      VOLUME  xxx111                             SEPTEMBER  15,1957   -  GR&D  RAPIDS, MICHIGAX                "  "  "         NUMBER   21

                                                                                God knew that the great question in the heart of the
              MEDITATIONS                                                    children, more often than not, unspoken: What is the mean-
                                                                             ing of all this?
                                                                                And the answer is given in our text.
                  A  QUESTING  OFFSPRING                                                               8  *  `4:  *
                "And it shall come to pass, when your children shall
                say unto you,  What  mean you by this service? that             This offspring is very peculiar.
                ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's  padsover,       First of all, from all eternity.
                who passed over the houses of the  child?en-  of Israel
                in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and  deliv-              God determined and saw the church of all the ages as a
              ered our houses. And the people bowed the head and             unity, composed of men, women and ckildren.
                worshipped. And the children of Israel went and did
                so; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron,                   He called Himself often the God of Abraham, Isaac and
                so did they. Exodus  12:26-B.                                Jacob. The one is father and grandfather, the other is son
                                                                             and father, the third is the son and grandson.
     Today I would like to say something about the children
 of the church.                                                                 That's the way `God saw His church at any time in
                                                                                                        `..
     The children's part in the church of our Lord is very                   history.
 important:                                                                     Therefore we hear often that God speaks of My children
     The greatest part of the church at any time are the                     which you have born unto IMe!
 children.                                                                      They are very peculiar children also subjectively, for the      .
     The children are the confessing church of tomorrow..                    Lord gives them usually the grace and Holy Spirit of Christ                  _
     As we treat them now will determine their estate to-                    in their earliest infancy, and brings them in contact with His
 morrow.                                                                     Word as soon as they can hear with their natural hearing.
                                                                             They hear the Bible read and spoken about when they are
     They compose more than 55  % of the church at any                       very little. Long before they go to school they see their
time, with the two ,exceptions of the period when Adam and                   parents take a little piece of bread, and a sip of wine  ; they
 Eve were childless, and also when eight souls were' saved by                see little babies baptized in the church . . . and wonder.
 water at the time of the deluge.
                                                                                At the time of my text, the children heard father make
                                                                             the tally of the souls of the family. In some instances they            '
     Israel stood at the threshold of their deliverance out of               heard the parents talk to the neighbour : will you share with.
 the house of bondage.                                                       me in the sacrificial lamb'? We are too few for a lamb.
     And together with the sacrifice of the Passover, the Lord                  Today we do no longer sacrifice the lambs, either of the
  gave a message concerning the children, who stood more                     sheep or the goats. But we have the service of the Word
 than a million strong roundabout their parents, their loins                 and the sacraments.
  girded, their shoes on their feet, and their staff in their                    It is striking that the Lord speaks of this questioning in
 hand, eating the passover lamb in haste.                                    the heart of the child at the occasion of the Passover. Strik-
     God knew the questioning in the heart of more than one
                               ;                                             ing, because it is the very heart of all religion both for time
  million children.                                                          and eternity. The bleeding Lamb shall stand in the midst of
     And He gave commandment regarding this questing                         the throne of God for all eternity. And also today it is true
  offspring:                                                                 that we determine to know nothing but Christ crucified.


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       The occasion of my text is the heart of all religion and              That's true whether you are a heathen or a Christian.
     service of God.                                                     All children wonder about the things of the Universe.
         And also the fulfilment of my text is the heart of our              They also do about your and my bkhaviour. As Prot-
     religion, that is, the cross of Jesus Christ.                       estant Reformed people.
         I can see in my mind the questioning look of these                  The answer is education. .
     thousands and thousands of children. They look on the                   God wants the confessing church always to be busy an-
     roasted lamb, the bitter sauce, the herbs, the wine. They           swering the baptized church.
     -wonder about this haste, and this apparel of the traveler and          And God be thanked, He has supplied the answer.
     sojourner.                                                              And the answer holds for all the ages. All we have to
         Some of them speak : What mean you with this service ?          do is to take our text and put it in the New Testament garb.
                               * *  ,+  *                                                           * 4  4:  *
        The same thing happens today, and at every age.
         No, we do not slaughter animals. The shedding of                    You must give and you do give the answer.
     blood came to an end when Jesus' heart broke, and His                   You answer the questioning heart and soul of your
     blood was shed for our sins.                                        children whether you speak or whether you give the right
         But we act very peculiarly, just as Israel did in that night    or the wrong answer.
     of their exodus.                                                        And you are responsible to God for your answer too.
        And the children see and hear this peculiar deportment               Your answer includes the Christian School, the catechism,
     on our part. Not only because of our actions as such, but           the societies, the friends and companions, and the church
     especially as an antithesis to the deportment of the majority       worship. They are all yozhy ,a+zsw@y. Basically they are your
     of the sons and daughters of Adam.                                  answer. Such is the office of the believer.
        Egypt killed no lamb  ; neither did they strike the blood            That is very plain.  -               1
     of the sacrifice on the posts of the doors.                             You determine where you live, where you worship, and
        Egypt was entirely satisfied to stay in Egypt. They were         where your children attend school, go to catechism, etc. You,
     not going to be strangers and sojourners to some beautiful          and only you determine that.
     land flowing with milk and honey.                                       You give the answer, always.
         So also today.                                                     -It grows "benauwd."
        Our children see at an early age that the majority of                                       +  * *  *
     people do not go to church, do not pray to God, do not have
     their eyes raised to heaven. Instead they hear them cursing             Dear reader, God has prepared the adequate answer for
     the name which father and mother love and revere.                   you.
        And there is more.                                                   It is in my text.
        They see many different church denominations.                        And it is striking that the God-given answer is exactly
                                                                         what our fathers calied  the "heart of the church" : election
        Father and mother go to a little despised church, travel-        and reprobation.
     ing sometimes miles and miles past the very doors of other
     churches.                                                               Study the answer, and you will see that I am correct.
                                                                           God said: when your children ask you and say: What
        Father, mother, what mean you with this strange be-              mean you with this bleeding lamb, and your haste to travel
     haviour ?                                                           east and north 1 It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover !
        Why are we Protestant Reformed ? Why must we travel                  There is more, but this is the heart of all religion, wor-
     so far to Hope school ? Why don't we attend the school              ship. service of God !.
     right near our door?                                                    Jehovah sacrifices ! Jehovah is the Only One who ever
        Why do you stress election and reprobation ? Your                sacrificed !
     speech, father, is different from the ususal sounds around us.
     We notice that many, many people smile at our behaviour.                All those bleeding lambs, evoking the questions of the
     They think we are rather foolish.                                   children, are pictures of God and His blood that is shed on
                                                                         the cross of Golgotha.
                               * * *  *                                      All that haste to travel to heaven, excuse me, to Canaan,
         It is in the nature of a child to question.                     is the urge of God, of the Holy Ghost in the hearts of the
         In fact, a `child is a walking question mark.                   fathers and the mothers of Israel.


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                                                                   11     of God and His precepts, God is with His curse, no matter
              E D `I  Y 0 R I A  1  S                                     how that house -nray -be. full of riches and things of this
                                                                          present time ; but the habitation of the righteous He blesses
                                                                         be that habitation ever so poor and humble.
                       The  Free  Offer                                       Such is evidently, the meaning of th,is passage. And I
                                                                          challenge Murray and Stonehouse to show how in that house
     Are the gifts bestowed by God, in this present time, a               of the wicked the blessing and favor of the Lord can dwell
 revelation of His love and mercy to them ?                               together with His curse.
     Such is the contention of Murray and Stonehouse in their                In Prov. 10 2, 3, we read : "Treasures of wickedness profit
. pamphlet "The Free Offer." We were busy examining, in                   nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. The Lord
 the light of Scripture, whhher this is the truth according to            will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish : but he,
 God's own revelation or whether this is merely their own                 casteth  atiay the substance of wicked." I ask : those treasures
 philosophy. This discussion we will now continue.                        of wickedness, which are undoubtedly great and rich, and
                                                                          which the wicked enjoy for the present time, are they  a
     Practically all the psalms, and not only the few references          proof of the favor of God, even though, as the rest of the
 to which we called your attention in our last article, give              text plainly .shows, it is in the way of death that the wicked
 the lie to the contention that in the gifts which God bestows ' enjoy them ? And again, when the Lord finally casts away
 on the ungodly in the present world He reveals an attitude               the substance of the wicked so that he perishes, does He do,
 of lovingkindness and mercy to them. I dare say that the                 this after He first bestowed this substance upon the wicked
 psalms are always antithetical : they ,express  that God loves           in His favor and lovingkindness 7 Is the Lord changeable?
 the righteous and hates the ungodly. Nor does the prosperity             It is evident that these two verses teach the very opposite.
 of the wicked signify that, at least for the present, God means
 to reveal to them His favor. The very opposite is true: by                  The same truth is taught in vss. 24-32 of the same chap-
 the very gifts the Lord bestows upon the ungodly He in-                  ter : "The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but
 tends to lead them to destruction. This is the teaching of               the desire of the righteous shall be granted. As the whirl-
                                                                          wind passeth so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is
 all the psalms. .                                                        an everlasting foundation. As vinegar to the teeth, and as
     No less, however, is this the case with the book of                  smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
 Proverbs.                       d                                        The fear of the Lord prolongeth days; but the years .of the
    If the psalms of Scripture may be said to be antithetical             wicked shall be shortened. The hope of the righteous shall
 throughout, the proverbs in the Bible are no less so. In fact,           be gladness : but the expectation of the wicked shall perish..
 we may even express this more strongly and maintain that                 The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruc-
 these proverbs are intentionally and very emphatically put               tion shall be to the workers of iniquity. The righteous shall
 in antithetical form so that they very clearly express that              never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the
 God loves the righteous and causes all things to work to-                earth. `The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: But
 gether for their good and that He hates the wicked even                  the froward tongue shall be cut out. The lips of the righteous
 when He bestows upon them the things of this present time.               know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked
                                                                          speaketh frowardness." Also in these verses there is always
    Just a few passages from this book of Proverbs will be                the same contrast between the righteous and the wicked.
 sufficient to prove this.                                                Also there is the same constant attitude of God ex-
    In Prov. 3 132, 33 we read: "For the froward is abomina:              pressed in these verses: He favors and blesses the right-
 tion- to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.~  The           eous only, but He hates the wicked and sends him to destruc-
 curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he                  tion.
 blesseth the habitation of the just." Notice the contrast in                 The same note is sounded throughout the book of
 both these verses : the froward, who is stubborn in is wicked-           Proverbs.
 ness, and the righteous, who loves the precepts of the Lord;                 Just let me quote a few more passages.
 abomination, so that is an abominable thing in the' sight of                               3
 the Lord, a `thing which he abhors, and the secret,' which                   First of all this: "A naughty person, a wicked man,
 means that the Lord dwells with the righteous and has                    walketh with a froward .mouth.  He winketh with his eyes,
 secret or familiar intercourse with him. Again, in verse 33,             he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
 the house of the wicked, a mere building in which the Lord               frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth  mischief continually;
 does not dwell ; and the habitation of the righteous, because            he soweth discord continually." 6 :12-15.
 the Lord dwells there with His fellowship, His grace and                     Now, according to the authors of "The Free Offer" the
 blessing ; in the house of the wicked, who must have nothing             Lord assumes an attitude of favor and lovingkindness to


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such a wicked person in this present life. But that this is           In all these verses the contrast between the righteous and
false is evident from what follows in the same text: "There-       the wicked, the just and the unjust, the wise and the froward
fore shall his calamity come suddenly ; suddenly shall he be       is very sharply drawn. It is also very clear what is the
broken without remedy." This implies, of course, that the          attitude of the Lord over against them both: the former
Lord hates this wicked person during his entire life and walk      are the objects of His favor and lovingkindness and they
in this present time ; and that He allows him to walk in           are blessed; the latter are to Him an abomination and they
his wicked way, without grace, until he is ripe for final          are cursed.  T\;ow, who are these righteous and just; and
destruction.                                                       who are these wicked ? The former are those that are the
                                                                   objects of God's sovereign .grace. They are not in the first
   The same is true of what follows immediately: ""These           place the objects of the favor of God because they are right-
six things doth the Lord hate : yea, seven are an abomination      eous and walk in righteousness before God although is true,
unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue and hands that shed         of course. But, principally, it is just the other way: they are
innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,        the objects of God's favor and lovingkindness and grace
feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that    sovereignly, from.all eternity. They are those, and those only,
speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among his                whom God beheld ,and always beholds in Christ Jesus. Who
brethren." 6 :16-19.                                               died for their sins and rose for their justificatiqn. They are
   Would even the authors of "The Free Offer" dare to              those whom God, in time, ingrafts in Christ Jesus, so that
                                                                       .
maintain that the Lord looks with favor ,upon  such a proud        they hve in and from Him. Thus they become and are actu-
man, such a liar and murderer, whose is filled with wicked         ally righteous. All their righteousness, legal and spiritual-
imaginations, such as always runs to evil, that offers false       ethical, is in and from Him alone. These are the only right-
testimony in court and disrupts the relation among his breth-      eous there are. They are the righteous that are always meant
ren ? 0, it is easy to speak in a general and abstract way of      in  .Scripture,  also in the book of Proverbs. And who are the
the wicked and depraved sinner and then to teach the false         unjust and wicked ? All men that are outside of Christ. For
philosophy-that God looks down with favor upon the ungodly.        by nature they are all totally depraved. No man is good and
But the moment you picture him concretely as Scripture does        the object of God's favor in himself.
here, you feel that this is impossible.                               This, too, is the plain testimony of Holy, Writ. For thus
   Y,et, this is the whole truth. The natural man, the man         we read in Rom. 3 :9-18 :
that stands outside of the grace of God in Christ, is exactly         "What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise:
as he is concretely described in the above verses. .For this       for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they
reason, I claim that there is no grace, favor or lovingkindness    are all under sin: As it is written, There is none .righteous,
of God outside of Christ.                                          no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none
   Let me quote a few more passages from this same book            that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way,
of Proverbs.                                                       they are altogether become unprofitable: there is none that
                                                                   doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre;
   "Treasurers of wickedness profit nothing : but righteous-       with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps
ness delivereth from death. The Lord will not suffer the           is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and
soul of righteous to far&h: but he casteth away the sub-           bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction
stance of the wicked. He becometh poor that dealeth a slack        and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have
hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich . . . .Blessings    they not known: There is no  feai of God before their eyes."
are upon the head of the just:  l&t violence covereth the
mouth of the wicked." 10:2-6.                                         Such is the testimony of Scripture throughout.
   Also the following :                                               All men, without exception are unrighteous and wicked,
                                                                   both Jews and Gentiles.
   "The fear of the Lord prolongeth days : but the years
bf the wicked shall be shortened. The hope of the righteous           Our conclusion, therefore, is, on the basis of Scripture:
shall be gladness : but the expectation of the wicked shall        1. That God favors and loves the righteous and hates the
perish. The way of the Lord is strength to *the upright: but       wicked and that, too, in time and eternity. 2. That the right-
destruction shall be to .thT workers of iniquity. The right-       eous are those that are in Christ Jesus, and they only. 3.
eous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not in-          That all the rest of men, all that are outside of Christ, are
habit the earth. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wis--        wicked and cannot be the objects of His favor.
dom: but the froward tongue shall be cut o.ut. The lips of            We have still more proof from Scripture. But this must
the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the        v&t till dur next issue.
wicked speaketh frowardness." 10 :27-32.                                                                                    H.H.


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                                                                   the symbol of the priestly office: It was the priest that above
            O U R   DOCiRINE                                  II all burned incense before Jehovah on the altar of incense
                                                                   and when he appeared in the holy place. This is again in
                                                                   full harmony with the symbolical significance of the incense.
             THE  BOOK  OF  REVELA~IOM                             It symbolizes the prayers of the saints, to present which was
                                                                   the office of the priests. And these prayers are, of course,
                        CHAPTER  XII                               especially the expression of devotion and consecration to God.
               THE VISION OF THE SEALED BOOK                       The highest purljose and the highest idea of prayer is not
                         Revelation 5                              that it is an expression of our needs, but rather in the highest
                                                                   sense of the word it is the expression of our devotion and
       So then, the Lamb is found worthy to open the book.         consecration to the Lord our God, - ;he laying of ourselves
That means that Christ received all power to develop and to        in love upon His altar, even  as sweet incense, pleasing unto
complete the  Kingdom, and to control all forces that risk         Him. So these creatures and so these elders come here to
against it in this present dispensation. Is it a wonder that       acknowledge the kingly dominion of Christ. And therefore
the entire new -econotiy of things as they are pictured in         they fall down and glorify His name with their lips. Hence,
heaven  breaks out in praise and adoration of Him that sits        they each have a harp ; and they come to express their con-
on the throne and of the Lamb ? "And when he had taken             secration to Him. And for the same reason they have golden
the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell          bowls of incense, filled with the prayers of the saints.
.down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and            And they sing a new song. This song is new because it is
golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the          different in kind from any song ever sung before. Its- subject
saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy          is different. The object of its adoration is different. The
to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast     original song of creation sang the glory of God Triune be-
slain,  2nd hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of            cause .He had made all things and was worthy to receive
every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation  ; And hast      the honor and glory and the power forever. But this song is
made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign         new. It is also a song of adoration, but not to God  im-
on the earth." The creatures and the elders, that is, the          inediately and directly, but to the Lamb, and through the
representatives of the church and of the redeemed creation,        Lamb to  Him. The Lamb that has been slain, now holds
take the lead in this heavenly choir. They come to acknowl-        the book with its seven seals. It means, therefore,. that He
edge the dominion of Christ Jesus and the worthiness on His        will do battle and that He will have the ultimate victory, to
part to open the book, to bring the kingdom of God to per-         establish the kingdom of God in glory. For this all creation
fection. They do so, in the first place; by falling down before    gives Him glory and honor. They sing: "Thou art worthy
Him. Just as the elders. fell down before Him that sits upon       to open the book." What a contrast ! A moment ago all
the throne in the preceding chapter, in order to acknowledge       creation was silent, and John lay weeping because no one
that He is absolutely sovereign and that they had no inde-         could open the book. Here the Lamb is praised and glorified,
pendent dominion, so now the representatives of the church         for He is found worthy to open  -the book. Thus it is in
and of all the redeemed world acknowledge that Christ is           reality. The world ih all its struggles, outside of the Lamb
King by falling down before Him because He has taken the           that was slain, is bound to suffer defeat, and will ultimately
book. They come and fall down before the Lamb, having              have to acknowledge that the Lamb only-has the victory. A
harps and golden bowls of incense, representing the prayers        new song, therefore, this is, for the object of adoration is the
of the. saints. The harp in Scripture is the instrument which      Lamb. But a new song it is also because of the contents. It
is symbolical of the prophetic office. In I Samuel 10:s we         does not merely speak of creation ; it Speaks of glorious re-
read that Samuel informs Saul that he will meet a band of          demption:  "For thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to
prophets carrying harps. When, in II Kings 3, we are told          God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and
about the request of the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom,         people, and nation." It is the song that glorifies the Lamb for
warring against the  Moabites, that Elisha the prophet may         His work of redemption. But at the same time, and through
give them counsel, we read that the. prophet calls for a min-      this glorification of the Lamb, it adores the incomprehensible
strel to play for him. In I Chronicles 25 :l-3 we read that        grace of God, Who gave His only begotten Son that He
David set apart the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun,            might bear our sins on the accursed tree. It is a song of
who should prophesy with, the harp and other instruments.          .victory. For it mentions that the La&b has made the saints
And in Psalm 49 :4 we read: "I will open my dark sayings           to be kings and priests unto .God, and that they reign upon
upon the harp." The harp, therefore, is symbolic of the            the earth. Now they &-e already a kingdom in principle, for
prophetic office in the highest sense of the word, namely, to      the kingdom of God has been established spiritually even in
adore and glorify God Almighty with our lips. The golden           this dispensation. But the completion of the kingdom is
bowls of incense are explained by the text itself. Incense is      assured. For the book has been taken out of the hand of


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Him that sitteth on the throne. When that .book shall be                                       CHAPTER  13
opened by Him that is worthy, the kingdom shall be per-
fected. And thesefore, after the book has been taken and the                           THE FCYUR HORSEMEN
future of the kingdom secured, after it has been ascertained
that the Lamb shall bring the kingdom to final perfection,                                     Revelation 6 : 1-8
these.creatures  and elders speak as ,if the whole were already
accomplished. Once more, it is the picture of the perfected            1. And I mw  zwhen the Laib'opened one of the  seals,
creation which we see here. Already Christ has made them               and I heard, as it woe the noise of thunder, one of the
priests and a kingdom. Already they reign with Him on                  four beasts saying., Come and see.
the earth.                                                             2. And  I  sacw, and behold  a# white horse:  and  he that
   But this song resounds and rebounds through creation,               sa.t on him had .a bow; aand a crown was given unto him:
so that more and still more creatures appear to give glory             atid he went forth, conqueriptg  and to conquer.
to Christ Jesus. They are myriads of angels, ten thousand
times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands. And they               3. And when he had opened the  -secortd seal, I  hmid
also join in the song of the creatures and elders. `And with           the second beast say, Come an.d see.
seven-fold glory adoring the Lamb, they sing: "Worthy is               4. .4nd there went out <another horse that was red: and
the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and              power wa.s giwcn to him that sat thereon, to take peace
wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing."             from the  earth,  .and  tha.t they should kill one another:
Seven-fold is this adoration. The Lamb is worthy to receive            and there was given zbnto  him a great sword.
all the power atid the glory of the kingdom over which He              5. .4nd when he had opened tlze third seal, I heard the
shall reign forevermore. But even this is not all. Finally             third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo ,a:
all creation joins together. No creature can keep sil.ence at          black horse; and he that sat on h.ivut ,`zad a pair of bal-
this glorious occasion, now that the victory is assured and            ances irL his ha,nd.
the coming of the kingdom safely rests in the hand of the
Lion of Judah's tribe.  Wider and wider the circles become,            6. And I hemd a voice in the midst of the four beasts
and the voices and shouts and music, all of adoration, `join          * sa,y, A memure of zvheat for a penny, and three measures
together and blend into one great harmonious song, the song            of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and
of the new creation, the new song glqrifying God and the               the wine.
Lamb, and saying: "Blessing, and honour, and glory, and                7. And when he had opened the 
power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto                                                     finwtlz   seal. I heard
                                                                       the voice of the fourth be:ast say, Come and see.
the Lamb for ever and ever." Glory to God and the Lamb!
Such is the contents of the new song. For we  are.of Christ,           8. And I looked, mnd, bel~old a pale home: .a.nd his name
.and Christ is God's.  God shall be all and in all through the         tjaat sat on him was Dea*th, and Hell followed w&z him.
Lamb that was sla,in. God through the Lamb shall in the                And pozver wis given unto them over the fburth part of
eternal and glorious future, when the book shall have been             the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with
completely opened to its last leaf and seal; be the song of            death, and witk the beasts of the earth.
creation. Because the Lamb was slain, and in the slain Lamb
the eternal and incomprehensible grace, holiness, and right-          Now the Lamb is in possession of the book with its seven
eousness of Him that sitteth upon the throne was revealed          seals, and commences to open it, breaking the seals one after
in the highest sense of the word, God and the Lamb, - God          another. In the  dpening of the seven seals we have ap-
through the  Lamb, -is therefore the subject of this new           proached the discussion of the things that were designated in
song. At this song all the creatures represented by the four       the first chapter of  the.book  as "the things that must come
living creatures shall say, "Amen, even so." And at this           to pass hereafter." We are perhaps aware of the fact that
song the elders shall fall down, and all the redeemed of God       the phenomenon of the seven seals and the record of their
shall worship. Such is the picture, a picture of overwhelming      being opened by the Lamb constitutes at the same time all
beauty and glory. It is a picture which we can but very in-        that is contained in the rest of the Book of Revelation, ex-
adequately represent in words. But it is a picture the reality     cept for thq fact that we meet with several interludes that
of which will still surpass our boldest expectation. That          have been ipserted for various reasons. We are also perhaps
kingdom shall surely come. Seal after seal shall be broken,        acquainted with the further fact that the seven seals do not
till the kingdom shall have been perfected. But it will come       retain throughout their character as seals, but that the
only through the power of the Lamb that has been slain. In         seventh seal is reaealed a seven trumpets, the seventh of
the church, therefore, only the crucified Jesus will be known      which later again dissolves and becomes manifest as the
and recognized, and only those that believe in Him shall never     seven vials of the wrath of God.
be ashamed.                                                                                                                    H.H.


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                                                                              In these passages not. a word is said of proclaiming peace
           THE DAY OF SHADOWS                                              unto the heathen. The mandate is simply that they be
                                                                           utterly destroyed. But in Deut. 20 :lO-15 the instructions are
-                                                                          thab peace be proclaimed unto them, and that, if they make
                  The Prophecy of Isaiah                                   answer of peace, they be saved!alive.
                         Chapter 9 :lOb-13                                    This disagreement falls away in the light of the following
                                                                           consideration. First the difference between Canaan's  SO-
     And he shawl speak peace to the nations, a.nd his dominion ' called ideal boundaries and the actual limits of the holy land.
shall, be  frows  ma to  sea,, and  from the  yfiivm to the ends  of       The Canaan that was divided among the twelve tribes was
the  earth.  11.  As  for  thee also,  for  the sake  of  thy  covenant    comparatively small. Its approximate length was but 160
blood, I send forth thy prisoners from the pit wherein ,is nd              miles, and its breadth but 50,  whioh did not include  the
wa.ter. 12.  Ret,l,brn  to the stronghold, 0 prisoners of  hope,           territory occupied by the two and a half tribes east of the
Eziew today I declare I will  pay double for  yam  13.  For  li            Jordan. This was Israel's proper inheritance. In this small
bend for  ~$ZB  JzddaZi,  fill  the bow  z&h  Ephrai@   a,nd stir  up      strip of land the Lord planted His people. When the people
thy ,sons, 0 Juvan, and make thee like the sword of a hero.                of Israel under the leadership of Joshua were standing at the
       lob, Zion's king shall speak peace to the heathen. This             border of this land, it was infested by races of men- the
is not the only place in which mention is made of proclaiming              Canaanites-that through the previous four centuries had
peace to the heathen. The first of Moses' final addresses tot              been filling up their measure of iniquity. And so, being now
the people of Israel encamped in the plains of Moab contains               ripe for judgment they had to be utterly destroyed. Such
this passage, "When thou comest nigh unto a (heathen) city                 was the Lord's mandate to His people as recorded in the
to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall             passages quoted above. As a people the Canaanites were re-
be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then              probated `and therefore no peace might be proclaimed unto
it shall be that all the people that is found therein shall be             them. Nor did they desire peace. Not one of their cities
tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. And if they              made peace with the children of Israel save the inhabitants
will make no peace with thee,, but will make war against                   of Gibeon. So we are told at Joshua 2 :19. The sacred writer
thee, then thou shalt beseige it: and when the Lord thou                   continues, "For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts,
God shall deliver it into thy hands! thou shalt smite every                that they should come against Israel in battie, that he might
man thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women and                  destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses."
the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city, even              Canaan typified the new earth. And so the extirpation
all the spoil therein, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou              of its doomed inhabitants was preindicative of the final
shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God               judgment, when this whole earth will be cleansed from the
hath given thee. Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which              race of men that now corrupt it; and, as so cleansed and
are far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these                glorified it will be given to the meek of the earth, Abraham
nations" (Deut. 20 :lO-15).                                                and His chosen seed.
     The cities of which this passage makes mention were in-                  This brings us to the Canaan of the so-called ideal bound-
habited by heathen. To these peoples peace had to be pro-                  eries. It was much larger by far than Canaan proper. Ac-
claimed. Just what had the message of peace to them to be?                 cording to the Scriptures, it was an immense region that
The above-cited passage makes it clear that it had to be a                 extended to the Euphrates on the east and to the river Nile
mandate to the effect that they believe Israel's God and serve             on the West and thus included the whole of Arabia. But let
His people in order that they might live and not be destroyed.             us quote here, "In the same day the Lord made a covenant
     But on the other hand, there is also this word of God                 with Abraham, saying, Unto thee have I given this land
to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jorden near Jericho,                     from the river of Egypt (the Nile) to the great river
"Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When                 (Euphrates)" (Gen. 15  :lS). And  ,afterwards  to Moses,
ye pass over Jorden into the land of Canaan, then ye shall                 "And I will set thy bounds from the Red <Sea even to the
drive out the inhabitants of the land before you" (Num. 30).               sea of the Philistines (Mediterranean) and from the Arabian
So in Deut. 7:2, "And when the Lord thy God shall deliver                  desert unto the River (Euphrates) " (Ex. 23 :31). And still
them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy                later, "Every place whereupon the soles of your feet shall
them, "and finally in D.eut. 20 :lG,: 17, "But of the cities of            tread shall be yours, from the wilderness of Lebanon, from
these people that the Lord thy God doth give thee for an                   the river (Euphrates) even unto the uttermost sea (Me-
inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; but             diterranean) shall your coast be" (Dem. 2 :24) ., And finally
shalt utterly destroy them as the Lord thy God commanded                   to Joshua, "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread
thee: that they teach you not to do after all their abomina-               upon, that have I given you, as I said to Moses. From
tions, which they have done unto their gods; so  shali ye sin              your wilderness to this Lebanon even to the great river, the
against the Lord your God."                                                riv.er Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and the great


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  sea (Mediterranean) toward the going down of the sun,             Christ and so, too, Solomon. To Christ God said, and
  shall be your coast" (Joshua 2 :3, 4).                            eternally said,' "Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen
     Such were the boundaries of Israel's inheritance. Bound-       for thine -inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth .
  aries they were that included immense regions surrounding         as thy possession" (Ps. 2 :8). This is descriptive of the extent
 the little strip of land, Canaan proper, inhabited by the          of Christ's kingdom. The boundaries of the typical kingdom
 twelve tribes of Israel.. All these vast regions together          of David and Solomon were those of the greater Canaan.
 with the heathen tribes that dwelt therein the Lord by prom-       This kingdom reached only to the Euphrates river and on
 ise had given to Abraham and his seed. So the above-cited          <the west to the Mediterranean sea. Besides the twelve tribes
 scriptures tell us. Nations they were that represented and         of Israel it included the nations only in that part of the
 typified "all the nations of. the earth" blessed in Abraham.       earth. But Christ's kingdom, of which David's and Solo-
  Not under the ban of God, as were the Cam&rites, peace            mon's kingdom was type, extends to the four corners of
 had to be proclaimed unto them. They had to be mandated,           all the earth and includes all nations, So also our prophet
  exhorted by, Israel's armies, when come to their cities, to       tells us. Speaking of Zion's king he says, "And his dominion
 open to Israel the gates of their cities in the willingness to     shall be even from sea `to sea, and from the river even to
  serve Israel's God in the paying of tribute, that doing so,       the ends of the earth" (verse 10).
  all would be well with them, but that, disobeying, they              Such then was the promise to Christ. Accordingly,
 would be destroyed.                                                when through His obedience unto death He had paid for all
     Such was the instruction of the Lord to Israel with            our sins - the sins of all the nations, heathen from the
 respect to the nations not under the ban of God in the             vantage point of our prophet - God raised him up from the
 greater Canaan. Peace had to be proclaimed unto their              dead and set Him at His own right hand. And what is He
 cities. Only if they made answer of war in their unwilling-        now doing in this exalted position ? Our prophet tells us.
 ness to be tributary to Israel, had they to be destroyed. Yet      He speaks peace unto the heathen. In the light of what has
 it was not the Lord's will that His people initiate war against    been presented above this statement can now be fully under-
 these heathen, destroying their cities, only because they          stood. Through `His `servants He speaks to the heathen the
 refused to serve Israel in the paying of tribute. These na-        Gospel of God. This implies,~ briefly stated, the following.
  tions had to offend in another respect. They first had to         First, that He set before the heathen one and all without ex-
  make war against Israel, which they did in every instance.        ception the salvation that God prepared through Him for
  For they were wicked. There was no fear of God before             His chosen people. Second, that He calls the heathen one
their eyes, They hated God and were bent on the destruc-            and all to repentance, mandating them to forsake their
 tion of His people. Yet, when in their warfare with these          abominations and turn to Christ- and be saved. Third, that
 heathen in the greater Canaan, Israel drew nigh unto their         He promises to all such heathen, who by the power of His
  cities, to fight against them, Israel  had. first to proclaim     redeeming grace come to Him, the forgiveness of all their
 peace unto them, commanding and exhorting the inhabitants          sins and life everlasting and thereby implanting in their
  of their cities to lay down their arms and stop making war        hearts a living hope and the peace that passes all under-
  against the Lord, in order that they might live and not           standing. The peace of which this verse makes mention, as
  perish. Such was the law of God for Israel in their warfare       identified with the promises of God, is spoken of Christ
  with the afore-said nations. Whether this law was always          only to these penitent and hopeful ones, namely the church
  obeyed, is a different question. But whether obeyed or not,       of the elect the true Israel.
 it was God's revealed will. It may be supposed that this law           II. Even thou, - by thy covenant blood I have sent forth
  was obeyed by David, the Lord's anointed in the holy hill         thy  prisons-s fro944 the pit wherein there is fro water.
  of Zion, in his warfare with these heathen. How many of               The versions have as for thee, but the pronoun in the
 their cities made to him answer of peace, is not revealed.         Hebrew is in the masculine singular. Denoted is the church
  We do read that, when he had fought his warfare, all his          that in verse 9 bears the name  daatgh.ter  of Zion and in
  vanquished enemies paid him tribute. But this could be            verse 10 the names Ephraim and JzLdah. The verse speaks
  expected, seeing that in his warfare with them, he had broken     of a covenant. Denoted is the covenant instituted with
  them in pieces and shattered them like a potter's vessel.         Abraham and later with Israel at mount Sinai. For the
     But coming to Solomon, we behold a wonderful thing.            latter as well as the former was a covenant of grace. As to
  Though he waged no war with the heathen, all their cities         the phrase by the blood of thy covenant, the Hebrew allows
 and kings paid him tribute and served him. He reigned over         also the rendering in the blood of thy cove?Lant, as sprhkled
  all the kingdoms from the Euphrates unto the land of the          with it,  with  the  pig?2  a:mJ  seal of the  covenanti  in  thy flesh.
  Philistines. The hearts of kings and people were turned of        As to the prisoners, they are true sons of the covenant. For
  God to serve Solomon, yet not so that this mass of heathen        in. the succeeding verse they are called prisoners  of hope.
  are to be regarded as formed of men reborn. We deal here          Their plight is desperate and great is their distress. For they
  with types and shadows. David in his throne was type of           are captives in a foreign land where they find themselves in


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  waterless pits. But here, too, our prophet deals in types and     can only be realized in the way of the destruction of the
  shadows. That pit is death, physical, spiritual and eternal       wicked, of all such who make answer of war to the proclama-
  death. That pit is hell. It is the place of outer darkness and    tion of peace to the heathen. There is therefore a fight to
  everlasting torment where all that can. be heard is weeping       be fought, the good warfare of faith that Zion's King, the
  and gnashing of teeth and where the worm never dies. But          Christ of God, wages through His church as His organ
  there is here a promise given,. stated as a fact seeing that      toward the victory that He merited for her and that is hers
  it is as good as done, "I have freed thy prisoners from the       in Him. In this `and the succeeding verses this victorious
  pit." For the sake of His covenant with them ; because with       warfare is described in a figure bold and beautiful. Judah
  the blood of the covenant, which is the blood of Christ,          is the bended  bow, Ephraim the arrow that the Lord shoots
  they are sprinkled and sthereby baptized into Christ ; because    at the foe, and Zion the sword with which He cuts the foe
  He sware by Himself and cannot lie,. He shall deliver them        down. The meaning of the verse is, Judah and Ephraim in
from the prison-house of their death. He shall send them            this warfare are bow and arrow in the hand of the Lord
  forth. It's a promise implying that as yet they still find        and Zion the sword. It means that there is but one warrior
  themselves in the pit only as men saved in principle. But         and that this warrior is the Lord. Judah, Ephraim and
  they have the promise and by it they live. And therefore they     Zion -the church-are but implements of war that He
  are not in dispair but they hope. And the ingredients of hope     has prepared for Himself and handles. There is no power
  are faith, longing, desire and joy.                               in them. He bends the bow. The arrow flies not of itself
     Verse 12,  Return to  the stronghold, 0 ye  prisolzers  of     but because He shoots it. The warfare is His as is also
  hope, even today I declare, I will repay you dou.ble.             the victory. His alone is the power and therefore also the
     This exhortation comes not to men dead in sin- but to          glory.
  prisoners of hope, to living saints in whom the Lord perpetu-        However the church is not a dead thing like a literal
  ally works both to will and to do according to His good           sword of iron but a body of living saints mightily stirred up
  pleasure and thereby empowers to work out their own salva-        by the Lord against the sons of Javan. Javan is the Hebrew
  tion With fear and trembling, which they do by .laying off sin    word for Greece, which at that time was a formidable
and puting on Christ, by asking that they may receive and           secular power, the Macedonian monarchy, especially in its
  seeking that they may find or in the language of this verse,      successor Syria, the Seleucidae. Doubtless therefore the
  by continually coming out of the pit of sin and death and         description in the first instance is that of the determined
  dispair,  from which in principle they have been delivered,       resistance of the believing Jews in  Judea  to the mad at-
  and returning to the stronghold, the city of God, the new         tempt of the maniac Antiochus Epiphanes, the type of the
  Jerusalem, where Christ is at the right hand of God and           antichrist of this present age, to destroy the faith of the
  where therefore are to be found the things above that these       church and impose the abominable and idolatrous worship
  prisoners must be always seeking. It is called a stronghold       of the Greeks. It was in these days that the "good report
  because God is the walls thereof. It is therefore as strong       of faith" of which the epistle to the Hebrews speaks (11 :36-
  as God, the Father of Christ, is mighty to save, protect and      39) was obtained by many who were tortured, mocked,
 `preserve. Here therefore the prisoners of hope safely dwell       scourged and even sawn assunder, not accepting deliverance
  seeing that here the thieves cannot break through. Re-            that they might obtain a better resurrection.
  turning to the stronghold today and every day without                 But the words of our prophet are descriptive not alone
  ceasing they will find that God repays them double. Find          of this one struggle of the church but of her entire warfare of
  they will that where sin abounded, grace did much more            this present age. And this warfare she wages as now armed
  abound. Find they will that the sufferings of this present        solely with spiritual weapons -truth as girt about her loins,
 time are not to be compared with the glory which shall be          righteousness as the breastplate, the preparation of the Gos-
  revealed in us, that thus proportionately the great good that     pel of peace as the shoes, faith as the shield, salvation as
  God has in store for His people far surpasses the pain, the       the helmet and the word of God as the sword- and not
  agony and all the distress that had to be endured on account      also as armed with the material implements of War such as
  of sin. And let there be no doubt about this, for the Lord,       literal swords and lances, bows and arrows as was the case
  Himself, declares it.                                             in the Old Dishensation,  it being the dispensation of shadows.
     The double that the church shall receive at Christ's com-      For when Zion's king was exalted at the right hand of the
  ing is set forth as a reward. The merit is Christ's, the re-      throne, and God poured out of His Spirit upon all flesh, and
  ward merited a gift of grace to His people.                       Zion's king made a commencement of speaking peace unto
    13.  Whew I bend for  me Judah, fill  Use bow  z&a              the heathen, the typical things of the law, including those
  Ephraim, and  sfiir  ztp  thy  sons, 0 Zion,  ag&sf  thy sons,    material-implements or war, as weapons of Isra.el's war/fare,
  0 Javan, a.md make thee like the sword of a h-o.                  waved old and vanished away. The sword of the church is
     The connection between this verse and the foregoing is         now solely the word of God.
  obvious.  The&,promise  that the Lord will reward His people                                                             G.M.O.


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                                                                       1 were becoming quite adept at this rivalry. Was there not a
  II             F R O M   HOLY  WRIT  j rivalry concerning Paul, Apollos, Cephas and even Christ.
                                                                          And was this rivalry concerning gifts not after the same
                                                                          pattern as that of striving about persons, who were preachers
                 Exposition of I' Corinthians 12-14                       of the Word ?
                                                                              All their "mind" (phreen), their intellect, their disposi-
                                     X.                                   tion, their feelings must be that of the adult, to the perfect
                       (I Corinthians 14 20-22)                           man in Christ. This means the crucifixion of the flesh with
                                                                          the lusts and desires thereof.
        In the verses 1-19 Paul has clearly shown that all speak-             When such is the case their life will be according to the
  ing `*with tongues" means absolutely nothing toward the                 "law." Says Paul "In the  law  it is written." This "law"
  edification of the church when divorced from "prophesying,"             is not simply the decalogue, the Ten Commandments, but
  that is, from the clearly enunciated Word of God, spoken in             refers to the Old Testament Scriptures. And these Scrip-
  understandable `prose in the church.                                    tures are profitable to instruction, reproof, correction in
        Such is the case when the "gift" of speaking with tongues         righteousness that the man of God be thoroughly furnished
  is bonafide in the church. Then it is a gift which the Holy             unto every good work. Fact is, that we have an instance
  Spirit works in the several members ,in the church as He                here in which the term "law" refers to the prophecy of
  w i l l s .                                                             Isaiah. This prophecy too is the norm of life and faith in
        Thus Paul instructed in the first major section of this           this world. It is the regula  fidei. For only those works are
  Chapter.                                                                good which proceed from a true faith,. are performed ac-
        He will now discuss the entire question of "speaking- with        cording to God's law, and are thus performed to the glory
  tongues" from a more basic standpoint. He twill give the                of God, and not such as are founded upon the mere childish
  rule and standard of all true preaching of the Word in dis-             institutions and attempts of men. To the law and to the
  tinction of the mere gibberish of those, who speak a "tongue,"          prophets, otherwise there shall be no dawn to them, saith
  which is without the-content of the Word of the Cross.                  the Lord!
        This particular portion reads .as follows : "Brethren, be             Paul will handle the sword of the Spirit !
  not childret%  in wtind: yet in mlice,be ye babes, but in mind
be men  (of full age).  In the  1a.w it  ,is written, by  men of             All the childish imitations of men will be shown up for
  strange tongues and by lips of stmngers will I speak unto               what they really are!
  this people; a.nd not even thus will they hear, saith the Lord.            For the question arises when we read the serious word
  Wherefore tongues are fov a sign, not to them that believe,             of the law, namely, "Wherefore tongues are a sign, not to
  but to  the unbelieving: but prophesying is not to the  un-             them that believe, but to the unbelieving . f ." whether Paul
  beliezping,   butt to  them  that believe . .  ."                       is not waging a polemic against a fraudulent counterfeit of
        There certainly was something in this entire striving of          the true speaking with tongues. This is wholly possible.
  everyone in Corinth after the gift of "speaking with tongues"              For a proper understanding of this entire evil in the
  which has all the earmarks of spiritual immaturity in the               church at Corinth we should bear in mind that there was,
  things of God. There was here much of the "flesh." The                  indeed, a bonafide "speaking with tongues" in the church.
  flesh never has any good in it. And it certainly contained              On the other hand, there would also come a time, and that
  nothing good in regard to the speaking with tongues. The                not very late after the apostolic age," when the speaking
  flesh here certainly does all it can to be an obstacle in the           with tongues "shall cease" (13 :7).- Hence, the question
  way of the preaching of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.                 arises whether the "speaking with tongues" in the church
  For if tongues are not a vehicle of the Holy Spirit -then they          at Corinth was bonafide or whether it was mere gibberish.            -
  are simply the fleshly means of imaginary self-exaltation.                 It should be clearly understood, `on the one hand, that
  It only serves unbelief; it cannot possibly serve the working           there are the explicit references in the Chapters 12-14 from
  of faith as a full-orbed fruit of the grace of the Holy Spirit.         which it is clear that in "the church," the body of Christ, there
        Hence, Paul says: Cease being "children," that is, those          was such "speaking with tongues." And, therefore, it is
  who lack the matztired understanding of the design and dura-            wholly conceivable' in the abstract, that there was also such
 tion of the "spiritual gifts" in the church. Don't be  past-             speaking with tongues in Corinth. We refer to the following
  masters in "malice." The term "malice" is the english render-           notices from the pen of the Apostle:
 ing of the greek `Xakia." Kakia is the evil of intending to                 1. The speaking with "tongues" is by Paul explicitly
 hurt the brother or sister. To hurt his feelings, to make                placed in the category of "Spiritual Gifts" (charismata) in
 him envious, to excite unto rivalry, to corrupt the  very                the church. And these were really and truly "gifts" from
 purpose and intent of the charismata in the church, namely,             heaven, from the Head of the Church, Christ and wrought
 the benefit of all the members of Christ. These Corinthians             through the Spirit. "These all worketh that one and the
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         self-same. Spirit, dividing severally to each as He wills"         with tongues a real phenomena of the Spirit, then certainly
         (12:ll).                                                           there would also be an interpretation. For  both  are of God,
            2. Fact is that Paul speaks of "diverse kinds of tongues."      in Christ the Lord and by the Spirit. God Himself would
         There was no uniformity in the "tongues." The Holy                 not give a message in an unknown tongue s&z the chu:~ch and
         Spirit gave to utter each time as He willed. It will not do        not give an interpretation with it. For there is also an in-
         for us to try to establish this speaking. It was certainly not     terpretation of tongues. Otherwise how can the spirit  of.
         in our languages. It was a unique phenomena. Says. R. T.           prophets be subject to prophets in their case?
         Robertson, "There were variety of tongues-but the gift was             If the latter be the correct conclusion (it veritably seems
         essentially an estatic utterance of highly wrought emotion         to be) then the evil in Corinth on this score was indeed sore,
         that edified the speaker (14 :4) and, was inteligible to God       and it requires a rebuke from the "law" !
         (14:2, 28) "And we believe that as to the  comtent  of this            "It is written" has the precedent over all this gibberish
         speaking with tongues, it was no different from content of         nonsense! For what "is written". is canonical. It contains
         the written word, contained in Holy Scriptures. It was             the rule, the standard of doctrine, life and `usages in the
         simply an added "sign." Did not God, accompany the min-            church.
         istry of the Apostles with signs and wonders ? Well, then,             Upon a first glance the particular passage in Isaiah 28  :ll
         such a "sign" must never be "mute" but must be of a. cor-          seems a bit far-fetched. We are inclined to say : true enough,
         robomtive nature.                                                  if Paul were speaking to "unbelievers." But he is here speak-
            3. Then, too, the fact that these tongues "shall cease" ing to those who are "babes in understanding." However,
         implies that it was a gift, which as SI.K~Z  was wrought by the    we will procede  with the prejudice of faith that Paul certainly
         Holy Spirit, from theoone  Lord and one God. It, therefore,        was writing under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, when he
         certainly had divine sanction. It was always such-this,            quotes this passage. And, also, that the meaning of the
         glossology - that it confessed : Jesus is Lord. Only when it       "Spirit" in Isaiah  28 is here interpreted and applied to the
         served the proclamation of this Christ was it bonaiide and situation in Corinth as a "threat and warning." For God
         not human pretention.                                              confers grace through admonitions. Did not Paul write in
            However, when we -read this passage attentively, and            I Cor. 10 :ll, "Now these things happened unto them by
         take notice of Paul's instruction, the conviction grows that       way of example ; and they. were written for our admonition,
         not all speaking in Corinth was real and genuine. It did not       upon whom the ends of the ages are come." And does Paul
         serve the ministry of the Word whereby faith is wrought            here not add explicitly, "Wherefore let him that thinketh
         into the hearts. It gave the impression rather to the outsider     that he standeth take heed lest he fall." (Verse 12).
         as if these speakers with tongues are raving mad !                     With this pedagogical purpose of the "law" in mind, let
            Let us notice a few particulars.                                us pay a bit closer attention to this most interesting and im-
            1. First of all, we should not overlook the fact, that          portant passage, as quoted from Isaiah ?S:ll, which speaks
         Paul is still occupied with answering what was a question of       of the Lord speaking to "this people" with a strange language
         some member or members of the congregation in Corinth.             and with other lips.
         They evidently had more in mind when asking this question              However, this will needs have to wait till the next issue
         than a purely academic one. It dealt with a concrete situa-        of TlTze  Standard Bearer.
         tion. And those, who asked the question were, evidently,               Meanwhile I suggest to the attentive reader that he take
         not the ones guilty of these abuses. The latter were in no         his Bible and read attentively and prayerfully Isaiah 28.
         state of mind to ask such information from Paul. It may                                                                        G.L.
         have been from the house of Chloe. (See 1  :ll). Confer
        also Chapter 12:l.                                                                          Announcement
            2. The fact that Paul says that gifts "shall cease," simply         Classis East of the Protestant Reformed Churches will
 i      cease, implies that it is wholly possible that the incident in      meet, D.V., Wednesday, October 2, 1957 at 9 A. M. in the
         Corinth shows that such was very really happening in               Fourth Prot. Ref. Church of Grand Rapids. Delegates of the
         Corinth ; that all this excitement in Corinth was simply a         various churches in this classis will please take note.
      - human attempt at perpetuating what only God in Christ                                                     M. Schipper, Stated Clerk
        through the Holy Spirit can possible maintain. When God
        "ceases" to give such "tongues" they simply are no more.                                     IN MEMORIAM
        From here on all `tongues" must needs be empty and foolish             On August 21, 1957, the Lord took unto Himself in glory
        gibberish, voluble and foolish talk.                                everlasting our beloved brother
            3. Then too it should be noticed, that although Paul                                    SIMON KOOISTRA
        does not explicitly say so, the impression is certainly left in     at the age of seventy-one years.
                                                                              Although our hearts are grieving, we know that the Lord
        the entire section, that the amount of real "interpretatior?  of    does all things well and that our loss is his gain.
        tongues is nihil in Corinth. To be `sure, were the speaking                                                      The Kooistra Family.


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                 -. --__
 II                                                                  cerning the Living God. Instead there is an inner relation-
                 I N   H I S   F E A R                          II ship between them. By His strength God performs His
                                                                     wonderful works and so manifests His praises.

                                                                         His praises !
            Showing  the  Coming  Generation                             These must be shown to our children. And His praises
                         God's Praises                               are His virtues. They are those goodnesses of God for
                                                                     which He must be praised. A man is praised only for great
       Another summer has quickly passed into history.               and good deeds. He is rebuked and blamed for his evil
       Your children are once again attending school.                works. For good deeds he is praised. So it is with God  ;
                                                                     and if we speak the truth concerning Him we will praise
       The State demands of you that, until they reach a             Him for  everything  that He does. For He is good and
 certain age, they must continue to, receive instruction in          always does good. All His works call for praise.
 reading, writing, arithmetic and its related subjects.
                                                                        In the realm of creation all things speak His praise. "The
       The Living God also has a demand in regard to your            heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth
 children's education which He has made known. He does               forth His handiwork," the psalmist declares in  Psalm  19:l.
 not in His word declare that you must teach your child to           All that we see is brought forth by His strength. All this
 read, to write and to learn to handle figures correctly in ad-      wide creation and all it contains is one wonderful work of
 dition, subtraction and division as well as in multiplication.      God for which He ought to, be praised.
 But He does insist on the way in which these things-and
 for that matter, all things that are taught them-shall be              Is that shown to your child ? Or is all this creation and
 presented to your children.                                         that which it contains ascribed to some evolutionistic process
       From Genesis through Revelation God's Word makes              by an atheistic, foolish philosophy that `goes into detail to
 plain what the calling of the Church is over against its youth      explain how all this evolved from an original cell and
 in the matter of instruction. A text that expresses it beauti-      realizes its own inability to explain from where that original
 fully as a confession of a covenant-conscious member of the         cell came. All this `theorizing and philosophizing is rooted
 Church of Jesus Christ is found in Psalm 78:4. The psalmist         in a sinful pride that denies God, His praises. Or even, if
 is speaking of the truths concerning God which had been             your child is not taught this atheistic philosophy of Evolu-
 taught him as a child by his father. When yet-there was no          tion, are God's praises shown to him ? It is not simply a
 written Word of God that could be possessed by every family         question as to whether in so many words the lie is taught,
 and could be referred to for instruction, the Church received       the question is,. Does your child have the truth shown unto
 that Word orally as handed down from generation to genera-          him ? Perhaps your child is not taught the praises of man
 tion. And the psalmist, who had received it as his father           in the bluntest form. But are God's praises taught Him?
 handed it down to him in the relating of God's works among          Are all things presented to your children as HIS wonder-
 His people together with the promises which He gave unto            ful works ? Are ALL things ascribed to His strength ; or is
 them, breaks forth into a confession of what he and other           there implied in the silence given to this truth. that there is
 covenant parents would by God's grace do. He writes, "We            a power beside Him?
 will not hide them from their children,  shewing to the                Still more 1 for that is what the Psalmist has in mind -
 generation to come the praises of the'Lord, and His strength,       are the praises of God shown your child in that wonderful
 and His wonderful works that He hath done.`!                        work of salvation which. He has realized in .the almighty
       We will not hide them !                                       power of His omnipotent strength  ? No, no, the question is
                                                                     not whether there is a little scripture reading and maybe an
       That is strong language; and the implication is that there    opening and closing prayer in the classroom. It is not at
 surely are those who do hide them from their children.              all impossible or difficult to be religious and yet not be
 There are those Zrs the Cl~z~clz  that do that. The Psalmist is     Christian. It is quite a common thing in our land to add a
 an Israelite, a member of the Old Testament Church. And             little religion to education and still not provide a Christian
 he knows full well that there were many in that Old                 education. That which deliberately ignores, minimizes and
~ Testament Church who did hide these things from their              avoids the wonderful work of God in the cross of His
 children. He would not be like them. But he vows unto God           Son and gives instruction apart from it is not Christian. All
 that by His grace he will not hide them but instead show            Christian instruction centers  iqand revolves around the truth
 them to the generations to come.                                    of God in Christ.
       There are.three  things that he declares he will not hide.
 He will not hide God's praises, His strength and His won-              Your child who received the sign and seal of God's cov-
 derful works. These are not three unrelated elements con-,          enant in baptism, does he receive instruction day after day,


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week after week that sings this praise to God?, "Christ shall        which God placed them and to which He sent His Christ
have dominion Over land and sea, Earth's remotest regions            with salvation ? Is Christ, in your way of thinking, actually
 Shall His empire be ; They that wilds inhabit Shall their           put outside of this world after all ? The world can have a
worship bring, Kings shall render tribute, Nations serve             purpose apart from Him ? When it pleased God, as Paul
our King." Do not say `that history, civics, science, geography, .writes to the Ephesians, to set Christ, "Far above all prin-
agriculture or for that matter. any subject can be taught in cipality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every
ignorance of Him. The moment He is left out of any educa-            name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that
tion, it ceases to be Christian education and at that moment         which is to come. And bath put all things under His feet,
 sets itself up in the service of the antichrist. For in its         and gave Him to be the head over all things to the Church."
essence it is antichristian. It opposes Christ. Whatever does.        (Ephesians  1:21, 22), can you find a sphere of life wherein
not say and proceed forth from the Scriptural truth that all         He does not play an important part  ? If  - and if here means,
things are His (Christ's) and that Psalm 72 has already been         since it is so - God HAS put all things under His feet and
 realized in that God has raised Him to His right hand and           given Him to be the head over ALL things to the Church,
crowned Him Lord of lords and King of kings with glory               can we dare to tell Him that there is a sphere of our life-
and honor over all things does not praise God but insults            be it even such a thing as reading, writing and arithmetic-
 Him. It does not show His strength but denies it. It does           wherein He can be and may be ignored. Must we not rather
not display His wonderful works of salvation but hides them          conclude that all ability to read, to write and to work in the
from the coming generations. To hide these things is to op-          field of mathematics must be in the service of His coming
pose the Living God Who alone deserves praise and de-                back again ? Should not ALL instruction and education
mands it.                                                            given to the children of that Church to whom God has given
                                                                     Him to be the head over all things ever be taught in all
       And if Israel had many wonderful works of God's               things to look for that wonderwork of His strength when
strength to relate to their children, what more abundant             this Christ shall come again ? May we ever let our children
wealth of truth do we not have ? The Psalmist speaks of              receive any instruction that does not reckon .with that fact?
God's works in Egypt. "Marvellous  things did He in the              Are we to teach them to live only for this life ?
sight of their .fathers,  in the land of Egypt, in the field of
Zoan. He divided the sea and caused them to pass                         6, it is to be conceded that the possibility exists that the
through . . ." Psalm 18, verses 12 and 13. He speaks of the          schools of the world in your locality are better trained and
water which He brought forth out of the rock. He gave                more capable of giving your child a training that according
them bread and flesh to eat in the. dry and uninhabitable            to the standards of this world make him wiser in the ways
desert. He drove out the heathen and gave His people their           of the world. Intellectually they may become more brilliant
land. All these wonderful works were the work of salvation           than those who are sent to a Christian school.
in Christ. It all was His wonderwork of fulfilling all His              But you have hid from them the things that really count.
covenant promises. These were not simply works in the                   They are  not  to be taught to live for this life and to
realm of creation. All these were works in the covenant              forget that Christ is the head over all things to the Chz~rch.
sphere of salvation.                                                 What they are taught on Sunday must not be opposed on
    And we? We have the wonderwork of Bethlehem. We                  Monday. The Christ they are taught to worship on Sunday
have the power of God in the cross and the resurrection. We          must be held before them also on Monday through Friday.
have that praise of God to relate of Christ now having domi-            You send them to Church and to catechism. Well and
nion over land and sea. We have the glorious truth of the            good.
ever faithful Covenant God as He gathers His Church from
the beginning to the end of the world out of the whole human            Yet unless you send them to a Christian School on Mon-
race. .                                                              day through Friday- unless before God this is impossible-
                                                                     -you are hiding these things from them. The Psalmist
    We will not. hide these things from, our children  !
                                   .._..._  .'                       literally says, "We will not  cut them off from the praises of
   Y                                                                 the Lord."
        OU  say, I send them to Church. I make them learn
their catechism lessons and do my best to explain these                 You cut them off from these when these things are taught
wonderful works to them. I do not hide them  .from  my               in a school where your children could attend and you send
children.                                                            them elsewhere for a carnal, earthly reason.
   W e l l   a n d   g o o d .                                          Say it, say it before God, "We will not' hide them from
                                                                     our children."
   But do you put up an iron curtain .between their knowl-
edge of God and instruction concerning His works of salva-              And put these words into practice.
tion in Christ and between their knowledge of the world in                                                                   J.A.H.


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                                                                 Lausanne, etc.) signed the document. At the same time they
          C.ontending For `The Faith'                            elected the excommunicated Archbishop Wilbert of Ravenna
i                                                          /I    pope, under the name of Clement III. He was a man of
                                                                 talent, dignity, and unblemished character, but fell into the
        ,  The  Church  and  the  Sacraments                     hands of simonists and the enemies of reform. Henry ac-
                                                                 knowledged him by the usual genuflexion, and promised to
     VIEWS DURING THE THIRD PERIOD  (750-1517   A.D.)            visit Rome in the following spring, that he might receive
                  THE SUPREMACY OF THE POPE                      from him the imperial crown. Wilbert returned to Ravenna
                                                                 with the papal insignia and great pomp.
         GREGORY  VII  AND THE PAPACY  (continued).                 This was the beginning of a double civil war between
      Henry demanded from the pope the ban over the robber       rival popes and rival kings, with all its horrors. Gregory
of his crown, but in vain. He refused him the promised safe-     counted on the Saxons in Germany, Countess Matilda in
conduct to Germany, acted as king, crossed the Alps, and         Northern Italy, and the Normans  in Southern Italy (is it
defeated Rudolf in a battle at Lerrichstadt in Franconia,        not perfectly clear from all this history that the power and
Aug. 7, 1078, but was defeated by him near Muhlheim in           authority `of the pope to enthrone and dethrone kings and
Thuringa, Jan. 27, 1080, in a decisive battle, which Rudolf      emperors did not lie in the Christ. Whom he was supposed
regarded as a divine decision, and which inclined the pope       to represent on earth, but only in,. the power of arms ? His
in his favor.                                                    first excommunication of Henry IV, which came to an end at
      After long hesitation, Gregory, in a Synod of Rome,        Canossa. was of force and brought the youthful emperor to
March 7, 1080, ventured upon the most extraordinary act          his knees only because the people of Germany favored the
even for a man in the highest position. Invoking the aid of      pope and not him, and he was therefore on the verge of
St. .Peter and St. Paul, he fulminated a second and severer      losing his crown, not because of the pope but because of the
ban against Henry and his adherents, deprived him again of       people, his subjects.  - H.V.).
his kingdoms of Germany and Italy, forbade all the faithful         Henry was defeated Oct. 15, 1080, on the banks of the
to obey him, and bestowed the crown sof Germany (not of          Elster, near  Naumburg   ; but Rudolf was mortally wounded
Italy) on Rudolf. The address was at once a prayer, a nar-       by Godfrey of Bouillon, the hero of Jerusalem, and lost his
rative, and a judgment, and combined cool reflection with        right hand by another enemy. He died the same evening,
religious fervor. It rests on the conviction that the pope,      exclaiming, as the story goes: "This is the hand with which
as the representative of Peter and Paul, was clothed with        I swore fidelity to my lord,  King Henry." But, according
supreme authority over the world as well as the Church           to another report," he said, when he heard of the victory of
(what was known as the Holy Roman Empire, embracing              his troops : "Now I suffer willingly what the Lord has de-
both Italy and Germany, did not come unto an end until           creed for me." His body with the severed hand was
Napoleon made an end of it in 1806 - H.V.).                      deposited in the cathedral at Merseburg.
      Gregory hazarded a prophecy, which was falsified by           Rudolf's death turned his victory into a defeat. It was
history, that before the day of St. Peter and St. Paul (June     regarded in that age as a judgment of God against him and
29), Henry would either lose his life or his throne (The         the anti-pope. His friends could not agree upon a successor
Roman Catholic Church regards this day, together with            till the following summer, when they elected Count Her-
Saint Paul's day on June 30, as one of the leading annual        mann of  Luxemburg,  who proved incompetent. In the
festivals. This festival, on June 29, commemorates the in-       spring ,of 1081 Henry crossed the Alps with a small army
terment of the remains of Peter and Paul, said tohave taken      to depose Gregory, whose absolution he had sought a few
place under consuls, Tuscus and Bassus  in 258. - H.V.).         years before as a penitent at Canossa. He was welcomed
After the close of the synod, he sent to Rudolf (instead of      in Lombardy, defeated the troops of Matilda, and appeared
the iron crown of Charlemagne, which was in possession of        at the gates of Rome before Pentecost, May 21. Gregory,
Henry) a diadem with the characteristic inscription: "Petra      surrounded by danger, stood firm as a rock and refused
dedit Petro, Petrus  diadema  Rudolpho," which, translated,      every compromise. At his last Lenten synod (end of Febru-
reads  : "The Rock gave the crown to Peter and Peter gives       ary, 1081) he had renewed his anathemas, and suspended
it to Rudolf."                                                   those bishops who disobeyed the summons. Nothing else is
      A reconciliation was now impossible. Henry replied to      known of this synod but sentences of punishment. In his
the papal ban by the election of an anti-pope. A council of      letter-of March 15, 1081, to Hermann, bishop of Metz, he
about thirty German and Italian bishops met at Brixen in         justified his conduct towards Henry, and on April 8 he warned
the Tyrol, June 26, 1080, and deposed Gregory on the friv-       the Venetians against any communication with him and
010~1s charges of ambition, avarice, simony, sorcery, and the    his adherents. "I am not afraid," he said, `(of the threats of
Berengarian heresy. Cardinal Hugo Candidus  and twenty-          the wicked, and would rather sacrifice my life than consent
seven bishops (of Brixen, Bamberg, Coire, Freisingen,            to evil."


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      Henry, not being permitted by the Romans to`enter their      you, be sure this bishop is a false witness, and give no credit
   city, as he had hoped, and not being `prepared for a siege,     to those who shall tell you to the contrary. Know that the
   spent the summer in Upper Italy, but returned to Rome in        Lord Pope has already conquered Sutri and Nepi; Barabbas
   Lent, 1082, and again with a large force at Easter, 1083,       the robber, that is to say, Henry's pope, has fled like himself.
   and conquered the city and the Church of St. Peter in June.     Farewell. Beware of the snares of Henry."
   Gregory was intrenched in the Castle of St. Angelo, and
   fulminated anew his anathema upon Henry and his followers       De&z of  Gwgory VII.
   (June' 24). Henry answered by causing Wilbert to be en-             Gregory was again in possession of the Lateran, but he
   throned in St. Peter's (June 28)) but `soon left Rome with      left the scene of melancholy desolation, accompanied by  Guis-
   Wilbert (July  l), promising to return. He  had- probably       card and a few cardinals and Roman nobless.  He went first
   come to a secret understanding with the Roman nobility to       to Monte Cassino and then to Salerno. The descent from
   effect a peaceful compromise with Gregory; but the pope         Canossa to Salerno was truly a via  dolorosa. But the old
   was inexorable. In the spring of 1084 Henry returned and        pope, broken in body, was unbroken in spirit.
  called a synod, which deposed and excommunicated Gregory.            He renewed the ban against Henry and the anti-pope at
   Wilbert was consecrated on Palm Sunday as Pope Clement          the close of 1084, and sent a letter to the faithful in Germany,
   III, in the  Lateran,  by two excommunicated bishops of         stating that the words of the Psalmist,  Qztare fyevutztevzmt
   Modena and Arezzo (instead of the bishops of Ostia, Albano,     gentes (Ps. 2 :l, 2), were fulfilled, that the kings of the earth
   and Porto). Henry and his wife, Bertha, received from him       have rebelled against Christ and his apostle Peter to destroy
   the imperial crown in St. Peter's at Easter, March 31, 1084.    the Christian religion, but could not reduce those who trusted
  He left Rome with Wilbert (May 21), leaving the defence          in God. He called upon them to come to the rescue of the
   of the city in the hands of the Romans. He never returned.      Church if they wished to gain the remission of sins and
      In the meantime Gregory called to his aid the Norman         eternal salvation. This is his last written document.
   chief, Robert Guiscard, or Wiscard. This bold adventurer           His mind remained clear and firm to the end. He recom-
  approached from the south with a motley force of Normans,        mended Cardinal Desiderius of Monte Cassino (Victor III)
  Lombards, Apulians, and Saracens, amounting to thirty            as his successor, and next to him Otto, bishop of Ostia (Ur-
  thousand foot and six thousand horse, arrived in Rome, May       ban II). He absolved all his enemies, except Henry and
  27, 1084, liberated the pope, and entered with him the           Wilbert, "the usurper of the apostolic see." He died, May
  Lateran.  He now began such a pillage and slaughter as even      25, 1085, with the words which best express the meaning of
  the barbarians had not committed. Half the city was reduced      his public life and character : "I have loved righteousness and
  to ruins ; many churches were demolished, -others turned into    hated iniquity ; therefore I die in exile." "Nay," said one of
  forts; women and maidens, even nuns, were outraged and           the bishops, "in exile thou canst not die, who, as the vicar of
  several thousand citizens sold into slavery. The survivors       Christ and his Apostles, hast received all the nations for
  cursed the pope and his deliverer. In the words of a con-        thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy
  temporary, the cruelty of the  Normans  gained more hearts       possession" (Ps. 2 :8).
  for the emperor than a hundred thousand pieces oft gold.            Robert Guiscard, his protector, died a few weeks after-
  Rome was a ghost of her former self. When Hildebert of           wards (July 17, 1085).
  Tours visited her more than ten years later, he saw only            The body of Gregory, clad in the pontifical vestments,
  ruins of her greatness. This was, indeed, a fearful judgment,    was buried in the church of St. Matthew of Salerno, which
  but very different from the one which Gregory a few years        he had consecrated shortly before. A plain stone marked
  had invoked upon Henry.                                          his grave till John of Procida - although a zealous Ghibel-
      Many confused reports were circulated about the fate of      line - erected a sumptuous chapel over it. His name was
  Gregory VII. His faithful friend,  the. Countess of Tuscany,     inserted in the Calendar on the 25th of May, 1584, by
  assembled troops, sent emissaries in all directions, and         Gregory XIII, without a formal  canqnization   ; `Paul V
  stirred up distrust and hatred against Henry in Germany.         ordered a festival, in 1609, for the new saint; and Benedict
  The following letter remains as evidence of her zeal for         XIII, in 1728, ordered its general observance. The emperor
  Gregory : - "Matilda, such as she is by the grace of God, if     of Germany, the king of France, and other sovereigns op-
she be anything, to all the faithful residing in the Teutonic      posed the celebration ; but if ever a pope deserved canoniza-
  kingdom, greeting. We would have you know that Henry,            tion for devotion to the papal theocracy, it was Hildebrand.
  the false king, has stolen the seal of the Lord Pope Gregory.    The eighth centenary of his death was celebrated in the
  Wherefore, if ye are told anything contrary to the words of      Roman Church, May 25, 1885.
  our envoys, hold it false, and believe not Henry's lies. Fur-       When Gregory VII died in exile his enemies spread the
  ther, he has carried away with him the Bishop of Porto, be-      false report that he repented of the controversy which he
  cause that man was once familiar with the Lord Pope. If          had excited. (Whatever one may say of his views with
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 r                                                                             all things in all, produces both the will to believe, and the
             The Voice of Our Fathers                                     II act of believing also." The correct translation would be :
                                                                               "but because he, who work&h  both to will and to do, and in-
                                                                               deed worketh all things in ill, effects in man both the will
                     The Canons  of Dordrecht                                  to believe and the act of believing (or : the believing itself) ."
                                     PART TWO                                     As is plain from the introductory words of this article,
                       EXPOSITION OF THE CANONS                                "Thus therefore . . .", we have here a conclusion, a summary,
             T                                                                 based upon the preceding articles (10-12))  concerning the
                  HIRD AND FOURTH HEADS OF DOCTRINE                            subject of faith.
      OF  THE CORRUPTION  `OF  MAN, HIS  CONVERSION TO GOD,                       And it must also be plain that the fathers are here
                       AN;  THE MANNER THEREOF                                 combatting the Arminian view of faith. They deal here with
                  Article 14. Faith is therefore to be considered as,the
                  gift of God, not on account of its being offered  by         some more of the "Cunning craftiness" of the Arminians. That
                  God to man, to be accepted or rejected at his                faith is the gift of God also the' Arminians had to admit, *
                  pleasure; but because it is in reality conferred,
                  bi-eathed,  and infused into him; or even because God        simply because it is a Scriptural statement. "By grace are
                  bestows the power or ability to believe, and then            ye saved, through faith ; and that not of yourselves : it is the
                  expects that man should by the exercise of his own
                  free will, consent  to, the terms of salvation, and actu-    gift of God", Eph. 2 :8. As we said before, it makes princi-
                  ally believe in Christ; but because  he who works in         pally no difference whether you refer the "it is the gift
                  man both  to will and to dd, and indeed all things in
                  all,. produces both the will to believe, and the act. of     of God", simply to "faith," or to the whole idea,  "by-
                  beheving  also.                                              grace-are-ye-saved-through-faith." In either case faith is the
        The above translation  tal&s liberties with  the original              gift of God. And the Arminians had to face this fact.
 Latin that can scarcely be accounted for. They are as follows :                  But how did they face it?
        1)  Our  English version has: "Faith is therefore to be                   With cunning craftiness they promptly began to play
 considered . .  -.`> The original has : "Thus therefore faith is              "hocus-pocus." On the one hand, they averred: "0, yes:
 the gift of God . . ."                                                        faith is indeed the gift of God. That is Scripture. We believe
        2)  Our  English version has :  ". . . . not on account of its         that too. Never would we deny it." But on the other hand,
 being offered by  God  to man, to be accepted or rejected at                  they so explained that gift of God that they explained it
 his pleasure." This is nothing but an  e&ended  commentary                    away. They played hocus-pocus with words. They poured
 on the original, and in my opinion a weakening of the sense                   into the idea of "gift of God" their own Pelagian philosophy.
 of the original instead of an elucidation.  The  original has                 And the result was that faith was not a gift of God any more,
. simply :' "< . . not because it is offered by  God  to the will of           according to their view, but an act of man pure and simple.
 man." The  sense is that faith is  not something that is                      And they did this. very craftily, as is plain from the negative
 offered by  God  to the will of man at all. There is therefore                propositions of the article we are considering.
 not even a question, not even a possibility, of his accepting                    At the risk of going off on a tangent for a moment, I
 or' rejecting it.  One who views  faith in this way does not                  want to emphasize this cunning craftiness of the Arminians.
 understand the nature of saving faith. It simply is not some-                 It is wilful deceit. It is not a mistake. It is not because they
 thing that is offered, presented, to the will of man.  That                   do not know better. How do I know? Because they were
 this is indeed the meaning  and intention of the fathers is to                not only confronted with the truth by our Reformed
 my mind  confirmed by the positive statement that follows,                    fathers, but they were, -many of them, at least, -brought
 namely:  ". . . . but because it is itself conferred, breathed,               up in the Reformed truth, and received Reformed theological
 and infused into the man."                                                    training as well. And still they insisted on their corrupt
        3) Our English version has: "or even because God                       views. Their purpos,e is to draw men away from the truth
 bestows the power or ability to believe, and then expects that                of the Word of God. And we must beware of them and their
 man should by the exercise of his own free will, consent to                   crafty and cunning presentations of the lie. And therefore
 the terms df salvation, and actually believe in Christ." Again                we must understand their view, and know wherein they err.
 this is  a6 extended commentary, as will be plain  frtm a                        What, first of all, is the basic error in this Arminian
 comparison with the Latin : "Non etia.m pod De,us fiotenfiiasm                view of faith as the gift of God ?
 credendi  tantzm  conf&t, consematwa   very0  seu  actztm                         It is this  :-all the emphasis in the Pelagian-Arminian view
 cl-edend;   ab  how&is   de&de  arbitrio   expectet."  This should            is always upon  the  ,act, the deed.  The original goodness of
 be translated : "Not even because God confers only the                        man consisted only in his actions, deeds.  Sin is only a
 power of believing, and then expects `(awaits) the consent                    matter of the evil deed. And faith is also solely a matter
 or indeed the act of believing from the will of man."                         of the deed. Hence, they teach:
       4) And finally, there is a less serious misplacement of                     1) That to begin with, the spiritual gifts or  the good
 the phrase "in man." Our English vers'son  has : "but because                 qualities and virtues, such as goodness, holiness, righteous-
 he who works in man both to will and to do, and indeed                        ness, could not belong to the will of man when he. was first


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          created, and that these, therefore, could not have been                  But, you say, the Arminian also teaches that faith is a
          separated therefrom in the fall.                                      gift in the sense that God bestows the power to come to that
                 2) That, in the second place, in spiritual death the s&it-     faith-as-an-act. The Arminian also believes that the power
          ual gifts are not separate from the will of man, since the            to believe is from' God.
          will in itself has never been corrupted, but only hindered               Here, however, is some more hocus-pocus of Arminian-
          through the darkness of the  understandi@and the irregul-             ism. The. Arminian does not believe this at all in the sense
          arity .of the affections ; and that, these hindrances having          that the Reformed man does. We frequently make a per-
          been removed, the will can then bring into operation its              fectly proper distinction between the power of faith and the
          native powers, that is, that the will of itself is able to will       act of faith. Just as in the natural sense of the word, an in-
          and to choose, or not to will and not to choose, all manner           fant may have the talent to be a musician, but does not yet
          of good which may be presented to it.                                 make music  ; so also spiritually, one may be ingrafted into
                 3) Thence it follows, in the third place, that the un-         Christ and may have the power to believe, but does not yet
          regenerate man is not really, nor utterly dead in sin, nor            actually believe, does not actively know and actively confide
          destitute of all powers unto spiritual good, but that he can          in Christ. But when the Holy Spirit operates in such a man
          yet hunger and thirst after righteousness and life.                   through the preaching of. the gospel, then that power of
           ,4)  And*  therefore it also follows that in the true con-           faith goes into action also, and he believes, has the living,
                                . '
          version of man no--new  qualities, powers or gifts can be in-         spiritual knowledge of God which is life eternal, and puts
          fused by God into the will, and that therefore faith through          his trust in God through Christ for all his salvation. That,
          which we are first converted, and because of which we are             I say, is a perfectly correct distinction to make. But this is
          called believers, is not a quality or gift infused by God,            not what the Arminian believes. For he teaches, remember,
          but only an act of man, and that it can not be said to be a gift,     that the will of man in itself has never been corrupted. That
                                                                                will in itself is therefore still capable of believing. There is
     t    except in respect of the power to attain to this faith. Ca,vLovts,    however the darkness of the understanding and the irregul-
          III, IV, Rejection of Errors, 2, 3, 4, 6.                             arity of the affections ; and these constitute .a hindrance for
                 The position of the Arminian, then, is that faith is not a     the will. And to the Arminian the gift of faith may mean
          gift of God, but an act of man. And if .then you,still want           that God will assist him to believe, in that He will remove
          to insist that it is a gift -of God according to Scripture, the       those hindrances. But then it is still left to man's will to
          Arminian will grant this only in the sense that the gift is the       believe or not to believe.
          power to attain to this faith. Hence, the Arminian position               Hence, once-more, according to the Arminian conception,
          is that faith is a gift of God, but faith is also not a gift of       it all comes down to the proposition that fait& is a de&d  of
          God. You object that this is absurd and contradictory. And            ?xan,  never anything else.
          this is certainly true. But remember that the intent and also'            And therefore, our fathers emphasize, in the second
          the end- result of this Arminian hocus-pocus is the denial            place, that it is not true that God merely bestows the power
          that faith is the gift of God. `They, choose devious and de-
                                                                         .      of believing, and that He then expects the consent or act of
          ceptive ways to.  reachthat  end.; but theyreach it nevertheless.     believing from. man's will. Notice : the, fathers do not speak
          Faith is the act of man, 1 that is the Arminian position.             of the power of faith here, but of the pozve~  of believing. It
                 And that is why ,our fathers insist that faith is the gift     is Reformed to speak of the power of faith, potentia fide;.
          of God,  not  because it is offered, presented, by God to the         Then you mean faith as a new spiritual quality that is in-
          &ll of fql.an.  It is contrary, to the very nature of faith to say    fused into the will itself. It is Arminian to speak merely of
          -this. The basic idea here is that faith is an act only. And.         the power of believing, potentia credendi. Then you mean
          God presents this faith-as-an-act to man's will. In that sense,       merely a power to come to the `act of believing, but not any
          ~0' says the Arminian, faith is a.gift. And now it is .left  to       new quality bestowed upon the will itself. Then you can still
          that will, which has never been corrupted really, and which           maintain that the consent to believe or the act of believing
          is able to will and to choose, or not to will and not to choose,      must come from the will of man itself.
          all manner of good (which includes faith-as-an-act) which                 And over against this the fathers state the Reformed
          may be presented to it. Now the fathers do not here criticize         position :
          the Arminian idea of a free will as such, as our English                  1) God is the One Who worketh both to will and to do,
          translation' would have us believe. But they criticize the            yea,. all things in all.
          Arminian idea of .faith.  Faith, they say, is not such that it            2) As such, God effects, produces, brings to pass, both
          is offered, presented to the will. You cannot speak of faith          the will to believe an'd the believing itself in man.
          in that sense. On the contrary, rather than being presented               If we maintain the latter, namely, that God effects both
          to the will, to be acted upon by the will, faith is a gift, a         the will to believe and the believing itself, there is not much
          quality, a power, that is infused into, conferred upon, breathed      room left for the Arminian corruption.
          into that will itself.                                                                                                         H.C.H.




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                                                                       urgently. requested to be present on any of these
              A L L   ARQUND  U S                                      dates and openly to refute in public debate the truth
                                                                       of these charges,
                                                                                     -         .Rkspectfully  submitted,, .
More Interesitng Quotations.                                                                                  Bernard Kok.
    In the last- issue the reader will recall we presented            The reader should note from the above quotation that
several quotations of ministers who left us, who are respon-      the Rev. Kok at that time understood very well that the
sible for the letter sent to the 1957 synod of the Christian      Three Points of 1924 were not to be found in the Reformed
Reformed Church, and who gave evidence in their writings          confessions, that they militated against the doctrines set forth
of the past which plainly revealed that they have no need for     in these confessions, and that they were opposed to all the
further light on or clearer interpretation of the Three Points    Word of God teaches. It is also to be noted that he under-
of 1924. This time I wish to conclude this search into the        stood the difference between sovereign, particular grace and
past by presenting a few quotations of others of these min-       common, general grace. He' also saw clearly how the Three.
isters, especially those of the Reverends M. Gritters and B.      Points were a denial of the doctrine of total depravity.  ,Not
Kok.                                                              only did he understand at that time the Reformed concep-
   A brother who read my last article sent me a photographic      tion of the truth, but he had preached it. He experienced
copy of a newspaper clipping which the Rev. B. Kok had            the opposition of those who subscribe to the Three Points
published in an Edgerton, Minnesota, paper at the time he         who had charged him ,with misleading and misinforming
served our churches in that community as Home Missionary.         the people. He gives evidence in the above quotation that
The clipping shows very plainly how boldly the Rev. Kok           he is in perfect agreement with the Rev. H. Hoeksema and
defended our views in the controversy between the Protestant      considers the latter as the great defender of the truth over-
Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches. At that time            against the lie of common grace. He is convinced that the
he needed no further interpretation of the Three Points, and      Christian Reformed Church had wickedly thrown out of her
he challenged the Christian Reformed leaders with the state-      midst. men who had maintained the Reformed truth, implying
ment that the Three Points are "extra-confessional,  contra-      that the Christian Reformed Church embraced the lie of
confessional and anti-scriptural." Here follows the copy of       Arminianism. This is what Rev. Kok believed and vigorous-
the newspaper article :                                           ly preached as he went from place to place serving- our
                                                                  churches in the  ofice of Home Missionary.
                      AN OPEN LETTER                                 I also have before me another Open Letter written by the
            to the Theological Professors and Leading             Rev.. B. Kok March 1, 1941, copy of which appeared in
          Ministers of the Christian Reformed Churches            "Our Church News" of March 14, 1941, a letter directed to
                                                                  the Rev. Jabaay, minister of the Christian Reformed Church
        Esteemed and Worthy Brethren :                            at that time serving a church in Zeeland, Michigan. In that
          Whereas you in your synodical assembly of 1924          letter the Rev. Kok takes Jabaay to task for un-Reformed
        have accepted three points of doctrine, which were        statements the latter uttered in a sermon Kok heard of him.
        not only extra-confessional, but contra confessional      He had no scruples about telling Jabaay what was Reformed '
        and anti-scriptural,                                      or un-Reformed in that sermon. Fact is when one reads
           And whereas you have thrown out of your                these old publications of the Rev. Kok he finds that Kok is
        churches those that maintained the Reformed truth         very fond of writing Open Letters especially to the leaders
        of sovereign and particular grace, over against those     of the Christian Reformed Church in which he upbraids
        that advocated common and general grace, those            them, criticizing and condemning their, doctrinal position in
        that maintained the Reformed truth of total de-           the matter of common grace and the Three Points.
    pravity, overagainst them that would ascribe to the              Now the Kok of 1*957, when he realizes that his separate
        natural man the ability to do good,                       existence has no promise for the future, when the cause he
           And whereas the Rev. H. Hoeksema will be at            now defends, namely, conditional theology, seems hopeless so
        Edgerton, Minnesota, from Wednesday, April. 6 to          long as his schismatic  :churches  cannot be united with
        Wednesday, April, 13 to inform all the lovers of          churches of like doctrine, concludes that there is a possibility
        the Reformed truth in this community about these          he has been in error regarding his position overagainst the
        greatly to be regretted facts, both in speech and         Three Points. After all fhese years it suddenly dawns upon
        personal contact,                                         hini that the Christian Reformd,  Church may have been right
           And whereas we are accused of misleading and           after all. So he, along with others, is asking that church to
        misinforming the people in regards to these things,.      once more please explain the Three Points. And if this can
           Therefore the best able among you are hereby           be done in such a way that Kok can understand that the


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Christian Reformed Church still believes in total depravity,               Yes, the Three Points caused the rupture. But we may also
and does not deny the doctrine of election then he is willing              say that in these Three Points the disagreement which ex-
to say peccavi, and ask for admission in that church. With                 isted about a so-called theory of Common Grace came to a
the Rev. H. Hoeksema I also believe that the Christian Re-                 head. We must not forget that these churches were already
formed Church will have no difficulty in removing his fears                in general preaching  and teaching a Common Grace theory
and the fears of those who are with him.                                   before 1924. It was when Revs. Hoeksema and Danhof espe-
   What we have written so far respecting the Revs. A.                     cially began to warn the churches against this theory that the
Cammenga, De Boer and Kok also applies to the Rev. M.                      conflict began.
Gritters. The latter, besides having filled a column in  Con-                 24. What is Common Grace and what are the Three
cordia. entitled "Hearth and Belfry," also for some time wrote             Points ? Be patient.  Let's discuss that a little bit later. I'd
a column entitled "Lest We Forget." The editor of  Con-                    rather follow the history of this thing for a little while at
coj*d&,  A. Cammenga, in the February 6, 1947 issue intro-                 present.
duces the writer of the new department. In this introduction                  25. Well, did  HoeksCma  and Danhof make the Three
he stresses how necessary it is that those interested in the               Points ? By no means. The continually argued that the Three
cause of our Protestant Reformed Churches should be re-                    Points were out of line with Scripture and the Confessions.
minded of the origin of our churches and the cause they re-                The Synod of the Christian Reformed Church of July of 1924
present. Writes he, "it is a very deplorable fact that time                made. the Three Points.
also tends  JO wear away definite principles and sharp distinc-               32. Is the difference between us and the Christian Re-
tions and ultimately heal breaches in a very unhealthful                   formed Churches THIS that they believe in Common Grace
manner . . . by the erosion of time, we can eventually forget              and we do not? Yes, in general we might say it that way.
the'origin  and purpose of our existence as Protestant Re-                    33. Is that difference enough to separate us? That is not
formed Churches. And  inuch as we would like to have seen                  the question first of all. You must remember that we did not
the breach of 1924 healed in a very healthy as well as healthful           separate, we were put out. The Christian Reformed Churches
way it would be ruinous to the cause of the Truth that what                in 1924 made themselves guilty of adding something to the
appeared to be a healing of the breach was nothing more than               Confessions, and on the basis of what they added, we were
dangerous  adhesiops  due to unhealthy spiritual conditions.               put out of the churches. We were not put out because we no
And, as we pointed out some time ago in one of our editorials,             longer stayed on the Reformed line- as Scripture and Con-
many attempts are being made from the side of the camp of                  fessions teach it, but we were put out because we did not
the enemy to belittle that which distinguishes us as churches.             agree with what they added to the Confessions.
Therefore, just a little forgetfulness on our part, with a bit of
persistent and cunning tactics on the part of the opposition                  34. But have these churches, then, put out of their fellow-
will cause the present -generation to wonder what it was all               ship people who follow the Reformed line? Yes. We are
about,. politely bury the dreaded hatchet and make peace at                sorry that we must say this, but such is the truth, and the
the expense of the truth of the Word of God and the blessed                only means we can use to bring her back from this error is
treasure of the doctrine of His sovereign grace." (When we                 to continue saying this. We do not say this in anger or in
read these words we could hardly suppress the thought : How                vengeance, but we believe that we can best serve the cause
is the gold become dim !)                                                  of the Truth by continuing to protest against these churches,
                                                                           with the hope that they might come back from their error."
       Cammenga then introduces Gritters as the one suitable                  Much more did the Rev. Gritters write. In fact there w?re
to show our people the significance of our past history.                   a 100 questions which he answered relative to the difference
   In this same issue of Concord&. the Rev. M. Gritters be-                between us and- the Chr. Ref. Church.
gan his series of articles, which appear in question and an-                  But what a far cry that letter was which he and his
swer for& Here follows some of the questions he raises and                 schismatic brethren  sent to the synod of the Christian. Re-
answers : (I.number the questions- exactly as he did)                      formed Church froni the continual protest against these
   "21. When did the separation between us and the Chris-                  churches of which he speaks in question 34. All in all he also
tian Reformed Churches take place? We usually place it in                  proves clearly that he does not need 2 furttier  interpretation
the year 1924 because at that time the Christian Reformed                  of the Three Points of 1924. He understood them well, and
Churches adopted the Three Points and they  were the im-                   all their implications. .But Gritters et al have changed. They
mediate cause of the separaiion.                                           have forsaken the truth for which they stood when still with
                                                                           us. They wish now to embrace that which they formerly
   22. Did the Three Points cause the separation? Yes, if                  condemned, not unwittingly but with sound understanding.
I understand your question right.                                          Again I say their plea to the Chr. Ref. Church is only
   23. I mean, if the Christian Reformed Churches had not                  camouflage.
made the Three Points, wouldn't we still have been together ?                                                                        M.S. ,
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  I/                CONTRIBUTIONS                                                       INDEX  TO  VOLUME  XXX111
                                                                          il              INDEX OF SCRIPTURE-`PASSAGES TREATED
                                                                                                       SUBJECT                                      Author         Page No.
                                             B. `J. Meelker                      Genesis  22:l  ___________________._______           __.__   :_____._   G.V 361 16
                                              126 S. Buena Vista                 Genesis  SO:20  - _________  -  ___________________.  _________ G.V. 385 17
                                                                                 Exodus  1226-28  ____.  _______________________________  G.Ti. 481  il
                                             Redlands,  Calif.                   Psalm 23 :l-3  ________________;   -_________.___________ G.V. 193                           9
                                                                                Psalm  39:5, 7 _____________  _________._____________   _  ..G.V.  145                    7
                                        Sept. 6,' 1957                          Psalm  50:15, 23  ___________..._.-_________________   ,_--G.V.   -97                     5
  Rev. H.  Hoeksema                                                             Psalm  90:lOb  ________:   .____.___--___.  ________________ G.V. 457 20                           .
  1139 Franklin St., S. E.                                                      Eccles.  12:5  _______~__-__-~--------~~---------~---~-G.V.                        4.57 20
                                                                                 1saia.h  9:1Ob-13  __________________________________ G.M.O.  488 `21
  Grand Rapids 7, Mich.                                                         Micah  6:6-S ___  _ __ _____ ___ __ ___ _______ ___ _____ __ ____ G.V.             409 18
                                                                                Zechariah  8:1-5  _______  :__________________________               G.M.O.  55           3
  Dear Rev. Hoeksema,                                                           Zechariah 8:6, 7 ________._______  :I ________________ G.M.O.                       82 4
                                                                                Zechariah  8:9-13  ______________.__________________               G.M.O.  104 5
        Will you please p1aC.e this letter in The Standa.rd  Bearer             Zechariah  8:14-19  -___-  ___________  - _________  - _____ G.M.O. 132                   6
  in ariswer to Mr. T. Feenstra?                                                Zechariah 8 20-22  ______ - ________________________ lG.M.O. 178                          8
                                                                                Zechariah  9:1-8 __________________________________ G.M.O. 395 17
        First. In the letter written by Mr. Feenstra in  The                    Zechariah 9:9-10 _________________________________ G.M.O. 465 20
  Staqzdard  BealTer of Sept. 1, 1957 he accuses me of writing                  `Matthew 2:9-11  _-  _________________._______: ________ G.V. 121                         6  -
  ati untruth when I wrote, "I$ my letter to you I did  not                     Matthew P:P-13  ________..____-_____________________ G.V. 25 2
                                                                                Matthew  11:25-30 ____  -_- _____________  - _____________ G.L. 107 5
 mention a case, I asked a question:"                                              Continued  ___________________-_________            _________  :-G.L.  15h 7
        Let Mr. Feenstra prove from my letter in the Feb. 15,                      Continued _____________________________ __________ _G.L.  181                          8
  1957 issue of  The  Standa:rd  Bea"rer  that I did mention a                   Continued  _________________--_______,  ______________ G.L. 205                          9
                                                                                   Continued _____________ __________________  - ________ G.L. 228 10
 case and not ask a question. Otherwise let him -apologize                      Matthew 18 _____________ - __________________________ H.H. 221 10
 for his accusation.                                                            Matthew 18  _________________.--.-------------------  H.H. 293  13.
                                                                                Matthew 27  ~39, 40  ____________--____________________                G.V.  313. 14
        Secondly. Mr. Feenstra writes that he does not believe                  Mark   1:40-42  _________________--____________________                G . V .   7 3   4
that I highly value Rev.  Hoeksema's   opiniofi.  I certainly                   Luke  23:l  ________________________________________--                G.V. 265 12
 mean what I wrote. I have always highly valued Rev.                            John  3:36a  __________________--____________________-                G.V. 457 20
 Hoeksema's opinion. I still do. I care very little whether                     Jo.hn   19:15, 16a ____  ______________________________.__  G.V.  288 13
                                                                                I Corinthians  l&l4  _-  __________-______   - _____________ G.L. 252  ll-
 Mr. Feenstra believes this or not.                                             I  Corinthians  12:1-3  __________--____________________              G.L. 277 12
        Thirdly. As to his challenge. The question to. which he                 I Corinthians  12:4-11   _________-_______   --: __________  ;G.L.  303 13
                                                                                I Corinthians  12:12-27   _________-____________________              G.L. 322 14
 refers was answered in The Standard Beaver of July 1, 1957.                    I  C'orinthians   12:`&31  _________-____________________            G.L. 347 15
                              Your brother in the Lord,                         I Corinthians  13:1-3  ________--__-____-__.~~~--~--~--G.L.  373 16
                                                                                I Corinthians 13 :4-7a  __________-____________________                G.L. 421 18
                                                 ,B.. J. Meelker.               I Corinthians 13 S-13 _______________________________ G.L. 444 19
                                                                                I Corinthians  14:1-1P   ________---____________________              G.L. 468 20
                                                                                I Corinthians  14:20-22  ______________________________ G.L. 491 21
                                                                                I Corinthians 15  :4, 5a ______________________________ G.V. 337 1.5
                                                                                I Corinthians 15  :29 ________________________________ H.H. 294 13
                                                                                Ephesians 3  :17 _____________________________________ C.H. 241 11
             THE CHURCH AND THE SACRAMENTS                                      Hebrews  11:24-26  ____________--____________________                G.V. 433 19
                                                                                I Peter 4:l ____________:  ____________________________ C.H.                        49 3
                        (Conthued  from  page 496)                              R e v e l a t i o n   i:9-20  ____________-_____________________         H . H .   7 1
 respect to the absolute guthority of the pope, ,the chair of St.               Revelation  2:1-7  ___________.__-____________________             H.H.              7 1
                                                                                Revelation' 2:1-7 __I  __._____________.________          I  ___.__  H.H.           31 2
 Peter, one thing is sure: Gregory VII was surely devoted                       Revelation 2%11 __________________________________ H.H.                             32  .g!
 to this principle and was not afraid to maintain it, as .over                  Revelation  2%11 __________________________  --__---_H.H.                           56 3
 against the emperor, Henry IV. And he is surely known in                       Revelation 2 :8-11 _ __ _ __ ___ __ ___ __ _____ __ ___ ._ __ _ __ -H.H.            79 4
                                                                                Revelation 2:12-17.   _______-________   1-- ______________ H.H.                    79 4
 history as o&e of the greatest of all the Roman popes, taking                  Revelation  2:12-17  ____________--___________________             H.H.  :lOZ            5
                                                                                                                                                            _;
 his rightful place beside other great Roman Catholic popes,                    Revelation  2:12-17  ________--__--___________________  H$,  -,,12f$ 6
                                                                                Revelation  2:15-29   I ___________  -  -___________________  H.H.  .!27                 6
 such as Gregory the Great, 590-604, and Innocent III, pope                     R e v e l a t i o n   2:18-29   _____________.______________      ----,-H.H.  130 7
 from 1198 to 1216, under whom the Church rose to its                           Revelation 3:1-6 _- __________.  t _-__________  .-:-, _____ H.H. `151                   7
 greatest height of power. - H.V.) .                                            Revelation  3:1-6   ____-__-_  ___----___________________  H.H. 174 8
                                                                                Revelation 3 :7-13 __-____-__--  - --_____-  -_____  .--I ____ H.H. 198                  9
                                                                  H.V.          Revelation 3 :7-13  ______________-___________________                H.H.  296 13


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      Revelation 3  :I422 ___ __________________  - ___________ H.H. 297 13                           Head III-IV, Art. 5  _______________________'  ____  j&?.$.   ?fi  "1"E
      Revelation  3:14-22  _____ -- _____________________  :____  H.H. 318 14                           Head III-IV, Art. 6 ___________________________ H.C.H. 235 10
      Revelation  3:14-22 _________________________________ H.H. 343 15                                 Head III-IV, Art. 7 ___________________________ H.C.H. 258 11
      Revelation 4 ______________ _________ __________ ______ H.H. 343 15                               Head III-IV, Art. 8  ____.________--____________ H.C.H.  283 12
      Revelation 4 _______________________________________ H.H. 368 16                                  Head III-IV, Art. 8 ___________________________ H.C.H. 307 13
      Revelation 5 __________ _- _________________.___  ______ H.H. 393 17                              Head III-IV, Art. 9  ____________-______________            H.C.H. 328 14
      Revelation 5 ______________  -  ______.____________.___             1H.H. 416 18                  Head III-IV, Art. 10  ______________________,____  H.C.H. 353 15
      Revelation 5 _____  - _________________________________ H.H. 463 20                              Head III-IV, Art. 10  ___`____.__________________  H.C.H. 379 16
      Revelation  5 ___________________ ___________________ H.H. 486 21                                Head III-IV, Art. 11 __________________________ H.C.H. 402 17
      Revelation  5  :9 ______________________________________ G.V.                      1 1           Head III-IV, Art. 12 _ __ _ __ __ _ _-_-_ __ ___ __ ___ --H.C.H.,  427             18
      Revelation  6:1-S  _________________________:          __________ H.H. 487 21                    Head III-IV, Art. 13 ____ __ ___ __ _-___  _-_ __ _____ H.C.H. 474 20
      Revelation  21:3-5 ___ _______________ ______ _______ ___  -G.V.             169          8       Head III-IV, Art. 14  ____________-_____  ________ H.C.H. 497 21
      Revelation  22:l ____________  - ______________  - _________ G.V. 215 10                       Christ, the Indwelling  _________-___--______________             C.H. 241 11
                                                                                                     Christ's Work, An Appraisal of  _______-.___________  G.V.                     25     2
                       INDEX  OIF SUBJECTS TREATED                                                   Church and Sacraments ___________________________ H.V. 17 1
                                           - A -                                                        Continued  ________________________________________-              H.V. 40 2
      A Bit of Correspondence  ___.   .______   1.____________._ H.H. 412 18                            Coatinued  ______.  ___________________________________ H.V.                65         3
      A Few Words ___________________________________  .W.E. 119 5                                      Continued-____..__~________~~~__~~~~~~~~._~~__~___~H.V.                   8 9   4
      Aioon and Olam ______  -  ________.___________________               H.H. 342  15                 Continued  ___________________.____________________-            H.V. 111           5
      A Letter ________________________ _________:  _________ H.H. 415 18                               Continued __________________________  1-_____________  H.V. 137                    6
     `A Little Round Church __________________________ J.A.H. 423 18                                    Coatinued- ________________________________________ H.V. 160 7
      Altar of Incense ___________________________________ C.H. 476 20                                  Continued  ___________________.____________________-            H.V. 185           8
      An Appraisal of Christ's Work  .___________________   -G.V.                  25 2                Coatinued- ________ __ ____  :--- _______  -1- __ ____ __  _ __ -H.V.      209      9
      A  New`One  for the Chaos of the Cults ____________  IM.S.                   46      2           Colntinued   ________________________________________-           H.V. 232 10
      Another Church Property Judgment _______  - _______ M.S. 144                         6           Continued  ________________________________________.             H.V. 281 12
      Antediluvian World  _- ____________________________ G.M.O. 179                       8           Cointinued   _________.______________________________-           H.V. 305 13
      As to the Gospel Invitation _________________________ H.H. 365 16                                Continued__-__-__-__------------------------------H.V.                     .326  1 4
      A Word for the Changing Seasons  _____.___________  G.V. 145                         7           Co,ntinued   ________________________________________.           H.V. 351 15
      A Year of Eternal Beauty  ___--____________________                G.V. 169          8           Continued  ________________________________________-             H.V. 377 16
                                                                                                       Continued__--  __________________-__________________            H.V. 400 17
                                           -B-                                                         Continued~___~_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~._-~~~~---~~-~~~~~~~~H.V.   4 2 5   1 8
      Barth's Lord's Prayer ________  L  _.________   _________..   _M.S.  143             6           Continued  ________________________________________-             H.V. 448 19
      Beauty, Keep It a Thing  o,f _______________________ J.A.H. 324 14                               Continued ____________________  i  _-__________________  H.V. 472 20
        Continued ______________________________________ J.A.H. 349 15                                 Continued _______________________________________ H.V. 495  21
        Continued  _____________________________:           ________ J.A.H. 375 16                   Church and State (See Church Order)
      Books, As to                                                                                   Church Membership, A Question re ________________ H.H. 391 17
        Augustinus by Dr. A. Sizoo ____________________  :H.H. 438 19                                Church Order  -
        Biblical Criticism by W.  Broomall  ________  L ____  --H.H.  439 19                           A r t .   26____________-_____~~--~-~---------------G.V.D.B.                 2 1   1
        Christ and the Church in 0.  T,. by H. A.  Hanke--H.H.  439 19                                 Art. 27 ________________________________________ G.V.D.B. 44 2
        De Filosofie van de Onbekende God                                                              Art. 27 ________________________________________ G.V.D.B.                   69 3
,         by Rev. Spier _ __ ___ __ ___ __ ___ __ __ _.__ ___ __ __ _. _ _H.H.     78      4           Art. 28 (Church and State)  ___________---____.   G.VD.B.   115,' 5
        Same as above __________________________________ H.H. 438 19                                   A r t .   28-____~________________________________--G.V.D.B.  1 4 1   6
        Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible                                                         Art. 28  _______________.________________________          G.V.D.B. 165            7
          by C. Simeon ___________  _-___..___  ____________ H.H.                  77 4                A r t .   28_________-__----__-~--------------------G.V.D.B.                1 8 9   8
        Inspiration  & Canoncity of the Bible                                                          Art. 28 _____  -  ____________,____________________..      G.V.D.B. 237 10
         .by R. L. Harris  _______________.________________              H.H. 439 19                   Art. 28 ________________________________________ G.V.D.B. 261 11
       Israel, Key to Prophecy by Wm. L. Hull _________ H.H. 440 19                                    Art. 28  ________________._______________________           G.V.D.B. 285 12
       Profeten Spiegel by  C'. W. J. Teewen ____________ H.H.                     78 4                Art.  28....-, _____________________________________ G.V.D.B. 309 13
       Waar het om Ging by Dr. C. N.  Impeta  __________ H.H. `438 19                                  Art. 29 ________________________________________ G.V.D.B. 331 14
       Zonder Toga by Rev. M. E. Voila  ___.___________  H.H. 439 19                                   Art. 29 ________________________________________ G.V.D.B. 355 15
                                                                                                       Art. 30  __________--________.------------.:   -_____  G.V.D.B. 381 16
                                          -C-                                                          Art. 30 _______  -  _____________.__________________       G.V.D.B. 404 17
     Calling of the Minister of the Gospel-:  ______' ____ G.M.O. 441 19                               Art. 30 ________________________________________ G.V.D.B.  429 18'
     Canons of Dordrecht  -                                                                            Art. 30  ----------------,-----------------------  G.V.D.B. 453 19
       Head III-IV, Art. 1 (Introd.)  __-________________  H.C.H.                  18  1               Art.  3d.________~~~.._~~~~__~~~~~~~~~~~~...~_~~~~G.V.D.B.                454 19
       Head III-IV, Art. 1 _______  :- ___________________ H.C.H..  .20                    1         Circumcision and Baptism, Question on _______ - _____ H.H. 222 10
       Head III-IV, Art. 1 _________ ___ ________________ H.C.H.  .42                     2          Common Grace, On the Theory of  --___-___________  H.H. 202                          9
       Head III-IV, Art. 1  ---~____--__-______________  H.C.H.  ,67 3                                 Continued ____________________________________  ----H.H. 223  10
       Head III-IV, Art. 2 _____________________  --r`---H.C.H.                    91 4              Compulsory Retirement  .of Office  Bearers_----G.V.D.B.  44 2
       Head III-IV, Art. 3  _______---___-_____________  H.C.H. 113 5                                Confusion of Tongues  _____-------   -  ----__________  G.M.O. 344 15
       Head III-IV, Art. 4 ___________________________ H.C.H. 139                         6,. Congregational Meetings and Woman  Suffrage..----M.S.   3.83 34
       Head III-IV, Art. 4 _________________________  --H.C.H.  187  .8                              Contending for the Faith (See Church  & Sacraments)
       Head III-IV, Art. 4 _ ___ __ __--_ _-_ __ __ _ __ _____ -H.C.H.            211     9          Contributioas :
       Head  ,III-IV,  Art 5  __-_____--_________________ H.C.H. 212  9                               A Few Words  _------~------------_______________               W.E. 119             5


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                       SUBJECT                                  Author      Page `No.                          SUBJECT                                   Author    Page No.
  Answer to T.  Feenstra-:___________   I _________  -_-B.M.   5011 21                                                          -F-
  Let Us Have Things Straight ___________________ T.F. 480 20                              F e a t u r e   A r t i c l e s :
  M i s s i o n a r y   N o t e s   _________________,__~~---~--~---G.L.   4 8   2           Altar of Incense ________  -  __________._____________  C.H. 476  20
    Continued ____________________  r _________________ G.L. 335 14                          Calling of the Minister of the Gospel ____ _ ______ G.M.O. 441 19
    Continued  ..____________________________________               G.L. 360 15              Multiformity  o.f the Church ________________ H. Hanko 248 11
  News from  Doon  ____________.__________________               J.V.T. 119        5         Continued ________________ ____ - _____________ H. Hanko 271 12
  Report of Eastern Ladies League ____________________  405 17                              .Old Age Pension  _____.________-_.________________ C.H. 213                    9
  Report  o,f Western Ladies League ______________  - _____ 408 17                           On the Theory  o'f Common Grace ____ ____  :_______  H.H. 202 `9
  T,he Centennial of the Chr. Ref. Church _______  -_S.D.V.  336 14                          Continued  ____.___.____________________________              .-H.H.  223 10
  We welcome you?                 ________--__-_-______________ K.E. 4808  2 0               Public Confession  QuesTions   - ____________________ R.V. 256 11
Correspondence With A Baptist Minister __________ M.S. 167                         7         Significance of the Candlesticks ____________ H. Hanko  450 19
Covenant With Noah ________________ ___________ G.M.O. 153                         7         Significance of Table of Shewbread  __.._____._.__  E.E. 419 18
Crumbs from the Master's Table ________  :____   -_---M.S;  239 10                           Symbolism of Metals in Old Testament __________ R:H. 357 15
Current Thoughts on Church. and State ____________ M.S. 334 14                               The Church  & State in Light of Art. 36  _________..  MS. 300 13
                                                                                             T,he Four Kinds of Soil  _____..____________.  H. Hanko 162                    7
                                       -D-                                                   The Lion In The Old Testament  ___._____..__.  G. Lant. 320 14
                                                                                           First Creation Days  __~  ___________.__________   - ____  -M.S.         23      1
Daane vs. Van Til on Offer and 1924 _______________ MS. 191                        8       Free Masonry  -  __._____________-'   --__.______________  M.S.          46      2
Diaconate and Other Almoners _______________ G.V.D.B.                        21 1          Free Offer (See under "Offer")
Divorce, Unbiblical and Remarriage _______________ H.H.                       5 1
  Colntinued   _________________________:          _______________ H.H.      29    2                                            -G-
  Continued  ________________________________________.                H.H. 52 3            Getting Past the Preacher  _______________._________  M.S. 383 16
  Continued  _________.______________________________.                H.H. 76 4            Giving In His Fear  _  _______.__________  ____ -- _____ J.A.H.          38 2
  Colntinued  ____________ _: _________.  _________.________.  H.H. 100             5        Continued _______________________________________ J.A.H.               63 3
  Continued ____________:  ____________________________ H.H. 12.5                  6         Continued ______________________________________  - J.A.H.             87 4
  Continued..--- _________________  - ___________________ H.H. 148                 7         Continued  __._________________________       I __________ J.A.H. 109 5
  Cointinued  ____  - _________________________ - ______ ---.H.H.           L72    8         Continued ________  - ____  -  ________________.._______     J.A.H. 135 6
Doctrinal Sensitivity _____..______  r--.  ________ ______ M.S. 287 12                       Continued____-_________.-._--_____---____-______J.A.H.                158. 7
  Continued __________________________ ________ ______ M.S. 311 13                         God's Requirements  _________.______________________            G.V. 409 18
Doo'n,  News from  ____________-___________________              J.V.T. 119 5              Golgotha in Prospect _ ___ __ _- - -- -__ __ _ _ __ _. __ ___ __ -G.V. 361 16
                                                                                           Gospel Invitation, As to the  ________..__________  -__H.H.             365 16
                                       -E-                                                 Graham and the N. Y. City Campaign ______________ M.S. 406 17
Ecclesiastical Assemblies _______________________ G.V.D.B. 331 14                                                               -H-
  Continued  __________________-.________________            G.V.D.B. 355 15               Hoeksema's Deistic Tendency Must Be  Rebuked--..M.S.  117 5
Editorials :
  A Bit of  Correspoadence  ________________________ H.H. 412 18                                                                -I-
  As to the Gospel Invitation  ----__~_______-_-_~   I--H.H. 365 16                        In, His Fear  -
  A Letter  -----------------------------------------H.H.                   415 18           A Little Round Church _________________________ J.A.H. 423 18
  Congratulations Plus  ______--_____________________              G.V.      54    3         Giving In His Fear (See under "Giving")
  Election and  Reprombation  (See under "Election")                                         Keep It a Thing of Beauty (See under "Beauty")
  Free Offer (See under "Offer")                                                             Living as the Lord Wills  __-___________: ____  .---J.A:H.            446 19
  Is Kuiper Coming My Way? _ ____ __ __ __ __ ____ __ -H.H.                 414 18           Living as the Lord Wills ______________________ J.A.H. 470 20
  No Good                          ____.______________: H.H.
                                          --__________________.             392 ,17          Praying In His Fear  _  __- _______________________ J.A.H.             1.5 1
  No,t Surprised H.H.
                       ________--___--____________________                  412 18           Respect and Obedience (See under "Respect")
  Olam and Aioon _ _____ __ _ __ __ - __ ___ __ ___ __ _ _ _____ _H.H. 342 15                Showing the Coming Generation God's  Praises--J.A.H.                  493 21
  Persecutioa  in Hungary H.H.
                                    __________________________              365 16           Trained For What and By Whom  ---I __________ J.A.H. 398 17
  Question Box  ------------------------------------H.H.                    391 17         Interesting Quotations and Interesting  Changes----M.S.                 478 20
  Strange                - ____________ H.H.
                ------------------------.-----                               52     3      Interesting Quotation,  Mo~re~~--~~~~~~~~~~~~________M.S.               499 21
  Unbiblical Divorce  a.nd Remarriage (See under "Divorce")
  The Letter H.H.
                   _______________________________________                  436 19                                              -.I-
Elders and Deacons G.V.D.B.
                           ____________________________                      44     2      Jesus Before Pilate ___________________  r  _________.__  G.V. 265 12
  Continued G.V.D.B.
                  ____________-_____--________________                       69     3
Election and Reprobation ________________  I________  H.H.                    4 1                                               -K-
  Continued H.H.
                 __________.______---____________________-                   28     2      Keep It a Thing of Beauty (See under "Beauty")
  Coatinued ________________________________________  -H.H.                  53     3      King, Forsaken ___________ _________________________ G.V. 288 13
  Continued  ________________________________________-              H.H.     76     4      Kuiper Coming My Way, Is? . ____ _ _____ ___ __ __ ___ _H.H.            414 18
  Continued H.H.
                 ________._______________________________-                  101     5 '
  Continued ________.___-___________________________               .H.H.    124     6                                           -L-
  Continued-:  -______.__-__________________________            -.H.H. 149          7      Leper, Wondrous Cure of _ __ _ __ ___ __ __ _ __ _._ __ __ _ -G.V.       73 4
  Continued  _________.__-___________________________.              H.H. 173        8      Letter, A - _____ ~ _________ i _________._______________        H.H. 415 18
  Continued  ________________________________________-              H.H. 220 10            Letter, The  ---i  _________.__________________________          H.H. 436 19
  Continued  ____________-___________________________-               H.H.  3&Q 17          Living as the Lord Wills _________________________ J.A.H. 446 19
Exposition -of the Canons (See Canons of Dordrecht) .                                      Living as the Lord Wills  _____--_____---___--_____   J:A.H.  470 20


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                                      SUBJECT                                Author     Page No.                          S U B J E C T                            Author     Page No.
                                                   .-M-                                                                                    -Q-
           Major and Minor Assemblies  ___________-______  G.V.D.B. 429 18                              Question Box:
      ,         Continued  __________.___._ ____  _ _______  - _____  _G.V.D.B. 453 19                    Question on Circumcision and Baptism ____  - ______ H.H. 222 10
           Meditations  o,f Uncle Mike  ______.___________   --_-_--M.S.   263 11                         Question on I Corinthians  1529   ___________.  _____  H.H: 294 13
           Meditations :                                                                                  Question on Church Membership  -:------  _____  L_-H.H.  391 17
                An, Appraisal of Christ's Work __________________ G.V.                    25 2            .Question on Church Visitation _ -__ _- -_- __ __ -:-,--  -H.H. 462 20
                A Questing Offspring ____________________________ G.V. 481 21                             Question on Matthew 18  ________._' ________  - _____ H.H. 221 10  *.
                A Word for the Changing of the Seasons _____ ___  -G.V. 145                       7          Continued ______  ~-_---_----  ____  -_- ______________ H.H. 293 13
                A Year of Eternal Beauty  ____________.__________  G.V. 169                       8       ,Question on Punishing the  Reprobate'_-_--_---_-H.H.  245 11
                Golgotha in Prospect  ___________.   ___._________.___ G.V. 361 16                           Continued ______________________________________ H.H.  26,9 12.
                God's Requirements _ __ _ __ ___ __ __- __ ___ __ ___ _- - _ -G.V. 409 18.                   Continued _____________  - ________________________ H.H. 295 13,
           Jesus Before Pilate  ___--  ___.....________________   -G.V. 265 12                            Question on Polygamy ___________________________ H.H. 391 17
                Our Reliable Weapon ____________________________ C.H. 49 3
                Resurrection from, the Dead  ___________________._  G.V. 337 15                                                            -R-
                Reviling the Dying Christ _______________________ G.V. 313 14                           Reformed Faith and Arminianism _________________ M.S. 455 19
                Salvatioa Through Crime ___________________  .____.  G.V. 385 17                        Refusal, T.he-  Great _- _______________________________ G.V. 433 19
                Thanksgiving  --------------------_________________c.V.                   97      5     Remarriage and Unbiblical Divorce (See under "Divorce")
                T,he Forsaken- King.  _________; ____________________ G.V. 288 13                       Respect and Obedience __________________________ J.A.H. 183 8
                The Great Refusal ________________________________ G.V. 433 19                            Continued  .___________.__________________________         J.A.H. 207      9
                The Indwelling Christ ____________________________ C.H. 241 11                            Continued _______________________________________ J.A.H. 230  10
                The New Song ____  -_---------.   ._______________.__ G.V.                  1      1      Continued _________  - ____________________________ J.A.H. 254 11
                The Restoration of the Soul  ________________.____  G.V. 193                      9       Continued  ___________________.  ______  - _____________ J.A.H. 279 `12
                The River of the Water of Life  ______________.__  G.V. 215  10                         Resurrection from the Dead _______________________ G.V. 337 15
                The' Wise Men of the East  --:  ___________.__.._._   G.V: 121                    6     Review of Perfect Prayer, ____________________  -_-_-_M.S.  406 17
                The Wondrous Cure of the Leper _______________ G.V.                       73 4          Reviling the Dying Christ ___________________  - ____  -G.V.  313,  14
            Mission Activities in the Prot. Ref.  Churches-----MS.   94 4                               Rising Strength of Christianity  _________________i_  M.S. 333 14
            More Interesting Quotations  _________________.____  M.S. 499 21
           Multiformity of the Church  ____I _______________ H. Hanko 248 11                                                               -s-
                Continued ____ ____________  ____________.  ______ H.  Hank08  271                12
                                                                                                        Sacraments, (See under "Church  &. Sacraments")
                                                   - N -   .                                            Salvation Through Crime _ ___ _. ___ __ ___ __ ___ __ ___ --_G.V.     385 17
           Noah, Covenant With ___________________________ G.M.O. 153 7                                 Seasons, A Word for the Change of _____________  _--G.V.              145    7
                                                                                                        Significance of the Candlesticks  _____:  ________ H. Hanko 450 19
                                                   -o-                                                  Significance of the Table of Shewbread  _____:_______  E.E. 419 18
                                                                                                        Song, A New ______________ ___-__________._.________ G.V.               1    1
           Obedience and Respect (See under "Respect")                                                  Soul, The Restoration of the _______________________ G.V. 193                9.
           O f f e r ,   .Free  __________________--________________         :_--H.H.  196 9            Sundry Matters on Art. 28  _____.._____________ G.V.D.B. 309 13
                Continued __________  :____________________---------,           H.H. 244 13             Symboaism of Metals in the Old  Testament_------..R.H.                357 15
                Continued-.---  __ __ _ __ __ _ __ __ _ __ _____ ___ __ ___ __ ___ -.H.H. 268 -12
                Continued _____  :--------------------------,-------.-.  H.H. 292 13
                Continued  _____._:  ____________________________  I____.  H.H. 316 14                                                     -T-
                Continued ____ -- _______ -- ____________  ?__-;-__-   ____.  H.H. 340 15               Thanksgiving -------------------  I_____   ._____________  G.V. 97 5
                Continued-. ____  ___- ____ ___________________  --_  ____.  H.H. 364 16                The Church and State in Light of Article  34_------M.S.  300 13
                Continued  ___________________.__________________             --.H.H. 388 17            The Four Kinds of Soil  ___--  __.______________  H. Hanko 162               7
                Continued ______________________________________  --.H.H.  460 20                       The Lion In The Old Testament-- _____________ G. Lant.  32Cl 14
 C o n t i n u e d   --`_____________________________________                 H . H .   4 8 4   2 1     Tongues, Confusion of  ------------.---.-----------  G.M.O. 344 15
           Offer of the Gospel and Accepting Christ __________ M.S.                       71      3     Trained For What and  B.y Whom _________________ J.A.H. 398 17
                Continued  _________________-______________________               M.S. 93  4
           Offspring, A Questing _____________________________ G.V. 481 21
           Olam and Aioon _ __ _ __ _____ __ - -_ ___ ._ .__ __ __ _ -:_--  -H.H. 342 15                Wade To Go To Guam ___ _ ._ ___ ____ _ __ ___ __ _____ __ -M.S.       143    6
           Old Age Pension ___________________________________  C.H.' 213                         9     Water of Life, River of the  _- ______________________ G.V. 215 10
           On The Theory of Common Grace ___________  - ____ H.H. 202                             9     Weapon, Our Reliable  ________--____________________            C.H. 49 3
                Continued ___________________________  - ___________ H.H. 223 10                        What od the Godless? _______________________  - ______  M.S; 333 14
                                                                                                        Wise Men of the East _____________________________ G.V. 121                  6

                                                                                                                                           -Y-
           Pathos of Hungarian Protestantism ________________  MS. 191                            8
           Persecution in Hungary ___ ______________________  -_H.H.  365 16                            Year of Eternal Beauty ___________________________ G.V.  169 8
           Perseverance of the Saints ________________________ M.S. 215' 9
           ,Praying  in His Fear ___-__- ____ __________________ J.A.H.                   15 1                                             -z-
           President Signs Clergy Fares Bill ________________  -M.S.  24 1                              Zechariah, Prophecy of. _____ _:--.. ___ __ __ __ ____ __  -G.M.O.
           Prof. Berkhof Passes _____________________________ M.S.  406 17.                               (See Text Index under "Zechariah")
           Prophecy of Isaiah  (9:1Ob-13)  ___________________ G.M.O.  488 21
           Public Confession Questions _______________________ R.V. 256 11                                                                      Index by  Re:.  G.  Vanden  Berg


