   VO~UMB  XXVIII                                   SEPTEMBER   15, 1952  -  GRAND  RAPIDS,   MICHIGAN                        NUMBER  -22

                                                                            eigenlijk beeldspraak.           De  dingen van Gods  Konin-
                                                                            krijk zijn andersoortig dan de  dingen van  -de  aarde.
   ,        - M E D I T A T I O N .                                         En daarom gebruikt de Heere aardsche  dingen; aard-
                                                                            sche zaken, beelden, verhoudingen en  betrekkingen om
                    De  Goote   Gastheer                                    ons de  din&en  iran Zijn eeuwig, geestelijk Koninkrijk
                                                                            af te  malen. Zoo is het met  den.iGastheer  waarvan
                "Gij  ri,cht  de tafel ,Joe voor  mijn aangezicht, . te-    hier  sprake,`is;  tilswel van cle tafel die toegericht wordt
              genover mijne t.egenpartijders; gij maakt mijn hoofd          voor den gast. We zien hier  e6n tafel die-  beladen is
              vet met olie,  mijn.  beker is overvloeiende."                met kostelijke spijze. En dan  nag.  we1 `zoo,` dat die
                                                         -Psalm 23  :5      tafel vol geladen wordt voor het aangezicht van den
  David is de  dichter van dezen psalm. David, de                           gast die door den grooten Gastheer genood  werd..  Dus
herder. En  tech  schijnt het ons toe, dat David dezen                      ishier sprake van groot genot in het zien  toebqeiden
psalm niet gedicht  heeft tijdens zijn jeugd, tijdens  bet                  van de tafel  beladen .met  kostelij,ke  spijs  en- drank.
tijdvak in zijn leven, dat hij  de.schapen  vali zijn  Vader                fiu  zijn spijs en drank zeer sterk sprekende beelden.
weidde in Bethlehem Efratha.                 Deze  psal*m spreekt           S'terk  sprekend., want we  hepben er  me.e te  doen van
T;an rijpe ervaring, van stil vertrouwen.                  Uit dezen        den  eersten snik  bier op aarde tot den laatsten snik
lieflijken psalm  spre&kt  den  verzachtende   ilivloed van                 tx,  .wanneer we  onzen.&dem uitblazen en  sterven. Het
vele  jaren strijds en worsteling. Hier  spreekt geen                       heeft te  doen  meti ons leven, of beter  `no&  met. de in-
vurige jongeling,  doch  een ervaren wijze grijsaard.                       standhouding van ons  leven.%. We  hebben hier een
Wij zijn geneigd  om, het tijdvak veel later te plaatsen.                   beeld van  berzadiging,  laving vobr den hongerige en
De psalm  bevat  twee  deelen,  en beide  deelen pan  dea                   dorstige. die anders vergaan zou. En de man die hier
psalm  spreken  tot ons door beeldspraak. We zien den                       onthaalt wordt is een  vqdrukte. Dat zit in dat  woor,d
herder met zijn schapen, en den  gastheer met zijn  ge-                     "tegenpartijders".            Dat woord betekent in zijn  wor-
ilooden. De  beteekenis,  echtey is. dezelfde. We zien                      telr drukken,  ixi de engte drijven, ineenpersen. En
in  deze. Godsopenbaring de zorg en het weiden des                          de  idee is, dat men verkeeren  meet  ifi een plaats die
Herders  en het onthaal van den Gastheer, in beide  ge-                     te klein is voor ons. En dat wordt mij aangedaan door
vallen God die Zijn volk weldoet. De veilige stal en                        menschen die genoemd  worden met den naam van mijn
het huis des Heeren waar de  gasten  IGods .onthaald                        smart : ze zijn mijn in-een-drukkers, mijn afpersers,
worden zijn dezelfde en  hebbeti   de,zelfde  beteekenis.                   mijn in-de-engtedrijvers.           En nu  zegb  de tekst, dat
We luisteren  bier naar het  wond&e'%an  bet-Evangelie,                     onze Gastheer een tafel  toericht  yoor mij, ter  onder-
naar de  re,js door  den- dbod tot een leven bij  ,God tot                  houdifig van leven, van hetzelfde leven, dat die  onder-
in lengte van eeuwige dagen, we luisteren  bier naar                        drukker,s er  .uit  willen persen. En dat  r&t. alleen.
een zang  .die de zaligheid  van  ,Gods volk bezingt in                     Die Gastheer doet dat.  voor: mijn, aangezicht tegenvoor
liefelijke  klanken.  Last- ons luisteren naar dien  lief-                  mijne beulen. Dus  bet wordt dezen  gasten gegeven
lijkex zang, en laat ons door Gods genade  onzen blik                       dat ze  mogell-zien hoe al het  persen van  hunne beulen
werpen op den  ,Grooten Gastheer.                                           niet helpt, dat ik  niettegelistaande al hunne onderdruk- I
                                                                            king  tech onderhouden word. Want immers, eene
                            a  *  *--a                                      tafel wordt aangericht voor beide mijn aangezicht en
        Ge hebt al  gezien,, dat we- hier  ,weer te  doen  heb-             voor het aangezicht van mijn beulen. Tot zoover het
ben met beeldspraak;,. De geheele Heilige  Schrift is                       beeld;  En.tde  <erklaring, is gemakkelijk en  duidelijk.


  5 0 6                                         THE              STANDARD                        BEARER
                                                                                      ._
      De Gastheer  is Jehovah.  _                                         van den  Heiligen
                                                                                                 -      `Geest. Zoo  bij voorbeeld in de olie
      Die Zijn  vdlk altijd gedenkt,  die  aan' hen  denkt                van den gouden.  ko$lelaar in  deq tempel  IGods, zooals
 in  geaade; Zijn  trouw  aan  Isjrael nooit  gekq@~t.  '  ._De           d a t   verklaard  wordt+@or  Zache&den  profeet.   Z i e
  ga$t is het kind  van  ~Gd'd.*`"`~En de  .tegenpartijders,              hoofd&lk  4 .   E n   h e t   sle~~itel~oord  i n   dat  h o o f d s t u k
  de vijanden van  .het  kind van  `Ged, zijn de  `Satar(, de             is vers 6, waar staat  :. "Toen  antwoordde   hij  efi  sprak
  wereld en het booze  ~~@&ch`%lat-   (Gods kind  niet  ;dch              -tot  rnij, zeggende: Dit is het woord des Heeren tot
  omdraagt. En die drie  vijanden.zijn er altijd op uit                   Zerrubbabel,  zeggende: Niet door kracht  noch door
  om het  wederomgeborep  .begins&dood te  drukken. De                    ge,weld, maar door Mijnen Geest zal  bet. geschieden,
-- toegerichte  ta,_fel is het  leven;.  l&x?  '  eeilwige leven  Goor    zegt de Heere  lder heirscharen." En let  yel, dat dit
 :Gods volk.  En. in slechts  &n  &o&d,  dat is Jezus!                    antwoord geschiedde op de vraag van den  profeet,  wat
  Jezus is het leven  vo& de ware  .Kerk van Christus.                    tech dat  beeld-van  die olijftakken en van die olie  mocht
  Paulus  zal ons hier onderwijzen. Hij zegt in  Colles-                  beteekenen.            E n   h e t   a n t w o o r d   i s   h e t   k o r t   i s :   D a t
  senzen 3  :4 : "Wanneer nu  Christus   zal geopenbaard                  beeld beteekent  ,den Heiligen Geest waardoor de Heere
  zijn,  &ie  ens leven is, dan zult ook gij met Hem  ge-                 Zijn volk zal  tierlossen uit de ballingschap en  h@  zet-
  openbaard  worden in  heerlijkheid." jEn op een  andere                 ten zal wederom in het land  ,$er  vaderen. En zingt ge
 plaats zegt hij, dat wij, met  Christus  verborgen zijn                  .er niet van in  .den honderd-drie-en-dertigsten  psalm?
  in -God. Dus  Christus  Jezus is ons leven. En dat                      lOok  daar hoort ge van de olie die droop van Aaron's
 wordt ons hier  iti beeldspraak geschetst.  Lit er op,                   hoofid, en die zijn baard  en kleederzoom  ,doortrok.  . En
  dat die tafel met  spijz,e toegericht  wordt" door -den                 zooals ge  we1 weet beteekende  &e zalving van koning,
 IGastheer, door Jehovah. Dat ziet op de gansche  his-                    profeet en priester, dat de. Heilige Geest hen zou  ver-
 torie van het  kometi, lijden, sterven, en opstaan van                   vullen en doortrekken, zooals de olie  de?  zalving hun
 Jezus Christus. Die gekruiste Jezus  #Christus  is de                    hoofdhaar, baard en kleeding  doortrok. Wat een  pas-
 spijze en  drank-yoor  den verdrukten.' We zien die                      send beeld, want niet alleen is  `die olie welriekend,  ,doch
 duidelijke  sprake  elken keer als we Avondmaal des                      zij is  oak.  bran van  licht,  vafi het  licht des levens, des
 Heeren vieren. Dan zien we op den tafel  des Heeren                      levens van Gods trouwverbond. Luistert ook naar
  de  teekenen van Zijn sterven: de wijn die Zijn  harte-                 Jesaja die  zegt in hoofdstuk  6111: "De Geest des
 .bloed dat  voor ons vergoten is voorstelt; en het  ge-                  Heeren Heeren is  Op  mij, omdat de Heere mij gezalfd
 broken brood, dat ons  toeroept', dat  Christus  heilig                  heeft." En"  ZOO is de Heilige Geest de Werkmeester
 lichaam voor ons  vepbrijzeld werd. Eq dat is  imtiers                   van alle  licht en  leGen dat uit God is. En naar zijn
 ,.in  d e   geschiedenis  gebetircl  tegenover  m i j n e   weder- kwaliteit is dat leyen  ,des  Heiligen Geestes welriekend.
 partijders. Jezus is in  h&l  midden  gekomen voor ons,                  Het heeft de  il:nerlijke gave om te verblijden door
 in hun  midden  heeft, Hij  geleden `en is Hij gekruist,                 zijn welriekende geur.                    Het werkt -welgevallen,  ge-
 en in huq  midden is Hij  opgestaan.               E n   d e   wacht nieting. En daarom is de  zalving ook steeds beeld  ge-
 werden als dooden  ell  ,zijn naar Jeruzalem  gevlucht.                  weest van verblijding en van vreugde. En zoo zien
 iGod  bereidde onze tafel  voor hunlieder  aangezicht.                   ,we dat het oogpunt van dit gedeelte yan den tekst nog
 Do& het goede hoe hebben  ze nooit gezien,' konden                       steeds de  feestdisch  is. Hier  aan de  tafel, ontvangt
 Zij niet zien, want het was een geestelijk tafel en  e8n                 de gast de  olie en de zalving. Dus hij wordt vervuld
 geestelijke rijkdom van spijs en drank.                                  met den Heiligen Geest, den Geest des  leGens -Gods.
                                                                          En dan uit het oogpunt van vreugde en blijdschap.
                            *`
                                *.*  ;R                                   Het is de vreugde-olie  waarmee hij overgoten wordt.
                                                        -  ._
                                          *u                              .Daarom  past het  .loflied der vreugde bij den verbonds
                                                                          disch. En  w&t is nu de inhoud daarvan ? Waarover
      Gij  maakt mijn hoofd vet met  dlie!                                vepheugt  zich deze gast ? En het antwoord  ligt voor
                                                                          de hand. Hij is berheugd voor  IGods aangezicht  om-
      Dat is ook beeldspraak, en deze-beeldspraak brengt                  dat zijn diepste nooden vervuld zijn. We spraken
- ons  n%ar de Oostersche  landen met hunne  eigenaar-                                                                                                               ,
                                                                          een en andermaal van het leven, het  IeVen Gods. Nu
 di.ge gewoonten, zoo geheel anders dan bij ons  wester-
 lingen. In Oostersche  landen had men de gewoonte                        cdan, het eenigste wat een mensch eigenlijk  behoeft is
 Om  lbij een feestmaaltijd de  gasten met kobtelijke,  wel-              het leven Gods te-mogen hebben. Al het andere kan
 riekende zalfolie te overgieten, en  dati  iti dier mate,                hij  missen.  Doch als ge zeggen zoudt: ja,  maaT- men
' dat hunne kleederen  doortrokken  werden met den  over-                 moet  tech  oak wat  eten en  drinken hebben om hier op
 vloed van zalfolie die  over hen uitgegoten werd. Wel-                   aarde  te- leven, dan is het antwoord der  Sqhrift : Neen,
 nu, deze Gastheer doet dat ook met Zijn gast. En Hij                     ,dat is niet  Uw behoefte. Want  ge kunt zonder. Maar
  is niet karig want' we lezen, dat Hij zijn  hooft vet                   dan ga ik dood. Wel, dat is het  ergste niet.  ,Onze
 maakt met olie, Nu is olie in  Go+ Woord altijd beelb                    vaderen zijn ook vaak doodgegaan, en zij  stierven-
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j&St om der  wilie van  he; leven (Gods. Zij hidden' opdat   eij  den" beelde Zijns Zoons gelijkvormig zouden
 liever het eeuwige leven Gods dan `spijs en  drank&is                   zijn.  Toen  ktiam de tijd. En  toen al  <Gods volk in
 en  goed, bloedverwant en vriend. Nu dan,  -dat  leveti                 Adam.afviel, en in Adam  straf- en doemwaardig wer-
 Gods, dat leven des Heiligen"Geestes van Jezus  Chris-                  den,  toen  dacht God  aan Zijn gena, Zijn  trouw  aan
 tus wordt dezen gast hier geschonken op de  toebe-                      Israel nooit gekrenkt. En  toen kwam Jezus. Want  g
 r e i d e   t a f e l .                                                 het was des  Heeu'en voornemen geweest om alle  dingen
                                                                         in den  hemel en op- de aarde te vereenen in dien Zoon
                                                                         Zijns  wiJbehagtins.- En die Zoon kwam met  onuit-
                            *  *  *`-*                                   sprekelijke-zaligheid tot Zijn kerk. 0 ja, ze hebben
                                                                         het eerst niet begerepen. Ze dachten er niet  aan dat
                                                                         ze zelf door hun  schuld Zijn kroon vlochten en .Zijn
     De  castheer  veriult den ledige.                                   beker der smarten vulden.
     Deze man was geperst, leeg-geperst door zijn  beu-                     Doch later door den Heiligen Geest hebben ze het
 lea. Dat is de gedachte. Daar hebben de Satan, de                       verstaan.     En  toen hebben ze het gezein, en door den
 wereld en het booze vleesch het altijd op gemunt. E n                   Heiligen  XGeest hebben ze er jubelende van getuigd, dat
 sdaartegen  gaat  ,God te keer en  te weer.  Dat blijkt                 die Jezus tot hen kwam met een  overvloeienden  be-
 uit de beeldspraak: Mijn beker is overvloeiende. En                     ker, want Hij gaf hun`vergiffenis yan zonde in Zijri
 ~dat is weer beeldspraak, Oostersche beeldspraak.  Wan-                 bloed,  rechtvaardigmaking door het ingestorte geloof,
 neer een gastheer is  h&Oosten duidelijk  Wilde  mak&n,                 ,heiliging des levens door Zijn genade. Hij geeft hun
 ten eerste, dat . de gast o, zoo welkom was ; en, ten                   ,broeders  en zusters in den Heere. Hij  geef.t hun het
 `tweede, dat de gastheer, zijn gast ten gerieve, o zoo                  toevoorzicht op het Huis des  Vaders, een nieuwe aarde
 veel had om hem te  doen  .genieten, dan nam hij den                    en een nieuwen  hemel waarin gerechtigheid  wonen
 beker en goot  heh vol  m&t wijn,  vol, boordevol, en                   zal eeuwiglijk. En het heerlijkste van dien  overvloei-
 dan bleef die gastheer  door&henken, zoodat de  fon-                    enden beker is  we1  dit,.  dat Hij hen Gode  kocht door
 kelende wijn er  overheen liep en neerviel op den vloer.                Zijn bloed. We  mog.en God hebben tot  onzen Vader,
 Men gaf  aan het welkom uiting door den gast een  pier-                 onzen Herder en Behoeder.             En dat tot in  eeuwig--
 vloeienden beker te schenken. Ik denk, dat ge al  be-                   heid. Ik  hoor van een nieuw lied in de verten der
 gonnen zijt om het beeld te verklaren. Het is dan ook                   tijden.  - 0 ja,  bun beker is overvloeiende!
 over'duideljik.       Christus' bloed is voldoende, neen  ruim-                              ~.                        _ G.  Vos:
 schoots  voldoende,  genoeg voor  .millioenen   van  werel-                                             _I
                                                                                                    c
 den. De  rivier  `Gods   is. vol waters. -God is de  over-                                         -:-::
 vloeiende  Fontein aller.  goeden: Er zijn  onuitputte-
 lijke  rijkdommen Gods van leven, liefde,.  licht,  zalig-
 heir, genietingen van  *God, van Christus, van de
 Engelen  IGods, van de volmaakt rechtvaardigen  daar-                           Lord, hbw  -secure   iny conscience  was,
 lboven bij God. Als ik  a&ter de kerk staar, dan kom                                 And felt no inward dread !
 ik uit bij een nooit begonnen  eeuwigheid.> En ik  luis-                       .I was alive without the law,
                                                                                      And thought my sins were dead.
 ster met verrukking naar een  schoon   .lied, naar een
 lied der  lief,de. Gdd zingt Zijn eeuwig lied der liefde.                       My hopes of heaven were-firm and bright,
". En het voorwerp zijt gij, mijn broeder; het voorwerp                               But since the precept came
 zijt gij, mijn zuster, indien ge het  onuitsprekelijk                         With a convincing  pow? and light,
 voorrecht moogt  hebb& van in Gods handpalmen  ge-                                   I  find how vile I am.
_  graveer,d  te zijn. Luistert naar de editie  Gan Jeremia,
  in zijn  prof,etie  van hoofdstuk  31:3: "De Heere is                          My  guilt appear'd but small before,
                                                                                      Till terribly I saw,
  mij-verschenen van  verre .tijden. Ja, Ik heb'u  liefge-                       How perfect, holy, just, and pure
  had met  ee_ne eeuwige  lieffde,  ,daarom  heb Ik u  ge-                            Was  thine eternal law.
 t r o k k e n   m e t   goedertierenheid.`!  ,God  heeft  .van  eeu-
 wigheid af Zijn  iolk gekend  in de voorkennis der  lief-                       Then felt my soul the heavy load,
  de. Steeds zijn ze Zijn' vermaking geweest.  Lee@                                   My sins reviv'd again ;
  dat maar in Spreuken 8. En in die handpalmen van                               I had  pro+okId a dreadful God,
                                                                                      And all my  hypes were slain.
  God zag Hij hun beeld rbndom het  beeld  .van Jezus
 ichristus, dat  centraal in die  handpalmen  gegraveerd                         My God, I cry with  ev'ry  bre$th
  is. En het was het voornemen Gods om al die  kinde-                                 For grace and  pow? to save:
  ren van God in  den_tijd te confirmeeren naar het                              To break the yoke of sin and death           _
 beeld van dien Zoon.  Leest dat maar in  Romejnen 8,                                 And thus redeem the slave.


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       The Promise, According to the  Confessiotis . . .  1. . . . . . . . . . . . 508                                The whole doctrine of a conditional election is  re-
         Rev. H. Hoeksema                                                                                         fuled in Canons I, B, 2 and 3. There we read that the
THE  TRIPLE  KNOWLEDGE-                                                                                           true  doatrine concerning election  .tind reprobation hav-
    An Exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510.
           Rev. H. Hoeksema                                                                                       ing been explained, our fathers reject the errors of
                                                                                                                  those "who teach: That  the@ are various kinds of
IN  H I S   FEAR-
   _ An Interesting Answer to a. Vital Question (II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514                              election of God unto eternal life: the  one general and
          Rev. H. C. Hoeksema                                                                                     indefinite, the other. particular and definite; and that
VAN   BOEKEN-                                                                                                     ,ihe latter in  lxtrn is either incomplete, revocable,  non-
       De  Persoon  van  Christus  door  Prof.  dr.  Berkhotrwer  . . . . . .  .: .  516                          decisive  and conditional, or complete, irrevocable, de-
          Rev. H.: Hoeksema                                                               -.                      cisive and absolute.  iLikewise: that there is  on&  elec-
FROM  HOLY   WRIT-
       Exposition of I John 2r12-14  (II) -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._ 517                         t.ion unto. faith, and another unto salvation, so that
          Rev.  G. C. Lubbers                                                                                     election can be unto justifying faith,  withoat  being
       Strange Reasonings -. :. . . .`. . . .ii . . . . . . . . . . . ; . . . . . . . . . 5 19                    a decisive election unto salvation." It is not difficult
           Rev. G. M. Ophoff                                                                                      to understand what this means.              The Arminians
THE  DAY  OF  SHADOWS-.                                                          -^.               II             [aught that  .in  la+ instance salvation is after all de-
       The Child Struck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520         pendent upon the will of man, and that therefore al-
            Rev.  `G. M. Ophoff                                                                                   so election itself is conditional, contingent upon the,.
       God's  Loye  for Zion . . . .~. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
          Rev. G.  M. Ophoff                       _                                                              free- will of the sinner. God  chbse on the basis of
                                                                                                                  f&eseen faith, or at least, on the basis of the will to
PERISCOPE-
       Miscellania       :.................. . . . . . . . . ..*............... 523                               believe. By complete, irrevocable, decisive and ab-
          Rev. J. Howerzyl                                                                                        solute election the Arminians meant election unto
       INDEX to Volume 28 . . . . . . . . . . ;. . . . . . . . . . . . . .;. . . . . 524                          final salvation.    But this final salvation is always
          Rev. J. Howerzyl                                                                                        dependent upon the Will of man to persevere unto
                                                                                                             c    salvation. There, however, is also a revocable and in-
                                   -      - :           -      :            :                                     complete  &ection,  which is not decisive, as, for in-
                                                                                                                  stance, the election unto justifying faith.. When  G&d
    CLASSIS `EAST will meet in regular session D. V.                                                              in  33s eternal counsel has foreseen that a man is wil-
Wednesday, Oct. 1 at the First Church, Grand Rapids.
                             -.                                                                                   ling to believe, He chose him unto that justifying
                                                             D. Jonker,  Stattsd Clerk, faith. But even  that  faith depends for its continuance


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 upon the will of man. And therefore it is possible             ,Christ' upon  the cross, but is wholly imputed to the
 that  #God chose.  B. man unto justifying faith  without       unbelievers  themsel?es.       Ttie sin of unbelief is not
 choosing him unto final salvation.       Election, there-      God's  but man's,  (God is never the  author of sin. The
- fore, is conditional.' It is first of all contingent  up&i    sinn&, therefore, is himself responsible for his sin
 the will of man to believe. But even after God has             and unbelief. But this  doks by no means  imply1 that
 chosen the man that is willing to believe, election is         he is also responsible for the work of  ,God.  nes-
 still conditioned by the will of man to persevere. The         ponsibility for unbelief does certainly not imply abil-
 whole of  ele,ction, and therefore necessarily the whole       ity to  be!ieve. The unbeliever is incapable of faith
 of the way  .of salvation, is  condilbioned by the will of     without the grace of God. This is emphasized in Art.
 man.     `That is the meaning of article 2 of Chapter          `7, where we read: "But as many as  truly believe, and
 I, B.                                                          are delivered and saved from sin and destruction
     Of similar conditions article 3 speaks, in which the       through the death  .of Christ, are indebted for this be-
 Arminians teach : "That the good pleasure and pur-             nefit solely to the grace of  (God, given  Mem in Christ
 pose of God, of which Scripture makes mention in the           from everlasting, and not to  anjr merit of their own."
 doctrine of election, does not consist in this, that  ,God     And  ,this is further emphasized and interpreted in
 chose certain persons rather than others, but in this          Art. 8, where we read: "For  *his was the sovereign
 that he chose  obt of all possible conditions (among           counsel, and  most gracious will and purpose of  (God
 -which also  `the works of the law), or out of the whole       tihe Father, that the quickening and saving efficacy
 order of things,  ;the  &t of faith which from its  v'kry      of the most precious death of his Son should extend
nature is undeserving, as well as its incomplete obed-          to all the elect, for bestowing upon them alone the
 ience, as a condition of salvation." 0 yes, even the           gift of justifying  failt:h, thereby to bring them infal-
 Arminian will not deny that  faith  is. a gift of God.         libly to salvation: that is, it  &as the will of  IGod,  that-
 Nevertheless, faith is a condition  unto salvation. And        Christ by the blood of the cross, whereby he confirmed
 do not forget.  Ithat according to the Arminians the           the new covenant, should effectually  -redeem out of
 question whether  `God will bestow that gift of faith          ev8ry people, tribe, nation, and language, all those,
 upon anyone  does not in last instance depend `solely          and those only, who were from eternity chosen to sal-
 upon (God's sovereign election, but upon man's own             vation, and given to him by the Father; that he should
 .will. Whether a man will receive the gift. of faith           confer upon them faith, which together with  all the
 from God is itself  condi;Lioned by t.he question whether      other saving  gifrts of the Holy Spirit, he purchased
 he will use the light of nature  aright. These condi-          for them by his death  ; should purge them from  a!1
 tions remain  coaditions throughout the whole way              si'l, both original and actual, whether committed be-
 of salvation according to Arminianism.          Faith and      fore or after believing  ; and having faithfully pre-
 sanctification and  perserverance are all conditions           served them even to  .the end, should at last bring them
 which-man must fulfill in order to  r,each final salva-        free from  .every spot and blemish to  the enjoyment
 tion.    Man according  ;to the Arminians is always            of glory in his presence forever."
 first. Whether man shall enjoy any part of salva-                 Is  no.t this language very clear?
 tion  and shall finally persevere, depends on the ques-           Does it need any special interpretation to  ieduce
 tion  whefher he will receive faith to persevere. And          from this paragraph of the Canons the truth that
-the will to receive the faith to persevere is not of           the promise of God must needs  be.`unconditional, and
 God, but is after all of  man'+s own choosing. If he           is for the elect alone?
 does  no.t choose to receive faith to  -$ersevere,`he will        Is it not very evident from this part of the Canons
ilot receive it. Are we surprised that in spite of the          that God according to His promise leads the  eletit
 fac,t  t.hat the fathers of Dordrecht were well-acquain-       infallibly unto salvation ?
 ted with the term  con&ion, they  nevenbheless  care-             Schilder alleges that our conception of the promise
 fully avoided it in their confessions? And apart from          and of unconditional salvation must be explained
 any other considerations, it is certainly safe for us          from  otir supralapsarian conception.
 to follow their example and not to speak  of, conditions          Nothing can be farther  from::the truth.              '
 whatsoever. Art any rate, the promise of  ,God is for            I  want to  etiphasiie in this connection that the
 the elect  alon'e, and is strictly unconditional.              Confessions, and especially the Canons, are,  infralap-
     Now let us turn` to Canons II, 5-8.      To II, 5 we       sarian. And I am very willing to subscribe to this
`have  a!ready called your attention, and we  ,do not have      irifralapsarian  presen'ta;tion of the truth, although I
 to repeat what we said on this score. In Art. 6 it is          am personally convinced  .that the supralapsarian con-
 emphasized  that the Sin of impenitence and unbelief           ception of the  coutiel of  BGod is  certainly more Scrip-
 is not owing to  aqy  ipsufficiency in the sacrifice of        tural. Infra is supposed to be milder and soft& than


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  supra. At any rate, it pesents the historical view of
  >Gid's  counsel, while  su$a  emphisizes  the.`.i'deal  or-
  der in the counsel of  <God, as  !Scri&ui*e indeed also              :THJS  TRII3A3   KNOtiEDGE
  does very  oftten.-                           i
        Note now, that in  A&. 8, which we just  Qtioted,' An -&position Of The Heidelberg
  we certainly have a complete presentation of  the pro-'                                  ,I
mise `of God as it is in the decree of the Most High                                                Catechism
  and as it  i,s actually executed  ifi time;  Wheti in  A&:                                           PART III
  5 of the same chapter of the. Canons we read  .that                                    .OF  THANKFULNESS
  "the promise of the gospel  ia, that whosoever believetli'
  in Christ crucified shall not perish, but have everlas-                                        L o r d 's   D a y   3 3
  ting life," we may find in Art. 8 what is  the exact                              Qu. 88. Of  hoiv many parts doth the. true conver-
  scope` of this "whosoever believeth." That scope is                               sion of man c&isist  ?
  limi.ted to the elect  alone. For them alone, according                           A. Of  two parts; of the mortification of the old,
  ,to this article; Christ died. To them alone  the saving                          aed the quickening of the new man.
  efficacy of His death extends. Upon them alone He                                 Qu. 89. What is the mortification of  hhe  old man?
  loestows the gift of justifying faith. They alone  are_                           A. It is, a sincere sorrow of heart, that we have
  redeemed, and to them alone are given all the blessings                           provoked God by our  ,sjns; land more  and more to
                                                                                    hate and flee from them.
  of salvation. Upon them  alone -He confers  .the gift                             Qu. 90 What is the  quickkning  of the new man ?
  of justifying faith, together. with all the gifts of the                          A. It is a sincere joy of heart in  ,God,  through
H o l y   S p i r i t .    Them alone He purges from all sin,                       Christ,  an,d with love' and delight to live according
  both original and actual. Them alone He preserves                                 to the $11 of God in all gpod works.
   even unto the end. Them alone He leads unto final                                Qu. 91. But what are good works ?
                                                                                    A.  Only   t.hose which proceed from a true faith,
 , glory infallibly. That is, the promise of `God in  al!                           ar.e performed according to the  basv of God, and to
   its fulness, as presented in Art. 8 of the Canons, is for                        his glory; and not such as are founded on our imag-
   the elect, and for them alone.                                                   inations, or the  in;titution.s  of  m,ea.
        That is the reason why I emphasized, and wish to                                                      1.
   emphasize it once more, that you cannot and may not                       `VP
  isolate  ICanons II, 5 from  *he rest of  theXanons and                              Regeneration and Conversion
   fqom the rest of the Confessions. We  cam& and may                   This Lord's Day  sp&ks of two  Jl$tigi : first, of the
   not base .a definition of the promise upon one article. true conversion cf  `man  ; and secondly, of good works.
   of the  lConfessions alone, but must necessarily base                 The Heidelberg  ,Catechism   does not speak of  re-
   it upon the whole of the  -Three  Forms of Unity.                  geneqation as  preceeding conversion. Yet  -it evidently
        I must still  .call attention  ,to one of the most beau-      presupposes this first wonder of grace which Scripture
   tiful documents that is left us by our Reformed Fa-                ,calls the  reXbirth, or regeneration. For it defines  con-
   thers.                                                             Versioti  as  the  ,:mortification of the old, and the  quiek-
        But this must wait till the next installment of               ening of the new  r&i  ;'  ahd this presupposes that be-
   this series.                                                       fore conversion we `can speak of an old and a new man
                                                            1-I.H.    in the  Ch&tian.
                                                                         Conversion we would define as that work of God
                                                                      whereby the regenerated sinner, through the Spirit
                                                                      and Word, is efficaciously turned about from the way
                              -:::-                                   of sin to the way of righteousness, from the service
                                                                      of the devil. to the service of  Gsd, the fruit of which
                                                                      is that the converted sinner hates sin, eschews it, and
                                                                      fEees from  it, and walks in the  way of God's precepts
         "An American clerk in the Bible  .House at Istan-            with his  whole heart.
   bul, Turkey, and a Greek co-worker were arrested by                    Regeneration, therefore, is before conversion.
   Turkish. police on  charges of proselytism, according              And  it is well  tha.t we emphasize this in our day, and
   to reports received in Athens. They will be tried                  especially in our land, lest. we  l&e the truth of sal-
                                                                      vation by the sovereign grace of  ;God alone.                   The
   shortly for allegedly  aittempting to convert Moslems              preaching of today,, in as far as it is still evangelical,
   to. Christianity by distributing Turkish-language                  emphasizes conversion at the expense of  regeneratiqn.
   Bibles."-The  `Good  News Broadcaster,              .              Those who insist on presenting  salv&ion as contingent


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  upon* man's will usually do  no,t know what to make           many  different.,ways the Bible speaks of the rebirth,
  of `this new birth, even though they often speak of it.       or regeneration;  _  :iOf those that have received power
  Rebirth, as a new creation or as a resurrection from          to become the  so@ of God John-writes: "Which were
  the dead, has no place in their conception of salvation.      born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of
  Hence, in as far as they still speak of regeneration,         the will of man, but of  aGod." John  1:13. This im-
 . or of the new birth, they make of  it something that de-     plies nothing less than that the rebirth is that exclu-
  pends upon the will of the sinner. If man will only           sively divine work- whereby  IGod imparts His own  na-
  accept' Jesus Christ, he will be regenerated. Regen-          ,ture to us, so that we become like Him, as His sons.
  eration is offered to the sinner. The preacher pleads         To Nicodemus the Savior says : "Verily, verily, I say
  with him and begs  hi,m'Ito be regenerated. And it            unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see
  stands to reason that in' this way the truth  of,.regen-      the kingdom of God." John 3  :,3. This clearly teaches
  eration is entirely distorted. And therefore it is well       us that regeneration is the absolutely indispensible
  that in our discussion of conversion we clearly dis-          root of all spiritual activity.  ..Before a man is regen-
  tinguish it from  t.he work of grace that is called re-       erated, he  can do nothing positive in regard to the
  generation,  and. emphasize that regeneration is be-          spiritual things of the `kingdom of God. He cannot
  fore conversion.                                              even see that kingdom. In I Peter  I  :3 the apostle
     Regeneration is an altogether mysterious work              writes that we have been begotten again unto a lively
  of  God- in the heart of the sinner., It is the very first    hope through the resurrection of  .Jesus Christ from the
  fruit of the union of the soul  wit.h Christ. When a          dead, and' that too,  -according  to the abundant mercy
  branch of a  frui.t tree. is  graf.ted upon the trunk of      of God. Also this refers to the work of regeneration.
  another tree, the very first result of that organic           In vs. 23 of the same chapter we read that we are
  union is that the nature  and. life of  t.he tree begins      "born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorrup-
to impart itself to the in-grafted scion. The first re-         tible, by the word of  IGod which liveth and abideth for-
  sult is quite hid from our view. `It is a very mys-           ever." And the apostle continues in vss.  24,25: "For
  terious and hidden operation. In fact, for a time the         all flesh is as grass, and  all the glory of man as the
  very opposite may present itself to the observing eye         flower of grass. The grass  wi.thereth, and the flower
  of  ,t.he husbandman, It may appear as if  t.he ingrafted     thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord  en-
  shoot is dying because of the operation, and whatever         dureth forever. And this is the word which by the
  buds or sprouts appeared on it before the ingrafting          gospel is preached unto you." To this important pas-
  may `wither. Yet the fact is: if the grafting is  suc-        sage we must call your attention presently in'a sep-
  ,cessful, the ingrafted twig receives the beginning of        arate paragraph. Also the apostle  <John, as we  wonlcl
  a new life by virtue of its union with the trunk. The .expeet, in his epistles frequently speaks of the new
  same is true of the sinner that is principally united         birth. In his first epistle he frequently emphasizes
  with Christ. He is a branch of the wild tree of the           that believers are born of  IGod: "Whosoever is born
  guilty and corrupt human race. He has a wild na-              of  ,God doth not commit sin  ; for his seed remaineth in
  ture, and brings forth wild and corrupt fruit. And            him, and he cannot sin, because he `is born of God."
  Christ is that. new, cultivated trunk. He is the root         I John 3  :9. Again :  ,"If ye know that he is righteous,
  of a new tree. When that dead and wild- sinner is             ye know that everyone that doeth righteousness is
  united with, ingrafted into, Christ, the very first re-       born of him." I John 2  :29. And again : "We know
  sult of that union is that  the. new nature and life of       that he that is born of  IGod sinneth not." I John
  Christ is imparted -to that corrupt  sinner. Thus he          5 :18. Believers,  therefore,~are frequently called child-
  is principally renewed.     Spiritually he has become         ren of God, not only in the juridical sense, so that they
  another man. `Also this principal  change,.may not be-        are adopted to be sons of  `God, but also in the spiritual
  come at once apparent. It may not at once become              ethical sense of the word, according to which they
  evident that the sinner has changed from  deat.h into         partake of the divine nature and are conformed  aceor-
  life. And the sinner himself may not become  eon-             ding to the image of His Son. And this change is
  scious immediately of the profound change that is             so fundamental  t,hat one who is in Christ is called a
 wrought within him. He may not immediately come                new creation, II Cor. 5  :1'7, and that it is nothing less
 to repentance and conscious faith. But the fact is             than the resurrection from  .the dead: "Verily, verily,
 there. According to II  ,Cor. 5  :17, he is a new  erea-       I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when
 tion : old things are passed, away, behold, all things         the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of  <God: and
 have become new.                                               they that hear shall live." John 5  :25.
     ;Of this principal change of the sinner from death            `And now a word must be said about that important
 into life the Scriptures speak very frequently. In             passage of I Peter  1~2%25. It is evident that in this


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passage the apostle speaks of the whole work of re-         the life of regeneration is a heavenly life. His life
generation, from its mysterious beginning in the heart      is hid with Christ in  IGod. And when Christ shall
of the sinner to its growth into conscious activity.        appear, this -regenerated life of the  Christ.ian,  will
Nevertheless, it speaks of this work in its different       also appear with Him in heavenly glory.
stages, and mentions various factors or elements in             Secondly, the text  h I Pet.  1:23-25 speaks of the
the accomplishment of  ,this marvelous wonder of grace.     element. or` factor of the Word of God in  aeeomplish-
Especially to three elements the text calls attention:      ing the  wond,er  of regeneration in the heart of the
the seed, the living and abiding Word of God, and that      sinner. This Word of  ,God is in itself not the preach-
Word as it is preached in the congregation.                 ing of the Word: for the text informs us that it is
   First of all, there is the seed. We are born out         the living and abiding Word  .of God, and this is  eer-
of incorruptible seed, the apostle writes.     What is      tainly- not true of the preaching. The seed of regen-
a seed? It is the very first beginning of a new life.       eration which is implanted in the heart by the. Spirit
It is a beginning, not in the sense of  .the  commenee- of  IGod must, of course, develop into conscious ac-
ment of a series, as, for instance, a is the beginning      tivity.    And this development into  con&iousness
of the alphabet, but in the sense of a principle that       takes place through the living and abiding Word of
implies within itself the entire reality  ~that develops    God. An infant  -has everything that will ever devel-
from it. An acorn is the beginning of an oak. The           op into an adult, not only as far as the general talents
entire oak is already in principle in the acorn. The        arei concerned, such as the power' of intellect and
same is true of human seed. The whole child is in           the power of will, but even according as his special
`principle in the seed that is. implanted in the womb.      powers are concerned. Bach in the cradle undoubt-
Thus it. is also with the seed of regeneration:    it is    edly already possessed the musical talent that re-
the principle of a new life. It is the beginning of         vealed itself in him  in'later life. Einstein as an in-
the new man of the Christian. -This new life, that is       fant was already the great  .ma.thematician in prin-
implanted into the heart of the sinner in the moment        ciple. But in the cradle  .Baeh  .could not play the or-
of regeneration, is distinguished from the old life         gan, and Einstein could not solve mathematical  pro'
in a threefold way. First of all, it is distinguished       blems.. So, in general;-any infant has the power -of
by holiness and incorruptibility, in distinction from       speech, but it cannot yet actually speak. Thus it is
the natural life of the sinner, which is unholy and         also. with the seed of regeneration. Everything that
defiled. According to the principle of regeneration,        the Christian will ever be is already included in that
the Christian is wholly consecrated to  God.. In the        seed. Nevertheless, that seed must come to develop-
second place, this new life is distinguished from the       ment, and sprout into conscious activity,. before that
old life of the sinner in that it is immortal. By na-       regenerated infant can ever lay hold upon Christ
ture man is not immortal, but mortal, and  -that  too       and all His benefits. and before he can live an active,
according to body and soul. He has a mortal body            conscious Christian life.    This development of the
and a mortal soul. I understand very well that the          seed of regeneration takes place through the living
term immortality is used  philo,sophically  in the sense    and abiding Word of  `God. The Spirit and the Word
of everlasting existence; and in that sense, of course,     ever go together. There is no regeneration without.
man is immortal not only according to his  soul, but        the Spirit of God. The seed of regeneration is im-
also according to his body. But this is not the sense       planted by the Spirit. But neither is there ever any
which the term  imw~ortulity  has in  :.Scripture..  .In. regeneration without  ! the `living and abiding Word
the Bible the term  immorkditzj  does not mean ever-        of God. It is that Word of God that quickens, that
lasting existence, but. everlasting life. And man-by        causes the seed of regeneration to sprout into  eon-
nature does not have everlasting life,. neither  aceord-    scious  a.etivity. Or, if you wish, in regeneration the
ing to his body nor  according  .to his soul. For he is     faculty or the power  .of faith is given to and implan-
dead, dead in sin and misery. Under the curse of            ted in the heart of the elect. But it is through the
death he is.    And unless he is regenerated3 by the        efficacious  .and powerful, abiding and ever living Wora
ISpirit of  .God, he shall never see life. This immortal    of God that this power of faith develops into a con-
life is first, of all implanted into the heart of the       scious faith, whereby the soul lays hold upon Christ
elect sinner  w,hen he is regenerated by the Spirit of      and all His benefits. .
IGod. The life of regeneration, therefore is immortal.          Finally, there is the preaching of the Word. For
It is beyond death, and it can never die. Finally,          the apostle writes in  the- 25th verse of the passage
in distinction from the life of the natural man, the        which we quoted and which we are discussing at
life  OT`regeneration is heavenly. The natural man present : "And this is the word which by the gospel
has an earthly life. He is of the earth; earthly, But is preached unto you." It is the preaching of the  ._
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  Word that brings Christ to the consciousness of the              rupt, whence are the issues of life, his mind being
  sinner.. Without that preaching, therefore, there can            darkened, and his will being perverse, he hates that
  never be in this life an active and conscious laying hold        which is  good."and  loves the darkness rather than the.
  on  ,Christ  and on all the benefits of salvation. These. light. With respect to the gospel and the things of
  three elements,  therefore,-+the seed implanted by the           the kingdom of God, this, means that the natural man
  Spirit into the heart of the elect sinner, and the liv-          lacks the power,. the faculty,  to- discern them, He
  ing and abiding Word of  (God accompanying the work              has no eye to see, no ear to hear, no mind to discern,
  of the Spirit, and the preaching of the Word, through            no will to long and to choose for them. He cannot
  which means Christ  is,presented to the consciousness            accept  ,Christ.    And no amount of  .persuasion  can
  of the elect sinner,-are implied  .in the whole work             induce him to accept Him.  IHe cannot hunger and
  of grace which Scripture calls the new birth, or re-             thirst for righteousness.     And on the contrary, in
  generation.  ;Out of the seed, through the living and            that natural condition he will always react against
  abiding Word of God, and by the preaching of the                 the gospel, resist the Holy Spirit, and reject  t.he
  Word the whole work of regeneration is accomplish-               Christ of  [God. Unless a man be born again, he can
  ed. We understand, of course, that these distinctions            not see the kingdom of God.
  are logical, rather than temporal.         There certainly       Secondly, as we have already said, the natural
  is never an implanting of the seed of regeneration in-           man is of the earth,  eart.hly. He was taken from the
  to the heart of the elect sinner without the  aeeompani-         dust of the earth. And to the earth he is related and
  ment of the living-and abiding Word of God. And                  bound. This does not mean that Adam in the state
  alsthough  the preaching, especially in the case of small        of rectitude did not love  `God and seek His glory in
  infants,  occurs later, yet `also this element is indis-. all things. But it does imply that the heavenly things,
  pensable for the full development of the. life of the            those things which eye hath not seen and ear hath not
  rebirth.                                                         heard, neither have arisen in man's heart, were hid
      Regeneration, therefore, is that wonderful work              from him too. Hence, even if the natural man were
  of God's grace whereby  -the  simmer is raised from              not dead in sin, he is still earthly,- and would  have to
  spiritual death to  s&ritual `life in principle.                 receive new powers in order to discern the heavenly
      A few words of  explanat.ion  may still be added.            things of God's kingdom and  aspireafter  them.  .This
  First of all, regeneration reminds us forcibly that by           too is presupposed in regeneration. Let  us  remember
  virtue of his first  ,birth  man is dead. He is born dead.       that the new birth is resurrection. And resurrection
  For why should the Scriptures  .otherwise emphasize              is not a return to a former life, but the raising to a
  that he must be born again, or born for the' second              hiher and heavenly level of life.
  time, or born from above? How otherwise could  the-                 Thirdly, regeneration -is that  change--in  man that
  Bible speak of this first change of the sinner as re-            empowers him to see and to seek the kingdom of God.
  surrection? Besides, that the sinner is dead `in  sin- It is not the same as conversion, and must not be  eon-
  the Word of God abundantly testifies. Now, that                  fused with it. In conversion, man becomes active.
  the natural man is dead certainly does not mean.                 He begins to use the powers and faculties that are
  that he does not possess natural life, or that through           given him in regeneration. In conversion man be-
  sin he changed into a different being. That he lives             comes conscious of the new life.       He repents,  eon-
  in a natural sense is evident: for he moves about- in            fesses, turns about, hungers and thirsts after the
  this world, and accomplishes many mighty' works.                 bread-  andwater of life, believes and  embrazes Christ
  He thinks and wills, he plans and plots, he discovers            and  all His benefits, flees from sin and pursues after
  and invents, he sees and hears and speaks and acts               the good. But this is not the new birth itself. It is
  and re-acts upon the world about him. But spiritu-               the activity of the spiritually new-born babe. When'
  ally, that is, with relation to God and all that is good,        a `child is born, it is active. It cries and moves and
  he is dead. His whole nature is corrupt. Sin is not              kicks and seeks mother's breasts and takes nourish-
  a matter of the deed alone. If this were the case, he            ment. But the faculties and powers to do all these
  would need education and reformation. But spiritual              things it received  ,in its conception and birth. The
  death means that the very nature-of the sinner is cor-           same is true of the reborn sinner. He is a newborn
  rupt.  _ His mind is darkened, so that he cannot  dis-           babe in a spiritual sense.  ,He must' be born again
e e r n   t h e   g o o d . All his inclinations are impure and    before he can act. He must have eyes before he can
  defiled, so that he cannot have his delight in the good.         see. He must have ears before he can hear.  Hemust
  But spiritual death means still more. The sinner is              have a spiritual faculty before he can discern. He
  not a  .sto& and  a- block that is entirely passive,  in-. must have a new will before he can long' for and  ae-
  active. He is much worse. For his heart being  cor-              cept the things of the kingdom of God. He must have


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          the power of faith before he can believe. He must
          have the gift of repentance before he can repent. He                        IN.HIS  FEA-R
          must have the love of God in his heart before he can
          respond in love. And this power is instilled- into the
          heart of the sinner in the new birth,  ,or in regenera-             .  An.  Interest&  Answer to a  Vitai  Queition
          tion.    In regeneration God, by the efficacy of the                                           I I
          Spirit, as the Canons of Dordrecht have it, "opens the                 In the last issue of our magazine we reproduced
          closed, and softens the hardened heart, and  eircum-                and translated an article from the pen of  6. L. Struik,
          eises that which was uncircumcised, infuses new                     found in the  Reform&e  of June 21, 1952, on the sub-
          qualities into'the will, which though heretofore dead,              ject "What Now Is Really Christian Education?" The
          he quickens; from being evil, disobedient, and  refrae-             same writer also furnishes a brief answer to the ques-
     * tory; he renders it good, obedient, and pliable ; actu-                tion, "Is Christian Instruction Different in Every-
          ates and strengthens it, that like a good  tree? it may             thing  ?" Before offering our comments we present  '
          bring forth the fruits of good actions." Canons of                  also this article, since it deals with a closely related
          Dordrecht III, IV, 11. By grace are ye saved, through               question; Mr. Struik  wr.ites as follows (translation,
          faith, and that (that is, that power of faith) is not
          of yourselves  ; it is the gift of  #God.                           mine, H.  (C. H.) :
                                                               H. H.             "In order to answer this question it is first of all
                                                                              necessary to observe the following: In the begin-
                                       p-J--l                                 ning God placed man in the  pos&ion of the prophet,
                                                                              priest and king.       In. other words;  ,God clothed him
                                                                              with the threefold human office.
                    Thanks to my  ,God for ev'ry gift                            "This threefold human  o%ee he does no more pro-
                      His bounteous hands bestow;                             perly exercise, through the fall!
                    And thanks eternal for that  love-  I                        "But then came the second Adam, the second Man,
                      W,hence all those comforts flow.                        the-Christ, Who is the Anointed to the threefold  hu-
                                                                              man office, and restored man again, so that he can ful-
                   Forever let my grateful heart                         .    fill his human offlce, he; the  ChristIAIN,  who is the
                      His boundless grace adore  ;                            anointed to the `threefold human  office  ; so that he
                    Which gives abundant blessings now                        can work Christian work. That Christian working
                      And bids me hope for more.                    L
                                                               .              is therefore the restored, renewed human-work-of-the
                                                                              -beginning..
                               -:-:-                                             "Well then, because Christian work. is the  true-
                                                                              human work, we can say that good human building,
                    NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING                                  for example undertaken by Christians out of faith,
                                                                              is as well Christian building as genuine-human build-
             The Annual Meeting of the Reformed Free Pub'l.                   ing, and that building by Christians through faith
          Association will  be. held ,at the First Church, Thursday           is then as seen work not in every respect different
          evening, Sept. 25, at 8 o'clock. Reports are to be given            than the building-according-to-the-laws-pertinent-there
          and three' board members are to be chosen from the                  -to, by non-Christians. It therefore need not confuse
          followingnomination : Clarence Sehipper, Gerard  Byl-               us  `at all if an opponent tells us that Christian arith-
          sma, Henry Velthouse, (First Church)  ; J. King  (Cres-             metic after all is no different than the arithmetic of
          ton  ;  K.. Ezinga (Fourth)  .; and H. Brands, Jr.  (See-           nonChristians.  We may even grant this in part.
          .ond). Please reserve this date and plan to attend.                     "Christian instruction is indeed not different in
     *                                                 -T H E  B O A R D      every respect from the instruction of non-Christians,
                                                                              which is not out of faith.
                                -:-                                               "So we have answered the title-question.
                                                                                  "We did  t.his without using all kinds of  ,terms. In
                     SUBSCRIBERS!  -PLEASE NOTE                               our opinion it is better not to say, for example :  ,Christr
             Due to a considerable increase in the cost of print-             ian arithmetic is formally viewed, Christian  .arith-
          ing and also due to the  Sact that postal rates have                metic is viewed `in itself', Christian arithmetic is
          doubled during the past year the Board has decided                  viewed as a technical  fun&on, not in every respect
          that effective October 1st the subscription price of  The           different from the arithmetic of non-Christians,
      Standard  Bearer will be $4.00 per year.                                    "Remark I: We wanted in the previous article
                                       The Board of the R.F.P.A.              and in this one to say something about Christian  in-




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struction, and have shown that also with a subject             Howe&r this may be, it would indeed be worthwhile
like arithmetic the word #Christian fits quite properly.       to investigate the Christian school movement in the
But this still does not in any case  imljly that we should     Netherlands,  and to see whetlier our own  movemerit
now always speak of  IChristian arithmetic, Christian          could profit therefrom. The book (I take it the ref-
drawing, Christian handicraft. Just as little as we            erence is to a book) by Mr. A. Janse on "The Peculiar
speak of Christian bicycle riding, cooking, sewing,            ICharacter of the  ,Christian School" arouses one's in-
in our everyday life, so little should we do so with a         terest by its very title, and I wish it were available
view to arithmetic, drawing and handicraft. If only            here.
we hold `fast to the Christian character of all school-            Also Mr.  Struik's method of getting his point ac-
work against all kinds of heretical opinions  (,the  neu-      ross, with his  cl&er illustrations and homely ex-.
trality-ide`a  ; the error of those who dare not put arith-    amplei I find to be attractive.
metic  an! similar work in connection with our Christ-             In the second place, in as far  Z& the content of these
ian faith, and who only speak of  `the  hutian, the hu-        two brief  ar.t.icles is concerned, I would say that two
manity,  in  conn&tion with this kind of work  ; the           elements draw the  reader% attention immediately.
Romish way of connecting arithmetic, etc., with faith).        The first is the evident realization on the part of  the`
    "Remark II.  IConfer in connection with these two          writer that also those subjects which, we would say,
articles especially : A. Janse : The Peculiar Charac-          lie on the periphery as  far as  Chistian  instruction is
ter of the Christian School."                                  concerned, subjects such as arithmetic,  .must definite-
    Thus far the  trgkslation of Mr. Struik's second           ly  b& taught from the Christian viewpoint. One has
article.                                                       often heard it said that addition and subtraction are
Coninsent                                                      the same for the believer and. the unbeliever, and that
    We intend to offer just  a+ few brief comments,            therefore there is no need of Christian arithnietic; or
rather than a complete critique. The latter would ne-          that a subject and a predicate are the  sam'e in gram-
cessitate an entire restatement of our entire under-           mar for both the believer `and the  unbeliG+er, and that
standing of Christian instruction, and would involve           therefore there is no  need for Christian grammar in-
us in a repetition  .of much that has been written be-         struction.    Well, Mr.  Struik touches upon these very
fore both by the undersigned  and.iby others.  And             matters. .
this is neither the time nor the place for that.                  The second element which immediately draws one's
    In the first place, we find these articles interesting     atitention  is the author's clear recognition of the fact
and heart-warming for several  reasoris.         It is, of     that the difference  betiween Christian and  nonGhris-
course, always interesting to see  whak others  think          tian education does not hinge  upon incidentals. The
and- write concerning a subject, such as this, in which        entire emphasis in  ,the first article which we transla-
w,e are vitally interested;  Stich writings are interest-      ted is upon  phzcipal  differences. That arithmetic
ing, if for no other  reason, than for this one, that they     deals in problems dealing with the finances of the
serve  ito rekindle our thinking and. to sharpen our           church does not make it Christian arithmetic. That
discernment. But when the author  gives~ clear and             language books make use of the language of Scrip-
unmistakable, evidence that he is  concern&d  about            ture does not make them Christian language: books.
the basic principles of  ,Christian instruction and makes      Indeed, this point is well taken by Mr.  Strtiik,  &nd
a commendable attempt to delineate those principles,           can stand repeated emphasis. If we do not learn in
his writings are all the  morei  wort$y of attention.          our Christian  ir@ruction to build upon tlie  pririciples
They are like a refreshing shower on dry and thirsty           of Holy Scripture throughout, the instruction will be
soil.       Such healthy concern with the principles of        only incidentally Christian, will be sickly, Methodist-
Christian education is not .the common thing in our            ic, of no real value. And the Christian school move-
day, to put it mildly. And I find these articles all           ment will `and should die that can present nothing
the more interesting because they come from the  Neth-         b e t t e r .
qerlands.  (Often I have heard it said that Reformed              However; all the above does not mean that we a-
people in the Netherlands were much more `advanced             gree with all that has been written, nor-that we have
in their understanding of the principles of Christian          no  questjons; Perhaps all these matters could not be
instruction, and that the Christian schools in the             attended to in the space of two brief articles ; perhaps
Netherlands more nearly approached the ideal of be-            they could. Bu.t by way of negative criticism we wish
ing actually  -and thoroughly  Christian` in all their, in-    to say the following.
struction. Whether this is true or not, I have  never             In the first place, we would have expected a "cove-
been. in a position to judge. If the present articles          nant emphasis" in an article dealing with  so  impor-
are a sample, I would be inclined to honor the claim.          tant question as,  "Whsvt  is Really Christian Instruc-  `Y'


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tion?" Certainly this is fundamental, is it not? We                  second article? Why not make distinctions between
believe that on no other basis than upon that of the                 the formal and the material content of instruction,
truth that God establishes an eternal covenant of                    etc.? Questions were occasioned: do the Liberated
grace with us and with our children after us  c&n one.               and the Synodicals have the same differences in re-
even speak of Christian instruction.             Around this         gard to Christian schools as we and the Christian  .Re-
truth all  pf the principles of Christian education must             formed have ?
be oriented. And this is  true as well of the instruc-                  But my allotted space. is more  than used.
tion itself.                                                            And in conclusion let  me. say that I have enjoyed
       In the second place,  and in close connection with            this brief acquaintance with the  ,Christiafi  school
our first remark, I find it a very serious failure on                movement in the Netherlands. We would like to hear
the part of the writer when, in his definition of Chris-             more.
tian instruction, he niakes no mention of the educand,                                                             H. C. Hoeksema
                                                                                      _'
the covenant child. The fact that Christian instruc-                                         El  El  Ei  q   El
tion is designed for and directed to covenant child-
ren,  and not  uncjrtiumcised Philistines, is to  my mind                                   V A N   BOEtiEN
to a large extent determinative of the content of the
instruction, as well as the  method of the instruction.              D~oYE~SOON VAN CHRISTTJS, door= Prof. dr. G.  6. Be:!-
                                                                                 *. Uitgever J. H. Kok,  Ibmpen, Nederland,  Prqs
If this is left out  bf view, our Christian schools are               f.8.90.
in  d$anger  of becoming mission schools, and our tea-                hit boek van den thans,  oak bij ons in Amerika,
chers will be made over into missionaries to the hea-                meer en meer bekenden schrijver, die onlangs hier
then.                                                                geweest is,  -en die eene benoeming ontving van de
       In the third place, I find the failure to distin-             Theologische  tSchoo1 in Grand Rapids, waarvoor hij
guish  condsely between the so-called natural laws,                  echter bedankte, behoort tot de bekende serie  "Dogma-
ordinances of God in creation, and the spiritual, ethi-              tische  Studi&+." Het behandelt  d&n  Persoon van  Chris-
cal  commandtients of  `God, on the other hand, `a bit               tus, i.e. de twee naturen van den Middelaar in  eenig-
confusing.      Especially when we consider a formal                 heid des goddelijken Persoons, naar  Chalcedon on
,discipline,  such as arithmetic, this distinction is es-            vermengd en  onveranderd,  ongedeeld en ongescheiden.
sential. I think Mr.  Struik proceeds too from this                     Zooals in al de  deelen van de. serie "Dogmatische
distinction, although he does not express himself very               8tudiBn";: -die tot dusver verschenen, zoo biedt ook
clearly.                                                             hier Dr. Berkhouwer in hoofdzaak eene  kritisch-his-
  In close  connection? herewith I would  quesiion very              torische  studie,.ditmaal van het dogma aangaande den
much the introduction of "faith" as. an element in the               Persoon van  Christus  en Zijne twee naturen. Dit,
definition of Christian  ir&ruction. I do so, not. from              en niet de positieve  inhdud en ontwikkeling van het
the point of view of the question whether a Christian                dogma (het boek  _loopt overigens geheel in de ortho-
school teacher should be a believer. That is not open                dox  Gereformeerde. lijn) is m.i. het belangrijke van
to question. But I do so because  it.introduces  a sub-              deze studie,  bie ik met zeer  veel genot gelezen heb.
jective element  int0.a discussion of the objective  con-            Bezien uit het oogpunt van eene  puur  .dogmatische
tent~of  Christian instruction, If you  aik-for a  defini-' studie, had ik echter gaarne' gezien  eene nauwkeurige
$ion of  a'  ,Christian  telacher,.  or of `Christian  ,teaching,    omschrijving van de  begrippen  persoon en natuur,
I  think the  me$ion. of faith is in place. But I believe            iets, dat  eigenlijk te  verwachten was,  daar-dr.   Berk-
that in a definition of Christian instruction, from the              houwer immers ook het  recente  debat  Hepp-Vollenho-
point of yiew of  iI% content,  we must have an objec-               ven  bespreekt. Bovendien had ik in eene positieve  be-
tive standard, an objective principle, and not the  sub-             handeling van den  Persoon .van  Christus  ook gaarne
jectiye principle- of faith.       This is very `clear if. we        een ietwat breedere bespreking gezien van de  men-
#but bear in mind that ultimately I,-and this is true                schelijke natuur van Christus, de maagdelijke  geboor-
of any  man,-cannbt determine who  is. a believer and                te, de  "algeemeene menschelijke  natuur"  (Kuyper) , .
who is an unbeliever. I cannot discern the hypocri-                  de geboorte van  Christus   aan de  sljitse van de  ver-
tical Chistian school teacher, who teaches from the                  bonslijn  : Adam-Abraham-.Juda-D,avicl-Maria, etc.
subjective  ,prinCiple of unbelief. `And therefore, we                  Maar, zooals ik zeide, het boek is vooral  belang-
must have an objective principle, that of the antithe-               rijk- uit het oogpunt van eene  kritisch-historisbhe
sis, that of the truth-and-the-lie, according to the ob-             stadie.      Met  geiot heb ik het gelezen. Dr. Berk-  j
jective revelation of God in Holy Scripture.                         houwer schrijft in een helderen  stijl en is gemakke-
       `Other remarks might be made. F'or example, why               lijk te lezen.
the.  aversioii to the concise terms mentioned in the                    Hartelijk aanbevolen.                              H. H.


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                                   -                                                                   -
                                                                    study`pf the plan and content of this epistle does shed
 EFROM.HOLY   w&IT light  eon the question at hand, and, we are certain,
                                                                    allows:  us.  to-  .draw some rather  ca;reful  conch&ions.
                                                                           Wee stated, that John uses the phrase "I write"
                 E                                                      only in the first two chapters. There should be an
                      xposition of  1 John  2:12-14               . obvious reason for this limited usage. And I believe
                                   I I                              there is.           The reason for the limited usage of the
      In  our  former essay,  written by us on this Scrip-          phrase in question is to be sought in John's purpose.
  ture passage, we called attention  paiticulary to the             The "I write" of John can  alamost be paraphrased in
  term "children", "fathers" and "young men" in our                 "I call attention to". John emphatically calls the at-
  text.  -                                                          tention  02 the Church to some very definite and perti-
      We noticed, that these  tertis or  na'mes do not `in-         nent matters pertaining to her life and calling in the
  dicate three distinct classes of  men in the Church of            midst  .of the world. John would set certain matters
  ,Christ,  three age-level groups, but that they refer to          in very  bol,d relief before the attention of the  chdrcl?
  the one Church of Jesus Christ from a threefold as-               The "I write you" calls the brethren to stand at at-
  pect.       "Little children" is the term which indicates         tention.  '  _
  that the believers in `Christ are the objects of God's                   But why  otily  us& this "I call attention to" in the
  great Father love; it is the term of endearment. The              first two chapters of John?
  term "fathers" refers to  the Church from the point                    Evident.ly this question hinges for its answer on
of matured  staibility in Christ. -And, again, the name             the plan and scheme of the' Epistle of John.,  : Its plan
  "Young  Men" refers to the Church as to her being                 has been likened to that of the "spiral' stai$way".
  strong and valiant in the fight.                                  There seems to be a repetition in the book  dn an as-
      Thus we noticed. in our former article.                       cending scale, Now this helps  US get started, doesn't
      Now we stand before another  iliteresting and sig-            it?
  nificant question in the text under consideration.               b       In what way? .
      What is  ik ?                       \                                Well,' it means that the entire field of the pertinent
      It is: Why does John in our text repeat himself?              qukstions   and problems to be considered in this letter
  Twice he writes nearly the  same content in succession            are singled out by the apostle in these first two  chap-
  with only a very slight variation.           We ask why this      ;ters.           The problems are  layed opep to the Church.
  repetition? And also in  this connection we  .ask : why           The various matters to which the apostle calls atten-
  does  .John repeat the "I write" three times? Besides,            tion are clearly and emphatically `pointed out. This
  why does John change the tense of the verb from the               John does with the usage of  the phrase "I write" and
  present tense to  &he aorist point-action tense? He               "I wrote". When this has  once been accomplished,
  writes in' the second part of the text not "I write",             John  no longer uses  the term. It  js no longer  n'eces-
  but "I wrote".                                                    sary  from' here on. He simply treats the issues in
      To attempt to give a  satisfact.or$  answer to these          his  ,superb  apologetics so that he stops the mouths of
  iquestions `we must bear the following factors in mind.           liars  ; thetically he works out the issues, -placing the
      In the first place, we should not fail to notice the          testi.mony of  :God before  t&e Church. This latter
  fact,  that..John seemingly is very fond of tlie phrase           he does in the chapters 3-5. Hence, he does not say
  "I write"  (#wrote). He employs this phrase no less               in the latter three chapters. repeatedly, "I call. your
  than  eleyen (11) times in this second Chapter of his             atte&on to".             What he  kad called attention to in
  f i r s t   epistle. In chapter 1 John  emljloys  the term        chap.  l&2 he now will explain in detail, and that, `too,
  once  ,using the plural "we  write".  .~ It is  notetvorthy       in its ultimate ground  and meaning.
  that John so frequently uses this phrase.                                If  1 our  obserjations  concerning the general usage
      In  the second place,. we should notice that John             and limitation  of_ the phrase "I write you') is correct,
  does not seem to use this term without proper and due             then we are also in a position to notice the reason for
  discrimination. He does not use the term- haphazard-              the change of the tenses.  ,John changes from the
  ly, without plan and purpose; Fact is, that John uses             present to the-aorist (fact) tense; He never changes
  the term only in the  ,Chapters  1 and 2. The last three          from the aorist tense to the present tense, but always
  chapters do not reveal this usage  8 the phrase.                  from the present tense to the  abrist in  this epistle.
      We ask: why does John use this term with such                        Now what does this  chafige  of tense mean? Why
  limitation?                                                       does John thus write? Was this  merely for the sake
      The book of John does not give us an explicit                 of variety of expression, or does it fit in the pattern
  statement, of  i&s usage of  .terms.  However, a careful          of the emphatic  "I call your  gttention to"? If the lat-


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 -ter be the case then the usage of tense is intentional.              love of  IGod. I write vou "little children
                                                                                                   "                  ". I have  _
 It then fits in with the plan of emphatically setting                 written you. Let this truth fill your heart with joy.
 forth the dangers confronting the church, and  of.:the                Let no one take your crown. Keep that which is en-
 central purpose of John in addressing her.                            trusted to you.
  , We are convinced, that this change of tense is in-                     The church must stand in the faith and say: I
 tentional.                                                            know in whom I have believed. The believing church
    It then  comes down to  :this.            First John says the      has this knowledge. She  must- not let sin nor evil
 emphatic "I write you", that is, I call your sanctified               men rob her of her joys. Let  YOUE  joy--be full, real,
 attention to this and that particular matter of impor-                genuine and abiding. I call attention to what you
 tance in your life. This was already emphatic in the                  have. Notice :     I have just called your attention to
 present.tense  "I write you". But when John would                     it. [Gird up the loins of your mind, and be sober! I
 underscore this his writing- the church, then he says                 write you, fathers. I have written you. Take notice.
 "I wrote you". He does-then what a teacher  1 does,                   stand at attention !
 standing `before the class at the black-board, and with                   `The church must be vigilant in the battle. Young
 his crayon  he  wnclerscores  what he has just written.               men they are. But in the joy of the battle `their joy
 The aorist calls attention to the fact of the writing;                must be real: the song of Moses and the Lamb they
 the present tense is the calling attention itself.                    must sing from the great joy of their hearts. I write
        This change of tense `makes the matter doubly ur-              you,,.young men. Ye are strong!, `Continue  to. be so
 g e n t .                                                             and-your joy shall be full. Stand in your  qui  vive, be
        Now we. must much more "stand at attention"                    alerted to attention. I have written you.
 when John begins with the inspired apology for the                        ,Oh, church of God. take notice of all the things,
 faith of God.                                                         that I write you.
      I call your attention to the following  ,matter, says
 J o h n .   ( p r e s e n t   t e n s e )                                 It is for your life. your joy, your crown. No, it
        Notice, says John, that I have `called your atten-             is not simply a question of debate, a philosophy club.
 tion to these matters with a purpose.              (Aorist,  fact-    It is a question of glorying in the Lord's triumph over
 tense).                                                               `all His foes.  !Let no one deceive you.
        Thus we understand  &&matter of the tenses.                        Such is the passionate. note in this epistle.
        But does this this short survey of the matter of                   It is the watch-word from the King of His  <Church
 the usage of this -phrase have any practical meaning                  to His people in the front lines of the battle of faith,
 in our text? Will we thus understand our text better?                 the battle of all ages !
        Indeed, it will help us.                                           Hence, bind this word about your neck, write them
        In the first place, we will then not say with some,            upon the table of your hearts.
 (Calvin included) that the repetition in our text is                      I write  <you, I wrote you  because: because,' because
merely the interpolation (something added) of a copy-                  ye are of the party of the living God and can receive
 ist. We will believe that also this repetition belongs                this my Word.
 to the inspired Word of  aGod here in  .John. And we                      ,Stand in His love, little children.
 .will stand alerted and at attention. And we will ask:                    Be firm in the faith, fathers.
 why the repetition here,  .both  as" to the "I write you"                 And stand in the battle, and, having done all,
 and also of the reason given for writing the Church                   stand.
 from. the threefold  asl)ect. of Children, Fathers and
 Young Men ?                                                               Little  hhildren I write you.
        In the second place we will notice, that we must                   I have written you. Let no one deceive you.
 read all of John's  xwriting here in the light of the                     Simply say with the Savior: It is written, written,
 grand overall purpose as given in chapter  1:4, "and                  written. . . .
 these things we write unto you  that your joy may be                                                              6. Lubbers
f u l l . "
        The joy of whom must be made full?
        The joy of the Church must be made full.
        The Church must fully stand in the  conscidus-                           Let me, my Savior and my God,
 ness that they are the little children of  IGod, who will                          On sov'reign grace rely  ;
 be fully made like `unto God, for they shall see Him as
 He is. I call you to the spiritual attention of this                             And own `tis free, because  bestow"d
 glad fact. Do not  let* it go, Behold the manner of the                            On one so vile as I.


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                                                                                           Now this is Liberated. covenant theology. It is
                         Strange  Rammings                                 .            Heynsianism pure and simple. Rev. Kok, in order
                                                                                        to deal honestly with  us, should therefore have made
      Rev. Kok begins his article with a statement that                                 that opening sentence of his article to read' thus:
  reads  :                                                                                 One of the greatest objections that was raised in
              `iOne of the greatest objections that was                                 our midst against the covenant  concep!tion  most pre-
        raised in our midst against the covenant                                        valent amongst tlle  :Liberated in. the Netherlands and
        conception most prevalent amongst the Libe-                                     in Canada, was the  .fact  that they maintained that
        rated in the Netherlands and in Canada, was                                     the promise is  .unlto all the baptized head for head
        the fact  t.hat they maintained  that,every bap-                                and  soul  for soul in the sense that all (the baptized)
        tized child  in a certain sense  was a recipient                                receive by the  .promise the full-right to all the heav-
        of the covenant promise, and in the promise                                     enly riches of which the promise speaks,- thereby
        received  certain covenant rights,  and privi-                                  coming into the. objective possession' of them; and
        leges and therefore were subject to  certain                                    second  .that  t,hese riches are imparted unto as many
        covenant obligations" (Italics mine-O)                                          as believe with faith entering as a condition.
      Is this what the Liberated teach? this: that ev-                                     Now this is Liberated covenant theology, as I just
  ery baptized child in a  certain~sense  was the recipient                             proved by quoting Prof. Veenhqf.          Having toned
                                                                                        down this theology by the expressions: "in a certain
  of the covenant promise, and in the promise received                                  sense,"
  certain covenant rights . . . and were subject to cer-                                           and "certain covenant rights," and "certain
                                                                                        covenant obligations;" Rev. Kok continues :
  tain obligations? The Liberated whose booklets and
  pamph1et.s  dealing with  "c;hese points of  doctrine that                               "That this seems to have been the chief bone of
  I have read speak without exception the-language of                                   contention is evident from the following quotations
  Prof. Veenhof's "Appel". In the sentences of this                                     taken from the Standard Bearer, and from the Acts
  booklet the expressions "certain rights," and "cer-                                   of Synod of 1949.. . From the  .A&s of Synod 1949
  tain obligations," and "in a certain sense," do not                                   we quote the following as found in. the protest of
  occur. Take for example  this  stdtement from  Prof.. Rev. G. M. Ophoff . . . :
  Veenhof's pen (I translate-O) :                                                          "The reprobated in the covenant as well as  the
      "~~aptism  is a seal.                                                             elect objectively possess `Christ and all things with
      "What now is this baptism?                                                        Him. They too have the legal right to  t,his spiritual
      "What does God say, what does God do when He                                      good. This  right.is given them of God in the prom-
  baptizes ?                                                                            ise and sealed unto them,  the reprobated; by baptism."
      "This can be simply stated: baptism is a seal . . .                                  So I wrote. But I ask: do the expressions "cer-
      "Of  w h a t   i s   i t   a   s e a l ?   O n   w h a t   i s   b a p t i s m    tain covenant rights," and "in a certain, sense," and
  placed as a seal? On what does baptism as  a' seal                                    "centain covenant obligations," appear in this quo-
  depend ?                                                                              tation from my writing? They do not. Yet having
      "The truly Reformed with great unanimity an-                                      done quoting me, -Rev.  Kok could remark: "That
  swer : Baptism is a seal -upon the promise of God.                                    which I mean to emphasize is that  ifi the opinion  of
      "Thoroughly to understand this sentence, we must                                  R'ev.  Ophoff,mark  you well: in the opinion of Rev.
  know and always hold fast that it pleased God in His                                  Ophoff.--we may charge that the liberated teach a
  ,wonderful love to give to all the children of  the                                   damna.ble. heresy  -when they speak of  c&a&  Gghtb-
  believers His promise. . . ,He says to all those children                             (mark  you, certain  r;ghts,  as if I, Ophoff, had spo-
- head, for head,. day in and day  out, sincerely and up-                               ken of  certain  r&hts)  which also the reprobate have
  rightly: I am the Lord thy God. I establish, my                                       in the covenant."                 t
  covenant with you. I wash you of all your sins in                                        Now this I call outrageous. Having barely done
  the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ (objectively and                                   quoting me, with that quotation from my writing un-
  legally Prof. Veenhof means, not subjectively and                                     der his very  eye,?a  qudt,ation in which the expression
  actually).      My Holy  ,Spirit will dwell with you. In                              "certain.  rights" does. not at ail appear, Rev. Kok
  a word, I promise you (zeg  u toe) the full forgive-                                  could still tell his readers that my, our, objection to
  ness of sins and life everlasting : all the treasures                                 Liberated covenant theology was that it speaks of.
  and. riches that I will and can give to men." -Appel,                                 certtin rights  w,hich also the reprobated have in the
  page 5. I translated, "it pleased God." The  expres-                                  covenant, certain not in the sense  .of  s,ure but in the,
sion found in the Holland text of Prof.  Veenho:f's                                     sense of one or more things, here rights.        Fact is
  booklet is "Het heeft God goedgedacht,"  `(God thought                                that according to Liberated covenant theology the rep-
  it good."                                                                             robanted have all the rights in the covenant that the


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 elect have, and that  objectively  they possess as much , were taking a firm stand against Heynsianism, Rev.
 8s  ?the elect  ,do-with the elect they possess the full        Kok completely overturned his whole argument to the
 salvation of Christ.  -1 could fill the whole Standard effect that twenty one years ago and ever since, we
 Bearer with quotations from the sources proving this.           were addicted to that conditional theology of the
 It has been proved over and over. And it has also              Liberated.     For this theology is Heynsianism.
 been shown over and over just what they mean by                    Rev. Kok's article is so clumsily deceitful as to be
 "these rights". Yet Rev. Kok could also remark in              funny.
 this article of his : "and that without our carefully                                                     G. M. Ophoff
ascertaining just  wha't they mean when they (the
 Liberated) speak of these rights." Fact is that it
is crystal clear  w.hat they mean when. they speak of
 these .yights.    They, the  L$berated,  make it crystal
 clear by their sentences and by the illustrations  they
use.                                           .                      THE `&iY OF' SHADOWS
    But there is now this question finally. Just why
 did Rev. Kok tone down that Liberated covenant the-
ology by the expressions "certain rights," etc?                                     The Child Struck
    The reason is crystal clear. Consider that the                  "The child that is born shall surely die."
point Rev. Kok really argues in his article is that                 `These were the prophet's final words to the  pen-
twenty-one years ago liberated theology had the love            itent  David . He had sinned, and had sinned griev-
-of my heart and that I was teaching it in  The &%wukmd         iously.  In the words of the prophet, he had despised
Bearer.    And according to Rev. Kok it not only `had           the commandments of `the Lord to do evil in His sight.
the love of my  hear.t but the love -of the hearts of every     He had killed  -Uriah. the Hittite with the sword of
one of us. For he writes: "Neither should we  for- the Ammonites and had taken-the victim's wife to be
get that this writing of Rev. Ophoff has gone un-  his  wife
challenged for over twenty years." He has reference                 David was a believer, the  -object of God's  redeem-
to my statements on  Esau.3"  c.Hence, according to Rev.        ing love with all his sins forgiven for Christ's sake.
Kok we were Liberated in our covenant  t`heology  al-           But God's favor is not a license  f,or sin.  IOn the  con-
ready twenty one years ago and ever since-we all,               trary, "be ye holy, for I the Lord your  IGod am holy."
the entire membership of the total  .of  1 Protestant  Re-      Thus  it  is  written.
formed Churches. Would it be so strange if Rev.  Kok  .-
had also said something like this to the late Prof.                 True,  ,God beholds no sin in Jacob.. The thought
.Holwerda  when he was in the Netherlands? Consider             of His destroying His people for their sins is  abhorant
f.urther that, according to Rev. Kok, even while we `to  Hi,m. For He loves them in Christ in whose cross
were  .embracing that Liberated covenant theology and           He reconciled them to Himself. And -He cannot  for-
believing  in  it  wit-  al1  our  hearts,  we  were  at  once  get  them.  He  cannot  forsake  them.  For,  behold!
controverting Heynsianism;           That is what he says.      He has engraved them in the palms of His hands.
Let me quote him again..  .Here are his words: "We              They are ever before Him blameless and  ,holy in love.
should- remember. that the Rev.  ,G. M. Ophoff wrote                But how far is He from winking on this account
-these statements (on Esau) at the time when we as              at the corruption that in this life continues to dwell
Protestant Reformed -churches were taking a firm                in His people, that is, in their flesh. Just because He
stand against Heynsianism and Arminianism and our               so loves them, He  chastizes and scourges them, thus
controversy with the Christian Reformed churches                dealing with them as with sons, to correct them, to
was at its very zenith."        _        `-                     save their  souls  horn death, to make them partakers
    How now could Rev. Kok be expected to set forth             of His holiness in order that they may be conformed
Liberated covenant theology for what it really  is-             according to the image of His  Idear Son. And when
Heynsianism pure and simple-with him telling  .t,he             they depart from His ways and fall into grievous
readers. that at the time we were embracing this                sins, He makes them to reap in this life- what they
theology, we were at once controverting  Heynsianis'm?          sow-sow to  tghe flesh-His only purpose again being to
T.his would  ,be identical to `saying that we were at  advance  their  sa1vation.
once loving and embracing Heynsianism and hating,                   We see it so clearly in His dealings with David..
repudiating and  oppo.sing  it.       H o w   w o u l d   s u c h   a. "Now therefore," was the word of the  prophet to him,
statement have looked in print.  -Not good, certainly.          `"the sword shall never depart from thy house; because
`Of course, in saying that twenty-one years ago we              thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of  U-


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 riah the Hittite to'be thy wife. Thus saith the-lord,        <God  into an image made  likeunto  .corruptible man all
 behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine         on  account of what David had done. Or they will de--
 own house, and  I will take thy wives before  tlline         ny God's work in David.  ..They. will say that despite
 eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall           all his ostentation of piety he is the vilest. of men. They
 lie with thy wives in the sight of the sun. For thou         will say that there is nothing of true religion in him. .
 didst it secretly; but I will do this thing before all        Such blasphemies his deed will occasion.,
 Israel, and. before the sun."                                      And therefore the child must die.` For if the child
         What David had sown-sown to the flesh-adul-          lives, it will seem as if the Lord condones sin in  His.
 tery and murder-he will also be made to reap. His            worshippers and walks with them in their  .abomina-
 sins- will pay him wages in kind in this life. And if "Cons, and then the enemies of the  Lor,d would be blas-
 he. has sown in secret, under the cover of deceit and        pheming with a show of justice,. "Howbeit,  becaus?
.dissimulation, his reaping will be in the open. Those        by this deed thou hast given great occasion to  the,en-
 secret sins will thereby. be exposed to the sun and          emies of the Lord to blaspheme, the  chilo that  is'born
 to all Israel. And the Lord, who worketh all things          unto thee shall surely die."         .         .
 according to the counsel of His will, will do it through           But should the Lord' be visiting his sins unto this
 the agency of wicked men. And when all this evil             infant child ? The Lord's doing was just as His doings
 shall have come to pass, the fact of  .its  :having been.    are'always just. The child was not guiltless and sin-
 foretold  wills be the indisputable evidence that the        less; Though it had no,  a&al sin, yet, like every  child
 Lord did it `indeed.                                         it was by nature under the condemnation of Adam,
         David's response to this dole  comunication was,     wherefore also it was conceived and born `in sin.
 " I   h a v e   s i n n e d . "   .'                              Nathan departed  to his house. And soon after,
         Thus had Pharaoh also somewhat confessed, when       perhaps that same -day, "the Lord struck the child
 tine Lord had laid all His plagues upon the king's           that Uriah's wife bare unto David. And the child
 heart. Said he to Moses, "I have sinned this time:           was very sick."
 the Lord is righteous, and I'and my people are wick-              David's grief. was intense. He_ was naturely of a
 ed."                                                         kindly sympathetic nature. And he passionedly loved
         Remarkable was also the confession of Saul,  kiiig his children. And as to this child, the thought-that it
 of Israel, when it was told him that he had been re-         was being made to suffer because  of- his sins tore at  -
 jected from being king over Israel. Said he to Samuel,       his heart. During all the child's sickness he prayed
 "I have sinned."' And afterwards he "worshipged              for it and fasted and when night came he lay upon the
 the Lord."                                                   ground and sought not his couch. The elders in his
         But Pharoah's confession of sin and that of Saul     house would raise him up from the earth but all in
 were activated by a kind of self-love that is hatred. of     vain. They brought him food but he would not eat.
 God. They wept not for their sins but for- them-             "Who knows,",-@ spake in his heart, "that God will
 selves. Both Pharaoh and Saul were simply conced-            be gracious to me, that the child may live." But the
 ing a point, when they said, "I have sinned.`! Saul's        Lord had spoken clearly. "The child that is born to thee
 sole purpose was to induce Samuel to honor him be-           shall surely die." That was plainly the revelation of
 fore the elders and before Israel by turning again with      an unchangeable purpose of God to slay the child.
 him. And all that  Pharoah  was after was to get             Besides, it was necessary for the Lord's reputation
 Moses to pray for the removal of the hail and thun-          asholy God that the child die.. David's reaction there-
 der.      But David said simply, "I have sinned," and        fore, however understandable, was wrong. He was
here he put the period. As coming from him, it was            praying against  .God's counsel regarding his child.
the language of true contrition of heart that as to           Yet he meant not to impose his will upon the  .Lord.
 its  Gore is love of God. We know, this to be a fact         He really had no quarrel with  IGod. For when on the
from the reply of the Lord by the mouth of Nathan:            seventh day the child died, he arose from  the. earth,..
 "The  /Lord hath also put away thy sin. Thou shalt           washed, anointed himself, changed his -apparel, went
not die." `This was balm for the wounds that the Lord         to the house of  `God and  worshippecl.  Then he went
has inflicted.         For it was Gospel straight from the    to his own house and ate bread that at his request was
throne into David's heart.                                    s e t   b e f o r e   h i m .
     But by this deed David had given to the enemies               Not knowing that David had been wrestling with.
of the Lord great `occasion to blaspheme. They will           the Lord in futile prayer for  the,  : recovery of the
draw the Lord down to the level of carnal David  on           child and thus ascribing his tears and fasting solely
t,he ground that a deity is no better than his devotees.      to a great hurt of his soul, the servants  were-naturely
Thus they will change the glory  of, the incorruptible        perplexed by David's instant  changein posture, If


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the sickness `of the child had thus affected him, would            joy  and refreshment.      And mark, you, He  gsaved
not his grief, when he  shouId learn that the child was            them upon the palms of His  .hand, indelibly  inar.rib:ci
.dead, take on such added weight as  Do crush hi's spi-            them  up& the tablet of  His mind `and heart. You,
rit completely.? As a result, they had feared to tell              too,  have the'likeness of that boy of yours in the armed
him the worst.                                                     forces written in your heart, and, so it seems to you
        And so they said to him, "What  thing is this              now, indelibly so. It seems to you now that though
that thou hast done? Thou didst fast and weep for `you live to be a thousand years, time could not  re-
the child, while it was alive ; but when the child was             .move, blot out, efface that inscription. But be assured
head, thou didst  .rise  atid eat bread."                          that, as  thb centuries rolled by, the form and  @,sage
    David's apparent inconsistency seemed to annoy                 of that son, that now stands out so clearly  .in your
them. They  didnY want to accuse him of having                     mind, would grow/dimmer and dimmer and eventually
walked in  a vain show in  &der to make an impression,             fade altogether.. No, we do  nqt have our children en-
yet on the other hand, what is this that he has done?              graved in our hearts, indelibly inscribed.  Beut  ~God
    David helps  .his servants out of their dilemma. His           has.  - Zion, is indeed engraved on His palms, indelibly
conduct has a rational explanation. While the child                inscribed in His heart and mind, and all  eterni.ty can-
was yet alive, he fasted and wept. For he said, "Who               not remove, biot out that inscription. So He loves His
cari tell whether  *God will be gracious to me, that the           people. They may forget, yet will not I forget thee,
child may  live." But now that the child  .is dead,                ,behc$d, I have graven thee in the palms of my  hzncls,
whexefore should he fast? Can  lie thereby bring him               From everlasting was  Zion:before Him, His everlas-
back again? But he shall go to the child but the child             ting joy and  refr.eshment. For Zion, God's   chos...n
shall  not.  rettirn to him.     As coming `from an Old            people, are beautiful. `0, by nature, apart from Christ,
Testament saint, this is a remarkable statement. It                IGod's  people are  nof beautiful. By-nature they are
may be taken as an expression of David's firm belief               a people ugly, vile, guilty, condemnable and  illdeserv-
that in death we will be with the Lord. And he com-                ing, dead in trespasses and sins. It is certainly not
forts  himself with the  thought that he will go  to  the- ,God's people as they are by nature that  XIe graved in
child. It must  .mean that he believed the child to be             the palms of His hand, indelibly inscribed on His heart
saved. It  shows  what a firm hold the child had al-               and mind. How could it be?             Can the holy and the
ready taken on his affections.                                     righ.teous   #God delight in an ugly picture? Certainly
                                             G. M. Oph&            He cannot. Nay, it is not God's people as they are
                                                                   by  naLu.re that He.has eternally inscribed in His heart
                                                    -              and in His palms,  b& Zion, chosen and beloved in
                                                         `:
                    -nocDQ                   -                     Christ and' by virtue thereof everlastingly clothed
                                                                   with the righteousness of her Savior and thus guilt-
                                                                   less and holy in Christ. It is this Zion that is. God's
               Go&   L o v e   Fo, `Z i o n                        eternal delight. It is this Zion that  IGod has engraved
    Turning to. the prophetic discourse of Isaiah, the             in the palms of His hands, mark you once more,  inihe
49th  chapt,, the  thirteenth verse, we come upon.  this           palms of His hands.,  ;God, it is true, has no hands and
complaint of Zion,  3he church. "Zion said, the Lord               arms like a man. .But the hand of God is His power
hath forsakeen me,  and my Lord hath forgotten me."                to save  His. people and to  comblete their redemption.
As if this were posible !        To,  "Zion's,  complaint  ithe    God's people in this world, are saved to be sure, being
Lord returns a wonderfully consoling reply. -Says                  s&t in heaven with Christ. But though saved, they
the Lord to His people. "Can a woman forget her suck-              have but a small beginning of true obedience. But`
ing child, that she should not have compassion on  the             (God can and will realize in His people, in full, the
son of her womb?  Y.es,, they  may  farget, yet will I             fruits, of Christ's atonement and conform them whol-
not forget  the& Behold, I have graven thee upon the               ly according to `the likeness of Christ, thus according
palms of my hand.  Thjr walls are continually before               to the likeness  of that  image of Zion  [that He has en-
me."                                                               graved on the very palms of  -His hands.
                                                                                                              IG. M. Ophoff
   IGod so loved Zion, His people, that He graved.
their likeness'on the very palms of His hands, upon                                    El  El  q   El  ia
that side  of:His hands that always faces  Hilti, so that,
as. the text declares, His people  are.  always  before
Him, before His very eyes. Not once in all  eternity,.                CJLAISISIS  EA,ST will meet in regular session D. V.
does He take-His eyes off them. They. are before Him               Wednesday, Oct. 1 at the First Church, Grand Rapids.
                                                                                       a
ever. And the  ,beauty   of  their  lilceness  is  His  eternal                                   .D.  Jgnker,  Stated  C l e r k


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                                                            be confirmed as an order of the Lutheran Church and
           P E R I S C O P E                                promoted generally."-The Good News Broadcaster.
                                                              .  " `What is the most  -popular book in the New York
The  Rev. Henry  Daxhof                                     Library? a New York  `daily newspaper recently ask-
                                                            ed. Without hesitation, Ralph A. Beals, director of
   The above name is well-known  `to the readers of         the New York Public Library, answered, `The Bible.
this paper. He was for a number of years co-editor          Morning, afternoon and evening, until the main read-
of  4che Standard Bearer and  contri.buted regularly for    ing room of the central building closes, at 10 :00 p. m.,
those years to its content.                                 there is always a group immersed in various transla-  -
   We have received word that  .Rev. Danhof passed          tions~ and editions from our -extensive and notable
away July 26, 1952 at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Funer-           collection of the Holy Scriptures.'  "-G.N.B.  .
al services were conducted by two nephews of Rev.             0
Danhof, Rev. Ralph J. Danhof and Rev.. Lubbert Van
Dellen.    Rev. Knott of the Protestant Reformed
IChurch of Kalamazoo conducted graveside services.          can the Leopard Change' His Spots?
   It is not our purpose now to  r,eview history or to             Many of us still remember that during the last
express judgments.     ,Certainly however we will al-       World War the United States while actively allied
ways regret that this man of great talents and gifts        with Soviet Russia played down as much as possible
was not  &le to  expermthem in a sphere greater than the religious persecution `that was still violent in as
his own congregation and we regret as Protestant Re- -far as the church was still present in that land. In
formed people  that. we could not avail ourselves of        fact we remember how "Uncle Joe" was presented
these gifts.                                                as having relented in his attitude toward  .religion and
   For the information of our readers who may not           the press both religious and secular carried announce-
know the more recent history of Rev. Danhof we may          ments concerning the revival of the Russian  ,Orthodox
say that he returned with his church to the Christian       ,Churcli. Since the war it has become evident how-
Reformed denomination in the unusual position of            ever that Soviet Russia is fully `as atheistic and  anti-
emeritus minister. of  (Grace  IChristian Reformed          LChristian  as ever. .  ...  `I       .
IChurch alone. After a period in that church he and                Now, with  the western democracies playing  "foot-
I believe 18 families were again independent, whe-          sie" with Marshall  Ti,to of Yugoslavia, we are again
ther by withdrawal from  .Grace` Christian Reformed         being informed that Tito is not a true Communist and
Clhurch or dismissal I do not know. Since then he           above all there is an attempt to show that he is -not
has ministered to that small group meeting independ-` opposed to the cause of Christ.
ently. What will become of them I do not  ~know.                   From the same "Good News Broadcaster" we
   We express our sincere sympathy to Mrs. Danhof           quote the following to the contrary:
and the -four children. .                                          "Tit0 Warns Against Religion-Marshall Tito,
                      `
                       WV                                   Communist ruler of Yugoslavia,. has  war&d that the
                                          -
From Here and There.                                        Communists of Yugoslavia must not allow children
   According to the "`Good News- Broadcaster" quo-          to fall under  the influence of the churches.
ting a Religious News Service dispatch, the practice               "Stressing the viewpoint that `religion is super-
of individual  confmession  <was approved by the General    stition" in a speech to the Association of Yugoslav
Synod of the United Evangelical! Lutheran Church Schoolteachers, he declared, `We are not persecuting
in  <Germany.                                               religion  ; we are leaving this to the will of every indi-
 "By a large majority the `General Synod approved           vidual man. But we cannot allow that children who
a draft chapter of the new VELKD Church Order               have yet to -be formed should develop according to
which states that all pastors should be ready to hear       the desires of those who are on a completely different
confession and "give absolution.                            road from us.        In this respect we shall never give
   "Individual confession was abolished by the Evan-        in before any pressures from outside.'
gelical Lutheran Church in Germany around 1700. It                 Tito also called. on the teachers to prevent `your
was reintroduced formally in Bavaria in .the middle         people from  .being poisoned by religion.'
of the 19th century but was practiced only in isolated             `To this notice, the "Broadcaster  .adds the following
cases.                                                      &by way of comment, "This item does not reveal  any:
   "Revival of the practice had been approved earlier       thing new  .about Tito. It does  however,`tell us that he
by the synods. of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches         has not changed his mind. He is essentially a godless
of Hanover and Bavaria, which urged that confession Communist, who dislikes being under the yoke of


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  Stalin. He is not to be trusted any more than any            know with what authority  .he speaks. If his evalua-
  of the other Communists, whose goal, according to            tion is correct, we can rejoice.
  Whittaker Chambers, is to conquer the world. To
  them any means is justifiable in attaining the de-                                         -     -
  sired end."                                                  Humor
      While we would certainly not equate Christianity           "In Montgomery, Alabama, the Rev. Dallas  Hay-
  and democracy, it becomes increasingly evident that          good discovered that his car had been stripped of
  Marxian socialism especially as practiced by the Com-        headlights, battery,, tail lights, two tires and two
  munists is certainly ungodly and  antiChristian.             wheels.       He decided. to `devote his Sunday sermon to
                            WC13                               the subject of stealing.
                                                                  :
                                                                                             G\3M
  The Christian  Moverment
      Under the above title the "Southern Presbyterian         -@ore  o p p o s i t i o n
  Journal gives the following information: "There is               "Czecholovakia's Information Minister, Vaclav.
  a movement into the Church in South Korea such as            Kopecky, in speaking at a congress for `spreading po-
- has not been seen in40 years. Churches are crowded ;         litical and scientific knowledge,'  labelled churchgoers
  old buildings are being repaired and added to the new        as `traitors  .and simpletons.'
  and new-buildings are being erected. In, a city of                   "According to the  official Czech  ICommunist  ne.ws-
  about 30 thousand in S. W. Korea, two`beautiful new          paper, `Rude Pravo,' he said, `We shall not hesitate
  buildings. have been completed and paid for entirely         to punish these traitors and to trample on the  so-
  ,,by members of the congregations. Absolutely no             called sacred ground of churches and monasteries  .to
 Mission money has gone into either.  `One is  construe7       smoke them out of their dark holes.'
  ted entirely of granite and the other of brick trimmed               `(Society's task, Mr. Kopecky said, `is to lead these
  with granite.. Each will seat four or five hundred           simpletons and ignoramuses, who still believe in  ,God
 people on seats or about a thousand on the `floor.            and go to churches, out of the darkness by acquaint-
  (Most churches plan on moving the seats out when             ing  them with the progressive, materialistic philoso-
  special meetings are  b.eing held.)                          phy of Marx-Leninism.' "
      "A new church of 50 to a' 100  .can be started in al-            The- above is from the  `(Good News Broadcaster."
  most any village `of two hundred population when
  workers are available."  `One exception must be men-
  tioned here. It cannot be done in or near guerrilla          The Cross  of  Christ
  t e r r i t o r y .                                                  "He that  sltands benneath the cross and under-
      Many  contri,buting factors could be given to' ex-       stands the scene dares not sin  ; not because there is
  plain this -new interest in the gospel. The fact that        a hell beneath him or an angry  ,God above him, but
  religious liberty has obtained under the Republic            because Holiness is felt to reign there-the ground
  )Govermnent  is one. The  ,presence  of many Americans       on which he treads -is sacred, the glory of the Lord
  ,during the U.  S. occupation is another. Though all         encircles .him, and, like Moses, he must remove the
  of our G. I. `s didn't bear a good, Christian witness,       shoes from his feet, The Cross is a venerable spot. I
  some did, and the Koreans believe that Christianity          love to linger around it, not merely that I may read
  has made America the  power"she is; But by far the -my title to everlasting life, but that I may study the
  largest contributing factor is the faithful Christian        greatness  of:  <God. I use the term advisedly.  ,God
  witness borne by the faithful during the Red occupa-         never appears to be so truly great, so. intensely holy,
  tion, July, August and September,  1950.            _        as w-hen from the pure energy of principle, He gives
      "NonChristians  found them patriotic; steadfast          Himself, in the person of His Son, to die, rather than
  in their Christian faith, and trustworthy in their deal-     that -His character should be impugned. Who dares
  ing with others.        Many Christians looked death         prevaricate with moral distinctions and talk of death
  squarely in the face during these days and were unaf-        as a greater evil than dishonour, when God, the
  raid. More  Chris>tians  in proportion to numbers lost       mighty Maker, died rather than that truth and jus-
  their lives during those terrible days than any other        tice-should be compromised? Who at the foot of Cal-
  group.     Such testimony needed no explanation to           vary can pronounce sin to be a slight matter?"
  their fellow citizens . . .  "                                       Quoted from  ,James Henley Thornwell in "Torch
      The author of the above, from which we have quo-         and Trumpet".
  ted just a part, is not given and therefore we do not                                                     J; Howerzyl.


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                                                                                                                                                                   INDEX TO SUBJECTS -TREATED
                   I N D E X   T O   V O L U M E   X X V I I I                                                                              Subject                                                                                                    Author Page No.
                INDEX  OF  SCRIPTURE  PASSAGES   TREATED                                                                                                                                              - A-
             Text                                                                               Author Page No.
      Genesis 1:20-25 ..................... .I...................................... H.V.                        13         1     Absolute Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.               193            9
     Genesis 3:15 ..................................................-. .................. G.V. 478 20                             Apology-An . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4B.K.444 19
     Exodus  32:14 ........................................................... :G.M.O. 384 16                                     Appearing Unto  Slalvation . . . . ..I................................. C.H. 288 13
     Exodus  33:17 ............i.. ............................................. G.M,O. 432 18                                    Arminian `or Remonstrant' Struggle (Continued
             Continued                    ~
                                ............................................................ .G.M.O.            450 19                      from Volume.,27), . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.                     21            1
     Numbers  11:4b                                        . 
                                    .....................i.. ..............................G.M.O. 309 13                                   Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :f+l.O. $8 2
     Deuteronomy X:10,11 ..................... .l.,.......................... G.V.                               97         5              <Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  I.G.@j!,I;62          3
     Joshua 24:15b ................................................................. .G.V. 433 19                                          Continued, . . . . . . ..~......................................~.....~.*~~ `G.M.?. 88 4
     Job 1:21b,22 .................................................................... G.V. 457 20                                         Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,...,...,..,.:G.M.O. `li2                     5
     Psalm-  23:5 ................................ I.. ..................                            G.V.
                                                                                    ................            505 22                     Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . .b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JG.M.O.   136 6
     P.saIm 115 (Continued  from, Volume 27) ........ .G.V. 162                                                                  .Arminianism-A  Subtle Heresy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O., 407 17
            Continued ...................................................... ii.. ......G.V. 212                            ;
     Psalm  116                                                                                                                  Arminilanism  `and Justification by .Faith
                        ...................................................................... I.G.V. 253 11                                                                                                                            . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.ti.0. .382 16
            Continued ................... .;........................................... G.V. 279 12                              Article of Rev. De Jong-The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.                                                 201                9
            Continued ................................................................ G.V. 334 14
            Continued ................................................................ G.V. 347 15
            Continued ................................................................ G.V. 398. 17                                                                                                  -B-
     Psalm 117 .......................... ............................................... G.V., 424 18                           Back to School (Continued from Volume 27) ....HC.H.                                                                                              17  ,l
     Psalm  1118 ......................................................... i.e.;. ......... G.V. 471 20
            Continued                                                                                                            Continued
                                ................................................................. G.V. 492 21                                              .................................................................... H.C.H.                                            44 2
     Proverbs 4:18,19                                                                                                                     (Continued
                                    ........................................................... .IG.V.          361- 16                                               ............................................................ H..C.H.                                        66        3
    Proverbs 31:10-31 .......................................................... H.H. 372                                                 Continued
                                                                                                                       16                                             ............................................................ H.C.H.                                         91        4
    (Song   o f   S o l o m o n   1:4b................... ......................... G.V. 217 10                                  Battle of the  Ages-T,he ........................................... ,G.V, 478 20
    Isaiah 66 :2b ................................................................ :::..G.V.                    25      2        Belijdenis  Eens Geslagen-De ................................ .G.V. 457  2Ow
    Z.achariah  12 :lO ..................................................... i.. ....G.V. 241: 11
    Matthew 5
    Matthew  5 ?6
                        :g ................ ....................(...............................                                 Blessedness of Those That Hunger and Thirst
                                                                                                     1G.V.      49 3
                            .................................................................... G.L. 351 il5                             - T h e ....................................................................... :G.V.                                                   49        3
    Matthew  5:17-20 ........................................................... G.L. 140                               6        Blessings in Prospect                                                     t
                                                                                                                                                                                            .................=:. .........................
    Matth,ew  5 :21-26                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        G.V. 241 11
                                    ........................................................... .G.L. 165               7
-  M a t t h e w   5:27-30........................................................... iG.L. 191                         8        Book- Reviews:                                                                 i           '
    Matthew  5:31-32 ............................................................ G.L. 215                              9                  Algemeene  Op,enbaring--;De-door Dr.
    Matthew 5 :33-37 ............................................................ G.L. 238 10                                                        Berkhouwer .....................................................H.H.                                                         57 3
    Matthew 5 :38-42 ............:............................................... G.L. 256 11                                             Antithesis of  Syn'thesis, door Dr. Van  der
    Matthew 5 ~43-48 ............................................................ G.L. 277 12
           Continued                                                                                                                                W!aal
                                ..........................................................                                                                           ....... .
                                                                                               5.. ...G.L. 304 13                                                                 ................................................... .....H.H. -109                                        5
    Matthew  13:3-9 ............................................................ G.V. 481 21                                              Calvinisme  en Existentie  Philosophic,  door
    Matthew 16:17+19 ........................................................ H.H.                              32     2                             Dr. Spier ........................................................ H.H. 299 13
    Matthew 18:15-18 ........................................................ H.H.                              32     2                  Ghri&us  in  Zijn   Lij,den II, door Dr.
    Luke-l  :77-79 .................................................................... G.V. 121                       6                            Schilder ................................................ .; ........ H.H.                                                    12        1
    Luke 12:16-21 ............................. -................................. G.V.                                                   De  Persoon Van Christus, door Prof.,  dr.
    Luke  1x6:9 ......................................................................... H.H. 36; 1:
    Luke 17:34-37                                                                                                                                    G. .C. Berkhouwer
                               ................................................................                                                                                                      ........................................ H.H:
                                                                                                     `G.V.      47     2                                                                                                                                                     5116 22
    Luke 17:34-37                                                                                                                         Exodus, door D.r. H. Gispen ................................ H.H.
                               ................................................................                                                                                                                                                                              159            7
                                                                                                     G.V. 337 15
    Luke 19 :l-10 ...........: -....................................................... G.L.                    93     4                  Expository Thoughts on the Gospel                                                                                    "i            .
    Luke  24:29 ....... ............................... c,. ............i..............G.V. 313 14                                                  According to John, by Bishop Ryle ........ H.H.                                                                               11 1
    John S:l-11 .................................................................... .G.L. 117                         5                  Feed My Lambs, by Vriesen ............................ H.H. 252 11
   John  8:12 ....................................... ................................. G.V. 169                       8
   John  18:4-9                                                                                                                    SGereformeerden  Waarheen,  ,door  A. Bowman
                           .....................................................................G.L. 327 14
   John 19 :,37 ...................................................................... G.V. 241 11                                                *.a$  .Thys Booy ............................................ H.H.                                                              12  .l
   Acts 2:4a,13 ................................................ I:. .................lG.V. 385 17                                       Herleefd Verleden ...................... .: ..:. ......... ........... .H.H. 109                                                                   5
   .Acts.l3:32-33ff (Continued from Volume 27) ...... .:G.L.                                                    19     1                  Het  Chris?Eelijk  Leven in de Maatschappij,
           #Continued .......................................................... .....:G.L.                     42     2                            door Prof.`Brillenburg-!Wurth
           Continued                                                                                                                                                                                                             .................... H.H. 253 - 11
                               .......................................................... ...... G:L.           68     3
   Remans   8:1,2 ..................................... i.. ........ ................. G.V:                     70     3                 Het  .Christelijk  Leven in Huwelijk en Gezin
   Romans 8:18-30 ............................................................ G.L. 446 19                                                          door Prof. Brillenburg-Wurth .................. H.H. . 12                                                                               1
   Remans 9:18-20 .......................................................... .:G.V. 193                                9                 Lange'.s Commentaries-Isaiah ....................... JH.H. 158 7
   II CorinthianIs 12:3b ......................................................G.V. `3,85 17                                             Lange's  ~Commentaries-Jeremia,h-Lamen-
   Philippians. 2:1-4 ............................................................ .G.L. 375 1~6
          Continued ................................................................. G.L. 4 0 0   17                                              tations .............................................................. H.H. 252 11
   Philippians 2:14-16a .................................................... G.V.                               73. 4                    Lange's Commentaries-Kings-Esther ............H.H.                                                                                       11        1
   I Timothy  2:15 .................................... ........................ H.H. 368 16                                             Lange's Commentaries-Psalms ........................ H.H.                                                                                11        1
   Hebrews 932813 ...................................... <.,....................... .lC.H. 288 13                                        Lange's  ,Commentaries-Proverbs+Song  of
   Hebrews  13:7,8 ............................................................ G.V. 145 7
   James 3313-18 ................................................................ G.V.. 357 15                                                     Solomon ................ ................f.. ....................... H.H. 109  ,5
   I Peter 5:5b ................................ .I.................................. G.V. 265 12                                        Oneness with Christ, by W. R. Nichohson ........ H.H.                                                                                    34        2
   I  /John 2:12-14 ................................................................ G.L. 468 20                                         Paulus  en de  Antieke   ,Cultuurwereld,  door
          Continued ............................................................ :s.:G.L. 517 22                                                   Dr. Aalders ...... .........A ................................... H.H. 159                                                               7
   I John 3:1-3 ........................................... i....................GM.0. 262 11
   Revelation  1:7                     ....... ..,....................................................:::g.;                             Questions Children  A?k, by Korfker ........... ,H.H. 158                                                                                          7
   Revelation  3 :29 ................. .......
                                               . .           ..~.....~.....................~ ..... , .                                   So You Want to  ,Speak,  by Lee ....... .............H..H. 299 13 ..


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              S u b j e c t
      1                                                                                                                               Author Page No.                        Subject                                                                       Author Page No.
              Thine is the Kingdom, by Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs.                                                                                                     -E-
                                                                                                                         H. C. Hoeksema               58         3
              Tusschen Sterven en  Qpstanding,  by Prof.                                                                                                               Editorials,:                                                                                        h
.                    K. Dijk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.H. 299 13                A "Teachers" Impressions ................................ H.V. 316 14
                                                                                                                                                                                     Continued ........................................................ H.V. 340 15
                                                                                    -c-                                                                                      An Evil Piece of Work .................................... H..H.                                    4         1
      Can a Leopard Change His Spots ........ ;.................J.H. -524 22                                                                                                 By All Means  Let!s Keep the Record
                                                                                                                                                                               ._
      Child Struck-The .................................................... G.M.O. 520 22                                                                                               `Straight .......................................................... H.H. 199                      9
      Christian Education (See under Education etc.)                                                                                                                                    Conrtinued ........................................................ H.H. `247 11
      Christian Instruction-What is It  ? .................... H.C.H. 490 21                                                                                                 Classis,  January 9,  1952-Im~pres~$ons ........ H.H. 19.6                                                    9
      Christian Movement-The .............................................J.H. 523 22                                                                                                X=ontinued          ........................................................ H.H. .220;  10
      lclassis Jan 9,  G1952-Impressions  See under  Edi-                                                                                                                    :Conditio  ,Sine  Q u a   N o n  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             ......d.............................. H.H. 415 18
           torials--IClastsis,   e t c . )                                                                                                                                   IConditional  Theology  -'
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       .......................................... H.H. 198, 9
      ,Coming of the King-The .........................d..............lG.V. 337 15                                                                                           Convention-1952 ................................................. :G.L. 460 20
      IConcerning  Matthew 18 .................................... R. Visser 444 19                                                                                          Correction Please .................................................H.H. ,180                                  8
      Concerning the Ladies' Lea$ue  Meeting ............                                                                                                                   Een Waar Verhaaltje ........................................ H.H.                               76             4
             .............................................................. Mrs. F. Harbin 406 17                                                                            O.pen  `Letter .......................................................... H.H.                 77 4
      Conditio Sine Qua Non ............................................ H.H. 415 18                                                                                         ,Open Letter to Prpf. Hoeksema .................... H.V.                                       77             4
      Condition Debate in. Our Churches-The ................ G.L. 449 19                                                                                                     Our Synod of  1951.m ............................................ H.H.                         52             3
             Continued ............................................ ..................... G.L.` 470 20                                                                       Promise an,d Prediction ...................................... H.H. 223 10
      Conditional Theology .................................................. H.H. 198 9                                                                                                Continued ......................................................... H.H. 244 11
      Contributions:                                                                  ^                                                                                                Continued .:....?................................................. H.H. 268 12 ..
             A Hidden Evil ....................... ..!.....I............. A.H.Haan 240 10                                                                                              Continued ....... .:............................................... H.H. 292 13
             A Little Light- Please ...............iJXammenga, Sr. 264 11                                                                                                    Stocking is Finished-The ................................ HH. 148                                             7
             An Apology ................................ ............................ B.K. 444 19                                                                            Synod of 1951 .................................................... H.H. 100                                   5
             Concerning "Impressions" ..............Rev. H. Kuiper `263 11                                                                                                             Continued ........................................................ H.H. 124                         6
      4      Concerning "Impressions" ........................ R, Visser 263 11                                                                                                        Continued ....................................................... :H.H. 154                         7
             Concerning Matthew 18 ................. it.. ....... R. Visser 444 19                                                                                                     Continued ........................................................ H.H. 172 S
             IConcerning  the Ladies League Meeting                                                                                                                          The -Legality of the Declaration .................... H.H.                                    28         2
                    .................................... ...=. -. .... ..... i.Mrs. F. Harbin 406 17                                                                        The Matter  is Simple ........................................ .H.H. 274 112
             Contribution ...................... z::::. ........Wm. Pelskamp - 84,                                                                          4               The Promise  Accordmg to the  .Confessiona.....H.H.  436 19
             Discord or Unity ...................... Dorothy De Vrias 359 ,15                                                                                                          ,Continued .............. .I........................................ H.H. 484 21
             God%  Promise ............................. H. .A. Van  Putten  378 16                                                                                                    Continued ........................................................ H.H. 508 22
             Logical Truth ........................................................ B.K. 495 21                                                                             To Be or Not to  ,Be ............................................ H.H. 364 16
            -The Must of. Faith ..............i.. .............................J.B:, 404 17                                                                                 Twee Anekdoten ................................................ :.H.H.                         76 4
             Woman Suffrage ........................ Dorothy De Vries 402 17                                                                                                Unilateral Covenant-The .................................. H.H. 274 l2
     Convention-1952 .......................................................... .G.L. 460 20                                                                                Very Clear ............................................................ H.H. 388 - 17
     ICorrection Please ....................................... .I...............B.K. 180                                                                   8                          Continued ........................................................ H.H. 412 18
     Counsel of God ............................................................ H.H. 297 13                                                                          Education-An Interesting Answer to a Vital
           TContinued ............................................ &.....................H.H. 319 14                                                                        Question .............................................................. H:C.H. 490  il.
     Covenant of Sinai-The ........................................ lG.M.0.                                                                          234 10           E,ducation-  Back to School  (~Continued  fr. Vol.
            Continued .................................. i.. ....................... G..M.O. 258 11                                                                         27) ........................................................................ H,C.H;            17         1
            Continued .......................................................... ..G.M.O. 282 12                                                                      Education-Looking to the Future
            Continued ........................................................... :G.M..O.                                                           307 13                 ((See under Looking  ,to the Future)  -  :
            Continued ...... ...................................................... G.M.O.                                                                            Er is Geene Verdoemenis
                                                                                                                                                     329 14                                                             ........................................ !G.V.     70 3
     Covenant of Works (See under Creation Week)                                                                                                                      Evil Piece of Work-An .................................... ,...:.;..H.H.                              4 1
     (Creation of Man (See under Creation Week)                                                                                                                       Evolution-The Theory of ........................................ H.V.                                34         2
     Creation Week-The (Continued from Vol.  27)....H.V. 13 3                                                                                                         Exposition of Acts  13:32;33ff.  (cont'd fr. Vol.  27)...G.L.                                        19 1
            `Continued ................................................................ H.V.                                                                               Continued
                                                                                                                                                     34     2                                    ................................................................ .G.L.    42         2
            (Continued ................................................................ H.V.                                                         58 3                  Continued ........................... i.................................... ;G.L.               68         3
            ,Continaed ...........................................                                                                                                    Exposition of I John  2:12-14
                                                                                                                        I....................H.V.    84     4                                                                 ...`............................... G.L. `468 20
            IContinued ................................................................ H.V. 133                                                            6              IContinued ....;.. .................... ..................................... .G.L. 517 22
            Continued .............................................................                                                                                   Exposition of Heidelberg Catechism-An
                                                                                                                                       c.H.V. 183           8
            Continued ................................................................ H.V. 209 9                                                                           (See under Triple Knowledge)
           Continued ................................................................ HY. 300 13                                                                      Exposition of  &hn  8:1-11 ....................t..................... >G.L. 117                                 5
           Continued .................................... ............................ H.V. 343 15:                                                                   Exposition of John  18:4-9 .......................................... G.L. 327; 1 4
           IContinued ................................................................ H.V. 438 19                                                                    Expowition-of Luke 19:1-10 ........................................ JG.L.                            93         4
     Gro,ss  of Christ---The                                                                                                                                          ,Expo,sition  of Matthew  5:9
                                                            .............................................. i......J.H. 524 22                                                                                               .................................... G.L. 351 15
                                                                                                                                                                      Exposition of  Mlatthew  5  :17-20 ................................ G.L. 140                                    6
                                                                               -Dl                                                                                    Exposition of Matthew  5.:21-26 ................................ G.L. 165                                       7
                                                                                                                                                                      Expo,sition  of Matthew  5:27-30 ................................ .G.L. 191                                     8
     Davi+Thou  Art the Man ......;.f......... ..............G.M..O. 353 15                                                                                           Exposition of Matthew 5 :31-32 ................................ QL. 215. 9
     Declaration-The Legality of the ..;.t................... H.H.                                                                                   28 `2            Exposition of Matthew  5:33-37 ...A............................ 1G.L. 238 10
     Different Slan lt on the Race Question-A ..............J.H. 288 Ql                                                                                               @position  of  Matthew   5:38-+2 ................................ G.L. 256 I.1


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           Subject                                                                                                                               A u t h o r   P a g e   N o .   S u b j e c t                                                                                                                             Author Page No.
 Exposition of Matthew 5:43-48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ,G.L. 277 12                                                                                         Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.C.H. 302 13
             Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :G.L.304 ~13                                   Continued . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l........... H.C.H. 325 14
 Exposition of Philippians 2:1-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :G.L. `375 1 6                                                                                      ,Continued I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.    349 15
             Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.L. 400 17                                  Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.     373 16
 Exposition of Romans 8:18-30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  :`G.L. 446 19                                                                                      Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.     396 17
                                                                                                                                                                                                    (Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...! . . . .  H.C.H. 420 18
                                                                                   - F -                                                                                    :                        Continued . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  z . . . . . . . H:C.H. 442 , 19
 Fool-The Rich                                                                                                                                                                                      Contirmed . . . . . . . . . . . l................................................ H..C.H.
                                                 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ~ . . . . . ..I....... G.V.       1     1                                                                                                                                                              466 20
 From Here and There                                                                                                                                                                     Lord Repenteth-The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.
                                                                       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H. 523 22                                                                                                                                                              384 16
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                                                                                                                                                                                         Manna of .the Desert Period-The ........................G.M.O. 309 13
  Gezindheid God's Jegens Hoovaardigen en                                                                                                                                                            Continued .......i.. .................................................. G.M.O. 331 14
             Nederigen-De ....................................................... G.V. 265 i2                                                                                                        Continued ............................................................. G.M:O. 380. 16
 <Glad  Occasion in- Hope-A .........................................G.L. 423 18                                                                                                         Matter is Simple-The ............................. ......... ......H.H. 274 12
 God's Groote Goedertierenheid ................................ G.V. 471: 20                                                                                                             M e d i t a t i o n s . :
            Continued ............................................................ .....G.V. 492 21                                                                                                  Absolute Sovereignty ......................................... :G.V.
 God's ,Love for Zion ....................... ......................... G.M.O. 522 22                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            193     9
                                                                                                                                                                                                     Appearing Unto Salvation ................................ C..H.
  God's Promises ................................ . .....H.A.Van Putten                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          288 13
                                                                                                                                                                          378 16                     Blessings in Pro,spect ........................................ G.V.
 God% Providence .................................... ......................H.V.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 241 11
                                                                                                                                                                          462 20                     De. !Belijdenls Eens ,Geslagenen ....................... :G.V.
 Groote Gastheer-De .......................... ."........... ;;I.........G.V. 505 22                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             457 20
                                                                                                                                                                                                     De Opgang Uit de Hoogte ................................ G.V. 1%                                                                                    6
                                                                                                                                                                                                     De Gezindheid God's Jegens Hoovaardigen
                                                                                   - H -                                                                                                                        en.Nederigen ...... ..!. ............................. f...........1G.V. ' 265 12
 Heidelberg Catechism (See under Triple Know.)                                                                                                                                                       De Groote Gastheer ........................................... :G.V. 505 22
 Henry Da&of-The Rev. . ..I...................................... J.H. 523 22                                                                                                                        Het Pad das  Rechtvaardigen  een Schijnend
 Heresy in Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c . . . . . . . ..I................. J.H. 377 16                                                                                         Licht .............................................. i.................. :G.V. 361 16
 Humor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H. 524 22                      Het  Vermel,den  van de Uitnemende  .Liefde....G.V.                                                                                          217 10
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Het  Voorwerp  Van GodSs Welgevallen ...... .:G.V.                                                                                           25      2
                                                                                   -I-                                                                                                              Jezus, het Licht der  Wereld .......................... G.V. 169                                                                                     8
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Jezus' Verschijning  aan de  Emmausgangers.:JG.V.                                                                                            313 14
 Impressions of Synod ................................................ G.L. 448 19                                                                                                                  Jo,shua's  Resolve ............................. i.. .................. G.V. 433 19
 Interestin,g  Answer to a Vital Question-An                                                                                                                                                        Lichten in de D,uisternis ................................ .;sG.V.                                                                           73      4
               ................................................. J.. .......................... H.C.H. 490 2%                                                                                       Pentecolstal Reaction ........................................ ;...G.V. 385 17
            Continued ............................................................. H.lC..H. 514 22                                                                                                 Post-Thanksgiving Thoughts .................... ....... G.V.                                                                                 97      5
 Jezus, het Licht der W.ereld ...................................... G.V. 169                                                                                                    8                  Remember the Rock ............................................ .G.V. 145 -7
 IJezus' Verschijning  aan   ,de Emmausgangers........G.V. 313 14                                                                                                                         "         The Blessedness of Those That Hunger and
 Joshua's Resolve .............*.. ..............?........................... x.&V. 433 19                                                                                                                     Thirst ........ ,. ..................................................... G.V.                                                     49      3
                                                                   -K-                                                                                                                              The Coming of the King .................................. G.V. 3 3 7   15
                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Parable of the Sower ........................ ........ G.V. 481 21
 Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven-The ..................H.H. ., 30 :  2                                                                                                                                The Rich Fool .................. .:..................................  QV.                                                                    1 1
            Continued ................................................................ H.H. 5 4                                                                                  3                  Zalig Door Geloof ..................................................G.V. 409 18
            Continued ................ :`I..................................... .._ ...:....H.H:                                                                           81    4       Memoriam-D'r. Schilder .......................................... H.H. 306 13
            Continued ................................................................ H.H. ,110                                                                                 5       More Opposition ............................................................ J.H, 524 22
            Continued ...................:`i.. ....................................... !H.H. ,265                                                                                9 Must of Faith-The. .................... ................................ J.B. 404 `17
 Kleine Zonde-De ........................................................                                                                                                ,445 19         My Statement on Esau .......................................... G;M.O. 498 21
 Kloppende  Christus-De ............................................ G.V. 310 1 3
 Komst des Konings-De ............................................. .GYv.                                                                                                 46.    2                                                                                   GN-
                                                                                  -  Ii  -                                                                                               Niet Ons, 0 Heer! Niet Ons  (Cont'd  fr. Vol. 27)
 Legality of the Declaration-The                                                                                                                          HIH;            28     `2'                ...................... d.. .................... ..a..........: ......................... :G.V. 162                                                   7
                                                                                                      .............................
Lichten in de  Duisternis                                                                                                                                  G.V.           73     4                  8Continued .............................................................. ..G.P. 212*                                                                9
                                                                            ............................................
 Lies Are  Gonvenient                                                                                                                                       J.H. 333 14                  Not Peace But a Sword .................................. ,. ...........J.H. 377 16
                                                               ....................... ..............................
 Lofzang  der Liefde-De ............................................ G.V. 253. 11                                                                                                         .           .`,
            IContinued ........................................................... ..... G.V. 279 12;                                                                                                                                                                -o-
           ,Cdntinued ................................................................ :G.V, 334 14                                                                                      Open Letter to Rev. B. Kok-An  -.................... G.M.O. 474 20
           Continued ............................................................... :G.V. 347 15                                                                                        Opgang Uit de Hoogte ........I.....................................G.V. 121 6
           IContinued ............................ .......................... L.. ...... IG.V. 398 17
Logical Truth ....vi.. ................................................ I.;.....B.K. ,495 21.                                                                                                                                                                        - P - .
Looking to the Future ............................................ H.C.H. 116                                                                                                    5. -
           Continued ....... ..........: .......................................... H.C:H. 142                                                                                   6 Pad des Rkchtvaardigen een Schijend Licht-
           Continued ........................................................... .;H,C.H. 188                                                                                    ,8                 Het ........................... ..............-..................................:G.V. 361 16
           Continued ............................................................ H.G.H. 236 id Parable of the Sower-The ........................ ........... .IG.V. 481 21
            Continued ............................................................. H.C.H: 275 l-2                                                                                      Pentecos;tal Reaction ............................... ..................:G.V. 385 17


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       Subje,ct                                                                Author Page No.                               Subjact                                                                                                                                                 Author Page No.
Peril of  Organization ..................... I;. ........................J.H. 287 `12                                                                                                                       -  S'
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Persecution .......................................................................*pH.
                                                                                    p .   3 3 3   1 4                   \
Post-Thanksgiving Thoughts, ................................... .lG.V.                               97    5         Samson A True Servant Of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.                                                                                         504 21
Freaohing  of the  Promiase                                                                                          Seeking the Lord Without the Cam$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O. 432 `18
       (See under Keys-of the Kingdom)                                                                                       Continued ..,.............................  `.f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .,G.M.O. 450 19
Promise  Aocording  to the  Confe&ons-The ....... ..H.I L 436 19                                                Significance of Exegesis for the Preaching
      #Continued .................................. `r.. ............i..............H.H. 484 21                              of the Gospel-The . . . . . . . . T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .,G.M.O.   4 5 3   1 9
      Continued ................................................................. H.H. 508, 22                  Stocking is Finished-The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,............ H.H. 148                                                                                         7
P r o m i s e   a n d   P r e d i c t i o n                                                                     Strange Reasonings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . . G.M.O. 501 21
       (,See under Editorials, Promise, etc.)                                                                                Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.M.O.                                   519 22 '
Promise of the Gospel (See under Keys of the                                                                    Syno,d  .of 1951 (See under  .Editorials)
       Kingdom)                                                                                                 Synod of  1951-Our . . . . . ..I.................................. :.;:...;..H.H.                                                                                                      52 3
Protevangel  &s the Unifying Idea of All the                                                                    Synod of  1951-Sept.-O&.  Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.                                                                                                .95    4
      Scriptures-The ........ ....................... ................. G.M.O. 139                         6                 Continued ..,........................................)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H. 119                                                                         5
      ,Continued ............................................................ G.MIO.                159    7
      Continued ............................................................ G.M.O. ,186                   8                                                                                             -T-
      Continued ................................... ..... i=................IG.M.0. 210                    9    "Teachens" Impressions-A .........................................H.V. 316 14
      Co&inued ,.............. .............................................. G.M.O. 232 10                                  Continued ................................................................ H.V. 340 15
Providence of God (See under God's Providence)                                                                  Theological Seminary-The ........................ R.C.Harbach                                                                                                                          16  1
                                                                                                                Thou Art the Man .,.............................................. ;G.M;O. 353 15
                                             -Q-                                                                To Be or Not to Be ................. ..!................................ H.H. 364 16
                                                                                                                Triple Knowledge-The (ICont'd  fr. Vol. 27) .........H.H.                                                                                                                                7  1
Queen at  Church ............................. I...... I....................J.H. 333 14                                      IContinued L.D. XXXlI ........................................ H.H.                                                                                                       30 2'
Questions :                                              . . .                                                  .            Continued ................................................................ H.H.                                                                                           54 3
      A  Qluestion .......................................................... ,H.H.                  81    4                 (Continued ................................................................. H.H.                                                                                         81 4
      Concerning "He Descended Into -Hell" ...... ..H.H. 372 16                                                              Continued .................................................................. H.H. 110  5
      Concerning the ,Chiireh Visible I:......I......... &;..H.H.                                    29    2                 Continued ................................................... -. ...... ......H.H. 205 9
      C o n c e r n i n g   t h e   Mlanner   of,&~sus'  `.c.'  .   :                                                        Continued .................................................. _.............H.H. 228 10
             .Crucifixion. ..               7; :y:j.i
                                    .......... ......... .2:....::::. ...XL..; `
                                                                            ..4......... H.H. 298 13                         Continued, L.D.  XXXII .................................... H.H. 249 11
       Does Job 12:6 Refer Also to Life Insurance?..H.H:  : 367 16                                                           Continued ...................................................... \......... H.H. 295 13
       Emeritus  Minieters  Delegated  to,.Synfod ..... .....H.H.                                    29    2                 ,Continued ................................................................ H.H. . 319 14
      Faith, Hope and Love ................................. .: .... ;H.H. 248 11                                            Continued ................................................................ H.H. 391 17
       How *Can- We. Explain Paul's Desire, Acts                                                                             Continued ................................................................ H.H. 416 18
              2,6-29   .and Romans  9:3 in the light of Pre-,                                                                Continued ........ ........................................................ H.H. 486 21
             destination ? ............. .1.. -'
                                                pi.. .................................. 1H.H. 367' -16                       Continued, L.D. XXX111 ............. ....................... H.H. 5110 22
      How Do You Explain the Fields White for                                                                   Twee Anekdoten .......................................................... H.H.                                                                                                         76 4
             Harvest and No Labor for Some of Our
             Ministers? ...................................................... H.H.- 368 16                                                                                                                LTJ-                                            d
       Please Explain I Tim.  2:15' .................... ........ H.H. 368 16                                   Unilateral Covenan&-T.he                                                                    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  H.H. 274 12
       Please Explain Luke  16:9 ................................ H.H:  3 6 6   1 6                             Universeele  Oproep  tot Lof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  G.V."424 18
' Please Explain the Hardening of Pharaoh's,
              Heart `and His Guilt ................................ H.H. 370 16                                                                                                                        -;`
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      .Prov.  .31:10-31  a n d   I t s   Applioation   Today..H.H.  3 7 2   16                                  Vermelden van den Uitnemende  Liecde-Het  . . ..G.V. 217 10
      Questions About Conscience ................. :.A.,...........H.H: 369 16                                  Very Clear                                                                                                                                                            H.H,
                                                                                                                                                    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .            388 17
      Concerning the Chowpatta Mission ................H.H. 369 16                                                           Continued .!.............; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1H.H. 412 1S
       Regarding  Our Membership-in Boy and                                                                     Voorwerp Van God's Welgevallen-Het . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.                                                                                                                25     2
             `Girl Scouts, YMCA and YWCA ...... ......H.H. 371 16                                                                                                                                         -  WL
      What  Does  "When They  Shall Arrive at Years
              of Discretion" Mean ? ................ ................. H.H; : 369 16                            Waar Verhaaltje-Een . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  >.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               H.H.    76 4
      What is, the Meaning of'P)aradise in Jesus.'                                                              We Shall Be Like Him . . . . . . ..I . . . . . . . . . . . . i . . . . . . . . ..I...... !G.M.O. 262 11"
              Word to the Penitent thief? .................... H.H. `298 13                                     What Next ?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1J.H.332 14
      Why Was  Eaau Born First? ........ ....................H.H. 366m 16                                       Where The Holy Spirit Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.B.                                                                                       496 21
                                                                                                                Wijsheid Met Hare Vruchten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..a.  3G.V. 357 15
                                             - R -                                                              Women Suffrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorothy De Vries 402 17
Radical Surgery ............................................................ J.H. 332 14                                                                                                                    --z--
Remember the Rock .................................................... .lG.V. 145 7                             Zalig  Door Geloof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V. 409 18
Respon~sibility of Man ......... ........ :; .... ......................... H.H. 297 13
      Continued ..................... ...........................................H:H. '319 -14                                                              Index by Rev. J.  Howerzyl,,  ;Oskaloosa,   1ow.a.
Rev. B, Kok-His Untruths, ..........f.. .................. :G;M.O. 427 `18
Reviews of "Baptized Into Christ" ............. ............J.H: 167                                       7
Republi&q  or Democrat .................................. ::........ J.H. 28'7  12


