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                                                                                         Verse  5 speaks of. the watchmen on the walls  of  Jeru-.
                M E D I T A T I O N                                                salem. the city of God.
II  '                                                                        I/          And when these watchmen shall see the approaching
                                                                                   Herald with His beautiful feet, they shall together lift up
                               Beautiful Feet                                      their voice and using.                      ,
                     "How   beautiful  ulz~on   the  lnountains  are the  feet           Verse 9  strenithens -this idea, for there we read that
                  of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth               these watchmen are enjoined to sing,  and the motive is             .
                  peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good, that  pub-           given: the Lord bath comforted His people.
                  lisheth salvation ; that saith unto `Zion, Thy God                     Sing, o watchmen,  for the Lord hath comforted  Jeru-
                  reigneth  !" Isa. 52  :7                                         salem.  He hath redeemed Jerusalem.
         Beautiful feet !                                                                Atid the thought of God's redemption of Jerusalem is
         To whom does this apply ?                                                 developed in  -the following verses.
         To  men   ? But then I have a serious difficulty : men's                        And so it is -&ear that the beautiful feet are the feet of
feet are not beautiful anymore. Theji are now swift to shed                        God !
bloood.  Ram. 3  :15. And, mind  you,  this was said by Paul,                           . And these -feet are  cdming over the mountains to visit
and he was speaking of himself and all men, be they Chris-                         His  tiretched   jerusal&:
tians or not. For attend to verse 9 in the context. There                                Jeru&lem  is portrayed in the context as weak. sitting in
he says : "What then? are we better than they? No,  in.no                          the dust,  .her neck  in bonds, a captive of the uncircumcised.
wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles,                            Jerusalem, the Church of God is pictured as in Babylonian
that they are all under sin ; As it is written . . .", and then                    captivity. Attend to the verses 1 to  G of Isaiah's 52nd
                                                                                                                    :
follows a host of quotations, one of which I transcribed  ch8pter'
above: their feet are swift to shed blood!                                               The  very. verse that precedes. my  ,text speaks of Him
         Men's feet are swift to shed blood!                                       with His  beatitiful  feet: He introduces `Himself. Listen:
    How. true. Rather than bearing good tidings of  g&d,                           "Ther&fo'&  &ill-y peo& shall know My. name : ~therefore  they
they are bearers of woe and misery. Ever since we fell away                        shall  know in that  day-,&at  I am He that doth speak :  be-
from God, our feet are not beautiful but ugly.                                     hold it is I." And then follows  the text that speaks of the
         But whose feet are meant then?                                            bearer of beautiful tidings, of Him with His beautiful feet.
         Is not this test applied to all the ministers of the Gospel.                   Oh yes, it is God, the Lord of His people who visits them
                                                                                   .      .
                                         7
and especially to missionaries. How often have we not  read  In  lnlsery.
meditations and sermons where the men of God were seen                                   The  bea<&   feet !
in Isaiah 52, verse 7 ? Men who came  upon the mountains                                                         * *  +  *
with tidings of godd, of peace and salvation!
    Beautiful feet !                                                                     Beautiful feet !
    Whose are they?                                                                     The beautiful feet of the God of the heavens and the
                                  >I:  *  ;!: *                                    earth.
                                                                                         But I ask:  How must we conceive  df God walking and
    Beautiful feet! Let  us  see what the context of the test                      coming. over the mountains to bring good tidings of good to
has to say.                                                                        wretched Jerusalem  ?
    First of ali. attend that the owner of these beautiful feet                          God has nd feet.
is. quoted to be in the singular. It is a "him." The beautiful                           God never comes to man so that he can  clescribe  Him.
feet of "him" that bringeth good tidings.                                          Gocl is a Spirit, and has no feet.


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       But what does the text mean then ?                                And the good tidings of good are peace and salvation. It
       Attend to verse 13. "Behold, My Servant shall deal             is expressed in a short sentence: Thy God reigneth !
prudently, He shall  .be exalted  and extolled, and  .be very            That  almGst  sounds like-mockery. God reigneth? Jeru-
high."                                                                salem would be inclined to say: Nebuchadnezzar reigneth!
       There we have the answer.                                      All facts of history. that is, of the recent 70 years history,
       God comes indeed, but He, comes through His Servant.           pointed to the reign of the cruel Babylonians. They were
And that Servant is God incarnate, is  Go$s Face or                   captives.
Countenance, or God's express Image.                                     But God reigneth!
       But that Servant of Jehovah will not come with outward           And He brought peace and  salvation,to  Jerusalem.
show of beauty. He will be beautiful indeed, but His beauty              Every one of you that read this knows how true it is.
shall be spiritual. Outwardly He will be a Man of Sorrows.               Jerusalem was delivered from her cruel bondage.
       Read further, and you will be taught wisdom. God talks            God spoke to Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Ezra, ancl,
to Him. Listen: "AS many were astonied at Thee  ; His                 yes, also to Artaxerxes . . . and Zion was delivered. They
visage was so marred more than any man, and His form                  departed out of Babylon, and built again the walls of Jeru-
more than the sons of men."                                           salem.
       But $Ie will be the bearer of wonderful news, the news            Peace and salvation reigned, because God reigned. His
of salvation, for God continues to instruct us about His              strong arm brought Him salvation.
Servant : "So shall He sprinkle `many nations  ; the kings               Were not the feet of God beautiful upon the mountains in
shall shut their mouth at Him: for that which had not been            iringing such good tidings of good ?
told them shall they see: and which they had not heard                    Oh, the beautiful feet of God !
shall they consider."                                                                           *  *  *  *
       And then follows a picture both of his suffering Servant,
and of  His wonderful work of salvation the wellknown                     Beautiful feet of God in Jesus Christ the Lord!  ..
chapter 53 of Isaiah's prophecy.                                         The story of Isaiah, of Ezra, Nehemiah and others
       Beautiful feet !                                               pertained to- Israel, the historical people of God. and of their
       Beautiful feet of the suffering Servant of Jehovah !           salvation from cruel bondage.
       Yes, all of you that read this know who He is.                    But these things have spiritual content and meaning.
       He is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Saviour and               They are being fulfilled throughout all the ages and in
Redeemer.                                                             all the world.
       We have listened sofar to a description of Him in Isaiah's        God still comes, leaping over the mountains of guilt and
prophecy.                                                             sin and corruption in order to find His people whom He
       Beautiful feet of Jesus, which in reality are the beautiful    foreknew  in the foreknowledge of His indescribable love, in
feet of God.                                                          order to bring them good tidings of good, in order to publish
                                                                      peace and salvation, in order to tell them : Thy God reigneth !
                            ****                                         Almost two, thousand years -ago, Jesus came as the
       Beautiful feet !                             I                 Messenger of God.
                                                                         And my, oh my, how beautiful were His feet!
       You may say that.over  and over again. And, indeed, you           But also: How marred was His visage, more than any
are going to say that unto all eternity.                              man. The Man of Sorrows.
       Beautiful, because they come over the mountains to                Read again Isaiah 53, and note how terribly it was ful-
wretched Jerusalem.                                                   filled outside Jerusalem on that lonely hill of Golgotha.
       And Jerusalem is in the clutches of  Nebuchadnezar,  of           And, o God of eternal miracles, His marred visage,
Babylon.                                                              His blood and tears, His strong crying and tears, they all
       Nebuchadnezzar, is type of the devil, and Babylon is           Bre the beauty of God!
type of the wicked world.                                                His feet are beautiful, just because He trod the eternal
       And Jerusalem must be delivered, for she is the city of        way of unspeakable suffering. He became indeed the suf-
the great king. God hath chosen Zion, and it is His determ-           fering Servant of Jehovah.  -
inate will and good-pleasure that His  Nalile  shall dwell               He brought Peace.
there.                                                                   But in order to bring Peace, He had to be cast  r.vay
       And Jerusalem or  Zion is in the clutches of the devil         from God.
because of her sins. Read Jeremiah's explanation of that in              He brought salvation.
the first chapter of his Lamentations.                                   But in order to bring salvation, He had to be damned.
       But God comes over the mountains to bring good tidings            He brought good tidings'of  good, but in order to do so?
of good to this city, this sinful, guilty city of, God, beloved       He had to bear all the evil that otherwise would have come
of  Gocl from all eternity, but historically a city of wrath.         down on the guilty head of chosen Jerusalem.


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   All that makes it so beautiful.
   The Gospel has a text fo; it : He died for the ungodly !                                      T H E   S T A N D A R D   `B E A R E R
    Study that, and sing. Study that unto all eternity,  and                 Setuzi-nzo~tthly,   .errcpt  nmzthly   during   Jwze,  .Tdy  aad   August
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                                                                                                     Editor  -  l&v. HERMAN  HOEKS~A
    Oh, these beautiful feet of God.!                                        Commnnications  relative to contents should be addressed to Rev.
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    And they dicl, and do and shall bring the glacl. tidings of
the Gospel to thenzselz~es,  and to their brethren.
    And their feet are a little beautiful, gnd that little is be-                                                 C       O       N       T      E       N       T       S
cause God beautifies their feet. He beautifies the meek with
salvation.                                                                MEDITATION  -
    Some have more than others. Some have walked on the                            B e a u t i f u l   F e e t   .   .   .   .
                                                                                                                         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..481
mountains longer and more faithfully than others.                                         Rev. G. Vos
 In closing I salute  one of them. It is in remembrance of                EDITORIALS  -
his forty years of crying: Thy God reigneth. o  .Zion; that                        On The Basis Of Untruths. . . . . . . .._....................484
I wrote this little testimony.                                                            Rev. H. Hoeksema
    I know it! Oh, beloved, ! know it! God has given him                  OUR DOCTRINE  -
beautiful feet !                                                                   The Triple Knowledge (Part III-Of  Thankfuhless) . . .  .486
    f know it so surely, because he is in accord with sacred                              Rev. H. Hoeksema
history. The Man of Sorrows was  hated.for  His wondrous
testimony. He is in accord, for he is cordially hated through-            THE  DAY  OF  SHADOWS-
                                                                                   Covenant  o,f Sinai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...488
out his weary sojourn.                                                                    Rev. G. M. Ophoff
  But many loved his testimony. for they detected the
beauty. of the Lord their God !                  I     Ii                 FROM HOLY WRIT  -
                                                             9    G.V.             Exposition of Matthew 19 :10-Z.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -491
                                                                                         Rev. G. Lubbers

                                                                          IN HIS   FEAR-
                                                                                   A Snare for Our Children (3) . . . . . .-, . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . .493
                          Announcement                                                    Rev. J. A. Heys
    The classical committee has arranged the following sched-             THE VOICE OF OUR  F.~THERS-
ule for the examination of Candidate Herman Hanko at the                           Te Canons of Dordrecht (Rejection of Errors). . . . . . . . .  .495
next session of  Classis  East, October 5,  1955  :                                       Rev. H. C. Hoeksema                                                                                   . .
  Dogmatics, Loci 1 and 2, Rev. G. Vos.                                   DECENCY   AND   ORDER-
                     Loci 3 and 4, Rev. C.  Haqko.                                 T h e   O f f i c e   o f   E l d e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 9 7   '
                    ' Loci 5 and 6, Rev. M. Schipper.                                     Rev. G.  Vanden  Berg
    Knowledge of Confessions, Rev. J. MC  Collam.                         ALL AROUND  Us-
    Knowledge of Scripture, Rev. R.  Veldman.                                      The Reformed Faith- in Conflict.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .499
    Controversy, Rev. G. Lanting.                                                  First Century Vs Twentieth.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . _ .500
                                                                                          Rev. M. Schipper
    Practica,  Rev. G. M. Ophoff.
    Sermon Critics, Revs.  @Ic Collam and Lanting.                        IKDEX       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..-.......SOl
                          The Classical Committee,                                        Rev. G.  Vanden  Berg
                                               Rev. C. Hanko, Sec.


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                                                                      as well as for the principles of justice expressed in our
             EDITOR4ALS                                               Church Order.
                                                                 II But what we fail to  understancl and what is severely
                                                                      censurable is that some of those "liberated" do not hesitate
                 On The  Busis Of Untruths                            to fling all kinds of lies at our head, and even accuse  LIS of
                                                                      perjury: For this there can be no excuse, not even the fact
       It is, not surprising that in the Netherlands, particularly    that they obtain their information in a very one-sided way
in t&-Reformed Churches there, interest is shown in the               from what formerly. was "Concordia", for they might be
recent  controgersy  in our churches and in the schism that           better informed from `TThe Standard Bearer" which is also
was caused in them by those that departed from the Prot-              sent to them.
estant Reformed truth.                                                                          * * *  +
       In fact, in the old country they, i.e. the Reformed
Churches, passed through a phase of their history recently               In an article in  "Gereformeerd  Iierkblad voor Overijsel
that is much similar to what our Protestant  Reformecl                en Gelderland" G. Visee quotes a rather lengthy article
Churches passed through, both from a doctrinal and church             written by the Rev, H. J. Meyering about the schism in our
political point of view.                                              churches. In this article Meyering writes abdut the decision
       There, too, some preferred conditional theology to the         in our favor by judge Taylor. He remarks:
Reformed and Scriptural conception of the promise of God.                1. That the judge did not proceed from and base his
And there, too, it was a question that concerned the in-              decision on the right of the focal congregation as this is
terpretation of the Church Order, particularly of article 31.         clearly defined in the Church Order which is also adopted  by
       Perhaps, it is hardly surprising either that some` of the      the Protestant Reformed Churches but from and on the
"liberated" do not like                                               ruling power and binding authority of a classis over a con-
                            us, in fact reveal themselves as hate-
ful. In  view of what happened after the visit of  Kok and            sistory as a body that has higher authority over a lower body.
De Jong to the Netherlands and the well-known letter of                  2. This church-political notion the judge mistakenly
Holwerda, this, too, is to be understood.                             deduced from art. 36 of the Church Order which reads : "The
       Nor is it difficult to understand, that they feel sym-         Classis-has  the same jurisdiction over the Consistory as the
pathetic to those men and to the group that stands with them          Particular Synod has over the Classis  and the General Synod
now. De Jong has no Protestant Reformed hair on his head              over the Particular."
and  Kok, evidently, has, if  any3 not a very thick crop of              3. That our consistory ("the Rev. Hoeksema and those
them anymore. And this may be said of those that stand                belonging to him") based their right to the church property
with them as well. Hence, we can understnd that they                  on the interpretation of art. 36. And this is more serious.
have the sympathy of the "liberated." One of them recently            For thereby they abandoned the principles of  soupcl  Re-
wrote very piously a8 follows:                                        formed Church polity and adopted the hierarchical system.
                                                                         4. That the Prot. Ref. Churches had not always thus
       "A sad history. And it cannot fail but that our sympathy       interpreted Art. 36. This is very evident from what, at first,
and appreciation are now directed to those that are driven            when the Rev. Hoeksema was very much in favor of the
out. Their trials  .on the way of  liaintaining  reformed             liberated churches, he wrote about the hierarchical practices
catholicity and the scriptural right of the local church are          of the  "synodicals."    Here Meyering quotes  &e following
indeed heavy, especially of the church in Grand Rapids. But!          sentence from ."Concordia"  : "It stands to reason therefore
these brethren may take comfort in the assurance, by which            that these major gatherings can never have the power to
we here in the Netherlands have so frequently been com- ,rule over the congregations. nor to set aside the power that
forted, that it is better to suffer injustice than to commit it.      delegated them."
`But and if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye.'            5. That in court, in order to defend the right to the
(I Pe. 3  :18)  ."                                                    church property, the same Rev. Hoeksema declared under
       The reference is not I Pe. 3 :lS, but vs. 14.                  oath, and again Meyering quotes from "Concordia" : "that
       Would not anyone that is not acquainted with those "that       the  classis is the ruling body of the denomination and that
have been driven out" and all the evil they have committed            it has jurisdiction over the consistory." Meyering, therefore,
(read but their notorious "Cross Bill"],  be icclined  to shed        virtually accuses me of being guilty of perjury.
a sympathizing tear when he reads  .these pious words ?                  6. He concludes that, within  i  period  of about ten
  But let that be.                                                    years, I turned about-from pure Reformed polity as expressed
       They may bestow all the sympathy they want on the              in, the Church Order to the hierarchical system of church
schismatics, however misplaced it may be. We surely do not            government.
need it, nor do we desire it. For we are assured. that,  not!            7. To this Visee, who, of course, wholeheartedly agrees
the schismatics, but we are standing for the truttiof  God as         with all this, adds in a concluding paragraph: "What a
revealed in the Scriptures and expressed in the Confessions           blessing that we did not get official correspondence with


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 the Protestant Reformed Churches, as some of  US  at the                 2. It is a misrepresentation, too, or it, at least, leaves
 synod of Amersfoort wanted. That were impossible. For the, deliberately a wrong impression when Visee writes in that
 doctrine of the covenant as taught by Hoeksema is  worse              closing paragraph that it was my doctrine of the covenant
 than that of the Explanation and the Preadvice (of the                that made it impossible, on their part, to have full corres-
 synodicals, H.H.). He who reads "`The Standard Bearer"                pondence with the Protestant Reformed Churches. Note the
 knows that, in the theological constructions of Hoeksema and          following :
 those that agree with him, the doctrine of the- covenant ac-              1. That my conception  -of the covenant is, in a way,
 cording to the Scriptures is swallowed LIP by a supralapsarian        supralapsarian I gladly grant Visee. That this supralapsarian
 theory of election."                                                  conception swallows up the Scriptural doctrine of the cov-
                               $ 4:  *  *                              enant I deny. On this I gladly offer Visee a debate if he
                                                                       should desire it. For the rest I pass this by.
     What shall we say about all these lies and misreprese.nta-           2. But he must not leave the impression that, on their
 tions ?                                                               part, it was my doctrine of the covenant that made it im-
     It is almost a hopeless case, for men like Visee and              possible for them to have official correspondence with  US.
 Meyering and others of the "liberated" leave the impression           That may have been the case with "some of them" but not
 that they do not want the truth. For it is evident that they          with the synod of Amersfoort. For:
 read "The Stanclarcl Bearer" and that, therefore, they may                a. They knew my conception of the covenant. About
 know better.                                                          this I had written, and that, too, in distinction from the view
     Yet, I cannot. pass this by without protest and remon-            of the liberated, long before the synod of Amersfoort as-
 strance.                                                              sembled.
     And then I wish to beginwith the last paragraph of this
 article by Visee.                                                         b. Not only this, but in "The Standard Bearer" I had
     Also this is nothing but a string of misrepresentations.          plainly written, already in 1946, and, therefore, about three
 Note the-following :                                                  years before .the synod of Amersfoort, .that I could not pos-
     1. It' is not the truth but a misrepresentation of facts          sibly agree with the liberated conception of the covenant,
 when Visee writes : "What a blessing that we did not get              that it was Heynsian and, therefore, Arminian . And if,
 official correspondence with the Protestant Reformed                  perhaps some of the members of the synod were not ac-
 Churches as some of                                                   quainted with all this, I have no doubt that Visee  C.S. cer-
                              us  wanted." This is not the true. It
 is a lie. Note the following:                                         tainly made  it. plain to them.
     a. It is a lie when Visee writes that "some of us wanted"             C.      Moreover, Schilder had been here in 1947, and over
 official  corespondence.  That leaves the impression as if not        against him, as everyone knows, I defended my view of the
 the Synod of Amersfoort but the Protestant Reformed                   covenant in a conference that lasted three days, in seven
 Churches sought full correspondence with the liberated, that          propositions, which were also published in "The Standard
 some of the Synod of Amersfoort wanted this but that the              Bearer."
 Synod rejected this. This is not the truth. It is a deliberate            d. All this happened long before the synod of  Amers-
 lie as Visee well knows.                                              foort. Yet, the synod did not think it impossible to have
     b.      Not "some of                                              official correspondence with 
                              us"  but the Synod of Amersfoort, by                                        us.  But our synod in Hull de-
 majority vote, decided to offer the Protestant Reformed               cided against it.
 Churches full official correspondence, even to the extent that           ,This is the simple truth.
 they opened their pulpits to our ministers. And it was only               More nest time, D.V.
 "some of us," of whom Visee was .one, that did not agree                                                                           H.H.
 and protested. That is the truth.
     c. De Jong, when he returned from the old  coutltry  in
 1949 had the official document asking for `official corres-
 pondence in his pocket. But because of the stir which the                                      IN--MEMORIAM
 letter of Holwerda created, just before De Jong returned, the            As it has pleased  our Lord to take unto Himself on August
 latter kept that document in his pocket until he was com-             30, 1955
 pelled to give it to the committee for correspondence about                                  MRS. .R. BRUNSTING
 three months' later.                                                  beloved mother  bf our elder, Ray Brunsting, the congregation
     d. At the Synod of Hull in 1950 we decided not  to*               hereby expresses its deep sympathy to brother Brunsting and
 accept full official-correspondence and, in view of our recent        family with the hope that God may be their strength and
-history with the liberated, drew                                      comfort.
                                       LIP the Declaration of Prin-
 ciples. Not some .of the Liberated, therefore, but the Synod             May the Lord of all grace and comfort console their hearts
                                                                       in the glorious thought that  !`Blessed are the dead that die in
 of Amersfoort officially decided to offer us complete cor-                                                               o
                                                                       the  Lord."
 respondence, and our synod of Hull rejected it.                                                              Rev. H.  Veldman,  President


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       I/---~~----~~~                                                      from heaven He rules not only  `over the church, but also
                         O U R   DOCTRINE                             II over the entire world. The kingdom of God, therefore, is
                                                                           hea!enly  in character, in its blessings, and in its glory. It is
                                                                           incorruptible,  undefilable,  and it can never fade away, be-
                          THE TRIPLE KNOWLEDGE                             cause it has its center in the glorified Son of God in human
                                                                           nature. And finally, it means that the  kinidom  of God is
              AN EXPOSITION OF THE HEIDELBERG  CATECEIISM                  eschatological. It is in heaven. And it must still come down
                                                                           from heaven in the end of the ages. It is not fully realized
                          PART  III  -0~ THANKFULNESS                      until in the new creation all things shall be united in Christ,
                                  LORD'S DAY  48                           the new Jerusalem shall have come down from heaven, and
                                                                           God shall be all in all, ruling through Christ and His church
                                     Chapter I                             over all the new creation. Then, in that day of the Lord, the
                          The Idea of the Kingdom of God                   .kingdom of heaven shall be realized in all its perfection as
                                                                           the kingdom of God, and as the kingdom of Christ. For
              Not those that say unto Christ, "Lord, Lord, shall enteti    Christ shall be King forever in the kingdom of heaven. His
       into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my        kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. He shall reign forever.
       Father which is in heaven." In connection with the centurion        All things shall be united in and under Him in the new cre-
       that came to the Lord to, ask Him to heal his servant, and          ation. Nevertheless, in that dominion He is always the
       who said that he was not worthy that Christ should  come            Servant-King. Forever Christ and His church, His people
       under his roof, but that He only had to speak the word and          under Him, shall be subject unto God. Such is the meaning
       his servant would be healed, the Lord said : "And I say unto        of the petition : "Thy kingdom come."
       you, that many shall come from the east and west, and shall                                     Chapter 2
       sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in. the king-
       dom of heaven." The kingdom of heaven, therefore, shall                           The Realization of the Kingdom
       embrace all nations. John the Baptist indeed was great, but            The kingdom of God has a history.
       he that is least in the kingdom of heaven shall be greater             It develops historicjlly according to the counsel of God
       than John. Matt. 11 : 11. In many parables the Lord explained       from the very beginning of the world until the first coming of
       the mysteries of the  .kingdom of heaven. Matt. 13  :ll. Cf.        Christ, His incarnation, death, resurrection, and exaltation,
       vss. 24, 31, 33, 44, 45, 47, 52. And in answer to the disciples' at the right hand of God, and His return in the Spirit. And
       qtiestion,  who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, the       again? from that first coming to the pardusia, in the consum-
       Lord Jesus placed a little child in their midst, and said:          matioll of all things, that kingdoms clevelops.
       "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little               Until that final day,- the kingdom of God is always
       child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Very         coming, yet has never fully come.
       often, therefore, the Lord speaks of the kingdom of heaven.            Once; in the very beginning of the world, there was a
       And that this kingdom is the same as the kingdom of God             kingdom of God, which, however, was an image of things td
       and the kingdom of Christ, there can be no doubt.                   come. This was in the very dawn of history. For God made
              What is meant by this denotation ?                           of the earthly creation a kingdom of God, with its unity and
              It does not mean that the kingdom of God is not on           center in the heart of man. For Adam was created after the
       earth, but in heaven only. For as we have already  -re-             image of God, in true knowledge, righteousness, and holi-
       peatedly stated, in the spiritual sense of the word the-king-       ness, in order that he might rightly know his God, love Him,
       dom of God is realized in the hearts of all the elect,  re-         and be His friend-servant. To this friend-servant God gave
     - generated and called  by'the Spirit of God through the gospel.      dominion over all creatures in the earthly creation. For we
       But it signifies no doubt; in the first place, that in no sense' read in Genesis 1 :28 : "And God blessed them, and  Gocl
       of the word is the kingdom of God a .kingdom of this world,         said unto them; Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
       nor even an earthly kingdom. It is heavenly in its nature.          earth, and subdue it : and have dominion oyer- the fish of the
       Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven                sea. and over the fowl of the air, and `over every living thing
       exactly because it is spiritual and heavenly. Its subjects are      that  `moveth  upon the earth." Man, therefore, was king. But
     characterized by having immortal life. It signifies also that         he was a servant-king, a vice regent, king under God. All
       this kingdom of God has its origin in heaven, and always it         creatures must serve him, that with them all and before them
       comes down from heaven to overcome and replace the king-            `all he might serve his God and glorify His holy name. In
       dom of this world. Besides, in the new dispensation, after          the heart of man the kingdom of God was originally esta-
       the resurrection and exaltation of our Lord  Jesus  Christ,         blished over all things.
.      it is centrally realized in he&en. For Christ sitteth at the           But Adam, the servant of `God, rebelled against his di-
       right hand of God, and is the King  of the kingdom of heaven.       vine Lord and Master,  and became disobedient. As the
       Unto Him is given all power in heaven and on earth. And             Netherland  Confession has it: Man "being in honor, he


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understood iv not, neither knew his excellency, but wilfully         united, both things in heaven and things on earth,.`to con-
subjected himself to sin, and consequently to death, and the         stitute the .oie, all-embracing kingdom of God.
curse, giving ear to the words of the devil. For the com-               God knows the end from the beginning. And when in
mandment of life, which he had received, he transgressed;            the beginning God created -Adam as the servant-king over
and by sin separated himself from God, who was his true              all the earthly creation, he was so created that through the,
life, having corrupted his whole nature; whereby he made             deep way' of sin and death this first servant-king could be
himself liable to corporal and spiritual death. And being            raised  to the highest possible glory by the power of grace in
thus become wicked, perverse, and corrupt in all his ways,           Christ. The first Adam  is adapted to the second. Therefore,
he hath lost all his excellent gifts, which he had received          when God created the world, He had the end in view, the
from God, and only retained a few remains thereof, which,            high&t realization and revelation of His tabernacle with
however, are sufficient to leave man witl?out excuse; for all        men in Christ Jesus our Lord. The original kingdom of the
the light which is in  us  is changed into darkness, as the          ear& in Adam was an image of the kingdom of heaven in
Scriptures teach us, saying : The light shineth in darkness,         Christ Jesus.
and the darkness comprehendeth `it not: where St. John
calleth men darkness." The servani-king  of the earthly crea-           That-kingdom of God in Christ, the glorious kingdom of
tion allied himself with the devil, and became an enemy of           heaven, has, as we said, a history. The kingdom is to come
God. Instead of consecrating himself and all things to God,          in the way of a battle, in which the dominion of Satan, the
as His servant, he now presses all things into the service of        kingdom of the world, the  .powers of sin ancl death, are to
sin and unrighteousness. True, in a certain sense and to a           be completely vanquished and destroyed. It is a battle not
limited extent man is still king over all things in the earth.       for earthly dominions or material benefits or the rights  of
Buti in as far as he still occupies his position as king in rela-    man, but for the righteousness of God, the acknowledgment
tion to the earthly creation. he establishes a kingdom of            of His sole sovereignty, and the glory of His name. The
darkness and unrighteousness that will reach its  cuhnina-           question is to be decided, whether the servant of God or the
tion in the kingdom of Antichrist, the Man of Sin, the Son           servant of the devil is to be'king.  In a sense.it may be said
of Perdition. And this is the -only kingdom that can ever            that this kingdom of God has been coming into this world
develop in this world outside of Christ.                             from the very beginning of history. Its coming was an-
                                                                     nounced in the so-tailed protevangel of Genesis 3  :15 : "I
    However, this is not and could not possibly be the encl.         will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
 God had provided some better thing for us. In His eternal           thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
purpose `He intended to establish His dominion and realize           shalt bruise his heel." There were representatives. of this
His kingdom on a higher plane, the heavenly, and to lay its          kingdom all through the old dispensation, who embradecl
foundation firmly in Christ, the Son of God in human ina-            the promise and looked for the final Victory over the powers
ture. In God's eternal good pleasure not  Adam.  but Christ          of darkness, the promise of the city that hath foundations,
is first. And all other things are conceived in Him and unto         whose builder and maker is God, that was held before them
Him. This is the current teaching of Holy Writ, and is               by the Word of God. A typical form of that kingdom was
especially beautifully expressed `in I Corinthians 1 :15-20  :       established in the theocracy of Israel, with its earthly king,
"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of             its earthly throne on Mt. Zion, its constitution in the Mo-
every creature: For by him were all things created, that are         saic law and the covenant of Sinai, and its capital in the
in heaven, and  that are in earth, visible and invisible,            earthly Jerusalem. Centrally the kingdom of God was real-
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or         ized with the first coming of Christ. The incarnated Son of
powers : all things were created by him, and for him : And           God, the Babe of Bethlehem, is the promised Seed of the
he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And          woman, the Seed of Abraham, the Lion of Judah's, tribe,
he is the head of the body, the church : who is the beginning,       the root of David: "And .the government shall be upon his
the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have        shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,  Coun-
the preeminence.  For it pleased the Father that in  him             sellor,  the Mighty  ~God, the everlasting Father, the Prince
should all fulness  dwell; And, having made peace through            of  peace? Isa. 9  ~6, He fights the battle for the kingdom of
the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto.         God alone, and lays the foundation of it when He becomes
himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or          obedient unto death, yea, the death of the cross, as the faith-
things in heaven." Accoiding  to this passage, then, Christ,         ful Servant of Jehovah. And the,victory  is given Him when
and not Adam, is the firstborn of every creature. Thaf is,           He is justified and glorified in His resurrection on the third
Christ. not as the eternal Son of God, but as that Son in            day, when He is `received into the highest heaven, and when
human nature, that was crucified and slain and became the            He is exalted at the right hand of the majesty in heaven.
first-begotten of the dead.  C.hrist,  therefore, God  hacl          The prince of this world is vanquished and cast out, and
anointed from before the foundation of the world as His              the kingdom of God is realized in the glorification of the
eternal Servant-King. And in Him all things are to be                Son of God in hliman  flesh.                            H. H.


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                                                                    nacle) were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not,
11 THE DAY OF  Si-lADOWS  /I make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
                                                                    conscience" (9  :lOa)  ; and further, "For the law having a
                                                                    shadow of good things to-come. and not thk very image of
                 The Covenant of Sinai                              the things, can never with those sacrifices which they  offerecl
      As was stated, in treating this subject, I arranged my        year by year contiriually  make the comers thereunto perfect.
material under the following four points : The  Co\-enant           For then would they not have ceased to be offered ? because
of Sinai: (1) Its Character; (2) Its Promises; (3) Its              that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
Members; (4) Its Waxing Old and Vanishing Away and                  conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remem-
thk Reasons Thereof.                                                brance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible
      As we saw, the covenant of Sinai was as to its character      that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins"
a covenant of grace. For it was confirmed in blood, Ex. 24:         (10  :l-4). And finally this statement, "For if the blood of
8  ;  Heb. 9  :lS-20. That the covenant of Sinai was a cove-        bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
nant of grace and not a covenant `of works with conditional         unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (9 :13).
threats and promises is also clear from its promise, so  I
brought out. It was the very promise that the Lord  had                So then, according  tp our writer, the fact of the matter
`given to the fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Ex. 3 :7,      is this: God found fault with the covenant of Sinai: for the
S;  6:6-S,  and to Christ, Gal. 3  :16 to wit, in the final in-     things of this covenant, definitely the sacrifices by bloocl,
stance, the caricellation of all the  sins of  the. elect by the    were but figures, shadows of good things to come, prophetic
death of Christ and life in glory on the new earth. And             types of the Heavenly, the heavenly Christ. His kingdom
from this it follows, must follow, that the covenant of Sinai       and its heavenly things. This being true, the l)l~~d  of these
included, could include, only the Israel according to the           sacrifices could only purify the flesh; it could not beget for
election. Reprobated Israelites entered Canaan, to be sure.         the worshipper the subjective assurance of forgiveness of
But it was shown that reprobated Israel had no right to             sins. the reason being that it was impossible that this blood
Canaan and that the Holy Land was not meant for them.               -the blood of bulls and goats should take away &IS, cover,
      Here is where I broke off. What follows is the rest of        blot out sins in the sight of God. This blood, the suffering
my address in which I was occupied with the question:               and death of the animal sacrifices, was but shadow, as were
Why, if the covenant of Sinai was the covenant of grace,            all the things of the covenant of Sinai. This explains God's
did and could God make it old and thereby cause it to van-          saying by the mouth of. the prophet Jeremiah, "Behold, the
ish away. And this He did, according to the inspired writer         days come. when I will make a n&w covenant with the house
of the Hebrews. At verse 10 of his epistle the statement            of Israel and with the house of Judah-: not according to the
occurs, "In that he saith, A new covenant, he had made the          covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I
first old. Now that! which decayeth and waxeth old is ready         took them by the hand  to lead them out of the land of
to vanish away." Mention is here made of two covenants,             Egypt: because they continued not in my  covenarft, and I
the  Yrst" and the "new." That in the discourse of the              regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant
inspired writer the `Yirst" covenant is the covenant of Sinai       that I will make with the house of Israel after those  days,
is plain from Chap.  8:7-g, "For if the first covenant had          saith the Lord; I will put my' laws into their mind, and
been faultless, then should no place have been sought for           write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, ancl
the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold           they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every
the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new               illan his neighbor, and. every man his brother, saying, Know
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of             the Lord: for all shall know' me, from the least to the great-
Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their         est. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,  ancl
fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead             their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more," 8 :12.
them out of the land of Egypt: . .  ." Here our writer                 The passage sets forth the excellencies of the "new" cov-
quotes ,Jeremiah 31 :21-34.                                         enant in contradistinction to the faults of the covenant of
      There is next this question: Why did God make the             `Sinai. It is a covenant with the law in the minds and hearts of
first covenant, the covenant of Sinai, to vanish away that          its members as put there by God. It is a covenant in which
it might be superceded by what the inspired writer calls            He is a God to all its member? and in which they are to
the "New Covenant"? Because,  such is his answer, the               Him a people. It is a covenant all the members of which
first covenant was not without fault, chap. 8:7, "For if the        know God perfectly and experience His pardoning grace.
first covenant had been faultless, `then should no place have       Such is the "new" covenant and such are its excellencies.
been sought for the second," that is, for the "New Cove-            And such being its excellencies, its members must be limited
nant." What according to our writer the fault of the first          to the house of Israel according to the election of grade.
covenant was, is clear especially from the -following sttite-       This covenant-God's covenant of grace-did not include
ment from his pen: "in which (that is, in the first  taber-         the Israel according to reprobation.


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   Now with this same Israel-the Israel according to the          cannot be separated from the things that belonged to it but
election - God made the covenant of Sinai. As. was shotin,        must be identified with these things. The .covenant  of Sinai
it no more included the reprobated than did the "new" COV-        and its things was a shadow of the covenant of grace and
enant. But that the excellencies of the "new" covenant were       its realities. If so, the covenant of Sinai was itself a cove-
not those of the covenant of Sinai follows from the fact that     nant of grace but as shadow. And therefore it could not
God made it old so that it vanished away. "In that he saith,      possibly have been a covenant of works with conditional
A new covenant he bath  made the first old. Now that which        threats and promises. How could it have been a covenant of
decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away" (8  :13).        works, if it was a shadow of the true covenant of grace?
   It was not a covenant with the law in the hearts of the        Can a covenant of works be a shadow of a covenant of
house of Israel, that is, the Lord did indeed put His law in      grace  ? How could the covenant of Sinai be a  .covenant of
their mind and write it in their hearts, He was their God and     works, if it was a covenant of blood- the blood of a  sym-
they His people, and they all knew him, did the mem-              bolicitypical  vicarious atonement  ?
bers of the covenant of Sinai, and all experienced his par-          As has already been said, `in promising His `people de-
doning grace, but not because they were in this covenant          liverance  from. the bondage of Egypt and the rest of an
(of Sinai). And the reason.? The blood of this covenant           earthly Canaan the Lord was at once promising His people
could not take away sin. Its tabernacle was but a figure          a heavenly `salvation. This is so, as was pointed out, be-
for the time then present, -in which were offered both gifts      cause these earthly things were prophetic types of the heav-
and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service       enly. Viewed from this angle, it is doubtless correct to say
perfect as pertaining to the conscience, 9 23, 9. All were but    that the covenant of Sinai was the covenant of grace in
shadows of heavenly things - all, tabernacle, priests, and        symbolic, typical dress. It was the symbolic-typical dispen-
sacrifices, 8 5. And accordingly the content of the promise       sation of the covenant of grace. And, therefore it may be
of this covenant was but shadow. For what this promise            said that what the inspired writer of the Hebrews calls the
held forth was deliverance from earthy bondage, the rest          "first" and the "new" covenant are one covenant essentially,
of an earthy Canaan, and access to a worldly sanctuary.           so that what finally vanished away with the coming of Christ
   As to the new covenant, all its things were the very           is not the covenant of Sinai but only its typical dress.
realities foreshadowed by the things of the covenant of              That the saints of the Old Dispensation realized full well
Sinai. Here the priest is Christ "being come an high priest       that their sacrifices by blood were but shadows is plain from
of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect taber-      David's remarkable statement in Ps. 40 and quoted by the
nacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this build-    author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, "Sacrifice and offer-
ing; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His         ings thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened:
own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having          burnt offerings and sin offerings hast thou not required.
obtained eternal redemption for us . . . And for this cause       Then I said, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is
he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of          written of me . .  ."
death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were            But there- enters in here still, another consideration. The
under the first covenant, they which are called might re-         discrepancy between the animal sacrifice and the offender
ceive the promise of eternal inheritance" (9 :ll, 12, 14 j .      whose sins it expiated, symbolically, was great. The animal
   The text here makes mention of the transgressions that         is a non-moral and irrational creature whose suffering and
were under the first covenant, the covenant of Sinai. The         dying could not possibly serve as a payment for sin. Expia-
reference is to the transgressions not of the reprobated but      tion of sin required a bein,m rational and moral, a being with
of the true Israel. They did not abide in this covenant,          awareness of God and with .a moral sense, in other words, a
but transgressed, the reason being that the blood of this         being created in God's image. It required moreover a sin-
covenant could not take away sin and that therefore the           less being. capable of pouring out his  soul  in death as
Lord could not put His law in their mind because of His           activated by a pure love. Certainly, the Old Testament
having made with them this covenant. They did keep the            saints must have had understanding of this. They must have
first covenant in principle, which is equivalent to saying        perceived, as enlightened by the Spirit of Christ, that their
that, as was said, God did put His law in their mind but          animal sacrifices could not and did not take away sin.
only because the new covenant and its promise pertained to           But this raises a question. If they did have understand-
them, thus only because the Christ of the new covenant to         ing of this, was then to their minds their sin to remain un-
whom they belonged redeemed them from all their trans-            atoned though forgiven them of God  ? This, to be sure,
gressions under the first covenant.                               could   not have been their imagining. Had God forgiven
   So then, the first covenant, the covenant of Sinai, was        them and saved them with such a notion in their souls, He
but a shadow. It is correct to say that this covenant was         would have been denying Himself before their conscious-
but shadow, ' seeing that all the things that belonged to this    ness ; He would have so been disgracing himself in their
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Him as God, righteous and holy, and thus He would have                God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out
been defeating His very purpose in forgiving and saving               of the house of bondage," and by implication, "I will enter
them from His wrath- the purpose of revealing to His                  with thee into my rest, the rest of the earthy Canaan," the
people in the face of Christ, the total of His virtues, in            Lord was at once promising His people a heavenly salva-
order that His peopl'e might glorify Him forever as the God           tion. True, the law entered in, but it did not disannul the
of their salvation. And so their conviction was, must have            covenant that it should make the promise of non-effect (Gal.
been. that their sins would surely and truly be atoned. Bub           3  :17). As was said, this is so, because the earthy here is
by whom ?                                                             prophetic type of the heavenly. Rightly considered, the
       The question is, pertinent, seeing that the Old Testament      law formed no part of the covenant of Sinai, but it was
saints  were2 well aware for reasons just statkd that their           added to it and impbsed upon it and its promises. And "law"
sins were not being atoned by their animal sacrifices. But            I now take in the sense in which Paul takes "law," namely
if not by their animal sacrifices, then by whom ? They must           in the sense of a master vested with the right to say to man,
have  pkrceived,  as instructed by Christ's Spirit, that God in       "Ye shall keep my statutes and my judgments : which, if a
His own good time would provide them with a sacrificial               man do, he shall live by them" (Lev. 17 :5). And "Cursed
victim like unto themselves in all things sin excepted.  Iti          is every one that continueth not in all things which are writ-
means that their animal sacrifice stood out in their minds for        ten in the book of the law to do them" (Deut.  27:26)  This
wh& it was- a prophetic type of Christ. By the promise                is what the apostle understands by law. Let us quote him.
of Christ the believers lived, and as living by this promise          "And the law is not of faith : but, the man that doeth them
they  w&e saved. How it was laid upon the heart of Eve,               shall live by them" (Gal. 3  :12). This speech was not directed
the mother of all the (spiritually) living, what comfort she          to the people of Israel at Sinai until after the Lord had clones
derived from  it? is  evident from her jubilant cry in the            making His covenant with  them. and not until after this
moment of the birth of Cain, her firstborn son. Said she,             covenant had been confirmed by the blood of the animal
"I have received a man  .with Jehovah." And of Abraham                sacrifice. It was through His directing to His people this
it is stated that he saw the day of Christ and rejoiced. The          speech that the Lord'brought in the law. This speech was
protevangel set Him forth as the "seed" that shall crush the' not directed to Abraham. Nowhere in the New Testament
head of the serpent. In the communications of God to Abra-            Scriptures is this speech directed to the New Testament
ham He appears as the "seed" in whom all the nations of               church. And with reason. By fulfilling all its requirements,
the earth shall be blessed. In the Messianic psalms bf David          Christ has delivered His people from the law, so that it
His sufferings are described. It was of Christ that God was           cannot talk to them in this way anymore. But the believers
speaking,  ihen He said to David, "And when thy days be               do still have to do with the law as the commandments of
fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I wil! set           Christ written by him in their hearts. Thus with the law
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thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels?           as a rule of faith and as an instrument by which God brings
and I will establish His kingdom. He shall build a house              His people under conviction of sin. And that. too, was the
for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom           purpose of the entering in of the law at Sinai ; its purpose
forever . .  ." In the prophetic discourse of Isaiah He stands        was to drive by its curses God's people into the arms of
before us as the servant of Jehovah whom God will wound               Christ, foreshadowed by the symbolical-typical things of the
for our transgressions, Isa. 53  5. According to this same            covenant of Sinai.
prophet, He is the "child born unto us and the Son given                                                                     G. M. 0.
us  upon whose shoulders `the government shall be, and whose
name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace" (Isa. 9  :6).                                  Announcement
The Old Testament Scriptures throughout are interspersed                 Classis  East of the Protestant Reformed Churches will
with remarkably clear promises of the Christ. It cannot well          meet, the Lord willing, October 5, 1955, in the Fourth Prot.
be that a people - definitely the .saints of the Old Dispensa-        Ref. Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan. At this meeting
tion - prepared by the Lord to receive and to hold  su&               Candidate Herman Hanko, who has accepted the call to the
promises and to live by them, were grounding their salva-             Hope Prot. Ref. Church, will be examined.
tion on the suffering and dying of an animal as failing to                                           Rev .M.  Schipper, Stated Clerk.
realize that what they took to be reality was but a shadow.
   Essentially the promise of Christ and of the salvation
that God prepared for His people through Him belonged                                   ANNUAL MEETING
also to the covenant of Sinai. Essentially and in the final              The Annual meeting of the Reformed Free Publishing
analysis it was upon this promise that also the covenant of           Association will be- held in our Adams St. School, Thursday
Sinai-was established. I say  essentklly.  For let  us  consider      September 29, at S o'clock.
once more that in saying to His people, "I am the Lord thy                                                           T h e   B o a r d .


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 I                                                                        "hardness," the calloused indifference of their hearts. And
             FROM  H O L Y   WRIT                                     II this effect on these Pharisees of this word from Gen. 2 :23, 24
                                                                         as it is spoken by Christ should not be overlooked. It is good
                                                                         commentary on the meaning of the Holy Spirit.
               EXpOsifiQB _sf Masthew~ 19: HI-12                             2. Besides when Christ assures these Pharisees that MO-
                                                                         ses' permission to put away a wife was an ordinance, which
       We ended our last Article with a question. It was the             was given "because of the hardness of your hearts" the prior-
 question concerning the two Scripture passages which are                ity of the original ordinance stands. Or to put it in the words
quoted in Matthew 19  :4-S. In the former quotation from                 of Meyer in his Commentary, "He took higher ground than
 Matthew Jesus quotes from Genesis 2 :23, 24, where Moses                eitGzev of  the schools in question Hillel and Sammai) inasmuch
writes concerning the original ordinance of marriage, as it              as from this divine idea He deduces that marriage is a union
was "from the beginning." This reads :  "For this cause                  which no human authority has the right to dissolve . .  ."
shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his             One can, thei-efqre,  not `justify himself in putting away his
wife and they shall be one flesh." And Jesus draws the in-               wife with Moses' permission. He who appeals to Moses'
ference "Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh:                 permissidn  must at once also take with it the indictment
what therefore God  bath- joined together let not man put                that it is a case of "hardness of heart."
asunder." Such was the word quoted by Jesus. and it is                       3. It may be objected that in the case where a woman
his answer to the question, whether one may put away his                  (wife) commits  forliication one can put her away and not
wife for every cause.               c.                                   be guilty of committing adultery. Jesus' word seems to
      But  the Pharisees rather appeal to Moses' permission to           teach 
put away a wife. They cannot see that the original ordinance                       such  without a doubt. Says he "Whosoever shall put
                                                                         away. his wife,,  except it be  folp  fo?Fpricntion,  and shall marry
of God can stand in the light of Moses permission to put                 another  cimmitteth  adultery  ; and  whoso  lnarrieth  her that  p
away a wife according to Deut. 24:1-4.                                   is put away doth commit adultery." Here Jesus seems to
        Thus were the quotations in the context of Matthew               agree  with the school of Sammai. Yet, does He really? Do
19 :lO-12.                                                               the disciples understand the matter thus ? The fact that one
        And we asked the question: Did Jesus come into the               does not commit adultery by putting away an adulterous
world to make Deuteronomy 24 :l a reality? Or is the reality             woman is that tantamount to teaching that the marriage tie
of Deut.  24:l such, that it was a handwriting against us,               is abrogated by this adultery7
which must be nailed by Christ to the Cross with His own
blood, in order that we. as the church, might once more, in                  4. Fronlthe reaction of the disciples lihen they say "that
thankfulness to God, live fronthe principle of Gen. 2 :23, 24?           if the case of a man be thus with his wife it is not expedient
                                                                         to marry" would seem to follow that such a man,  who is
        Concerning this matter we wish to make a few more ob-            then what  is commonly called "the  innocepzt   party," is still
servations from the text. For, in our opinion, here lies the             in a bad way with his wife. Why? Because the tie which
cruz of the whole question. ,In the text our Lord reveals the            bound him to his wife is not broken by the Lord even after
fact that he is the end of the law for righteousness to every            she has committed adultery and he has given her a writing
one that believes. That means that he. did not have to come              of divorcement! If such were not the case one fails to see
to establish an ordinance that was given by the  lnw-girl&r              why the disciples would question the expediency of mar-
because of the hardness of heart of an adulterous and stiff-             riage at all.' It should not be overlooked that the disciples
necked people, but that He came to make grace and truth a                do not say that it is not "good'? (agathos) to marry, or
real,ity,  so that we might drink out of his fulness, grace for          that it is not honorable  (kales) but they speak of it as a
grace  - even in the marriage relationship !                             venture which might not work out too well, in which a good
       We base this observation on the following considerations          man might be stuck with a bad wife. And, therefore, they
of Holy Writ.                                         __                 speak of it as not being  (sympherei)  expedient. Marriage
       1. The force of Jesus' quotation from Gen. 2  :23, 24 to-         might be a bad gamble. Once in, you cannot get out, no ,
gether with His inference from these words is such that it               matter what happens. You cannot ever try it out to see
"draws blood" from the hypocritical Pharisees. They feel the             whether it works. It is no contract with  conditioval  stipu-
impelling force of the Word of God concerning how it was                 lations in it, but it is a covenant in which two people are
with God's ordinance in marriage  f~~ont  the  begi~+wzing.   That       made into one flesh. And only God has the prerogative to
makes the road too narrow for a pharisaic legalist. Especially           break that tie in death.
the inference:  What God  ha.th joined  togetJzer let not  wan              5. Besides this agrees with the absolute language of
Put asunder!  It really shut the door for  maps,  to ever break          Jesus in Luke  16:18, "Whosoever putteth away his wife
the marriage tie with ililpunity.  And they knew it. It created          and marrieth another, committeth adultery, and whosoever
for them not simply a theological, exegetical difficulty, but it        marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth
brought them into~ a spiritual-moral difficulty because of the          adultery." Here the language is such that both become


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adulterous. Any self-justification in  this divorcement is an            heaven all will be eunuchs. And that Christ really is the
abomination to the Lord. See verse 15.                                   Eunuch. He is the Eunuch, who has made himself a Eunuch,
       Certainly divorce belongs to  4 hard and stiff-neck&d peo-        for the Kingdom of lseaven's  sake. He never married. That
ple, who do not have a tender conscience in the things of                is a relationship for which He counted Himself unfit. He
God. And only they who tenderly regard this original insti-              could not raise up seed in the natural sense as did the first
tution of God, as it was from the beginning, will have room              Adam. He is the  last Adam. He does  not bring forth an-
for the saying of Jesus concerning the one who "makes him-               other human race of men, but He is the Life-giving Spirit
self a eunuch for  .the kingdom of heaven's sake." He will               by which we are made like unto His most glorious `body,
understand the inference of Jesus from Genesis 2  124, "where-           the resurrection body. In that resurrection we will not take
fore what God hath joined together let no man put asunder" !             in marriage nor be given in marriage but we shall be like
In so doing he will make himself a eunuch, one unfit  for!               the angels in heaven. Fundamentally we shall there all be
marriage, for the kingdom of heaven's sake.                              as the eunuchs. The marriage tie will not be for  us.  For
       Jesus says. that not all havk room for this saying', save         the flesh is gone. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the king-
they to whom it is given. Verse 11. This does not mean                   dom of heaven. It will indeed be heavenly.
that not all of God's people can understand this word of                    One who makes himself a eunuch for the  -Kingdom of
Jesus principally. They can. But unbelievers and harlots                 heaven's sake certainly will put away his wife also for this
and adulterers and the hard of heart cannot understand this              Kingdom's sake. He did not desire to be one flesh with a
saying. These have never received the unction of the Holy                harlot. Yet, on the other hand, he could not either desecrate
Spirit, are not Christians, and, therefore, cannot fight against         the ordinance of marriage  bs instituted by God "from the
sin with a good and pure conscience. But all God's children,             beginning," and thus work abomination before  the Lord!
the pure of heart, understand. They are the "babes" to                   So he lives the life of one who voluntarily chooses eunuch-
whom it is given to understand. They understand that the                 hood. Thus he is never stuck with a  woman,~  but is a free
"innocent party" is placed  ira  the  position of  the  e~ttnuci~  by    man in the Lord. For he is saved in hope of one day being
the very divorce decree he has brought about, necessitated               out of this body and with the Lord in the eternal state.
by the adultery of either the husband or the wife.                          This voluntarily being a eunuch is a far cry from the
       He that can understand this simple fact, which is here so,        interpretation given to this passage by  Romanism.  Thi`s is
very clearly and lucidly taught by our Savior in this text,              exactly not a disparaging of the marriage state as being of a
let him understand.                                                      lower order of holiness. Rather it is the only possible way
       For let it be clearly understood that a "eunuch!' is one          for the "innocent party" to keep the ordinance of marriage
who is unfit' for marriage.                                              "as it was  fro& the beginning," holy! This is then not
       And one who "makes himself a Eunuch for the King-                 simply a little expediency religion, but it is anchored in the
dom of heaven's sake," certainly says : for the sake of the              rock-bottomness of the faith that Christ has come to make
ordinance of marriage, which is sacred by virtue of the crea-            all things new, and that to the pure all things are pure.
tion of God, and the redeeming work of Christ on the cross,                  Since to, the impure nothing is pure they are not able
I count. myself in the class  of the eunuch, who can never be            to understand this conduct of the man who makes himself a
a candidate for marriage.                                                eunuch for the Kingdom's sake.
       What is a  &nuch ?                                                   But to those to whom it is given to understand the mys-
       A eunuch was one who was a bedkeeper. a bed-guard,                teries of the kingdom of heaven it will be clear that the
being one who was emasculated. Such a eunuch was em-                     mystery of marriage is great, having reference to Christ and
ployed as the keeper of the oriental harems. He was one                  the Church.                                              0
trusted by .such a king since he would not touch the king's                 .He that can understand it let him understand it.
wives. Physically and psychologically he was unfit for mar-                                                                      G. L.
riage and to raise up children.
       Now there were (are) three kinds of eunuchs, says
Jesus.
       There  are- those who are so born from their mother's                 "The decrees of God are absolute and unconditional.
womb that they are unfit for marriage. And there are those               He has not decreed anything, because he foresaw it as future :
who have been made such of men. Neither of these are                     and the execution of his decrees is not suspended upon any
eunuchs by free choice. They are such by the direct provi-               condition which may or may not be performed. This is the
dence of God, or they are such by the providence of God                  explicit doctrine of our Confession, and it is this principle
directing cruel men. Both are unfit for marriage.                        which chiefly `distinguishes Calvinists from Arminians, who
 - But the third class of eunuch is one by free choice, by               maintain that God's decrees are not  abs6lute  but condi-
virtue of the fact that God worked in him both to will and               tional."
to do of !His good pleasure,, He sees that fundamentally in                                   Rev. Robt Shaw. a Presbyterian,  1545.


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                                                                     stead of in God. He still ascribes things to creatures instead
 II               I N  ,H I S F E-A  d                          II of to the Creator.
                                                                        However, a graven  iniage of his god he does not make.
                                                                     A temple for his idol he does not erect. But he still con-
                 A Snare  hr Our Children                            tinues to form his own conception of God. The devils know
                                  (3)                                and believe that there is one God. And they tremble. Man
                                                                     in this age of "enlightenment" has by the Testimony of the
        The danger of misleading 2nd tempting our children by        Holy Spirit also come to that conclusion. But his depraved
 having graven images of some false god in our homes seems           heart and mind will not allow him to let that one God tell
 quite remote in this day and age.                                   Him how and what He is. He will not listen to &at one God
       , We live in an age of "enlightenment !"                      in His revelation that He gave us of Himself in His Word.
         Man has "progressed" so far in education and has learned    He will make mental images of Jehovah. And he will
 so much concerning the laws of God in creation that he no           deliberately distort what God reevals of Himself in His
 longer puts his trust in idols of wood and stone. He has            Word.
learned that gods made by the skill and workmanship of                  These things he will teach the coming generations. These
 man are harmless to the man who made them.                          things he will strive to impress upon the minds of his chil-
       _ But before we deceive ourselves into thinking that here     dren.
 we have one of the Ten Commandments that has by virtue                 And he iays a snare for them!
 of the "progress" of man become obsolete and even silly to             It is for that reason that we consider briefly now that
 read in this day and age, let us look again and hold  'OUT          same evil practice as many who call themselves children of
 tongues until we in the fear of the Lord speak with the             God and Covenant Pare&s lay a snare for their  Fhildren
 wisdom of Holy Writ.                                                and grandchildren by tolerating, defending and assuming an
        A man who lives in His fear has a reverent respect for       indifferent attitude over against false doctrines and heresies
 God's law and the wisdom of God therein.                            in their own circle.
         Graven images  ?                                               Those who walk in His fear hate every departure from
         No? they are not our present peril.                         the truth and recognize it as a mental iniage of God that
        They have become outdated in what is called the civilized    He forbids as a jealous God.
 world.                                                                 Is there essentially any difference between image worship
         Our present peril is leaving images as a snare for our      and false doctrine ? Does it essentially make any difference
 children which are much more difficult to  c&h in pieces            whether I tell my children, as I point to a golden calf, "Be-
 and banish out of our homes and land.                               hold .the God that brought His people up out of Egypt !", or
        We  do well to consider that graven images are but the       whether I tell them without any grave  image  that God would'
 concrete. expression of mental images.                              like to save them ancl everyone but can do nothing about it
        -Man shapes and molds his idol of wood and stone ac-         till they give Him permission and tell Him that they want
 cording to what his mqntal conception is of his god. The            to be saved ?
 image in his mind determines the image he makes in wood
 and stone.                                                             In either instance, have I not come to `an opinion of God
        Because the natural man considers God to be some fierce      in my own mind as to how and what He is ? Have I not in
 tyrant, he invariably makes an idol that is a hideous mon-          my own imagination drawn up a conception of God rather
 strosity ! And often he will find himself incapable of depict-      than to go to His revelation of  Himself  in His Word for
 ing in wood and stone exactly his warped ,opinion  of his god.      my ideas and opifiions conce;ning  Him ?
 Therefore he feels the need of more than one idol.                     Have I not, in either instance, expresskd what I would
        And though in this "enlightened" age men have ceased         like to have God be ? Have I not `in either instance likened
 to make their idols of wood and stone, we surely deceive            Him to a creature  ? Have I not put Him where `man can
 ourselves and our children if we try to maintain that he            manage Him a little better and whittle Him down more to
 has also ceased to form his mental images of God.                   his own size?
        Because the natural man has a mind that is  darkened-           Image worship and false doctrines stem out of the one
 by sin, and because having lost the fear of the Lord, he has        and same lie of Paradise that man can and may be like
 also  lost the beginning of wisdom, he still very foolishly         God! Man took that lie into his soul in the Fall and lives
 puts his trust in the horseshoe over his door. the four-leaf        from that principle today. And although he cannot get
 clover in his pocket, the rabbit's foot he carries with him.        away from the idea that there is a God, he will yet, under
 There are still countless number of men who will wear'this          the power of that lie, form his own ideas of God.
 tie, that coat, these shoes on a business venture, because             In the Old Dispensation this took on the form of image
 the last time he did so, he was very successful.  0,  th&           worship; and the flesh even of Israel went out for the wor-
 natural man still has -plenty of things in which he trusts in-      ship of all the images and idols of the heathen in the land of


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  Canaan. Today .it takes on the form of false doctrines, here-          church of Christ Lodge members, members of the godless
  sies, teachings concerning God which are not the result of             Unions; you will find a heresy introduced which bluntly or
  careful exegesis of the Word of God and are not the result             n<ore  cleverly set forth a mental iinage  of God that does not
  of letting Scripture interpret Scripture but instead arise in          do Him justice.
  the mind of man, who then turns to a few scattered passages                We hear or heard so much of that recently!
  of Holy Writ which apart  from their context seem to sub-                  It is the very spirit of the heresy-productive age in
  stantiate such a view of God.                                          which we live !
         1s this corrupting of the idea of God in false doctrine any         Defend  the truth for your children; condemn heretical
  less .obnoxious  to Him than the evil of representing Him by           statements ; make no compromise with the lie ; make as sure
  an image that is a conglomeration of the parts and mem-                as you can that your children and your church holds on to
  bers of creatures ? Is there any creature that does justice td         the truth concerning Jehovah; demand apologies for state-
  Him Who as Create; of all transcends all that which He has             ments that  insult  Him and lower Him to the level of man
  made ?                                                                 to promise to every man that if he will believe, He will save
         And is there a conception of Him that arises in the mind,       him. And what happens? You are accused of being lacking
  of sinful man that does justice to Him ?                               in love!
         He is a jealous God !                                               You will be accused of not walking in the Master's steps !
         And He has the sovereign right to be jealous of His             You  see? Back of it all is that mental image of God
  position as God because there is no God besides Him!                   which is not in His Word at all. A mental image of God as
         So jealous is He that He hates  evell-the   .slightest  cor-    the God of love is ,ma.wujactzwed.
  ruption of the truth concerning Himself. And He visits that                 Indeed, God is love.-
  iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and                But that exactly means that He cannot love, sin and
  fourth generations of thosk that hate Him.                             heresy. He loves Himself. He loves His Church for Christ's
         Making graven images of Him is an act of hating Him;            sake. He visits the iniquity of those that hate Him. He does
an act of hating Him as He actually is -and of expressing                not love them!
  the desire to mold and shape `Him after our own likes and                   And the child of God says with that saint of God, "Do
  dislikes f an act of striving to bring Him down to the level           not I hate them that hate thee? `I hate them with a perfect
  of the creature so that man need not fear Him so greatly,              hatred ?" Psalm 139 :21, 22. How can he love those that hate
  nor serve Him so perfectly.                                            God ? Neither does God demand that he love them for these
         And making, defending, spreading and indifference to the        things. He may not hat@  him for the things he does to man;
  s-ising up, defense and spread of false doctrines is likewise an       he must do good to those that despitefully use him. But he
  act of hating  ,God. Surely He will visit the iniquity of the          who loves God must count-  God's enemies to be his enemies.
  fathers who set a snare for ther-children  in these things; so              Lay no snare for your children by allowing heretical
  that the third and fourth generations of those who expose              statements to stand uncondemned. Defend no  snare.for  your
  their children to these heresies will no longer know the mercy         children by allowing a defense to be made with your ap-
  of God and will walk in the unbelief of the world and perish           proval for literally heretical statements.  `.
  with it.                                             P                     You will not live to see the end of such'an act .of hatred
         No, God does not punish the third and fourth generations        against God. And the-  departure `may seem so small t6 you
  for the sins of their fathers. God is just. But the point in the       today that you do not deem it sufficient to go  ~to all the
Second Commandment is exactly that those parents  who]                   trouble of condemning it and ridding your family of it. But
  hold to image worship and recommend it to their children               Scripture is clear enough on that point to show what hap-
  will find that to the third and fourth generations the truth           pened in Israel, when the images of the heathen remained in
  concerning God is not received and loved by their children             the land. And history's pages will also show how far the
  either. They, too, will hate God and show it in gross idolatry         third and fourth generations have carried "slight" de-
  and so be punished for their own hatred of God.                        partures from the truth.
         And, today, those who deliberately  m&ufacture,   pre-               If you walk in His fear; if you stand in holy awe before
  sistently defend and refuse to condemn heretical `statement9           Him ; you will cast frotn  you and your children every sem-
  will find that the third and fourth generations of their chil-         blance of evil and false doctrine.
  dren (if they would only live' long enough to see it) have                  But those who cry the loudest : Tell us what we must do J
  gone to unbelievable lengths of sin and unbelief.                      Be practical ; Show us our responsibility; exactly show nlso
         The only way is to break down the mental image by of-           the insincerity of this their complaint in that. when you tell
  ficial and unofficial condemnation of it.                              them that they must apologize and condemn that which
         Consider what Jeroboams' golden calves brought forth            presents a mental image of God that  cloes  Him injustice,
  in the gross idolatry of Ahab's reign!                                 they refuse.
         And count back the generations of those who today al-               Then they do not want to be told anymore what they
  low i&o their chu;ch  membership and into the offices of the           r11ust cl0 !        (C`orrfiuucd   OIL  pfl~ge  4 9 8 )


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II                                                                    in the hearts of men. And its effect, even though it speaks
          The Voice of Our Fathers                               II of the obedience of faith as being -"incomplete," is always
                                                                      such that it brings men again under the heavy yoke of the
                                                                      law. Thus men are drawn away f&m the truth of gracious
                The Canons of Dordrecht                               justification, from the truth that God "without any merit of
                               PART TWO                               mine? but only of mere grace, grants and imputes to me, the
                  E                                                   perfect satisfaction, righteousness  ancl holiness of Christ  ;
                       XPOSITION  OF  THE  CANONS                     even so, as if I never had had, nor committed any sin: yea,
                       FIRST  HEAD  OF  DOCTRINE                      as if I had fully accomplished all that obedience which Christ!
                  OF D I V I N E   PREDESTINATIOX                     has accomplished for me; inasmuch as I embrace such bene-
                REJECTIONS  0~ ERRORS                                 fit with a believing heart." Heidelbwg   Cntechismz,  X X I I I ,
                        Article III (continued)                       GO. To this we ma3 add that men are drawn away from the
                                                                      truth of gracious justification to a figment of Arminian
      4) The condition unto salvation which God chose is,  iti        imagination that is neither gracious (since it substitutes
the first place, the  act  of faith, which, according to the          works for grace) nor justification (since it attributes to God
Arminians, "from its very nature is undeserving." Notice              a most flagrant violation of all justice, claiming that He will
that all stress is here laid upon the conscious activity of faith,    accept as deserving that which is undeserving, and as com-
that is, the act of believing, and that this act of believing,        plete that which is incomplete..)          .
even though admittedly undeserving, is nevertheless con-                 4)  It draws men away from the simplicity of Scripture.
ceived of as a meritorious work. With the act of faith, more-         In other words, the Arminian presentation is not simple, but
over, belongs, in the second place, the "incomplete obedience         involved. And with the simple and clear declarations of the
of faith" as a condition of salvation. Again, notice that the         Scriptures this Arminian presentation must needs play
Arminian concedes that the obediknce of faith is incomplete,          "hocus-pocus." No more clear example of this last charge,
that is, it is not the perfect and complete keeping of  the           nor any clearer substantiation of all  th'e charges here brought
requirements of God's law. But this incomplete obedience              against the Arminian view could be found than the Worcl of
is nevertheless a work, or rather, many works, which man              God as quoted from II Timothy 1 :9 : "Who saved us, and
must perform in order to obtain salvation.                            called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but
      5) Finally, the Arminian must still face the fact that          according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us
Scripture teaches us that salvation is by  gro.ce. And so he          in Christ- Jesus before times eternal."
maintains that the gracious character of salvation lies herein,          We close with the comment that all who will maintain
that God, Who n$ght righteously insist upon complete obe-             a conditional salvation, including those who do so under the
dience, accepts as substitutes for it the undeserving act of          Reformed flag. must necessarily akcept the consequence that
faith and the incomplete obedience thereof, counting the              they stand condemned. and that too on the basis of very
latter worthy of the reward of eternal life.                          serious charges, by the greatest of the Reformed synods  ,and.
      The above erroneous conception of the Arminians is found        without any question, properly so in the light of Scripture.
guilty on the following counts:                                                  Article IV.  Who teach: That in the election unto
      1) It makes the good pleasure of God of none effect.                       faith this condition is beforehand demanded, viz., that
This is quite evident. For the total effect of this presenta-                     man should use the light of nature  aright, be pious,
tion of God's good pleasure is such that it has no power at                      humble, meek, and fit for eternal life, as if on these
all, as far as any determination concerning the salvation of                      things election were in any way dependent. For this
                                                                                 savors of the teaching of Pelagius, and is opposed to
men is concern&l. The outcome is left entirely to man, who                       the doctrine, of the apostle, when he writes:, "Among
will meet or fail to meet the conditions set forth by God.                       whom we all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing
      2) It makes  ~the merits of Christ of none effect. Also                    the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were  by
this charge is quite evidently correct, serious though it may                    nature children of wrath, even as the rest; but God
be. For while the truth is that the merits of Christ are the                     being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he
                                                                                 loved us, even when we were dead through our tres-
sole basis upon which we receive from God the reward of                          passes, made us alive together-with Christ (by grace
eternal  life: the Arminian shunts those merits aside, and                       have ye been saved), and raised us up with him, and
replaces them by works of men, namely, the act of faith ancl                     made us to sit with him in heavenly places, in Christ
the incomplete obedience thereof.                                                Jesus; that in the ages to come he might show the
      3) It draws men away from the truth of gracious justi-                     exceeding riches of his grace in kindness towards us
                                                                                 in Christ Jesus; for by grace have ye been saved
fication by useless questions. The useless questions are, of                     through f: ith; and that not of yourselves, it is the
course, the anxious questionings which this error occasions                      gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory."
in the minds and hearts of men as to whether they have met                       Eph. 2 :3-9.
and fulfilled the conditions of salvation. For this view can             In this article of the Rejection of Errors we find a con-
do nought else than to foster doubt and anxiety and `terror           tinuation of the detailed espose of the Arminian heresy


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which was treated in general in the first two articles of the       pious, humble, meek, and fit for eternal life  (disposed  unto
Rejection. In Article II the idea of "various kinds of elec-        eternal life, literally). Remember: all  these  are- required
tion of God unto eternal life" was condemned. And in                befol-e  a man ever is  chosenunto  faith, and,  therefore, be-
Articles III to VI the  Cnnzons go into detail concerning this      fore he ever receives the gift of faith itself.
error. In Article III, while it rejects the error of a con-            Here the essence of the Arminian position is exposed: it
ditional salvation, the error of what is denoted in II as a         is nothing but the teaching of Pelagius. For, mark you well,
"general and indefinite election" is at the same time repucli-      the Arminian is not, in his own opinion, speaking of ~I@OS-
atecl. There remains to be treated the erroneous distinction        Able.  conditions. In the Arminian view it is, of course, pre-
of a particular and definite election which is "either incom-       supposed that these conditions can also be fulfilled: other-
plete, revocable, non-decisive and conditional, or complete,        wise no one would ever receive the gift of faith. And there-
irrevocable, decisive and absolute.?' And, in close connection      fore? one must stand on the same doctrinal ground concern-
with this distinction is that between an election unto faith        ing the creation, nature, and fall of man as the `fifth century
and an election unto salvation. It is with the very deceitful       heretic Pelagius. By implication he must also maintain the
Arminian teaching of an election unto faith that the present        Pelagian conception of grace as being merely  crssistcmt  in
article deals.                                                      character. The fathers do not describe the Pelagian error.
     Apparently  : the Arminian is very orthodox when he            undoubtedly because to denote anything as Pelagian is to
speaks of an election unto faith. He also will speak of faith       condemn it ipso facto as being contrary to the Christian re-
as a condition unto -salvation. Besides, he teaches that  thel      ligion, and, especially, to the Reformed truth. To show how
incomplete and non-decisive election of particular persons to       correct the fathers were in this accusation we can do no
salvation (the election unto salvation mentioned in Article         better than to quote from Pelagius himself. He wrote: "The
II) takes place because of a foreseen faith. But he attempts        heathen are liable to judgment and damnation, because they,
to camouflage this heresy by speaking of an election  z&o           notwithstanding their free will, by which they are able to
fait/z.  Such language has a Reformed sound. For the fathers        attain unto faith and to deserve God's grace, make an evil
themselves declare in I, S, that God  "bath  chosen us  from        use of the freedom bestowed upon them; Christians, on the
eternity, both to grace and glory, to salvation and the way         other hand. are worthy of reward,  because they through good
of salvation." And in I, 9, they state literally: "But men are      use of freedom deserve the grace of God, and keep his com-
chosen to faith and to the obedience of faith, holiness . . . ."    mandments." The similarity between this one statement of
How crafty and deceitful, therefore, is the Arminian. He            Pelagius and the error described in this article of the Re-
will freely admit that election is anto faith, and that in this     jection cannot fail to be noticed.
sense faith is not .a condition of election.                           But once more the fathers, not satisfied with finding
     But he multplies conditions. He has conditions unto sal-       Arminianism guilty by association, turn to the Scriptures for
vation and conditions unto election. And of all the various         proof that cannot be gainsaid. In this quotation from Ephe-
kinds of election which he invents there is only one that is        sians 2 :3-9 the Arminian position stands  condemnecl : 1)
not conditional. And the one that is not conditional is             Because in the apostle's description of our natural estate
general and indefinite and impersonal, stipulating the condi-       there is absolutely no room for the fulfillment of the con-
tions unto salvation which God determined upon in His good          ditions prescribed by the Arminians. Can children of wrath,
pleasure.                                                           who live in the lust of the flesh, doing the desires of the
     Let us briefly analyse this present error. For an error it     flesh and of the mind, use the light of nature  aright, be
is. When the Arminian speaks of an election unto faith and          pious, humble, meek, and disposed unto eternal life? 2) Be-
you inquire as to his meaning, you discover that there are          cause the Arminian position is contrary to the apostle's
numerous conditions attached to this election. In fact,  so         statement that God loved us even when we were dead through
numerous are they that one of two things must be true :             sins. In other words, the love of God, in which He bestows
either a man will never attain to faith and to the election         on  us  the-blessings of salvation (including faith) is prior, not
unto faith, or he will be such a perfect man that he is well-       our piety, humility, meekness, and dispositon unto eternal
nigh in glory  -before  he attains to this election unto faith.     life. 3) Because the Arminian position is  -contrary to the
The error, therefore; is not in the idea of an election unto        plain declaration of the apostle: "By grace have ye been
faith, but in making that election separate from the rest of. saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the
God's elective decree and in presenting the election unto           gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory." This
faith as conditional.  Ancl the conditions are indeed im-           is true even if the pronoun "that" is understood as referring
posing! Man must use the light of nature  aright. That is,          to the entire clause, "By grace ye have been saved through
he must employ not what are called the "remnants of natural         faith." And this is emphasized by the negative statement,
light" of his own nature  aright, but he must use the light         "not of works, that no man should glory." Certainly, the
of creation, which testifies of God's eternal power and Gocl-       Arminian error here rejected leaves room for man to glory
head, to the end for which God has appointed it, namely             before the face of God. And the very thought of that is
to glorify and be thankful unto Him. Further, he must be            blasphemy.                                               H.C.H.
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II                                                                   wording of Article 22, the impression may easily be left that
             DECENCY. and ORDER                                      elders are to be chosen by the consistory (body of elders)
                                                                     together- with the deacons and, consequently, the conclusion
                  The  Office of the Elder                           might be drawn that the congregation  has no part in this
                                                                     matter. This  would   .certainly be wrong as the rest of the
      "The Elders shall be chosen by the judgment of the             article plainly shows. Furthermore, the thirty-first article
Consistory and the Deacons according to the re&lations for           of our Confession of Faith states: "We believe, that the min-
that purpose estjblished  by the Consistory. In pursuance of         isters of God's Word, and the elders and deacons, ought to
these regulations, every .church shall be at liberty. according      be chosen to their respective offices by a lawful election by
to its circumstances to give the members an opportunity to           the  CI~UTCIZ."  And, in the Form for Installation the question
direct attention to suitable persons, in order that  the  Con-       is asked both elders and deacons whether "they do not feel
sistory may thereupon either present to the congregation for         in their hearts, that they are lawfully called of God's chatrch
election as many Elders as are needed, that they may, after          and, consequently, of God Himself  ?" This means, apart from
they are approved by it, unless any -obstacle arise, be in-          the interpretation that may be given to the church order,
stalled with public prayers and stipulations; or present a           that it is a sound and fundamental principle that the con-
double number to the congregation and  thereupon.install  the        gregation shall have a part in the choosing of her office
one half chosen by it, in the aforesaid manner, agreeably to         bearers. To exclude her would be very .wrdng.  The practice
the form for this purpose." (Art. 22, D.IC.0.)                       of making appointments to office by individuals is severely
                   A.                                                c o n d e m n e d .
                          The Election of Elders
                                                                        Calvin, who more than any of the Reformers understood
      In a very short time most of our consistories and congre-
gations will be active in the annual task of making nomina-          the office of elder and restored it to its proper place in the
tions for office-bearers, calling congregational meetings, elect-    church,, also insists upon this principle. In his Institutes.
ing men who in due time will then be installed as elders and         Vol. II, page 329, he  w&es:
deacons  in the church of Christ. Too often  .these matters             "Here it is inquired, whether a minister (elder) ought to
are regarded as simply routine and the interest and concern          de chosen by the whole Church, or only by the other min-
of the individual members of the congregation thaf ought to          isters and the `elders who preside over the discipline, or
be visibly  evicient  is sadly lacking. Sometimes members even       whether  h,e may be appointed by the authority of an in-
assume the wrong attitude that these labors belong strictly          dividual. Those who attribute this right to any one man,
to the consistory and are, therefore, no direct concern  68          quote what Paul says to Titus, `For this cause left I thee in
theirs. This is very. serious because the election of  offiice-      Crete, that thou shouldst ordain elders in every city ;' and to
bearers in the church is  not- a trivial, routine matter  butl       Timothy: `Lay hands suddenly on no man." But they are
belongs to the most serious labors of the church institute. In exceedingly mistaken, if they suppose that either Timothy
the hands of those who are chosen to these offices is  en:           at Ephesus, or Titus in Crete, excercised  a sovereign power
trusted the oversight, care and guidance of the flock. Such          to regulate everything according to his own pleasure. For
laxity and  incliff  erence, therefore, to these matters can         they presided over-the people, only to lead them by good and
only be of serious detriment to the whole church.                    salutary counsels, not to act alone to the  e%.clusion of  311
Certainly, where such conditions prevail there is a serious          others. But that this may not be thought to be an invention
spiritual abnormality in the congregation that must be com-          of mine, -1 will prove it by a similar example . For Luke
batted and uprooted through sound instruction so that the            relates, that elders were ordained in the churches by Paul
individual member of the church may regain consciousness of          and Barnabas. but at the same time he distinctly marks the
his solemn duty and calling before God. Only then will he            manner in which this was done, -namely, by the suffrage
feel the necessity of diligently exercising himself in these         or votes of the -people ; for this is the meaning of the term
things unto the glory of our eternal, covenant God and the           he there employs  -  `keirotonasantes  presbuterous kat' ek-
welfare of the church. TQ attain the latter, every individual        klasian'  - (Acts #14  :23). Those two apostles; therefore, or-
member must diligently watch so that the affairs of the              dained them; but the whole multitude, according to the
church are placed in the hand; of such men 3s are "of honest         custom observed in elections among the Greeks, declared by
report, full -of the Holy Ghost and wisdom." Then the an-            the elevation of their hands who was the object of  the?
nual elections becomes a matter of closest observation and           choice. So the Roman- historians frequently speak of the
prayer and in it is manifest most profound concern a?d in-           counsul,  who held the assemblies, as  a.p@irztiag  the new
terest. And this is proper!                                          migistrates,.  for no other reason but because he received the
      In view of this, we will discuss, the Lord willing, very       suffrages and presided at the election. Surely it is not cred-
carefully and in detail the next few articles of our church          ible that Paul granted to Timothy and Titus more. power
order that speak of the offices of elder and deacon. We begin        than he assumed to himself; but we see that he was ac-
with the matter of the election of elders. According to the          customed -to ordain bishops according to the suffrage of the


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people. The above passages, therefore, ought to be under-              church, from where would we expect it to'come? And the
 stood in the same manner, to guard against all infringement           striving will `never be  evident  where the members of the
 of the common right and liberty of the Church."                       church are not conscious of their calling!
       And further he writes: "We find, therefore, that it is a               Furthermore, we may point out that the  right  of the
 legitimate ministry according to the Word of God, when                congregation to participate in the election of her office-bearers
 those who appear suitable persons are appointed with the              is not to be conceived of as simply a pg+ivilege. It is that but
consent  atid approbation of the people  ; but that other pastors      it is -also more. It is a solemn duty imposed by God upon
 ought to preside over the election, to guard the  multitticle         His  people  and this sadly enough is in practice often ignored.
 from falling into any improprieties, through inconstancy, in-         When wrong men, -evil men -creep into the offices,  God
 trigue, or confusion."                                                is not to be blamed, nor is the guilt to be laid wholly upon
       The same principle is' taught by our own Rev. G.  M.            the consistory, but the fault lies in the laxness of the mem-
 Ophoff. We quote from his Church Right Notes the  fol-                bers in  eiecuting their calling. Individual members do not
 lowin&  :                                                             always feel their responsibility and are too often satisfied to
      "By whom does the right of choosing rest?  The answer            leave the matter of election of office-bearers almost exclusively
 of this article is: The elders shall be chosen by the judgment        to the consistory. Some will judge the consistory's nomina-
 of the consistory end the deacons. But this answer detracts           tions posit-ively wrong but do nothing-about it. Others are
 from the rights of the congregation. This should be added.            so little interested and concerned that without reason at all,
 `with co-operation of the congregation.' According to Holy'           they will refrain from attending the congregational meetings
 Writ, the office-bearers must be chosen by members of the             where these things are decided. They evidence no sense of
 congregation under the supervision of the consistory. The             guilt. Ignorant they appear to be of their first duties  and.
 seven deacons of the church in  jerusalem  were chosen by             this is not a healthy situation. Suppose the whole church
 members of .the congregation under the supervision of the             consisted of members like that? What then would the church
 apostles. If the  Congregation  is not allowed to co-operate,         be?
 the consistory makes itself guilty of hierarchy. It treats the               Finally, it is not the congregation alone that functions
 congregation as though it were formed of spiritual minors  in-        in the election of office-bearers. The consistory, too, has a
 steal of spiritual majors and proceeds on the assumption that         very vital and sign$?cant  part to fulfill. This is evident from
 the consistory is the Church Institute.                               the twenty-second Article as well as from the quotations
       But, certainly, the members of the congregation, too,.          aforecitecl. Concerning this, however, we will have to wait
 are included in the Church Institute, that is, to the  bpdy           until the next time. D.V.
 of Christ  as  ogpgnn.ixed.  If they did not, how could they                                                                  G.V.D.B.
 partake of the ,Lord?s Supper and present their children for
 baptism ? How could there ever be church reformation if the
 members of the congregation belonged not to the church
 institute  ? There can be church reformation because, when                                       IN HIS FEAR
 the teaching and ruling ministry apostatizes and will not                                   (Couthed  fmm  ficrgc  494)
 repent, the common members have the right to withdraw
thenlselves  from such: and erect the institute anew by chaos-.               Then they cast off all responsibility for those statements
 ing them office-bearers  willin,m to function according to God's      which their children already begin to carry out and developer
 Word."                                                                into more error.
       This point we do not emphasize because there is any dis-               And their defense of these things reveals the truth of
agreement among us on this matter. Reformed people have                the fact that they never did apologize for them.
always agreed that office-bearers are called to their office by               Let the readers of these lines lay no snare for their
 God                                                                   children.
         through  the cl~urck,-  and have, therefore opposed every.
form of hierarchical appointments. Elections by the congre-                   Let them condemn before their children every departure
gations are to this clay held. This, however, does not                 from the truth.
                                                                                                                                 `J.A.H.
preclude the danger of the present correct practices becom-
ing gradually modified so that eventually the function of  the
office of the individual believer is lost. Against this we have
to be alert by seeking the best possible method of choosing                   "Whoso seeks from God.any  other rewarcl but God, ancl
office-bearers. Satisfaction in the status-quo is not necessarily-     for it would serve? esteems what he wishes to receive more
a good omen . It may be possible that there is considerable            than Him from whom he would receive it. What then?
room for further improvement or betterment of our present              hath God no reward? None, save Himself. The rewarcl of
methods and practices. If then, the striving for the better-           God is God Himself."
ment of all things does not arise out of the bosom of the                                                                   - Augustine


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                                                                                                               _ -_-
                                                                       ceasing civil war, a bitter struggle between mutually irrecon-
             A L L   A R O U N D   U S                           II cilable interpretations of the Christian tradition. The struggle
                                                                       is one between the historic Christian faith and liberal tgeol-
 The  Refomnkd  Fa.itlz  in  Conflict                                  JXY ; a struggle between Christ and anti-Christ. This
                                                                       sttiiggle,  however,-is seemingly coming to an end. Voices
     Sometime ago a brother gave me a copy of a book with              once articulate in warning the church of .apostasy  and reli-
 the above title, written  i;y the Rev. Henry P.  Kik, minister        gious  syncretism have strangely become silent. Pens that
 of a Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Due to                once wrote of the liberalism of the Federal Council of
 press of other duties we did not have time to read it care-           Churches have suddenly run dry. One might be led to be-
 fully, but just skimmed through it. Having now a little more          lieve that this silence is due to the fact  .that a reformation
 time, we read through the book again and felt it worthwhile          has taken place in the Church. The contrary, however, is
 to make a few comqents  on it.                                       true. There has been an increasing triumph of liberal theol-
     The book contains some 24 mimeographed pages. It is               ogy over the large  .denominations  and the interchurch
 well written. And it intends to be a rather severe criticism         agencies. So overwhelming has this `victory' been that many
 of the Reformed Church in America, the denomination in                evangelicals  have resigned themselves to a position of com-
 which the Rev. IGk serves as minister.                               promise with  the apostate  -church.  Others who are sound
     Rev.  Iiik takes to task his denomination. because of its        in the faith have little or no appreciation of the dreadful
 laxity in doctrine and discipline as is evidenced in its associa-    departure from the historic Christian faith, that has taken
 tion with the National Council of Churches (Federal Coun-            place within their own denomination . . . ."
 cil j and its allowance of certain ministers in the denomina-            Under the second heading "As Ari Angel of Light" the
 tion to disseminate their views which violently contradict the       Rev. Kik points out the deception of the National Council.
 Reformed Standards on which the Reformed Church in                   "Satan's most dangerous form is as an angel of light; when
America is supposed to be based.                                      he comes as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. He is most
     The Reverend insists that his denomination is based upon         dangerous when he comes with pleasing words and policies
the Three Forms of Unity (Heidelberg Catechism. Belgia                -comes as  Absalom,  sitting in the gates and stealing the
Confession, and Canons of Dordt). He reminds his readers              hearts of our people with one hand, and with the other hand
that each minister in his ordination vows promises to main-           he steals our Confessional Standards ----"comes like Joab with
tain these doctrinal standards. But what has the denomina-            the word `Brother' on his lips to take a peaceful walk, only
tion done ? It has Synodically declared association with the          to thrust the sword of treachery into the truth he holds dear
National Council which is controlled by modernists and                -comes like Judas with `Hail Master', but  pith the  @-ice
liberals of the rankest sort who boldly deny the fundamental          of betrayal in his hands."
doctrines of the Reformed Faith and has done so since the                 Rev.  I<ik accuses his church of fellowshipping with unbe-
inception of this modernist organization., And what is just           lievers so long as she is associated with the Federal Council.
as bad, his churches allow their ministers to teach publicly          He quotes men like Oxnam and Fosdick, representative of
through the press, radio and television doctrines wholly              the  lea.dership  in the Council, as examples of unbelievers.
foreign to the Scriptures and the Reformed Standards.                 Here is a  qu6te from Fosdick to prove it. "Of course, I do
    Rev. Kik declares that his denomination is fraught with           not believe in the Virgin Birth, or in that old-fashioned sub-
tension, conflict, and he calls his church to return once more        stitutionary doctrine of the Atonement ; `and do not know
to  the. faith of the fathers as `expressed in the Reformed           any intelligent Christian minister who does. The trouble
Standards. He seems to hint that much of the difficulty               with these fundamentalists is that they suppose that unless
stemS from the two seminaries in which their ministers are            dne agrees with them in their doctrinal set-up, he cannot
prepared. One of these is New Brunswick, located in the               believe in the profound substantial, everlasting truths of the
East; and the other is Western Theological Seminary in                Christian gospel that transform men's lives! and are the
Holland, Michigan. Another source of evil is to be found in           only hope of Christ's Saviourhood in this world . . . ."
local Glasses which allow certain ministers to preach and                Rev.  Iiik would maintain the doctrine of man's depravity
to teach as they please with no concern whatever that they            and the doctrine of Atonement as absolutely essential to the
maintain Reformed doctrine. But the greatest source of evil           salvation of sinful man. But he repudiates the doctrine of
is to be found in the broadest gathering of the church                the Council that practically deifies man.  .He deplores the loss
(Synod j which for many years has refused to heed the                 of "doctrinal distinctiveness" in favor of  "ecumenicity."
protests of many who warned against association with the              "There are those who say that `the criticism is not in what
liberals.                                                             the Council has done. but what ~07~~  members of the Council
    Obviously we do not have space to quote all  that the             have said.' But our criticism of what the Council has done
Rev.  Iiik has to say. But here are a few quotes taken at             to  us as a denomination still remains. For the fact remains
random.                                                               that we have surrendered much of our distinctiveness -and
    "Around the world today Protestantism wages an  un-               our cooperating with the agencies of the National Council


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has played no small part in that surrender.. If, however, we        trust you will agree with US. Here follows the article with- 1
no longer believe that the Reformed Faith is worth-while,           out further comment :
then it becomes our duty to lower the flag of Calvinism and              "First  Cew.twy   : `And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes
in its place hoist the popular flag of ecumenicity."                have holes and the birds of the air have nests ; but the Son
       Further, the Rev. Kik also severely reprimands the Clas-     of man hath not where to lay his head.'
sis in which Dr. Norman Vincent Peale resides for allowing               Twentistk  CcntzLu_v:  The thing to do is get the finest
this minister, via press, radio, and television, to disseminate     house you can possibly afford or even a little finer than you
cloctrines  wholly contrary to the Reformed Faith. "The             can really afford. Fill it with handsome, elegant furniture,
`Confession of Faith' knows nothing of universalism and             lovely rugs, sterling silver, and exquisite china. It's your
has a great deal to. say about the election of grace and the-       money ; go ahead and spend it.
`justly terible and dreadful judgment of the wicked and the             First  Centzwy  : `But godliness with contentment is" great
ungodly'. Dr. Peale apparently believes in universalism,            gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is
namely that no one is lost . . .  ." "To my knowledge  the          certain we can carry nothing out.  Atid having food  ancl
Classis  of New York has not requested Dr. Norman Vincent           raiment, let us be therewith content.'
Peale to explain why he has departed from the vows he                    Twentieth  Center  : Having delicately-seasoned food,
made when he signed the formu!a upon being received as a            daintily served with cut glass and fine linens, and having
minister in the Reformed Church in America. To my knowl- fashionably-styled clothing of beautiful fabric and latest cle-
edge Dr. Peale has not communicated his apparent doubts             sign, let us be therewith discontent.
about the Gospel of the Grace of God in Christ Jesus and                And let us increase our cliscontent  by watching enviously
the Standard of our faith to the Classis  as he promised upon       the passing parade of other Americans who are even more
being received into our denomination. Both he and the Clas-         self-indulgent and luxury-loving than we, while we forget
sis of New York are morally and spiritually bound to do             the millions of people in other nations who are starving and
so . . .  ." "This procedure by some will be deemed `con-           in rags.
troversial'. And it is. Yet it is  controv'ersy  of a good sort.         F,irst  Centul-y   : `But  seek  ye first the kingdom of  God
People sometime tell us that they are tired of controversy in       and his righteousness : and all these things shall be added
the Church. Well, one thing is clear -for years the Re-             unto you.'
formed Faith has  be& in conflict, but for some reason we                Twentiotlz Cmbzwy  : You have to make a living, of course.
have been afraid to recognize it."                                  Business is business and I'm like all the rest - I don't really
  Rev. Kik ends his book with a comparison of his church            have much time for church work, now that I'm on this new
to the Church of Laodicea mentioned in Rev. 3. An awful             job.  Q  *  *
indictment. indeed ! I am inclined to believe Rev.  Kik se-              Yeah, I'd like to help the church, but  -a man's got to
riously and correctly places his criticism. When I read the         eat,  *  4:  *
Chuich  Herald which allows a man like Rev.  Buitendorp                  My tithe? Huh, what's that? One tenth of my money
to continue his series of modernistic lies, I am  inslined  to      for the Fhurch ? Are you kidding ? And the payments due
believe that Rev. Kik is a voice in a wilderness, but a wilder-     on the TV set and the deep freeze.  ancl two payments behind
ness of dead men. The only hope for a hearing and a response        on the car ? What a laugh ! * * tic
is that the valley of dry b&es  be made to live again by the             Oh, somebody will support &he missioparies I guess. It's
miracle of divine grace. May God use this testimony "The            not my worry.
Reformed Faith in Conflict" to open the eyes of many.                    F,i?-st  Cer~fmr~~  : `And he said to them, Take heed, and
                             -'                                     beware of covetousness : for a man's life consisteth not in
                                                                    the abundance of the- things which he possesseth.'
F i r s t   Ccntwy   zw.  Tzewheth   ~entwy                              Twentictl~~  dentwy  :  How much does he make? * *  * So
       Someone put in my hands a page taken from the July,          they sold the other car to us and bought that Cadillac con-
19.55 `issue of the Missionary Monthly which contained a            vertible they've been dreaming about, *  *'  * And you ought
brief item under the above caption which we would like ta           to see the way she has redecorated her downstairs ! It's a
pass on to our readers. I will quote it in full, and I'm quite      dream!  `1'  * * But,  niother.  it's only $25 more, and it does
sure you will say what I did after I read it: "That's just          look nicer on  lne than the brown one.  `:  * * And his folks
about the size of it !"                                             gave  hiill another motor boat for his birthday.  2'  Q  * Yes,
       Considering where the article came from, namely, "The        she was going .to teach in the church college, but she gets
Free Methodist" paper, and considering the nature of the            $1,500 more a year where she is, you know.  * *  4 Sub-
"Missionary Monthly" in which this article was quoted, no           scribe to the Missionary Tidings ? Oh, I can't afford it ! * * `k
doubt most of our readers will not agree with all the lan-               First  Ccnktry  : `Thrice was I beaten with rods. once
guage this article contains. For example, we do not go along        was I stoned, thrice I suffered ship-wreck, a night and a
with the idea of tithing of which the article speaks. But for       day I have been in the deep. * 4' *' In weariness and painful-
the rest, we liked the idea which the article expresses and         ness, in  watchings  often,  in. hunger and thirst, in fastings


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  often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that- are                                                           TEkT                                                          Author      P a g e   N o .
  without;' that which cometh  upon me daily, the care of ail                                                     Galatians 5 116-26  ______  - ____ .-  ____..________________           G.L. 207                9
  the churches.'                                                                                                  Galatians 5  :19-21  __- ________________________________ G.L. 225 10
                                                                                                                  Galatians  5:22 _______  -  ____________.________________               G.L. 252 11
       Twentieth Century:  No, Mary, we won't go to Sunday                                                        Galatians 5  :22, 23 ____________  ____________._  _______ G.L. 276 12
  School this morning; see, it's raining a little already.  * *  *                                                Ephesians  4%10  ______ _____  -_-  ___._____________  H.C.H. 385 17
  We never try to make it to Church on Sunday evening any                                                         Ephesians 4 :29 _ __ -_ __ __ _ _ __ . . __ _ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ ____ -H.H.       56 3
  more; it's the only time John has with the youngsters. * * 4:                                                   Philippians 1:3-11 ______ -- _____.  _______ - ____________ G.L.                   12 1
  Witness at work  ? Not me ! I tried to talk to a man about                                                      Philippians 1:3-11 _____ _-__  ____.____________  - ______ G.L.                    36 2
                                                                                                                  II Thessalonians 1:3 __- ______ - _____.________  - ______ G.V. 433 19
  the Lord once, and he laughed at me. 4:` * * Oh, I couldn't                                                     .I Timothy 2  __________________.___________________                 H.H. 301 13
  possibly teach a class.  *  *  1' Aren't there enough on the                                                    II Timothy  2:14  _---------------.-----.--.---------G.L.                          81 4
  committee without me  ?                                                                                         II Timothy  2:X-19  ____________-___________________                     G . L .   107 5
      `For where your treasure is ;  there.will  your heart be also.'                                             II Timothy 2:21-26 ______.._____-  _ __________________ G.L.                       59           3
                           -EIva  McAllister, in  t'he Free Methodist."                                           Hebrews  11:24-26  __________________________________ G.L. 419 18
                                                                                                                  Hebrews  11:24-26  __________________________________ G.L. 445 19
                                                                                                   M.S.           I John  2:15-17 __________________________________ H.C.H. 337 15

                                                                                                                                    INDEX  0F  SUBJECTS TREATED
             I N D E X   T O   V O L U M E 'X X X I   _                                                                                                  -A-
             INDEX OF SCRIPTURE PASSAGES TREATED                                                                                 SUBJECT,                                            Author       P a g e   N o .
          TEXT                                                                       Author    P a g e   N o .    A Form of Godliness But  -  _.____   -  _______._______  J.A.H. 421 1s
  Genesis  19:.14b  _______.____________________________                               G.V.      25         2     An Anniversary Unobserved  ____.-___________________  MS.                         44 2
  Exodus 1:15-21 _ __ __ ______ __ __ _ _ ._ __ __ ____ __ __ __ -`- -H.H.                       56 3             A Wrenthesis  _  _______.________________________                 G.V.D.B. 68 3
  Exodus  36633  ---__----_-----__.----.---------------G.V.                                      49         3     A.Snare  For Our Children (1) ___________________  :J.A.H. 447 19
  Deuteronomy  S:lO   __.___________.________________i_                                G.V. 217 10                A Snare For Our Children. (2) _________ - ____ - _____ J.A.H. 468 20
  Joshua  24:15   _______--___--_.   _____________.--__-----  G.V. 457 20                                         A Snare For Our Children (3) ____________________ J.A.H. 493 21
  I Kings  1S:Zlb  -----------.-------------------------G.V.                                     97        5      Augustine  ________.____________________             - ___________ H.V. 211                 9
  Psalm            ____  _                  119:9 H.C.H.
                               ________________________________                                361, 16            Authority of Major Assemblies ________________ G.V.D.B.                           20 1
  Proverbs  30:Sb,  9  __-_______.____.________________
                             _-                                                       G.V. 265 12                 A Word To Enthusiasts ____________________________ M.S. 311 13
  Isaiah 11:66  ________.   _-____________   :._______--____  G.M.O.                             57        3
  Isaiah 37                                         21-35 G.M.O.
                          __________________________________                                       9        1                                           -B-.
  Isaiah 39:1-S  ____ :-_I  -___---_____________________  G.M.O.                                 33        2
  Isaiah                                    40:66 G.M.O.
                   _____________________________________                                         78        4      Berkhof Criticizes Daane's. Book  __________________._  M.S.                      22 1
  Isaiah  40:6-8 ___________________________________ G.M.O.
                    _                                                                          105         5      Book Reviews :
  Isaiah 40  :21  _____L___-___-_______________________                          G.M.O. 129                6         Beslagen Vensters door  IDS.  H.  Veldkamp--..----H.H.  439 19
  Isaiah            40:21                   -                41:7 G.M.O.
                              _____.________________________                                   157         7         Calvinism by B. A, Warburton  ________.___._____ H.H. 390 17
  Isaiah 41:17-29 ________________________ --I _______ G.M.O. 177                                          S      : Daily Manna by  R'ev.  M. Monsma  ___________-__  H.H. 125                                6
  Isaiah                     42:1, 2 G.M.O.
                    _________________..._ - ______ ______
                                                                 --                            191         8         De Boodschap der  Genezing
  I s a i a h   42%12  ______________..___________-                           G .
                                                                      _______ M . O . 204                  9             door Prof J. L. Koole-  __ _. ____ __ _____ _ ____-__  H.H. 318 14
  Isaiah                               42:13-25  G.M.O.
                          ____.__.____.-________.________.___                                  249 11              De  fiienst der Prediking door  Dr. K. Dijk  ____._   H.H..  31s 14
  Isaiah 43                        :1-S           _____________.  G.M.O.
                                            _______________ ______
                                                                 --                            251 11                De Gereformeerde Zede door Dr. R.  Schippers--H.H.   102 5
  Isaiah 43 
                         _______                    :5-17  G.M.O.
                                    -__----_..___________________                              274 12                De Levensgang van Gerben Gervaas
  I s a i a h   52:.7  _________-_____-_______   I--  G
                                                             ___________.__. V . 481 21                                  door G. Verburg _____________________________ H.H. 125 6
  Ezekiel  34:11-16   ____-___---________._______________  C.H. 164                                        7         D'e Triomf der Genade in de  Thedogie  van Barth
  Matthew  721  _.____-________._____________________                                 G.V. 193             9             door Dr. G. C. Berkhouwer  ___._______________  H.H. 221 10
  Matthew  19:10-12   ______.._____.________________  ----G.L.                                 466 20                Diinmed  Windows by Rev. H. Veldkamp  .______  H.H. 439 19
  M a t t h e w   19:10-l?  ___-_________________________ -   G
                                                                                ____ . L . 491 21                    Ellicott's Commentary on the Whole  Bible..---.-H.H.  102 5
 Matthew  27:39a  ____._._____:  _________________ G.V.
                                                                              - ____           241 11                Epistles of Paul to the Philippians and to
 L u k e   2:7  ____________-__._____________________ -   G
                                                                              _____ . V . 121              6            Philemon by J. M.  Muller ___________________  H.H.~  438 19
 Luke             _________- _  23:33 G.V.
                                       _..--____.______ _ ____________                         289 13               Expository on the Whole Bible by C.  Simeon---H.H.  438 19
 John  1:1'2  __________--____________________:                        ____  --H.C.H.  409  1s                       Expository Outlines  Qn The Whole Bible
_ John  3:14-16  _  --_._.   --____--__.  --  _____._..__________  G.L. 32'4 14                                         by C.  Sinleon---  __________  _ __________________ H.H. ,318 14
 John  3:14-16  ___________.___.____________________                              ---G.L.      347 15                General Revelation  by, Dr. G.  6.  Berkhouwer..--H.H.  438 19
 John  21:25   _.________-_____-_________________                            _____._  R.V.  25h          11         Het Raadsel van ons Leven
 RomanS                       6:22, 23 G.L.
                            ____._.__________ ________________
                                                      - -                                      300 13                   door Dr. J. Bavinck _________________________ H.H. 125                                6
 Romans                                     109 G.L.
                         _______-_._---____________ - ___________                              372 16               Het Ware Geloof door Rev. S. G. De Graaf ____ H.H. 246 11
 Romans           14:17, 18                        ___-
                                      _______.__  _             _ 
                                                      _____________ -.---G.V.                     1        1        Jeugd  zoekt   eeh Haven
 I Corinthians  1:21  __-_______.._________________  ----G.V.                                   73         4            door Nellie Van Dijk-Has  ________: ___________  H.l% 246 11
 I Corinthians  11:2ff ___._._.________________________ H.H. 301                                        13        Inleiding in de Zendingswetenschap
 I Corinthians                              14:34, 35
                                     ___________ ___-                  
                                                             _____________ -H.H. 301 13                                 door Dr. J. H. Bavinck ____ -- ________________ H.H. 102                             5
 II Corinthians                                       5:17 
                               ____..________________________                        I-G.V.    145        7         Love the Lord Thy God by Rev. H.  Hoeksema--M..S.  414 18
 II Corinthians  S:9- _______._________________________                                G.V. 121           6        - Man en Vrouw door Dr. A. C. Drogendijk ______ H.H. 390 17
 Galatians  4:26  ___._.-______________________________                               G.V. 169            8         The Psalms by Dr. J. Ridderbos _______________ H.H. 439 19
 Gafatiaas 5 :13-15  _____________  l____________________  G.L. 179                                       8         The Psalter  .._ _________________________________ H.H. 414 18


502                                                       T H E   S T A N D A R D   B E A R E R

         S U B J E C T                                           A u t h o r   P a g e   N o .                    S U B J E C T   '                                      A u t h o r    P a g e   N o .
                                     -C--                                                         Comforting the Sick  ----i-- ______  - ____________ G.V.D.B. 165                                  7
Canons  of Dordrecht                                                                              C'onsistorial  Supervision of League  or  Federation
   Head I, Article  12------   _______________.__.-__   H.C'.H.                   18 1                Activities _ _- __ _- __ __ __ ____ ___- __ _. __ __--_ G. Lanting                 302 13
   Head I, Article 13 ._________  - _________ L _______ H.C.H.                    42        2     Constantine The Great  - ______________________  _-__   -H.V.                           85         4
   Head I, Article 13 ____ -__- _____.___.______-----  H.C.H.                     65        3     Constantine's Influence Upon The Church  _________-  H.V. 136                                      6
   H&ad I, Article  14_ ____ __  ________.___-___  ----- H.C.H.                   87        4     Contending For  l'he   Faith-_-l  .___________-____----   I-TV.
   Head I, Article  14.  ________________..-________  H.C.H.  113                           5             (See Under Church And Sacraments)
   Head I, Article  14----_-  ______________________ H.C.H. 138                             6     C o n t r i b u t i o n s   :
   Head I, Article  15-_- ______  -  ___________.______  H.C.H. 185                         8         An Open Letter  To Kok by Gise Van  Baren..-...----                                 4s 2
   Head I, Article  1.5 _____  -  _______.   ____._-__..-___  H.C.H. 213                   `9         A Quotation by Geo. Ten Elshof  __._______--___-----                                72 3
   Head I, Article 15 _______  -__-  _______._________   H.C.l?.  231 10                              Arminianism   - Protestant Reformed
   Head I, Article 15 ____  -  ___________.___________   H.C'.H.  258 11                                  b y   T h y s   Feellstra   __.____.__.____.________________   1 9 1   8
   Head I, Article  16_--~_---  ____  - ________________ H.C.H. 282 12                                Blikken in `t Yerleden by J. R. Vander  Wal__------                                 24 1
   Head I,  Aiticle  16  _______.____________________            H.C.H. 306 13                        Brethren, Let Us Speak The Truth
Head  I,_.Aiticle   1&6__-1-_-  _____________________ H.C.H. 330 14                                       by C. Vander  Molen-  __________________._______-__  359 15
   Head  I, Article  17-  ___-  ____  _________._________  H.C.H. 353 15                              Church  News From First Prot. Ref. Church,
   Head I. Article 17-.--m--  ____ - ________ -- ______ H.C.H. 378 16                                     Holland, Michigan by P.  Schipper  ______.-___  i--_-                           95 4
   Head I, Article 17------  ____ - _________ - _______ H.C.H. 402 17                                 Fall Meeting of the Ladies League by Mrs. P. Decker                                 90 4
   Head I, Article 18_ __ _ - __ __ _ _ __ __ __ _. __ ____ __ -H.C.H.          425 1S                Farewell but nbt Good-bye by  S.D.V   ._.__.__________ 407  17
   Rejection of Errors, Head I, Art.  l._________ H.C.H. 451 19                                       Humbug by Rev. H. C.  Hoeksema--   ___._____________                                94 4
   Rejection of Errors, Head I, Art. 2 _______  :-_H.C'.H.  451 -19                                   How Rev. Kok continues to Operate
   Rejection of Errors, Head I, Art. 2  __._.___._  H.C.H. 472 20                                         by  Rev. G. M. Ophoff  ________.________.__________                            237  10
   Rejection of Errors, Head I, Art. 3 __________ H.C.H. 473 20                                       Kok, A Hopeless Case by H. A. Van  Putten  ___.____  288 12
   Rejection of Errors, Head I, Art. 3, 4 _______  -H.C.H.  495 21                                    Kok's  Corruhtions by H. A. Van  P'utten   ___._____.____ 119                                 5
Church And The Sacraments,  The  ___..  ___._________  H.V.                       16 1                Kdk's Proselyte Reports by J.  Flikkema-   _________.__  240 10
   Continued _______ ____  __________...____._________  H.V. 40  2                                        Continued _.___.___  - ________ -___- ___._ - ________.__                     264 11
   Continued  _________..  -  ___. _____________________ H.V.                    63        3          Lest We Forget by R.F.P.A. Board  ____.___-______._  478 20
   C b n t i n u e d   __.____.__..__________________________  H.V. 85 4                              Misrepresentation by Rev. G.  Vanden  Berg  .____.____                              92 4
   C'ontinued   ________._.__._____________  - _______  --..H.V. 111                       5          Missionary Notes by Rev. G. Lubbers  ____________-._ `455 19
   C o n t i n u e d   ____________._____.._____________  --_--H.V.  136  G                           Missionary Notes by Rev. G. Lubbers  _____.______.___ 479 20
   Continued _  _- _._________  _._- ________ _______ ~ _____ H.V. 161                     7          "New" Reformed Guardian by Rev. E. Emmanuel.--  431 18
   Continued  ____.____._______________         _____  - _______  rf.V. 183                8          Recent History of the Prot. Ref. Church of Hull,
   Continued ____.______  ___________ - ______ - ________ H.V. 211                         9              Iowa by P.  finsma _______________________________ 456  19
   Continued _ __ __ _. ._ _____ __ em- _ __ ---:-- __ __ ___ __ .._H.V.       229 10                 Regurgitation by Geo. Ten Elshof ___________________ 336 14
   Continued _ __ --L. ._ __ __ ___ __. ._ __ _._ .- ___ __ _____ H.V. 280 12                         Report of Eastern Ladies League
   Continued ________.  __ _...__  _....___  ____ - ________ H.V. 304 13                                 by Mrs. D.  Engeisma-  __________  - _____  - ____  - ______                   431 1s
   Continued  __._._________________________________               H.V. 328 14                        Report of Western Ladies League
   Continued _____________________________ - _________ H.V. 351 15                                       by Mrs. R Brunsting __._______  - ____ I____._ -- _____                         96 4
   Continued _ __ __ __ __ __ __  __. _ __ __ ___ _____  - ________ H.V.       376 16                 Ridderbos-Ophoff-Kok by Rev. H.  Veldman----_--__-                                 47 2
   Continued __.____  __________ ____.__________  - _____ H.V. 400 17                                Spelen met Vuur by J. R. Vander  Wal______________  43'2 18
   C o n t i n u e d   ------------.---~---------------------H.V.   423 18                           The Facts Regarding The  Edgerton  Law Suit
  Continued  ___.._.________________________________              H.V. 449 19                            by Rev. H.  Veldman   ___.._____.___________________  312 13
  Continued ______________________________________ H.V. 470  20                                   Contributions, As To  ____.-_________________________                     H:H,  125               6
Church, External Growth ______________ I____________ H.V.                        63        3      Covenant of Sinai, The _____  1___________._.____   :_G.M.O.   442 19
Church Order :                                                                                    Covenant of Sinai, The- ______________  .._. ________  G.M.O. 488 21
  Article 15  ____.__________________________            +--_G.V.D.B.            20 1             Criticism _ __ ._ ._ __ __ __ __ __ _- - ____ __ ___ ___ ___ __ ___ --M.S.            334 14
  Article  16  ___________________._____  -- ________ G.V.D.B.                   67        3
  Article 16 __________ - ____ - _________.________  G.V.D.B.                    89       4                                                 -D-
  Article 16 ___-  _________ - ____________________ G.V.D.B. 115                           5      De Wolf Gets Help From A Baptist  ._.________   :--MS.                                 92 4
  Article 16 ________________________  _ _________  G.V.D.B.  140                          6      Dividing  Synodical  Funds And  Properties--___._-__M.S.   3S3 16
  Article 17  ________________._________________              G.V.D.B. 165 7                      Divorce ----....-----.-----.------.-----------------G.L.                              466 20
Article 18  __-  ________________________'  _______ G.V.D.B. 187                          8       Divorce ~~.---------~-----~~------~-------.--~------G.L.                              491 21
  Article 18  - _____  - ____________  - _____________  ,G.V.D.B. 233 10
  Article 19 _________________________________  ;G.V.D.B. 260  11                                                                          .- E-
  Article 19 __________________________________ G.V.D.B. 284  12                                  Editorials :
  Article 20  ____._..__________________________             G.V.D.B.  308  13                       A Protest And Its Reply ________________________ H.H.                                 4- 1
  Article 20 -I.__.._._____.  _____________.___  G.V.D.B. 332  14                                        Continued ___________________________________  H.H.  2s 2
  A r t i c l e   20  --.-------------------------------G.V.D.B.              3 5 5   15                 ContiqLied   __.-______._____.__________________   H . H .   5 2   3
  Article 21  ____.______.____.   ____._   - ___________ G.V.D.B. 380  16                                C o n t i n u e d   ____..___   _._.____________________           --H.H.  76 4
  Article 21. .._____.._____..  -- ____ -___- _______ G.V.D.B. 404 17                                Hand Shaking  --____.   ._______.--_.   .____..._____  H.H. 149                               7
  Article 21  .._._______.._____________   - _______ G.V.D.B. 427  18                                Independentism              _ .__. __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ __ __ - ___ ___ -H.H. 124            6
  Article 21  ____-______________.  _______  -  .____   --G.V.D.B.  474 20                               C o n t i n u e d   _-  ________...._______.___________   H H .   145 7
_ Article 22  _- ____  -__- ___________ ------.__-.._  G.V.D.B. 497  21                              Kok Is  k Hopeless Case.  .______.__ _____________ H.H. 220 10
  Article 79 __________________ -- ____________ *-G.V.D.B.                       68       3          On The Basis Of Untruths ______________________ H.H. 484 21


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               SUBJECT                                           Author     P a g e   N o .                   SUBJECT                                         A u t h o r        P a g e   N o .
   Open Letter  .._______________..________________   -H..H.  220 10                              Continued- __ _ __ _. _ __ ._ _ __ __. ____ __ _ __ _ . __ . __ __ -J.A.H.     278 12
   Poor Kok  ___________.__.__..____   - ______  - ______ H.H. 206                       9        Continued-  _____ __. ______________ ______ ._____  ---J.A.H.                  326 14
   Prof. D`eddens Inexcusable Ignorance __________ H.H. 268 12                                 God's Way with the Jew ___________  - ______________ M.S. 142                                  6
   Question Box  ___..__--_____---_________________ H.H. 301 13                                Good Christian Schools  ___: _______  - ____  - _______ G.v.d.B. 404 17
  , Repercussions         ___________.____-________________        H.H. 174 8                  Godliness, A Form of But . . .  ___-  ____________._  J.A.H. 421 18
   Ridiculous  .____.._~~._.__--___________.________H.H.  365 16                               Grac?, Of __________  ---___-  ______  - _________________ H.H. 461 20
   Schism In History I  .___  __________  -  _____._____  H.H. 316 14                                                                 -H-
   Schism In History II  _______.__   --_-.-_-  _____  ----H.H.  340 15
   Schism In History III  .._________  -  .__________   --H.H.  364 16                         Haggai, Prophecy of  _ ________  -_ _________________ G.M.O., 369 16
   Synod of The Protestant Reformed  Churches--H.C.H.  412 18                                     Continued  __.__________.______   - ______  - ________ G.M.O. 393 17
       Continued _____ - .__. -------L  __.__________._ H.C.H. 436 19                          Heidelberg Catechism :
   The Future of Our Churches I ______________  --..-H.H.  196                           9        (See also under Triple Knowledge)
   The Future of Our Churches II _________________ H.H.  244 11                                Addressing God as Our Father _________________ H.H. 319 14
   The Future of Our Churches III ________  - ____  -_-H.H.  292 13                               God's Holy  .Name  _.___________   -___--  ___________ H.H. 391 17.
   The Heart of the Matter __________  ________.__  H.H. 100                             5        Idea of the Kingdom of God ___________________ H.H. 441 19
   The Letter of the Rev. Kok  .__________   - ________ H.H. 293 13                               Idea of the Kingdom of God  .__-  _________  `-  ___._  H.H. 486 21
   The Opinion . .___ .____________  - _________________ H.H. 150                        7        Implications of First Petition  _- ________________ H.H. 415 18
   The Well Meaning Offer of Grace _____  - ________ H.H. 3%  1 7                                 In the Heavenly Sanctuary  ____________:  _______ H.H. 367 16
   Why Was It Not Published? ___________________ H.H. 460  20                                     The Grace of Contentment  ___________.__._____-  H.H.                              7 1
Elder, The Office of ________  -___-  ----.---------,  G.v.d.B. 497 21                            T,he  Imperfect Perfect Christian ___________  -_--H.H. 176 8
Episcopacy, The ______  -i _____  --___--  ____  -  ____._____  H.V. 449 19                       The Necessity of Prayer ______ - _____ - __________ H.H. 222 10
Equality of Office Bearers ____  -_-____  ______.___  G.v.d.B. 187                       8        The Perfection of the Law Preached  ___-  ____._  H.H. 127                                  6
Eucharist as a Sacrifice ____ - ____  - _________._______  H.V.               40 2                The Perfection of the Lord's Prayer _______  --.-H.H.   `295 13
Excerpts from The Church Herald  ____.___________  MS. 310 13                                     The Practical Implications of the
Exposition of Matthew  19:10-12  _________ __  _-  __._   _--G.L. 466 20                              Ninth Commandment  _  __.____   - _______  __- ____ H.H. 103                            5
Exposition of Matthew  19:10-12   __-  __.__  __________ G.L. 491 21                              The Preaching of the Perfect Law  __- ____  ------H.H.  200                                 9
Exposition of John  3:14-16 _________ -- _____________ G.L. 324 14                                The Principle of the Ninth  Commandment_------H.H.                               32 2
Exposition of John  3:14-16  -  __.________   - ___________ G.L. 347 15                           The Realization of the  Kingdon!   .______________  H.H. 486 21
Exposition of Romans  6:22, 23 _________  -  ______.___  G.L. 300 13                              The Requisites of True Prayer _________________ H.H. 247 11
Exposition of Romans 10 :9, -___ -_-  ____._  - __________ G.L.             372 16             Hyperbole or Fact  - John  21:25  _______ ___________ R.V. 256 11
Exposition of Galatians 5 :13-15  ____ i- ____  -_.- ___.___  G.L. 179                   S
Exposition of Galatians  5:16-26  ______.  ____  -  _____.   ---G.L.  207                9                                            -I-
Exposition of Galatians 5  :19-21  .___   _-___  ___-- ______ G.L. 225                 10      In a New Garb ____' ______ ____.   1_______  - ____-____,-_  M.S. 382 16
Exposition of Galatians 5  :22  ___.__   ___- ____  ---___   .--G.L.        25'2 11            Interesting  and Revealing  __________.______._____                  J.A.H. 349 15
Exposition of Galatians 5 :22, 23 ________ _ -_- __ ______ G.&.             276 12
Exposition of Philippians 1:3-11 _ __ _ _- __ _ __ __ -_ __ _ -G.L.            12 1                                                   -J-
Exposition of Philippians  1:3-11  ________ ____  -__ ____ G.L.               36 2             Justification of Separate Existence ________________ G.L. 132 6
Esposition of II Timothy  2:14, _____________________ G.L.                    Sl 4
Exposition of II Timothy 2:.15-19 ____ - _____ - _______ G.L.               107          5                                            -K-
Exposition of 11 Timothy 2 :21-26  ._-___   ._. ____  -.__  -G.L.             59 3             Know Yourself  _-_--_-_-__-____-_-_-~~~----~--~-~--M.S.                           477 20
Exposition of Hebrews  11:24-26   _  _-  _-  ___-  -_  -_  - __ __ -G.L. 419 18                Kok, Poor ____ -___- _____ -_- ____ - __________._______  H.H. 206                            9
Exposition of Hebrews  11:24-26  ___________________  G.L.  445 19                             Kok, A Hopeless  C'ase   ____________._______:  _______ H.H. 220 10
                                     -F-                                                       Kok's Corruptions ______________________________ H.A.V. 288 12
                                                                                                  Continued  ___.___   i____________________________                 H.A.V. 119 5
Feature Articles. As To  ___-  ___________________.__  H.H. 131                          6     Kok -- Ridderbos  -  Ophof  _______________________ H.V. 47                                   2
Feature Articles :                                                                             Kok, How Continues to Operate ________________ G.M.O. 237 10
   Consistorial  SuperGision  `of League or  _                                                 Kok's P'roselyte Reports  _-  _______________,________._  J.F. 240 10
      Federation Activities ______ --- _________ G. Lanting 302 13                                Continued  - _________  -__- _________________________ J.F. 264 11
   First Century vs. Twentieth Century,' The-----_M.S.  500 21                                 Kok, Open Letter to  __- ________________________ G.v.d.B.                          45 2
   Hyperbole or Fact -John  21:25  _________  - _____ R.V. 256 11                              Kuiper Criticizes De Jong's Book _____ -- _________  -MS.                           70 3
   Our  Imm,ediate  Mission Field  _____________.____  C.H. 163 7
   Participation in the Lord's Supper _____ ________ C.H. 417  1S                                                         4           -L-
   Principles of Christian Giving to the                                                       Liberated Protestant Reformed Churches  -_-------M.S.  454 19
      Offering in the Churches ______________  -  __.._  J.M. 357 15                           Love the Lord Thy God __________________________ M.S. 407 17
   The Social Principles of The Epistle to                                                                                           -M-
      Philemon _ __ _ ______ - _____ __ _ ____ _ __ ___ __ __ _ :- -E.E.    396 17
                                                                                               Major Assemblies, Authority of ___________ __  ..-G.v.d.B.                          20 1
                                     -G-                                                       Malachi, Author and Subject of Prophecy  --_-__G;M.O.  297 13
Gate Is Open, The _____ - _________________________ J.A.H. 134  - 6                            Malachi, Author and Subject of Prophecy  --_----G.M.O.  321 14
   Continued -- _...___  - _____.  - _________________...  J.A.H. 159                   7      Malachi, Prophecy of ________  -___-_-  ____________ G.M.O. 344 15
   C'ontinued  _________ -- ___________________________ J.A.H. 181                      8      Malachi, Prophecy of ___________________________ G.M.O. 369 16
   C'ontinued-  ___ __ ___ __ __ -_ __ ___ __ ___ ___ . __ _ __ __ _ J.A.H. -209        9      Meditations :
   Continued _______________________________________ J.A.H 227 10                                A New Creature  -___--______~-__________________G.V.~                             .145 7
   continued: _____________  - ______________________ J.A.H. 254 11                               Beautiful Feet  ________-________-__-~---~--------G.V.                         481 21
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                     SUBJECT                                        Author     P&e   N      o     .               S U B J E C T                                          A u t h o r    P a g e   N o .
        Blessing God  __._________________________             - ______ G.V.  217  10                  Shameful  and Revealing ____  --___-   ________.___   i--J.A.H.                    61         3
        Christ's  Royal  Ascent  ____.__   -  _______________.  H.C.H.  385  17                        Silence Reigns              ________.____.___--_--------------      J.A:H.   395  1 6
        Counterfeits of the Kingdom ___________ _____  _..- G.V.                      l     l          Sinai, The Covenant of .__________  ---- ______-__..  G.M.O.
        Covenant Youth Wants to Know  _-  ___._______  H.C.H.  361                         16             (See under Covenant)
        Entrance into the Kingdom ____ ____ - _____ - ______ G.V.                   193     9          Students for the Ministry  _____.____   - _________  -G.v.d.B. 260 11
        Escape from Hell  ___._________   -  ______.._.______-  G.V. 25                     2             Continued _ _____________._  ___ ______ - _._______  G.v.d.B. 254 12
        Fixed and Pious People  ___________________._____  G.V. 457 20                                 Student Preaching  _.___.  _____  -__-___ __  .__  __.  ---G.v.d.B.   308 13
        Heaven on Earth ________  _________._.____.___..  G.V. 433  19                                    Continued .__ __ __________  - ______________  ___- G.v.d.B. 332 14
      - Love Not the World  .___   _- ______  _____.______   -H.C.H.  337  15                             Continued  _ _._ ___..________ ____ ______________ G.v.d.B. 355 15
        Not Yet Ascended ___________________________ H.C.H. 313  14                                                                             - T -
     P a s s e r - b y   ~_______-______-__-_------~-~-----.---G.V.   241  11                          That Straw of Initiating Discipline ______ 1_______  J.A.H.                         3s 2
        Power to Become Children of God ___________ H.C.H. 409  18                                     The Canons of Dordrecht  ___-  _____.   ________-_____  H.C.H.
        Prayer Day Thoughts--- ______  ~- ________________ G.V. 265  12                                   (See under Canons)
        Salvation by the Foolishness of Preaching-_-  .---G.V.                       73     4          The Church's Task ________________________________ M.S. 44 2
        Single Mindedness _________ ________ __._____.____ G.V.                      97     5          The `Church and Sacraments  ______________-____-.-  H.V.
        The Crucifixion  ___._.___   -  __.________. __ ___  __.___  G.V.  289 13                         (See under Church)
        The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ  ___.__   1...._ G.V. 121                        6          The Cqnsistory's Part _________________________  G.v.d.B. 427  lS
        The  M'other  of Us All, Jerusalem Above ________ G.V. 169                          8          The Covenant of Sinai _________  i  _______.___..-__  G.M.O.
        T.oo Much for God ____ -- _____ - ________ -_- ____._  G.V.                  49     3           (See  under  Covenant)
     Ministry  .of the Word, The  ___-___-_-  __________  G.v.d.B.                   67 3              The Reformed Guardian  __- _______________________ M.S. 4.54  19
        Continued ___.______   -: ______________ - __________ G.v.d.B.               89     4          The Schools ____ __ __________  - ____  -  ________.___._ G.v.d.B. 380 16
        Continued  __.___   .-: _________________ _________  -_G.v.d.B. 115                 5          The South India Surrender  ______________.________   M.Sz                           91 4
        Continued- _______  - ______ -  _____._______._____   ..G.v,d.B. 140                6          The Unbelief of Barthianism ______  ____________.. M.S. 476 20
     Missio,nary Notes ____________ -- ______  - _____  1.----_-G.L.                455 19             To the Utmost of Your Power  _.___  --_-  ______  i-G.v.d.B. 474 20
        Continued- _______ -- ______  -_-___--   ______________._  G.L. 479 20                         To Whom the Church Belongs  __- _________________ M.S. 406 17
     Missiori Field, Our Immediate ____ ____ ______ - ______ C.H. 163                       7          Triple Knowledge
     More Straws ____ - ____ -___- ____.__  - ______________ J.A.H.                  53 4                  (See also under Heidelberg Catechism),
        Continued- __. _ ._____  . __I----  _______ __________ J.A.H. 109                   5                     Lord's.Day  42  ____...______________  -- _______  -_H.H.  7                        1
                                        -07                                                                       Lord's Day.42 _______ ---  ------------,---------  H.H.                  31         2
                                                                                                                  Lord's Day 43 ------z  ________________________ H.H.                     32 2
     Ophoff  - Kok - Ridderbos _ _______ - _____  .-- _____ H.V.                     47     2                     Lord's Day 43 _____.___  -__I __________________ H.H.                    54 3
     Our  Inmtediate~  Mission Field  _`___--   _____________.   -C.H. 163                  7                     Lord's Day 43 _____  :-___-  ____________________ H.H. 103                          5
                                       .-Lip-                                                                     Lord's Day 43 __________  ______________.______  H.H. 126                           6
                                                                                                                  Lord's  Days  44  - _________  i _______  -  _____.______  H.H. 127                 6
     Participation in the Lord's  Supper----  ______ -- ____  _C.H. 417  18                                       Lord's Day 44 _____________________ -- ________ H.H.  174                           8
     Preview of Next Twenty-five Years,                                                                           Lord's Day 44 _______ -  _______._____  - _________ H.H. 176                        8
        Progressive Calvinism -:- ______ -  _______.__  i  __.__  MS. 288 12.                                     Lord's Day 44  ___________..:  __________  - ____  -_H.H. 198                       9
     Principles of Christian Giving _____ --  _______:  ______ J.M. 357 15                                        Lord's Day 44  _- ____ -- ________________  _ ____  --H.H.             200          9
     Principles of Education  _`__________________________  M.S. 429 18                                           Lord's Day 45 ______ l____________  -- __________ H.H. 222 10
     Principles, Social of Epistle to `Philemon  .__________  E.E. 396  17.                                       Lord's Day 45  - ___________________________  ---H.H.  247 11
     Professors of Theology  ________________._______  G.v.d.B. 233 10                                            Lord's Day 45 ________  -_--  ___________________ H.H. 271 12
     ,Prophecy of Haggai- __ _ __ __ _ I- `I- __ __ __ __ _ __ __ _ -G.M.O.
                                _ .                                                                               Lord's Day 45 _________ _ _____________________ H.H. 295 13
         (See under Haggai)                                                                                       Lord's Day 46 _______________________________ H.H.  319 14
     Prophecy of Isaiah ___________.   :---_ ____________ G.M.O.                                                  Lord's Day 46 -- ______________ - ____________ --H.H.                   342 15
     (See under Scripture Passages)                                                                               Lord's Day 46 ______________.  - __________ - ____ H.H. 366 16
     Prophecy of Malachi  ________'  _______ -- __________  GIM.0.                                                Lord's Day 46  __.______   I _____________________ H.H. 367 16
         (See under-Malachi)                                                                                      Lord's Day 47 --; . . ..-_-----..----..--  -- _________ H.H. 391 17
               ",                        -Q-                                                                      Lord's Day 47  ______________._____   - __________ H.H. 415  1S
     Question-Is it Wrong for  Women  to Close a Society                                                          Lord's Day 47  ___._________.  ______________  --__H.H.  440 19
         Meeting in Prayer when a Man is  Present-----H.H.  301 13                                                Lord's Day 45 _______ - ___________ -- __________ H.H. 441 19
                                                                                                                  Lord's Day 4s ________ -- __________ L_-  ________ H.H. 464 20
                                         -R-                                                                      Lord's Day  45 ______________________________  -H.H. 486 21
     Reformed Faith in Conflict, The __________________ M.S. 499  2l                                                                            -w-
     Reformed -Guardian ____ -- ___________________  - _____ M.S. 454 19                               Walking in Error __- ______ - ______________________ J.A.H.                          14 1
     Reformed or Arminian  ___ ___________________ - _____ M.S.                      70     3          Wanted  - Fraternal Discussion _________________ J.A.H.  37-1 16
     Reinhold  Seeberg  _______________ --- ____________  -._H.V.  351 15                              What Really Happened in Our Churches __________ M.S. 167                                       7
     .Ridderbos  - Kok - Ophof _________ ____ - _____ ____ H.V.                      47     2              Continued __;  ____.__  -- ________ - _________ -- ______ M.S. 189                         S
                                         -    s    -                                                       Coutinued  ___--  ________  - ______  -  _______;  _________ M.S. 215                          9
     Sacraments, The Church and the  .__________________  H.V.                                             Continued _____ --- ______________________________ M.S. 262 11
            (See under Church)                                                                         Woman Suffrage in the Church  _.______   -  __.....___  M.S. 117                               5
     Sacrifice, The Idea of ____  :________________________  H.V.                    16 1              Woman Suffrage in the Church ______  -_- ________  ---M.S.  407 17
     Separate Existence, Justification of ________________ G.L. 132                         6                                                          Index by Rev. G.  Vanden  Berg
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