statement. The undersigned is the only Protes-              whether lit is reformed; In the meantime the wicked
                                                                                     .
  tant Reformed minister who preaches the pure-Pro-                slander of this article will be fully exposed.-
  testant Reformed truth? Why, this would imply that
  also the Rev. Hoeksema and  ,Ophoff,  to name just               My Sermon, On Hebrews 3 .-.I9
  these two, have also departed from the pure Protes-                 What is unbelief? Unbelief must never  .be con-
  tant Reformed truth. And the undersigned must have               fused with either distrust or 4oubt. God, then, ha,d
  said this? Really, I do not recall.                         ypromised  `the people` of-Canaan the lan,d of Canaan.
    One more remark. Van- Huizen urges our synod                   However, those ten spies had reported that the in-


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       habitants of the land were tremendous giants, that               of none effect with respect .to carnai Israel is due to
       the walls of the city reached unto the heavens. And the fact that the promise had never been given them.
       now they had lost all courage to take the land. Realiz-          This is also clear from Gal. 3:16, 19, where we read
       ing the tremendous task which confronted them and                literally that the-,Seed  of Abraham is Christ,-and in
       conscious of their own weakness, they doubted the                verse 19  w,e read these remarkable words: "Where-
       `victory, did not believe that the Lord would or could           fore. then serveth the law? It was added because of
       give them the land, -and therefore refused to cross the, transgressions, till the selad should come to whom the
       border.                                                          promi&  was made:" of course, this Seed was Christ.
           However, this presentation of Israel's unbelief is           Hence, the promise was made to `Christ. And this is
       impossible. First of all, unbelief must never be con-            also'. clear from Heb. 6 :17-19 : "Wherein God, willing
      !fused  with doubt or distrust. Indeed, had Israel's `un-         more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the
       belief consisted of distrust, then the people would still        immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
       be inexcusable. It is surely not a light matter to dis-          That by two immutable things, in which it was. im- __
       trust the Lord, _ accuse Him of unfaithfulness, assert           possibl'e for God to lie, we `might have a strong con-
       .that -His hand is too short. God's hand is never `too           solation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
       short; this is certainly.not the reason why this people. the hope set before us : Which .hope we have as an
      . of God of the old day did not enter in. However, un-            anchor ~of` the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
       belief ,is never merely doubt or distrust. Unbelief is           entereth into that within the veil." Do not the words :
       -always an act of the will, a wilful deed, a wilful re- "`to shew the heirs of promise the immutability of His
       fusal to believe in (God and in Christ, a godless refusal        counsel", declare to us literally that the heirs of the _-
       to enter into the rest of ,God in the way of repentance. promise are the elect ? The viewpoint of the text is
       and faith. Moreover, that Israel's unbelief must not             that of  IsPael's not entering,  Israel's refusal to  in-
       be confused with doubt or-distrust is also established. herit the land of `Canaan, Israel's unbelief and refusal
       by Israel's history.' First, is it possible that this Israel,    to enter into the rest of the Lord.
       who had witnessed their mighty deliverance out of                  How;  th:en, must we understand this unbelief of
       the land of Egypt and through the Red Sea, would                 Israel,?, What is the significance of the land of Ca-
       doubt that the Lord would or could give them the land- naan? Surely,Canaan was a land overflowing with
       of Canaan? Secondly, there is the example-of Joshua milk and honey. This was also the report with which
       and Caleb. They did not distrust the L,ord;  they tes-           the ten spies returned. Moreover, they' returned
       tified that the Lord is faithful and that -His arm was           carrying between them a huge cluster of grapes. Up-
<-     not too short. And they spurred the people on to place           on that land the Lord would cause it to rain, the early
       their trust and confidence in that God. Finally, that            and the latter rain. In that land they would, be able
       Israel did not enter the land of  %anaan because of              to rest, one year in seven ; that land would bring forth
       fear appears from the fact that they later did attempt           rich fruits, a land of milk and of honey.
       to enter the land in their own strength, when the word              However, .besides  the fact that Canaan was a land
       of the Lord had been pronounced upon them that they              overflowing with milk Andy honey, this land .was also
       would find th@ir graves in the desert.                           the land- of the .promise, and Israel could enter this -
           Unbelief is always the wicked, wilful rejection of           land only in the way of walking in the ways of the
       and rebellion against the ,Lord and the Voice of the             Lord. *Canaan was a land of the promise, the land
       Most High. `Generally speaking, it is a wilful.refusal           of hope. 0, this does not merely-mean that Canaan
       to walk in the ways of the Lord. _ It is a -wilful re-           was the promised land. But `it was the land of the
       fusal to reDent,  to love.lGod  and believe in Christ, to        promise, the promise of God which is alone in Christ
       seek the things that are above, wilfully to- say No to           Jesus, Christ is the Heir and to Him has been given
       the things of God and of His Kingdom. This must the promise of everlasting life. He is the Heir of the
       also be applied to Israel. The viewpoint of- the text -world,  of eternal  .glory, through the sufferng and
       here is not that of God and His promise. The view-               death of the cross; and we are heirs alone through
      point of the text is not that of the Lord, that He had            Him, because we are IN Him, i.e., not merely because
       given them the promise, that `He willed and desired we believe in &Him, but because we are IN Him, are
       that they all should enter?  that, if the lL,ord on1y.ha.d       one with Him according to the Lord's eternal good
       His way, then they all would enter - the viewpoint               pleasure.    This truth is literally held before us in
       of this text is not that of the Lord Who would give              Gal. 3 :16, 19 to which we have already called atten-
       `them the land of Canaan, but is prevented from do- tion. And in this sense also Canaan was the land of
       ing so through Israel's unbelief. This will surely be-           promise inasmuch as everything in that land con-
        come plain. Besides, this conception would be.. im-             centrated around the promise, pointed to the Heir.
      - possible. According to Romans 9 not all had received            In the land of Canaan all the lines converged upon the
       the promise. That the Word of ,God had not become Christ ; wherever one looked he would see the promise,:


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 the king upon the throne,.the highipriest, the prophet,      tention  to the possibility for this unbelievably wicked
the temple with all the blood of bulls and goats, all         unbelief of carnal Israel and concluded with a word.
 these types and shadows and symbols `spoke of the            of ,practical exhortation to the church of the new Dis-
 aChrist, called the attention of Israel daily to Him         pensation as, it comes to us through this particular
 that was to come and in Whom the promise of ever-            word of God.
 lasting and heavenly life-was inseparably wrapped up.           I do not believe it is necessary to quote more from
     This also enables us to understand why the enter-        this particular sermon. Permit me to quote once more
  ing into the land of Canaan and a walking in hope and       from the article which we are criticising in this series
  in the ways of the Lord were inseparably connected.         of articles : "They come to the declaration that Israel
Continually the people'of Israel were called to walk in       could not enter Canaan because the Lord did not will
  that hope and with an eye fixed upon the Christ. Con-       it, but not because they refused to be obedient to Him.
 tinually they must separate themselves from the peo-~ Applied to our daily life, this declares that it is not
  ples of the world round about them, also from their         mlbelief  which carries us away from God, but unwill-
  idolatry, etc., and walk in the ways of the Lord, in        ingness on God's part. Although they loudly admit
the -doing of His commandments, in the daily confes-          that they completely maintain the responsibility of
  sing of their sins and of their own hopeless condem-        man as according to the confessions;,there  is no place
  nation, and cleave by faith, unto the typical blood of      for this in the- practical life of faith," - end of quote.
  the Promised Seed. Israel was continually called tom' I believe that the .lengthy  quotation from my sermon
  walk, through faith, as a unique, -particular. people.      on Heb. 3 :I9 completely refutes the wicked and mali-
     The same, beloved, can also be applied today to the      cious slander that we deny the responsibility- of man
  heavenly Canaan.     Indeed, that Canaan is a land          and that we `fail to teach that Israel did not enter the
  overflowing, with milk and honey.       But, it is also     land of Canaan because of unbelief. Man's  .responsi-
  the city of  XGod's eternal and blessed, fellowship         bility is his ability to respond to the revelation of God
  and communion.      To enter that heavenly city of          and the fact that he is held accountable for this
  the Lord we must seek the things that are  ,above           answer. Man's responsibility must never be confused
  and not the things that are below!. We must believe         with free will; the fact that he is held responsibile for
  in the Lord Jesus Christ, confess daily before the liv-     his evil walk surely does not imply that he is also able
  ing God our sins and guilt, separate ourselves from the     to do good; can choose the good or the evil, and is
 world, hate .and- flee sin- and darkness, and thus enter     therefore held accountable. This truth is so plain
  the eternal -city as a struggling, praying, believing that it should be below the dignity of Reformed peo-                  c
  people of the Lord, `There is no other way.                 ple even to mention and-.discuss it (as far as the neces-
     Now we also understand Israel's refusal to enter         sity of such a discussion is concerned).
  the land of Canaan. 0, it had become plain to them             However, with this we do not wish to conclude this _
  through the report of the spies that they could re-         article and series of articles. In the `above quotation
  ceive that land only as from th,e hand. of the Lord.        which evidently refers to the sermon by the under-
  But, .not only must they receive that land from the         signed on Heb. 3 :I9 I also read this : "They come to
  hand of the Lord, but they could remain in that land        the declaration that Israel could not enter ,Canaan be-
. only as `long as they continued to walk in the ways         cause the Lord did not will it." - end of quote. I
  of the Lord. And, they did not believe. They hated          surely wish to ask the Liberated leaders in the. N,ether-
  God and His commandments ; they were earthly, sin-          lands : Would you `not subscribe to this statement?
  ful, wille,d not that rest as the house and the covenant    Is it possible that the Liberated Churches in the Ne-
  of `God, willed Canaan only as merely another Egypt         therlands believe that the Lord willed, desired to give
  but without  afflication.  They refused to be an holy       all Israel the land of Canaan but those who died in the
  people, a royal priesthood, a people devoted and con-       the wilderness (expect Moses, Aaron, and Miriam) re-
  secrated to the Lord. They despised the very thought -fused in unbelief? I recall reading in the book, Unica
  of loving the Lord, serving the Lord, to live in .a land    Catholica, that a father willed to give his son the in-
  where they must always be consecrated to the Lord.          heritance but the son refused it. (I cannot quote the
  And therefore this wicked Israel refused, in wilful,        exact page because I do not have the book before me).
  godless unbelief, to enter into the land of <Canaan. Al-. Does the Divine cbnnnand to repent and believe also.
  so today wicked men; carnal Israel refuses to `enter        imply that the Lord would bestow faith upon all men
 `the heavenly city because they hate God and His Christ to whom this command comes? But how do we har-
  and love the things of sin and that are below".  -          monize this with the truth as/expressed in our Con-
  end of `quotation -from this sermon.                        fessions, in Art.- 15 of the first head and Art. 8 of. the '
     I  -have quoted liberally and literally from the ser-    second head of the Canons of Dordrecht? i In these -                 `_
  mon which I preached in Hamilton last year. some-           articles I read that the Lord would bestow faith only-
  time in August. In the rest of the sermon I called at-      upon the elect and also that He does not will to be-


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  stow faith  up& the reprobates. I do not deem it wrapped up in that blood of the Lamb of Calvary,
  necessary to. quote these al;ticles  at this time. This          then, although the`promise  is preached to many be-
 has be& done in the past. Surely these articles speak             sides the. elect, it cannot be for all, but only for those
  for themselves.                                                  whom the Father has loved eternally and who may
         We believe in the unconditional promise for. the          therefore believe as according to the Lord's sovereign
  simple reason that the promise is all-inclusive. How  goo& pleasure.. For Israel of- the old day the promise
  anything'can be conditioned by itself is, in my opinion,         and thk bldod of oxen were inseparably  connected.
  an absurdity. - How can the promise, e.g., be condi-                  The other passage to which I would call brief at-
 tioned by faith, or rest upon the condition of faith              tention is  R,om. 9  :14-1.6: "What shall we say then?
 when this faith itself belongs to the promise, is a part          Is there unrighteousness with ,God? God forbid. F o r
  of it? Hence, when  `God  p?om&es  He also promises              He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will
  to bestow faith. Faith does not  lie outside the prdmise ohave .mercy, and I will have compassion -on whom I
  but  is-  pa?t of it, and may therefore never be pre-            will have compassion. So then it is not of him that
  sented  as a condition for it. But, exactly because the          willeth, nor of him the runneth, but of God that
 promise includes faith, therefore our enjoyment of it             sheweth mercy." This is a very pertinent passage.
  can never occur except in the way of faith and sancti- We .are dealing with the question, are we not, whether
 f ication.                                                      -it was the desire of the Lord that all of Israel should
    Is it true that the Lord willed to give unto all Israel        enter the land of Canaan. The devastating cower of
 the land of Canaan`? On the one hand, to-teach this               this passage from  R,omans 9 is exactly that these
  implies that we  mu& say that the Lord, then,  wa.s              words were spoken to Moses and that these words
 frustrated in His desire to give them the land by the. were spoken to Moses exactly in connection with the
  unbelief of carnal Israel.  ,God wanted to give them             very people owho did not enter Canaan because of`un-
 the land. However), Israel did not believe and did not            belief. Romans 9 :15 is a quotation of Exodus 33 :19-.
  obtain the land. Hence, the unbelief of the people               Moses-struggled with a fearful problem. The people
  frustrated the  will and desire of the Lord. Is this had. sinned. and the Lord had declared judgment upon
 reformed and scriptural?                                        the people, `had said that He would not go up with
                                                                  them. And the mah of God app.eared before the Lord
         This is surely not Scriptural. ' -How often have not      ii  prayer. I$e viewed the entire people as the people
  OUl" leaders in the ,paSt refuted the ~WsX?llkttiOn  that i of the Lord, did he not?               He regarded them all as
  God would save all men, or t&confine ,ourselves to the          favored of  hehovah. And now the- Lord had said
  immediate mtitter  at hand, that the Lor.d would bestow          that He would not go up with them. And what does
 upon all Israel the land of Canaan! Attention has                the Lord now reveal unto Moses? Does He assure
- been called in the past to Ps. 105 :24; I Sam. 2:25;            the Mediator of the Old Dispensation of His general
  Gal. 3 :16, 19 ; Rom. 9 :l-13. 1'7-23 ; Heb. 6 :17-l& etc.      love for all the people, that He wishes to bestow upon
  Permit me to call attention to but two passages from             them all the land. of Canaan, that, as far as He is
 Holy Writ. First, if all'the natural seed of Abraham              concerned, the promise .is for all and He would be-
 are equally in the covenant tihich God established with           stow it upon all Israel. Far from it. The Lord `de-
 Abraham and his seed; and if it were the Lord's de-               clares something altogether different unto Moses.
 sire to bestow upon the entire seed `(all of Abraham's           `This He said to Moses : "I will have mercy on whom I
 natural -descendants) the. land of Canaan .why, then,            will have niercy, and I will have compassion on whom
 did the Lord confirm this covenant, as accol-ding to              I will have  comp'a&ion." `God's mercy and compas-
  Gen. 1'7, with the sign of circumcision? What con-               sion and promise. are not for all, but only for the
 nection is there between this covenant and the promise           sovereign elect of God.
 of the Lord and this sign of circumcision? In con-
 nection .with this, why must Israel be circumcised be-                Herewith I conclude my answer to the slanderous
 fore they can cross the Jordan to. inherit the Canaan?            article which appeared in the "Gereformeerd Gezins-
 .Does  not the sign of circumcision confirm the Scrip-           blad." May the Lord bless our churches and grant us
 tural truth that the promise of the Lord, the bestowal           His grace to maintain and safeguard the glorious
 of the land, of the land of ,Canaan (the earthly .Canaan         heritage which He has once entrusted unto our care.
  was but a type of the heavenly) and the blood of                 This heritage, of course, is safe. But tie mu&answer
  Chrjst Jesus our Lord are inseparably connected?                 whether we have duly kept and safeguarded it. Such
hence, I will thereforelmaintain that a general prom-              is our calling.
 ' ise is orily possible in the light of a general atonement.                                                    I H. .Veldman
 And I ~$1 `also maintain that if Christ died. only for
 /His elect (John `6:37-39 and John 10  :l-30, etc.) and                                   Ei  El  El  la  El
  the promse of Go4 is.inseparably connected with and                .`a,     '


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                                                                                ,Some, as Professor Aalders  of the Netherlands, hold __.
                                                                           I
     `-OiJR  Do'cTRIN'IE$                                                       to the idea that these heavenly bodies were not really
                                                                                created up& the fourth day but upon the first day;
                                                                                 and` that upon the fourth day the light was concent-
 _ The Hexaemeroti or Credion-Week rated in them. ' He declares that they are heavenly
                                                                                bodies, that ,the .heavens were created' upon the first
                                  (,5)-                                         day, and that therefore also the sun, moon, and stars
         _              THE FOURTH DAY-                                         were called into existance  upon the first day of crea-
                                                                                - tion week.    The  expr,ession  in Genesis  1:14 :  "Let
     And God  alid,  .Let there be lights  ip the firmament of the              there be lights in the firmament of heaven," must be
heaven `to divide the day  frqm the night; and let them be for
   signs,  and  for seasons, and  fo:  days; and years: And let them            .understood  as meaning that the light then was con- '
   Pe fore lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light                  centrated in. them. First, we would remark that there
   upon the earth: and it WDS  so: And ,God  made two &eat lights;              is principally no objection to this interpret&io+ Pre-
   the greater light to rule  the-d&y,  and the lesser light to rule            suppose that these heavenly bodies did'exist and that
   the night: He made the  Istars also.  -And  .God set them in the
   firmament of the heavens  to give light upon the earth. And                  God, upon the f.ourth day, filled them with this light ;         .
to rule over the day and over the night,  la,nd  to divide the light            thisawould  not detract from the work of creation upon
   friom  the darkness: and God saw that it was  good. And the                  the fourth day as a wonderful work of  ~the  Lo?d.               .
   evening and the  mornidg were the fourth day."                               .Secondly,  however, this does not agree with the ac-
                                               rGenesis   1?14-19               count of. (Genesis 1. De we not read in verse 16.that .
                                                                     ~_         "He made the stars a&o." Hence, upon this day He
 _ First, we &.yaiq notice th.e Divine act of creation                          made not only the stars but also the- sun and moon.
 as such           '                                                            As  aiready  stated in a  pr.evious article God did not
     Wliat a tiemendous  differenck between the':Scrip-                         create, the light upon the fourth day, but lights. He
   tural account of creation, also of the creation .of the                      had created the light upon the first day. Now, Upon _~
   sun, moon,. and stars, and the phi`losophy of B godless,                     the fourth day, the Lord created the -sun,~ moon, and M'
  .modern  world !      On  the one hand,  vire would surely stars, and concentrgted  `in them the `light which He
`never describe the origin. and beginning of things in -had formed upon the first day.
   this manner. Who. among men' would think of first                                This Scriptural pccount df the Divine creation  of
   des.cribing ihe creation :.of light and ihe< proceed- to                     the sun, moon, ahd stars has surely something to tell                 ~
   tell of the origin of the sun, moon, a& stars? Must                          us; We .have already remarked &hat we would. never
   we not have the sun, moon, and stars .first before iye                       have written history in  -this fashion. We  cert&nly
   can have light? Is. this, therefore,  .not simply another -`would have psn,tioned  first the sun, moon, and stars.                                 Z
   incontrqvertible   .fact which. attests to the truthful-                     Surely-, they must exist first, before the light, which
   ness and veracity of the Divine origin of Holy Writ? _ ,emanates from. them, could exist. The fact that the
   Surely, the Holy qcriptures are not o$ human origih,                         light-is mentionkd  fi&t, and then the sun, moon, and
   but they are the infallible revelation and testimony                         stars, is to emphasize,`. not that the sun, moon, and *'
  .of  the alone living God. Besides, how diff.ere&.is                          stars are. the origin,. of light, but the living God .is `its
   the presentation of the ,origin of. the world by modern                      origin. There was light before  `t@ey existed.  They.
   wicked philosophy !        This philosophy of the world .simply are &he heavenly-bodies from which the light,
   seeks the origin of all things in a huge ball of ?ire.                       .once created by the Lord, emanates. Upon the first .
   As this huge ball of fire proceeded on its way it began                      day the Lord fo?med light and upon the fourth. day
 to cool in some mysterious way. Also strangely mys-                            He made  ihe  bearers  and distributors of  that  li@t
   teriously it cool&d faster in one place than another,                        .which already `existed.     :                   -
- thereby lost its balance, began to turn and <wist.with,
   the  result that  hiage pieces  began to fall off,  wliich                   The viewpoint fmun which these h?avenly luminaries
   pieces continued ,to revolve abqut the original ball of                      are described         :           -
   fire, becoming our planets and stars. This is the "ex-                           Modern Science  ,would also criticize the Divine
   pl&ation" which the natural man prefers to the ma-                           Scriptures when they speak of the sun and moon as
   jestic accomlt of Holy Writ, and which, presented to                         the two great lights. The  sufi, to be  surt&, is a tre-
   us, we understand, without, any basis of fact, is con-                       mendous heavenly body. `We are told that it is an
   clusive evidence that the natural man has inveqted                           incandescant (brilliant) `mass having a, diameter more
   unspeakably foolish things because of the hardness of                        than one hundred times and a volume.  rnbre~ than
  his `heart.                                                                   1'3OOjOOO times of the  egrth, and that it is situated
       How. diffeient is the presentat&  in.the Holy Scrip- at  B tremendous distance from the earth. . However,
 tures. The  Divine  record  informs  pus that the Lord,                        we are also told that there are far greater:luminaries
  upon the fourth d&y, created $he sun; goon, and stars.:                       in theuniverse %han the sun at such tremendous dis-


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        tances from-the earth that it would require their light         of. the case. (But now the Lord concentrated the light
      rays (and light travels at -the rate of  186,0,00 miles           of the day, in the heavenly luminaries, and the result
        per* second) hundreds of years to reach our earth.,             is the repeated exchange of day and night, of light
        Hence, they conclude the Scripture is in error`,when            and darkness. This is caused we tinderstand,  by the
        it speaks of th'e sun and moon as the two great lights.         turning of the earth upon its axis and its yearly cir-
        Regarding this allega.tion of themen of -worldly wis-           cuit around the sun. Hence, the creation of the sun _
      c `dom we would say the following. First, we do not spur- and moon `is the cause of the day and the night, of
        pose to deny their claim that ther,e are luminaries in          our light and  dirkness. And this is, of  c'ourse;  &so  -
        the universe which are much greater than the sun or- what the Scriptures mean when we are told that the
        moon. This is  -very well possible. For, secondly,              greater light rules the day and the lesser light rules
        what they assert. to be true merely  confirnis God's the night. The implication of these words is not that
        people in the knowlgdge of the greatness qf their God.          the ysun and moon exercise dominion and as such must
        The univerie is surely amazing.. The earth is but one           be worshipped (even as the heathens worship the sun
        among several, planets. And  .it is the smallest of             and the moon), but simply that they control, the day
.       all the planets, only  sorrie eight thousand miles in and the night, the exchange of light and darkness.
        diameter and `twenty five thousand. miles` in cirsum-,              Secondly, -the- sun and moon are set for signs, for-
        ference. Only! How vast  .is then the universe! Its             seasons, for days, and- for years, We expect to call
        distances defy all human understanding. Even the attention to the symbolical significance of the sun,
      . creature defies all `human understanding. What fool- moon, and stars (Gen. 1 inzorms us that they have.
        ishness, what inconceivable folly, what desperate               also been set for signs) in a special paragraph. We
        wickedness  and_ ungodliness of -the natural man that'; must not confuse the "seasons" with "days and years." -
       -. he, althcnigh not even understanding- the universe, the We understand, of course, that these heavenly lu&n-
     finite creature, would understand Him Who is the                   aries govern our  days and years. They govern' our
      _ -Maker and Sustainer of that mighty universe! The               days' inasmuch as it requires the earth a day to turn
      _ creature. man cannot understand.         The Creator he         upon its `axis. And they govern  the year inasmuch
        would uriderstand. What wikked  folly! _                        as it requires the Garth  a year to complete a circuit
            And, yeti, that the' Scriptures .speak of the -sun. and     about the sun; And they have also been set'for sea-
       .moon as the "two great lights," is so simply `and               sons; This refers to. the various seasons such as full
       -majestically'true. The viewpoint of  IGenesis 1 is not' moon, quarter 1 moon, seed-time and harvest time,
        the universe but, as we have already stated previously spring and summer and autumn and-winter. The sun
        the barth. These luminaries are described here from which is directly above us in the middle of the summer
the viewpoint of their relation to-  thpe  _earth.   H&&e,-                -_
                                                                        and makes  its daily circuit through the heavens nearer
        from the viewpoint of the earth and in their r,elation          the horizon  ,during the winter  ,montl-&  thereby  con;
        to .the earth, they are the great luminaries. Does not          trols summer and the short days and long nights of
        Gep. l:i4-19 inf,orm  us that these gfeat lights divide         winter. Besides, we must also bear in mind that the
        the _day from the night, that `they rule the day and            sun rules during the day and the moon during the
        the night, and also. that they are for signs and for            nigh$. The life of man and beast and plant is in-.
       I seasons and for days and for years? However, con-              deed governed and controlled by the-sun and the moon.
     " ceite& man siinply ignores the Word of the living God.           Man and beast and plant ever turn unto the light, and
      . The  .Maker of heaven and earth.,  W+o -created the             eveiything has in the light of the sun its life and glory
        world and all that;is therein', Wk;q alone can acquaint and happiness. How differently we feel when the sun
       us with the work of His hands, Who has informed us is out in `all its glory than upon a dark and dreary day
        with reslject to. His mighty work of cr.eation, speaks when the sun hides its face. When the evening sha-
       `to us in His infallible. Word and. testimony, and the           dows descend upon the face of the earth. the beast
        natural man bf wicked folly simply ignores this re-             retreats into its den, the flower of the field "closes up"
       -velation  and acts .and speaks as if it does not even for the night, and man seeks  rest from his labours
        ,exist.                                                    I    during the day.. Then the glory of God's creation
                                                                        fades away, as it` &ere, and 2ill creation wraps itself
        Their signif icknae                       c+, w                 in slumber  awaiting the glory of another day. All
            First, the sun and moon divide the day from the things seek the light. Even the bosom of the ocean
       +ght, and through them the antithesis of day and                 struggles for and unto the light in its amazing ebb
        night, of light and darkness is called into existence.          and tide. The heavenly luminaries rule and govern
        If the light were not concentrated in a body as the             in various ways the life of man and beast and plant.
        sun but spread through the entire heavens, there would ,Ho~~depressed and downhearted and gloomy a person
      be no day.-and night, no light and  darkliess.   -111 that        can  ?become  when for  several days the  sun hides its
        case it Woulcl always be light. This lies in the nature .face, and we experience the gloomy rainy season, day


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   in and day out. How wonderful is the springtime                   of the night; Of course, we refer to ' the beautiful
  when the dreariness of the winter is past, when the                night. We do not refer to the wild stormy and tem-
   days become longer and warmer, when once more                     pestuous night, the night when a fur&s tempest rages,
   glory and beauty are. spred over and upon the .face of            or when the wind howls and shrieks. Then; in such
   the `earth. Then `the'birds begin to sing, and all the            a night, we become afraid. The dark and tempestuous
  living creatures experience the exhilarating effect of             night fills one with horror- and terror, causes one to
   another `season. But  even  .this is not all. In a  ver.y         long for its passing. Beautiful, however, is the quiet
   direct sense the sun and moon contra! an8 govern the              night, the night when we can -see the moon, even as
  life of every living creature; Nothing could possibly that queen of the night rides through the -sky over-
   live without the sun. But we know that the life of                head. The moon, we understand, has no light in it-
   the plant is directly governed by the sun and, tiith              self, -is the lesser of tile. great lights, receives its liglit
   the pht, the lif,e of man and beast. We are all rle-              fr$n the sun, and is therefore a reflection of that
   pendent upon the earth for  our..very  existence. The             greater luminary, the sun. The moon, therefore, tells
  earth supplies us and all animals with food. Indeed,               us that the sun, although we see it not;.is &ill present
   the ,sun is the source of all -life &nd strength. It. go- alld that it will, therefore, reappear. The moon in-.
   verns the life of every. living creature. Truly  the              forms us, therefore, t&at, the night is .nothin-g  but. a
   Lord has set the sun and -moon for signs, and for sea-            passing shadow and that the day will presently dawn.
   sons, and for' days, .and for years, to rule the day and          This moonlit night  spekks  to us of the night of sin
, . th$ night, -the light and the darkness,- the life of. every      and -death and darkness in which we find ousselves,
  living creature.                                                   but also the reflectioli .of the Sun of Righteonsness  in
                                                                0    His `Word, the unspeakably glorious` promise of the
   Their  r i c h   sgmbolism  -*                         _-         eternally faithful God, the glorious promise .because
      Qow unspeakably rich is the sy&boli_c  speech which of its sovereign and unconditiopal.  character, is in no
   comes to us from these heave&jr luminaries, the sulk,             sense of' tiie word ever dependent upon' the work of.
  m o o n ;   a n d   starif           I                             man. Of this- blessed promise of the Lord the moon,
      First, the very fact that the sun rules the day' and           in the moonlit night, is indeed a marvelous symbol,
 i ihat the moon rules the night, that they-divide the- day          set by God in  the  h"eavelis for that very purpose.
   from the night, the light from the darkness, is-richly            Hence, the moon speaks .to us of the Divine promise-
   symbolical. The earthly, the natural. phenome&on  `of             that the night of sin and darkness ,and death will pre-
  this light and darkness tie understand. Our darkness               sentl$ be past,, and that the day bf eternal and heaven-
   of the night is not to be confused with the original              Iy glory and perfection will presently dawn in the day
   darkness of Genesis 1% Our-darkness is-a. created                 of the Lorq Jesus Christ.
   darkness, is actually a turning, a shadow of turning,                Thirdly, the sun, moon and stars are themselves
   a shadow caused by turning. The earth turns on its                rich in symbolical significance. This is true, first of
   axis, thereby turns, as it were, its back upon the sun,           all, of the sun. We have already referred to the sun
   and as a result thereof. is clothed in  the darkness              in a previous article when we called attention to the
   of the night. This is the natural. phenomenon of our              symbolism of the earthly creation. `The suh, we all
   day and night. -What a wonderful symbolical language              know, is a symbol of Christ, Whb is called in Scrip-
   it speaks! This exchange of light  `and darkness,                 ture the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His
   caused by the sun, speaks ~of that sljiritual-antithesis          wings. Even as the natural sun pours put light and
   of the day and..night,  the -night of sin and the dark-           giory and life upon man and beast and plant, so Christ
   ness of the indignation of  the Lord.. For, -even 8s              is the Sun of Righteousnizss  with healing in His wings,
  that part of- the earth is clothed in darkness which has           because of His death and resurrection and sitting at
   "turned its back" upon the syn, so also man is Wrap- the right hand of the power of God, to pour out upon
  ped .in dearkness when he turns his back upon the liv-             His own the life which he merited for  them, Also
   ing God and His Son  of- Righteousness. This, we                  tlie  moon- is rich in symbolical significance. As we
   know,  .o,ccurred in paradise when we all sinned in               have already mentioned, the moop has no light in i&
  Adam, turned our back. upon the living God, became                 self. It is a reflection of the sun. Hence, the moon is
   covenant breakers, trampling His covenant under foot,             a beautiful dnd striking symbol of the Church of the
- refusing to be servants of the Most High and  pre-                 living God which also has no life in herself, but pos-
 ferring to be lords instead, and thereby &tailed upon               sesses all her life in and out of Christ'and is therefore
  ourselves the horrible  ,darknebs  of sin and of the               a reflection of _the Sun of Righteousness. Ail that the
  `wrath of the living God. Every setting of the sun                 Church of the living ,God does is to receive life from
  and its resultant darkness of the night should speak               Christ Jestis, and her only calling, now and ferever,
  to us of this fact of sin and darkness.                            is to reflect that life of Christ and speak unto and re-
      Secqndly, how wonderfully rich is the symbolism                veal the glory of Him Who died that we might live.


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 And, finally, we n&St call attention to the stars. They
 too, are rich in symbolical significance. There is, first
 of all,.their  number. The Scriptures call atteiition to                 THROUGH THE AGES
 the stars of. the heavens, the sand along the seashore,
 and the dust of the earth ; the eniphasis, we under-
 stand, falis upon their countless number. Ai such                         , The  Arminian Reaction
 the stars symbolize the countless, innumerable num-
 ber of the elect of the living #God. -O,r, the Scriptures                The mather with wh?iih we were last occupied in
 .call attention to the. stars from the aspect of their                my previous article iq the open breach between Ar-
      glory. They  dare as so many lights, shining in the minius  and-`Gomarus. As was stated, the report of
 blackness of the night. And the darker the night the                  this rupture spread far and wide. The complaint a-
 greater is the glory of these heavenly luminaries.`. So               rose that in Leyden old heresies in a new dress were
      also the glory of God's grace shines most brightly upon          being brought forth. _ The reference was, of course, l,o
 the backgrqund  of the d&rkness  and blackness of sin, Arminius.
      and death. In $he third -place, in connection with.the              As we saw, the classis of.Dordreeht IGas stirred to
stars, we can call attention to their occupying the                    action ; and likewise, finally; the Synod of Rotterclam
 .same place &eL;y night and also to their rich diversity.             (.Aug. 30, 1605). As wa,&tated, this .&ynod decided
      Also in this respect they are a true picture of the              to request the curators of the school to require of
Church of the living #God. That Church is constituted                  Arminius and the rest of the professors that they un-
      of exactly so mani members ; and in that Church -or              reservedly `declare themselves regarding the disputed.
      Body of Christ each individual member occupies its               points. As we saw,  to& `the curators refused to co-
      own particular place, has its own particular` calling,           operate and advised a liational synod for the settling
      reveals, the glory of the \Christ  in its own particular         of the difficulties. It was generally agreed that thiti
      and peculiar %ay, L There are no `Twins" in-the Church           was .the- only-way out. But, as was stated, it `was not
      of God, each child of the Lord differs from the othkr in         until  1618---thus 13` years later-that the  govern-
      gifts and talents and glory: Beautiful this truth is re- ,ment could be induced to consent to the calling of such
      vealed unto, us bye the apostle, `Paul, in I' Cor. 12. A-        a sy.nod. ,In the mean time the struggle continued. Let
_ gain, we can call attention to the @ais from the view- Us `now. g&t QC with our story.
 - point of their various constellations-they .are grouped                -It.was.Arminius by whom the next step was taken.
      in various ways. j The numbers : 1, 3, 4, and 7 are v&y          He informed the. States General' that he was ready fo1'
      prominent among these lights in the ,heavens. These              a friendly conference with the brethren-definitely Go-
      numbers are signifitiant, speak to us of the living Gdd ,marus-to be held u&er the auspices of his govern-
      and of man, df the Church and God's &e&al covenant.              ment. The conference Was held in the Hague in 1609.
      Indeed, how true is .the word -of the psalmist in Ps.            The fir`st to receive opportunity to speak his.mind was
      19 :l-2 : "The heavens declare the glory of God ; -and           Arminius. The unrests in the churches puzzled him.
      the firmament sheweth His handywork. Day unto                    He could not' understand'why he was not being t?ust-
      d&y uttereth speech, and night `unto night sheweth               ed. Never, never had he taught anything derogatory
      knowledge."  '                                                   to the Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism either
 .           Herewith the' fourth `day of the `week of creation        in public or privately. He-did have a'few objections,
      has been concluded. -God has created the -iight, the             but i&te$ of revealing them .he assailed Gomarus'
      firmament, the dry land, the world of grass and herbs            views  r,egarding  `eledtion  --and rep:obation.    To his
      and plants and trees, the sun, moon, and stars. The              mind. and way. of thinking these views were simply
      house has been made ready. -Ail that remains is the              abominable.    His objections to the  Confe$sions he
      creation of the living creatures who are destined to             hoped to reveal on the ,national synod at the oppor-
      live- in this house, the wo+ld of God's almighty power.          tune time. He condluded  with affirming that he.was
 This occurs .upon  the fifth and sixth days of the week thoroughly orthodox, meaning to say that in all his
      of creation, to which w,e hope to call attention in sub-         instruction he strictly  adhired to the officially a-
sequent articles.
                     .-                                                dopted Confessions.     This from- a man who in his
                                                 H. Veldman.           private  correspondance  and in  his private lectures
                                                                       to his choice students was all along maintaining th$
                            El  P  El  El  El                          the will of man is in no wise determined by the divine
                                                                       $egree. But so it goes.
      CL'ASSIS. EAST will meet, in regular session, D.V.,                 The following day  *Gomarus   wa,s  given the  .floorl
Wednesday,  ,October  10.~ 1951  at the Second  ChuTch                 He stated his objections to the teaching of Arminius.
      of Grand Rapids.          .  .~                                  The latter had contended that a man is justified riot
                                                 D .   Jonkeu;  SC.    by;the imputsition  of the righteousness of Christ, but,


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 by the deeds of his very own fa.ith. Arminius solemnly             his views openly and without reserve. There. were
  affirmed that, holding as he did that "faith is reckoned whispe%ngs-that he was a Jesuit. `They said of him
- to a man `for righteousness," he was in complete a-               that he had secretly embraced-Roman Catholicism.
  greement with the Confession.              He promised, too,      These ticcusatiolis  cut him to the quick,. judging from
  that in the event the churches, as assembled in synod,            his lamentations.  To- one  of his friends he wrote:
      should find his formulation intollerable, either he           ",Slander,  the first-born of ihe' devil, .sits iri the seat
.  would let it go  or resign as professor.  Third, he  re-         of the truth. But God and time will unmask him. In
cited with avowed approval the substance of the ans,- the meantime the righteous  suffer." But the charges
wer to (questions 60 and 61 of the Heidelberg- Catech-              were essentially true. For like that of Rome, the dot-.
      ism. These were his very words: "I believe with -the          trine of Arminius, regarding the, points in dispute,
  heart and confess with the Mouth that I am righteous              was semi-pelagian. Small wonder, ther.efore,  that he
 -before God solely through an upright faith in Jesus               could write to one of his friends that he fully shared
      Christ, so that without any merit of my own and by Rpme's extreme dislike of  ,Calvin's doctrine of  p?e-
      sheer grace God gives-and imputes to me the perf,ect          destination.    But openly he justified `his reticence by
      righteousness of Christ,. as if I never had had, ,nor         saying that, should he reveal his true sentiments,. his
      committed any -sin ; yea, as if I had fully accomplished      critics, being unsympathetic, would be certain to mis-
      all that obedience which Christ has accomplished for          construe his statements, and turn them against him.
      m'e, in so far as I embrace t-his benefit with a bebib           Arminius' friends again arranged for another con-
      +ng heart. .That I am acceptable- to `God, not on ac-         ference foi- the settlement of the difficulties. Needless
      count of the worthin,ess  of my faith, but because only-      to say, when the conference ended, the two professors
      the righteousness of Christ, is my righteousness be-          were as far apart as ever. Arminius, who for `some
      fore God, and I can embrace and appropriate this              time had been in failing health, returned to his home
      righteousness not otherwise than by -faith."                  in Leyden, a sick man. The government now required
            1 For sooth, .an excellent confession ! Yet Arminius    of each of the professors another statement of their
      was again equivocating. He was anew evading the               views. They did as requested. Arminius kept ,him to
      issunah issue  that he, himself, had created  atid            his task until he could go no longer.  He was that
      thrown into the lap of the churches, namely whetlier          spent and exhausted.       His. contemplated production
      the will, cliet&mination, to embrace the aforesaid bene-      was but half completed. But he sent what he had. It
      fit is of man or of `God. Arminius affirmed'the former.       was liis last deed.  Short@  thereafter:October   19,
      Had he been dealing honestly with his apponents, he           1609-he died at the age of 49 years..
      would have declared`: "In so far as I  of my own free
      zuill embrace this benefit with a believing heart. . ."
            The government officials now required that- both -THE  ARMINIAN   OR  REMONSTRANT  STRUGGLI$
      professors draw up and submit  `tq them a  writtell                AFTER  THE  DEATH  OF  ARMINIUS  1609
      statement setting forth their views regarding all the
points `in `dispute. `They' do so, Gomarus in 31 and                    To understand this struggle es$cially  in its con-
      Arminus in 20  ar.ticles,  and this  ,concluded  the  con-    tinuation we must` have before us all the issues on
      f erence.                                                     which it concentrated.         ~
            The state officials examined these productions, and         1. There was the doctrinal issue. Here the ques-
      they reported -to the St&es-General that, in so far as        tipn was-whether divine `grace is resistable. Thus far
      they were able to judge, the differences were .of little      we have been occupied with" the aforesaid struggle
      account and could easily be overlooked if the parties         solely as it turned on this question.
      to the dispPte  were only willing to practice tolerance.          But there -were other issues touching on the rela-
      But Gomarus could not agree. He had the courage to            tion of the church and state and the right of the
      declare that, according to his settled conviction, the        churches in this relation: Then there was also the
      views of his colleague, nieaning Arminius, were. of           question of the authority of the Confession.
      such a -kind that he wou1.d not dare to appear with
      them before the judgment-seat' of <God. The lame re-          The question  of  the  c&ho&y that  is, the  binclilzg
      tort of Arminius was that he always had loved ailcl           power of th,e Co'nfession-the  37 articles cmd`the Hei-
      promoted peace, had ever adhered to the Confession,           delb,ery Catechism
      and would continue so to do.                                      As was statedj  by 1605' all the churches -were in-
 -           Gomarus' evaluations of the views and instruction sisting that the- prevailing doctrinal differences neces-
of his  colleagile  -could. not well remain hidden.  Be-            sitated the calling of a national synod. The  Statcs-
      comming known, they.made  a tremendo& impression.             General `(by which is to be understood the Nether-
      Especially  provokilig was Arminius' pretention to            lands governgent) expressed itself as willing on one
      orthodoxy in'the face of his persistant refusal to state      condition, namely, that the synod be authorized to

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  "summarize," that is, read again and approve the truth. The purpose was "revision of the Confessions"
  Confessions.                                               indeed. For not so long thereafter the government
     But the  f  ch&&s objected, on the fqllowing            added a fkw more conditions-to the one already laid
  grounds : A "suq.marizing" of the Confessions .must        clown, namely the following:
  needs imply: a) that the preceding synods had- only           1. All gravamen, that is, charges, against the Con-
.. tentativeiy adopted these documents; b) that they still fessions  must first be submitted to the government ;.
  could be changed ; c)- that the coming national synod         2. The government would call together the synod,
 would adopt them permanently.                               and also designate its members ;
     Not that to the mind of the objectors the Confes-          3. The synod-would be preceded by a convention
  sions, like the Scriptures,  ar.e infallible. Their rea- of ministers of the Gospel to be designated by the
  soning was this: the Confessions have been once and        government. This assembly must prepare the matters
 for -all -approved and adopted as the expression: crf       to the liking of the government.
  what the churches believe to be -the truth of God's          ; The churches strongly objected, but in their de-
  Scrjptures.     But  only the Scriptures are infallible: sire for a national synod they finally yielded. The
  Hence, if in $be minds of any difficulties should arise    convention was held in the month of May, 1607. Its
 `respecting any section or expression of the Confes-        agenclum, supplied by the government, was constitutecl
 sion, such aggrieved ones certainly havk the right and      of eight points. The sixth of these is again revealing
  duty to reveal their sentiments to consistory, classis     It -reads : "Whether. the delegates to the national- synod
 and synod. And then it is the duty"of: the synod to         should not be obliged freely to speak their minds with-
 search the Scriptures earnestly and impartially if the      ont considering themselves bound by anything but
 point in dispute should be changed. But to authorize the  Word of God".
 a "summarization" of the Confessions without any               The real thrust of this point is'clear. Should it be
 having first proved that they are in error .is to con-      adopted the churches woulcl be without a authorita-
 demn them unheard and without their being proved            tive Confession aduring all the sessions of the, Synod.
 guilty: it is to free the signatories of these documents    The opposition, if in the majority on the synod, would
 -ministers elders, and deacons- from their  -solemn         then be at liberty to deal with the Confessions as they
 promise and obligation to teach and faithfully defend       chbse. The Champions of the truth being in the `ma-
 the ,doctrine  contained in them, without either direct-    jority on the convention, the point was rejected.
 ly or indirectly contradict&g the same by `public              The last point touchecl on the matter of the revision
 preaching or writing, and moreover not only to re-          of the Confessions. It was `decided that no charges
 ject all errors that militate against this doctrine, but    might be lodged against the Confessions on a whole,
 to refute and contradict these, and to exert themseldes     but only  .against definite phrases and expressions
 in keeping the churches free from such errors. In a thereof.'                                     G. M. Ophoff
 word, to authorize such a "summarization" of the
  Confessions is to render everything uncertain and                                     ISI.
 thereby to open the door to any and every. heresy under
 the sun. Such was in substance the reasoning of the
 particular synod of HollaJld in 1605, thus four .years      FROM  H O L Y -   WRIT
 before the passing of Arminius.
     But the opposition was not really adverse to per-
 manent adoption of the Confessions. What they were             Exposition of Acts 13:32,33ff
 really ,after is simply the opportunity to change these              -.
 documents into expressions of their own heretical be-.         ,-                       II            ,       ~;
 liefs, or to so revise them that they could no longer be       In our former contribution, under this -heading,
 (quoted in condemnation of these beliefs. This once         we called attention particularly to the meaning of
 having been accomplished, they would allow and even the. conception "the promise made unto the fathers"
 clamor for their permanent approval and adoption. Ia        as taught in this-passage of Holy Writ. What we have
 a word, what the opposition wanted is to make room          stated in said article the reader can still find written
 in the churches for their heresies.                         in the last issue of the  Stan,daycl   BenreT. We shall
     Bu$ the government through its spokesman-Olden-         therefore not repeat it here. We only wish to remind
 barnevelt-spoke reassuring words. The churches the reader that what we write in this article and the
 should not place such emphasis on the term "summari- next is most closely related to and interwovell  with
 zation". The purpose was not to change the Confes- the former artfcle from our pen.
 sions, but simply to read them through once more and           We shall, therefore, proceed in our exposition. of
 thereup to -affirm that they were not ip need -of re-       this passage of the Word of God as recorded in our
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    In doing so, we see ourselves corifronted  with the      the particular act of  IGod, whereby He fulfilled the
question: What is the implication of the phrase "that        Promise, raises a question. It is this: Did God not
GocZ hath fulfilkd  the .same unto LIS their children, in    also fulfil the Promise in the entire preparing of the
having raised up J@us, as it is written in the Second        way for and unto the coming of Jesus in the fie@?
Psalti:  -Thou  cd my-Son, this day have I begotten          And was not the birth of Jesus also the fulfilling of
Thee" ?                                                      the Promise made to the fathers? And can we not
   There are two elements ifi this passage on, which with equal justice ask this same question- when we
we wish to focus our attention. These are ; first, that thilfk of Christ's suffering on the Cross? If so, .and it
Go,G? has now, in Christ, actually fulfilled the Promisi     seems to us that this is entirely proper to ask these
made unt$ the fathers ; secondly, that He has done this " questions and answer them in the affirmative, why
exactly according to that which is written in Ps. 2 :7.      does Pan1 single out the "raising ,of Jesus': as th,e act
  . We begin wiih the first of these two propositions        of God wherein He fulfilled the Promise made unto
taught us in the text.                                       the fathers? .
   The first thing which strikes our attention is, who          `We answer : -that it /is. indeed true, that also the
the subject is, according to Paul in his sermon, that suffering of. Christ is an element, a very important
has fulfilled the Promise. It is  GOG! Himself! Not          element, in the fulfillment of the Promise. Fact -is,
man has fulfilled the Promise, as here spoken of, but that  .I-101~ Writ repeatedly speaks of the vicarious
the Lord, otir God. He has raised up Jesus from the          death of Jesus and of His t%umphant  resurrection in
dead. All that Paul here preaches is  contiequently          age breath. Thus we read in Rom. 4 :23,-24.: ". . if we
what Go)cl hnth wrought. This we should always keep believe oti'Hiin`that raised up Jesus our Lord from
before the mind and the eye of our faith as a sure con-      the dead ; who was delivered for our offenses, ancl was
solation and solid foundation of` Ouq: faith.                raised again for our ju&ifiction". Here we have both
   The next element in the text, that ought to be            Jesus` death and resurrection mentioned in one br,eath,
carefully observed, is, that God hath fully realized the     and we are also.instructed  in the truth, that only where
Promise in  Christ's  resurrection. He hath  f&filled        Christ was delivered for, dur sins is He raised for our
it! `This is emphasized in the Greek original by -i$e        Ju&ificatidn.i  Without going further into the matter,
use of a composite verb. The, verb is ekpepleerooken.        we refer the reader to Rom. 10:6, 7 and also to Eph.
The  `ek! emphasizes the completeness of the-act, just       4: 9, 10.
like our  fuZ-fill., It means to fill the vessel until it       -However, l&t it-be understdod, that it is the teaching
is full. Nothing more can then be added. The sense- of Scripture that in the resurrection we have  th?
in which the Promise is here spoken of, as the `great        clear and  uizdeniable   pr'oof that Christ -indeed was
Promise made to- the fathers, has been fully realized        victorious, that we are now no longer in our sins, but
in the central and all-comprehensive  se&e of the word.      that we are delivered from sin and guilt, death and
For ,Christ is the .end of the law for righteousness to      b.ell! If  .Christ is not risen our preaching is  vain,
everyone believing. He is the fulfilment of the Prom-        our faith is vain, we are then yet in our sins. And.
i s e   o f   `God.                                          then all those who have fallen  asleep  in Jesus are          ..
   Then too we  should by all means observe, `that           perished! I Cor. 15;12-16.  If iri this life only we hope
the tense of the.verb in the Greek original is the per- -in Christ we are of all men most miserable. 0, what
fect tense.    The perfect tense in Greek expresses          miserable  fatheEs to whom the  "promise  was made
that the degree of a&ion is completed up to the present by <God,, if He did- not fulfill the same in raising up
moment. It is true, we should not  r.ead all of our          Jesus. For-then they remain in tli&r graves in the
theology into `a tense.. On the other hand, we shduld        cave of Machpelah. Gen. 23 :l-20 ; then they entered
observe the very uniform use of this tense in Holy           not into a cave, which would lead them to the hea-
Writ. And that usage is as we  hdve  jilst circum- venly Canaan for which- they hoped atid the better
scribed it. -And when we apply this meaning of the           country that they so fervently  soughi, but they en-
verb here plus the meaning of the tense to- the matter tered into the cave which is the mouth of Sheol, and
here at hand, then we find that Paul means to say:           they have entered into the place of silence that shall
                                                       up
till this very moment in which God -fulfilled the Prom-      not praise God.
ise in Jesus, He was ever fulfilling it  compl&ely.           But God is faithful who has promisecl; %hrist has
Such is clearly the intent of Paul in tracing for us the     arisen and has  b&me the first-fruits of them who
history of the realization of the Promise.       (See the    have fallen asleep !
former article from our .hand) . All of the history of          (God hath' fulfilled the  Protiise made unto the
salvation (heils-gesehiedenis) clearly and unerringly        fathers in raising Jesus, the man `Jesus atid at once
leads to that point in time when Jesus shall rise from       tlic, Son of God from  t& dead! That is the very"
the dead.                                                    heart  of Paul's sermon here in Antioch of Pisidia.
   The ?act, that Paul speaks of the 7:esurrection  as
                                                   .  -      The hope of Israel stands ;-it is not put to -shame. We
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      _ conclude, therefore, that since it is in the resurrection tral city of the world; It is also the hated city by all
       that the hope of Israel is realized, Paul very fitting-     the wbrld, but .the nations as they are under the in-
       ly teaches us that Gocl bath fulfilled the Promise made     spiration of the father of the lie, Satan. And in .their
       z6ndo the father8 in kaising .Jesus.                        blind and sinful fury they "imagine vain" things a-
              The second thought, that occupies our attention      gainst this City of *God, Jerusalem, the heavenly. They
       and that we have enumerated above, is, that God hath        would rises up against the Lord, our (God, as He mani-
       fulfilled  the- Promise as is written in the Second         fests Himself in Zion, His abode, in this Son of His
       Psalm: "Thou -art My Son, this -day have I begotten         good-pleasure. Typically this was the ease in David
       Thee".                                                      in the typical city, the earthy Jerusalem, but in reality
              We cannot here enter into too detailed an exposi- ",this is the case with God's Anointed Son. rAmd when
       tion of this quotation from Psalm 2 :7.. Howeves, for       these nations thus rage, then, it is that the utter folly
       a correct understanding of the Word of God here it          of this raging appears, when  ,God in His holy and
       is necessary to point out the foilowingi             I      Divine laughter will have them in derision.. For what
              1. `That we should bear in mind, that the words      till He do?  (He will maintain His King,.  as the A-
       here from Psalm 2:7 do not refer in the last-analysis       nointed one, that is, the appointed and qualified King,
       to David. They are applicable `to Him. in a typical         and in  thus  `doing He will declare of the Decree in
       sense. He is called David, the King. Matt. 1:6; also        which He .always says : "Thou art my Son, this day
       .David is called, among %ll of the Kings, the Anointed      have, I begotten Thee". For this "begetting" iS not
       king. II Samuel 22 :51. Thus it is also here in this        simply the "generation" but it means to cause to
       passage from  &ts  13`:32, 33. The line runs, as we         bring into the world on men and angels by "birth".
       pointed  o$ in  our' former  aY;ticle, from `the fathers    It is the Son as He is born from a woman, as He `is
       to David, who prophetically speaking is -the King on        the first-born of  $1 creatures,  the first-born out of
       Zion's Throne, which Throne shall be established for-       the dead.
     eve?. For from David's loins shall the root of Jesse                 b. What we have stated under 2. is again proven
       come forth, and to Him shall :the desire of the gentile     to be true by what we read in Hebrews 1:5. There we
       world, be.  Isaiah 11  :lO. It is for this reason that,     read that God never said to the angels, "Thou art my
       in a typical sense, Psalm 2 can have a reference to         !Son, this day have I. begotten Thee". It is abundantly
       David.                                                      clear from this passage that Psalm 2 refers to Christ
              2. Be this as it may, the fact rema& that a care-    as He is indeed the One through, Whom the ages have
       ful reading of `the Psalm in question- clearly shows `been made,.as the `One Who is the very expressed image
       that the Anointed [One spoken of. here in this Psalm        pf (God's being, Who after He had brought about the
       against who the nations imagine vain things, is none        purification of our sins sat down on the right hand
       other but our Lord Jesus Christ, as He has received         of the majesty of God- on high. And, by the way,
       all authority in heaven and on earth, through the way       that is also the teaching of Psalm 2, where the Son
1      of suffering the penalty of sin for all His own.            is told that in the way of His suffering He may ask
       `3.      What we have written under 2 implies, that we      for the heath& as His inheritance and the uttermost
       must not refer this passage from- Psalm 2 :7, namely,       parts of the earth as  His  poss&sion.  In short, the
       "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee" to         Son who is begotten is Jesus, the Christ. His beitig
       the eternal generation of. the Son, as such. Certainly placed as heir-over all things is His being "begotten
       what is here said of this King in Zion can  only be         today".. '
       said of the Son of IGod, who is the expressed image                To this latter thought -we shall devote more atten-
       of God's, being, the effulgence of His gldry ; who is       tion in our next article. We then also wish to show
       from everlasting to everlasting in the bosom of the         the relationship of the Promise .to this Divine Decree
       Father. For this saying cannot ever be attributed to        of God. That'may be helpful to all of us.
       mere man. ,Only He whose name,is Wonderful, Coun-                                                     G. Lubbers
       selor, the' Mighty God, can be written of what God has                                       d
       declared in the Decree.       However, and this is the                            El  q   El  LiB
     point, this Psalm does not refer to the  ;Son as such,
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                                                             school with all kinds of other children. W e   c o u l d
         I N   M I 'S   F E A R                              mention how the lack of a Christian education is no-
                                                             ticeable often in ignorance of the most simple Bible
                                                             truths and ignorance  of- the most general facts of
                Ba& To Schod                                 Bible history in the catechism room, - a handicap for
                                                             both minister and catechumens. We could mention
                             (3)         TV                  that when we send our children to the public school,
    In our previous article we began our inves$igation       we will reap this fruit, that a generation will grow up
 of the case for Christian instruction. We called  atten- which has no understanding and no love for Chr.is-
 tion to three theoretical possibilities as to the train-    tian education, so that the Christian educatjon  move-
! ing of our children, namely: the public school, the ment will die a natural death ere long.
 existing Christian school, and the Protestant Reformed         One @ould point to many positive benefits of Chris-
 ,Christian school.    And each we briefly described.        tian education. ,One might make the so-calle,d  finan-
 We emphasized, in the first place, that the public          cial difficulties and sticrifices  look easy `and small, by.
 school is the school -of the `world in every respect. calling attention, for example, to the "flush" times
 In the seccnd p;lace,  we called attention to the adual     in which we are living. One might shame that "fin-
 impossibi!ity  of a co-operative venture in education i  ancial  argum@" by comparing our willingness to
 on the part of parents who, on the one hand, desire         support the cause of  ,Christian  education with our
 to have their children instructed according to their        wiliingnesi to spend all kinds of money on luxuries,
 own convictions as to what constitutes the fear of          to spend many doliars on. vacation-trips, or to burn
-the Lord which, according to Scripture, is, the be-         up much money in smoke, and that too, without -a
 ginning of wisdom ; and who, on the other hand, be-         thought. One might point out- that in Reformed cir-
 long to different denominations and thus differ as          cles Christian education is the fashion, .the trend. We
 to the principles of the fear of the Lord. And in the `might emphasize that Christian education is a heri-
 third place, we called &tention  to* the. fact that co-     tage and tradition from our Dutch forefathers.
 operation in the field bf education is possible only by       -And undoubtedly, the same method could be fol-
 a htimogeieous  group of parents. Only on that basis        lowed iri comparing .the so-called "existing" Christian.
 can there be real co-operation. On any' other basis         schools and the Protestant Reformed Christian school.
 you can have  on!y an essential disunity and  dis-             But to follow this method in answering our ques-
 harmon.y, with an external and  --purely  formal ap-        tion,  - at least, without  following another method
 pearance of cooperation.                                    first, - will yield very little fruit.
                                                                For on the one hand, the result- will be -that you
    The question, therefore, which we face is:. Which have Christian schools, if 
 of these three theoretical possibilities must we choose?                                 you have them at all then,
                                                             which are founded on a tottering foundation of pbac-
 Atid this question must be answered', as we concluded       tical arguments. *And the moment such a Christian
 last time, with a prir&pal answer; not primarily with       school is assailed by the winds and floods of contrary
 an array df practical arguments.                            practical arguments which seem to be more weighty,
    Such arguments might well be' arrayed. Argu-             at that moment your whole Christian school will lie
 ments of a minor principal nature might be called !lp       @ rubble.
 against the public school. We might, for example,              And on the other hand, you -will never  .be  able,
 call attention to the fact that the public school violates truly to establish a Christian school on such a founda-
 the principle of parental  education. Education is the      tion.  You  may build an imposing structure. You
`business of the parents, not of the state, nor of the       may for a time be able to  main&in a  school which
 church; Hence, even though the state .has the right         gives a little moral instruction. But unless a Christian
 to demand that you shall educate your children, and         $chool is founded on a sure and impregnable and m-i--
 even though the church has the calling to see that you      deniable foundation of principle, it will never succeed
 shall educate your children aright, the work of train- to be a Christian school.
 ing as sz~ch is the work of you, the parents. And those        We mu$t see, fir& of all, therefore, that the matter
 parents who leave the training of their  children to        is one of principle -in the deepest sense of the word.
 the state abrogate their parental authority.                The question can never be and may never be: shall
    One might. also call attention to &my other faults       we go ahead with Christian instruction? Shall we ,
 in the public school system. We could mention too           send our children to the Christian school or not?
 that the public schools are governed largely in our         Equalljr, I am in last instance convinced, and for the
 day by a wrong philosophy of education, the progres-        same reason that the matter is one of principle, the
 sivism of John Dewey. We could mention the danger           question can never be: shall we go ahead With Chris-
 of bad associations,  -when our children are sent to .tian instr?ction tliat. is Protestant Reformed or not?


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       The question has been and is often asked. And it which of the threk theoretical possibilities of educa-
is `often answered in the light of practical considera- tion must be chosen. It is the key to such an answer
tions. \ It is answered iti the light of considerations of     as-will leave only one actual possibility.
cost,, considerations of convenience, considerations of
size, considerations of influence. and power, `considera- It's Scrip t&al, B-as&
tions of the shortcomings of the existing schools. But             One might without difficulty trace this- principie
if that is a  question,  le'ft to our discretion and our       throughout all of  ,Scripture,  from the record of the
choice, as the building of a house..can  be a question,        Protevangel in the book of (Genesis to the visions of
then` indeed let us first reckon up the cost, lest +e be       the holy apostle Johti in the Book of Revelation: But
unable to finish what we have begun to build. And              let us note only a few very clear and striking passages
let us be well aware of the fact that on this basis the_ for our present purpose.
cost of the tower of Christian instruction (and this is         I would  tail your attention, first- of all,  to the
especially true of Protestant Reformed Christian in-           words of Balaam, that hypocrite `of hypocrites, who
`struction) will present an insurmotintable obstacle, -        was more -foolish than his own dumb ass. For in
and I do not mean first of all the cost in dollars and         Numbers 23, the ninth verse, we find him speaking
cents.                                                         the word which the #Lord gut in his mouth. It reads
       The. only question may be: how shall we, befit ftil- 1a.s follows : "For from the top of the rocks I see him,
fill bur calling to give our children a Christian ed&a-        and from the hills I behold him: lo, the ptiople  shall
tion? The first question is out of order. No  more             dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the na-
than you ever .a& whether you should provide your              tidns." The San& thought is expressed in the farewell.
children with good .food,  with enough vitamins and            address of Moses, the mediator of the .Old Testament,`
minerals, with a well-rounded diet, no more can you            in Deuteronomy 34, verse 28a: "Israel then shall dwell
ask that question as far as the spiritual and mental           in safety alone." And  from a slightly different as-.
diet of your children is concerned.                            pect we filld this truth expressed in the well-known
       The matter itself is decided. It is not left to our     words of Isaiah 43 :21: "This people have I formecl
choice at all. The necessity, the unavoidable neces- for myself; they shall shew forth my praise."
sity, the dire'necessity,.  of Christian education of cove-       Lest, however, it might be objected that this is the
nant children is upon us. And the only question you language of the Old Testament,  and-  .th+t  it is valid
and I may ever ask is :. how shall we go about is?             only in regard to God's people in the old dispensation,
       If we canno.t  take that stand, we may as well give     we may notice th& the same language is spoken of
up any thought of maintainihg Christian schools, much          and to ,God's people in the new dispensation. Thus we
less Protestant Reformed  &hools.  We may as well              find, for example, in I P.eter  2 :9 : "But ye are a chosen
quit before we involve ourselves in any moie unneces- . . gener.ation,  a royal priesthood, an holy n&ion, a pecu-.
sary expense of money and effort. We -must be able             liar people ; that-ye should shew forth the praises of
to take the attitude that everything we have is ex-            him  who  bath called you out of darkness into his
ptmdable, yea rather, that principallzj  we have alreadzj      marvelous light." Nor can it be  gainsaid that the
expen&cl  everything in this cause. Then, and then same principle is-clearly delineated `in the classic pas-
alone, can you ever hope to maintain Christian schools         sage of II Corinthians 6 :14, ff., where we read: "Be
and to keep them Christian in the -most specific sense         ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
of the word.                                                   for what  fel@wship hath -righteousness with  un-
       The fundamental principle which  decjdes that           righteou&ess ? and what communibn hath light with
stand is the piinciple of the antithesis, or, if you will,     darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
the principle of qur Christian isoZati.on. It is the same      or what part,hath he that believeth with an infidel?'
principle which controls and lies at the basis of all          And what agreement hath the temple of God with
Christian activity, in any phere of life. It is the            idols? ,for ye are the temple of the living God ; as God
principle which determines kven thjt there is a church         hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and
of  Jesus Christ in distinction from  tlie world. It is        I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
tlie principle^which,  positively stated, consists in this,    Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye se-
that God has a people for Himself, which are the ob-           parate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing ;
jects of, the fruit of, the recipients of, and the realiza-    and I will receive.you,  And will be a Father unto you,
tion of His sovereign, particular grace. Otherwise             and ye shall be my sons and daughters,:saith  the Lord
people and the world share all things exeept,gra&.             Almighty.`!
       It is this principle which we would investigate a         To the significance of these passages we call your
little and enlarge upon, aPplying  it to the sphere of ed- attention the next time, the Lord willing.
ucation. For it is the key to the answer to the question                           ,           H.  C. Hoeksema


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                                                                                                                                                                                                         Subject                                                                  Author Page No.
                                                   INDEX  TO  VOLUME  2'7                                                                                               -                        Arminian Reaction ................................................... :G.M.O. 494 21
                          INDEX  TQ  SCRWTURE  PASSAGES  TREATED'                                                                                                                                Assumption of Mary and the Pro. Ref. Churches J.H.                                              70  -3
                                                                                                                                                                                                 At the Evening of the Year.. ...................................... G.V. 145                            7
                              Text                                                                                                                           Author Page No.                     Awakening, An................................................................ J.H. 359 15
  Genesis 1 :i-2 ......................................................................................................                                      T...~ q y; ;g
                    Continued                                                                                                                      ................ . . . . .                                                                  -B-
  Genesis 1 :l-5 ................................................................ `H.V. 444  l9                                                                                                  Bs,ck to School ...;:. ............................. ......................... H.C.H. -477 20
  Genesis 1:6-S ..... .................... ....................................... H.V. 464 . 20
                    Continued .............................................................H.V. 488 21                                                                                                    Continued ............................. ?. ................ .........H.C.H. -501 21                      .
  Genesis 1:14-19 ......................... .I.................................. H.V. 5115 "4                                                                                                    Bnding or Not  Bdnding .............................................. H.H. 124                          6
  Numbers 6:22-27 .......................................................... G.V.                                                                                                                `B'lood  of thel Martyrs~the  Seed of the Church-The..J.H . . 335 14
  I Kings  18:21 ............................. .....*............................. G.V. -119                                                                                                ;    Book Reviews :
  II Samuel 11:26, 27 .......... ...................................... G..M.O.                                                                                                       38          1Biijbelse
  Job  19:25 ...........                                                                                                                                                                                        -Encycldpaedie
                                                   ...... . ..................................................... G.V. 433 19                                                                                                              ............................................ H.H.      62     3
  Psalm 80 .........................................................................                                                                                                               Body of Divinity by Gill ........................................ H.H. 394 17
  Psalm  87:4-6 ................................................................. 2.  F
                                                                                                                                                                             .   145  72           Co,mmentary  on the Holy Scriptures by  Lange..:.H.H.  83 4
  Psalm 115 (Continued from Vol. 26) ...................... G.V.                                                                                                                      2            De Bekeering bij Brillenburg-Wurth.. ..................H.H. 23@ 10
  Psalm  116:l .................................................................. G.V. 337  1:                                                                                                     De Dordtsche Leerregelen bij
  Psalm  1118:22,  23                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Feenstra ............
                                                           . . . . . . . .
                                                                                 .................. .. . . . .                                                                                                                                                                       H.H. 296 13
                                                                                                                           ................... :...iG.V. 496 21
  Psalm 139:23, 24                                              .                                                                                                  t: %$ :72'                      De Handelingen Der Apostelen ...................... .+;....H.H. 230 `10
&aiah  53:4:5 ................ .........................................................................................................                                . .                        De Komst Van Het koninkrijk bij
  Joel  2:26-27                                                                                                                             . .
                                           .................................................................. ;;.  4;;  ii                                                                                   Ridderbos ........................................................ H.H;- 369 16.                 .
- Matthew 5:3 .............c.................................................... . .                                                                                                               Deuteronomium I bij Rtdderbos ............................ H.H. 296 13
  Matthew 9:9-13 .... . ...................................................... G.V. 313 14
  Matthew 25 :40 .............................................................. G.V ..                                                                                                73.. 4       Esther bij Aalders.. .................................................. H.H.                   61     3
  Mark 10:46-52                                                      -.
                                                 ........... ................................................. G.V. `361 16                                                                        Expository Thots on the Gospels by  Ryle.....;;.....HJH.  345 15
  Luke 2:6-7 .................". ................................................. G.V. 121 6                                                                                                      Het Boek Leviticus bij ,Gispen.. .............................. H.H. 296 13
  Luke  2:40-52 ..................................................... ............... G.V. 281 12                                                                                                  Jacobus-Judas bij Grosheide  .en  1 Grejdanus........ H.H.                                     61     3
                     Continued ............................................................ G.L. 306 13
  Luke  23:46 ..................................................................... G-V.:  2 4 1   11                                                                                              Lang's Commentary: Exodus, Deut..................... H.H. 296 13
  John 20:11-17 ......................................................... r:..:..G.V. 289 13                                                                                                       Lucas bij Bavinck ....................... ............................. H.H.                    9     1
  Acts  13:32,  33 ..................... ..........................................G.L. 499 21                                                                                                     Profetische Vergezichten bij Overduin.. ..............H.H. 369 16
                  -Continued                                                                                                                                '
                                                     ............................................................ G.L. 520 22                                                                      The Brethren of the Common Life by Hyma....H.H. 250 11
  Romans  6:1-i4 ..... i...................................................... G.L. 354 15
                     Continued ................................... _. ....................... G:L.  3 7 9   1 6                                                                                    The Life Story of Dr. Lee S. Huizenga by  '
                     Continued ..........                                                     .                                              .............................$ IL. 2;: `:.I                      Lamberts ..........................................................H.H. 295 13
                    Continued                                .............................
                                                            i..                               ............................................... .                         . .                        Voorzienigheid Gods--De bij Berkhouwer.... ....... H.H.                                        61     3
  Romans 8:5-8 ............................................. i..................                                                                                                                   Wat is  Calvinistische~  Wijsbegeerte  ?' bij
 I- Corinthians  13:2 ..........................................................2;
                                                                                                                                                                        .  . 4%  2:
  I Corinthians 15:25 ...................................................... G.L. 330 14                                                                                                                        Spier.. .............................................................. H.H. 230 10
  II -Corinthians 5 :14, 15 ................................................ G.V. 409 18                                                                                                         `Brief Uit Chatham-Een ................................ D. Scheele 104                                  5
  II Corinthians 7:l ........................................................ G.V. -457 20                                                                                                       Brief van J. R. VanderWal-Een ............J. V&derWal 240 10
 Ephesians 4 :16 .............................................................. G.V; 505 22
  Philippians 1:9-11 ........................................................ G.L. 454 17                                                                                                                                                   `
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               -c-                          ^.                     :     -
  Hebrewis   10:19-25  (Continued from  Vol; 26) ........ .G..L. .. 18                                                                                                                           Galvm and the Reformation in Geneva ...........;G.M..O. 446 19
                     Continued ................... ......................................... G:L;                                                                                     41    f
                     Continued                                                                                                                                                                     C o n t i n u e d ....... ................................................
                                                     ................................*.. .................... `.)LLgJ                                                                                                                                                             cG.M.0.        470 20
                     Continued ........................................ ...........i........ . . .                                                                                    2s 4       Canadian Mission Activity .......................l.. ............;.JdH.                         95      4
                     Continued ....................................................... :..:.z$ 2 lli                                                                                             Chatham's Open Letter to Rev. H. Veldman, ........ H.V. 413 18  .-
                     Continued ..............................................................                                                                                               5    Chinese-   MBsion  Activity ..........................................J.H. 215                          9
                    Continued ............................................................ G.L. 166 7
                     Continued                                                                                                                                                                   Christian Reformed `Churchesin:  the Nether-
                                                     ............................................................ G.L. 187 8
                     Continued ............................................................ G.L. 211                                                                                        9              lands-The .................................................. ...... J.H.; 96                  4
                     Continued ............................................................ G.L. 257  .ll                                                                                        Church in China  &rries On-The ..................1:....J.H. 144                                         6
  II Peter `3:13 .................................................................. G.V. 169 8
                                                                                                                                                                   .                             Church Membership ............................................. .........J.H. 503 21
                                                                                                                                                                                                 Church Membership in His Fear ........................ H.C.H. 20 1  .-
                                         INDEX OF SUBJECTS TREATED                                                                                                                                         C o n t i n u e d
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              .......... ..?. ........................................ H.C.H.    43 2
                                                                                                   -A-                                                                                                     Continued ....... ............................................... H.C.H.              69      3
 Aanbieding Van Broeder K.  c'. Van Spronsen                                                                                                                                                               Continued ....................................................... H.C.H.              91' 4
        Aangenomen ........................ .:.......... J. R. .Kuivenhoven                                                                                                      423 18,                   Continued ....... .:............................................. H.C.H. 114                  5
                   Continued .................................... J. R. Kuivenhoven 449 -19                                                                                                                Continued ................................ .:.................... H.C.H. 189                  8
                   Continued .................................... J. R. Kuivenhoven 467` 20                                                                                                                Continued ....................................................... H.C.H. 213                  9
 About the Declaration ................................................ W.H. 263 11                                                                                                                        Continued ...................................................... H.C.H. 259 11
                   Continued ............................................................ W.H. 285 12'                                                                                                     Continued                                                /
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ....................................................... H.C.H. 308 13
 Al.so  "A Promise" in both Scripture and                                                                                                                                        .                         Continued ...................................................... HG.H.   3 3 2   1 4
                  ,Confession ......................... ................................... G.L, 399 17                                                                                                    Continued ..... .............x.. ................................ H:C.H. 357 15
 Among the Immigrants.. ......................... L:. ...W.H. -& A.C. 116                                                                                                                   5              Continued ....... ............................................... H.C.H. 381 16
                  Continued................................................ W.H. 6 A.C. 190 8                                                                                                              Continued .:.................................................... H.&H. 452 19
 Another Gospel ........................................ :........K. Feenstra 237 1 0                                                                                                            Church Membership in `the USA ........................... .&.H. 334 .14
 Another Reason .................. ........................................... H.H,  196 9                                                                                                       Church Merger With a Different Slant ................J.H.' 311 13
 Answer to Brother Flikkema .................................... H.H: 249 11                                                                                                                     Church Today--The ? .........: ..I.. ..................................... J.H. 384 16
 Answer to Brother Monsma ........................... i.. ........H.H. 295 13                                                                                                                    Church Union ................................................................. J.H. 383 16
 Antwoord  Aan Ds. J. Van  Realte ............. H. De Jong 287 12                                                                                                                                Cfassis  West's Overture to Synod ...................... .".....H.H. 318 14
 Antwoord  Aan Ds.  J, Van  Raaalte ............. H. De Jong 480 20                                                                                                                              "Common Gra.ce"--Rev.  Daane on ...... .; ..;. .............. . H.H. -340 15
 Arminian or Remonstrant Struggle after the Death                                                                                                                                                        ~Continued ............................................................ H.H. 364 I .16
                    of Arminius,  1609-The ...........9'........ 1% .... G.M.0,. 519  22                                                                                                                  Continued ......................... ..;................................ H.H, 388. I-`7

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                     S u b j e c t                                                                       Author Page No.                                     Subject                                                                            Author Page No.
                 Contributions:                                                                                                                 bays or Periods .............................................................H. .V. 299 13
                    A Letter from  N.eerlandia ............L. Wierenga, Sr. 261 11                                                                            Continued ..................... ..p....................................H. V. 321 14
                           Allso. "A Promise" in both Scripture and  ,Con-                                                                            Continued ................ ..?......................... .................H. V.  370 16
                                           ~f,essions ........................................................ G.L. 399 17                      Deelaratibn  a Mistake-The .................................... B.K. 153                                           7
            .              Another Gospel ........................................ K. Feenstra 237 10                                           Declaration Not  -a Mistake-The ............................ H.H. 148                                              7
                           Answer to A.  Haan ................................ A. J= IJtsma                                   66          3     Declaration of Principl'es-The ................................ H.H. 226 10
                           Antwoord  aaln  Breoder H. De Jong ........ A.-J. IJtsma 140                                                   6           .       Continued ............................................................. H. H. 244 11
                           Antwoord aan  Ds. J. Van' Raalte ............H. De Jong 287 12                                                                     Continued ............................................................. H. H. 268 12
                           Antwoord.  aan Ds. J. Van Raalte .....i.. ....H. De Jong 480 2 0 . t                                                              Continued ............................................................. H. H. 292 13
                           De Aanbieding  van ,Broeder  K. C. Van Spronsen                                                                                    Continued ............:........ ....................................... H.H. 316 14
       _                                  Aangenomen ................ ........ J. R. Kuivenhoven 423 18                                         Decla:rution  of Principles-The ...............+. ..... .G.M.O. 111                                                5
                                          Continued ............................J. R. Ku,ivenhoven 449 19                                       Declaration of Principles-Reply to Rev. Blankespoor                                                          .I
                                  C o n t i n u e d .......................... ..J. R.'Kuivenhdven                           467 20                           I.. ....-. ................................................... I....................H.H.-      4     1
                           De  Verklaring  Van  Gevoelen........A.   -Van Dischoven 202                                                   9                  Continued ............................................................ H.-H.                   2S 2
                           Een Brief Uit  Chatham ............................ D. Scheele 104. 5                                                Declkaaation-Our  Distinctiveness and the ............H.H. 510 22
                           Een Brief Van J. R.  VanderWaI....J.  R.  VanderWal  240 10                                                          Denying the Heritage of the Fathers ........ ............J. H. . 47                                                2
                           E'en Woord Van Dank .... ............................ Th. J. Hart                                  40 2              Does Archaeology confirm the Bible ........................J.H.                                             4s     2-
                           Disagreement With Rev. Petter ............... .K. Ezinga 237 10                                                      Doctrinal Preaching x............................................ ......... J.H.                            48 3
                           Disagreement with Rev. Vermeer .........:..B. Meelker 240 10                                                         Dr. Schilder and the Declaration ..............:::. ............H.H. 220 1 0
                           Further Observation on "Another Reason"                                                                                            Continued ............................................................ H.H. 1249  1 1
                                          .............................. .:...... I................. G. Ten Ebshof -328 14. Dying Christ-The                                                       -.;..
                                                                                                                                                                                        ............ ................... ..-1.. ...._.. ...... G.V. 241 11
                 Hokless  Weeding and Ecclesiastical Bifocals                                                                                                                                    `
                                                                                                                                                                                                   -EL-                               .
                                          ................................... ..................... G. Ten! Elshof -181.             S
                           Ingezonden ............................................... :A. J. IJtsma                           65     2         Editorials :-                                                                    .-
                           Ingezonden                                                                                                                                                                                                      .
                                                   .........................................J. R. VanderWal                  329 14            - A  `Tot'aIly  Different Sound .................................... H.H. 508 22
                           In Reply to Brother IJtsma .......... .; ....H. De  Jong                                           84          4           Another- Reason ...................................................... H.H. 196                              9
                           Letter from  Meno  Flikkemal ................M. Flikkema 239 1 0                                                           Answer to Brother Flikkema,                                                                H.H.
                                                                                                                                                                                                               ...............................             249' 11
                           Mnister's Study Fund Society .................................... 479 20                                                   Antwoord Aan Ds. Blankespoor ........................ ..H.H.                                          28     2
  .    .           . Need of the Declaration?
                             .       .       .    .     .    .     .    .     .    . ..... G. Ten Elshof 120                         ,p        . . . Binding `or Not @inding ........................ i.....i.. ........ H.H. 124                                  6
                           On the  Declaration ................................ A. H. Haan                                   24 1                     Chassis  West's Overture to Synod ..................... H..H. -318 14
                      .On the Need for  De'ciaration ....A. H. Van  Putten  303  18                                                                   `Correction Please .... ................................................ H:H. 364 16
                     . Our Calling to -Go Forward -............J. H. -Kortering 374 16                                                                Criticism and Its Answer ....................................... H.H.: 52                                    3
                           Reflections on the ArtScle  "Among the Immigrants"                                                                        .~Dr. Schilder and the Declaration ..... .I;....;:.........H.H. 220 10
                                           ......................................... ................. ....S. Reifsma 159            7                             Continued ...................................................... H.H. 249 11
                      Reflections on the Article  "Aeother  Reason"...G.T.E.  261  11                                                                 Individilalism .......................................................... H.H. 364 16
                      The Issues ...... .............................. .H. H. Windemulier 180                                        8                Let -Us Be Brotherly ,..............................................`H.H. 222 10
                      The Liberated Churches and We ............H. De Jong                                                   39      2                Misleading ................................................................ .H.H.  1 2 4                     6
                      The Need of the Declaration of Principles                                                                                       Nothing-Binding ...................................................... H.H.                           76     4 .
. . . . . . . . . . .~.i...................................................... N.  Yonker 352 15                                                      Questions and Reflections a.....................................H.H. 388 17
                      Twee Vragen  aan den Heer  HesseI  De Jong                                                       -.            -                Reply to Rev. BlanLespoor .:.............................. HX.                                         4     1
                                          .................................................Ds. J. Van Raalte 260 11                                   Rev. Daane on "Common  .Grace'" ........................H.H. 340 15
                      Uit Nederland .......................... .:...... Ds. J. Va,n Raalte 425 18                                                                  Continued ............*. .._ ..................................... H.H. 364 l6
                      Various Questions .................................... ..O. Monsma 287 12                                                                    Continued ......................i................................ H.H. 388 1 7
                      We Need the Declaration ................H. A. Van: Putten l78                                                  8                The Declaration of Principles .................... .......... .H.H. 226 10
                    . Where Do We Stand?.................................H. De tIong 286 12                                                                         Continued ....................... a.. ....... ............ .......H.H. ,244 11
                 Conversation for Pilgrims ........................................ J. H.                                    359 i5                                 Continued .:.................................. .................. H.H. - 268 12
                 Correction Please ........................................................ H. H.                            364 16                                 Continued .................................................... H.H. 292 13
                 Creation of the Spirit World.. .................................. HIV.                                      85      4                     C o n t i n u e d ....... .:............................................. H.H. 316 14
                                  Continued ..........I.. .............................. ;:...............H.V. 108 5                                  The Declaration Not a Mistake ........................ H.H. 148                                              7
                                  Continued ............................................................. H.V. 175  3                                 The Proposed Declaration of Principles ...........H.H. 172.                                                  8
                                  Continued ......................................................... ;..H.V. 203.                   9                The Rev. H. Veldman Suspended from Office H.H. 196                                                           9
                                  Continued ............ ................................................. H.V. 276 12                                Theological Opinions or the Confessions ............H.H.                                             100     5
                 `Creation-The Idea of-:. (see under Idea of Creation, etc.)                                                                          True and False Church........................................ H.H. 128                                       6
                 Creation Week-The .................................................. H.V. 371  16                                              - Unconditional Covenant ......................................... H.H. 126                                        6
                                  Continued ................................ L.. ........................ :H.V. 443 19                                What is the Truth .................c.. ....................... ....... H.H. 412 18
                                  .Continued ............................................ ,....: ..i.. ...... R.V. 464 20                             Why Not  Protes@ant Reformed ........................ H.V. 436 19
                      .           ,Continued   ............-........... ..................................... H.V. -488  21                                        Continued ..............t.. ..................................... .H.V. 460 20
                                  ,Continued ...... T..................................................... H.V. 515 22                                             Continued ...... i.. ...................................... ........H.V. 485 21
                 Creator--The  (See'Under Idea of Creation,  et&)                                               -                              . .                Continued ...................................................... H.V. 511 22
                 Criticism and Its Answer .........................-............:...:..H.H.                                  512     3         End of- Hamilton-The ...................... ..!. ......................H.V. `231 10
                                                                                                                                                              Continued .................................................... .........H.V. 251 11
                                                                                                                                               End of the Ages-The ................i.:............................. J.H. 143                                       6
                                                                  -?D&                                                                         ExplanationzAn .......................................................... ,G;V' 202                                 9
                                                                                                                                               Exposition of  A&s  13:32,  33 .....................................G.L... 499 21
                 David and Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .~........... . . . . . . :...G.M.O. 38-  i         -             ,Continued . ......... .....i ........................................... G.L... 520 22
                 David's  Pr&e  of the Lord Among the Heathen G.M.O.                                                         13      1         Exposition 0f.i Cor. 15 :25 .....I...............~ .........I,.....G*L.
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              Subject                                                                                                                           Author Page No.                                             Subject                                                                                                          -Author Page No.
 Exposition of Heb. 10:19-25  (Cont. from Vol, 26) G.L.                                                                                                                      18    1                                                                                    -L-  I
                Continued ............................................................ G.L.                                                                                  41    2
                Continued ............................... ............................. G.L.                                                                                 ~67 3            Let Us Be Brotherly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;...I... . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 222 10
               `Continued ..... ...............................I........................ G.L.                                                                                93    4         Letter-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  J.H.200         9
                Continued ...................... I.......... -. ........................... G;L.                                                                            118    5          Letter from -Menko  Flikkema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Fhkkema .239 1 0
                Continued .......... .:.............................. . .................G.L. .138                                                                                 6          Letter from INeerlandia-A  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. Wierenga, Sr. 261 11
                Continued ....... i.. .................................................. G.L. 166 7                                                                                           Liefde Van  Chris&-De   '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.  ,409 18
                Continued ........ ........................................... ..........G.L. 187                                                                                  8                                                       -            .-
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                Continued .... ................................................... . ..... G.L. 211 "9                                                                                                                                                                  -M-
                Continued .............................................. .................G.L. 257 11
 Exposition of Luke  2:40-52 ..............................-. ..... G.L.. 281 12                                                                                                              Meditations  :-
                Continued ............................................................ G.L. 306 13                                                                                                   A Prayer for Divine  Eqimination .. ................. :G.V. 385 13
 Expositions of Matt 5% .............................................. G L. 475 20                                                                                                                   At .the Evening of the Year ................................ G.V. 145 7
 Exposition of  P.hilippians  1:9-U .......... ::. ...............G.L. 454 19                                                                                                                        De Geboorte van den Zaligmaker .:. ..................... G.V. 121 6
 Exposition of Remans 6:1-14 .................................... .G.L. 354 15                                                                                                                       De Genezing van &.rtimeus, ................................ G.V. 361 16
               `Continued .:...... .............I ..... . ................................,G.L. 379 16                                                                                               De Liefde van Chrmtus ................. .I...................... G.V. 409 18                                                                                                      *
               Continued ......................................... ..- ............... G.L. 403 17                                                                                                   De Sprake Eens Worms .............I ......... .................G.V. 217 10
               lcontinued ............................................................ G.L. 429 18                                                                                                   De Vernieuwing Aller Dipgen ............................ G.V. 1                                                                                              6         9          8
                                                                                                                                                                                                     De  Waardij  van Christus' Werk ...................... ..G.V. 313 14
                                                                                                                                                                                                     De Wanadij van Het LijdenChristi .................... G.V. 265 12
                                                                                      -F-                                                                                                            De Wasdom des Lichaulms van Christus ............. G.V. 505 22
 Final Report-A ............................... i .................... . ...... M..S. 264 11                                                                                                         Een Vermaning tot  Reinpging ............................ `G.V. 457 20
 Flesh, and the Spirit-The ....................................... :G.V.                                                                                                    49     3                 Het Rechtvaardige Oordeel .............................. .:G.V.                                                                                    73 4
 Formosan Missions .......... . .............................. ::......... J.H. 359 15                                                                                                              I Love the Lord ................................ L'..................... G.V. 3 3 7   1 5
 From- Here and There .................................................J.H. 384 16                                                                                                                  Jehovah's Blessing .................................................. G.V.                                                                            `1                1-
 From the Synods ............................................... ;.:...... J.H. .503 21                                                                                                             My Redeemer Liveth .............................................. G.V. 433 19
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Rediculous Halting .................................................. G.V. 193 9
                                                                                      - G - - s                                                                                                      Sion is Zeer Lieflijk ........ .:....................................  G.V.                                                                        25 2
                                                                                                                                                                                        -           The Dying .Christ. ................................................. :G.V. 241 11
 Geboorte Van den  Zaligmaker-De . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.                                                                                      121     6                The Excellency of Love ........................................ G.V. 481 21'
 Genezing Visa Bartimeus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.                                                      361 `16                  The Flesh and the, Spirit .................................. :...G.V.                                                                               49- 3
 Giving                       Accounmt                                 -
                                                   . . . . . . . . . . . .* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..__...." . . . . ..__.............. A.C.- 304 13                                         The- Wonder of Satisfaction .............................. :..G.V.                                                                                  97 5
 Grim Contrast-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  HC.H. 46                                                   2                 Woman, Why Weepest  ,Thou  ?..............`.................  G.V. 289 13
                                                                                                                                                                                             Ministers' Study Fund Society ....................................                                                                                      479 20
                                                                                                                                                                                             Misleading .............................. .I:. .................................. H..H. 124 6
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                              I                                                                                                                                                              Mixed Marriages-A Question About .................... G.V. 479. 20
 Hamilton's Letter to All Our Co&stories .: . . . . . . . . . . H.V.                                                                                                       231 10            More Strange Reasonings ........................................ H.V. 422 18
 Healthy Attitude-A.......: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.                                                         -165    7         My. Redeemer Liveth .................................................. G.V. 433 19
 Heidelberg Catechism-Exposition of                                                                                                                                                                                                                      -.
                                      (.See under Triple Knowledge,  et&.)
 Here and There. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..a..  i . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H. 336 14                                                                 `-                                                     -N-                                      0
 Hoeless Weeding and Ecclesi&&cal Bifocals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -                                                                                                                 Need of the Declaration of Principles-The..N. Yonker 352 15
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                                                                                                                             G. Ten Elshbf 181 8                                             News from Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ..-. H.V. 130                                             6
                                                                                                                                                                                             Niet  ,Cns, 0 Heere! Niet Ons  (dont' from Vol. 26) G.V.  - 16                                                                                                            1
                                                                                       II-                                                                                                   Nineteen-twenty-four still B&ding in the Christian                                                                                                           .
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Reformed Churches . . . . . . . . . . . ..a.............................. J.H. 283 12                                                                                 .
 I Love tJie Lord .............................................. .1.... .... ...G.V. 337 15                                                                                                  No Double Track Theology . . . . . . . . ...) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.                                             310 1 3
 Ides-of ,Creation-The (cont. from Vol. 26) ..... .: .....H.V.                                                                                                                9 1            Nothing Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  H.H. ,76 4
              Continued ................................... ........ :...... :.I.......H.V.                                                                                 85 4
              Continued. ..................................................... -.......H.V. 108 5                                                                                                                                                                      --cyL                          -
              Cominued ........................................................... IH.V.                                                                                   175  8
              Continued ............................................................ {H.V. 203 9                                                                                             Once More-The Promise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.                                                   375 16
              Continued ............................................................ `H.V. 276 12                                                                                                              Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I.......... ;.......G.M.O. 395 17
In Everything ,Give  -Thanks ...................................... J.H.                                                                                                    95 4                       C o n t i n u e d. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ..-. ~
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            G.M.O. 425 18
In Good Company ..................................... ..-................J.H.                                                                                               95  ,4           Our Answer, to L. Van Huizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  z . . . . . . . H.V.                                                       511 22
Individualism ................................................................ H.H. 364  1 6                                                                                                 Our Calling to go Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  J. H. Kortering 374 16
Interlude-An ................................ ?.......................... H..C.H. 141 6                                                                                                      Our Distinctiveness and  theI Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . LHJH. 510 2 2
Issue Clearly Drawn-The .........................................H.V. 297. 13
Issues-The ........................................ H. H.  Windemuller                                                                                                     180  8                                                                                      -P-
                                                                                                                                                                                             Prayer for Divine Examination-A e................:  . . . . . . G.V. 385 17
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                                                             -                  _                                                                                                            Praying  ,to the Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.                                 350 15
Jehovah's Blessing __
                                                             . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .`............G.V.           1 1 President ,Truman's  Advice should not be Fol-
                                                                                                                                                                                                             lowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5.H;334 14
                                                                                      -IC-                                    -                                                              Proposed Declaration-The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :H:H. 172                                                             8 _
                                                                                                                                   1-                                                        Protestant Reformed ,Churches  in America . . . . . . ..J.H.                                                                                           143                6
Keeping Our. Balance . . . . . . . . ,......  <..: . .._....... ..Z... . . . . . . . . . ..i.J.H.. 215                                                                             9- Purpose of Creation-The (See under, Idea of ,Creation)


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               S u b j e c t                                                              Author Page No.                  S u b j e c t                                                                                          Author Page No.
                                                    -Q&-.---~                             ,_                r         True and False Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .H.IH. 128                        6
                                                                                                                      Twee Vragen aan den .-Heer Hessel  De Jong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,
     Questions:                                                                                                                    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ds.  J. Van Raalte 260 11
     Question About Mixed -Marr;ages-A ....... . ............G.V. 479 20
     Questions Concerning "Condition" ............0. Monsma 287 12                                                                                                                      -u-
     Questions  and Reflections ........................................ E?.H.  3 8 8   1 7                          Uit Nederland . . . . . . -.> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..-.. Ds. J. `Van Raalte 425 18
                                                    -k-                                                               Unconditional Covenant .: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.             126            6
                                                                                                                     Unaecessxry   a,nd Necessary Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H.                                        126             6
     Radio Broadossting from Southeast Iowa ................J.H. 283 12                                                                .
     Rather  -Striking   Viewpo~int-A ................................ J.H. `359 15                                                                                                 -v-
     Rechtvaardige Oordeel-Het .................................... ;G.V.                             73     4
     Reformation in the Netherlands and, the Netherlands                                                             Vain Repititions in, Prayer .................................... G.M.O. 301 13
I                Revolt--The ........................... z.. .................. G..M.O. 491 21                       Verklaring van Gevoelen-De ........ A. Van Dischoven 202                                                                                       9
     Reformed Witness-The ............................................ J.H. 384 16                                   Vermaning tot Reiniging ..... .l....................................  iG.V.                                                     457 20
     Reminiscent of the  Janssen  Controversy but Much                                                               V&nieuwing   ,Aller Dingen-De ........................... i.. (G.V.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ..               169            8
               Worse .......................................c.. ..................... .....J.H.       95     4       Verworpen Steen-De- .                                        . .                 .      .             .        .
                                                                                                                                                                                        .........................................G.-V. 496 21
     Reply to Rev. Blankespoor ...................................... H:H.                             4     1
     Rep@ on the Call for Help ............. ..! ..................... M.S.                           45     2                                                                     -W.&
     Rest of Brother `Ten Elshof's Article-The ...... ..G..M.O.                                      161     7
     Rev. Daane on "Common Grace"                                                                                    Wa&dij  `van Christus' Werk
                                                                  ............................ H.H. 340 15                                                                              _ .................................... G.V. 313 14
                Continued .............................................I..._.......... H.H. 364 16                   `Waardij van Het Lijden  Christi ............................. G.V. 265( 12
                `Continued ..................... ......................................                              Wasdom ,des Lichaams van ChriiStu-De
                                                                                           H.H. 388 17                                                                                                                 ............G.V. 505 22
     Rev.  H. Veldman  Suspended from Offi,ce-The  .;..H.H.                                                          We go to Church -(cont. from Vol. 26) ................M;G.
                                                                                                     196 9                                                                                                                                             22 `1
     Rev. Petter Has Arrived .................... ................... :G.M..O.                        62     3       We Need the Declaration. ........................................ H.V. 272 12
     Rev. Petter on  ,Church Factions                                                                                What is Coming to the Synods
                                                                  ........................:G.M.O. 111        5                                                                                   ............... .: 6..                   !J.H.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ...........               359 15
     Rev. Petter on Right Attitude in IControvemy  ..G.M.O.                                           88    4        What is the T,ruth ...................................... ................H.H. 412 18
                                                                                                                    - What is
     Rev. Petter Repeats' still another of his Accusa-                                                                                      the Truth ...........................................S. Reitsma 159                                                     7
                                                                                                                     What Then ?
               tions ..........................`................................... ,...G.M.O. 278,,~ 12                                            .............................................................. J.A.H. 325 14
                                                                                                                     Where do we Stand?
     Rev. Petter Replies ............................................... . G.M.O. 254 11                                                                                  ................................ Hi De Jong 286 12
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ............
     Rev. Petter's Fourth\ Instalment                                                                                Whither ? ...... . ................................................ .`...._I                                         J.H.
                                                                    ....................G.M.O. 135          6                                                                                                                                        384 16
                                                                                                                     Why Not Protestant Reformed ?
     Rev. Petter's Fifth Instalment ... ..................... G.M.O..16 2                                   7                                                                                         ............................ H.V. 436 20
     Rev. .Petteris Reply ........ _. ................................. ~G.ti.0.                     345 15 c                      ,Continued .......................................................... H.V. 460 20
                                                                                                                                   Continued                                                                                        .
     Rev. Petter's Sixth Instalment ............................ G.M.O. 182                                 8                                                  ......................................................... H.V. 485 21
                                                                                                                                   ,Continued
     Rev. Petter's Six and Seventh  Instalments .. ..G.M.O. 206                                             .9                                                 ............. ...............................................H.V. 511 .22
         ..                                                                                                          Woman, Why Weepest  Thou ?
                 Continued .................y.................................. G.M.O. 234 10                                                                                                   ..... i ........................... G.V. 289 13
                                                                                                                     Wonder-of Satisfaction-The
     Revised  Stands.rd Version of the Bible, .............:..J.H.                                   503 21.                                                                              .................. .:...............:G.V.                    97          5
                                                                                                                     Woord van Dank-Een
     Ridiculous Halting .s.. ...... .! ....................... ................... G.V. 193                 9                                                             ...... .I.......................... Th. J. Hart                              4 0 2
                                0                                                                                                                                                                                                   J. Howerzyl
                                              _     4s-                                                                                                                                          ?
     Senatorial Religions ...................... ........
                                                             .         .                                                                                                                  .G
                                                                            ..................... J.H. 408 17
     Signs  .of the Times .................................................... iJ:H. 408 17
     Sin in the Roman Catholic, Church ........................ J.H. 407 17
     Sion is Zeer Lieflijk .................................................. G.V. _ 25                     2
     Southern Presbyterian Church-The .... ................... .IJ.H.                                71     3                                             ,
     Sprake Eens -Worms-De .................................... ;...G.V. 217 10
     Strange Doings .......................................................... H.V.' 401 17                                                                                       ,-
     Suffering of Korean Christians-The ....................J.H. 311 13
     Synod, of ,1951-The .................................................... J:H. 431 18
                %ontinued .......................................................... J.H. 456 19
     ,Synod in His Fear ................................................ H.C.H. -405 17

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     Technically  correct, Yet  1rreguba.r ..................... H.C.H. 333 14
     The Excellency of Love .............................................G.V. 481 21
     Theological Opinions or the  Confes#sions ................H.H. 100                                     5
     Totally Different Sound-A ....- .............................. H.H. 508 22
     Triple Knowledge-The (cont. from Vol.-26)
         Lord's Day  ,29 ........................................................ HlH. --34 `2
      .  '          C o n t i n u e d
                                      ...................................................... H.H.    82     .4 .
         Lord's Day 30 ................................ :-......................... H.H. 102 a5
                    Continued  -
                                      ....................................................... H.H. 391 17
                    Continued :. ............................ ..--..........- ........ H.H. 417 18                                                                 9r
                    Continued ......................... ............................. H.H; 440 19


