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n                                                                  I( is given it in Holy Scripture, and also because Christ is
I           MEDITATIOPJ                                                 the manifestation  of- God Himself: He is the Face of the             -i--
                                                                        Father and came to declare Him.
                                                                            The Gospel is the Gospel of God.
                      The  Power  of  God                                   But not in the narrow sense of the word.
                 "For I am not ashamed  of. the Gospel of Christ:           Some make it so small and so narrow as to include only               .I
             for it is the power of. God unto salvation to every one    the Sermon on the Mount. Especially the modern Church,
             that  believe&   ; to the Jew first, and also to the
             Greek.`! ,Rom&s   1:16.                                    which is fast becoming the Antichrist.
                                                                            Others make the Gospel of God the words of Jesus, and
     This verse  is,:a reason for that which Paul has- said in          n0 more.
the 15th verse, namely, that he was ready to come and
preach the Gospel in Rome also.                                             Oh no, butt the. Gospel of God in its broadest sense .in-
                                                                        eludes the whole of God's special revelation: the Bible. Here
     The question confronts -us i why did. Paul say that he is          we have another ground for the stand that the Gospel of
not ashamed to preach the Gospel in Rome also ?                         Christ is the Gospel of God. The Bible is the revelation
     The answer is twofold.  ,.                                         of God in Iesus Christ, and therefore we call that Book the
     First, the whole world was laughing at the Gospel story.           Word of God, which is.one of the names of .Tesus.
The Greeks call the Gospel folly.  Im$ne: salvation by
means of a worm, crawling on that aw&l cross. The Romans                    Neither is the Gospel of God an expression of the mani-
also mock : they are the strong  ; they subdued the whole               festation of God's love for everyone, an offer that is made
                                                                        by God of His well-meaning rwill. to save whomever comes
world by force of men and arms. :Moreover,  they had. the
legal acumen.                                                           under the proclamation of this "Gospel.
                   They were on top., Who needs salvation,
and then by Him who like a lamb-gave Himself over to their                  Neither is it a conditional promise to everyone that is
Pilate ?                                                                born-under the dispensation of the covenant of grace.
     But Paul >will show that both the Greek and the Roman                  No, the Gospel is not a Gospel on a thumbnail, and it is
are too filthy to mention,- and so he did  not' need to be              not for everyone that hears this Gospel outwardly,  ex-
ashamed in their presence. Their filth is so great that it              ternally.                                                        1
can hardly be told.                                                         No, but the Gospel in the Biblical sense of the word is
     -And  the  .second,  the positive reason is that the Gospel        the glad tidings concerning the promise. -
is beauty of God personified: Rather than to be ashamed,                    And that promise .was made by God in paradise to our
he will boast in that G>ospel  of God all the day long.                 first parents, and He repeated that promise through the ages,           -!
     The Gospel. is beauty and  pqwer, and both of God in               and in that process of repeating it became richer and richer
Christ.                    '                                            and richer.
      It is as beautiful as God is, and its power  `is as great            Until Christ, the Son of God appeared in the  fulness  of
as the resurrection from the dead.                                      time. And that appearance.is  the Gospel of God.
      Let us listen to him.                                                                     *  *  s *
                                *  *  *  *                                  Why-is `it called the Gospel ?                   _:  ./:.
      Although the  text speaks of the Gospel of Christ, you                Well, Gospel means glad tidings. And there are no tid-
may also call it the Gospel of God, both because that name              ings which can approach these tidings.


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       And ,here is the gladness of these tidings : they tell of a        .No, but.the  Gospel is the power of God unto salvation.
righteousness of God which shall clothe all the children of               Not as we have it in the Bible. The Bible as such has no
God.                                                                   power at all. It  is. enough to take away all excuses from
       This righteousness of God is the most beautiful thing for       them that read and heard. But without the Holy Spirit, the
poor sinners, guilty and undone in themselves, and on the              Bible has no power to save. You can hear the whole Word
way to hell.                                                           of God preached by the best and most devoted and true
       Beautiful, because it includes : (1) forgiveness of sins  ;     preacher, but if you have not the grace of the Holy Spirit
(2) adoption unto children  ; (3) peace with God  ; and (4)            of Christ with that Word, it will not save you `at all.
the right to eternal life in the new world that is coming.               The Gospel of Christ is the power of God when God
       You could write a book about each-of these four bounties.       Himself speak in the depth of your heart, through the
                                                                       Word that is preached to you or when you and while you
       And all these bounties are promised, and partially given        read, or sometimes, after you have heard or read, and ap-
now already, on the basis of the coming, the person and                plied by His Spirit.
work of Jesus Christ, the .Son of the living God.                         Then the Gospel is almighty in power and beauty, and
       Are they not glad tidings ?                                     it accomplishes all which God has planned in His eternal
       I am persuaded that even we who have these great and            counsel unto salvation of the elect.
wonderful promises do not appreciate them as we should.                   And the firstfruit of this almighty power of God is re-
If we saw them and appreciated them as they really are,                generation, the new birth from heaven. It is equal to the
and then on the background of eternal damnation and eter-              power which God wrought in Christ when He raised Him
nal death, we would leap for joy in the praise of God. Go              from the dead.                       .
and read Habakkuk 3 :17, 18. And especially this last verse               And that power of God continues to work in the elect,
on the background of verse 17. In the midst of absolute                until with body and- soul they arrive in the renewed world,
crop failures, so that there is nothing left to live from, he          the new heavens and the new earth in which righteousness
will. leap for joy in the God of his salvation.                        shall dwell.
       He saw the great and wonderful Gospel.                             But it is only and exclusively the power of God.
       Imagine: you die and know that when you arrive at                                             * *  *.  *
the door of heaven, God will cry out and say :`-Welcome,  my
good and faithful servant! Come in, and enjoy My presence                 And that Gospel, that almighty power of God, is unto
unto all eternity !                                                    salvation.
       Put it plainly and simply : you need not go to hell ! And,         Do you notice, dear reader, that it is all of God ?
positively, you may go to heaven and be thrilled unto end-                                     -:
                                                                          It is the Gospel of God in Christ.
less eternity with the image of God!                                      It is the power of God.
       Oh, the glad tidings of the Gospel !                               And it is the salvation of God.
       Should we be ever ashamed of it?                                   Salvation !
                             * * *  *                                     What indescribable charm there is in that word!
       And that. Gospel of God in Christ is the power of God.             Negatively, it is the glad tidings of God, the almighty
That is the deathblow to all pelagianism.                              power of God which rescues us from the greatest evil there is.
       They teach that man, natural man has some power left,              And that evil is sin, guilt and death, eternal death.
so that with the help of God they can work out their own                  Hence, power is needed, almighty power of God to save
salvation.                                                             from eternal death, damnation and the curse.
       The deathblow to  all pelagianism, also the so-called half-,       And God wrought this salvation through Jesus Christ.
quarter-,. or eighth-pelagians. All these shades agree that            And the process of that salvation  ..culminated  in the resur-
there is some power left in natural man unto good. And                 rection from the dead. ,Christ went the dark way of eternal
they are all wrong. This text is very plain, and says that             death, and was raised by God to life eternal of the covenant
the Gospel of Christ is the power of God. So man is not in             fellowship of the Triune God.
it at all.
       I think that  it. is a sign of the times that almost the            And so our, death, damnation and the curse are gone
whole Church of Christ joins in this erroneous. chorus of              forever. We are saved : hallelujah !
the power of man. Most of them say it openly, others by                    But that is only the negative side. And if that was beau-
implication.                                                           tiful, what shall we say of, positive salvation'?


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They are very willing to serve those who shall inherit sal-               T h e   P o w e r   o f   G o d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8 1
vation. They rejoice over the conversion of one saint, even                       Rev. G. Vos
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   That salvation is to everyone that believeth. And do not         EDITORIALS  -
forget, this faith is the gift of God so that no flesh may boast          Ela&tion  and Reprobation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .484
in His presence. It is all of God.                                        Unbihlical Divorce and Remarriage.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .485
   First the Jew and then the Greek.                                      The Christian  Encyclopaedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
                                                                                 Rev. H. Hoeksema
   We know that salvation is of the Jews.
   But after the breaking down of the wall of partition this        THE DAY  OF SHADOWS  -
salvation came to the Greek also. And this Greek is the                   The Covenant with -Noah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
representative of all-the elect out of the nations of the world.                 Rev. G. M. Ophoff
   Presently this great host shall sing their song of praise.       FROM  HOLY W&T--
   John heard the pre-audition.                                           Exposition of I Corinthians l-4 (19). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .490
   I love those ever recurring hallelujah's!                                     Rev. G. Lubbers
                                                       G. Vos.
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                                                                         Praying in His Fear (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; . . . . .492
                      Announcement                                               Rev. J. A. Heys
   Classis.  East of the Protestant Reformed Churches will          CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH -
meet, D.V., on Wednesday, October 3, 1956, in the Hope                    The Church and the Sacraments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . ; . . . .494
Protestant Reformed Church. Consistories and appointed                           Rev. H. Veldman
delegates will consider this an official notice.                    THE VOICE OF  OUR  FATHERS-
                               Rev. M.  Schipper, Stated Clerk            T,he Exposition of the Canons of Dordrecht.. . . . . . . . . . . , .496
                                                                                 Rev. H. C. Hoeksema

   "We cannot, however, show and approve ourselves thank-           ALL AROUND  Us-                                 . .
ful to God, except we are truly converted : for whatsoever. is            Banner Editors Retire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .;. . . . . . . . . 498
done by unconverted, is done without faith, and is, therefore,            Progressive Calvinism and Common ,Grace.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .498
sin and abomination in the sight of God."
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 II                                                                 Pharaoh's activity realizes His counsel  and. goes His way
         E D I T O R I A L S                                    /I to the very end in the salvation of His people."
                                                                        Let us stop here a moment.
                 Election  and  Reprobgtion                             There is in these words of Berkouwer already a tendency
                                                                    to deny reprobation as will become still more evident in
       When we consider Berkouwer's view of reprobation, we         what follows. Why  .does Berkouwer introduce the element
 are not surprised that he does not agree with me on the same -that Pharaoh hardens himself? The apostle Paul inRom.  9
 subject. In his criticism of my view, he refers only to my         does not even remotely refer to this. He simply speaks of
 lecture, "The place of reprobation in the preaching of the         the fact God hardens whom He will, and Pharaoh is an
 gospel." Unless  he.  wilfully  distorts the -meaning of this      example of this. No doubt the apostle knows that Exodus
 lecture he completely fails to understand it. He presents .the     also speaks of the fact that Pharaoh hardens himself. But he,
 matter as if I place reprobation on the same line with             no doubt, equally well knows that Exodus also speaks of the
 election "symmetrically." Then, too, he attributes to me a         fact that God hardens "him, and that even before it ever
 sort of a "natural predestination-theology." He seems to see,      mentions the fact that he hardens himself. Berkouwer, evi-
 the light .for a moment, for he writes: "For a moment it           dently does not know this or, at least, he leaves the impres-
 appears as if the symmetry is, after all, broken through, when     sion that he does not know this for he simply speaks of the
 we hear Reformed sounds: election and reprobation do not           fact that, according to Exodus, Pharaoh hardens himself.
 stand  dn the same line" next to each other, and reprobation is    But this is notr true and this is surely not what the apostle
 subordinate to election. -God's love remains chief." But im-       Paul intends to emphasize according to -the whole context.
 mediately he refuses this light for he writes : "But this light    On the contrary he means to emphasize that God sovereignly
 cannot comfort us here anymore because the transparency of         hardens whom He will. This is the teaching of, the apostle
 election and reprobation precedes this comfort as a natural        and this is also the teaching of Exodus. For even before
predestination-theology, which is only later brought into con-      Moses returned to Egypt and approached Pharaoh, the Lord
nection with Jesus Christ." p. 247.                                 had said unto him: "When thou goest to return into Egypt,
       It is not my purpose to defend my conception of reproba-     see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I
 tion as set forth in this lecture. Anyone who reads it may         have put in thine hand : but I will harden his heart that he
know that Berkouwer misrepresents me whether willfully or           shall not let the people go." This is the Scripture in Exodus.
ignorantly. The keynote of this entire lecture is exactly that      To this the apostle refers. Why, then, does Berkouwer dis-
reprobation does not stand on the same line with but is sub-        tort this portion. of Scripture and make Paul say something
ordinate to election. Besides, in the Netherlands it was well       quite different? My answer is : because he does not like
 received at the time when it was published. But the trouble        reprobation.
is with Berkouwer himself. He does not have much sym-                   The just quoted text may be found in Ex.  4:21. Nor is
pathy with the Reformed doctrine of reprobation as we have          this the only passage that speaks of the Lord's hardening
already shown and as we hope to prove again.                        the heart of Pharaoh. Cf. also Ex. 7: 3, 13; or the passive
       This becomes evident when we read about the hardening        "and Pharaoh's heart was hardened." Ex. 7 : 22 ; 8 :19; 9 : 7 ;
of Pharaoh's heart and the hardening of whomever God wills          again the active form : "the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart,"
to harden. Berkouwer `writes the following in connection            9 :12 ; and again the passive, Ex. 9 :35. In Ex. 10 :l we read :
with Romans 9:                                                      "And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I
       "After Paul had called attention to the free mercy and       have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that
lovingkindnesss of God he proceeds to treat the doings of           I might shew these my signs before him." And again: "But
God in respect to Pharaoh. Especially in this connection it         the Lord. hardened Pharaoh's heart," Ex. 10:20, 27: 11  :lO:
has frequently been thought that here we come in the neigh-         From all these passages it is very evident that, indeed, Phara-
borhood of the symmetry (election and reprobation on the            oh also hardened his. own heart, but that, nevertheless, the
same line, H.H.) because not only mercy but also hardening          Lord was first, and that the deepest and ultimate cause of
is mentioned. `For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even           Pharaoh hardening his heart was that the Lord hardened
for this same purpose have I raised thee `up, that I might          his heart. Why, then, does Berkouwer ignore all this and
shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared           write as if "Genesis (must be Exodus, H.H.) tells us that
throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom           Pharaoh hardens his own heart?' Again I say : Because he
he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.' Paul            does not like reprobation.
knows indeed that Genesis (must be Exodus, H.H.) tells
us that Pharaoh hardens h&self, and he does not mean to                 But let me now continue the quotation. Berkouwer
deny this. He does not eliminate his activity, his voluntary        writes :            s
`activity, but he knows that Pharaoh in this activity does not          "Paul here follows the Septuagint (eksegeira) while in
constitute an independent power over against God but that           Genesis (must be Exodus, H.H.) we only read that God al-
he -is in God's hand, and that God, right through and in            lowed Pharaoh to continue to exist. Paul, as it were, trans-


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poses this allowing to continue to live in a putting into office,               Ukbibiical  Divorce  and  Remarriage
an appearing. More strongly still than in Genesis (must be              The last synod of the Christian Reformed Church passed
Exodus, H.H.) the all overpowering, initiating act of God is         certain resolutions in regard' to the question of  tinbiblical
thus denoted in the course of the history of salvation. It is        divorce and remarriage. They took the stand- or perhaps
an acting that- does not destroy the voluntary activity  of          I should say: they suggested the stand, for they really took
man, but which embraces all and that is thus ahead of man's          no stand -at all - that persons divorced on unbiblical grounds
acts because He acts in them -in the  self-h.ardening  of            or because of their own adultery and that are remarried,
Pharaoh  - and thus proceeds triumphantly and purpose-               may be admitted into the church merely on their own
fully. It is evident that Paul does not here suddenly call           repentance, without dissolving the adulterous relation with
attention to the individual lot of Pharaoh, but shows him            their- present spouses.
his place in the history of salvation, and one may not, -as             Let me quote the resolutions:
does Calvin - draw conclusions here concerning the `ex-
ample' of hardening out of an eternal counsel and concern-              "1. No substantial and conclusive Scriptural evidence has
ing the reprobation of the ungodly. Calvin beholds in Phara-         been produced to establish the thesis that parties remarried
oh an example which God meant to  give;  `The first thus             after being divorced on the ground of their own adultery, or
Calvin, H.H.) is the predestination unto corruption, which           divorced on non-biblical grounds, are living in continual
is being brought back to God's counsel, which is, indeed,            adultery.
righteous, but also hidden., " p. 252, 3.                               "2. No substantial and conclusive Scriptural evidence has .
                                                                     been produced to warrant the demand that a person remar-
  Now as to Berkouwer's interpretation of the term "I have           ried after being divorced on the ground of his own adultery,
raised thee up," I cannot agree with him. The Hebrew word            or divorced on non-Biblical grounds, must, in order to prove
used is  amad which means to stand. In the form in which             the sincerity of his repentance, cease living, in the ordinary
this verb is used in Ex.  9:16 (the  hiphil) it signifies, there-    marriage relationship with his present spouse.
fore,  to  came to  statid  or to raise up. As far as the Greek         "3. The consistories are urged most earnestly to guard
verb used by Paul in Rom.  9:17  is concerned, some inter-           the sanctity of marriage, and warn unceasingly against every
preters give it the meaning :' ?f. have raised thee up as king."         .
                                                                     violatron  of the marriage bond through unbiblical divorce or
But also with `this I cannot agree for, in. the first place, the     through adultery, keeping in mind the need for true repent-
words immediately following are: "For to shew in thee my             ance on the part of all who seek admission to the Church.
power; and that my name may be declared throughout all                  "4. The consistories are advised that people who are
the earth." And, in the second place, vs. 18: "and whom.he           guilty of unbiblicaldivorce  or who are divorced as the result
will he hardens" is, evidently to be understood as a sort of         of their own adultery and, having remarried, seek entrance or
a commentary on this raising up of Pharaoh. For these                re-entrance into the Church shall show their sorrow and
reasons the text, both in the Hebrew and in the Greek, means         genuine repentance during an adequate period of probation.
"for this purpose I have hardened thee against, me that I            Such cases shall not be settled without the advice of Classis.
might shew my power in thee, and that `my name .might be                 "5. These declarations are referred to the consistories for
declared throughout all the earth.`,                                 their guidance so that they may deal with the concrete cases
  But again, Berkouwer attempts to get away  ,from  reproba-         which come before them in accordance with the given situa-
tion. He cannot agree with Calvin that in Pharaoh the                tions,. the demonstrable teaching of Scripture on marriage,
apostle quotes an example of hardening according to the              divorce, re.pentance,  and forgiveness, and the general provi-
eternal decree of Reprobation. Yet, this is in harmony with          sions of, the Church Order."
the entire context: the children of the flesh. and the children         The first two of the above propositions were the original
of the promise, Jacob and Esau, God will have mercy on               resolutions, the last three were added at a later session of
whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardens.                synod.
Especially this last verse shows clearly that Paul does not            Synod added to the above still two other resolutions which,
even'hesitate to draw a parallel between election and reproba-       although they do not concern us -here, we, nevertheless, also
tion. God has mercy on whom he will have mercy: i.e., ac-            quote :
cording to his eternal counsel of election. But also : whom              "1. Synod declares that the decisions .just reached in this
he will he hardeneth, according to his eternal counsel of            matter constitute a satisfactory answer to the Board of For-
reprobation. And of the latter Pharaoh is an example.                eign Missions  ,for light on  the. subject of divorde and re-
                                                                     marriage, with respect to which there are vexing problems
    Berkouwer may not like the true Scriptural doctrine of           on the Indian Mission Field.
reprobation, but I would challenge him to.  -give any other             "2. Synod continues the present committee on Marital
exegesis to Romans 9 than this. But then let it be  exegesis         Problems ; for a twofold task which it was not able to com-
and not philosophy.                                                  plete in time for the Synod of 1956. This twofold task is the
                                                        ' H.H.       consideration of the Ecumenical Synod's report on other  pos-


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  sible grounds for divorce and the question of polygamy `on            `committed adultery.' The act of which Jesus speaks is not
  the mission fields. A report, covering this study should be           continued. Giving or making a vow is not continued. The
  presented to the Synod of 1957:"                                      problem is selfcreated, as we see if we just read what Jesus
         The above was taken from The Banner of July 13, 1956.          says. The old position rests on the assumption that the first
         It appears that the committee that was assigned by the         marriage is still in force, That is an impossible position.
  former synod to study this matter and advise the present                  "Those -who hold to this position dare not follow it to its
  synod, did not feel itself quite ready, and  <they requested          logical conclusion. We must then say to the guilty parties
 synod, therefore, that they be given time till 1957 to review          to break up that whole new relationship. You must tell
  the whole matter. This request  .was rejected. An advisory            such people: `you are on the road to hell.' If we do not dare
  committee was appointed to consider the issue. This  com-             to say that, let's know that we are on the wrong road. We
mittee,  in its reports to synod, after reviewing the case and          have no gospel for such persons when such people come and
  presenting. the conflicting opinions ou the matter,. came to the      say they love the Christian Reformed Church and they are
  conclusion "that it is futile to expect conclusive Scriptural         willing to undergo investigation. I would rather say to such
  evidence for either position," that is, that remarriage of a          people: `Go and sin no more'."
  divorced person, who is divorced either on non-biblical                   At present I am not discussing the stand which the synod
  grounds or because of his own adultery is or is not living in         of the Christian Reformed Church took in the re-marriage of
  continual adultery. They then presented in their repott  sub-         divorced persons. I hope to do this later. But I cannot re-
  `stantially- the advice that wa,s adopted by synod in the above       frain to make a few comments, even now, on the argumenta-
  quoted. propositions.                                                 tion of the Rev. G. Hoeksema which, in my opinion, is
      Considerable discussion followed on the floor of the synod.       sheer sophistry.
  The original committee on Divorce and Remarriage that had                 The problem, according to him, is expressed in the ques-
  asked for time till 1957 to reconsider their report, had in their     `tion: is sin in its inception also sin in its continuation? This
  r.eport  the recommendation to express that- "those who have          he would deny.
  been divorced and remarried contrary to Scriptural require-               In order to sustain his position, he refers to the supposed
  ments have entered into an adulterous relationship which is           fact that Jesus, when He says "committed adultery" does not
  sinful in its continuation as well as in its inception." Some-        refer to a relationship but to an act. And, so he says, that
  one made a motion to  .adopt this recommendation. Later,              act is not continued. Is this true ? Emphatically not. I sup-
  however, this was defeated with a large majority.                     pose that the Rev. Hoeksema refers to Matt. 19 :9: "And I
     There seems to have been- considerable discussion on the           say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it
  floor of the synod, both pro and con the original recommenda-         be for fornication, and shall marry another, committed adult-
  tion of the committee on Divorce and Remarriage.                      ery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth com-
    Dr. Herman Kuiper  emphasized that we must not regard               mit adultery." I ask: what, according to these words of our
  lightly the historic stand of the church on this matter as            Lord Jesus, is the adultery of which He speaks ? Is it the act
  formulated by our fathers. He also referred to the similar            of having illegal intercourse with a woman, or is it the
  position taken by some English theologians, as well as to the         entering into the marriage relationship with her? Anyone,
  stand taken by the Missouri. Synod, Lutheran Church, and              even the Rev. Hoeksema himself must admit that it is the
  the Southern Presbyterians. He  referred,to  Matt.  19:9 and          latter. The adultery of which the Lord speaks is exactly that
  Rom. 7:1-3.. He rejected the position `of those who hold that         the man enters into an illegal marriage relationship. This is
  remarriage of unscripturally divorced persons bedomes  holy           the literal meaning of the text.                  `.
  wedlock the moment they are married again. To him this is                 Hoeksema says : "The act of which Jesus speaks is not
  a sinful relation. And thus there were others.                        continued." If he means, as one would almost surmise, that
     But there were also those, and they were, evidently, far           the man who thus enters into an illegal marriage does not live
  in the majority at synod, that took the opposite stand. As a          in continuous sexual intercourse with the woman he thus
  typical example of their argumentation I may refer to  the            married, he speaks a very obvious truth.  iBut if he means
  reasoning of the Rev. G. Hoeksema as quoted in The Banner :           by "continued" the same as "repeated," it is just as obvious
   "I would like first of all to wipe away some mists. First,           that he speaks an untruth. In this sense, it is certainly true
  in the circle of the- Reformed Churches we would stand                that sin in its inception is the same as sin in its continuation.
  virtually alone, if not' completely alone, if we retain, our          I expect to refer to this again. But it would have `been much
  present position. We should dare to stand alone if Scripture          clearer to all if the question of which Hoeksema speaks, had
  requires it; but we must be sure our position is Scriptural.          been put in a slightly different form, namely, in this: is the
  The fundamental problem is one of misunderstanding. The               first act of sin the same as its frequent repetition?
  problem : If anything is' sin in its inception, is it not also sin       "Giving or making a vow," Hoeksema says, "is not con-
  in its' continuation ? But there .is nothing in what Jesus says       tinued." I suppose that, in this case, he has in mind the mar-
`about a relationship. He speaks of an  act  when He says               riage vow. But although the vow itself may not be continued


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or even repeated, to remain under a vow is also an act, atid        But they all cover a certain field and do not attempt to discuss
this is certainly continued. And the giving of the VOW. (the sin    every possible. subject, biblical, theological, historical,  ec-
in-its inception) is certainly not less a sin than the remaining    clesia&ical, sociological and scientific. I know not how many
under the vow (then sin in its continuation).                       volumes this encyclopaedia will cover, perhaps twelve. But
    The last paragraph of Hpeksema's  quotation is rather an        I do not. believe that a single work can possibly do justice
appeal to sentiment than to sound and Scriptural reasoning.         to all the various subjects it proposes to discuss. This,  to
Why one would not dare to say to anyone: "you are on the            my mind,.is already evident from the first volume.
road to hell,' if he walks in the way of sin is impossible to          3. My impression is, too, that the work is too Dutch,
understand. In fact, it is the only thing one may say to such       not, of course, as far as its language is concerned, but as to
a one according to the gospel.                                      its scope. I refer, for instance, to the articles on the labor
    But, at any rate, such was the tenor of the discussion on       question and the labor movement, which limit themselves to
the floor of the synod..                                            labor in the Netherlands. In, an encyclopaedia, the labor.
    As has been already stated, the motion to accept the            movement-and .organizations  in other countries, as e.g. the
original advice of the study committee on divorce and re-           American Unions, should have been considered. Thus also.
marriage was-rejected, and' the motion quoted in the begin-         we find an article on Bilderdijk, the well-known Dutch poet,
ning of this article was adopted.                                   while other poets under B are ignored. We  even found an
    Someone now made the following motion, which in my              article on the Dutch publication  De  Bamin  which I doubt
opinion was perfectly consistent : "Synod judges that no  con-      should have had a place in any encyclopaedia, but if it did,
clusivc  evidence has been produced to establish conclusively       several other papers should have been mentioned also. For
the thesis that persons un-biblically  divorced and remarried       an encyclopaedia it is too Dutch. in its scope.
are not living in continual adultery." Also this evoked some           4. I do not wish to enter into criticism of separate articles.
discussion on the floor of the synod. But as might be ex-           Otherwise I would certainly call attention to the articles on
pected, this found no favor in the eyes of thk synod and            "The Earth" which I, as a biblical theologian, do not accept
was rejectep.,                                                      because they cater too much to the theory of evolution. Nor
    In some future editorials we expedt, D.V., to discuss           would I, in that case, refrain from  criticising  the short
these decisions of the synod of the Christian Reformed              aiticle on the subject of the offer of grace in which my name
Churches and, at the same time, offer our own conviction of         is mentioned. And there is more. But, although the publisher
what Scripture teaches regarding this matter.                       asked me to write a more extensive discussion of this work
                                                          H.H.      than is customary in a mere book-review, if I shduld enter
                                                                    into a detailed, criticism, this review would become way too
                                                                    long. Hence, let this be sufficient.                          H.H. .
                  Christian  Encyclopaedia   '
    As already said, Mr. Kok in Kampen asked me to offer a                                                  .
more extensive discussion of the Christian Encyclopaedia                                 Important   Notice
than is usual in a common book review: This I will attempt
to do. It stands to reason that it is impossible to enter into         There will be a Sunday School Inspirational Mass Meet-
a detailed discussion of the various articles appearing in this     ing in our Creston Church on September 21, at 8 p. m.
first  volum6. A general impressiqn must suffice. This is as           All Sunday School teachers and friends are invited  to.
follows :                                                           attend.
    1. On the whole I was very favorably impressed by this                                            Arthur Schuitema, Secretary
work. It is true, as the redaction and publisher state in an
introduction, that in general this encyclopaedia sounds forth
a positive note `and that it reflects a trustworthy representa-                             IN MEMORIAM
tidn of Prote'stant  thinking in the various fields of study it        The Young People's Society `of the First Protestant  Re-
discusses. A; such I do not hesitate to recommend it.               formed Church of Redlands, California, hereby expresses its
    2. The questio& -al'ose  in my mind, however, whether the       sympathy, with the bereaved family of
redaction does ndt take "too much hay on its fork,", to use a                           PFC.  GORDON A. KING
Dutch expression, by issuing such a general encyclopaedia
touching on virtually  every  subject under the sun.  .There        who, at the time of his passing, was a member of our society.
                                                                    May the Lord, Who in infinite wisdom always does all, things
are in existence several  encyclopaedias,  also in the English      well, comfort the bereaved with His word that ever abides.
.language,  such as the Encyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological,     "Thou shalt guide me with  Thy counsel and afterward receive
and Ecclesiastical Literature,, by McClintock  and Strong ; the     me to glory . . . My flesh and my--heart faileth: but God is the
Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge, by Schaff-Herzog  ;           strength of my heart, and  my portion forever." Ps.  73:24, 26.
or theInternational Bible-Encyclopaedia,  by different authors.                                     Beverly Van Meeteren, Secretary


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 II                                                                   grace - conceding now for the sake of argument that there
           THE DAY OF SHADOWS                                      II is such a thing- is not one of which the essence is fr'iend-
                                                                      ship. For although, according to the exponents of this type
                                                                      of covenant, God assumes an attitude. of favor toward the
                 The  Covenant   with Noah                            reprobate wicked, the latter, certainly, do not love him. They
       According to the Scriptures, the covenant with Noah,           hate him, the reason being that though God, so it is held,
 the same as the covenant with Abraham, included not                  loves the wicked, he refrains from shedding abroad His love
 humanity soul for; soul but Christ and His  ,chosen people           in the hearts of the wicked. But Noah was a man righteous
 only (and. the lower  creationj . It was thus, according to          in his generation with a righteousness that was his in Christ.
 the Scriptures, a covenant of special  .grace and not of so-         Seeing now that the covenant of .special  grace was already
-called common grace. Let us turn to the Scriptures and see           with Noah before the flood it certainly should have to be
how true this is.          -                                  _       considered strange, should God have forsaken the special
       a) God everywhere appears in the Genesis narrative as          covenant that He already had established with him,' now to
 a friend of Noah. and Noah on this account as the friend of          establish with him, as the representative of reprobated men,
 God. Now friendship is the essence of the covenant of grace.         such a common covenant including the reprobated.  Forcon-
 It is established, is this covenant, through an act of God           sider once more what the Lord said to Noah, "But with thee
 according to which he realizes in His people the fruits of           I will establish my covenant. Now if this statement  must!
 Christ's atonement, in His love for them. And in that love,          be made to apply to a new covenant of common grace,. the
 as their God and Eather  in Christ Jesus, he fellowships with        conclusion is inescapable that the covenant of grace was not
 them through Christ, walks and talks with them, reveals unto         continued with Noah in his generations and that, if it was,
 them His secrets and satisfies them with His likeness. And           there is no record of it in the Scriptures. But this is incon-
 in that same love  e the love of God shed abroad in their            ceivable.
 hearts, His people know Him in the face of Christ, inquire              b) Consider, further, the position of the conjunction  b&
 after His glories in His holy temple, and, as being of His           in the statement, "But with thee will I establish my covenant."
 party, confess His name before men, witness for the truth            Now  but  is an adversative conjunction. It joins opposite
 and oppose it to the lie, and condemn by their holy conversa-        ideas. Hence, what the Lord here tells Noah is precisely
 tion the world and all that is of it. The essence of the cov-        this, "With you will I establish my covenant but not with
 enant of special grace- there is, to be sure, no other cov-          the wicked. The latter I shall destroy, for they are wicked.
 enant than this-is indeed  .friendship.  In the Genesis nar-         How then could it be true that the covenant, established with
 rative Noah everywhere appears as a friend of the Lord. We           Noah after the flood, was a covenant that included the re-
 read of him, "Noah was a just man and perfect in his                 probated wicked, thus a covenant of grace that is common.'
 generations, and Noah walked with-God." Gen. 6  :9. It means         We say once more, this is inconceivable.
 that he fellowshipped with God and arrayed himself on
 God's side against the wicked world of his day and age,                 c) The announcement, "But with thee will I establish
 through his prophesying and his building the ark in the              my covenant," must be taken as indicating that the very
 obedience of his faith before the face of God and in the             purpose of the Lord's saving Noah was to perpetuate with
 presence of his contemporaries. And so does God every-               him in his generations the covenant that already was with
 where appear in this narrative as the friend of Noah. He             him to perfect it, through the ages, unto the second appearing
 pours out his heart to, Noah, so to say; complains to him            of Christ.  L
 about the wickedness of man, divulges to Noah his                       d) Consider the ground on which the Lord saved Noah
 secrets when He fells him what He had resolved to do with            and promised to establish with him His covenant. That
 man. Let us quote Scripture here. "And God said unto                 ground was Noah's righteousness, his being a just man and
 Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth         perfect in his generation. Now, certainly, Noah's justice
 is' filled with violence through them  ; and, behold,  1  will-      and perfection formed not' a good that proceeded from a
 destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of  gopher             general attitude of favor that God is supposed to be assuming
 wood ; and behold, I even I, do bring a flood of waters upon         toward all men  ; but this good was Noah's because Noah
 the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life,      was Christ's. It means that the covenant that was established
 from under heaven  ; and everything that is on the earth shall       with him after the flood was grounded upon Christ's atone-
die. `But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou            m e n t .
 shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and            e) There is still other strong evidence of this in the
 thy sons' wives with thee:"                                          sacred narrative. Let us again quote, "And Noah built an
       Assuredly, the Lord and -Noah are friends. It means,           altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of
 certainly, that : God's covenant is already with him, the cov-       every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
 enant  whose essence is friendship, thus the covenant not of         And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in
 common but of special grace. For the covenant of common              his heart, I will not again curse the ground for man's


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  sake . .  ." In the sequence of  $3~ verbal response of  the.      generations: I do set my bow in the cloud over the earth,
  Lord to Noah's sacrifice by blood appears the statement,           that the bow shall be-seen in the cloud: And I will remem-
  "And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him                 ber. my covenant which is .between me and you and every
  saying, And  I. behold, I establish my  -covenant with  YOU,       living creature of all flesh  ; and the waters shall no more
  and with your seed after you . .  ." So, then, it was on the       become. a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be
  ground  .of this sacrifice by blood, thus on the ground of         in the cloud : and' I will look upon it, that I may remember
1 Christ's atonement, that the establishing of the covenant with     the everlasting covenant bettieen  God and every living crea-
  Noah, took place. It means that the covenant must have             ture of all flesh that is upon the earth." "And God said,
  been one of special grace.                                         This is the token of the covenant, which I have established
        f) According to the Scripture quoted, the establishing       between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.". That the
  of the covenant was an answer to Noah's thank offering,            bow is the sign and pledge of God's love of His chosen peo-
  to his sacrifice by blood. Mark the logical sequence of the        ple and of His everlasting mercy upon them, thus a sign
  following sentences, "Noah  builded an altar unto the Lord         iand  hledge  of the covenant of special grace and of the per-     .
   . . . And the Lord smelled, a sweet savour . . . And  God,        petuity of this covenant is evident from the following. The
   spake unto Noah, And I, behold, I establish my covenant           bow always appears against the -dark background overcast
   with you . .  ." As Noah's sacrifice typified the atonement       with foreboding clouds, with clouds laden with fire and
  of Christ, it is correct to say that the Lord established His      streaked with the lightnings and resounding with the rum-
   covenant with Noah with the sweet savour of that atonement        blings of thunder. Thus the cloud in Scripture is the emblem
  in His holy nostrils, thus as delighting in the perfect sacri-     of the wrath of God, revealed from heaven over the un-
   fice of His Christ on the cross, thus as delighting also in       righteousness of the wicked, of the judgments with which
   the fruit of that sacrifice as realized in His people and par-    God overtakes the wicked and by which, at the end of ,time,
- titularly  in Noah, and that fruit was Noah's thank offering,      they will be swept into everlasting desolation. What then
  the holy sentiments of his soul to which he gave expression        is the message of the bow set by the Lord God in the cloud ?
  through that transaction. Consider what these sentiments,          This we learn from the vision of St. John as reported in
   feeling, thoughts were. .A deep sense of guilt, and the feel-     the Book of the Revelation- the vision of the throne.
   ing, "I am unclean," thus a craving for divine pardon, and        "And immediately," writes John, "I was in the spirit; .and
  a thirsting after righteousness and a longing after God in         behold a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
   the faith that the sinner's only avenue of approach to God        And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sar-
   is through the blood that cleanses from all sin and that he       dine stone and there was' a `rainbow about the throne, in
   going by this way  wi!l be fed with mercy and be satisfied        sight like unto  an- emerald . . . and out of the throne pro-
   with God's likeness. And the truth, the doctrine, involved        ceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices . .  ." Mark
   in the sacrifice by blood is that without shedding of blood,      you, from the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings
   there can be no remission of sin and that thus the blood          and voices. What is signified thereby is that the throne is
   of the sacrifice cleanses from all sin. No, Noah was a be-        .one of judgment for  the. reprobated wicked, that the Lord
   liever. The above cited sentiments were his. The truth in-        comes in judgment and that He is about to execute' ven-
   volved in the sacrifice by blood dwelt in his soul. And he was    geance upon. the ungodly. But, as remembering His ever-
   thankful. He praised God in love and blessed His name for         lasting covenant, He will save His people through the very
   His great salvation, and vowed to be wholly consecrated to        destruction of the wicked. This is precisely the matter pledged
   His God. And his sacrifice was the expression of these            and sealed by the rainbow, to wit, that God will deliver
  truths as they dwelt rightly in him, and of these holy sen-        His people from all their troubles, when He-comes to judge
   timents of his heart, and of the gratitude that was -flooding     the world ; for the rainbow encircles the throne. Now in the
   his soul, and of his determination to be wholly consecrated       Genesis narrative the bow is set in the cloud as a sign and
  .unto God. They formed the sweet savour that God smelled           seal of the perpetuity of the covenant with Noah. Thus it
   and in which he was delighting. And so smelling and as so         must follow with unrelenting logic that this covenant is one
   delighting, the Lord established with him His covenant anew.      of special grace. For, mark you, the bow signifies, (1) God's
   H                                                                 redeeming love of His people, (2) remembering His cove-
     OW  evident, in the light of these observations, that this
   covenant was one of special  ,grace. How utterly absurd to        nant with Noah. Thus it follows that His remembering that
   say that as so delighting, he established here with the repro-    covenant is a doing according to which He saves His people
   bated a covenant of common grace.                                 from the wicked world and from sin unto life everlasting,
                                                                     and that the covenant with Noah must therefore be a cove-
        g) But there is much more evidence that the covenant         nant of special grace, on the ground of the axiom that two
   with which we here have to do is a covenant of special grace.     things equal to the same thing must be equal to each -other.
   Let us again quote Scripture. "And God said, This is `the            h) There is still more proof that the covenant With Noah
   token of the covenant which .I make between' me and you           was one of special grace.. Let us consider the promises of
   and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual                             (Cowtimed  oa  page  500)


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                                                                                      from God on high with Jehovah's jealous ire for II% house.
                                                                                      Think what happened to the sons of Eli, who desecrated the
                      SF R 0 M- H 0 L Y`- W R I T                                jl temple.
                                                                                          Thus must a minister, elders and all conduct thell!seives
                         Exposition   of  I  Corinthians  1-4                         in the church of God, which is always holy.
        .., ;'                                                                            Let us  take the  sh'oes from our feet -lest the Lord kill
            .-.                             19.                                       HIS, terrify us,, drive us from the church, or bring Xi:: wrath
           :  i                  (I Corinthians 3 :16-23)                             ztpor8  the  e n   tir'e  congrega.t~ion.
                                                                                          And notice then that Paul says : "Let no man deceive him-
                  We now come to the last few verses of this Chapter in I             self." The term  "deceiye"  in the Greek is ex-apntatoo, that
       Corinthians. This entire section reads, in part, as follows:
       "`Kp& ye  not  that ye are the  tevnple of God,  a,nd  &at  the                is : deceive himself very much, so that great will be his fall !
       Spirit of God  dwelleth in                                                     Such a man who deceives himself has sin in  hiin, which
                                          you.? If any  vvLa.n defile  thi  tern--
       pie  of  God,  l&m shall God destroy. For the  tevv@e of God                   through this  very- warning that the church  ic  ,"holy" will
                                                                                      deceive him and slay him.
       is holy,  w%cl'z  are  _ve.          ~herefo+e   let no &an glory in
     gmen. For all things  we  ymt.rs,  and ye  are  C~V~S~`S; and                        When one deceives himself in the sense here  spoken of,
       Christ is God's."                                                              orie does so on a gigantic scale. No it does no: mean, that
                  In this essay we shall not enter in too much detail in the          such a person is one-  who has a very low Intelligence  Quotient.
       text. Rather we shall attempt to do justice to the sense of                    On the contrary, such a person  .has enough talents and .
       t[he  .&ext and trace out the bold and conclusive argument                     ability to be accounted someone amongst men. He possesses
       ?f `the Apostle as he shuts the mouth of all who "boast in                     a certainly worldly wisdom. He has "been around."  he-
       iiien"  !                                                                      "knows the ropes !" He can take care of himself rather we!l.
                  There is nothing that causes a preacher of the Gospel               Thus at least he is in his own -`evaluation of himself.  He
       to put off the shoes from his feet as the knowledge that he                    seems to be and thinks to be "wise among men." In  this
       is constantly standing on holy ground. The church, in whose                    world "he rates  !"
       midst .he may labor to plant and water, is the posSession  of                      However, he does not truly fear the Lord in His holy
       God. .A preacher must shepherd the flock of God. He can-                       temple !
       no~~,+er  act the part of Lord and master in the flock. Strictly                   But he plays with fire all the .while. The fires of the just
.      spe&ig he is not a  "domine,"  a Lord! He is  servant  of                      judgment of God, who avenges His people; God, intd.whose
       God. And there is nothing that stops all the foolishness and                   hands it is terrible to fall, he does not reckon with. Practical-
       wickedness in the congregation so soon and fundamentally as                    ly, in  the  ch1zwcIz,  he does not put off the shoe: from hi:;
       the knowledge that she has been bought with a great price,                     feet ! He does not tremble before God with a holy trembling.
       `and sanctified with the blood of the eternal Son of God                       in beauty of holiness, worshipping  the Lord.
       in thi flesh.                                                                      He honors men, and seeks the honor of men!
                  The church is holy!                                                     And while, to men, he looks like quite a man,  hP is never-
                  We believe an holy,  catholic church, do we not?                    theless a "fool" all the while.
                  And when we confess this, we do not simply mean that                    God sees through this "wisdom" of men and sccj &at it
       there is such a church somewhere, on a "beautiful isle of                      is nothing but human "craftiness  !" It is- not the judicious-
       somewhere," but that the church to which we  belong  is                        ness of one who has learned to profoundly live and say : God
       "holy," that the members are holy, since the Spirit of God                     &lone is great and holy ..in His temple, the church ! Nay; if
     in Christ dwells in the hearts of the members.                                   #the entire church must be defiled,' God's temple desecrated,
                  Thus Paul presents the church at .Corinth. With all her             that means nothing, as long. as it is but a means of  self-
       sins and shortcomings, she is nevertheless "temple of God"                     vindication ! Such a one will needs climb,  over the wreck and
       and, therefore, she is "holy"! This means that the church                      ruins he occasions by his worldly wisdom, to the top !
       is the  dwelling-place  of God in the Spirit. He lives, dwells                     And all his "worldly wisdom" is then displayed.
       in the church. That is the unique grace of the church in                           God calls this wisdom in the mouth of Job 5  :12, 13,
       distinction from the angels. :In the latter God, does not dwell.               "Craftiness." The  t&-m in the original is "panourgia," that
       He only dwells in the Church.                                                  is : any or all work, as `long as it is bad enough. The @ch
                  Of this holiness in the church, the holiness exemplified in         has a saying:  tot  alles gereed en  bekwa,am!  Here  ;ofi' Will
       !the 0. T. temple was but a type and shadow. Yet, even                         be the witness of versatile cleverness  - without any concerti
       there, we see that whoever defiled the temple in any way, by                   for the holiness of the temple, the house of God. Nor is
       trampling its ordinances under foot, was surely slain. Think.                  there any concern about the foundation besides which none
       of the king Uzziah in the temple when he attempted too offer                   other can be laid. But adroit readiness with brains, clever,
       the sacrifice, which was only permitted to the priests j\?hen                  versatile evasiveness there is a plenty. And there are few
       anyone defiled Jehovah's dwelling place he surely was visited                  that can really keep up with them -matching wits ! And in


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 deviltry they  are no children. But solid judiciousness you  '         d. And Christ belongs to God.. God, who is the owner
 look for in vain.                                                  of all.
     And they think they are wise !                                     When we thus speak then we are taking off the shoes
     But, says Paul, the Lord knows the`thoughts  of the wise,      from our feet. Then all in heaven and on earth becomes holy
 that they are vain. They are really to no purpose in the           .ground for us  up& the foundation laid by Paui in Christ,
 church. They do not build- the saints in faith,  Iquicken  in      the crucified one-.
 hope ! There are as vain as clouds are without rain.. in them.         Here is true judicious knowledge. Here the thoughts are
 They never has understood the holiness of  God& in His             not vain,  .but here is the language of those who became
 church.                                                            "fools' that they ,might be wiie.
     But God understands.                                               Blessed is that church, which has the consciousness that .
     And that is the great comfort of the church, SO that she -she is "holy," the temple of the Lord!
 sings :                                                                Here saints sing in sincerity:           ~.                -
        "The. Lord will judge in righteowness;                                      "The Lord' will not cast off His own,
               F,sowt  Him all  tmth and knowledge flow,                             Nor  H`is  inhey$ance forsake;
             The foblislz thoughts of wicked men;                                    Just judgement &all at length prevail,
               How vain they a.re, the Locd doth know!"                              And upright heurts shall courage take.>' -
                                                                               D
     Let, therefore,  tie  Flati boast in men!                                      "Our God, the refitye  of His saints,
     In the church of God . . . GOD is all in all!                                   Will fight .again@  iniqhy;
     And, therefore, says Paul "let no man" boast in men.
 Let  us  keep our sights straight, o, ye Corinthians. Boast in                      Avenger of the innocent
 Paul,  Apoll&,  Peter- and, then do it with a  semblence                            he Lord owmipotent will be."                       .
 of holiness? And to this we `can add the names of the faith-                                                                                      G.L.
 ful preachers of the past and present ! Boast in them ? God                                                                             ,'  _
 forbid !                                                                                                                                               < _
     We will simply boast in the Lord, our God!                                          Notice   for Classis West                           `-
     This certainly means that we hold on to the profession
 of the hope steadfast to the end. That we have a holy con-             Classis  West  of the Protestant Reformed Churches will .
 tern about the truth in Jesus. But  that we do not make            meet, the Lord willing, in Oak Lawn, Illinois, Wednesday,
"schism" where Christ does not make one.                            September 19, 1956. The consistories are reminded of the
     Then we will follow the following line in our boast in,        rule that all matters for the classical agendum  must be in the
 the Lord:                                                          hands of the stated clerk thirty days before the meeting of
     1. We will say "all is ours !' We will not limit our boast     Classis.                                                 .:
 to a few men, but standing on ?he fi%ndation  besides which                                           Rkv.  I-I. Veldman,  Stated  Clerk
there is none other we will see the whole of the riches that                                        -
 is `ours in Christ, and each will then fall into the proper
 perspective where God puts them !                                                              I&J  M E M O R I A M   -
     2. Here we will see that to the pure all things are pure,         The  Consistory  of the  Creston- Prot.  Ref. Church and the
 standing in the service of God.                                    Societies of the congregation join together in expressing their
                                                                    most sincere and heartfelt  sympa.thy  to Mr. and Mrs. Joe' King,
    `a. That means that Paul,  Afiollos,  Cephas- whatever          Marilyn, and Roger, in their recent and sudden loss of Son and
 preacher there may be is put there from God for our benefit        Brother
 -as long  as' he builds upon the foundation besides  which                                    GORDON A. KING                      '               :
 there is none other.                                                  May our Covenant God  comfo:t  the family by His Almighty
                                                                    Word  a'nd Spirit, `knowing our loss is his gain in our Lord and
     b.  That also  .means  that in Christ, our Lord, we may        Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Resurrection and the Life.
 shout that the entire Cosmos is ours in &ith and hope, and
 that in "life" and "death' we belong to our faithful Savior,
 Jesus Christ. Both of these are  `ours  ; we are indeed the            "That in which both these things (truth and justice) root
 victors, and we boast in thk Lord.                                 and ground themselves is the conversion of man to God ; for
     c. And it means that this is all true, that all things are     the works of none but those who are regenerated, are good
 of us, since we  a7e of  Cbist!  We belong to Christ. He  is       and pleasing to God."
 our Lord. And He is Lord over all.                                                               Ursinus,  Heid.  Catechism, page 464


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   Il.                                                                    fear in His name.- It expresses a desire for man to have
                    `IN  H - I S   FE~AR                              II some power over God rather than awe and reverence before
   I'                                                                 `1 His face. It breathes the spirit of the challenge of the devil
                                                                          unto Adam and Eve: "ye shall be as gods." In that  spirit
                         Praying in His Fear                              man never prays but assumes an attitude of equality with
                                                                          God if not even of superiority over Him in the field of that'
                                                                          which ought to happen and ought to be changed.
          Prayer does not change  tL?gj.                                      A few texts from Scripture are not out of place to answer
           And the  man made slogan "Prayer changes things" is            the criticism that the stand above makes all praying worthless.
   not a text  df Scripture.                                              Jesus says in John 15 z-7, "If ye abide in me, and my words
           It is  not at all unusual to hear the phrase quoted as         abide in you, jre shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done
   though it were a verse from Holy Writ; but it surely is not.           unto you." He likewise declares in John 14:14, "If ye shall
           All things are determined by the All-wise God from             ask anything in my name, I will do it.' It will, then, be
   before the foundation of the world and all the prayers of              observed that each time there is a qualifying statement as
  all men together cannot make Him change one smallest ele-               to what we shall receive. When we abide in Christ and His
   ment in the eternal, all-comprehensive counsel He has with             words abide in  us'we walk in His fear. Then we do not
   Himself from all eternity.
          This very truth is often the occasion for many to dis-          pray for selfish carnal things for our fleshly joy at the ex-
   play their lack of fear  befqre  Him  ; that is, the mentioning        pense  zf others. No, we will pray for that which God has
   of this undeniable truth of Holy Writ will often  reireal in           decreed from eternity to g&e us. We will ask for God's will
  those that do not wish to walk  in. His fear that they will             rand not for our own.
  not bow before this truth that'God  reveals qf Himself. They               Consider once how carnal  and selfish our prayers are and
   will not, therefore, bow before God and will not pray to               what a quandry it is in which we would be able to place the
   Him. For, not to pray in His fear is not to pray to Him.               Sovereign Lord of heaven and earth if we could induce Him
           Let those who desire to hold on to the unscriptural idea       to change things at our request ! You pray for an early frost
  that prayer does change things read Isaiah 40 and Job, chap-            for relief from the miseries of hay fever;  your   neighbour
  ters 38  Jhrough  41. If the truth therein recorded does not            prays for a  mild Autumn that the remaining crops on his
  move them to say with Job in chapter 40 :4, 5, "Behold I am             field may ripen and he may be able to pay that large hos-
  irile ; what shall I answer thee : I will lay my hand upon my-          pital bill that was unexpkdtedly placed upon him by that same
  mouth. Once have I spoken  ; but I will not answer : yea,               God Whose eternal counsel decreed you as a hay fever
  twice; but  I  will proceed no, further," then we can only              sufferer. By what rule or standard would the sovereign God
  conclude that they do not know the fear of the Lord.                    determine which prayer He will fulfill  ? Is He moved by
           Shall foolish, limited, frail and sinful man by his prayers    numbers  ? Is He moved by the length of the prayer? Does
  be able to change all that the Living, All-wise, Almighty z+d           He count the words and the letters ?
  Holy God has  decreed.as  the Unchangeable God  ?                          Is therk respect of persons with God ?
           Indeed, men will argue (or rather  ,complain)  that there         Nay, but if we abide in Christ and His words abide in
  is no sense in praying if `by our prayers we cannot induce a            us we will have respect, reverence and awe before Him and-
  loving God to change things `for us. The view that declares             pray for that which is to the glory of His name. We will
  with Scripture that God has decreed all things present and              know our place before Him. We will be humbled in the dust
  future as well as past will be accused of presenting a God              before Him and approach  Him as the Exalted One. Yea,
  Who is not a God of love, mercy and grace.  iBiut we  make              in our prayers we will exalt the Lord and not our will and
bold to maintain that all such criticism of' the stand that               our mind.
  our prayers cannot induce God to change what He decreed                    And can one in  Jesus?  name pray for that which will
  from ,before the foundation of the world is made not in His             hurt the brother in Christ'? Can one whose earthly fortunes
  fear but in the sinful br$dness of the proud flesh of man.              require the sunshine pray in Jesus' name  -to the Father' to
          For, if we by our prayers can change God's will and mind,       keep away the- rain which his brother in Christ needs for
  we have no God left but instead an almighty ( ?) and pliable            his earthly fortunes ? Can one in Jesus' name and while His
  servant to do our bidding. Then we can change God. And                  words abide in him come to the sovereign God and tell Him
  he who can change God has the supremecy  over God and'is                in prayer that His plans of. taking one of his loved ones
 hi&elf  become God.                                                      to glory is not wise and good-and ought to be amended and
          Even for. Jesus' sake Jehovah will not allow such a god-        postponed? Pray in Jesus' name  ; pray in His fear and yak
  dishonoring thing to take place. He is and will remain God              will pray for that which the living God has decreed He will
  in answering our prayers as well as in all other things.                give you.
          The complaint that there is no sense in praying if it is           Those who pray in His fear do not ask whether pray&-
  all determined  ahead  of time by God does not stem from                is not useless and worthless. It is those who do hot pray


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 in His fear that speak that way. Those who pray in His              where do we find, then, room to pray for long life and
 fear do not say, "0 what is the use anyway  ?" It is those          wealth ?
 whose prayers are not heard because they are not uttered                Shall  we,. when a loved one hovers near the point of
`in His fear that correctly draw the conclusion that their           death, pray for recovery and many happy days to come with
 prayers are useless in the obtaining of that which their sinful     the idea that by our prayer we can change God's mind and
 lusts seek.                                                         change this present situation while we are limited by God
     James says, and that correctly, that the prayer of right-       Himself to pray only for the needs `of the day?
 eous man availeth much. It does not overpower God. It                   There is another side to this matter often'overlooked. A
 does not prevail over Him. It does not change Him and His           parent prays earnestly for the recovery. of his. child, for the
 counsel. But it availeth much to the one who utters it in the       safe return home of his child, for protection for his child
fear of God's name. In that very prayer he is blessed. But           or loved ones that are away from home and on the way to a
 that prayer availeth much is not the same as "Prayer changes        happy reunion. So narrow are we in our vision at such times,
t h i n g s . "   i                                                  so prone to take things for granted and to forget our own
     Take, if you will, that model prayer which Christ taught        dependancy  upon God that just because we have life and no
 His disciples and' His Church. Where will you find in one           dangers seem to threaten us at the moment we pray-that they
 of those petitions the idea even. that we are to seek or have       may safely be brought to us without considering that many
the right to seek to have God change things for us ? The             things can also happen to us to make that happy reunion im-
prayer sets out with the lofty petitions for the hallowing of        possible.
 God's name, the coming of His kingdom and the execution                True it is what the Heidelberg Catechism declares, that
of His will on earth as it is done in heaven. No suggestion          our best works are polluted with sin. Prayer is a good
even of a petition that God change things for us is to be            work. It is a work that God works in us and through us.
seen there.'                                                         And what He does in and through us by the Spirit of His            _
     "Give us this day our daily bread." Whatever view you           Son is ethically and morally good, But we, according to the
may take as to how the word "daily" should be-interpreted            sin that abides in  us  all' the days of our earthly life, soon
to mean, it  inust be conceded at the very start that all of         turn from that which is good and our prayers as well as our
this petition must be explained in the light of and not in           worship and tithing become pollutted with sin.
.contradiction to the  preceeding  three petitions. Shall we            Praying in His fear is not an easy thing.
pray  ?, "Give us this day our daily bread even though it will          Yet prayer is a wonderful gift of God to His child.
militate against that hallowing of Thy name." Dare we                   In prayer he has fellowship and communion with God.
pray.,?  " Give us this day our daily bread even though it           Hespeaks  with Gpd and opens his heart to Him. He makes
disrupts the plan according to which Thou hadst decreed to' his requests known, unburdens his heart and rolls his
cause Thy kingdom to come." Is it praying `in His fear to            cares and anxieties upon God. He does not count it
utter these words ?, "Give. us this day our daily bread be-          a "chore" and does not condemn it as a useless; worth-
cause our will must be done on earth even though Thine is            less thing. He who has  -the fear of the Lord in his
done in heaven."                                                     heart delights to come to, Him in prayer. It -gives him joy and
     Nor should we overlook the plural form of the prayer.           peace.
We do not and may not pray for that which takes the daily               And it takes an approach in His fear to have this joy.
bread out of the mouth of others so that ours may be                    In His fear is the only way to pray to the only true God.
stuffed full. Give us this day our daily bread must be uttered
in the spirit of the petitions that precede it.                                                                              J.A.H.
     Then, too, it is for daily bread. And we prefer the  ex-
.planation of the original word "daily" that sets it forth as the
bread "coming to me." Then especially it will be plain that
we do not ask God in this petition to change things for us
when we pray to Him but that we pray for that which is                  "Since good works are the fruits of our  regeneratibn-
coming to us according to His eternal, unchangeable decree           since they are the expression of our thankfulness to God,
from before the foundation of the world.                             and the evidences of true faith ;. and since none are saved but
     And a prayer for daiiy bread, even when the word daily          those in whom these things are found; it follows on the
is interpreted to mean "for the present,' that is, "for today"       other hand, that evil works are the fruits of the flesh, that
severely limits our petition for material things and condemns        they are manifestations of ingratitude, and evidences of un:
many of the requests that are made in the name of prayer.            belief, so that no one, who continues to produce them, can
Even if we are. to take the word "daily" to mean what the            be saved."'
 english word means; the bread I can use and need today,                                     Ursinus,  Heid. Catechism, page 467


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                                                                         symbolical theory of the Supper, which however includes a
   II         Contending For The Faith                                   real spiritual participation of the Lord by faith, and in this
                                                                         respect stands nearest to the Calvinistic or orthodox Re-
                                                                         formed doctrine, while- in minor points he differs from it
               The  Church  and  the  Sarrcnnents                        as much as from transubstantiation and consubstantiaton. He
                                                                         was the first to make a clear distinction between the outward
         Vrsws  DURING THE SECOND PERIOD  (300-750 A.D.)                 sign' and the inward grace, which are equally essential to the
                                                                .-
                          TUB                                            conception of the sacrament. He maintains the figurative
                                  LORD'S SUPPER                          character of the words of institution, and of the discourse of
                                                                         Jesus on the eating and drinking of his flesh and blood in the
                    The  IEucharist by  Philifi  Schaf.                  sixth chapter of John; with Tertullian, he calls the bread
         Marcarius- the Elder, a gifted representative of the earlier    and wine "figurae" or  "signa  corporis et sanguinis  Christi"
   Greek mysticism (died in the year  390), `belongs to the same          (but certainly not ?~~c7e figures), and insists on a distinction
   symbolical school; he calls bread and wine the antetype  of           between "that which is visibly received in the sacrament,
   the body and blood of Christ, and seems to know only a                and that which is spiritually eaten and drunk," or between
   spiritualeating of the flesh of the Lord.                             a carnal, visible manducation (the word "manducate" means :
                                                                         to chew  - H.V.) of the sacrament, and a spiritual eating
         Theodoret,  .who was acknowledged orthodox by the               of the flesh of Christ and drinking of his blood. The latter
   council of Chalcedon, teaches indeed a transformation  (meta-         he limits to the elect and the believing, though, in opposition
   balleiaj of the eucharistic  elements by virtue of the priestly       to the  subjectivism  of the Donatists, he asserts that the
' consecration, and an adoration of them, which certainly                sacrament (in its  objective  import) is the body of Christ
   sounds quite Romish, but in the same connection expressly             even for unworthy receivers. He says of Judas, that he only
   rejects the idea of an absorption of the elements in the body         ate the bread of `the Lord, while the other apostles "ate the
   of the Lord, as an error akin to the Monophysite  (:the               Lord who was the bread" (incidentally, we  lo not believe
   Council  of' Chalcedon, `451,  declared,of our Lord Jesus Christ, that Judas was present when the Lord's Supper  was. in-
   that He is perfect God and perfect man . . . of one substance         stituted in the upper room but had departed before the in-
   with the Father as touching His Godhead, of one substance             stitution  ocurred-  H.V.). On another place: The Sac&a-
   with us-as touching His manhood . . . in two natures with-            men turn "is given to some unto life, to other unto. destruc-
   out confusiqn,  without change, without distinction, without          tion ;" but the res sacramenti, i.e., "the thing itself of which
   separation, in such a way that the difference of  .natures  is        it is the sacramenturn, is given to every one who is partaker
   in no wayab-oiished  by the union, but rather the properities         of it, unto life." "He who does not abide in Christ, un-
   of each natme  are preserved and united in one person and             doubtedly neither eats `His flesh nor drinks His blood, though
   one -mode of being. The Monophysite (one nature) denied               he eats and drinks the sacramenturn -(i.e., the outward sign)
   the Lmion  of these .two natures in the Christ - H.V.) "The           of so great a thing to his condemnation." Augustine at all
   mystical emblems of the body and blood of Christ," says he,           events lays chief stress on the spiritual participation. "Why
   "continues in their original essence and form, they are visible       preparest thou the teeth and the belly? Believe, and thou
   and tangible as they were before (the consecration) ; but the         hast eaten." He claims for the sacrament religious reverence,
   contemplation of the spirit and of faith sees in them that            abut  not a superstitious dread, as if it were a miracle of
   which they have become, and they are adored also as that              magical effect. He  alsoI,expressly  rejects the hypothesis of
   which they are to believers."                                         the ubiquity of Christ's body, which had already come into
         Similar language occurs in an epistle to the monk  Caesar-      use in support of the materializing view, and has `since been
   ius ascribed to  Chrysostom, but perhaps not genuine; in              further developed by Lutheran divines in support of the
  Ephraim  of Antioch, cited  ,by Photus; and even in the                theory of consubstantiation. (This reference to the views of
   Roman bishop Gelasius at the end of the fifth century (492-           Augustine is certainly striking. Augustine rejects the theory
  4 9 6 ) .                                                              of the everywhere presence of the body of Christ, which the
         *The latter says expressly, in his work against Eutyches        Lutheran theologians must accept in support of their con-
  and `Nestorius : "The sacrament of the-body and blood of               ception that the body of the Christ is with and under. the
  Christ which we'receive, is a divine thing, because by it we           bread in the Lord's Supper. And `the quotations of Phiilp
  are made partakers .of the divine nature. Yet, the substance           Schaff  to support his presentation of the *views of ,Augustine
  or nature of the bread and wine does not cease.  .And as-              are-equally striking.  - H.V.) "The body with which Christ
  suredly the image and the similitude of the body and blood             rose," says he, "He took. to heaven, which `must be in a`
  of Christ are celebrated in the performance of the mysteries.
    It is remarkable that Augustine, in other respects so de-            place . . . We must guard against such a conception of His
  cidedly catholic in the doctrine of the church and of baptism,         divinity as destroys the reality of His flesh. For when the
  and in the cardinal points of the Latin orthodoxy, follows             flesh of. the Lord was upon earth, it was certainly not in
  the older African theologians, Tertullian and Cyprian, in a            heaven; and now that it is in heaven, it is not upon earth."


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 "I believe that the body of *the Lord is in heaven, as it was       substantiation was not yet fised in the consciousness- of the
 upon earth when he ascended to heaven." Yet this great              church.        _
 church teacher at the same time holds fast the real presence           Chrysostom says : "The wise men adored Christ in the
 of Christ in the Supper. He says of the martyrs: "They              manger; we see him not in the manger, but on the altar,
 have drunk the blood of  Ghkt,  and have shed their  0~1%           and should pay him still greater homage." Theodoret, in the         .
 blood for Christ." He was also inclined, with the Oriental          passage already cited, likewise uses the term  pvoskunein  (this
 fathers, to ascribe a saving virtue to the consecrated elements.    is a Greek word which means: to bow the knee and to
    Augustine's pupil, Facundus, taught that the sacramental         worship), but at the same time expressly asserts the con-
 bread "is not properly the body of Christ, but contains the         tinuance of the substance of the elements. Ambrose speaks
mystery of the body." Fulgentius of Ruspe held the same              `once of the flesh of Christ "which we today adore in the
 symbolical view; and even at a much later period we can             mysteries," `and Augustine, of an adoration preceding the
 trace it through the mighty influence of Augustine's writings       participation .of the flesh of Christ.
 in Isidore of Sevilla,  Beda Venerabilis, among the divines             In all these passages we must, no doubt, take the term
 of the Carolingian age, in  Ratramnus,  and Berengar of Tours,      p~oskmein   and adomrc in the wider sense, and distinguish
 until it broke forth in a modified form with greater force          the bowing of the knee, which was `so frequent, especially
 than ever in the sixteenth century, and took permanent foot-        in the East, as a mere mark of respect, from proper adora-
 hold in the Reformed churches.                                      tion. The old liturgies contain no direction for any such
    Pope Leo I is sometimes likewise numbered with the               act of adoration as became prevalent in the Latin church,
" symbolists, but without good reason. He calls the communion        with the elevation of the host,, after the triumph of the doc-
 a "spiritual food," as Athanasius had done before, but              trine of transubstantiation in the twelfth century. (With
 supposes a sort of assimilation of the flesh and blood of           respect to the assertion of Philip Schaff  that this "adoration
 Christ by the believing participation. "What we believe,            and homage and worship," which terms appear in the writ-
 that  we receive with the mouth . . . The participation of the      ings of the fathers, refers not to the idea of worship which
body and blood of Christ causes that we pass into that which         became prevalent later in the Latin or Western Church. but
we receive, and bear Christ in us in spirit and body." Vol-          to the idea of respect, Freeman writes as follows: "The
 untary abstinence from the wine in the Supper was yet con-          Church throughout the world, down to the period of the
 sidered by this pope a sin.                                         unhappy change of doctrine-in the Western church in the
    III. (I presented the realistic and mystic view of the           eleventh and twelfth centuries, never worshipo.ed either the
 sacrament, whereas II presented the ,symbolical  view of the        consecrated elements on account of their being the bodv and
,Lord's Supper.  -H. V.) The old liturgies, whose testi-             blood of Christ, or the presence of  that, body and  blood :
mony on this point is as important as that of the-church             nor again, either Christ Himself as  supe'rnaturally  present
fathers, presuppose the actual presence of Christ in the Sup-        by consecration, or the presence of His divinity : neither have
per, but speak throughout in the stately language of senti-          the churches of God to this hour, with the exception of the
ment, and nowhere attempt an explanation of the nature               Roman obedience, any such  custom.`f -end of quote of
 and mode of this presence, and of its relation to the still         Freeman. Hence, we may conclude with the remark that
 visible forms of bread and wine. They use concerning the            the consecration and adoration or worship of the  elements
 consecrated elements such terms as: The holy body, The
                                =I                                   in the Lord's Suoper, the bread and the wine, are later de-
 dear blood, of our Lord Jesus Christ, The sanctified  ob!a-         velopments and that this conception is prevalent only in the
 tion, The heavenly, spotless, glorious, awful, divine gifts,        Roman Catholic Church. The fathers do not appear to sub-
 The awful, unbloody, holy sacrifice, etc. In the act of con-        scribe to this view  inany of their writings. -H. V.)
 secration the liturgies pray for the sending down of the                                                                      H.  V.
 Holy Ghost, that he may "sanctify and perfect" the bread
and wine, or that he may "sanctify and make" them the
 body and blood of Christ,, or ,"bless and make."                                .  Annual.  R.F.B.A.   Meeting
   IV.  As. to the adoration of the  cons.ecrated elements :             Our annual meeting will be held `September 27, at  8
 This follows with logical necessity from the doctrine of .o'clock in the First Prot. Ref. Church.
 transubstantiation, and is the sure touchstone of it  (tile            `Reserve this date and enjoy an evening of Christian
 meaning of this statement is clear. The worship of the ele-         fellowship in this worthy cause. Election of o'fficers from ,the
 ments in the sacrament of the Lord's' supper must follow if         following: R.  Bloem, Hope, Al  Heemstra, First, Tom  Reits-
 it be true that the wine and bread have been changed into           ma, Fourth, P.  J. Lubbers, Hudsonville, H. Zwak, Hudson-
 the blood and body of Christ  ,H. V.) No trace of such              ville, J. Lanning, Hope,  13.' Vander Wal, First, Peter  Koole,
 adoration appears, however, in the ancient liturgies, and the       Creston.
 whole patristic literature (the literature of the  fathers-             Speaker for the evening will be Rev. H. Hanko, annual
 H. V.) yields only four passages from which this practice           reports will be given and refreshments served.
 can be inferred ; plainly showing that the doctrine of tran-                                            The Board of the R.F.P.A.


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 II                                                                           stea,d  of, anyone at all. And while we sometimes loosely
              The Voice of Our Fathers                                    II refer to the Arminian theory concerning the death of Christ
                                                                              as a theory of general atonement, it is nevertheless incorrect.
                                                                              They have a theory concerning the death of Christ, but that
                     The  Canons   of Dordrecht                               theory is not the atonement theory. In fact, it was the
                                  PART   TWO                                  strictures to' which their views concerning election and re-
                                                                              probation led them that forced them to replace the theory of
                       EXPOSITION  OF  THE  CANONS                            limited atonement by the so-called governmental theory of
                      `SECON,D  HE A D  OP D OCTRINE                          the death of Christ.
        O                                                                              The Arminian theory is that the love of God could be
             F   THE  D EATH  OF  CHRIST ,  AND  THE   REDEMPTION             magnified, and the righteousness of God be maintained with-
                             O F  M E N  T H E R E B Y                        out vicarious atonement. The Arminians could not maintain
                          RESECTION   OF ERRORS                               and did not want to maintain the principle that the divine
                 Article VII. Who teach :  Tohat  Christ neither could        justice with respect. to sin must be satisfied, and that there-
                  die, needed to die, nor did die for those whom God          fore man must make this satisfaction either through himself
                  loved in the highest degree and elected to eternal life,    or through another. Behind this lies the Arminian theory
                  and did not die for these, since these do not need the      that man does not actually lie under the wrath of God by
                  dea.th  of, Christ. For they contradict the  .Apostle,      nature, but that God's love toward men in general is stronger
                 who declares : "Christ -loved me, and gave himself for
                  me," Gal. 2  20. Likewise : "Who shall lay any thing        than His wrath and cancels His wrath. The Arminians
                  to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;    therefore teach that Christ's death is a divine demonstration
                 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus  thlt          of the way in which God could punish sin, but did not zmnt
                 died,"  Ro&  8:33, 34, viz., for them; and the Savior        to  punish sin. But for the satisfaction of justice and for,
                 who says: "I lay down my life for the sheep," John           reconciliation the death of Christ was not necessary. If only
                  lo:15  A n d : "This is my commandment, that ye
                 love  one  another, even as I have loved you.  Grea.ter      the sinner, looking at the demonstration of the justice of
                 love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his          God in the cross, meets the conditions of faith and the obe-
                 life for his friends," John  15:X2, 13.                      dience of faith, God will forgive him and treat him as if he
       The above rendering of this article is correct, except that            never had or committed any sin.
 it is repetitious  when  it inserts  the words,-"and did not die                 .,But the Arminian is very bold. He not only substitutes
 for these." The latter phrase is not repeated in the original,               this governmental theory for the atonement, but he even
 and could better have been omitted in the translation.                       :attempts to show that it could not be otherwise, and that is
       In this  last- article  ,of the, Rejection of Errors under             impossible that the love of God could be revealed and magni-
 Chapter  II of our Canons the character of the Arminian                      fied through vicarious atonement, through the satisfaction of
 error becomes plain in all its monstrosity and wicked hide-                  divine justice against our sin by the blood of Christ.. Such is
 ousness. land  we must remember in this connection that the                  the bold claim of the Arminian that is rejected and refuted
 fathers of Dordt .do not lay words in the Arminians' mouth in this article. In support of this claim, the Remonstrant
 in these. articles of rejection, but that they cull these errors             reasons as follows :
 directly out of the Arminians" own statements. The  Ar-                               1) The elect are loved by God in the highest degree, with
 minians do not want the atonement, of Christ. They claim                     an eternal love, and are from eternity chosen unto everlasting
. that it is neither possible, nor necessary, nor real: "Christ               life.
 neither could die, needed to die, nor did die for those whom                          2) They are, therefore, as far as God is concerned, not
God loved in the highest degree and elected to eternal life."                 children of wrath at all, but eternally beloved children.
 Mark you  well, they deny the atonement. It is not simply                             3) Hence, if they were never children of wrath, it could
 thus, that the Arminians hold to one view of atonement, and                  never be necessary for Christ. to suffer and die for them in
 that the Reformed maintain another view of atonement.  It                    order to remove that wrath.
 is not so, that the Arminians teach general atonement, as it                          4) If  .it was not necessary for Christ  to.  &move that
 is commonly referred to, while the Reformed hold to the                      wrath, it was not possible either,' since where no necessity
 .doctrine  of limited atonement. The Arminians deny any                      exists, the possibility is cancelled.
 atonement whatsoever! To be sure, the historical fact that                            5) And that which is impossible cannot be factual, can-
 the  ,Lord  Jesus Christ died on Golgotha about the year 33                  not take place. Hence, Christ could not and did not die for
 A.D. they do not deny and cannot deny. That is  history.                     the elect, since they did not need the death of Christ. His
 But the question does not concern mere historical fact. The                  death is not the payment of the debt of sin and the removal
 question concerns the meaning of that fact. And as far as                    of the wrath of God, but a demonstration of what God might
 that meaning  ,is concerned, the Scriptural and Reformed, righteously have done to us if it were not for His love, or
 doctrine is that of vicarious atonement, while the Arminian                  it is an example of meekness and love which we ought to
 actually denies that Christ died fog., that is, in be/&f of, in-             follow.


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     Now what does this article teach us in refutation of the            things are conceived in their proper position and in their
 error above described  ?                                                proper relation to all other things.. And in it the sin and
     First of all, the fathers teach us something by implication        guilt and corruption and damnworthiness of the elect is
 concerning the methodology of the Arminians. Notice that                from eternity in the divine thoughts conceived in its proper
our fathers accuse the Remonstrants of contradicting "the                relation to the salvation of the elect. and their destiny in
Apostle . . . . and the Savior." This is exactly their fault.            eternal life and in its proper relation, therefore, to Christ
They substitute the word of man for the Word of God. The                Jesus.
Arminian method is the method of rationalism. Mark you                      In the second place, the Arminian is guilty of ignoring
well, the error of their method is not merely that they reason,         the fact that what is in God's counsel from eternity, and
but that they reason apart from Scripture, and exalt reason             therefore eternally before the mind of God, and that too, in
above and over against the plain Word of God. Again we                  its proper relationship to all else, whether as means or end,
cannot fail to observe that the Arminian is guilty of the very          is revealed and realized in time step by step. God does not
error of which he accuses his Reformed opponents. Against               create His elect people at once in their glorified, heavenly
consistently Reformed doctrine the charge is always made? -             state, no more than He creates the reprobate immediately in
and, sad to'say, made by those who claim,to be Reformed,-               `their miserable and desolate state. No, in time the order is
8 that it is coldly logical, rigidly reasoned, and therefore ration-    that first they. fall in Adam, are conceived and born in sin ;
alistic. But he who would be consistently Reformed must                 then Christ comes in the fulness of time in order to die for
fling this charge in the face of ,those who make it. He must            their sins and redeem them; and finally, having been placed
do so not because Reformed doctrine is not logical, system-             in living connection with Christ, regenerated, called, justified,
atic, consistent, without self-contradiction ; but- he must do          sanctified, and preserved to the end, they are received into
so because the logic and the reason and the system and the              the state of everlasting bliss.
consistency of Reformed truth stand in harmony with and                     And because of this failure to connect the elect with
in submission to and are derived from the Scriptures. And               Christ in the counsel of predestination, together with the
this is not rationalism. It is the diametrical opposite of ra-          failure to give proper notice to the relation between the
tionalism. But the Arminian is a rationalist. `His reasoning            counsel of God and the realization of that counsel in time,
is a sinful, twisted reasoning, which seeks to twist and warp           the Arminian arrives at his conclusion that since God loved
the truth of God. It is a reasoning which will not submit to            the elect in the highest degree and elected them to eternal
and be' founded upon the truth of the Scriptures.                       life, it was not necessary or possible for Christ to die in their
    That such is the case becomes very evident in the product           stead and to atone for their sins.
of such sinful reas.onings. And specifically, the error of the              All this, the fathers make very clear, is the simple teach-
Arminian position is plain here. In the first place, the                ing of Holy Writ. We must be very careful to maintain this.
Arminian divorces Christ's vicarious suffering from the                 It is not a question of one view  :over against another, of
counsel of God and from the elect in the counsel of God.                Reformed thinking over against Arminian reasoning. It is
He presents matters as if  God..from  eternity loved His                exactly a question of the mind of Christ over against the
elect people outside of Christ and apart from the suffering             mind of sinful man, of the Word of God over  .against the,
and death of Christ. It is indeed true that God loved  H?s              word of man. And the Word of God teaches that it is exactly
elect from eternity, and from eternity chose them unto ever-            because God loved His elect from eternity in the highest
lasting life. This must never be denied. And it is indeed               degree that He sent His only begotten `Son into the flesh to
true, therefore, that in God's counsel the elect do not stand           be the propitiation for our sins. The-atoning death pf Christ
before God as children of wrath, but as beloved children,               is the revelation of the love of God in the highest degree.
This too must never be denied. But this is not be divorced              Never must we change this relationship. God doesnot love
in our minds, also as far as God's counsel is concerned, from           us  because Christ  died  for us  ; but God,  .because  He loved
Christ and His atoning suffering and death. God hath chosen             us  in Christ from  -eternity,  sent His Son, our Lord  J&US
us from before the foundation of the world indeed ; but iti             Christ,  to,,die:,,for us. And  to-, this truth the passages cited
Clzrist  Jeszts. Never apart from Christ `and the atonement,            in  canons II, B, 7, as well. as numerous other passages, of
but always in Christ and as covered by His blood does God               Scripture, plainly testify. The Arminian position stands con7
behold His people in love, also in His eternal counsel.  I?             demned by the Word of God.                                H.,C:H.
is also true, to be sure, that the sins- and the sinfulness of the                         . I
elect are in God's counsel, and that their natural worthiness
of the wrath of God is included in that same counsel. But as                "It is characteristic of genuine piety to have exalted con-
far as the elect are concerned, they are with all their natural         ceptions of future blessedness, and earnest longings after it.
sins and sinfulness and worthiness of wrath beheld by God               Those; therefore, who are contented with the world and in-
in love from eternity in Christ Jesus. God's counsel is not             different about heaven, can hardly possess the first-fruits of
many, but one. It is not partial, but complete. It does not             the Spirit."
contain `a series of isolated and unrelated events, but in it all                                          Charles Hodge on Romans 8 :23


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  I!                                                                    tempt was made to dig out of the text the findings were not
             A L L   A R O U N D   U S                               II always soundly Reformed as they should be. We hope that
                                                                        the new appointee will give us more satisfaction than the old.
                                                                            Rev. Kuiper's  successor has already been named by the
  Banner Editors  Ret&e.                                                Synod of the Christian Reformed Church.  The Rev. John
         The Banner of August 31, 1956, informs us ,that two of         Varider Ploeg has been devoting himself to special study in
  the old-time writers for this periodical are leaving their            Chicago for this work. We are not so optimistic at this
  posts. The Rev.  james M. Ghysels, who has written the                point to believe that the new editor-in-chief will be an im-
  Meditations for the Banner for 36 years ; and the Rev. Henry          provement over the retiring editor. We have read some of
  J. Kuiper, the editor-in-chief, who has written for this paper        the writings of the Rev. Vander Ploeg who for some time
  for some 27 years, bring to a close what m&y will consider            has filled another department in the `Banner. We frankly
an enviable record of service to the Christian Reformed                 state that he has not left the impression with us that he is
  Church. Mr. Jacob J. Buiten, business manager of the                  the  man. Rev. Kuiper has proved to be. Even his special
  Banner for many years, is also retiring.                              training will not make a man out of him in oui- judgment.
         No doubt future issues of the Banner will eulogize these       We like the editor who dares to say what he thinks, who is
  men for their untiring service rendered the Christian Re-             not a `(ye? man, who dares to be original, who is not given
  formed constituency. No doubt, too, church papers and other.          to pussy-footing. Even though we did not always agree
  heriodicals  of sister denominations" will also take note of          with him, we believe Rev. Kuiper to a large extent did a
  this change of editorship and express sentiments of praise            good job as editor. Rev. Vander Ploeg will have to change
  to these men. We may, therefore, leave the eulogies to be             considerably if he is going to fill the bill.
  expressed  to others who are  in a better position to do so.
  It staqds  to reason that we cannot praise these men because          &-ogres&e  Ca~1vini.w~  a.nd Common Grace
  of the existing differences between us both as to doctrine and            We have called attention before to the  p&iodical  called
 practise. No more than we could be expected to respond                 Progressive Calvinism which is now in its second year of
  favorably to a request td take part in the dedication of any          publication. This little paper means to be, so it seems, critical
  of their new church buildings (.which  we have been asked to          of the "Calvinism" of Christian Reformed Calvinists. Some
  do more than, once, but have always refused j, could we be            of this criticism we find in `the August, 1956, issue where
  expected to ask the Lord *to bless all that these men have            one of the editors publishes his answers to ,certain  questions
 written. We could never be so hypocritical as to praise the            proponded to him at a certain meeting of a. Reading Club to
 -Lord for the dissemination of doctrines .which  we believe to         which he had been invited. The questions all appear to be
 be contrary to Scripture and our Reformed Confessions. This            related to the principle question suggested by earlier issues of *
 does not mean, nor should anyone conclude, that we were' Progressive Calvinism where the latter gives the "formula-
 in total disagreement with`all that these editors have  writtep.       tion of the law of brotherly love as being, Thou shalt love
 Moreover, we believe  that these men have been faithful sons           thy neighbor as thyself, with the emphasis on the last two
 of the Christian Reformed Church. They set forth and de-               words,. as  tlayself."  The principle question asked was  : "What
 fended the doctrines of this church as well and better perhaps         does it mean to love the neighbor  .as thyself"
 than others of their men were able to do. If to say this is a             On pages 233-236 of the August issue the editor attempts
 eulogy then we have` expressed  one, though it is not so               an answer to the related question: "On the relationship of
 intended.                                                              Christianity to Prosperity." He writes as follows:
        To write for  .a church paper continuously for so many             "From the floor the question was asked to the effect : Is
 years is no small task, granted that their task was lightened          it sound to say that prosperity definitely results from obeying
 considerably in late years by the fact that both of these men          God's commandments ? Does not experience indicate-. that
 were retired from the active ministry in their churches.               obeying God's commandments does not uniformly make men
        Nevertheless, to write for so many years, and to be elected     prosperous, but even sometimes the reverse  7 This question  I
 and continually reappointed to do so- by the church is no small        challenges Declaration No. 5 of the Progressive Calvinism
 thing.                                                                 League. The declaration reads :
        We have not yet been informed as to Rev. 6-hysel's  suc-            (a) Promote confidence that prosperity obtained, in a free
 cessor.  This appointment will most likely be made by  ttle            market society is the result of obedience to the law of God ;
 Publication Committee. Whoever he will be, h,e should not              and (b j discontinue all apologies for that prosperity and all
 find it too difficult to improve on the style and contents of          policies which will undermine that, prosperity.
 the Meditations Department filled by the former editor. It                We presented in our first issue, January 1955, a brief ex-
is our opinion that he _did  not always write Scriptural Medita-        planation of this declaration. See that issue.
 tions. Generally this department was filled with Ghysel's                 Some of our explanatory statements in the J&uary  1955
 .sentiments  and expressions of his emotional feelings with a          issue need more careful formulation than we gave them.
 Scripture text placed, over them. Also, often, when an  at-               In the first place, we do not mean by prosperity  merely


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material riches. We mean by it a pleasant earthly life, a life          In. this connection we told the meeting that there are
you can live `to suit your own inclinations (except to sin):        obvious logical contradictions in various ideas about  co~n~/~zon
This ,kind of comfortable or good life might mean a modest          yace  land  total  depmvity. If a man has sufficiently naive
life on a college campus, in pleasant physical surroundings,        ideas about cosmogony (how the world is put together and
with delightful intellectual stimula&m, long summer vaca-           functions), he can also have i he must of necessity have -
tions, sabbatical years for study and travel. .Of course, you       correspondingly naive ideas about `grace.' Sometime we
will not get rich in material goods doing that, but. you will       hope fo cover these ideas possibly under the title, `*Playing
still be `rich' because you are living your  lifk  yoztr way,       Tiddlely-Winks With  Worc&.' Much of what passes for  '
as you wish to spend it on earth on mundane matters. A              doctripal  profundity on `grace' is plainly unrealistic.
man cannot expect wealth if he does not work for it. Nor               W6 told the meeting: of course the rain falls on the
can he enjoy  the intellectual life, if he fails to do what that    just and the. unjust. Imagine a square of ten miles on each
requires. And so prosperity means (in our thought j  the            side, with quarter-section farms owned by `believers' and
good life the one you specifically want to live, and that is        `unbelievers'; the holdings of each type of owner are distri-
certainly not limited to Cadillacs and town and country             buted throughout the whole area ; and then God because
houses and great luxury. It mkans other kinds of lives than         `of some `grace' idea should keep the rain and sun off the
the mere acquistion  of wealth.                                     plots  bf the `unbelievers' and should bountifully dispense
    But, we regretfully admit, the good life does not always        them en the adjacent plots of the `believers' ! Such discrilu&.a-
follow  from adherence to Christianity as certainly as a            t.ion iq natural affairs by the prozriderzce  of God would be so
physical effect follows a physical cause, for several reasons :     absurd and tinworkable, that Ch&st  simply called attention
    (a)  PGmte  evil interferes with the  natural cause and         to an idea of such elementary common sense that there is
effect ;                                                            no prdof of `common grace' to be`derived from such .a text.
    (b)  P!lbZic evil also interferes ;                             For  PROGRESSIVE  CALVINISM therefore, common
and then we should have added a third qualification, namely,        grace  .(whatever  some may define that to be j does not re-
    (c) God in his inscrutable wisdom (but probably for the         duce the general validity of, our Declaration No. 5."
benefit of our souls) afflicts us. Consider the case of Job.            If ye have understood the writer of the above quotation,
    These are sweeping qualifications. We mentioned (a j            he emphasizes especially two things in denial of the doctrine
and (b) inadequately in our January 1955 issue, but we              of conimon grace, and both of them.have repeatedly been the
wholly neglected (c) .                                              contention of our leaders from the beginning of our con-
    In regard to the question: Is there a  n&ma1  cause and         troversy  with -the Christian Reformed Church relative to this
effect relationship between obedience to the commands of            false doctrine.
God, as cause, and a resulting good life (prosperity, living as         In the first place, he insists that the prosperity of the
we wish j as effect - to that question our answer' was and js       wicked in this world is not due to a certain common grace of
Yes. All Scripture teaches it. We can fill a book of solid          God to them', but simply to the fact that the ungodly in a .
references to support this. Scripture teaches that God re-          natural and outward sense conforms to the law of God. One
wards the good and punishes  the  eiil. If it does not teach        of our; leaders has used the illustration of two bakers, one
that, then the world and morality are upside down.                  godly ind the other reprobate, to clarify this point. The latter
    We hold, therefore, tenaciously to the conviction that the      is in p:ossession of the formula for making good bread, while
general rule in this world in the past tias, today is, and in       the former can  on!y make sour dough. Who gets the busi-
the future will be that temporal rewards result from conduct        ness ? / Of course, +he "ungodly  man. Why ? Simply because
in obedience to .God's  laws, and that temporal penalties follow    he cor!formS to the law of God for making good bread. Any
conduct in disobedience to God's laws.  .As a qualification we      grace  ;nvolved  here? Of course not!
admit : that coercion (power j exercised by individuals and             Inithe second place, the writer of Progressive Calvinism
by men collectively. (governments), interferes with these           has' cqrrectly  seen that grace arid providence must not be
laws. Further, we admit that the inscrutable providence of          confused. This also our leaders have always contended. The
God seems occasionally to interfere with the general rule."         fact that rain and sunshine fall on the  acreage  of the un-
    The author of the above lines continues with what especi-       godly ;s not due to a certain common grace of God over him,
ally struck our attention as most interesting and no doubt will     but simply to the providence of God according to which He
be of interest to otir readers. We continue the quotation:          provides for all His creatures. Providence is not grace, nor
    "This last factor touches on a  moof question among.            should these two concepts ever be confused as has been done
Christian Reformed Calvinists -the question of  co~~~~on            by the common grace people.
gmce. God makes `his sun 10 rise on the evil and the .good,             PrbgreSsive  Calvinism has more to say in criticism of
and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.' (Mitt.  3,:45).       the "Calvinism" of Christian Reformed Calvinists which is
This sounds like a statement against Declaration  No;:-  5,         interesting. We will continue to take note of what is written
that is, that there are neither punishments nor rewards for         in future issues.
different kinds of conduct.                                                                                                     M.S.


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                   THE DAY OF SHADOWS                                           IN,DEX   TO  VOLUME   XXX11
                    (Colttinlud f1.0712 page 489)                             INDEX OF SCRIPTURE PASSAGES TREATED
that covenant. They are the following. (1 j I will not again
curse the ground for man's sake . . . While the. earth  re-                          SUBJECT                                              Author       Page No.
                                                                     Genesis  4:4b,  5a  ____._._______.___________________   :G.V. 409 18
maineth,  seed time and harvest, and  cold And heat, summer          Genesis  8  :21a ______________________________________ G.V. 73 4
and winter, and day  and night shall not cease. (2  j Be             J3mhx.   13:21,  22'  -em..  -_______________________i______  G.V. 145 7
fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, (3 j And, the         11 Chronicles  20:3, 4, 13 ___________________________ G.V. 337 15
`fear of- you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast         P s a l m   37:37  -~--------------------------------------G.V.   4 9   3
of the earth . .  ." Let  ils now get before us the Scriptures       Psalm  46% 10, 11 __________________________________ G.V. 313 14
                                                                     Psalm   68:18  ___--_ 
at Heb.  11:7, "By  faith  Noah, being warned of God of                                         I ________________ ________________ G.V.                361 16
                                                                     Psahn 1393.24 ____  l______________________________                    G.V.
things not seen as yet,  moved with fear, prepared an ark            Psalm   1465'  _____________.._________________________-   G . V .   2:  t
to. the saving of his house ; by the which he condemned the          hmrbs  23:23a  -----------------------------------G.V.   4 5 7   2 0
wbrld, and became heir of the righteousness which is `by             Isa.iah  33  :24 _______________ ______  .. _______________  ..-G.V. 2i6 10.
faith." The "things not as yet seen" were the destruction            Jonah  4:ll _____  L ___________________________________ J.M.                       67     3
                                                                    Hag&  2:10-19  -__-____________   :__________________   G . M . O .                   79 4
pf the world through the flood as an unfulfilled prophecy            Haggai 2  :2O-23 -----  .,  --__  L__-_-__________________  G.M.O. 106                     5
of God. Noah believed God. Of all that vast multitude to             Zechariah  l:l-6  --.  --_____________________________               `G.M.0;  128          6
whom he communicated his revelation, he was the only one             Zechariah 1%17 ------__________________________  G.M.O. 152 7
who believed. And under the constraint of  :his faith. in            Zechariah  1:18-21  _ -_- ___ .._...._ __ ___ __ ___ ___ ___l_ -G.M.O. 177                 8
obedience to the word of God, he built an ark, to the saving         Zechariah  2:1-13   -----___________________________  G.M.O. 179 8
                                                                     Zechariah 2:1-13  -_______________________________                    G.M.O. 201 9
of his house, and thereby condemned the unbelief and `pro-           Zechariah  2':10-13 _ ___ __ ___ __ _____  _.. ____ ___ __ ____ G.M.O. 225 10
fanity of all his contemporaries. The result  was that he            Zechariah 3 :l-10  ------__________________________  G.M.O. 225 10
became heir of the righteousness which is by'faith. He in- Zechariah  3:6-10 ________________________________ G.M.O. 249 11
herited righteousness in Christ and the reward of -righteous-. Zechariah 4:1-7 __________ . ______________________ G.M.O. 373 12
ntss, to wit, the  ful,fillment  of the promises- of the             Zechariah 4:7-14 ________  L _______________________ G.M.O. 297 13
                                                                     Zechariah  5:1-4  _________________________________ G.M.O. 346 15
covenant established with him. He inherited  the.  earth             Zechariah 5  :5-11 _______  T ____ ___________________ G.M.O. 347 15
as  frsed from the race of men that had corrupted it-the             Zechariah  6:1-S _________________________________ G.M.O. 370 16
earth as freed from that face by the waters of the flood. He         Zechariah 6:1-15 ________________________________ G.M.O. 393 17,
inherited the right and privilege- tb be fruitful and replen-' Zechariah 7  :l-14 ________________________________ G.M.O. 442 19
ish this earth. He inherited, the right and privilege to' rule       Mathew   6:Zjb  ___________________________________ G.M.O. 431  1s
                                                                     Matthew  lS.i23-35   ---:-..  ___________________________ H.H. 200 9
over every beast of the field, the fowls of the air, all that Matthew 23 :34-46  ______________-____.   _--___________  G.V. 433 19
moved upon the earth, and all the fishes of the sea. "Into           Matthew' 25:14-30'--:  __________________________  :-j--R.V.  473 20
your hand are they. delivered." He received the right to             Matthew  26:46-50   __..__-._   L __________________  .. _______ G.V. 241 11
nourish his body with the flesh of animals. Lastly  hk re-           Luke  2:14  ________________________________________-                  M.S.         45 2
ceived the -right and duty to unsheath the _ sword in pun-           Luke  2:14  ___- _____________________________________ M.S. 190 8
                                                                     Luke  2:15-l&  20 ___________________________________ G.V. 121 6
ishment of crime, that is, of murder. He inherited the earth         Ltike  16:19-31 _______________ L ________ .. _____________ G.V. 169                       S
with is perpetuity of divine ordinances. "While -the `earth          L u k e   19:11-28   _~______~~_________-------------------R.V.                    473 20'
remaineth,   seedtime  and harvest . . . shall not  cease. Now       Luke 22:48  ____________________________ .. ____________ G.V. 241 11
all this `good.- these rights and privileges,-formed not             Luke  24:13-25  ____  _ __________  ..  __--___--__-__--______  G.V. 289 13
the supreme reward  of Noah's righteousness but were typi-           John  8:3-11 ________________________________________ G.V. 193 9
                                                                     John  13:1-5   __________________________________l_   ..-G.M.O.  430 18
cal of it. We must bear in mind that we  `deal  here with            John 14  :I6  __L____________________________________                  I-G.V. 385 17
types. The supreme reward  df-  No&`: righteousness was             Acts  2:1-4  ________  --v-C _____  .d  ___---_____________  :---G.V. 385 17
and is the kingdom of heaven, the new earth, the new and            Acts  6:3  - _____  -  ________________----____________ G.V.D.B. 381 16
glorified earth, where the tabernacle of God will be with            Remans   1:16  ___~________~-~~------~----------------G.V.                       4 8 1   2 1
men. Let us consider'now that all  thiti good, both" on the          Rolnans   109 ____________________________________  ..-H.H.  220 10 .
                                                                     I Corinthians l:l-3  ___-____-------------------------G.L.                          10 1
earthy plain and on the heavenly plain, was a fulfilled prom-        I Corinthians  1:4-9 ____ ___ __ _-_ __ _-_  _-  -____   _--____--  G.L.           34 2
ise of the covenant, that God established with Noah and at           I  Corinthians  1:4-9  _____.   ________----_---_-----------  G.L.                 57 -3
once the reward of  His righteousness,, thus a reward of             I- Corinthians 1:4-9 _ __ _ __ -i_ __ __ _ -_ _ -___ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ -G.L.     82 4
$the atonement :of Christ, for Noah's  tighteousness  was, I Corinthians 1:13b-17 __.. ___________________________ G.L. 131                                    6
Christ's. What follows -from this,  again' with unrelenting         I Corinthians  1:18-25   ____________-__________________                G.L.. 155          7
                                                                    1 Corinthians  1:26-31  _______________________________ G.L. 180 8
logic, is that the covenant established with Noah was one           I Corinthians 1 :26-31 __________________ .. ____________ G.L. 204                         9
of special grace.  For  -if the promise of that covenant, and       I Corinthians 2:1-5  _____________-----_______________  G.L. 228 10
the fulfillment- of these promises, the good that Noah in- `I Corinthians 2:1-5 ___________________  ..i ____________ G.L. 252 11
herited, -was the fruit of Christ's atonement, it certainly must    I Corinthians  2:6-9 _________________________________ G.L. 276 12
follow that the covenant itself was the fruit of Christ's atone-    I Corinthians  2:6-9  _____________-------_____________  G.L. 300 13
                                                                    I Corinthians  2:10,  11.  __..  ________-___-__-___________              G.L. 321 14
ment, that it was thus a covenant of spedial grace.     G.M.O.      I Corinthians  2:10, 11  __________--------____________  G.L. 349 15


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                 SUBJECT                                              Author           Page No.                         SUBJECT                                             Author      Page Nd.
  I Corinthians  Z:lO-15   _____i____:  ______ ______________ G.L. 469 20                                    Love The Lord Thy God by H. Hoeksema ______ M.S. 118                               5
  I Co.rinthians  2:12-16 ________________________ ,. ______ G.L. 373' 16                                    Love Thy Neighbor for God's Sake
  I Corinthians 3  :l-3 _________________________________ G.L. 418 18                                           by H. Hoeksema. _______________________ ______ M.S. 359  .15
  I Corinthians 3 :3-9 _______________ ..-L ______________-  G.L. 444 19                                     Lukas,  Vol: I, II by Dr. Greydanus- _____________ H.H. 173  S
  I. Corinthians  3:16-23 _______________________________ G.L. 490 21                                        The Heidelberg Catechism by H.  Hoeksema-----G.V.                           77 4
  I Corinthians 5  :7b _____________________________  I---G.V.  265 12                                       The Seven Deadly Sins by Billy Graham- __ __  __-H.H.  318 14
  II Corinthians  2:15, 16 ________________ _________  I---G.V.  97                                  5    Book of Revelation _ ___ __ _____ ____ __ ___ __ __ _ __ ___ -H.H.
  Ephesians 5  :2b _______ _____________________________ G.V. 73                                     4       (See under Scripture Text index)
  I Timothy  38-13  ______________________________ G.V.D.B. 381 16                                        Brethren of The Protestant Reformed
  Revelation (Introduction) _________________________ H.H. 368 16                                            Churches, Beware ! _____---------_____-------- H.V.P.                       96 4
  Revelation 1 :l-3  _________________________.  __________ H.H. ,369 16
  Revelation  1:1-3 ________________________________  ,.--H.H. 390' 17                                                                            -c-
  Revelation `1 :l-3  ___________________________:            _______ H.H. 414 18                         Calvinism and Common Grace, Progressive _________ M.S.. 498 21
  Revelation 1:4-8 ___________________________ .._ ______ H.H. 415 18                                     Calvinism, The Evils' of ___________________________ M.S. 167 7
  Revelation  1:4-S  ___________________________________ H.H.  ,439 -19                                   Canons of Dordrecht
  Revelation  1:4-S  ______________________ ________  L---H.H.  462 20                                       Rejection of Errors. Head I, Art. 5 ___________ H.C.H.                       16 1
- Revelation                    1:9-20 H.H. 463
                            __________________________________                                 20            Rejection of Errors, Head .I, Art. 6 ___________ H.C.H.                     17` 1
                                                                                                             Rejection of Errors, Head I,  Art:   7-_.---.  ______  H!C.H.               40 2
                                                                                                             Rejection of Errors, Head I, Art.  8-::-_P--~-`-H.C.H.  41 2
                   IND EX OF  SUBJ ECTS  TREATED                                                             Rejection of Errors, Head I, Art. 9 ___________ H.C.H.                      42` 2
                                       - A -                                    ').                          Head II, Article  l-:---z ________: ______________ H.C.H.                   63     3
                                                                                                             Head II, Article 2 ______________.  _______________ H.C.H.                  88 4
 A Dutch Encyclopaedia ___________________________ H.H. 438 19                                               Head II, Article 3_ __ __ __ __ __ ____ __ __ __ ________ H.C.H. 137               6
 Anniversary Address _ __ _ __ __ __ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _.._ -G.M.O.              22 1                 Head II, Article 4 __________________  -___- ______ H.C.H. 186                     8
  The Antichristian Implications of Russian                                                                  Head II, Article 5 __________________________  _.-H.C.H.  187                      8
     Communism _____________________________ _______ E.E. 103                                        5       Head II, Article 5 _____ - _______  :_______________  H.C.H. `210                  9
 Antithesis __ _______ ___ ____  _ __ ___ __ __ __________  _.._  .--H.T.              169           7       Head II, Article 5_ ___ __ __ _ _____ __ ___ __ ___ -.___ _H.C.H..  234           10
 Apostates of 1953 and The Three Points,  The---.--H-H.  124                                         6       Head.11,  Article 6 _____________________________  H.C.H:  258 11
     Continued  _____________________:  ________________ H.H. 148                                    7       Head II, Article 7 _______________ 1 __________ i--H.C.H. 282. 12
     Continued ___________  ____,_______________________                 H.H. 172                    8       Head II, Article 8 __________  i _____________  I ____ H.C.H. 306 13
     Continued ______________________________________ H.H. 196                                       9       Head II, Article 9 _________________________  -,--HIC.H 327 14
     Continued  ---------------.------------  ___________ H.H.  220 10                                       Rejection of Errors, Head II, Art.  l_______   :--.- H.C.H. 355 15
     Continued ___________;  ______ - ___________________ H.H. 244 11                                      Reje'ction of Errors, Head II, Art. 2 ___________ H.C.H. 379 -.I6
  ?- Continued ______________________________________ H.H. 268 12                                            Rejection of Errors, Head II, Art.,  3----  ________ H.C.H. 403 `-17
     Continued _______________________________________  *-H.H. 292 13                                        Rejection of  Errors;Head  II, Art. 4 ___________ H.C.H. 424 18
     Continued- __ _ -: _____ _____ __ _ __ __.- -_ ___ __ __ _ -:-- -H.H.             316 14                Rejection of Errors, Head II, Art. 5 ___________ H.C.H. 450 19
 Approbation;A  Question On ___________________ G.V.D.B. 139                                         6       Rejection of Errors, Head II, Art. 6 ___________ H.C.H. 475 20
 Arbitrariness, Election and ________________________ H.H. 436 19                                            Rejection of Errors, Head II, Art. 7 ____  _  _..__  H.C.H. 496 21
 .Article  31, Revised or/and Clarified? _______________ C.H. 161                                    7    Cate,chism  Books, As To---l  _________________ ______ M.S.                    45     2
  Assurance, Election and ___________________________ H.H. 364 16                                         Catechism (See Heidelberg Catechism)  _____-.______  H.H.
     Continued __________________________ ______ -:____ H.H.' 388 17                                      Choosing A Vocation _ ___ __ ___ __ --`-- __ __ _. __ _ __ __ -G.L.            i2' 1
     Continued ______________________________________ H.H. 412 18                                         Christian Encyclopaedia, The  -T  _______________;  ____ H.H. 460 20
                                                                                                             Continued __________________  -.-: _________________ H.H. 487 21
                                       -B-                                                                Christma.s  In His Fear _____________  I _____________ J.A.H. 133                     6
                                                                                                                                                  -..
  Back In Our Own Church _________________________ H.H. 270 12                                            Christ Washes the Feet of His  Disciples-._-----G.M.O.  430 18
  Banner Editors Retire  : ____________________________ M.S 498 21                                        Church and Sacraments, The
  Baptism  ________________________________________---                   H.V: 280 12                         Continued     -------------,-----_--------:  __________ H.V.                 14 1
     Continued _ _ ____ _ _____ ___ ___ __,_ __ ___ __ ___ __ ___ --H.V. -304 13                             Continued _________  __-  ---------------:  ____________ H.V.               38     2
                                                                                                                                         . . .
     Continued  ____._____   __________:  ______________  l--H.V.  325 14                                    Continued _ ________ ---,-. - .-------------------------  H.V.              61     3
     Continued      _ ___ __ __ _ __ ___ __ -:- :- __ ___ __ ___ __ ___ --H.V.         353 15                Continued __ ____________________________________ H.V. 86 4
  Billy Graham, One Year After _____________________ M.S.                               21 1                 Continued     ____ i _________ L'__________  ;I_--:  _______ H.V. 114              5
  Books, As Ho (Reviews)                                                                                     Continued- ____ ____________________  _I__-  -_________  H.V. 135  I 6
     Als Lichtende Sterren by N. Van  Dijk-Has-----H.H.  439 19                                              Continued ____________ L-;,- _____ ;.: _______________ H.V. 159                    7
     By Grace Alone by H. Kuiper. __________________ H.H. 174                                        8       Continued _ .___________  ______ i __________________ H.V. 184                     8
     De Verkiezing by G. Berkouwer __ _____________ H.H. 317 14                                              Continued _.-- _ i_ _._ I--: ____ ___ __ __ __ ____ __ ___ __ --H.V. 208           9
     Een Monument der Afscheiding by W.  DeGraaf--H.H.                                  72           3
                                                                                         ;`..:.-.            Continued  ______i_______________________________                H.V. 232 10
     Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible                                                                  Continued  --:---:---`____________________________  H.V. 280 12
        by C. Simeon ________________________________  H.H.. 53                                      3       Continued     _  l_`---  -lee.. _____ _____ ____ _____ __ ______ H.V. 304 13
        Continued ________ --  ______________.__________  H.H. 245 11                                        Continued  -: _____  1.--~  ________________________  I__H.V.  325  14
        Continued ____  i  ----------_-------------   1_____  H.H. 439 19                                    Continued __________________ -- __________________ H.V. 353  15
     Geschiedenis der Openbaring by                                                                          Continued  ___~__._____________-----~~-~~--~-----H.V.  377 16
        Dr. J. H. Bavinck ____________________________ H.H. 174                                      8       Continued  __________________--__________________                H.V.' 401 17
     Hebreen, Jakobus by Dr. F.  Grosheide_-.  _______ H.H. 174                                      8       Continued     _ _- ______ __ ___ ___ __ __ __ -:- _ _ __ ____ __ -_H.V.     4.22 18
     Het Woord Gods by Augustinus  _____._________   _H.H. 246 11                                            Continued  _~___________~______---.-~-----------~~H.V.                      448 19
     Leer  .en Leven by Rev. J. Feenstra _____  :-,------  H.H. 439 19                                       Continued _______________________________________ H.V. 494 21


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                     S U B J E C T                                     Author     Page No.                   SUBJECT                                               Author    Page No.
       Church Order, The                                                                                                           -D-
          Article 22 ________ ---  ____________________---           G.V.D.B.       18 1       Darkness, The Great ____________________________ G.M.O. 431 18
          Article 22 _. ___ __ ___ __ ___ __ __ _ ___ ___ _____ __ -G;V.D.B.       43     2    Day of Shadows ________________________________ G.M.O.
          Article 22 ________________________________  ,-G.V.D.B.  65 3                           (See Under Prophecy of)
          Article 22 __________________________________ G.V.D.B.                   90 4        Deacons, The Labors of  ____________:   _____;  ____ G.V.D.B.  405
          Article 23 __________________________________ G.V.D.B. 116 5                                                                                                               17
                                                                                               Deacons, The Labors of _______________________ G.V.D.B. 426 18
          Article 23 _________________________________  ,G.V.D.B. 139 6                        Dea.cons,  The Office of ________________________ G.V.D.B. 329 14
          Article 23 __________________ ________________ G.V.D.B. 164                     7    Deacons, The Office of  -.I _____________________ G.V.D.B. 357  15
          Article 23 __________________________________ G.V.D.B.  188                     8    Deacons, The Office of ________________________ G.V.D.B. 381 16
          Article 23 __________________________________ G.V.D.B. 236 10                        Decency and Order ______  _ ____________________ G.V.D.B.
          Article 23 __________________________________ G.V.D.B. 260  11                          (See under Church Order)
          Article 23  ________________________r  _______  _-G.V.D.B.  284 12                   Destructive Labor Union Practices _________________ M.S. 479 20
          Article 23 __________________________________ G.V.D.B. 308 13                        Dia.conate and Other Almoners, The ___________ G.V.D.B. 477  20.
          Article 24 __________________________________ G.V.D.B. 329 14                        Divorce and Remarriage, Unbiblical ________________ H.H. 485 21
          Article 24  ___>  ___________.   __________________-  G.V.D.B. 357 15                Doctrine, Our _____________________________________ H.H.
          Article 24 __________________________________ G.V.D.B. 381 16                            (See under Triple Knowledge)
          Article 25  _.______   i _________________________ G.V.D.B.  405. 17                     (See under Book of Revelation)
          Article 25 __________________  I _______________ G.V.D.B. 426 18
          Article 26  _ _____  -7  _ _________________________ G.V.D.B. 477 20
       Church's Suburban Captivity, The  _ __ __ ____________ M.S. 141                         Early Lost, Early Saved __________ _ ________________ M.S.
                                                                                          6                                                                                   20      1
       Citizenship, Teaching ___________________________ G.M.O. 333 1.4                        Editorials
       Civic Responsibility of the Christian, The __________ E.E. 396 17                          A Dutch Encyclopaedia _________________________ H.H.  ,438 19
       Common Grace, Progressive Calvinism and _____ ____ M.S.                                    As to Conscientious Objectors __________________ H.H. 365 16
                                                                                  498 21
       Communism, Russian, Antichristian                                                              Continued ___________________________________ H.H. 389 17
          Implications of ______  L ___________________________ E.E. 103 5                            Continued  ___-_______________-_______________                 H.H. 413 18
       Concept "Faith" in the Old  T,estament,   The------__R.V.  256 11                          Back In Our Own Church ______________________ H.H. 270 12
       "Condition," The Proper Use of the Term _________ C.H. 452 19                                  Based on Untruths __________________________ H.H.                        4      1
       Conscientious Objectors, As' to _____________________ H.H. 365 16                              Continued __________________'  -____  - ___________ H.H.                28      2
       Conscientious Objectors,  As. to _____________________ H.H.  IS9 17                            Continued  ____._.   :____________________________               H.H. 51 3
       Conscientious Objectors, As to ____________________ H.H. 413  18                               Continued  _____;  _____________________________ H.H. 76 4
       Contending For The Faith _________________________ H.V.                                    Christian Encyclopaedia, The __________________ H.H. 461 20
          (See under Church and Sacraments)                                                       Continued _______________________________________ H.H. 487 21
                                                                                                  Election and Arbitrariness  ____-_________________  H.H. 436 19
       Contributions :                                                                            Election and Assurance ________________________ H.H.  -364 16
          Anniversary Address _ __ _ __ ___ __ __ _ __ ___ __ __ _ -G.M.O.         22     1           Continued ___________________________________  H.H.. 388 17
          Antithesis _______  :_______________________________             H.T. 169       7           Continued  ______._____________________           _ ______ H.H.  ,412 18
          Brethren of the Prot. Ref. Churches,  Beware-_H.V.P.                     96 4           Election and Reprobation  ____--__-_-___________  H.H. 460 20
          Christ Washes the Feet of His  Disciples---:--G.M.O.  430 IS                                Continued ___________________________________ H.H.  484 21
          Creston Will Solve Her Own Problems  ________.__  G.L. 240 10                           The Apostates of 1953 and The Three  Points----H.H.  124                           6
          Faith and Repentance __-__  --_--  _________________ G.L.                93 4               Continued  _____--_____-_____--_______________  H.H. 148 7
          Hope Welcomes New Pastor ____________________ J.L. 120                          5           Continued _ __ _ ________-  -z____--  -_ ______ _____ -H.H. 172                8
          Joy in P'ella _ ___ __ ___ __ ___ __ __ __ _ __ __ _ __ __ _ __ -C.V.M.. 144    6           Continued  ___________________-_______________                 H.H. 196 9
          Missionary Notes  _---__~_._~_________-------~~-~G.L.                    24     1           Continued ___________________________________ H.H.  220 10
          Missionary Notes _______________________________ G.L. 72 3                            - Continued ________________________________  :--H.H.  244 11
          Missionary Notes -- ______  I ______________________ G.L. 143                   6           Continued  ____-______________________________                  H.H. 268 12
          Missionary Notes  -------------_----_-____________G.L.                  264 11              Continued ____________________________________ H.H. 292 13
          Plainly Speaking But Not The Truth __________ S.D.V.                     95     4          Continued ___________________________________ H.H. 316 14
          Playing Church  __________.______________________   :G.L. 191  8                        The Election of God ____________________________ H.H. 340 15
          Playing Church ___________________________  :_____  J.K. 192  8                         The Opinion of Judge Charles A. Flinn _________ H.H. 100                           5
          Playing Church _________________________________  M.S. 216 9                            Unbiblical Divorce and Remarriage ____________ H.H. 485 21
          Question of Randolph Bible Class ______________ H.H. 312 13                          Elders, Election o f ______ ___ __ ___ ________  I _____ G.V.D.B.              18 1
          Report of Eastern Ladies League _______________ P.D.                     94 4           Continued  ____-_____________________________             G.V.D.B. 43  j 2
          Report of Western Ladies League _______________ T.J.                     95     4       Continued ___________ :___________________  ,--G.V.D.B.                     6 5   13
          Teaching Citizenship _ _ _ _ __ _ - _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -G.M.O. 333 14       Continued _____________________________  iL_--G.V.D.B.  90 4
          The Great Darkness  ______________.__,________  G.M.O. 431  18                       Elders, Office of  __-____________________________           G.V.D.B. 116             5
          The Promise of God Is Only to the -Elect,                                            Elders, Should Be Permanently in Office ___________ G.L. 302 13
          Historically the Believers  ______________,______  G.M.O. 69 3                       Elders' Task  ___-_______________________________              G.V.D.B. 164 7
     Correction, A  _____:  ____  :__________________________              M.S.  238  10       Election and Assurance ___________________________ H.H. 364 16
      Court and Church Property, The ___________________ M.S. 383 16                              Continued ____________________________________  .,-H.H.  388 17
          Continued ____I _______ -- ________ ____.________  ____ M.S. 407 17                     Continued  ____-_______--________________________                 H.H. 412 18
      Court Case, Another  -: _____________________________ M.S. 428 18                        Election and Arbitrariness  ____________:  ____________ H.H. 436 19
                                                                                               Election and Reprobation  ______-_________.-________  H.H. 460 20
      Covenant with Noah, The  _____.__._______________                G.M.O.  488.  21        Exposition of I Corinthians
-     Creston Will Solve Her  .Own  Problems _____________ G.L. 240 10                            Chapter  1:1-3  ________________--_   1_______________  G.L.                10. 1
      Cup, Common or Individual  ____.___________________  H.H. 212                       9       C h a p t e r   1:4-9  _I  _._____________-__-_______________          G.L:  3 4   2


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               SUBJECT                                          Author    Page No.                    SUBJECT                                                Author       Page No.
   Chapter  1:4-9  ---:-:  __________________._---------  G.L.             57    3        Healing on the Prayer of  Faith---  ____________._  H.H. 103 5
   Chapter 1:4-9 __________________________________ -G.L.                  82    4        Implications of the 4th Petition--_  _.________   .---H.H.                       105 5
   Chapter  1:13b-17  ____________;  ______  I---:  _----   ---G.L.  131         6        Implications of the 4th Petition _________________ H.H. 126 6
   Chapter  1:18-Z  ___________~____-_-_--~-~--------G.L.                 155    7        Implications -of the 4th Petition _________________ H.H. 150 7
   Chapter  1:26-31 ______  - __________________________ G.L. 180                8     Our Daily Bread ________________________________ H.H.                                54 3
   Chapter 1 26-31 ___ ______________.  ___________-----  G.L. 204               9        Our Daily Bread _- ______________________________ H.H.                            78 4
   Chapter 2:1-5 ___________________________________ G.L. 228 10                          Prayer for Deliverance from Evil _______________ H.H. 295 13
   Chapter 2:1-5 _. ________ -1___________________---  ---G.L.            252 11          Prayer for Deliverance from Evil  _______:  ________ H.H. 318 14
   Chapter  2:6-9 ____ ___ ____________  _____________--- G.L. 276 12                     Prayer for Deliverance from Evil _______________ H.H. 342 15
   Chapter 2:6-9 ___________________________________ G.L. 300 13                          Prayer for Obedience and Submission ___________ H.H.                              31 2
   Chapter 2:10-11 _________________________________ G.L.. 321 14                         Prayer for Obedience and Submission ___________ H.H.                              54 3
   Chapter                              2:10-11  G.C.
                                _________________________________         349 15          The Doxology of the Lord's Prayer ____  i _______ H.H. 343 15
   Chapter  2:10-U _________________________ ________ G.L. 469 20                         The Doxology-of the Lord's Prayer  ______-.______  H.H. 366 16
   Chapter  2:X?-16  _________ __ ___________________  -.-G.L.  373 16                    The Idea of Temptation  ___- ____________________ H.H. 223 10
   Chapter  3:1-3 _____________________________  L _____ G.L. 418 18                      The Prayer for Forgiveness ____________________ H.H. 150 7
   Chapter 3 :3-9 _________________________________ :-G.L. 444 19                         The Prayer for Forgiveness ____________________ H.H. 175 8
   Chapter  3:16-23' ____________________________ L ____ G.L. 490 21                      The Prayer for the Kingdom ___________________ H.H.                                6.  1
                          .~                                                              The Will of God _ ___ __ ___ ____ __ __ ___ _ __ ___ __ __ ..H.H.                  8      1
                                         -F-                                              The Will of God _______________________________ H.H.                              30 2
Faith and Repentance ______________________________ G.L.                   93    4    Hope for Reunion, No- __ _ _____ ___ __ __ ____ __ ___ ____ -M.S.                    214 9
Faith, Concept of in Old Testament  _ ____________  ---R.V.  256 11                   Hope Welcomes New Pastor _______________________ J.L. 120 5
Family Visiting G.V.D.B.
                     _________________________ -- .-___                   188    8                                             -I-
   Continued  ___________________.  _______________  G.V.D.B.- 236 10
   Continued __________________  i---, ___________ G.V.D.B. 260 11                    In His Fear  _____-______________----~---~---------J.A.H.
   Continued  _____._____  ________________________ G.V.D.B. 284 i2                       (See Fear)
   Continued  __________._______________________               G.V.D.B. 308 13        Is The Reformed Church of America
Fear, In His                                                                              An "Open Communion" Church? _-I- __ __ __ __ ___ -M.S.                           118 5
   Fear, Praying In His  -----------------_--------  J.A.H. 399 17                                                             -J-
       Continued- __________________________________ J.A.H. 420 18                    Jonah 4:ll  _________________________________:                 _______ J.M.           67 3
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 446 19                     Joy in  Pella _________________--_-----------------                    C.V.M.        144 6 .
       Continued  ________________:  _____  I __________ lJ.A.H. 471 20
       Continued ____________________________ _____ J.A.H.
                                                         ~                492 21                                              -K-
   Fear, Speech That Manifests _____________  ---i- J.A.H.                 36 2       Knott's Open Letter, Rev. _________________________ M.S. 331 14
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H.                 59    3
      Continued __________________________________ J.A.H.                  84    4                                             -Ll
      Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 112                    5    Ladies' League, Report of Eastern _________________ P.D.                              94 4
   Fear, The Sabbath In His ____________________ J.A.H. 157                      7    Ladies' League, Report of Western __________________  T..J.                           95 4
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 182                   8    Lord's Prayer _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ __ __ _ __ __ _ _ _ __ __ _ __ I- _ -H.H.
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 206                   9        (See Heidelberg Catechism)
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 230 10                     Lord's Supper __________________________ i __________ H.V. 377 16
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 254 11                             (See Church and Sacraments)
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 278 12                         Continued _ ___ __ ___ __ __ _ __ ___ __ _____ ___ ____ ____ -H.V.               401' 17
       Continued __________________________________ J.A.H. 323 14                         Continued        _ __ _ __ ___ __ -:- __ _I- -__--___  __ ___ __ ___ --H.V. 422 18
Feature Articles, Schedule of ____________________________                  9    1        Continued __________________________________ -`---H.V. 448 19
From Holy Writ _ __ ___ ___ __ __ _ _____ ___ __ _ __ ___ __ __ -G.L.                 Love  The.Lord  Thy God __________________________ M.S. 118 5
   (See Exposition of  I.Corinthians)   '                                             Love Thy Neighbor For God's Sake ________________ M.S. 359 15

                                        -G-                                                                                   -M-
Godless "Lucky Number" Craze, The ____________ J.A.H. 351 15                          Meditations :
   Continued _____________________________________ J.A.H. 375 16                         A Contrast ________________________ `I ____________ G.V. 169                               8
God's Ways _______________________________________ M.S. 141                      6        Another Comforter _____________________________ G.V. 385 17
                                                                                          Ascension Thoughts ____________________________ G.V. 361  Iti
                                         -H-                                              Asking Help of the Lord ________________________ G.V. 337 15
Haggai ______________:  ___________________________  G.M;O.                               A Sweet Savour ________________________________ G.V.                              97 5
   (See Prophecy of . . .  )                                                              Christ Our Passover  ________________.___________                      G.V. 265 12
Heidelberg  ,Catechism ____  I____  ______ ____________  :-H.H.,                          Divine Examination _____________ Y.--  ____________ G..V                           1      1
       (See Triple Knowledge)                                                             Forgiven ________________________________________ G.V. -217  10
   Amen              ____________________r_____
            ________________;                           H.H. 367 16                       Happiness In Hope  _____--------___-.._---.-----G.V.                              25 2
   A Serious Limiting Clause __________________ ____ H.H. 199                    9        Jesus' Resurrection  __-_________~._______________G.V.                           289 13
   A Serious Limiting Clause  ______,-_______________   H.H., 222 10                      Thanksgiving _ __ __ __ ____  _. ___ ______ ___ __ __ __ _____ G.V.               73 4
   Asking for Complete Remission ____  i: __________ H.H. 176                    8        The Advent of, Christ's Missionaries ____________ G.V. 433 19
   Asking for Complete Remission ________________ H.H. 198 9                              The Lord's Respect  ____..__..____..______  ____  ---G.V.  409 18.
   God's Sovereignty over Temptations ____________  H.H. 248 11                           T.he Peaceful End  ____________.__________________                       G.V. 49 3
   God's Sovereignty over Temptations ____________ H.H. 294 13                            The Pillar of the Lord ___________ _______________ G.V. 145                               7
   Healing on the Prayer of Faith _________________  H.H.                  78    4        The Power of  God_~___.___________--~~----------G.V.                             481 21


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                    SUBJECT-                                            Author      Pclge No.                  SUBJECT                                         Aihor      Page No.
         The Shepherds  ____.._   ____._   .______  ______________ G.V. 121                 6    Sacraments  _______.__________________~______-_---_-_.H.V.
         Visited By Majesty On High  _:---:  ._____________  G.V. 313 14                            (See Church and Sacraments)
         What A Friend :; _____ __._ -- ___.____.  .__.___  ____ -G.V.              241 11       Song of the Angels, The ___________________________ M.S. 190                      8
         Wisdom's Judgment- _:= ________ - __.____  --__-  _____ G.V. 193                   9    Speech That Manifests Fear  .-:  _____________:  _____ J.A.H.             36      2
     Missionary Notes-: ______ ._: ____:  _______.  ____.________  G.L.              24  1          Continued ___ _____  r ___________________________  ._ J.A.H..         59      3
         Coiitinued.=:z--  _____ L-L-  __________________:  _______ G.L.             72     3       Continued _---l____________________  - __________ :J.A.H.              84      4
\        Cont'inued~  ______ -.I---:_-  ________ - ______ - ___._____  G.L. 143             6       Continued' - _______________________ L ________ i:-J.A.H.  112                 5
       Continued __.._  --: _________ I____.  _______._________  -G.L. 264 `11                   Stereotyped Theology. ____ ---.-_~~r-.- .-__ - ___________ MS. 454 19
     Movies  Go  To.-School,  The  ___________:  ____________ MS. 239 10                                         . . .            .~ -lTL- --
                                            N-
                                            _-                                                   Talents and Pounds in  T.he  Parables _______________ R.V. 473 20
     National Council .ancl  N.B.C. _ I- __ __ __ __ ___ __ __ __ __ :M!S.          359 15       Theology, Stereotyped  --:  e-q __ __ __ _______  -i ____ __  ---M.S.    454 19
     Noah, the Covenant-with.  _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __  _  _ __ __  -G.M.G! 4%  2 1            Triple Knowledge                                               H.H.
     No Ho&  For Reunion ____ __ _ --- _ _ __ __ ___ _. _. _ _ __ _ - -MS.          214     9       (See also under' Heidelberg Catechism)
                                                                                                                 _ . .
     Note on Luke  2:14  _____i__________   -  ____.  ______  :::-2M.S.:  `45               2     Lord's Day  45  _____________________________:         ____ H.H.          6 1
     Nova  Scotian  Pastor  Unde,rstands  Tlie  Truth__-..-..M.S.  262 11                           Lord's Day 49 ____________________________  I_-,-..H.H.                  8 1
        Continued _ __ __ __ ._ __ __ _ _ __ __ __ _. __ __ __ __ __ ____ _-M.S.    286 12                          49  mei ______________________________ H.H. 30 2
         Continued __ ________ _____l_:  ________________.___  M.S. 310 13                                          49  _______________________:  ________  :-H.H. 31 2
                                                                                                                    49 ________________:  __________:  ______ H.H.         54      3
                                           -  -0.-                                                  Lord's Day 50 ______________ L ___________________ H.H.                54 3
     Open Communion-Church, Is the Reformed                                                                         50  __________________________________ H.H. 78 4
         Church in America An  ____._____________________  M.S. 118                         5                       50  _-. ________________________________ H.H. 103              5
     Opinion of Judge  .Ch-arles  A Flinn _______  _. ___ ____  -H.H.  100                  5                       50  -- ________________________________ H.H.' 105              5.'
                                            -P-                                                                     50  __________________  _ _______________ H.H. 126             6
     Plainly Speaking But Not The Truth ____________  -S.D.V.                        95 4                           50  _____________ ________ _____________ H.H. 150              7
     Playing Church ___________ ____________ ___________  --_G.L. 191                       S       Lords' Day 51 ___ _______________________________ H.H.  150. 7
     Playing Church ____ -- ______  -I ______________  i ________ J.K. 192                  8                       51 __________________________________ H.H. 175  8
     Playing Church- .._-,___._.___:  ____ --I-- _________ -_--M.S. 216                     9                      .51 _____,  ________________'  _____________ H.H. 176           8
     Pounds and Talents. In. The Parables ___ ____________ R.V. 473 20                                             .51 __________________________________ H.H. 198 9
     Progressive Calvinism.and Common Grace _______  ---M.S..  49s 21                                               51  L _________________________________ H.H. 199               9
     Promise of God Only, to the Elect, Historically                                                                51 __________________________________ H.H. 222 10
        the Believers  _____~________-_~___-----~~-~~~--G.M.O.                       42 2                           52 _ ___I__._____~_______________._,_-H~H.   2j?3  10
        Continued  _- ________  -  ______.   ____.  ________________ G.M.O.          69 3           Lord's Day 52 _____________________________  I ____ H.H. 246 11
     Prophecy of Haggai _ __ _ _ I- _ _ _ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _. -G.M.O.     79 4                           52 ______,_____________  / ______________ H.H. 248 11
             Continued  ---;---  _____  :- _________  - ________  -_G.M.O.          106     5                       52 _____________________________ 1____  H.H. 294 13
     Prophecy of  Zechaiiah  --I- __________  --1_________  G.M.O. 128                      6                    52  __________________________________ H.H. 295 13
        Continued  --.--..:  ______________________________  GzM.0. 152 7                                           52 i _________________________________ H.H. 318 14
         Continued `-`:---.--  --- __- ______ :--- __ _________ ,-._-G.M.O.         177     S                       52 ___________.  _______________________ H.H. 342 15
        Continued .: ____ __ __ ____ __ __ ____ __ __ _ __ __ ______ G.M.O. 201             9                       52 __________________________________ H.H. 343, 15
        Continued  `_~___~_~---~--~-~~-~~~---~~-~            ________ G.M.O. 225 10                                15? __________ - __________,_____:  _______ H.H. 366 16
        Continued  ________________:  ___________________ G.M.O. 249 11                                            ,52  _--- ____________ ---  ____.  _______________ H.H. 367 16
        Continued _--:I ____ I:-:::::-::  ________________ G.M:O. 273 12                                                            -ui
        Continued  :-I-..:-:--::--::  ____________________ G.M.O. 297 13
        Continued  :ir:  ____________:  ____  i-1: ___________ G..M.Q.              346 15       Unbiblical Divorce and Remarriage _________________ H.H.  485 21
        Continued -:---:----:  ________ :--~--: _______:  ____ G.M.0..`-370 16                   Unifying Idea of the Scripture, The _______  :______  G.M.O.  371                16
        Continued --_:..--::---..::---  ____: _____: ______ :---G.M.O.              393 17       Untruths, Based on  _______:   ___________.-____________  H.H.             4 1
      Continued _________ ______ _ _____ - .______________  G.M.O. ,442 19                          Continued- _______________________________________ H.H. 28 2
                                                                                                    Continued ________  I______   I:--:-:-: _______________ H.H.           51     3
                                            -I-Q-                                                   Continued __________________________________  i---H.H.  76 4
     Question of Randolph, Bible' Class  --------.----------  H.H. 312 13                                                           -,Y-.
     Question  ,011 Approbation  _._. ____________________ G.V.D.B. 139                    6
                                _,...                                                            Vacant churches  L-L:--:  ____________________  L _______  M.S:           9.2    4
                                           -R-                                                   Van  Weelden  Recants _____________________________ M.S. 9'2 4
     Reformed Church, An Open Communion Church  -                                                Views of H. Hoeksema and K.  Schilder, The ________ M.S. 215                     9
        Is The ___________________ - ______________________ M.S. 118                       5     Vocation, Choosing A ______________________________ G.L. 12                       1
     Repentance and Faith ______________________________ G.L. 93 4                               Voice of The Fathers __________  1_________________   H.1C.H.
                                                                                                    (See Canons  o,f Dordrecht)
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     Sabbath _____  i _____________  .___ _________  :--I _________ J.A.H.  ,157           7                          ..  :  _
                                                                                                 Women  Pasfel;s   :`_--.  _______________________________  MS,.,.238 l@
        Continued  _________________________________.  ____ J.A.H. 182                     8     Would You  Uate   TO  Pray Thus  ,___________________   M.S: 166                 7
        Continued _____________________________________ J.A.H. 206 9
        Continued  ______________________._______________                J.A.H:, 230 10                                             -z-
        Continued _________  i _____________  j _______  I _____  J.A.H: 254 11                  Zechariah`________________________________ -`______  G.M.9.
        Continued  ________________________________z              ____ J.A.H. 278 12                (See Prophecy Of)
        Continued ______________  ~ ______________________ J.A.H. 323 14                                                                   Index by  Rev. G. V&den Berg


