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     I    A   R E F 'O R M E D   S E M I - M O N T H L Y   M A G A Z I N E



          IN THIS ISSUE:


                 Meditation  - Abraham's Calling Respecting His Children


I               Editorials  - Rev. Herman Hoeksema 1886-1965


                Danger In Delay


                Wars and Rumors of Wars


                Our Reasonable Service



                                                     Volume  XLI/  Number   21/ September 15, 1965


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                                                                  ABRAHAM'S CALLING RESPECTING HIS CHILDREN

                                                                                                                            Rev. M.  Schippev

                                                       "For I know him, that he will  command  his  childven and his household
                                                      after him, and they shall keep the way  of  the  Lovd,  to do justice and
                                                      judgment;  that the  Lord may  bring  upon  Abraham that which he hath
                                                      spoken  of  him."                                                                                           Genesis  l&19

         For I know him !                                                                                                               knowledge: "For whom he did foreknow, he also did
         That is the very basis for Abraham's calling!                                                                                  predestinate to be conformed unto the image of his
         God knows Abraham !                                                                                                            Son." And, lest we should conclude that this concept is
         How often the Scriptures speak of this knowledge of                                                                            to be found only in the New Testament, we remind our-
God!              Jesus was very conscious of this when He said,                                                                        selves of that beautiful passage in Amos  3:2, "You
"As the Father knowethme, even so know I the Father."                                                                                   only have I known of all the families of the earth."
J o h n   10:15.                       The apostle Paul writes to Timothy:                                                              And so it is also in our text, "For I know him," that
"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure,having                                                                                is, Abraham.
this seal: the Lord  ,knoweth them that are his. .  ." II                                                                                  And always this knowledge must be conceived of
Timothy 2: 19.                            And  again,  in Romans  8:29 we read of                                                       as not only pertaining to mere intellectual perception,
this knowledge with the added notion of it being a fore-                                                                                a knowledge obtainable by coming into contact with


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the person (s) or thing that is seen; but it is a knowledge       Abraham's calling is with respect to his children
that conceives. It is a divine knowledge that creates.         and his household! These are the God-given children
It is causal in character. God, we must understand,            to Abraham, which includes not only Isaac, but also
does not know or foreknow simply because He sees               Isbmael and the sons of  Keturah. It included his entire
beforehand what a person or thing will be or do. Such          household, the servants bought with money, and the
a conception of God is not only superficial, but also          children born to these servants. As far as the covenant
God-dishonoring.      That is the conception of Arminian-      calling of believers is concerned, Scripture never
ism.        It dethrones God! Accordingly, the creature        allows them to make distinction in their children. All
determines God rather than, as the Scriptures always           who are born in the sphere of the covenant must be
maintain, God determines the creature! Indeed, the             commanded.          And all must receive the sign of the
knowledge of God is sovereign, free, causal! That means        covenant.      In Abraham's day, it was circumcision.
it is first. Whatever God sees after He knows is the           Today, it is baptism.
result of His knowledge.                                           Abraham must command all these to keep the way
    And this means also that of necessity this knowledge       of Jehovah!
of God is eternal! It is the knowledge of His eternal             Not their own way may they keep! It lies in the
counsel, which is also sovereign and free! He knows            very nature of a child that it wants to go its own way,
with sovereign wisdom the end from the beginning!              the way of its sinful nature! They must be instructed
    Nor should we conceive of this knowledge of God as         not to keep their own ways, but the way of the Lord!
some hard, tyrannical emotion. It is not a cold con-           That is the way of God's covenant, the way of faith and
ception of His mind, but it is a knowledge that throbs         obedience!        In the final analysis, it is the way of the
with divine love. It is the knowledge of fellowship, of        cross of Christ to glory!
friendship.      So, God knew Abraham, and so, also, He           Moreover, Abraham must command them to do
knows all His people, as well as all things !                  righteousness and judgment! Not is it his calling to
    Abraham is the object of this divine knowledge!            make them better citizens of their country. This, they
And- Abraham is the friend of God. Thus the prophet            will become automatically when they are properly in-
Isaiah speaks of him in Isaiah  41:8, "But thou, Israel,       structed in righteousness and judgment. This righteous-
art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of          ness and judgment is not a certain civil righteous and
Abraham, my friend." James writes: "And the  Scrip-            judgment, but it is the righteousness and judgment of
.ture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God,         the kingdom of heaven. It is the righteousness of God
and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he          in Christ.        It is a judgment that hates sin and flees
was called the Friend of God." James  2~23. Abraham            from it because it loves the righteousness of God and
is also called the father of all-believers. In Galatians       His truth!
3:7 Paul writes: "Know ye therefore that they which               For the realization of his calling, Abraham has
are of the- faith, the -same are the children of Abra-         God-given authority!          He is the father of his own
ham." And when our text declares, "For1 know him,"             home.        His word must be heeded and his command
it also includes all his spiritual children. This means        must be obeyed.         Abraham must do this alone. The
in the first instance: Christ, Who, according to Paul          text says: "I know  he  will command." 0, yes, also
in Galatians  3:16, is the seed of Abraham. And in the         Sarah will and must command, but even her authority
last verse of this chapter he says to us: "And if ye be        rests in that of her husband, whom she also must and
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs ac-            does call her lord. Abraham must command continu-
cording to the promise." All, therefore, who are of            ally! When he lies down, and when he rises up, in the
Abraham, of his seed, God knows. Them He knows                 home  -and by the way! Never may he cease to realize
causally, eternally, sovereignly, in love !                    this calling. And as far as Abraham is concerned this
   This divine, eternal, causal, sovereign knowledge           implies two things: that Abraham know the way of the
in love is the very foundation of the covenant! The            Lord himself, and that he instruct his children first of
covenant relation of friendship flows out of this divine       all in the way of the Lord before he can command them
knowledge.       God did not only cause Abraham and his        to walk in it.
spiritual seed to come into being, but He had eternal             How important it is for us to understand that this
purposes of love and friendship with that covenant             Scripture was written for our instruction, upon whom
people. In that covenant relation God willed to glorify        the ends of the world have come !
,them  with His own glory. This He would do through               This Scripture implies that the work of instruction
the deep way of the cross and the resurrection of Jesus.       and the authority to command rests primarily and ul-
He would so bring them to the state of eternal righteous -     timately with the parents. It does not rest with the
ness and holiness! Unto that He knew them and chose            State. The State has authority only to hold the sword,
them from before the foundation of the world!                  and the right to punish-those parents who fail to heed
   And this relationship brings with it the covenant           the commandment of our text. It has the right to take
calling!                                                       those children neglected by their parents and cause
   The text says: "For I know him  that he will .  ."          them to be instructed as it sees fit. But the State never
It does not say: "I know him  because  he will," but:          has the right to take my children by force to instruct
"I know him  in  order that, to the  end  that  he will."      them when `I am faithful to the Word of God in our text.
There is purpose in God's knowledge. And the purpose           Christian parents have absolutely no right, according
is that Abraham must command his children.                     to the Word of God, to  intrust  their children to the


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State for their instruction. Also, let it be emphasized,        filling his calling. He did not need to hire teachers to
no parent has the right to  intrust  the instruction of         instruct his children in those verities he desired them
their children to any other teacher than himself. This          to learn. In our day God has given us institutions of
does not mean that no one else may instruct them, but           learning that are owned and controlled by groups of
it does mean that their instruction will always be only         Christian parents where we may instruct our children
that which the parents command them to teach.                   and cause them  ,to be instructed to the utmost of our
       It necessarily follows that the instruction our chil-    power according to our calling.            Our teachers are
dren receive must be only Christian!                            those who fear God, and who walk in that fear. Their
       But that cannot mean the so-called three R's:            instruction is exactly what the parents command them
"Readin -- `Ritin' --and  `Rithmetic," plus a little Bible.     to teach: to keep the way of the Lord, to do justice
No, the instruction must be permeated with the Scrip-           and judgment. To send our children to these schools
tures.      We have not the space here to demonstrate           and under this instruction requires sacrifice to be sure!
this.     But let it be emphasized that so the instruction      It costs time, effort, and money. But Christian parents
must be. In the home, in the church, and in the school,         will not hesitate before any obstacle to fulfill their
Christian parents will see to it that their children re-        God-given calling. Out of the assurance that God knows
ceive this through Christian instruction that is in             them in love, and calls them in obedience to His cove-
complete harmony with the doctrines of their faith!             nant, they will to instruct their children unto the ut-
       The purpose of this instruction is not, as we al-        most of their power. They will gladly sacrifice all to
ready suggested, and as it is often claimed to be, that         attain to this divine calling, the purpose of which is
our children be made better Christian citizens, or for          also expressed in the text.
making a better Christian America. America is not                  That the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which
Christian. America cannot be made Christian, neither            He hath spoken of him !
is it the business of Christian parents, or of Christian
Schools to make it so. The calling of Christian parents,           And what did the Lord speak? What did He say
and the purpose of Christian instruction is to command          concerning Abraham?
our children to keep the way of the Lord, and to do                His promise! His covenant promise!
justice and judgment. Our calling is to train our chil-            All the blessings of His covenant, signed and
dren to be citizens of the kingdom of heaven. Our               sealed in the holy sacrament, of circumcision, of
children must be taught to say: this world is not my            baptism! For us, this means all the blessings of salva-
home, I have here no abiding place; but I seek the city         tion merited for us by Jesus Christ, the Seed of God's
which has foundations, whose Builder and Maker is               covenant!
God. They must be taught that they are strangers and               It is, therefore, in the way of covenant faithfulness
pilgrims here below, that they are not to set their af-         that God will bless His people! I know Abraham that
fections on the things below, but on the things above.          he will command his children and his household after
Positively, they must learn to use the things of this           him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do
world only as stepping stones to reach the heavenly             justice and judgment, in order that in that way the
city.      Undoubtedly, the best citizens of our country        Lord may bring upon Abraham all that He hath spoken
will be those who are best trained to walk according to         of him. Exactly in that way, in the way of obedience
the laws of the kingdom of heaven!                              to our covenant mandate as it is fulfilled by Christ
       Impossible calling, you say?                             and sanctified unto us, shall we experience what God
       Impossible to realize this calling in our complex        has laid up in store and promised to them that love
world?                                                          Him !
       Indeed we may freely grant that the world of Abra-          Never take lightly this calling and its obligations!
ham's day was not nearly as complicated as it is today.            Blessed is that people whose God is the Lord, and
We may also grant that Abraham no doubt had much                who serve Him faithfully in His covenant. They and
more time and opportunity than parents have today.              their children shall not only see the light of eternal
He did not need a Christian School to aid him in  ful-          day, but they shall walk in it forever!





                                  REVEREND HERMAN HOEKSEMA 1886-1965

                                                   Pyof. H. C. Hoeksema

       My copy for this issue was not all ready yet when        life, which is nothing but a continual death, into the
the tidings came early this morning, September 2,               glory of the inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled,
.that the Lord had granted my beloved father the desire         and that fadeth never away.
of his  heart9 that he would be delivered from this                His  departures  though painful for and mourned by


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his dear ones and by all of us who came to know him                     Secondly, we shall certainly not vainly indulge in
as pastor, teacher, and friend, was not unexpected.                 singing the praises of a mere man, even though he
For several months already the Lord had removed                     occupied apparently so large a place in the life of our
him from his active labors in our churches, and par-                churches and in the labors of God's kingdom. The
ticularly in his beloved First Church. Besides, he him-             man whose loss we mourn himself never tired of re-
self had expressed the wish, when he was losing his                 minding us that mere sinful man is nothing, while
ability to communicate a couple of months ago, that "I              God is all.
hope it won't be long."          And now the Lord has de-               Thirdly, we shall give thanks to our God for all
livered him. Last Sunday we at First Church prayed                  that He has  Igiven us through the almost fifty years of
that when we could no longer reach him, the Lord                    labor of this beloved and faithful servant who has now
might reach him with his Spirit and grace to comfort                been called home.
him.    Well, the Lord certainly answered that prayer.                  And, finally, let us even at this occasion be re-
He reached him and called him home.                                 minded by way of example to labor while it is day, ere
   And what shall we say?                                           the night cometh in the which no man can work.
   First of all, even in our grief we shall rejoice and                 Burial services were scheduled for the afternoon
give thanks to Him Who does all things well and Who                 of Saturday, September 4, at the First Protestant Re-
answered our prayers.                                               formed Church, with the Rev. M.  Schipper  officiating.


                                           RIGHT, BUT  DEA'D WRONG

                                                             (5)
                                   REDEMPTIVE-REDEEMING HOCUS POCUS

                                                     (Continued)

                                                 Pyof. H. C. Hoeksema

The Hocus Pocus Method                                              articles also, of course.          But for the present let me
   Hocus  pocus is magic!                                           point out some of the main elements in his devious
   It is sleight of hand, the following of a trick and a            theological meanderings:
devious method and means, in order to make what is                      1.. He furnishes no definition (Scriptural or other-
not true appear as true, to make it appear that what                wise) of redemption, redemptive, redeeming, and atone-
has not happened has indeed happened, or what has not               ment.    Instead he immediately proceeds to discuss the
been proved has indeed been proved.                                 whole matter of redemptive-but-not-redeeming love
   In exegesis it is the following of a devious method              with 1924 as the referrant.
whereby the end is attained of making a text say ex-                   .2. He makes the fundamental question that of the
actly the opposite of what it says. Thus, for example,              r9urtuve  of  God's love."          While it cannot be denied
hocus  pocus is the method whereby Scripture is made                that in this entire discussion there are very serious
to say, "Esau have I loved too," whereas it actually                implications with respect to the  nature of God's love,
says, "Esau have I hated."                                          and while certainly careful attention to and definition
   In theology (which, if sound, is based on exegesis)              of the nature of God's love would be beneficial with
it is the same. It is the use of and following of devious           respect to this entire question, nevertheless the fun-
reasoning in order  tomake an untrue theological prop-              damental question is thus avoided and by  hocus  POCUS
osition appear to be true, or to make an unproved                   disappears from the discussion.            That question is:
position appear to be proved.                                       who are the objects of God's love? In logic this is the
                                                                    error of begging the question, i.e., assuming what
Dy. Duane's Hocus Pocus                                             ought to be proved. Daane assumes that God loves all
   I maintain that Dr. Daane is guilty of such hocus                men,  - something which no one can ever prove; and
p o c u s .                                                         proceeding on this assumption, he devotes his attention
   Actually, of course, 1924 was guilty of the same                 only to the `question whether there are two loves or
kind of theological  hocus  pocus: for the First Point              one.
ends with the contradictory proposition that God is                    3. He divorces the nature of God from God's free-
gracious to those whom He eternally hates, namely,                  dom or sovereignty. This is indeed  hocus  pocus. But
the reprobate.    And the fact that Daane proceeds on               it is worse than that: it is a flagrant denial of God's
the basis of 1924 undoubtedly explains the fact that he             simplicity, according to which all God's attributes are
also follows this method. Only, in Daane's case it is               one in Him. You ask: but does Dr. Daane actually do
more emphatic. I will limit myself to his writings in               this? He assuredly does. Listen: "But notice that if
the last part of his November, 1964 article for the time            we think of the  nature of God (not of His freedom or
being, He continues to follow this method in subsequent             sovereignty). . . . . . . .  ."     I ask: how can any  Re-


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formed theologian think of the nature of God and ex-           permissible to look beyond their sin and unbelief."
clude from that thinking God's freedom or sovereignty?         Now it is fine to speak in broad terms of "the biblical
       4. He from the outset ignores and eliminates from       perspective." But Dr. Daane should offer clear Biblical
the discussion completely God's sovereign counsel or           proof in speaking of this perspective. Let him show us
decrees.      This follows, of course, from the preceding      from Scripture that this is true, and let him do so by
point.     But how different the entire picture would  ap-     dealing with every Scripture passage that touches on
pear if Dr. Daane had raised this question: Granting           this lostness of the lost and upon their sin and un-
that God is in a real sense the God of all men, how can        belief,     What he writes here is mere assumption.
God be true to His counsel if in fact He does not save         And it is an assumption which he can never prove. It
all men?        This question is very simple to answer:        is  hocus pocus.
because it is not His counsel to save all men. Instead             6. Finally, all that Dr. Daane writes about the true
the doctor raises this question: "How can God be               purpose and end of Christian theology is not only a
true to His nature, how can He be what He is, the God          mixture of truth and half truth; but as far as the issue
of all men, if in fact He does not save all men?"              under discussion is concerned, it is  hocus pocus.  The
       5. He obviously wants to eliminate from the dis-        doctor takes us far afield, and he deals in all kinds of
cussion especially the doctrine of sovereign reproba-          generalities.      But he never addresses himself to the
tion.      For, having divorced God's sovereignty from         real issue, never proves his many assumptions from
God's nature, he proceeds to write further: "Nor is it         Scripture, never proceeds exegetically, and never
permissible within the biblical perspective to make the        really proceeds confessionally.
nature of God the referrant that explains the lostness            But, of course, hocus pocus never wants to "get
of the lost, for within the biblical perspective it is  im-    down to brass tacks."


                                                   DANGER IN DELAY

                                                   Pvof. H. C. Hoeksema

       There are times in life when there is danger in too     fundamental issues could there be than that? The
much'speed.                                                    questions at stake are concerned with the very heart
       There are also times when there is certainly danger     of the gospel and the very foundations of the whole
in delay.                                                      structure of the Reformed truth.
       When one's house is afire, it is surely dangerous           It is safe to say, therefore, that the ecclesiastical
to delay calling the fire department, for example.             house of the Christian Reformed Church as a  Reformed
       The same is true ecclesiastically speaking. When        denomination is in danger, in danger of being destroyed
one's ecclesiastical house is in danger of destruction,        down to its very foundation stones. As an institution,
it is certainly dangerous to delay taking the proper           comparatively large and influential and growing, it may
measures to preserve it. If such measures are too              seem to be in no particular danger; but as a  Reformed
long delayed, that house will certainly topple.                denomination, the Christian Reformed denomination is
       This is the danger for the Christian Reformed           in mortal danger.
Church from the delay in dealing with what has come                Why, then, the delay?
to be known as the "Dekker. Case."            Actually, of         That there has been and is delay is evident. Let
course, there is not really a Dekker Case; for there           us remember that the Dekker Case is almost three
is no protest or appeal pending before Synod's com-            years old already.        Once, at the Synod of 1963, the
mittee ad  hoc,  but only an overture and a mandate to         attempt to bring it to the attention of the churches
investigate or study.      Hence, in the technical sense       failed utterly.      In 1964 a study committee was ap-
there is no "case" against Prof. Dekker. Nevertheless          pointed.    Since that time nothing has been done. The
the issues created in part by Prof. Dekker (and in no          1965 Synod passed without a reportfrom this committee
small part, of course, by the Christian Reformed               and without any action on the case. The denominational
Church's own Three Points of 1924) are very really             publications make no reference to the matter.
before the churches and before Synod's' study com-                 Will this committee perhaps take as many years
mittee. These issues are fundamental. Very simply              for its study as Dr. Daane suggests? I was afraid of
put, they are these: 1) Whom does God love, all men or         this when Synod set no deadline for the committee and
only His elect? 2) For whom did Christ die, for all            when it was suggested from the floor at the 1964 Synod
men or only for His elect?                                     that the committee need not report at the 1965 Synod.
       Any Reformed man will detect at once that these             I do not know what reasons may or may not have
issues are fundamental.                                        been given for this delay. Nor do I know the motives
       Besides, Prof. Dekker has connected these issues,       behind it, whether fear of a show-down, deliberate in-
-- quite properly, I may add, -with the matter of the          tent to stall, or a naive and mistaken attempt to be
church's proclamation of the gospel. The question,             fair.
therefore,     is: what must be preached by Christian              I do know this, that the house is afire.
Reformed ministers and missionaries? And what more                 I know this also, that there is delay.


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   And I know this, that the delay is dangerous in the          in two words:  the elect!
extreme.      The fires of Arminianism have been kindled             This is the only Reformed, the only true, answer to
and are blazing fiercely.                                       both of the <questions at stake in the Dekker Case.
   Nor are the issues so complex that the delay can                  There is only one element that is amazing,  tragic-
be justified.                                                    ally amazing, about the whole lamentable history of
   The only complexities there are have been  artifi-           the Dekker Case. That is this, that in a denomination
cially created by the Three Points, with reference to            of a Reformed name these matters can even be called
which the study committee's mandate was plainly                  in question.
written.                                                             Would that the Christian Reformed constituency,
   But for a Reformed man who knows Scripture, who              ministers and members, whose hearts still beat warmly
loves the truth as it is set  forthin our confessions, and      for the Reformed faith would become aroused  suffi-
who is in thorough agreement with Dordrecht's  dec-              ciently to be valiant for the truth!
larations? The answer is simple, and it can be stated                The delay must end, or it will surely prove fatal.


                                                 E D I T O R I A L   B R I E F S

                                                 Prof. H. C. Hoeksema

Volume 41 Completed                                             `. Young People's Convention
   This issue of our  Standard  Beaver  completes an-                Although perhaps the joys of the convention were
other volume; and although this is not a "special"               at least temporarily forgotten within a couple hours
anniversary, we nevertheless wish to take note of this           after the last strains of "God Be With You Till We
fact with thanksgiving to our God, Who has brought  US           Meet Again" faded away, due to the violent storm
hitherto.                                                        which struck the Chicago area that night, and although
    In connection with the completion of this volume,
your attention is called to the following:                       Beacon Lights  will undoubtedly carry a complete re-
                                                                 port of convention activities, I nevertheless wish to
    1) In this issue you will find the index of the entire       take note in the 
volume. A word of thanks is due to the Rev. G.  Vanden                                  Stundavd   Beaver  of this activity of our
                                                                 Protestant Reformed Young People and to congratulate
Berg for this helpful key to  -the contents of an entire         them on what I certainly consider a successful and
year's issues. Those of you who save your copies or              worthwhile convention.          I personally, - and I think the
who purchase the bound volumes will undoubtedly find            ,other ministers who were present will agree with me,
this index valuable.                                             --was encouraged by what I witnessed.                 That our
    2) Those interested in keeping each year's copies            young people can have a convention centering -on the
of our magazines will do well to order a bound volume            theme "Preserving Our Heritage" is a heartening
if you are not already on the Board's list of standing           sign.
orders.      If you have not purchased bound volumes in
the past, why not begin with Volume  41? The cost is
only slight when you purchase these volumes annually,                If I may offer a well-meant word of criticism to
and they make valuable additions to your library.                our young people, I would strongly recommend that
Make it a point to write to the Business Manager.                the young people themselves take a larger and more
    3) Although as the years pass it- becomes more and           active part in the program. If I remember correctly
more difficult to obtain the earlier volumes, occasion-          there were two scheduled items on the program, a
ally it is possible to obtain a complete set of bound            round-table discussion `and a debate, which were
volumes. Young or old, if you are interested in adding           cancelled.         This is a step in the wrong direction; and
a  goo-d reference work to your library, the purchase            the various societies would do well to carry out con-
of such a complete set, though costly, is a worthwhile           scientiously the resolution which was adopted, to
investment.      For this also you may write to the Busi-        suggest ways and means of improving the convention
ness Manager, whose address you will find on the                 and bringing it  *up to its "full social and spiritual
inside of the front page.                                        potential."




                                        WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

                                                    Rev. J. A. Heys

    Who would be so foolish as to deny the fact that we          into the armed forces whether this is a time of wars
live in a time of wars and rumors of wars?                       and rumors of wars ! It is not a pleasant thought or
    Ask the parents of the young men who are drafted             experience to have your sons taken away from family


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and church influence for their training in the armed            city fathers are looking forward to peace, and there-
forces.      But that which makes it more difficult, fills      fore they arrange air raid shelters and go to the ex-
the heart with heaviness and anxiety, is exactly that           pense of erecting evacuation route signs? To evacuate
we live in a day and age when there is war all around           `us from peace? How ridiculous! To shelter us from
us, and when there are rumors or reports of war that            peace ?      What nonsense ! 0, indeed, the ungodly and
threaten to make that war very real for our land and            unbelieving world knows we are in a time of war and
for our sons.      Ask the young men themselves who are         hears the rumors. The wicked can read the signs of
drafted and must spend two years of their life in service,      the times, even though they cannot know their signifi-
so that before that time they can do little planning and        cance.      But, are there in the church those who doubt
afterward they have lost an interesting and important           that we are in the days of Jesus' prediction of the days
period in their lives. Before their stint in the services       that shortly precede His return? When added to these
they cannot get a good job because the employer knows           wars and rumors of wars there are also earthquakes
they will soon be leaving. Marriage must be put off             in diverse, that is, various scattered places; apostasy
or shelved until things are more definite. And it is not        in the church-world abounds; the means are here, if
peace that makes this training compulsory. It is wars           the actual fact is not there, for spreading the gospel to
and rumors of wars.         Ask the draft boards why they       the four corners of the earth and to every nation,
are calling up so many more young men than in times             tongue, and tribe, are there still those who would say
past.      The answer will not be that this is due to the       that the day of His coming is far off? The world itself
fact that war is disappearing from off the face of the          says that "It is later than you think!" Let the church
earth.                                                          wake up and read the signs of the times. Let the church
       Nuclear bomb testing, in the air at least, has been      ask whether she is fighting the spiritual warfare, is
suspended, but not because there is peace and rumors            training her covenant seed for the battle of faith and
of peace.      It is exactly because peace has proven to        whether there are rumors, good rumors of war that
be such an elusive thing.         Man wants to strive for       indicate that she knows her calling and is not meddling
peace, and that in itself again is an admission that            with politics and social improvements instead of fight-
there is war and rumor of war.          But he is willing to    ing for the truth and contending for the faith once
stop making the weapons of war, if only he can put a            delivered to the saints. The saddest part in the whole
halt to the increasing tempo of the war that does exist         picture of wars and rumors of wars today is that there
in men's hearts and minds, if not on the actual battle          is so much quietness on the spiritual battle field. And
field.     Only the foolish would deny that this is a day of    the rumors in regard to spiritual warfare are not good
wars and rumors of wars.                                        rumors.       Men go down without even fighting. Group
       Look at your newspaper and news magazine. Listen         capitulates to group in a false ecumenicity. Churches
to your news broadcasts that are given hour after hour          join with churches not in order to strengthen the posi-
all day long.       Glance even casually at the pictures        tion, to purify the church and preserve the truth, but
published in newspaper and magazine. You see the                to satisfy the longings of the flesh, for earthly power
weapons of war. You hear the sound of war. The word             and pomp.
"fighting" crops up in so many items of today's news.              It is true that today many cry peace, when there is
You receive reports of soldiers being killed, of bomb-          no peace. The desire in man's soul is for peace. And
ings and air attacks. Take a newspaper or news maga-            we do not say that in itself this is wrong. Certainly
zine and with a scissors cut out all the columns and            we do not say that it is right to desire war with all its
articles that refer in any way to war, and see once how         bloodshed, death, suffering, and devastation. But the
much you have left. Try to avoid the front page and             means for ending it must be right. The motive for its
concentrate on the business world. Look at the stock            abolishment must be righteous. The way of seeking it
market returns, and you soon learn that war makes               must meet with God's approval. It is quite possible to
quite a difference even in that market. Trace the               have a good motive, to use proper means and to fight
history of the market for a few weeks and months, and           in a righteous way. Israel's wars were not condemned
you will find that wars of today and rumors of wars             by God but commanded. And one of Israel's glaring
today have a tremendous effect upon that market and             sins with repercussions for generations was exactly
that the events of the recent past- in that market also         that they did not fight enough! They left the enemy in
underscore the truth that we live in a time of wars             the land to plague them and their children in later
and rumors of wars.         Only the willfully blind fail to    days.       God spoke in the beginning of enmity between
see this. Only the foolish, seeing it, pass it off as one       seed and seed. God's very first promise to His church
of those things and try to put it out of mind.                  was that of warfare.        But the enemy must be  God"s
       Nor do men succeed in putting it out of mind. War        enemy.       The battle must be fought for His glory. The
has a way of making itself known to those who want to           peace sought must be the peace of His kingdom. And
forget it and ignore it. Its rumor is something that            the armor must be the whole armor of God. In any
just cannot be silenced.      And travelling from one end       other warfare victory is absolutely hopeless.
of our country to another, taking a vacation to get away           Men have tried their League of Nations. It failed.
from it all, one still finds in distant and strange towns       Because of the increased tempo of wars and rumors of
signs to direct him to  the air raid shelter or to point        wars and in desperation, man is now rrying the United
out the evacuation route. And all this is because there         Nations.      And just yesterday the leading newspapers
is peace and rumors of peace? Our government and                in our land featured a cartoon of two vultures sitting


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on top of the UN building waiting for the last gasps of       Wars and fightings come because we have not and our
life to leave so that they could feast on the dead body.      lusts war among our members, so James teaches us.
That is not a biased evaluation of some church-father.        And foolishly and hopelessly men have tried externally
That is not some sarcasm of the enemy of a United             to realize a peace that cannot be had because of the
Nations organization. It is simply the portrayal of the       internally corrupt heart of man. The UN will fail ! The
obvious fact that the UN has failed and is falling apart.     kingdom of `the Antichrist will fail. Even though for a
And its falling apart not only underscores the fact of        time that Antichrist may seem to have united men,
wars and rumors of wars but also gives prediction of          satisfied their ambitions, given them a mock peace, the
an increase in both wars and rumors of wars.                  whole business will fall apart, according to Revelation
   Man is afraid of that last, terrible war that he is        17:9-18.  -
able to introduce and into which he is equipped to               There simply is no rest for the wicked. Men cry
plunge the world.       His fear of the consequences for      peace when actually there is no such thing for them.
himself will make him think twice before he realizes          And all the wars and rumors of wars will not drive
it. It is not the fear of the Lord that holds him back.       the natural man to The Prince of Peace and to His
It is his only fleshly ambitions and aspirations. He          cross but only to the Antichrist, the son of perdition
must be very sure that such a terrible war is either          and man of: sin. All the wars and rumors of wars will
going to benefit him, or that he has no choice but to         lead the unbeliever only farther away from peace,
begin it for his own vindication and revenge. And so,         until he finds himself in all the torment of hell and
we can expect wars, many of them in confined areas            forever separated from the God of all peace and His
and on many fronts. Rumors will crop up, and an un-           Son, the Prince of Peace. They will find the awful
easy peace in one sector will produce reports of the          warfare of God's holy wrath as He assaults them with-
battle beginning in another area. We have a world war         out end and without mercy in the lake of fire.
going at the moment, and let us not deceive ourselves            And we?
into thinking that we do not. All the leading nations            In His fear we will not fear what men can and shall
are in it, and the countries allied with them are in-         do unto us.  $But likewise in His fear we will not ignore
directly involved.      Soldiers of all nations are dying,    and reject these signs of Christ's coming. To reject
even if the fighting is contained in sectors of the world.    them is to reject the Word of God in them. This the
Let us not be so ridiculous as to boast of peace when         believer will not do. He will receive them with thanks-
the battle drums can be heard so loudly and clearly.          giving and acknowledge, as he hears of wars and rumors
A drunken man hears it and it makes no impression             of wars, the faithfulness of God to His promise. He
upon him.      Are we so spiritually drunken that we do       will receive this sign by faith and be strengthened in
not see the signs of the times? Or are we so carnal           his faith that God's schedule is being kept, that all
that we do not want to see them?                              things are safe in the hands of a faithful and unchange-
   Definitely the wars and rumors of wars today are           able God, Whose word stands and Whose promises
signs of the coming of Christ, if for no other reason         are sure of fulfillment.
than that they are signs of His immediate forerunner,            He will also look for the signs. One who travels
the Antichrist.       As Christ's forerunner he is also       looks for the signs along the way which indicate the
Christ's servant, and therein the church finds comfort        turns he must take to reach his destination. The pil-
and does look directly at these signs of the times.           grim who walks in His fear will also look for the
Paul makes a point of it in his second epistle to the         signs which God places along his way. He has been
Thessalonians that the day of Christ will not come            given the eye of faith exactly for that purpose. We
until that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.      must walk by faith.         Of the ungodly it is stated that
And we may certainly expect that Christ will return           seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not. But he
shortly after the appearance of this man of sin. There        who  wallcs in His fear sees and understands, hears and
will be no big lapse of time between his ascent to power      rejoices.      Though his flesh may suffer in that war and
and Christ's powerful return. This Antichrist has his         shudder at the rumors of war, his faith responds with
work to do according to God's eternal and sovereign           quickening anticipation of the appearance of his Lord
counsel; but in that counsel also is Christ's return to       and Redeemer. He becomes spiritually more excited
destroy this man of sin.                                      and lives in increased anticipation of that wonderful
   And the wars of today will serve to produce this           day.
Antichrist.     The world itself will tell you that, even        Do the wars and rumors of wars today threaten the
though they will not call him the Antichrist. Men of          peace which you want and for which you look? Or do
the world have for long spoken of "One World". The            they, as the Word of God to His church, assure you of
very essence of the League of Nations and the United          the certainty and nearness of the lasting peace of
Nations is that the safety of the world lies only in uni-     God's kingdom and of your everlasting joy therein with
fication under one government. The only hope of bring-        the Prince of Peace Himself?
ing an end to the fightings amongst the nations is to
combine them all into one big nation with one govern-                         'RESOLUTIONOFSYMPATHY
                                                              The Hudsonville Prot. Ref. Choral Society extends its
ment to employ and dispense the vast treasure of              heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. John Kuiper in the death of
resources upon the face of this globe. Socialism has          her father.             ANTHONY ROSI<AM
tried to bring peace by trying to remove jealousy and         May the God.of  grace comfort the hearts of the bereaved.
coveteousness  by trying to realize equality amongmen.                       Paul  Schipper,  Pres., Betty  Haveman, Sec'y.


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                                                OUR REASONABLE SERVICE

                                                          Rev. G.  Lubbers

                                                           Roman-s   12:1, 2

       There is but one place in the Bible where the English          urgy' ' . The latter term refers to the public work and
translation employs the term "reasonable." In our                     worship in the temple, while the term "service" in
present day language the term means: having the faculty               our text refers to all the worship of God, both formally
of reason, rational, sound judgment.              However, in         in the temple and the worship of God in our inner
Biblical language the term has a meaning which must                   closet.
be determined not by merely consulting the dictionary,                   Now our reasonable service must refer to a certain
but must be determined by its meaning in the Greek;                   "reasonableness" which is inherent in such worship of
its meaning particularly as used in the sacred text.                  God. The term in the Greek is "logikos", from which
       It was Dr. Brake1 who made the term "Reasonable                we derive our term "logical". We ought to remember
Service" the title of his Dogmatics. He called it in                  that it makes a great deal of difference whether Aris-
the Holland language "Redelijk Godsdienst".                 This      totle, a Greek philosopher, operates with this term, or
points up, on the one hand, the subjectivistic nature of              whether a Paul  uses  it in the context of the worship of
Brakel's Dogmatical approach, and, on the hand, it                    God in the church. There are but two instances of the
underscores the fact that he understood the term                      use of the term "logikos" in the Bible: in our passage
` `logikos' ' as indicating that our worship must ever be             and in I Peter  2:2 where the Greek "logical, unfalsified
according to the Word of God, and  acc'ording  to the                 milk" is paraphrased in the KJV "the pure milk of  the
pattern of that which God revealed in His covenant and                wovd.  "    It is the Word of God in the simplest form,
in His holy temple. The term "reasonable" is thus a                  digestible for the simplest of minds, and, therefore,
very significant one in Scripture!                                   called "milk".       It  is the Word as it has been pre-
       Paul uses the term in a very beautiful and meaning-            digested by others and recast in simple language, yet,
ful passage of Scripture. The text in which this term                 so that the true meaning of the Word remains unchanged
is found, reads in full as follows:                                   and unmixed by human error or un-Scriptural teaching.
                                                                     Here the KJV evidently felt they need the translation
           "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies         "reasonable", that is, it is a service which follows
       of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
       holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable           from the Spirit-led and Spirit-fed Christian, nurtured
       service.    And be not conformed to this world: but be        in the Word.      Such a Christian understands the very
       ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye           a-b-c of the teaching of what is ours in Christ; and,
       may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect      therefore, in all his walk he is not content until he has
       will of God."                           Romans  12:1,2        spelled  out  all its meaning, and that too, consistently,
                                                                     until he has said "z"! He never wills to depart from
Your Reasonable  Sevvice                                              any of all the words of God in his worship of the Lord.
       Paul is here using the vocabulary of the church of            Such is his "reasonableness" of faith. All must be
the Old Testament dispensation. It is language and                    one beautiful harmony in both doctrine and life. He
terminology which is understood by the believing saints.             never will walk unreasonably (alogoos) as  dounreason-
And it is therefore valid language also for the saints               able men.      Such  men do not fit in any place or sphere
of the New Testament, even in the capital city of the                in the service of God. II Thess.  3:2. They are ever as
mighty Roman world-power. The church at Rome also                    triangles in God's square! They have never understood
understood this language of the temple!                              the reasonable service of Christ, the things that differ!
       The term "service" does not refer to service in                   For that reason it should not be overlooked that
general, any kind of service amongst men, but most                    Paul is here speaking of the "brethren" and of  their
definitely refers to the worship-service  .of believers              service.     It is "your" reasonable service. Only the
towards God as revealed in the temple, made after the                brethren of Christ, the eldest  brother;have  this service
pattern of the heavenly. It is the consecrated and  God-             by  the Spirit of the Son. This service is very exclusive
ordained service of the priests, which is comely for                 of all unbelievers. For, as was said, this service is
saints.     Such is the meaning of the term "latreia" in             according to the logic of faith!
the Greek New Testament. It is the public and reveren-
tial service as is evident from such Scripture passages               The Living  Sacrifice
as John  16:2; Rom.  9:4; Heb.  9:1,6. Fact is, that in                  Paul exhorts the readers to present their bodies a
Hebrews  9:1, the King James Version translates the                  living  sacrifice  to God. A sacrifice is a slain animal
term ` `latreia" as ` `divine service".            It is a term      which has been dedicated by its blood and life on the
which also includes in it what is called in Greek                    altar of dedication.      It has been set wholly in the
"leitourgia" from which is derived our `English  "lit-               service of God, consecrated to Him.  Suchwas  the  sac-


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rifice in the temple-worship. As the term indicates it        be well-pleasing to God, a matter of God's inward and
refers to something  made holy.  It is set apart from         holy delight.
that which is common and profane.                                Now we are instructed that such must be our bodies.
                                                              The body "sooma" is a rather important and meaning-
    Furthermore, the sacrifice which we must be  inour        ful concept in Scripture. This body must not be con-
bodies is a living sacrifice. There are those who would       fused with the flesh. The body does not refer to man's
explain this living sacrifice as referring to the  fulfil-    corporality.,      Rather it refers to the vehicle which is
ment in contrast with the typical sacrifice of the slain      redeemed by Christ as well as the soul. Sometimes
animal in the temple. The latter would then be a dead         this is designated by the term our 
sacrifice.    It is our view that the living sacrifice is                                              members.   It then
                                                              refers to our eyes and ears, our hands and tongue,
here not contrasted with the typical. We base our view        our lips.        In a word, it refers to all our senses by
on the fact that the sacrifices in the Old Testament          which our ego stands in contact with the entire world
were really not dead sacrifices inasmuch as these             about us in our experience of God's creation.
were the expression of the living faith of those who
offered them.      Abel's sacrifice was indeed a living          Permit us to delineate a bit on this.
sacrifice in faith and hope, while the offering of Cain          With our eyes we are adapted to the world of light,
was a dead sacrifice inasmuch as it was not brought           colors, the prism of the rainbow. The light of the body
in faith. The difference between what is "living" and         is the eye, says Jesus. It is possibly the most important
what is "dead" is therefore the same as that between          member of the body. Next to this comes that of the
a living and a dead faith. A sacrifice is living in that      hearing ear which is adapted to the world of sound, of
it is rooted in regeneration, calling, and consequent         the sighing of the wind, and all the instruments of the
faith.    It is that which comes forth from the new man       harmony  of, the sounds of music. It is adapted to the
in Christ; of him who has a delight in the law of God         spoken word. That this is the meaning of "body" in
after the inner man. And when such a faith brings the         Scripture is plain from what Christ says prophetically
sacrifice it is a living sacrifice in which the whole         concerning himself already in the Old Testament in
man is active with all his heart, all his mind, all his       the Psalms. In Psalm  40:6-8, we read, "Sacrifice and
soul, and all his strength. It proceeds from the  life-       offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
giving Spirit, Christ in our hearts!                          opened:  bur,nt offering and sin offering hast thou not
                                                              required.    Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of
    Such a sacrifice must then needs be  holy.  Hpliness      the book it  ,is written of me, I delight to do thy will, 0
is a virtue of God. It is basically the virtue by which       my God: yea thy law is within my bowels". It is inter-
God is infinitely exalted above the creature. He is the       esting to note that the term in the Hebrew "mine eye
incomparable One. He is transcendant above all the            hast thou opened" in the Greek text in Heb.  1.0:5 reads
creature, separated from man as the Creator. How-             "the body hast thou prepared me". This indicates that
ever, holiness also refers to God's ethical holiness          in Scripture the body refers to the members of the
whereby, He is  separat-ed  from sin. He is too pure of       body as they are the organs of the person who expresses
eyes to love iniquity.       When a sacrifice is holy it      what is in his soul and heart.       And thus the body can
therefore is entirely separated from all that is sinful,      be a sacrifice-in the hearing ear and in the fruit of the
wicked .and -vain, and is entirely consecrated to God.        lips which is a continual thank-offering to God. In
It is as holy as God is holy and perfectly fits in the        such a spiritual sacrifice God has a delight.
holy place of God.     Such must be the living sacrifice.        Here the reasonable service becomes indeed a very
    Only thus can it be acceptable to God. The term in        practical service. It means that there is no sphere-in
the Greek for acceptable is "euarestos", that is:  well-      human life or in any dimension which is not to be
pleasing. See such passages as `Rom.  12:1,2;  14:18.         placed on the altar. This means that in the sphere of
God has delight in such living sacrifices which are           all endeavor of education and science, art and culture,
holy. All the rest is `an abomination to him. This is         space and number, geography and history  - all is to
the requisite of any sacrifice. It must truly have been       be placed on the altar of God. There are in this entire
made  .-holy,  slain and having died to all that which is     arena indeed two spiritual spheres: on the altar or
outside of the altar, and, therefore, alive, to God. The      outside of the altar.        The holy and the unholy. The
term "euarestos" does not emphasize so much the               world stands in. this -same world in the  body,  but
idea of acceptableness, "apodektos" (see I Tim.  2:3;         nothing is placed in the service of God by them, but
5:4),' but rather indicates the inner, deep delight which     rather in the service of sin!          All the works of the
the Lord has in a living sacrifice which is holy! See         world, outside of the holy place of the altar, do not
such passages as Psalm  18:19;  147:lO; and Isaiah  L:ll;     have God's delight, and are, therefore, not acceptable
62:4 -for this positive delight which the Lord has in         to Him, being a stench in His holy nostrils.
that which conforms to his will and holiness.
    Such we must be as the brethren, the church of
God in this world!                                                             ATTENTION, CONSISTORIES!
                                                                 Classis   East of the Protestant Reformed Churches
The  Sacvifice   -  Chw Bodies                                will meet, D.V., Wednesday, October. 6, at 9 A.M. at
    Let us not forget that Paul is speaking of a living       our Hope Prot. Ref. Church. Consistories will please
sacrifice to God.     Furthermore, let it be well under-      take note of, this in the appointment of delegates.
stood that this living sacrifice must be holy, shall it                                                M.  Schipper,  S.C.


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                                      JEHOVAH'S STRENGTH IN CAPTIVITY

                                                    Rev. B.  Woudenbevb

                           FOV they  provoked  him to  anger  with  their high places, and moved
                        him to jealousy with  their  graven  images.
                            When God heavd this, he was wrath, and greatly abhovved  Israel;
                           So that he  forsook  the  tabernacle  of Shiloh, the tent which he placed
                        among men;
                           And delivered his  strength  into  captivity,  and his  glory into the
                        enemy's hand.                                                Psalm  78:58-61
                            And the Philistines took the  ark of God, and  bvought  it  from  Eben-
                        ezeY unto Ashdod.
                            When the Philistines took the  uvk of God, they  brought it into the
                        house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.                            ISam.   5:1, 2
       The battle of Ebenezer was for Israel a terrible          they had rejected Him, God withdrew  `the sign of His
defeat. 30,000 footmen were killed, Hophni and Phine-            grace from their midst by giving it into the hand of
has among them. The ark of the covenant was taken                the enemy.
by the enemy. Eli, the high priest, died from the shock                 Actually this paralleled, and perhaps even pre-
of it.      And his daughter-in-law was moved with her          figured, another much greater event that was to take
dying breath to leave her newborn son with the name             place in the following ages. It was that event which
Ichabod.                                                        happened to Jesus the Son of the living God. He too in
       For the Philistines, it was a wonderful victory.         His coming was not recognized and received by Israel
Not only had they put Israel to route, (that had been            in humility. The only interest the people had in Him
done before); but they had captured the ark of Israel's         was in satisfying their own desires, and because Israel
God, and that was an amazing thing. They remembered              rejected Him God withdrew Him from them by giving
still the history of Israel's departure from Egypt and          Him into the hand of the enemy, even into the power
arrival in the land of Canaan. Generation to genera-            of Satan.
tion passed down the memory of the amazing things                       But this did not mean that God was renouncing the
which Israel's God had done. People still stood in awe          vict0r.y. It was not true with Jesus. For all of the re-
before it, for it was the most amazing series of                joicing of the wicked in the day when Jesus came into
events that any god had ever brought about in behalf            their hands, it was His victory and not theirs; for in
of those who worshipped him.             That was why the       that day Satan  `was cast out. It was the same as had
Philistines had trembled so when they heard that the            become so evidently true in the day when the  Philis-
ark of Israel's God was being brought into the very             tines carried the ark of the covenant into their own
forefront of their battle. But they had quit themselves         land.
like men, and they had won. Israel was put down in a                    It was a proud, arrogant procession that went from
resounding defeat, and they had captured Israel's God,           Ebenezer to Ashdod. The God of Israel, the God who
It was the ultimate proof that they and their god, Dagon,       had laid waste the land of Egypt with repeated plagues,
were mightier than he.                                          the God who had entered the land of Canaan with ir-
       What the Philistines failed to realize, though, was      resistible power, that God was now in their hands to
that there was much more behind it than this. It was            do with Him what they pleased. And they knew what
not their power but the doings of Israel's `God Himself         they wanted to do with Him too.           Directly to Ashdod
that gave His ark into their hands.          As the Psalmist    and to the temple of Dagon their God, they carried'
later sang, it was He that "forsook the tabernacle of           the ark.        There on the floor before their idol's feet
Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; and de-             they set it to rest. Let Dagon look down in contempt
livered his strength into captivity, and his glory into         upon the God they had captured in his name; let Dagon
the enemy's hand." But this was not the kind of logic            sneer at Him; let everyone know that Dagon was might-
that the Philistines could understand. They could not           ier than even Israel's God. Far into the night they cele-
comprehend a God who was willing to give His own                brated, drank, and danced until at last in the early
symbol of grace into the hands of an enemy rather than          hours of the morning they closed the temple's doors
to let His own people become hardened in the way of             and withdrew happily to rest.
sin.      But this was what had happened. Israel had                    It was the next morning when the priests of Dagon's
thought that the ark of the covenant could be handled           temple swung open these gates again that the first
in the way that the heathen treated their idols, that they      disconcerting note was introduced. The great, towering
could take it and carry it around and use it in the way         image of Dagon, the pride of Philistia and of Ashdod,
they wanted like a magic charm to serve their bidding,          was found lying prone on the ground before the ark of
It was actually a rejection of the law and of their duty        Israel's God. With sudden, faltering shock the priests
to give themselves in service to their God. Because             of Dagon grasped what this meant. The power of Is-


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rael's God, that power which had laid waste the power          Israel's deliverance from Egypt had astonished the
of Egypt many ages before, and that power which had            ancient world, and the account of it had been passed
failed to express itself in the battle of Ebenezer, had        on from generation to generation. Suddenly they were
struck once again.        He had shown in unmistakable         struck with, the paralyzing thought that other plagues
terms that He could do with their god Dagon what He            would follow until they, like ancient Egypt, wereutterly
chose.       The evidence was there. But no, they could        laid waste. For the men of Ashdod this was enough.
not admit that.      The very thought stirred up their         With  comm,on consent, they came together and said,
whole nature in rebellion.         Some., other explanation    "The Ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us:
had to be found;      Perhaps the base upon which Dagon        for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god."
stood had gradually become weakened under his weight           They were determined that the ark of Israel's God
and only in that night, by coincidence, had given way          would be removed.
that he should fall.      Perhaps there had been a slight          As yet, though, the lords of the other Philistine
tremor of the earth during the night, while they slept         cities were: not ready to agree. They had not person-
off their drunken stupor, which had caused the image           ally tasted that which the men of Ashdod had known;
to fall. Through the day as they struggled to right the        neither would they take the matter so seriously. When
image to its place again, they talked and suggested            the men of' Ashdod came to them and asked, "What
countless explanations until at last the uncertainties         shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" they
they had felt were quite put at ease.                          were quick  to answer, "Let the ark of the God of Israel
    The next morning the surprise was not so great.            be carried about unto Gath." It  seemedan  easy enough
In a way they had almost feared it; but the disappoint-        answer.     It was hard for them to believe that the God
ment was there and it hurt; Dagonlayprone once again.          of Israel possessed powers which their gods had never
And this time it was worse; his head and hands were            had.
broken too.       The symbolism was plain. Dagon was               It was not long, however, before they discovered
without thought and without power before the God of            that their problem was not so easily evaded. No sooner
Israel.      What joy had remained from the victory at         had the ark `arrived at Gath, and destruction descended
Ebenezer was now pretty well washed away. But in               upon it just as it had upon Ashdod. Pestilence fell
its place there came that sullen determination that            upon the people and open boils appeared upon their
they would not give in to the power of the God of              bodies. Everyone was sick, and many died. Now there
Israel. Now there was no longer any attempt to explain         was little hesitation before a cry of protest arose from
away what had happened.        Silently they worked at re-     that city also demanding that the ark be removed. But
storing the image. There was no joy in their labor;            the rulers were not yet convinced that it was anything
but neither did anyone as much as dare to admit that           more than a coincidence. They merely decided to send
anything was amiss, even though deep within they all           the ark on to Ekron, and so they did.
felt it.                                                           What the rulers of the Philistines were not yet
    But then days and weeks passed by with nothing             ready to believe, however, the people were. No sooner
new taking place, and gradually they found themselves          was the ark brought to the gate of the city of Ekron than
beginning to believe that it had only been a quirk of          the people appeared crying out in protest. They com-
accident.     Once again they begin to speak of it and to      plained, "They have brought about the ark of the God
show reverence to their god by warning everyone not            of Israel to us, to slay us and our people." Neither
to tread upon the place where he had lain. Meanwhile           were they ready to be silent when the rulers left the
in the back of the temple the ark of Jehovah was un-           ark with them anyway.        They demanded a hearing
mentioned and allowed to gather dust.                          before the lords of the Philistines, the rulers from all
    Gradually, however, there began to develop a new           of the principal cities, and to them they said, "Send
realization that something was not right. Into Ashdod          away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to
there came an invasion of mice. This was no mere               his own place, that it slay us not, and our people."
ordinary thing. The mice came in hordes. They were             And they had the proof too. For regardless of how fast
everywhere and devoured everything. No one could               they had moved, the hand of the Lord God of Israel had
get away from them.          No child was safe from their      moved faster still. The ark had hardly entered the city,
bite and scratch.       People actually died because of it.    but countless weresick, and many were dying. The re-
But as yet few even thought to suggest that it had any-        action was frenzied and frantic. A mighty cry of dis-
thing to do with that golden box in the temple of their        may arose everywhere.
god.                                                               It was Jehovah, the God of Israel, justifying Him-
    But this was not the end of their troubles. Soon           self.    He would not let the children of Israel do with
disease and pestilence followed after it. Upon the             Him or His ark whatever they chose; but neither would
bodies of the people there developed boils covering            he allow the Philistines to do it either. God gave His
their bodies from head to foot. Theyformed open sores          strength into the captivity of the Philistines so that
that would not heal.        Everyone was sick, and many        Israel might learn not to take His blessings for
died.                                                          granted.     But to the Philistines too, He proved that
    Now the truth was evident. It could not be denied.         He would not be handled as a dumb idol. He was more
There was beginning to develop in Philistia the same           powerful then they all. Before His will the inhabitants
thing which the Egyptians had gone through many years          of the world would bow, if not willingly, then by reason
before.      The Philistines knew it too. The history of       of force; but He would establish Himself theliving God.


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                                           THE DOCTR.I NE OF CREATION

                                                      Rev.  H. Veldman

Tevtullian                                                                This rule is required by the nature of the One-only
       Also Tertullian belongs to the First Period of the           God, who is One-only in no other way than as the sole
Church, 80 to 250 A.D.          His full name was  Quintus          God; and in no other way sole, than as having nothing
Septimius Florens  .Tertullian, and he was the first                else (co-existent) with Him. So also He will be first,
great writer of Latin Christianity and one of the grand-            because all things are after Him; and all things are
                                                                    after Him, because all things are by Him; and all things
est and most original characters of the ancient Church.             are by Him, because they are of nothing: so that reason
He was born at Carthage about 150 or 160, and died                  coincides with the Scripture, which says: `Who hath
there between 220 and 240. Of his life very little is               known the mind of the Lord? or with whom took He
known, and that little is based upon passing references             counsel? or who hath shown to Him the way of wisdom
in his own writings, and upon Eusebius. His father                  and knowledge?       Who hath first given to Him, and it
held a position  (centurio proconsularis,  "aide-de-                shall be recompensed to him again?' Surely none !
camp",) in the Roman army in Africa, and Tertullian's               Because there was present with Him no power, no
Punic (of or pertaining to ancient Carthage) blood                  material, no nature which belonged to any other than
                                                                    Himself.     But if it was with some (portion of Matter)
palpably pulsates in his style, with its archaisms, or              that He effected His creation, He must have received
provincialisms, its glowing imagery, its passionate                 from that (Matter) itself both the design and the treat-
temper.       He was a scholar, having received an excel-           ment of its order, as being "the way of wisdom and
lent education.       His conversion to Christianity took           knowledge." For He had' to operate conformably with
place about 197-198, but its immediate antecedents                  the quality of the thing, and according to the nature of
are unknown except as. they are conjectured from his                Matter, not according to His own will; in consequence
writings.      The event must have been sudden and deci-            of which He must have made even evil things suitably
sive, transforming at once his own personality; he him-             to the nature not of Himself, but of Matter.
self said that he could not imagine a truly Christian               In this quotation Tertullian emphasizes that the
life without such a conscious breach, a radical act of           Lord is the One-only God, and that He is the One-only
conversion: "Christians are made, not born." In the              God in no other sense than as the sole God. Hence, He
church of Carthage he was ordained a presbyter, though           must have made all things out of nothing, because the
he was married -- a fact which is well established by            Lord is necessarily first, and there is nothing outside
his two books to his wife. In middle life (about 207) he         of Him;        But, if He made this world out-of Matter,
broke with the  .Catholic  Church (not to be confused            than Matter must have existed prior to the creation of
with the present day Roman Catholic Church, but re-              the universe, and this must mean that the Lord did not
ferring to the one, Catholic Church of that day) and             create all things after the counsel of His own will but
became the leader and the passionate and brilliant ex-           that He received from that Matter both the design and
ponent of Montanism . The Montanists, who sought to              the treatment of its order.
remain members of the Catholic Church, stressed the                 Appealing to .the history of creation, and writing on
ecstatic way of living.        The statement of Augustine        the  true.meaning  of the term, beginning, in the account
that before his death Tertullian returned to the bosom           in Genesis 1, Tertullian writes as follows:
of the Catholic Church; is considered very improbable.
Jerome says that Tertullian lived to a great age. In                      But I  shall. appeal to the original documents of
spite of the fact that he joined the schismatic  Monta-              Moses, by help of. which they on the other  side..vainly
nists, Tertullian continued to fight heresy, especially              endeavour to prop up their conjectures, with the view,
Gnosticism; and by the doctrinal works thus produced                 of course, of appearing to have the support of that
                                                                     authority which is indispensable in such an inquiry.
he became the teacher of  Cyprian,  `the predecessor of              They have found their opportunity, as is usual with
Augustine, and the-chief founder of Latin theology. For              heretics; in wresting the plain meaning of certain
this description of the, life of Tertullian we are in-               words.      For instance the very beginning, when God
debted to the New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclo-                   made the heaven and the earth, they will-construe as if
pedia.                                                               it meant something substantial and embodied, to be
       In his writings on the subject of creation, Tertullian        regarded as Matter. We, however, insist on the proper
opposed the writings of Hermogenes. Hermoneges was                   signification of every word, and say that principium
a teacher of Gnostic tendency at the  end, of the second             means beginning, -being a term which is suitable to
                                                                     represent things which begin to exist.         For nothing
century. He asserted the eternity ofmatter, and denied               which has come into being is without a beginning, nor
the creation of the world out of nothing. These writings             can this its commencement be at any other moment
of Tertullian are recorded in the Writings of the  Ante-             than when it begins to have existence. Thus primcipium
Nicene Fathers, Volume III. Writing on the truth of                  or beginning, is simply a term of inception, not the
God's work in creation, Tertullian writes as follows:                name of a substance. Now, inasmuch as the heaven


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   and the earth are the principal works of God, and              But let us quote the Church Father once more:
   since, by His making them first, He constituted them                  "But it remains that I should show also how you
   in an especial manner the beginning of His creation,              make God work. You are plainly enough at variance
   before all things else, with good reason does the Scrip-          with the philosophers; but neither are you in accord
   ture preface (its record of creation) with the words,             with the prophets. The Stoics maintain that God per-
   "In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth;"             vaded Matter, just as honey the honeycomb. You, how-
   just as it would have said, "At last God made the                 ever, affirm that it is not by pervading Matter that
   heaven and the earth," if God had created these after             God makes the world, but simply by appearing, and ap-
   all the rest. Now, if the beginning is a substance, the           proaching it, much as beauty affects a thing by simply
   end must also be material. No doubt, a substantial                appearing, and a loadstone by approaching it. Now
   thing may be the beginning of some other thing which              what similarity is there in God forming the world, and
   may be formed out of it; thus the clay is the beginning          beauty wounding a soul, or a magnet attracting iron?
   of the vessel, and the seed is the beginning of the plant.        For even if God appeared to Matter, He yet did not
   But when we employ the word beginning in this sense of            wound it,. as beauty does the soul; if, again, He ap-
   origin, and not in that of order, we do not omit to men-          proached it, He yet did not cohere to it, as the magnet
   tion also the name of that particular thing which we              does to the iron. Suppose, however, that your examples
   regard as the origin of the other.                                are suitable ones. Then, of course,  itwas by appearing
   In these words Tertullian emphasizes that the word                and approaching to Matter that God made the world,
` `beginning' ' in Genesis does not denote origin, which             and He made it when He appeared and when He ap-
would mean that the heavens and the earthwere formed                 proached  to it. Therefore, since He had not made it
                                                                     before then, He had neither appeared nor approached
by God out of an existing material, but that the word                to it. Now, by whom can it be believed that God had
means order, and he maintains that this creation by                  not appeared to Matter-of the same nature as it even
the Lord "in the beginning" must mean that this                      was owing to its eternity? Or that He had been at a
creation by the Lord was an absolute first. And then,                distance from it-even He whom we believe to be
in the same paragraph Tertullian mentions that the                   existent everywhere, and everywhere apparent; whose
Greek term, beginning, also admits the sense not only                praises all things chant, even inanimate things and
of priority of order, but of power as well. The Greek                things incorporeal, according to the prophet Daniel?
employs this term also as referring to princes and                   How immense the place, where God kept Himself so
magistrates.     So, according to Tertullian, the word               far aloof from Matter as to have neither appeared nor
                                                                     approached to it before the creation of the world!  `I
"beginning" may be taken in this sense also, as re-                  suppose He journeyed to it from a long distance, as
ferring to princely authority and power.  It was,  indeed,           soon as He wished to appear and approach to it."
writes Tertullian, in His transcendent authority and                 If Matter be eternal, as Hermogenes taught, then it
power that God made the heaven and the earth.                     is impossible for God to have appeared or approached
   Tertullian also sees in the fact that all things will          unto it, for  :the simple reason that, whereas both God
perish a proof that the Lord made all things out of               and Matter are eternal, the Lord could never have
nothing, and we again quote:                                      been separated from it.
       Besides, the belief that everything was made from             And Tertullian concludes with the following:
   nothing will be impressed upon us by that ultimate                    "0 the depth of the riches both of His wisdom and
   dispensation of God which will being back all things to            knowledge! how unsearchable are His judgments, and
   nothing. For "the very heaven shall be rolled together             His ways j past finding out! Now what clearer truth do
   as a scroll;" nay, it shall come to nothing along with             these words indicate, than that all things were made
   the earth itself, with which it was made in the begin-             out of nothing? They are incapable of being found out
   ning. "Heaven and earth shall pass away," says He.                 or investigated, except by God alone. Otherwise, if
   "The first heaven and the first earth passed away,"                they were traceable or discoverable in Matter, they
   and "there was found no place for them," because, of               would be  / capable of investigation. Therefore, in as
   course, that which comes to an end loses locality. . . . .         far as it has become evident that Matter had no prior
   I return therefore to the principle which defines that             existence,, in so far is it proved that all things were
   all things which have come from nothing shall return               made by God out of nothing. It must be admitted, how-
   at last to nothing. For God would not have made any                ever, that Hermogenes, by describing for Matter a
   perishable thing out of what was eternal, that is to say,          condition like his own - irregular, confused, turbulent,
   out of Matter; neither out of greater things would He              of a doubtful and precipitate and fervid impulse - has
   have created inferior ones, to whose character  itwould            displayed a specimen of his own art, and painted his
   be more agreeable to produce greater things out of                 own portrait."
   inferior ones,  - in other words, what is eternal out of
   what is perishable. This is  thepromiseHe  makes even                       kESOLlJTIONOFSYMPATflY
   to our flesh, and it has been His will to deposit within
   us this pledge of His own virtue and power, in order           The Hudsonville Prot. Ref. Choral Society extends its
   that we may believe that He has actually awakened the          heartfelt sympathy to our fellow members, Mr. and
   universe out of nothing, as if it had been steeped in          Mrs. Harold' Van Overloop in the sudden death of their
   death, in the sense, of course, of its previous non-           brother and brother-in-law,
   existence for the purpose of its coming into existence.                               JOHN KAMPS
   We can  surely sense the irony which characterizes
the following quotation of Tertullian. Hermogenes had             May God comfort the hearts of the bereaved.
written that God made the world, not by pervading                                                     Paul  Schipper,  Pres.
Matter, but simply by appearing and approaching it.                                                   Betty  Haveman, Sec'y.


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                                                               Rev. H. Hanko

Right To  Wovk                                                            and actions bespeak the moral earnestness ,that attends
       The perennial problem of right to work laws is                     the question of membership in labor unions.
once again before our Congress.                In the last pre-                  But if these people differ in their reasons for re-
election campaign, President Johnsonmade his promise                      fusing to hold membership in our national labor unions,
to labor to work for the repeal of section 14b of the                     all the reasons do fall into the basic category of the
                                                                          right and duty of a man not to act contrary to his con-
Taft-Hartley Labor Law which guarantees legal stand-                      science.      The American government has long been
ing to right to work laws enacted by the various states.                  very sensitive to the right of its citizens to live in
19 states have these laws on their books. The repeal                      terms of their consciences. It has not forced the con-
of the right to work clause has already passed the                        scientious objector to take up arms, nor has it forced
House of Representatives by a wide margin and is now                      the Jehovah's Witness to salute the flag. This respect
up for consideration in the Senate.                                       for the individual's moral convictions is one of the
       If this section of the Taft-Hartley law is repealed,               profound ways in which American democracy differs
as labor unions fervently wish, the power of labor will                   from totalitarianism; totalitarian governments demand
once again be immeasurably increased, for in a union                      the ultimate loyalty of their citizens, whereas Ameri-
                                                                          can democratic government recognizes that a man's
shop it will no longer be possible to work for more                       ultimate loyalty is to God, not the state. . . .
than sixty days without joining a labor union. And once                          Every American has a large stake in this issue.
again, those who are opposed to union membership on                       Not only the conscientious objector but also every
the grounds of religious convictions will suffer an in-                   lover of freedom should be concerned about this bold
fringement of their rights.                                               attempt to undermine the long American tradition that
       There have been various reactions to this attempt                  recognizes a man's right to live by his conscience
on the part of the president to pay his debt to labor.                    without sacrificing his right to work for a living.
Recently an ad appeared in  Time  magazine which                          An entirely different kind of reaction came from the
reads in part:                                                         National Council of Christian Churches. Testifying
                                                                       before a congressional committee which was holding
           Traditionally the laws of the United States have            hearings on the matter, Dr. Carothers, secretary of
        recognized and protected the principle that every
       person has the right to a good conscience before God            the  NCC's commission on the Church and Economic
        and man.                                                       Life came out strongly in favor of repeal. By doing
           Through oversight, the Taft-Hartley Law omits               this, he brought the NCC once again into the arena of
       recognition of the right of sincere religious conscience        political debate and threw the weight of the NCC be-
       to the worker. American citizens have beendischarged            hind the attempts to deny many their right to work.
       from employment because no provision is available                  This is, presumably, part of Johnson's "Great
       for religious conscience in labor legislation. . . .            Society".       And it is increasingly obvious therefore
           The Holy Bible governs the consciences of be-               that in such a great society, carried to its final end,
       lievers on the Lord Jesus Christ.         "Be ye not un-        there will be no room for God's people who live ac-
       equally yoked together with unbelievers." (2 Corin-
       thians 6:14) and "Thou shalt not plow with an ox and            cording to the convictions of their faith.
       an ass together." (Deuteronomy  22:20).  Refer also to             It is perhaps impossible to predict at this point the
       1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 12:27; and 1 Timothy           outcome of all this.        But one thing is certain: we are
        2:19.                                                          coming nearer all the time to the day when it will be
           Therefore, persons so governed cannot with good             impossible to buy or to sell for the people of God.
       conscience belong to any associations, including trade
       unions.                                                         Racial Riots  - Whose Fault?
       This ad ends with an appeal to support a ` `conscience             The newspapers have brought to the attention of
clause" in the Taft-Hartley law.                                       the citizens in this country the terrible rioting between
       Chvistianity  Today  has also commented on this is-             the races that has recently been taking place within
sue.        After mentioning various denominations which               several of our large cities  and especially in Los
have conscientious objections to membership in labor                   Angeles. Many attempts have been made to uncover
unions (Mennonites, Amish, Seventh-Day Adventists,                     the causes of this rioting in an effort to prevent them
Christian Reformed, Protestant Reformed, and Ply-                      from happening in the future. Solemnly, social workers,
mouth Brethren), this magazine goes on to say:                         psychologists, psychiatrists, negro and white leaders
                                                                       have made their ponderous pronouncements. The fault
           . . .Moral  arguments (raised by these churches)            lies in too much or too little government relief. The
       are neither dodges nor cheap attempts to reap the ad-
       vantages of organized labor without accepting respon-           root of it all is hatred of the police on the part of the
        sibility or paying membership dues. Many are willing           negro.       The difficulty can be traced to the hopeless
       to pay their share of labor-bargaining costs; others            poverty and ghetto conditions which breed crime and
       would donate the equivalent of membership fees and              despair. Etc.
       dues to a charitable organization. . . . Such attitudes            There may be an element of truth in some of these


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diagnoses. Yet it is vain to look into these social con-      do to churches, even to the church of Rome. Even the
ditions for the causes of the terror that stalked the         important doctrine of transubstantiation does not seem
streets during those awful hours of rioting. One must         to be immune to the inroads and influences of ecumen-
look elsewhere.                                               icism. There is a growing discussion among Romish
   And looking elsewhere, two things especially are           theologians, as reported by Time, about the old doctrine
obvious.                                                      and the need to replace it with something more modern.
   In the first place, it can hardly be overlooked that       This is not  :to say that the Church is officially ready
the fault of it all lies precisely with the government        for such drastic change.       Indeed, whispers of heresy
which now bemoans these uprisings.                            have been heard and warnings have sounded forth from
   After all, it has been constantly emphasized in the        the higher levels of church government which are di-
last years that civil disobedience is a perfectly legiti-     rected towards those criticizing church doctrine. But
mate means of gaining one's end--provided that the            the discussions go on nonetheless, and these have their
end is justified. Thus, it has been repeatedly main-          significance,
tained, even by the highest authorities in our country,          The old doctrine of transubstantiation was a major
that to attain the goal of civil rights disobedience to       difference between the church of Rome and the churches
law is permissible. There are, it  hasbeen said, times        of the Reformation -- especially those of the Reforma-
when the violation of law can be condoned and when the        tion of Calvin.     By this doctrine Rome taught that the
law can be set aside for the attainment of the goal of        elements of' the Lord's Supper, while retaining their
equal rights for underprivileged people. Is it any won-       accidental properties of appearance and taste, were
der, with such a comfortable philosophy, that there           nevertheless actually changed into the real body and
comes a time when civil disobedience breaks out in            blood of Christ.
cold fury and uncontrollable mob action? Surely the              The proposed new doctrine is not so easy to define.
negro himself, encouraged to break the law in one in-         Time  speaks thus of it:
stance, will attempt to break the law in many more                   In rethinking  eucharistic  doctrine, the theologians
instances, and justify his conduct on the grounds that           speak of the "signchange" that takes place in the ele-
his motives are his own betterment.           And so our         ments in existential categories rather than sticking to
country had better face the grim realities of life: our          the static, mechanistic terms of the Scholastics. Their
society is tottering on the narrow edge of anarchy and           basic point is that the change takes place amid what
chaos.                                                           they call an "inter-person activity": the encounter of
   The Church claims to have a concern for negro                 man and `God at the Mass. There Christ gives him-
                                                                 self, makes himself present, to his people.       Father
rights and has entered the battle with arms swinging.             Smits compares Christ's giving himself to the gesture
They too have gone on record in many instances as                 of a Dutch housewife who offers her guests tea and
favoring civil disobedience under the proper circum-             cookies. Just as the housewife offers not food itself
stances.     This is the fruit of such rash and evil talk.       but her Welcome "incarnated" in the gift, Christ also
And the Church had better be prepared to shoulder its            offers himself, incarnated in the bread and wine. Adds
measure of responsibility; for what we have witnessed             Jesuit Schoonenberg: "I kneel not for a Christ who is
this past month, and will witness again, is the grim              supposed to be condensed in the host, but for the Lord
harvest of seeds sown by agitation for civil disobedience        who through the host offers me his reality, his body."
by irresponsible church leaders under the guise of               It is hard to wade through such hazy language and
religion.                                                     determine whether all this is a genuine change of thought
   The second thought that comes to mind is that also         on the doctrine or mere verbal camouflage which re-
in this, one whose ears are attuned to Scriptures must        tains the old doctrine but leaves the impression as if
surely hear the hoofbeats of the running of the red           a change is being made so that the doctrine becomes
horse of Rev. 6 which thunder out the loud cry that the       somewhat more palatable to churches outside the
Lord is coming back.        Scripture, when it speaks of      Church of Rome. But it seems as if all this is supposed
wars as being a sign of Christ's coming, refer to far         to mean that the elements of the bread and wine are
more than war between nations. There is war also be-          not actually ,changed  into the body and blood of Christ,
tween classes of people and between the races that            but that rather the celebration of communion serves
people the earth. Another battle in this grim war has         as a means to give man an opportunity to accept Christ
been fought. And in this war, as in all others,  .there       offered to him in the elements.
is no hope for peace, for the causes of war are hatred,          Hardly an  imljrovement though -- to jump from one
jealousy, envy strife, bitterness; or, in short, sin.         heresy into another. But it may serve to pave the road
And in this sorry world sin will never be universally         towards church union another mile or two.
eradicated, for this is not the purpose of Cod. For
true peace comes through the cross to those redeemed              Notice  tq      cebeavevs and Ex-Officebeavevs
in the blood of Christ and will be perfectly realized in         The Officebearers Conference will be held,  D.V.,
the finally salvation of the Church elect and multiform       on October 5, at 8  P.l.vI., at our Hope Church. Topic:
and gathered in the everlasting kingdom of righteous-         "`May the deacons offer assistance to another diaconate
ness.                                                         when it is  public knowledge that an outstanding need
A  New  Theovy  Of  ~~~~~b~~~~~~~~~~~                         arises in another church?          And does the diaconate
                                                              need the approval of the consistory in such a matter?"'
   It is surprising what the ecumenical movement can          Rev,  C, Lanting will be the speaker.


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                                                                                  (Psalm 68:ll)

                                       TOTAL DEPRAVITY AND MISSIONS

                                                     Rev. C.  Hank0

       "Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?"          Adam bore the likeness of God, in the first place,
       Last time we discussed the depravity of man in the     because he possessed true knowledge of God.          Even
light of our Confessions. Yet any discussion on our           as God knows Himself as the only Good, the fulness of
depravity must necessarily bring us back to the be-           infinite perfections, so He gave to man the ability to
ginning and the cause of that depravity. Therefore the        know Him as the true and living God, in as far as the
well-known question raised by our Heidelberg Cate-            earthly creature was capable of knowing God in para-
chism is very much to the point. And the answer is            dise.     Adam knew God intuitively. God spoke to him,
just as pertinent: "By no means; but God created man          walked with him, and communed with him as a friend
good, and after his own image, in true righteousness          with a friend. And Adam also beheld the revelation of
and holiness, that he might rightly know God his              God in the entire earthly creation. He saw God in
Creator, heartily love him and live with him in eternal       every tree and plant and flower, in the lion and in the
happiness to glorify and praise him." (Lord's Day 3,          lamb, in the peacock and in the canary, in the whale
question 6).                                                  and in the minnow, and even in the broad expanse of
       The Catechism refers to Genesis  1:26, "And God        the heavens, in the sun, and moon, and stars. He
said, Let us make man in our image, after our like-           heard God in the rushing stream, in the wafting breezes,
ness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the         in the roaring of the lion, and in the singing of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,       birds.       He smelled the sweet aroma of the flowers,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing         touched their tender petals, felt their velvety softness.
that creepeth upon the earth."                                And in all that he experienced he- cried out from the
       In this unique statement used only for the creation    depths of his soul, "0 God, how wonderful Thou art!
of man, God as covenant God expresses his desire to           And his soul yearned after God, Who was always in all
make man as uniquely distinct from all the other              his thoughts.
creatures.      God did not merely take him from the dust         For Adam also bore the likeness of God, in the
of the ground, as was the case with the animals, but          second place, because he possessed a heart  filled.with
God formed him from the dust and breathed into his            love to God. His knowledge was not a cold intellectual
nostrils the breath of life. It was by this two-fold act,     knowledge, but was rooted in love. He realized his
not as progressive creation from the animal to man,           dependence upon God even as he ate from the trees of
but as a distinct and new creation that God formed man        the garden.      Especially when he ate from the tree of
and made him a living soul. He was distinct from the          life he experienced fully the wonder of God's goodness
animals in that he possessed not only a body unique to        that sustained him, provided for him, and cared for all
man, but also a soul. Man can think, reason, plan, de-        his needs. He tasted God's love and responded in love
vise, invent, and remember.         He can love or hate,      to his God.        From his heart arose the worshipful
desire and will.       And the two are always intimately      prayer: Thou art my God, how great Thou art!
related, so that man thinks and plans according to the            And finally, Adam bore the likeness of God in
desires and impulses of his heart. Yet all this was           holiness.      Even as God is devoted to Himself as the
not yet the image of God in man. In a much lower form         only Good, and as He has created all things for His
the animals also possess powers of thinking, remem-           glory, so also Adam was given the ability to devote
bering,      showing affection or hatred.     The animal      himself consciously and willingly to God. While the
bears a certain reflection of man, as is evident from         animal walked with its head to the ground, seeking its
the skill of a spider in spinning a web, or from the          existence from the earth, Adam walked erect, with Up-
ability of the bird to devise a nest or to migrate from       lifted head expecting all things from the Almighty. His
one climate to another. Yes,  eveii:after  the fall man       noble stature, his intelligent face, and his skillful hand
still retains remnants of this natural ability of mind        indicated his royal dominion over all the creatures. He
and will in all that'he does.                                 had dominion over  `all the creatures even to the birds
       But this is not the image of God. `Because of his      of the air and the fish of the sea. They were all subject
unique creation man was image bearer, but the image           to him, that through them he might glorify his Maker.
itself was something quite different. Scripture speaks           For Adam was friend-servant of the living God.
of the image of God as a spiritual, ethical likeness of       He realized that he was but an insignificant speck of
God. If we compare Colossians  3:lO with Ephesians            dust, whose life and being was from God. He counted
4:24, we find that the image of God consists of three         it a privilege to know and confess God as his God. It
elements, true knowledge of God, righteousness, and           was his joy to serve God to the full capacity of his life.
holiness.     All these three elements are also implied       The idea of a "covenant of works" never occurred to
in the answer of the Heidelberg Catechism referred to         him, but was so completely foreign to him, that the
above.                                                        very idea of working fox wages was repugnant to his


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soul.        Does a child ask for wages for obeying his       march through the earth, branded every creature that
parents? Does a mother demand recompense for her              it touched,  sand even Adam began to experience the
labors of love in the home? No more did Adam want a           breaking down of the earthly house of his tabernacle.
reward, since his very life was wrapped up in the glory       Had Adam and Eve died at the foot of the forbidden
of his Creator.                                               tree, there would have been no need for a groaning
    While Adam's relationship to God was that of  friend-     creation that bows ceaselessly under the curse. But
servant, and his relationship to the earthly creation         this was not God's intention. Nor was this possible,
was that of king, his relationship to the human race          since Adarn  was created as king of the earthly creation.
was that of representative head.         He was our first     When he fell his kingdom fell with him. There was no
father, and as such he represented the whole human            escape anywhere from the terrible curse of God, ex-
race before the face of God. We were in Adam legally          cept in the  ,promised Seed, the Christ, in whom God
as well as naturally.                                         makes all things new.
    Adam's sin was an act of wanton disobedience that            I have broadened out rather extensively on Adam's
may never be minimized.         Even though it was a mere     creation and) fall only to show the depth of our depravity.
act of taking and eating of the fruit of a tree, his sin         Adam's guilt is our guilt, even as his rebellion was
lay in the fact that the fruit was forbidden. He defied       our rebellion. Had Adam stood alone, God could have
God's command not to eat of the forbidden tree. And           called a judgment day in paradise, with the result that
in doing so he made himself guilty of breach of cove-         there would. have been a hell with two people. But
nant. `He was unfaithful to his God as an unfaithful wife     Adam was our representative head, and his death
who deserts her husband to follow after another man.          sentence could be executed only upon him and his
He turned away from God to listen to the deception and        generations. The first sin of Adam had to be developed
treachery of God's enemy, the devil. He forsook God           until sin in all its horrible rebellion against God be-
to enter into an alliance with Satan. And he did this in      comes fully evident and the righteous judgment of God
full consciousness of what he was doing and well aware        is fully carried out. Besides, God promised salvation
that the death penalty rested upon that transgression.        to Adam and to his spiritual seed, the elect in the line
    The death sentence was also carried out. God              of generations. To Adam was promised the SEED, the
turned against Adam and banished him from before              Christ, including all those that eternally belong to
His face.       Adam became. a child of wrath. Eph.  2:3.     Christ in sovereign election. Election and reprobation
He experienced the crushing burden of guilt in separa-        would become evident in the generations that followed.
tion from God and the bitter anguish of being cast            God created enmity between the spiritual seed, the
away in divine righteous indignation. Besides that, he        seed of the woman, and the carnal seed, which was the
became sinful, depraved. God gave him over to his             seed of Satan.    While Satan and his spiritual seed, the
sin.       Spiritually he was an enemy of God and a friend    wicked, were in the process of piercing the heel of the
of Satan. His mind was darkened. His heart was filled         promised Seed, that heel would come down with all its
with enmity against God and against Eve. He was no            fury upon the head of Satan to crush him and his seed
longer a friend-servant of God, but a rebel, who sought       forever.     '
himself, his own vain glory, attempting to excuse and            Therefore it follows that when Adam died we all
maintain himself in his sin against the Most High.            died in him, both physically and spiritually. Rom. 5:12.
He was corrupted in his very nature. And there was            Job complains, "Who can bring a clean thing out of an
no restraint of sin as far as his nature was concerned.       unclean? Not one." Job  14:4.. David confesses, "Be-
He died.       And there was no escape from death except      hold, I was shapen in iniquity; and insin did my mother
by regeneration. John  3:3.                                   conceive me."      P s .   51:s.    We must say with Paul,
    As king of the earthly creation Adam witnessed            "There is none righteous, no, not one. . . . There is
God's curse upon his entire realm. Instead of the             none that seeketh after God.        . . . There is none that
abundance of paradise, the earth brought forth thorns         doeth good, no, not one." Rom.  3:10-12.  "For what-
and thistles.       Only by the sweat of his brow could       ever is not of faith is sin." Rom.  14:23.
Adam wrestle an existence from the earth that he                 With this: our Confessions heartily concur. Our
tilled.      God wrote in bold letters everywhere that        Catechism asks: "Are we then so corrupt, that we are
frightening word, vanity.                                     incapable of doing any good, and inclined to all wicked-
    Nothing alleviated that curse. Deathmade its solemn       ness? And the answer is given,  "Indeedwe  are; except
                                                              we are regenerated by the Spirit of God." (Lord's Day
                        IN MEMORLAM                           3, Question 8.) This is also the language of article 15
The Board of Reformed Free Publishing Association             of our Confession of Faith. And with this our Canons
wishes to express its sincere sympathy to our Editor,         are in full agreement. Under the Third and Fourth
Professor H.C. Hoeksema in the loss of his father,            Head Of Doctrine, article 4, the Canons speak of
                 Rev. HERMAN HOEKSEMA                         glimmerings of natural light, whereby man retains
                                                              some knowledge of God and of creation, knows the
May our God comfort him and the bereaved family and           difference between good and evil, and is able to main-
sustain them in their sorrow. Psalm  116:15  "Precious        tain some virtue and orderly deportment as far as his
in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."         daily existence is concerned. But then our fathers most
                                 R. Bloem, President          emphatically `add: "But so far is this light of nature
                                 G. Bouwkamp, Secretary       from being sufficient to bring him to a saving knowledge


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of God and to true conversion, that he is incapable of                           how pretentious his outward display of virtue and or-
using it  aright even in things natural and civil." (I                           derly deportment may be.          And then our Confession
have underscored).                                                               adds, "Nay, further, this light, such as it is, man in
       Well may this last statement be underscored, as                           various ways renders wholly polluted, and holds it in
well as the statement that natural light can never                               unrighteousness, by doing which he becomes inexcus-
bring a person to a saving knowledge of God nor to                               able before God."
true conversion. That means that he is also incapable
of accepting any offered salvation, incapable of believ-                            Man is depraved.         God's wrath abides on him.
ing the stock phrase, "God loves you, Christ died for                            Nothing but regeneration can change him.
you." He is even incapable of using those remnants of                               And this must be preached from the pulpit and on
natural light  aright in his daily walk of life, no matter                       the mission field, as we shall see next time.




                                      ("All the saints salute thee . . ." Phil. 421)


                                                    S e p t .   4 ,   1 9 6 5    from Hope Church in Grand Rapids. They rendered
       On September 2, 1965, Christ, the King of His                             two numbers, "Te Deum Laudamus", a 6th century
Church, translated His faithful warrior-servant, Rev.                            Latin Creed, and, "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
H. Hoeksema, from the Church Militant to the Church                              by Byron. The new choir was well received and will
Triumphant.        Even to outsiders Rev. Hoeksema was                           probably be heard from again.          An anti-climax to the
famous as a voluminous writer, a strident lecturer and                           convention was furnished by the visitation of a fierce
an eloquent pulpiteer; but to our denomination, and es-                          storm of heavy rains and tornadic winds resulting in up-
pecially to his congregation he will always be re-                               rooted trees and the consequent power failure. The
membered as a kind and loving pastor,, a prodigous                               `65 Convention will long be remembered by that noisy
worker, an able teacher, and a faithful minister of the                          and fearful anti-climax!
Word of God -- a "Man of God". Though his life was                                                           %  %  %
stormy, -God graciously gave him a peaceful and serene                              The Adamds St. School Mothers' Club August meet-
end: he died in his sleep. Funeral services were held                            ing was, due to Rev. Hoeksema's death, re-scheduled
in First Church attended by hundreds of his beloved                              for Sept. 8. Mrs. H.C. Hoeksema, the school's Prin-
people; Revs. M. Schipper and G. Vos officiating. The                            cipal, was the speaker; the announced title was, "What
long funeral cortege was hampered by a rain storm --                             Are You Doing?"
a final storm in our old "Dominee's" career--but to                                                          %%%
which he was oblivious for he had put off his "earthly                              Oak Lawn's Ladies Circle organized a "Home
house of this tabernacle" and was already safe in the                            Talent" program to be rendered Aug. 31. You were
shelter of the everlasting arms of Christ his Redeemer.                          born somewhere at the turn of the century if you can
Indeed the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away,                              remember when this sort of program  .was the only kind
blessed be the Name of the Lord!                                                 of entertainment church people enjoyed. Home talent
                            % *  %                                               in those days did not have to compare with "Hollywood
       Candidate Robert Decker has declined the call from                        Talent' ' that issued forth from the boob-tube in the
Lynden, Wash., and has accepted the call from  Doon,                             corner of the living room. But then, the content can-
Iowa.        He will be examined, D.V. at the September                          not be compared either.
Classis meeting, and will be ordained the week of Sept.                                                      %  %  %
26,  D.V.                                                                           The children of Hull's Sunday School recently gave
                            %  % *                                               their offering money to Hope Haven School, a Christian
       Rev. J.A. Heys, of South Holland, Ill., declined the                      school for exceptional children, located at  RockValley,
call to be Home Missionary of our denomination.                                  Iowa.
                            *  % *                                                                           * * *
       The 1965 Young People's Convention, held at South                            The Prot. Ref. High School Ladies' Circle is spon-
Holland, Ill., was again a huge success. A good choice                           soring a public lecture on Sept. 23 at Hope Church in
of delegates, a good turnout of visitors, a good banquet                         Grand Rapids.      The speaker -- Prof. H. Hanko; the
and good speakers all contributed to that success.                               topic, ` `Prot. Ref. Education, a Unique Enterprise".
Prof. H.C. Hoeksema was the  I<eynote speaker; his                               This lecture ought to fill Hope's new church  - see you
topic "Covenant Youth, Glorious Heritage". He was                                there ?
followed the next afternoon by Rev. M. Schipper who                                                          *  %  %
spoke on, "Preservation of our Heritage by our Cove-                                Societies are showing signs of life after a sum-
nant Youth". Rev. G. Van Baren was the banquet speak-                            mer's hibernation.     The Mr. and Mrs. Societies of
er and spoke on, "Calling of the Covenant Youth to                               Southeast and of Hudsonville are both planning outings,
Preserve that Heritage". The evening program pro-                                and Holland's Men's Society's Program Committee is
vided an innovation in the form of a Speaking Choir                              asking, via the bulletin, for topics and questions to be


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discussed on their after recess programs. This might                                      ist. Mr. Charles Westra, of Southeast Church was the
be an opportune time to remind one another "not to                                        song director.
neglect the gathering of the saints" in our society                                                                     *  %  %
gatherings.          Don't let it be said of you like it was                                  Bulletin Quote: "There is as much difference be-
predicted of David,  ". .  .thou shalt be missed for thy                                  tween the sufferings of the saints and those of the un-
 seat shall be empty. . .  ."                                       1 Sam. 2O:lS.         godly as there is between the cords with which the ex-
                                      %  %  %                                             ecutioner pinions a malefactor and the bandages where-
     The Michigan pre-convention  Hymnsing brought up                                     with a tender surgeon binds his patient. The design of
 a capacity crowd in Hope's new church. Delegates and                                     the one is to kill: of the other to cure. Believers un-
visitors were instructed in the ways and means of reach-                                  dergo many crosses, but no curses."
ing the convention site, and the duties of each. Special                                                                                      Arrowsmith.
music was furnished by Mr. Gerald Kuiper, tenor solo-                                         . . . . see you in church.                                  J.M.F.



                  RESOL  UTION  OF SYMPATHY                                                              NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING,
The Senior Mr. and Mrs. Society of First Church (Grand                                                                  of the
 Rapids) grieves with our brother and sister in Christ,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kregel, in the loss of their                                            REFORMED FREE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION
father and our beloved Pastor,                                                                                  to be held at the
              REVEREND HERMAN HOEKSEMA                                                         HOPE PROTESTANT REFORMED CHURCH
We mourn with them, but we also rejoice with them in                                                     on September 30, at 8:00 p.m.
the deliverance of our aged spiritual leader, who, by                                     Rev. George Lanting will speak on the theme "The
the Grace of our Covenant God, so capablyled us in the                                    Standard Bearer -- A Personal Challenge".                       Three
rich pastures of the Truth of His Word. May He com-                                       board members are to be chosen from the following
fort, with His Spirit, the sorrow in their hearts, is our                                 nomination:      Richard  Bos, Ted Englsma, Peter Faber,
prayer.                                                                                   Fred Hanko, Hib Kuiper, Gilbert Schimmel.                         The
 "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown                               R.F.P.A. Board urges all Protestant Reformed men to
 of life".                                                                                attend this meeting.
                                       Mr. G. Bouwkamp, President                                                                  G. Bouwkamp,  Sec"y.
                                       Mrs. Len Dykstra, Secretary


                               INDEX TO THE`STANDARD BEARER, VOL. 41

                                                                    Index by Rev. G.  Vanden  Berg

                                TEXT INDEX                                                II Kings  13:20, 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.          26
                                                                    Authov Page           Psalm  78:58-61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.           492
Genesis  18:19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.                         482    Psalm  89:15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.          98
Numbers  11:31-34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.                            434    Psalm  103:2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.            2
Deuteronomy 32:9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.                            218    Psalm  119:65. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.           50
Deuteronomy 32:11, 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.                              170    Proverbs  30:8b, 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.         242
I Joshua 10:12-14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.                          458    Isaiah 26:1, 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.        290
Judges 17:6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                           61    Isaiah 40:31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.       146
Judges 18:30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                           19    Ezekiel 38, 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          208
Ruth 1:6,16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                          89    Ezekiel 38, 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          250
Ruth 1:19-21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                          116    Ezekiel 38, 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          275
Ruth 2:2, 3, 15, 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                           153    Ezekiel 38, 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          295
Ruth 3:l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                        222    Ezekiel 38, 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          323
Ruth 3:9-11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                          252    Zechariah  4:6b. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.        386
Ruth 4:13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                         304    Matthew  26:39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.          266
I Samuel 1:9-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.                           327    Luke 2:14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.       122
I Samuel 2:l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                          348    Acts  17:16-34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          427
I Samuel 2:12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                   B.W.        395    Acts  17:16-34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          444
I Samuel 3:10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.                        429    Acts  17:13-18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          391
P Samuel  4%. .  0  e  e  s  D  e  s  e  D .  D .  0  n  D  e  m  D B.W.           464    Acts  17:26-34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          466
ISamuel.5:1,2   D                                                                         Romans 5~12-21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                         0  D  m  m  D . .  s . .  D  D  e  a  e  D  o  o  B.W.    492                                                        G.C.L.          15


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Romans 5:12-21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.              63    Calling Of The Minister As Pastor, The. . .R.D.                 417
Romans 7:4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.          194    C.E.F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.    212
Romans  12:1,2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.           490    Child, The Exceptional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.         332
I Corinthians 15:55-57. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.           314    Christian Reformed Organization, A New H.C.H.                   317
II Corinthians 4:3, 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.          338    Christian Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C.H.        91
II Corinthians 4:15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.          74    Church And Sacraments, The . . . . . . . . . .H.V.               10
I Timothy 2:1-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.            85    Churches, Togetherness In The. . . . . . . . .H.H.              282
Revelation 2:lOb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.          410    Church Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.           284
Revelation 5:6, 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; . . J.K.         362    Church Union, A Footnote On . . . . . . . . . .H.H.              69
Revelation 20:8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.           208    "Common Grace" Sickness . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.                 28
Revelation  20:8, 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          250    Confessions, Outdated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.          355
Revelation  2O:B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          275    Conservative Or Conservative . . . . . . . H.C .H.               78
Revelation  20:8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          295    Contribution (Labor Union Legislation). . . C.W.                439
Revelation 20:s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.           323    Contribution (Radio Tape Recordings) H.V.D.W.                   294
                                                                          Creation, The Doctrine Of . . . . . . . . . . .                 351
                          SUBJECT INDEX                                                                                         .H.V.
                                                                          Creation, The Doctrine Of . . . . . . . . . . . .H.V.           421
                                    A                                     Creation, The Doctrine Of . . . . . . . . . . . .H.V.           446
Abraham's Calling Respecting His                                          Creation, The Doctrine of . . . . . . . . . . . .H.V.           471
       Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.    482    Creation, The Doctrine of . . . . . . . . . . . .H.V.           494
A Call To Arms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.A.H.              87    Creation, The Doctrine Of According
Advice For An "Aroused LAITY". . . . . H.C.H.                      342      To The Confessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.V.          393
Advice For An "Aroused LAITY". . . . . H.C.H.                      367                                     D
Anniversary Remembrance And Praise . H.C.H.                          2    Danger in Delay., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.        486
Annual Financial Report . . . . . . . . . . . . .D.I<.              47    Dangerous Familiarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.          133
Ascended To Open The Book. . . . . . . . . . . J.K.                362    Death Challenged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.       314
Assemblies, Mergers, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.                450    "Dekker Case", The Christian Reformed
Atheism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C .H.        35      Synod And The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C .H.          52
Atheist In The Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.             141    "Dekker Case", The Christian Reformed
Authority, Praying For Those In. . . . . . G.C.L.                   85      Synod And The +~e'&Ys;i'a;  ;e;o;;e&H.c.H.                     76
Authority, Praying For Those In. . . . . . G.C.L.                  164    "Dekker Case",
Authority, The Gospel Ministry And                                          Synod And The                                                 102
  Those In . . . . . . . . ; . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.          164    "Dekker Case", ;;e'&-r;s;i'a; -&o---e& H;CJ-L
                                    B                                       Synod And The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.          124
Baptism, Adult. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.            321    Destructionism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C .H.       129
Baptismal Prayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.               183    Double Dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.       231
Baptismal Prayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.               204    Dr. Daane's Common Grace Fixation. . . H.C.H.                   340
Baptismal Vow, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.              41    Dr. Daane's Views The Dekker Case . . . H.C.H.                  319
Baptismal Vow, The . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.                82    Dutch Churches Favor W.C.C. . . . . . . . . .H.H.                67
Baptism-, The Ceremony Of . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.                  277                                     E
Belgic Confession, Article XIII. . . . . . . H.C.H.                 45    Eagle And His Brood, The . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.            170
Belgic Confession, Article XIII -. . . . . . . H.C.H.               95    Eagles, Mounting Up As. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.I<.       146
Belgic Confession, Article XIII. . . . . . . H.C.H.                190    Ecumenical Movement, The History
Belgic Confession, Article XIII. .. ; . . . . H.C.H.               238      Of The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.B.      65
Belgic Confession, Article XIII. . . . . . . H.C.H.                279    Ecumenicalism, Motivation For . . . . . . G.V.B.                114
Belgic Confession, Article XIII.. . . . . . . H.C.H.               359    Ecumenicalism, Examining . . . . . . . . . G.V.B.                33
Belgic Confession, -Article XIII. . . . . . . H.C.H.               383    Ecumenism, Reformed . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.B.              139
Belgic Confession, Article XIII . . . -. . . . H.C.H.              454    Editorial Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C .H.      487
Bible By Life, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . c . . .H.H.           234    Educate, Freedom To . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.            196
Black But Comely. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.           423    Elisha, At The Grave Of . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.            26
Black Horse Still Runs, The . . . . . ?`:- . . . .H.H.             354    Eli's Sons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.      395
Boaz, On The Threshing Floor Of . ; . . . . B.W.                   252    Evangelical Approach According To
Book Reviews:                                                               The Scriptures, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C.H.           43
        A Relevant Salvation by R .E. White . . H.C.H.             109    Evangelical Approach In Missions As
        The Letters Of Paul, by F. Bruce. .  ; H.C.H.              287      Carried Out By Christ Himself . . . . . . .C.H.               135
       The Passion And Death Of Christ, by                                Evangelical Approach In The Book
          C. Spurgeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.      311      Of Acts, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C.H.       179
       The Secret Of Christian Family                                     Evangelical Approach In The New
          Living, by R.  Heynen . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.         431      Dispensation, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C.H.         202
Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C .H.         58    Evangelical Approach In The New
By My Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.        386      Dispensation, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C.H.         229
                                    C                                     Evangelical Approach In The Old
Called Of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.           429      Dispensation, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C.H.          69


                                                             THE STANDARD BEARER                                                        503


Evangelical Approach In The Old                                           Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.        325
  Dispensation, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C .H.           84     Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.        350
Evangelical Approach In The Time                                          Inspiration, The Meaning Of Divine . . . . . .H.V.           325
  Of Christ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C.H.        107                                    J
Evil, The Root Of All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.          399     Jehovah's People His Portion . . . . . . . . . .M.S.         218
Evolutionism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C .H.       155     Jehovah's Strength in Captivity. . . . . . . . B.W.          492
Evolutionism In The Dutch Churches . . . . .H.H.                   68     Jehovah's Well-Dealing Acknowledged . . H.C.H.                50
Exalted Above Sun and Moon. . . . . . . . . H.C.H.                458     Jehovah's Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C .H.     224
                                 F                                                                       I<
Faithful Until Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                        Kibroth-Hattaavah:  God's Answer 
                                                       .M.S.      410                                              TO
Forty Day Period In Scripture . . . . . . .                                 An Evil Prayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.      434
                                                      H.C.H.      118
Freedom From Fear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                          Kindness To The Living And The Dead . . . B. W.              200
                                                         J.H.     157
Freedom To Serve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                        I<nowing  The Joyful Sound . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.        98
                                                         J.H.     254
Freemasonry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                                                         L
                                                      R .C .H.    185
Full Speed Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                          Labor Union Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . C.W.         439
                                                      H.C.H.      245     Ladies' League Meeting Report, Eastern .  .L.K.              119
                                 G                                        Ladies' League Meeting Report, Eastern . . J.O.              401
Gethsemane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.          266     Ladies' League Meeting Report,
God's Government and Sin . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.               190       Western. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.D.T.  & S.A.      119
God's Government and Sin . . . . . . . . . . H.C .H.              238     Liberty, Harassment and Religious . . . . . .H.H.            235
God's Government and Sin . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.               279     Living From The Past. . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.         414
God's Government and Sin . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.               359     Lord's Supper Form. . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.          345
God's Government and Sin . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.               383     Lord's Supper Form . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.         369
God's Government and Sin . . . . . . . . . . H.C .H.              454     Lord's Supper Form. . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.          448
God's Responsibility and Man's                                            Lord's Supper Form. . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.          473
  Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.        374     Lord's Supper, Reformed View Of. . . . . . .H.V.              10
Gog and Magog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.           208     Lord's Supper, The Sacrament Of The . . . .H.H.               30
Gog and Magog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C .L.          250     Lord's Supper, The Sacrament Of The . . . .H.H.               56
Gog and Magog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.           275     Lord's Supper, The Sacrament Of The . . . .H.V.               79
Gog and Magog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.           295     Lord's Supper, The Sacrament Of The . . . .H.H.              105
Gog and Magog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.           323     Lord's Supper, The Sacrament Of The . . . .H.H.              127
Gospel, Hidden In The Lost . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.              338     Lord's Supper, The Sacrament Of The . . . .H.H.              150
Gospel of Christ Preached On Mars                                        Lord's Supper, Views on the Sacraments .  .H.V.,               10
  Hill, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.         391     Loves of God, How Many? . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.          308
Gospel of Christ Preached On Mars                                         Lutherans, Some News About . . . . . . . . . .H.H.           262
  Hill, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.        427                                    M
Gospel of Christ Preached On Mars                                         Married To The Risen Christ. . . . . . . . . .M.S.           194
  Hill, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.        444     Mergers, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.    373
The Gospel of Christ Preached on                                          Minister As Pastor, The Calling Of. . . . . .R.D.            417
  Mars Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.         466     Ministers, The Need For. . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.          100
Government Funds and The False Church. .H.H.                      187     Ministers, The Need For. . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.          126
Graduation, Seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C .H.            413     Ministers, Your Useless . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.        188
                                H                                         Ministry, Should I Prepare For The. . . . H.C.H.              29
Handfuls Of Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.             153     Ministry, Should I Prepare For The. . . . . H.C.H.            54
Hannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.        327     Ministry, Should I Prepare For The. . . . H.C.H.             100
Hannah, The Song Of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.             348     Ministry, Should I Prepare For The. . . . H.C.H.'            174
Hocus Pocus, Redemptive-Redeeming . . H.C.H.                      461     Ministry, Should I Prepare For The. . . . H.C.H.             220
Hocus Pocus, Redemptive-Redeeming . . H.C.H.                      485     Ministry Should I Prepare For The. . . . H.C.H.              292
Hoeksema, Rev. H., A Tribute To . . . . . . . J.H.                409     Mission Gains The Criterion?. . . . . . . . H.C.H.           148
Hoeksema, Rev. Herman, 1886-1965 . . . H.C.H.                     484     Mission Gains  The. Criterion?. . . . . . . . H.C.H.         170
                                I                                         Mission Gains The Criterion?. . . . . . . . H.C.H.           196
Ichabod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.       464     Mission Gains The Criterion?. . . . . . . . H.C.H.           245
Infallibility In Every Part . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.            39     Mission Gains The Criterion?. . . . . . . . H.C.H.           268
In Prospect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.           7     Mission Preaching  and,Reprobation . . . . . .C .H.          425
In Retrospect  - Forty Years. . . . . . . . . H.C.H.                4     Mission Preaching and Total Depravity . . .C.H.              475
Inspiration Of The Scriptures. . . . . . . . . .H.V.              110     Missions, Total Depravity and . . . . . . . . .C.H.          498
Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.             159     Morality, The New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.      310
Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.             181     Mormonism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C .H.    259
Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.             206     Mount Zion, Our Strong City. . . . . . . . . . M.S.          290
Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.             226                                    N
Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.             248     Naomi And Ruth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.        89
Inspiration Of The Scriptures . . . . . . . . . .H.V.             273     Naomi-Mara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.        116


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Neo-Evangelicalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R.C.H.               271       Right, But Dead Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.              365
New Generation of 1924 -- Blueprint                                           Right, But Dead Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.              386
       For Its Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.B.        440       Right, But Dead Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.              436
New Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.            462       Right, But Dead Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.              461
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                     23      Right, But'Dead Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.              485
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . 1 . . J.M.F.                     48      Right to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.         496
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                     71      Romanism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R.C.H.          297
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                     96      Ruth And Naomi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.            116
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                    120      Ruth Finds Rest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.         304
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                    144                                           S
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                    168      Sacraments (See "Baptism" and "Lord's
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                    192         Supper")
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                    216      Sacred Scripture, The Canon Of . . . . . . . .H.V.                 37
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   240       Sacred Scripture, The Canon Of . . . . . . . .H.V.                 93
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                  264      Samson's Restoration And End . . . . . . . . B.W.                  19
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                    288      Schools, A Quote On Federal Aid To . . . . .H.H.                  373
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . ; . J.M.F.                   312       Schools, More On Aid To. . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.              261
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   336       Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . .H.V.              110
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                    360      Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . . . .H.V.          159
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   384       Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . .H.V.              181
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   408       Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . .H.V.              206
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   432       Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . .H.V.              226
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   456       Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . .H.V.              248
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   480       Scriptures, The Inspiration Of'. . . . . . . . .H.V.              273
News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . J.M.F.                   500       Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . .H.V.              325
New Split In The Netherlands . . . . . . . . .- .H.H.                210      Scriptures, The Inspiration Of . . . . . . . . . . .H.V.          350
N.F.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.          21      Secretary's Annual Report. . . . . . . . . . . .G.B.               47
Non-Neutral. Neutrality . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.              141      Seeking Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.         222
                                    0                                         Selling God's Love Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.            12
On Earth, Peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.            122      Selma And The Clergy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.             372
Orthodoxy Is Not Enough . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.B.                 380      Service, Our Reasonable . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.              490
Our Reasonable Service. . . . . . . . . . . . G.C.L.                490       Seventh Day Adventism . . . . . . . . . . . . R.C.H.              334
                                    P                                         Spiritism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . t . . R.C.H.    378
Pages From The Past. . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.                      8    Spiritual Confusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.W.          61
Peace On Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.K.            122      Staff Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.        373
Post-Millennialism,  The Danger Of. . . . . .H.H.                    402      Statement Of Ownership  & Management . . . J.D.                    72
Prayer For Convenient Food, A . . . . . . . . J.K.                   242      Swedenborgianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R .C.H.            397
Praying For Those In Authority . . . . . . GC.L.                     131      Synod of 1965, Report Of . . ; . . . . . . . . . .H.H.            419
Preaching And Missions, Election. . . . . . . .C .H.                 329                                           T
Predestination And Gospel Preaching. . . . .C.H.                     299      Television And Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.            283
Predestination And Mission Preaching. . . .C.H.                      352      Thanksgiving, The Prayer Of . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.                 257
Predestination And Mission Preaching. . . .C.H.                      452      Thanksgiving, The Wonder Of. . . . . . . . . . J.K.                74.
Predestination On The Mission Field,                                          The All Important Return. . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.            177
       Preaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C .H.     376       The Fool Hath Said. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.          343
Presbyterians, A New Confession For . . . .H.H.                      112      The Inner Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.H.         301
Presbyterians, Concerned . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.                 113      Theosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R.C.H.         468
Presbyterians, Concerned . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.                 141      `Total Depravity and Missions . . . . . . . . . .C .H.            498
                                    Q                                         Total Depravity, Mission Preaching and. . .C.H.                   475
Question Box: The Forty Day Period                                            To The Utmost Of Our Power. . . . . . .G.V.D.B.                   137
       In Scripture? . . . . . . T . . . . . . . . . . H.C.H.        118      To The Utmost Of Our Power. . ; . . . .G.V.D.B.                   161
                                    R                                         Transubstantiation, A New Theory of . . . . .H.H.                 497
Racial Riots -- Whose Fault?. . . . . . . . . . .H.H.               496                                            V
R.C.A.  - P.C.U.S.: Proposed Merger. . . G.V.B.                      357      Vatican Council, The: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.         141
R.C.A. -- P.C.U.S.: Proposed Merger. . . G.V.B.                     405       Vatican Council, The Second. . . . . . . . . . .H.H.               40
Reformation, A Loss Of The Faith?. . . . . .H.H.                     189      Vows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G.V.D.B.         17
Reformation Or Deformation . . . . . . . . . . J.H.                   59                                           W
Reformation Rally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M.S.              463      Wars and Rumors of Wars . . . . . . . . . . J.A.H.                487
Relevant, Efforts To Be. . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.                39      W.C.C. -- And Communism, The . . . . . . G.V.B.                   306
Religious Liberty And Harassment . . . . . .H.H.                     235      W.C.C. - And The Kingdom Of God . . . . G.V.B.                    284
Religious Mental Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.               371      W.C.C. --Its Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G.V.B.           213
Remember The Dead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .H.H.                 189      W.C.C.  - Its Goals For  Th,e Church . . . G.V.B.                 236
Reprobation And Mission Preaching. . . . . .C.H.                     425      World Council Of Churches, The. . . . . . G.V.B.                  166

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