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     Meditation  - Rev. Richard G. Moore
                 Committing Our Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .."...............................................~..........481
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                            Committing Our Way

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          "Delight thyselfalso in the Lord:and       The psalmist points out also that of-        concerns our worship; our personal
     heshallgive thee the desires of thine heart.    ten that antithesis comesvery close to       devotions; our life as a family; our life
     Commit thyway unto thelord; trust also          us. By this we understand that we are        in marriage; our life as we live in the
     in him; and he shall bring it to pass."         in a battle of faith that intimately         midst of God's people withits fellow-
                                  Psalm 37~4-5       touches our lives as we live in this         ship and care of one another; our
                                                     world. We are given an example of            vocation and the activity and goals of
         How necessary it is for us to com-          this in verse 14: "The wicked have           our labor; and we could go on and on.
     mit our way unto the Lord. This                 drawn out the sword, and have bent               Literally, the idea of our text is
     becomes more emphatically true each             their bow, to cast down the poor and         that we roll away ourburdens to God.
     day that we live. This is true because          needy, and to slay such as be of up-         This same thought is expressed by
     of the days in which we live, days in           right conversation."                         Peter in the New Testament, when
     which there are many forces being                   But the Psalm points out that we         the Spirit exhorts us through the
     brought to bear upon us  to  dissuade           shall be cared for even in the face of       apostle and says that we are to humble
     us from a walk of faith and from a life         everything that comes upon our path.         ourselves, "Casting all of your care
     of true love and service of God as His          We shall be fed, we shall have the           upon him, for he careth for you."
     friend servants.                                desires of our heart, and our righ-          Now we must understand that "the
         It is also true as we face the many         teousness shall be brought forth as          way" of the elect, regenerated, and
     trials which are part of the day in             thelight, etc. Thisshallbeourportion         called child of God involves burdens.
     which we live. As the day of judg-              as we commit our way unto the Lord,          And we are called to bear them. At
     ment swiftly approaches, many signs             and as we place our trust in our God,        times we may not always give much
     of the coming judgment are being                the God of our salvation in Christ.          thought to these burdens. Especially
     revealed, and these affect the church.          According to our Psalm, this is God's        may this be the case for us in our
     The diverse storms, the anarchy, es-            good pleasure for His children, as we        youth; for then all things may seem to
     pecially the laws and the economic              see in verse 18: "The Lord knoweth           be going quite smoothly for us, and
     changes, etc. And, finally, we come             the days of the upright: and their           life may even seem to be rosy.
     into greater contact with the enemies           inheritance shall be for ever."                  But this does not change the truth
     of God due to the present apostasy,                 Now, in our text we are called to        thateventhenthewayofG&l'speople
     the love of many waxing cold.                   commit our way to His care. To un-           is in reality filled with burdens. And
         In light of all this we are admon-          derstand this blessed exhortation we         wemustunderstandthatthislifemust
     ished to commit our way to Jehovah.             must understand what is meant by             be so, for God would perfect us
     We find that this Psalm sets forth the          "our way." It is the life of the child of    through trials. The Psalms express
     antithesis that exists between the be-          God that begins with his birth and           many times this aspect of our life,
     liever and the unbeliever, the righ-            ends in the grave. Also, our text            with its burdens. For instance, in the
     teous and the wicked. It is demon-              speaks of the desires of our heart. As       ninetieth Psalm we have the witness
     stratedinverse 9: "For evildoers shall          children of God we are concerned             of a saint nearing the end of His life.
     be cut off: but those that wait upon            with our way, and have deep desires          The psalmist says that we are con-
     the Lord, they shall inherit the earth."        regarding the pathin which we travel.        sumed by this anger, and we spend
                                                     From the heart are the issues of our         our days as a tale that is told (7,9). Or
                                                     life. Thus, it is from the deepest           again, ourlifeis seenin the expression
                                                     motivations of ourinnerman, that we          that our "strength" is "labor and sor-
                                                     are to bring forth all of our activity as    row." This is true even of the best
                                                     we pass down the way of this life.           days of our life.
     Rev. Moore is pastor of the Protestant          This way which we travel includes                Now this is emphasized by the
     Reformed Church of Hull, Iowa.                  virtually all that we do in this life. It    psalmist not because the Lord would

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have us to mope around, saying, "O!          prayer. "And it came to pass, when           work in us. This statement refers to
Woe is me, woe is me." It is intended        Moses held up his hand, that Israel          the whole of all our lives -our faith-
rather to reveal the reality of this life    prevailed: and when he let down his          fulLordcleansesHis  people andleads
that we might fully understand why           hand, Amalekprevailed" (Ex. 1791).           them in the whole of their life. That is,
it is so necessary that we commit our            The basis for turning so to the          God will most certainly bless us. He
way unto Jehovah. The first cause for        Lord and His Word is the truth that          says that the desires of our heart shall
this burden is the fact that we are          our Lord has taken our burden upon           be filled. It is not so with those not
brought forth in sin, and naturally we       Himselfandcoveredthatburdenwith              committing their way unto the Lord!
struggle with the guilt of that sin and      obedience. In covenant faithfulness          Their end shallbe  destruction, and in
the motions of sin in us. From the           Jehovah knows our way, and upon              this life, misery in all their way. In
moment of ourbirthuntilwe go to the          thebasis of the merits of Christ, whom       verse 15 we read, "Their sword shall
grave, sin is a reality of life for us.      He gave to remove our burden of sin,         enter into their own heart, and their
And this will not change in this life,       He now cares for His own with ever-          bows shall be broken." This is in
for it is impossible to attain perfection    lasting love. On the basis of this love      contrast to the next verse where we
here. The testimony of that sin for us       of God for us, we with our children go       read, "A little that the righteous man
is that we are guilty before the Judge       forth in confidence, trusting that the       hath is betterthan  the riches of many
of heaven and earth. Thus we must            Lord will give us strength for all the       wicked." May God grant us the grace
learn by grace to cast the burden of         battles of faith that we must wage.          to believe this.
our sin upon God!                            And we shall trust that the very way             That God will give us the desires
    Wewillnotcastthisburdenupon              in which He leads us shall serve our         ofourheartmustbeunderstoodfrom
God except we see the burden. It is          spiritual welfare and salvation.             the point of view that the desires of
only the one in whose heart the Spirit           Therefore we of necessity must           the heart are the desires of one who
of Christ dwells that can and will see       waituponGodandturntoHimforall                commits his way unto Jehovah, and
his sin and its burden. Apart from           strength to pass through the way of          therefore they are desires that center
salvation such knowledge of sin and          life. It is obvious from our text that we    in the Word of God and that seekHis
guilt is wholly impossible. And this         are commanded by Christ so to com-           glory. Now God will bring it to pass.
same thing is true of the other matters      mit our way unto Jehovah and to trust        That is, He creates in us the life that is
in our life, related to the sin of man,      in Him. This is not optional. This is        blessed. It means that through the
that are burdens to us. It is only as he     the command of Christ. It is a com-          wonder of the incarnation of our Lord
is saved, that the child of God will see     mand that leads us to bring our chil-        Jesus Christ, by His death and resur-
Satan and his co-workers as the en-          dren before Him to be baptized. It is        rection, and upon the outpouring of
emy, and thus willby grace flee them.        in obedience to this command that we         His Spirit, our lives are made new, we
This we can do only by committing            make confession of our faith, and it is      are become new creatures. This is
our way unto Jehovah, only by cast-          in obedience to this command that we         what Paul teaches us, for instance, in
ing our burden upon Him.                     obey Him and come to church in               Ephesians 2:10, "For we are His work-
    What does this involve? To com-          worship. It is in obedience to this          manship, created in Christ Jesus unto
mit our way to Jehovah is to leave all       command that we turn to the office of        good works, which God hath before
burdens with Him. It means that in           mercy in our need, knowing the pro-          ordained that we should walk in
the whole of our life we turn to God         visionthatGodhasmadeforusinHis               them." And this also is the end -
for the wisdom to walk in the way            mercy. And in obedience to this com-         God's children walkin the good works
that He leads. But it also means that        mand, as a people, we will provide           that God has ordained to glorify His
we turn to God to determine the way          abundantly the alms for the office of        name.
in which we are to walk. And we turn         Christ, and in our daily life we will            This means that God gives us life,
to Him to determine how we are to            trust in the Lord for grace which is         the life of Christ; for Christ commit-
pass through the way that is set be-         sufficient for each day. We, by the          ted His way unto Jehovahperfectlyin
fore us.                                     grace of God, must commit our way            our stead. And upon the basis of His
    WedothisbycomingtoHisWord                unto the Lord, working out our salva-        righteousness, He makes us new by
faithfully for knowledge. We do this         tion with fear and trembling. We may         the power of His Spirit. He calls us by
first in worship. We do it also in our       do this realizing that it is God that        the efficacious power of His Word.
daily devotions, especially in prayer.       worketh in us both to will and to do         Further, by this power of His Spirit
Even Jesus, who was God come in our          His good pleasure. Not one moment            and Word He unites us with Christ, to
flesh, did this. In our flesh He corn-       of our lives is to be lived apart from       live from Christ in thanksgiving unto
mittedHis way in prayer to God. The          Him. In this consciousness we must           God. May our Lord grant us the grace
apostles and prophets also were men          walk.                                        to commit our way unto the Lord, to
of prayer. In this connection we think           God shall bring it to pass!!             trustinChrist,  and torestinHiswork
of Moses, whose arms were held up                This is a special word of God for        -thus to give all glory to God. 0
that Israel might have victory in            us: God shallperform and perfect His

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    This is the time of year when the                              divine command, not only to minis-          are adult Bible classes. There are the
meetings for the study of the Holy                                 ters but also to all. "Search the scrip-    Mr. and Mrs. societies. There are the
Scriptures resume within the Protes-                               tures," Christ saysin John 5:39, where      meetings of young adults. There are
tant Reformed Churches. These are                                  "searching" is more than a quick,           the young people's societies.
regular, organized, mid-week gath-                                 superficial, hit-and-miss reading of a          No one can complain of a lack of
erings of the saints for the systematic,                           passage. In an age when many church         opportunity. The only question is
thorough study of theBible.  Although                              members have neither time for nor           whether we will take advantage of
there are also other purposes of these                             interest in gathering for the study of      the opportunities.
meetings, e.g., praise and fellowship,                             the Bible, it is important to note the          After the member decides to at-
the main purpose isleaming the Word                                LORD'S attitude `toward such meet-          tend a class, his work continues. For
of God.                                                            ings as this is shown in Malachi 3:16:      if he is to benefit from the class, he
    The profit, obviously, is enor-                                "Then they that feared the Lomspake         must be prepared. Preparation in-
mous. The apostle indicates how a                                  often one to another: and the LORD          cludes the following. If the class will
believer can profit from such study                                hearkened, and heard it, and a book         be studying a book of the Bible, verse
when he writes in II Timothy 3:15-17                               of remembrance was written before           by verse or section by section, he
that "the holy scriptures . . . are able to                        him for them that feared the LORD,          should, in preparation for the firstl
make theewiseunto salvation through                                and that thought upon his name."            meeting read the entire book, so that
faith whichis in Christ Jesus" and that                            Some classes for Bible study have a         he is familiar with its content. In
"all scripture . . . is profitable for doc-                        book in which they keep the atten-          addition, he should read a brief, reli-
trine, for reproof, for correction, for                            dance. So does the LORD God.                able description of the setting, nature,
instruction in righteousness: that the                                 Within the Protestant Reformed          and outline of thebookin a worksuch
manofGodmaybeperfect,throughly                                     Churches are many classes and meet-         as Survey of the Bible by William
furnished unto all good works."                                    ings for Bible study. There are men's       Hendriksen (Baker, 1978) or An In-
    Careful study of the Bible is a                                societies and ladies' societies. There      troduction to the Old Testament by

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     Edward J. Young (Eerdmans, 1973)             ing the Scriptural basis.of some creed      us?" oughttorunthrougheverystudy
     or Introduction to the New Testa-            or of a certain doctrine or of some         of the Word of God.
     ment  by Everett F. Harrison                 aspect of .the Christian life. But the          It is vitally important  that believ-
     (Eerdmans, 1971). Then he should             object of the study in the class is the     ing Bible study be done in relation to
     read carefully the passage or pas-           Bible. Second, the Bible that is used       the church - the instituted church.
     sages that willbe taught, studied, and       must be a clear, faithful translation of    This is true even of personal Bible
     discussed at the particular meeting,         the Word of God as it has come down         study, whether on the part of the
     seekingprayerfullytounderstandthe            to us in the authentic Hebrew and           theologian or of the layman. All study
     Word of God in that passage or those         Greek manuscripts. This is the King         of the Bible by members of the Protes-
     passages. It is helpful to write down        James Version. Third, there must be         tant Reformed Churches ought to take
     one's thoughts or questions on the           a competent, sound teacher who, de-         place in light of and in harmony with
     passage. It is necessary tolookup and        pending on how the class is carried         the preaching of the gospel in these
     study other passages in Scripture that       on, can teach rightly, guide and wrap       churches. The pure preaching of the
     are related to the passage and that          up discussion, settle debated points,       gospel is the power of all profitable
     shed light on it.                            and answer questions. Aimless dis-          study of Scripture, as the Heidelberg
         Only then should the student of          cussion and the mere airing of all          Catechism points out when, in Ques-
     the Bible indulge himself in the plea-       kinds of contradictory opinions are         tion 65, it teaches that the Holy Spirit
     sure and profit of reading one or two        not conducive to learning. Erroneous        worksfaithinourheartsbythepreach-
     sound commentaries on the passage.           teaching  conflicts with the chief pur-     ing of the gospel. One who gives
     This poses a problem for some mem-           pose of the saints, as it is the will of    himself to a Bible study that advo-
     bers. What is a good commentary on           God, with these meetings, namely,           cates salvation by the free will of the
     the passage or book? Usually the             that the members of the church grow         sinner, contrary to the preaching of
     pastor or leader will recommend com-         in the knowledge of the truth.              salvation by the sovereign grace of
     mentaries before the class begins.                 Fourth, the minister or other         God, will not learn the truth as it is in
     With the exception of the commentar-         leader of the Bible study must himself      Jesus in that class. The class will not
     ies by John Calvin, a set of good com-       prepare. Regardless whether he ex-          profit him, but damage him.
     mentaries on the entire Bible is lack-       plains the material or guides the dis-          All Bible study by a Reformed
     ing to the English-speaking, Reformed        cussion, he must know the meaning           Christian must be done within the
     student of Scripture. There is no            of the passage, and he must see to it       framework of the ecumenical and
     equivalent in English to the Korte           that this meaning is understood by          Reformed creeds, so that these creeds
     Verklaring  (Brief Explanation) series       the group. Lack of preparation (and         function both as a guide to under-
     of commentaries with which the               interest) on the part of a leader can       standing and as a standard to judge
     Dutch Reformed have been blessed.            destroy the meeting.                        the teaching in the class. One who
     There is a need for a set of succinct              Fifth, it must be the desire and      seeks to learn the truths of Christian-
     commentaries by sound, able Re-              determination of all who participate        ity from a teacher, though nominally
     formed preachers, written not for            to see the meaning of every particular      "evangelical," who holds that Jesus is
     scholars but for the congregation,           passage in the light of God's covenant      a human person, or one who tries to
     written not to engage with the latest        of grace with His people in Jesus           grow spiritually from a class whose
     critical attacks on the text but to edify    Christ. Merely to learn some facts of       teacher and materials are fundamen-
     the people of God. And                                     Bible history or of doc-      talistic, dispensational, charismatic,
     why should this not be                                     trine and merely to rec-      and Arminian will certainly be disap-
     done? One of the best                                      ognize six characteris-       pointed in his purpose - he will not
     available sets today, al-         The question,            tics of prayer or ten re-     learn and grow; is obviously under-
     though as yet incom-                                       quirements of a husband
                                      "How does this                                          cutting his own confession  - pro-
     plete, is The New Inter-                                   is not yet to learn the       fessing the Reformed faith, he seeks
     national Commen ta y              apply to us?jf           truth. All truth is "in       instruction from its foes; and may
     series, published by                   ought to            Jesus" (Eph. 4:21).           very well be led astray - there is
     Eerdmans.                          run through                Sixth, the goal of all     power in false teaching to deceive.
~        Just as thereis  a right       eve y study             study of the Bible must           Our pastors and consistories must
     way for the member to              of the Word             be practical, and this        admonish their members against this
     attend the class, so also                                  must be evident at the        danger in our day. Christ and His
     there is a right way for               of God.             meeting. The Word of          apostles repeatedly and emphatically
     the class tobe  conducted.                                 God in the passage es-        warned that the danger in these last
     First, the class must work                                 tablishes our beliefs,        days would be false teachers. "And
     with the Bible itself. It may do this by     shapes our experience, and governs          many false prophets shall rise, and
     working through a book or a passage          our behavior. Spoken or unspoken,           shall deceive many" (Matt. 2411).
     of Scripture. It may do this by study-       the question, "How does this apply to       "But evil men and seducers shall wax

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worse and worse, deceiving, and be-         pils, it is the calling of every Reformed    and under the guidance of a compe-                                i
ing deceived" (II Tim. 3:13). These         Christian to "receive him not into           tent, confessionally  Reformed teacher
false teachers threaten on the radio,       your house, neither bid him God              or leader.
over television, and through neigh-         speed" (II John 10).                               Such classes, societies, and meet-
borhood Bible study classes, as well            It is safe, and truly profitable, to     ings are found in abundance in the
as behind the pulpit. Rather than to        study the Bible only in the company          sphere of our churches.
give themselves to them as eager pu-        of like-minded Reformed believers                 Will you use them? Q - DJE
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The Lord Give Us Bigots
    Please could you send theremain-        name bigot. But let him bear it. It is       .    Let us pray that the men (bigots)
ingissues of the StundurdBeurerwhich        a mark of honour, though intended to         in the church today will be kept by
contain Rev. VanOverloop's  articles        be a brand of shame. In every age            Godin the Word of truthandso doing
on "Calvinism and Missions." I have         from the beginning, when the cause           be kept from apostasy, and that the
already those of November 1, 1993           of truth emerged triumphant from             young men and women who hear
and January 15,1994, and would love         the din and dust of controversy, the         their preaching and sit under their
to complete the Five Points.                victory was won by a band of bigots          teaching in the church today will be
    John Kennedy, the Scottish High-        who were sworn to its defence."              the bigots of tomorrow.
land evangelist wrote: "No Christian            May the Lord raise up more big-                                         Sean Courtney
can be true and faithful on whose           ots. May He keep those who are                                                     Co. Cavan
brow the world shall not brand the          branded bigots today standing in the                                                 S. Ireland
                                            gap (Is. 1:9).


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                                 Peter Datheen:
 Father of Reformed Liturgy (4)

Introduction                                tant Reformed Churches, and up un-           cut out, and what is left is meaning-
    In our last article, we left Peter      til a few years ago in many Reformed         less (and in some instances, down-
Datheen in Frankenthal, in the              churches, is an ancient liturgy. It goes     right wicked) exercises in asinine fu-
Palatinate of Germany, busy as court        all the way back to the Reformationin        tility.
preacher and as liturgist. It is espe-      the Netherlands.                                   Allthisisnottosaythatweshould
cially his work in liturgy that is of           In many Reformed churches this           never change anything, that tradition
interest to us.                             ancient liturgy has been abandoned.          is sacred, that what was once done is
    The liturgy in use in the Protes-       In its place has come a tidal wave of        perfect for all time. No, a Reformed
                                            innovations which have so restruc-           church is indeed a reforming church.
                                            tured the liturgy that it is no longer            But before a Reformed church
                                            recognizable as Reformed. This is a          makes changes, it ought to be very
                                            great loss to the church. In the inter-      sure that the changes are improve-
Prof. Hanlco is professor of Church His-    ests of making liturgy appealing and         ments - i.e., that the changes bring
tory and New Testament in the Protes-       attractive to modern 20th century            our worship more closely in confor-
tant Reformed Semina y.                     man, the soul of the liturgy has been        mity with the Word of God, and that

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they are not merely changes for              Datheen not only used the work of           His gifts were many and great. Al-
change's sake.                               Micronius in London, but also modi-         though he used tunes from the
    And our liturgy is hard to im-           fied it in some respects to fit more the    Genevan  Psalter of Louis Bourgeois,
prove. Before we begin to tamper             situation in Netherlands. Datheen           and although he relied on the Book of
withit, we ought to spend a bit of time      was present at several of the early         Psalms from the French versions of
pondering  the  fact that our liturgy        Dutch Synods which began the work           Beza and Marot,  still he prepared a
was born out of the fire of persecu-         ofpreparingachurchorder,onewhich            Psalter for theDutch  churches which
tion; that it was woven into the very        was put into its present form by the        was so popular that it was used in the
warp and woof of the Dutch Refor-            Synod of Dordrecht,  161%`19.               churches until 1773, when only rela-
mation in the Netherlands; that for it       Datheen presided at the Convention          tively minor changes were made init.
our forebears bled and died; that it         of Wezel (1568) which expressed its         That bookis  still in use in some Dutch
has stood the test of over four centu-       faith in God's care of the persecuted       churches today. I myself well re-
ries; and that it is doubtful, to say the    Reformed Churches of the Lowlands           member the church during Dutch
least, that our spiritually wishy-washy      with the stirring words that the            worship services ringing with those
age and doctrinally illiterate church        Church Order they adopted was "for          words so loved by our fathers and
are capable of improving on that kind        the Netherlands Churches, if they           grandfathers:"GelooJZijGodmetdiepst
of liturgy.                                  should, by the grace of God, arrive at      ontzag . . ..I' or "He&end hert der jaagt
    At any rate, we owe a debt of            a public and free exercise of their         ontkomen...."
gratitude to Peter Datheen, the great        religion." Further, Datheen was                 We have a few of those tunes left
Reformer of the Netherlands, for this        present as a delegate from Ghent and        way in the back of our Psalter, but it is
sacred part of our heritage.                 presided at the Synod of Dort in 1578       something of a shame that we have
                                             which did so much workin the devel-         not included in our liturgy, in so far as
                                             opment of our present Church Order.         possible, also this part of our heritage.
Work In Liturgy                                  But this is not all. Our Reformed           Finally, but also importantly,
    It must be understood that none          churches have two of the most beau-         much of our present Order of Wor-
of Datheen's work was wholly origi-          tiful liturgical forms in existence in      ship, though patterned after Calvin's
nal. Already in London, Utenhove             their "Form for the Administration of       liturgy, was given its present form by
and BLasco had done significant work         Holy Baptism," and in their "Form           Datheen. This is why we have almost
in liturgy for the refugee congrega-         for the Administration of the Lord's        the same Order of Worship as is used
tion there. That work Datheen took           Supper." Especially the former is a         in the Dutch churches which have not
with him wherever he went.                   crownjewelamongallliturgicalforms           fallen prey to liturgical innovation.
    It must also be remembered that          in any tradition. Its beauty lies in its        One wonders sometimes what the
thepalatinate,  where Datheen did his        pure teachings concerning God's cov-        church would have been like without
work, was strongly under the influ-          enant of grace. In its precision, in the    Datheen. God used him in a marvel-
ence of the Calvin Reformation, and          rolling cadence of its language, in the     ous way to give us that which has
that Calvin and his fellow Reformers         soaring beauty of its prose, in the         become so precious to us.
had done significant and important           concise statement of its doctrine, it is
work in liturgy and church govem-            unexcelled. Both are forms written in
ment.                                        large measure by Datheen. The Form          Datheen's Last Years
    To all this (as well as other work)      we use in the Lord's Supper is very             In a way, Datheen's years in
Datheen was heir."                           much similar to the Form prepared           Frankenthal, brief though they were,
    But it is his stamp which marks          by Datheen. The Form we use in              were the climax of his work. Al-
our liturgy in so many ways.                 baptism came also from his hand,            though he did some important work
    Not the least,of  what he did was        although the Synod of Dort in 1618-         in the following years, tragedy and
prepare a tran$ation  in Dutch of the        `19 added the section for the baptism       great sadness also touched his life.
Heidelberg Catechism; which Con-             of adults and made some minor               The rest is, for the most part, not so
fession had  been' completed in the          changes in it as well as in all the         easy to write about.
Palatinate in 1563. From the begin-          others. One's memories cannot be                In 1566 Datheen returned to the
ning Datheen intended it to be used          restrained from floating back to the        Netherlands. A sort of compromise
for a confession in the churches of the      horrors of the persecution of our fa-       between the rulers of the Lowlands
Lowlands. And it was, indeed, soon           thers, out of which our liturgy was         held forth something of a promise of
adopted there.                               born, whenever these forms are read.        relief from persecution, and Datheen
    Thug, Datheen was responsible                In singing, it is somewhat differ-      could not possibly be restrained from
for incorporating that beautiful creed       ent. Our heritage, for the most part,       returning to his beloved fatherland.
into our creedal  heritage.                  does not go back to Datheen. That is            Datheen became a field preacher.
    In the area of church government         not because Datheen did not do work         Carrying his pulpit on his back,
Datheen's influence was also felt.           in this area too. He did sterling work.     preaching wherever possible, he min-

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istered to throngs of people wherever      came court preacher for John Casimir.          was barred from the Dutch churches.
he went. Sometimes the crowds that             The rest of the story is quickly               To the credit of these churches,
flocked to hear him numbered as            told.                                          however, they sent a delegation to
many as 15,000, for the "Word of God           In 1578 he served as minister of           Datheen. To these brethren who had
was scarce in those days" (II Samuel       the congregation in Ghent in his be-           come to  express the love of the
3:1), and the people had a great thirst    loved homeland and was a delegate              churches and their concern for his
for the gospel.                            to the Synod of Dort in that year.             soul, Datheen confessed his sin of
    His lack of extensive training         While in Ghent he traveled through-            joining a heretical sect -from which
made him somewhat crude in his             out Holland and preached in many               he had parted before the delegation
preaching, but his intensity and cap-      places while the shortage of pastors           came;  and he was reconciled and re-
tivating eloquence revealed his deep       was acute. But here he was also                stored to the fellowship of the church.
love for the Reformed faith. It was a      imprisoned for eight months and fi-            However, because of wars in Ger-
love of the Reformed faith which also      nally sent into exile.                         many and in his own land, and be-
got him in trouble.                            Returning to Frankenthal he re-            cause of the great infirmities of age
    Datheen hated compromise. He           sumed a ministry there, but nearly             and a life of fleeing persecution, he
hated compromise with Rome and             died of the pestilence and was re-             could not return to the church and
with Spain. He distrusted the princes'     lieved of his pulpit because he was no         land he loved. He died an exile on
compromise and firmly believed that        longer able to do the work.                    March 17,1588 far from home, from
concessions had been made to Spain             Datheen was embittered by his              friends, from church, and from his
which would, in time, destroy the          treatment at the hands of William of           fatherland.
Reformed faith.                            Orange and by his dismissal in                     It is better to suffer death in the
     And so he preached, vehemently        Frankenthal. He became a wanderer,             fellowship of the church than to lose
and eloquently, against such com-          and, to support himself and his wife,          that fellowship which is so important
promises, and he earned the enmity         took up the work of a physician, put-          to keep us faithful to our God.
of William of Orange, the leader in the    tinginto practice skills he hadlearned             But he died in peace; and, al-
fight against Spain. William of Or-        as a youthin  the cloister. Wandering          though he could not possibly have
ange, in fact, was convinced that          through Husum, Slade, Danzig, and              known what his workwould mean to
Datheen was in large measure re-           Elbing of Germany, he joined, for a            the church, God knew and knows,
sponsible for the iconoclastic riots in    short time, a heretical and revolution-        and we are blessed by God through
the Lowlands, when frenzied crowds,        ary sect. The report of this foolish act       this servant who suffered so much. 0
intolerably oppressed by Rome,             came back to the Netherlands, and he
vented their fury on the Romish
Churches. Smashing, destroying,
burning wherever they went, they
tried to purge the Lowlands once and
for all of anything Romish. But their
fury only brought against them the                                              True Comfort
                                                                     "What is thine only comfort,
princes who sought to suppress the                                       0 Christian, on life's way?"
riots, which succeededin giving Rome                                 "That I've a faithful Savior
the excuse it needed to renew perse-
cution (see our earlier article).                                        Who leads me day by day."
  ~ In how far Datheen was respon-                                   "What is thine only comfort?"
sible is hard to judge. Surely his                                       "Ah, this, He died for me;
refusal to compromise in any way
with Rome was contrary to the policy                            He took my sin upon Himself
                                                                         So that I might go free."
of the princes at this time. Surely his
fiery preaching moved the people                                     "What is thine only comfort
deeply. But he himself always pleaded                                    In death, if it should come?"
innocent to the charges that he had                                  "That I will go to dwell with Him
incited the crowds.                                                      In His eternal home."
     The breach between him and
William was to remain to the end of                                                        Annetta Jansen
his life.                                                                                 Don; Michigan
     Once again he was forced to flee
to the Palatinate. He became minister
of a congregation composed of Dutch,
French, and Walloon exiles, and be-

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                         Abstaining from the
                          Appearance of Evil

        It is always amazing how certain     pure, why should we be judged by                others think of me." As children of
passages of the Bible suddenly seem          others as havingcommitted some kind             God we must be sensitive to the im-
to stand out at different times in life.     of sin? In fact, is it not sinful for others    pression we leave with others  - es-
I remember when I was once visiting          to thinkbad of us simply because they           pecially the impression we leave with
with my sister and her husband, that         assume  we are doing something wrong            the wicked world! We do not want to
she mentioned that it is important to        when we really are not? Perhaps this            be associated in any way with their
teach our children not simply to ab-         is true. It is wrong for others to judge        works of darkness. And for that rea-
stain from evil, but to abstain from all     and condemn us unheard. But, the                son we are careful to abstain from all
appearance of evil. This short exhorta-      simple fact is, they do. Not only do            appearance of evil. Even if we are not
tion of the apostle Paul in I                fellow members of the church do this,           sinning, we do not want them to think
Thessalonians 5:22 had never really          but especially is this done by the              of us as sinning.
struck me before that conversation.          wickedpeopleofthisworldwhoknow                         The Word of God here does make
Maybe that was true because my chil-         us. The wicked are always looking               sense then, does it not? It is not so
dren were young and I had not yet            for us to stumble into sin with them.           unfairasatfirstwemayhavethought.
beenconfrontedconcretelywithwhat             And when it even appears as if we do,           I hope that is the conclusion to which
this passage describes. My sister, hav-      these wicked acquaintances are quick            we have come. If it is, then we are
ing older children, had gained some          to point the finger and accuse us of            ready as well to see how it applies to
wisdom and insight into this short           committing the same sins as they do.            us.
but practical Word of God.                       "So what; that's their problem! I                  To abstain means that I will keep
        "Abstain from all appearance of' cannot sit and fret about what they                 myself from doing something. It im-
evil." Wow, that verse covers a large        think of me!" Ah, but we do, and we             plies somenegatives, some "thou shalt
area of life! It covers so neatly the        must! Listen: we are children of the            nots." That makes us .wary already.
many questions we as young people            light. Christ has sent forth His Spirit         Then, to make matters worse, this
may ask our parents, such as: "Why           to dwell in our hearts. That Spirit             verse in I Thessalonians 5 adds, "ab-
mayn't I go there?" or, "Why mayn't          applies to us the holiness of Christ. It        stain from all appearance of evil."
I do this?" If only we can keep in mind      is our desire to be holy as God is holy!        There are all kinds of things we can
that being a child of God requires           That is our desire, is it not? We want          do, places we can go, boasts we might
more of us than simply not doing the         to be known `by the world as those              make, that leave the appearance of
evil. It requires, as well, avoiding all     who fear God and love Him. Surely,              evil. And all of these "things" we
situations and circumstances that may        as young people of the covenant, we             may not do.
leave the impression with others that        are not ashamed of the fact that we                    "This is the place, isn't it? This is
we enjoy the evil.                           belong to Jesus! We rejoice in the              the place in your article where we
        Now, I think I can anticipate the    wonderfulworkCh.risthasperformed                young people .are going to receive a
reaction to this. It may seem as if it is    in us. What a tremendous blessing we            long list of dos and don'ts." OK, so
totally unfair of God and of parents to      have been given, to see and know the            you caught me. As a father who has
place such a restriction on us. After        things of the kingdom of heaven! We             now gained a bit of wisdom in this
all,.we are not actually doinganything       wantthewickedofthisworldtoknow                  whole area, I am tempted to start a
wrong. If the motives of our heart are       that we are in principle different from         long-list of ways you can avoid the
                                .            them, because the light of God's grace          appearance of evil. But I will not do
                                             has shone in our hearts, dispelling the         that. I will leave it up to your spiritual
                                             darkness of sin.                                discretion., I have confidence, after
Rev. Bruinsma is pastor of First Protes-         I think that when we lose sight of          all, that the Spirit of God works in the
tant Reformed Church in Holland, Michi-      that fact, we begin to take the careless        hearts of believing young people too.
gan.                                         attitude: "Well, I do not care what             I will assume that the Word of God

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dwells in you richly and that you are         not only by members of the church,         may not agree with that statement,
spiritually sensitive to what is right        but by wicked people as well, as pri-      but by the clothes we wear we never-
and wrong in this whole area of your          vate places where intimate acts take       theless make it, and those who see us
life.                                         place. We may be having a cup of           assume that we do so deliberately.
         Yet, I cannot help but give a few    coffee together in that apartment; we      How careful we must be!
examples at this point. Examples, it          may be deeply involved in a good               No more examples, though I
seems, always serve to drive home             conversation, but those outside of the     could thinkof dozens more. Instead,
what a person is trying to say.               apartment who saw the two of us            we ought to give a little thought to
         Say what we will, the places we      enter have other thoughts as to what       how we can abstain from the appear-
go will always give witness to who            we are doing there. We have put            ance of evil. First, we ought to re-
and what we are. I may profess to be          ourselves in a situation that gives the    member the words of Jesus to us in
the strongest of Christians, but if1 am       appearance of evil. As children of the     Matthew  5:16: "Let your light so
seen, for example, in a bar, my wit-          light who hate such sin, we are called     shine before men, that they may see
ness is worthless. A bar is a place           to abstain from such an appearance.        your good works and glorify your
where can be found the sins of drunk-         Again, this applies much more              Fatherwhichisinheaven." Thisisthe
enness, fornication, and worldly en-          broadly to your dating experiences,        rule we follow for godly living.
tertainment. It is not a place which          but I will allow your love of our holy         In the second place, we must con-
Christians who are serious about their        God to guide youin determining these       sider this rule before doing some-
faith frequent. It may be true that you       for yourselves.                            thing. There is always time between
are drinking a club soda, that you are              There is one more example I          the conception of an idea in our hearts
talkingwithafew "Christian" friends,          would like to give. Though it may          and minds and the actual carrying
that you are ignoring the ungodly             seem frivolous, I give it anyway, in       out of that thought. As God's people
music. But you are in that place              order to emphasize just how all inclu-     we take advantage of this. When we
which is associated with sin, and as a        sive this short injunction of the Bible    desire to do something or to go some
result you leave the impression with          is. "Abstain from all appearance of        place, then before actually carrying
those inside and outside the church           evil!" God's Word tells us. Do you         out that desire we must take inven-
that you are sinning. This example, of        realize how great an impression you        tory of ourselves according to the rule
course, canbe  applied far                                 -makeonpeoplebywhat           of Matthew 536: Am I, by what I am
and wide with respect to                                    you wear? Talk about         about to do or where I am about to go,
the places we go for fun                                    picky! I know, but it is     letting my light so shine before men
and entertainment. But,                We want              true! I am sure that ifa     that they might glorify my God? If I
then, I promised that I               the wicked            person wore a swastika       am not - even if I only leave the
wouldnot  giveyoualong               of this world          during World War II he       appearance that I am not - then I
list. I am'sure that those                                  would have had people        must change my course of action and
whose          hearts     are          to know              clamoringforhisarrest.       do something else.
cleansed in the blood of              that we are           I know that if I had             Now, that takes real spiritual sen-
Christ will read this and             in principle          donned a pair of old,        sitivity. Therefore, in the third place,
understand what Imean.                 different            worn-out bell-bottoms,       we as God's children must be found
On the other hand, those              from them, ,,,        strung a peace sign          constantly in prayer. We `must ask
who stubbornly walk in.                                     around my neck, and          God to forgive our sins; but we must
foolish ways will prob-                 because             grown my hair past my        ask of Him also to give us hearts that
ably not even read this                the light            shoulders in the 1960s I     are sensitive to what sin is, and to
article, much less turn             of God's grace          would have been con-         what might appear as sinfulin the eyes
from their ways.                      has shone             sidered     a  hippie        of others. Then we ask of God that,
         This principle of          in our hearts,          whetherIlikeditornot.        forthesakeofJesusChristandthrough
God's Word applies as                                       The same is true today.      the work of the Holy Spirit in us, we
well to our actions and               dispelling            When a young person          be given the strength to live as shining
deeds. If I, for example,            the darkness           wears a "yin-yang"           lights in the midst of this dark and
were dating a young                      of sin.            symbol about his neck,       perverse world. That is a blessed
woman who owned her                                         or has it tattooed some-     privilege, you realize! There are not
own apartment (that L                                       where on his body,           many people in this world that are
seemstobeatrendything                                       when a young man has         chosen by God for that purpose.
to do today), and at the end of my date       his ears pierced and wears earrmgs,            The way is clear, the path is
IShould go into the apartment with            these things are not all simply fun.       straight. God grant you and me the
her and spend a little time there, then       They make a statement to everyone          grace to walk it as He reveals it to us
I am leaving the impression of evil.          .about  us of who and what we are. We      in His Word. ~1
Apartments (orbedrooms) areviewed             are saying something to them. We

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     "Authority over public schools be-        choice of Christian schools entails a                     children in sexually segregated paro-
longs to thestate,andcannotbedelegated         forfeiture of government assistance                       chial schools.
to a local school district defined by the      in educating their children.
Stateinorder  togrant political control to         This volatile and sometimes ran-                      Special District Created
a religious group. "                           corous debate again confronted the                        for Satmar Handicapped
 Kiyas Joel Village School District            Supreme Court this summer in the                                      Their village parochial schools,
                        v. Grumet (1994)       celebrated case of  Kiyas Joel Village                    however, were not equipped for spe-
         (J. Souter, majority opinion).        School District v. Grumet. A bitterly                     cial education services for mentally
                                               divided Court decided (6-3) that a                        and physically handicapped children.
     "Justice Souter's position boils down     special state school district created by                  For several years the adjoining Mon-
to the quite novel proposition that any        theNewYorklegislatureforthemem-                          roe-Woodbury public school district
group of citizens (say, the residents of       bers of a strict Orthodox Jewish sect                     provided special education services
Kiryas Joel) can be invested with political    (Satmar Hassidim) violated the first                      at the Satmar  parochial schools in
power, but not if they all belong to the       Amendment's prohibition against the                       Kiryas Joel. That practice was discon-
same religion. Of course such disfavor-        "establishment" of religion.                              tinued in 1985 when the Supreme
ing of religion is positively antagonistic                                                               Court ruled in the case of GrandRap-
to the purpose of the Religion Clauses of      The Village of Kiryas Joel                                ids v. Ball that government-funded
the First Amendment...."                           This small village (8,500 inhabit-                   classes on religious school premises
        (J. Scalia, dissenting opinion)        ants)inNewYorkispopulatedexclu-                          violate the Establishment Clause.
                                               sivelybymembersof SatmarHasidim,                                      The  Satmars then resorted to
    Few church/state constitutional            a strict form of Judaism. The town                        sending their handicapped children
issues engender more controversy               was incorporated in 1977 after its                       to the nearby secular public schools
than the question of state assistance          inhabitants seceded from the adjoin-                     for theirspecialeducation. Theycom-
to parochial and private schools. Strict       ing town of Monroe. Since  non-                          plained,  however, that this arrange-
separationists howl in protest when-           Satmarresidentsstrenuouslyobjected                       ment caused their children to suffer
ever non-public schools receive any            to the secession, the boundaries of the                  "panic, fear and trauma" in leaving
public funding or government assis-            new village were creatively drawn to                     their own community, if only for a
tance. On the other hand, parents              include only a 320-acre  subdivision                     few hours during school days.
whopaydouble (schoolpropertytaxes              owned and inhabited exclusively by                                    In response to their complaints,
plus tuition) are frustrated that their        sect members. A rabbi serves as vil-                     in 1989 the New York legislature, ea-
                                               lage rov (chief rabbi) and rosh yeshi-                   ger to accommodate this peculiar sect,
                                               vah (parochial school authority).                        passedauniquelawcreatingaspecial
                                                   Not unlike the Amish, the Satmars                    public school district, the boundaries
                                               avoid contemporary society and cul-                      of which were identical with the
                                               ture as much as possible. They speak                     boundaries of the village of Kiryas
                                               Yiddish, segregate the sexes outside                     Joel. This special school district was
Mr. Lanting, a member of South Holland         the home, avoid the electronic media                     to operate anon-sectarian  schoolpro-
Protestant Reformed Church, is a prac-         and English newspapers, wear dis-                        viding special education for handi-
ticing attorney.                               tinctive clothing, and educate their                     capped Satmar  children. As soon as

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  the school opened, several parties filed     ing more than religious toleration and      the  Satmar school  ,was public,
  suit challenging the constitutionality       accommodation-not establishment             nonsectarian, and religiously neutral).
  of a special public school district for      of religion.                                This may satisfy the Satmars in Kiryas
  the exclusive use of members of one              Moreover, the recent Supreme            Joel, but it is little consolation to Re-
  religious sect.                              Court decision in the case of Z&rest,       formed Calvinists who have always
                                               (public school employees may assist a       insisted that there is no "secular" or
  Government Neutrality                        deaf student at a Catholic school) led      Unon-sectarianN  dimension to Chris-
      Not surprisingly, the majority of        Scalia to query:                            tian education. Reformed Christians
  the Court found this customized                                                          insist that every aspect of education
  school district for the residents of           If a state can furnish serv$es  to a      (indeed, all of life) is religious. Secu-
  Kiryas Joel to be aviolation of theFirst       group of sectarian students on a neu-     lar subjects or courses in our schools
  Amendment, which Justice Souter                tral site adjacent to a private reli-     do not exist. Accordingly, most of the
  insisted "compels the government to            gious school, or even within such a       debate in the Kiyas Joel case as to
  pursue a course of `neutrality' to-            school, how can there be any defect       whether New York can create a pub-
                                                 in educating those same students in
  ward religion." Striking down the              the [Satmar] public school. There is      lic school district where Satmar stu-
  legislation creating this exclusive            no danger in educatingreligious stu-      dents are taught "nonsectarian" sub-
  school district, Justice Souter wrote:         dents in a public school.                 jects in a "religiously neutral" setting
                                                                                           is essentially of little interest to Cal-
    The  statute creating the Kiryas  Joel         Justice Scalia also contended that      vinists with a comprehensive Re-
    Village School District departs from       although there was special treatment        formed world-and-life view that em-
    the Constitution by delegating the         here for the village, there was no          braces every dimension of education
    State's discretionary authority over                                                   and life.  o
    public schools to a group defined by       proof of religious favoritism. Scalia
    its character as a religious commu-        went to great lengths to demonstrate
    nity, in a legal and historical context    that the law creating a special school
    that gives no assurance that govem-        district defined by the village bound-              Life is But a Weaving
    ment power has been or will be exer-       aries inhabited exclusively by the
    cised neutrally.                           Satmars was not necessarily moti-             My life is but a weaving
                                               vated by a desire to favor or disfavor             Between my God and me;
      Justice Souter essentially               a particular religious group.                 I may not choose the colors,
  grounded the majority opinion on a                                                              He knows what they should
  1982 Supreme Court decision which            Comment                                              be.
  invalidated a Massachusetts statute              First, as the dissent pointed out,        For He can view the pattern
  granting churches veto power over            the majority opinion inexplicably ig-              Upon the upper side,
  the issuance of liquor licenses within       nored the traditional three-part lemon        While I can see it only
  500 feet of a church. Souter argued          test historically used by the Court in             On this the under side.
  that, similar to that case, the state        Establishment Clause cases. The glar-
  impermissibly delegated govemmen-            ing failure to replace the historic lit-      Sometimes He weaveth sorrow
  tal power to a religious group. Au-          mus test for establishment cases leaves            Whichseemethstrange tome;
  thority over public schools belongs to       future cases without meaningful               But I will trust His judgment,
  the state government, insisted Souter,       guiclelines in this important area of              And work on faithfully.
  and cannot be delegated to a religious       church/state law.                             `Tis He who fills the shuttle,
  group without violating the Estab-               Secondly, commentators have                    He knows just what is best;
  lishment clause.                             made much of the fact that a new              So I shall weave in earnest,
                                               majority of the court seems to be in               And leave with Him the rest.
  Accommodation or Establishment?              favor of allowing state special educa-
      Justice Scalia (joinedby Chief Jus-      tion teachers into parochial schools.         At last when life is ended,
  tice Rehnquist and Justice Thomas)           However, this is not yet the law since             With Him I shall abide;
  filed a bitter dissent. Scalia argued        the Grand Rapids case has not been            Then I will view the pattern
  that New York's creation of a special        formally overruled.                                Upon the upper side.
  school district for handicapped                  Finally, all of the talk about gov-       Then I shall know the reason
  Satmar children was nothing more             ernment accommodation of religion                  Why pain with joy entwined
  than a "characteristically and admi-         in the Kiyus JoeI case is somewhat            Was woven in the fabric
  rably American accommodation of              facile, since the assumption is that               Of life that God designed.
. religious practices (ormoreprecisely,        whatever' assistance is given by the                             Standard Bearer
  cultural peculiarities) of a tiny reli-      state to tlie Satmars, it must necessar-                       September I,1934
  gious sect." In the dissenters' view         ily be secular and nonsectarian (Jus-
  this singular school district wasnoth-       tice Scalialabored to demonstrate that

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                                      Je*sus Christ,
              the Son of God Incarnate
                                                         John I:148

        In these first 18 verses we have a    tion of His distinct personal deity.                              tablished at the outset: He is the
summation of the entire book. All             Jesus was, and is, God.                                           Eternal Word of God now born
that will follow to the very end of the           John does not bring the term                                  among us (I Cor. 8:9).
bookis intended to prove the truth of         "Son" into his opening sentences at
the things declared in these first 18         all; instead, he speaks of The Word.                              Outline of Verses l-18
verses. They make clear to us how             (See1 John l:l, 5:7; Rev. 19:13.) We are                                    1. The distinct, personal Deity
John will approach his presentation           left in no doubt about who is meant,                                                 of Christ (w. l-5).
of the Lord's work and person-that            for John tells us in verse 14 that the                                     2. The relationship of John the
Jesus Christ is the eternal and natu-         Word "was made flesh and dwelt                                                       Baptist to Christ (w. 6-8).
ral Son of God now made flesh for             among us, and we beheld his glory."                                        3 .   ThereceptionChristreceived
our salvation. (See Lord's Day 13 of          The Word is Christ. We can say at                                                    (w. 9-13).
the Heidelberg Catechism and Art. 10          least two things about Christ when                                                   a. The worldknew Himnot.
of the Belgic Confession.) Nowhere            He is designated "the Word." First,                                                  b. His own received Him
in the New Testament is the nature            He is the revelation of God, the One                                                            not.
and meaning of Jesus' divine Sonship          who "declares" (v. 18), or tells forth                                               c. A company born of God
so clearly explained as here.                 the Father (Matt. 11:27; John 17~26).                                                           received him.
        Already in John's day the truth of    Second, the Word of God is His cre-                                        4. The Incarnation (v. 14).
Christ's divine Sonship was misun-            ative utterance, the actual power of                                       5. The surpassing excellence of
derstood and denied. Greekmythol-             God to accomplishHispurposes  (Gen.                                                  Christ (w. 15-18).
ogy contained many stories of sons of         1:3; Ps. 33:9). Thus, the Word is the                                                a. Greater than John the
gods, supermen, born of a union be-           perfect revelation of the Father, as                                                            Baptist.
tween a god and a human woman.                well as God in His power to create all                                               b. Superior to Moses.
Some of the Jews (Ebionifes) yen-             things.                                                                              c. Revealer of the Father.
ceived of Christ as a common man                  John proceeds to tell us the:fol-
equipped with special power at his            lowing things about the Word:                                     Questions for Study and Discussion
baptism. They denied also the virgin              1. He is eternal. In the begin-                                         1. What "beginning" isreferred
birth. John wanted to be sure that            ning He was. Proverbs 823.                                        to in verse l?
when he wrote of Jesus as the Son of              2. He is a distinct person. He                                         2. Why is Jesus termed here "the
God it would be understood at the             was with God. He stood in an eternal                              Word"? What is the exact force and
outset that the Sonship of Jesus was          relationship to God. Proverbs  8:30;                              significance of that title?
precisely a matter of personal deity          John 1:18.                                                                 3. Show that Christ is both a
and nothing less. When the Bible,                 3. He is divine  (Deity, God).                                distinct person in the Godhead, and
therefore, calls Jesus the Son of God,        He was God, not a creature. Hebrews                               at the same time fully God. Other
the statement is meant as the asser-          1:3; I Timothy 3:l.                                               Scriptures? Creeds?                            (,
                                                  4. He is the Creator. All things'                                      4. What does it mean that Jesus
                                              were made by Him. Hebrews l:l-3.                                  is the."Life,." and the "Light of men"?
                                                  5. He is the source of all light                              Explain what is meant in verse 9 that
                                              and life. Isaiah 60~1-3.                                          He "lighteth every man that cometh
                                                  6. He is Incarnate, made flesh.                               into the world:".
Rev. Haak ii pastor of the Protestant         Romans  8:3.  -                                                            5. Why is Christ universally re-
Reformed Church of Lynden, Wash+                  Thus, the identity of Christ is es-                          jected? What is the awful seriousness
ton.

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of this? What is the only possibility of          9. What is meant by "we beheld        personal properties of the Father and
this being changed?                         his glory"?                                 the Son?
    6. What is meant by the Incar-                10. In what sense is Jesus before
nation? (See Art. 18,19 of the Belgic       John the Baptist?                               And now, after reading this passage,
Confession.)                                      11. What is the meaning of verse        can we ever give too much honour to
    7. Show the sovereignty of Di-          l?                                            Christ? Can we ever think too highly of
vine grace from verse 13.                         12.  WhyarewetoldthattheLaw             Him? Let us banish  the unworfhy
    8. In verse 1 the word "dwelt"          was given by Moses, but grace and             thoughf  from our minds forever. Let us
                                                                                          learn to exalt Him more in our hearts
means "tabernacled." It points us           truth  came by Jesus Christ?                  and to rest more confidingly the whole
back to the tabernacle in the wilder-             13. From verse 18 explain the           weigh f of our souls in His hands. Christ
ness. In what respects did the Taber-       relation between the Father and the           is fhemeefing-poin f between the Trinity
nacle foreshadow and typify Christ?         Son. In what sense does the Son               and fhesinnerSsou1.  He fhat honourefh
What does this have to do with the          declare Him? Can this be applied to           not  the Son, honourefh not fhe Fafher
truth of the Covenant?                      the Trinity and be used to teach the          which sent him.
                                                                                                                     J.C. Ryle 0




                                            land. He ended as a recluse on an           Calvin. More specifically, he has given
Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write, by           island off the coast of Scotland.           us a guide to the writings of Calvin.
Richard I'. Belcher. Columbia, SC:                The seriousness of his individu-      deGreef  has organized all of Calvin's
Richbarry Press, 1980; rev. ed. 1993.       alism was that he rejected the insti-       writingsby topics, e. g., "BuildingUp
165 pp. $6.95 (paper).  Arthur  W.          tuted church. For the bigger part of        the Church"; NDebating with Roman
Pink: Lettersfrom  Spartanburg,  1917-      his life he lived outside the church.       Catholics"; and "Striving for Unity."
1920, ed. Richard I?. Belcher. Colum-       And outside the church he died.             He gives a brief description of each of
bia, SC: Richbarry Press, 1993. 287               Letters from Spartanburg 1917-        the writings in each category, includ-
pp:$10.95 (paper). (Reviewedby the          2920 is the publication of the newly        ing the date, the occasion, and the
Editor)                                     discovered letters that Pink wrote to       content.
                                            his publisher and friend, I. C.                 Adding to the worth of the book
    Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write is        Herendeen. The letters will delight         for all students of Calvin are the ref-
a revised edition of the biography of       all those who love Pink. They are of        erences to the translations of the vari-
Pink that the author originally pub-        value to others in that they contain a      ous writings of Calvin, as well as to
lished in 1982. The revised edition         good deal of doctrinal discussion and       important secondary works dealing
avails itself of newly discovered cor-      biblical exposition. The letter of July     with the writing of Calvin under con-
respondence between Pink and his            30th 1918 is a worthwhile discussion        sideration. It is helpful to learn that
publisher, I.C. Herendeen.                  of reprobation and its basis in Ro-         the book against the Anabaptists that
    The biography is an interesting,        mans 9. In passing, Pink mentions a         Calvin published in 1544 in French
informative account of the life and         mutual acquaintance who "professes          has been translated into English (by
labor of an influential, but strange,       to believe heartily in God's Sover-         Benjamin Parley) and has been com-
man. Pink's books now sell in the           eignty and Election - but I don't           mented on in several books and ar-
hundreds of thousands. His The Sov-         think he ever preaches them" (p. 34).       ticles (see p. 167, footnote 4).
ereignty  of God continues to lead men      Nothing has changed. 1                          This treatment of Calvin's writ-
and women to Calvinism. During his                                                      ings includes many historical and
lifetime, he had very little influence.                                                 theological observations. In the in-
His audience was the very smallread-        The Writings of John Calvin: An             troduction to his commentary on
ership of his paper, Studies in the         Introductory Guide,  by Wulfert             Isaiah, Calvin dealt with the office of
Scriptures. All his books have been         deGreef. Translated by Lyle D.              the prophet (p. 103); Knox's stormy
formed from these  Studies.                 Bierma. Foreword by Willem van't            blast against female rulers in the state
    Pink was a minister who never           Spijker. Grand Rapids: Baker Books,         was bothersome to Calvin (pp. 103,
found it in the pastoral ministry. He       1993. 254 pp. $14.99 (paper). [Re-          104); Bolsec's "biography" of the Re-
could not work in a congregation.           viewed by the Editor.]                      former "was full of shameless lies and
Wherever he went, he met with (or                                                       slander" (p. 119).
caused) trouble and rejection. Look-              This is a valuable addition to the        On the principle that one cannot
ing for a pastorate, he wandered all        body of- writings on John Calvin.           appreciate Calvin's work without
over theUnited  States and traveled to      Dutch Calvin scholar Wulfert deGreef        knowing something of his life, deGreef
Australia, to England, and to Scot-         has given us a `guide to the study of       begins the bookwith a brief but infor-

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mative account of Calvin's life. It is         one of the habifanfs, the "registered       the celebration of Christmas (p. 57).
intriguing to be reminded that Calvin          aliens." Noteworthy is Calvin'sreadi-           The book concludes with a chro-
did not become a citizen of Geneva             ness to adapt to existing ecclesiastical    nological index of Calvin's writings
until 1559. Before this, he was merely         practices for the sake of peace, e. g.,     (pp. 237-241). 0




Minister  Activities                           their own parsonage for their newly         from all church members, junior high
        Seminarian Allen Brummel and           installed and first pastor, Rev. R.         age and older.
his family were delayed for much of            VanOverloop. Now that Rev. B.                   The congregation of our Pella, IA
this past summer in entering                   Gritters has accepted Hudsonville's         PRC was kept busy this past summer
Singaporebecause of some "red tape"            call, this is no longer possible.           as they sponsored a series of seminars
problems with the government there.            Hudsonville's parsonage is no longer        for their community on the subject,
During this delay  Se.minarian                 vacant. Georgetown has been able to         "The Biblical Basis of the Reformed
Brummel was able to fill in on occa-           find a suitable home to rent in             Faith." These seminars followed the
sion for some of our churches' pastors         Grandville, MI, located at 4500 41st        division found in our five points of
while they were on vacation, or                St., which I think places their tempo-      Calvinism. From subsequent bulle-
preaching for our churches' mission            rary parsonage quite close to our           tins that arrived here, it appears that
in the San Luis Valley, Colorado. Fi-          Grandville PRC.                             these seminars were very well re-
nally on Monday, August 1, the                     Our Georgetown congregation             ceived.
Brummel family was able to leave the           met on the 15th of August and de-
States for Singapore, where plans call         cided to begin construction of a par-       Young People's Activities
for Seminarian Brummel to spend his            sonage of their own. They have pur-             Many of our churches' young
semester of internship in the Evan-            chased a lot in Georgetown Forest, a        people (309 conventioneers), along
gelical Reformed Churches of                   housing development about a half-           with 31 chaperons, were in Belling-
Singapore under the guidance of Rev.           mile south of where they presently          ham, WA the first week of August for
J. Kortering, our churches' minister-          meet in the Bauer Elementary School.        the 54th annual Young People's Con-
on-loan there.                                 Plans called for construction to begin      vention. Besides participating in
        We can also report here that Rev.      within a week of the go-aheadvote on        many recreational activities and dis-
and Mrs. J. Kortering returned to              the 15th. It appears that this home         cussion groups on peer pressure and
Singapore following their stay in the          will be built big enough to serve also      personal devotions, they heard
States this past summer with family            as a meeting place for church func-         speeches by Revs. C. Haalc, B. Gritters,
and friends.                                   tions throughout the week, like soci-       and M. Dick on the theme "Victorious
        Rev. C. Haak declined the call         eties and catechism classes.                Through Faith." You can be assured
from our Loveland, CO PRC to labor                 The Council of our South Hol-           that even as this year's convention
as home missionary in the San Luis             land, IL PRC reported to their congre-      was unfolding, plans were well un-
Valley, CO.                                    gation recently that new video.equip-       derway for next year's 55th annual
        Rev. B. Gritters has accepted the      ment for the taping of their worship        convention, sponsored by Grandville,
call to serve as pastor of our                 services has now been installed. -Two       MI PRC's  young people's society.
Hudsonville, MI PRC.                           cameras are mounted in the audito-          Area bulletins are- already showing
                                               rium, and the control and recording         signs of up-coming fund-raisers for
Congregational Activities                      equipment is located in the balcony.        that convention.
        If you are a regular reader of this    This new equipment allows South                 In news from this year's conven-
"News" report you may remember                 Holland to record up to six videos at       tion, South Holland's bid for the 1996
that in the last issue we reported that        the same time. In connection with           conventionwas acceptedby the Young
theHudsonville,MIPRC  hadassisted              this new equipment, South Holland           People's FederationBoard.  So, young
their daughter congregation, the               will also be starting a tape library        people, make your plans.
Georgetown PRC, by giving them tem-            from which the congregation can bor-
porary use of their vacant parsonage           row tapes free of charge.                              Foodfor 27iouglt
while construction was underway on                 Many of the PsaZters which are              "The more progress a man has
                                               used by our Peace PRC in Lynwood,           made in knowledge of true religion,
                                               IL were evidently in need of repair.        the more sensible will he be that he is
                                               To remedy this problem, their council
Mr. Wigger is an elder in the Protestant                                                   far from the mark."
                                               scheduled a PsaIter  repair night for
Reformed Church                                                                                                    -John Calvin
                   of Hudsonville,Michi-       mid-August, with help being asked
gan.                                                                                                              on Psalm 86 0

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                                  Textual Index                                               Book                                          Author Reviewer                      page
          Passage                                                Author       page     God's Law in the Modern World: The Continuing
     Genesis 1:9, 10 ................................................. HCH     445            Relevance of Old Testament
     Genesis l:ll-13 ............................................... HCH       466                   Law                        Kenneth L. Gentry                     DJE         118
     Exodus 33:14 ..................................................... CH     147     Gospel According to John                           D.A. Carson HH                          .69
Psalm 25: 14 ....................................................... CH        457     Grace of Law: A Study in Puritan
     Psalm 37:4-5 ................................................... RGM      481            Theology                              Ernest F. Kevan                    HH         333
     Psalm 46: 10 .................................................... ADH     159     He Shall Have
Psalm 5 1:7 ........................................................ JAH          3           Dominion                    Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.                       BH         285
     Psalm 111:4 .................................................... RGM      291     I Believe: Understanding and Applying the
     Proverbs 27: 17 .................................................. BW      91            Apostles  ' Creed.               Alister E. McGrath                      I-III      285
     Isaiah 46:10-13 ............................................... RGM       195     In the Shadow of Death: Meditations for the Sick-Room
Isaiah 53:l ........................................................ JAH       339            and at the Death-Bed                            A. Kuyper  DIE                      474
Matthew 19:9 .................................................... DJE          186     Incarnation of the
Matthew 26:47 ................................................... CH           267            Antithesis                             R.E.L. Rodgers HH                            122
Luke 2: 14 ............................................................ JM     135     Inquiry into the Spiritual Character of the
John l:l-18 ....................................................... CJH        492            Revival of 1859                    William Hamilton HH                              1 4 2
Acts 13:1-4 .......................................................            343     Inquisitor's Secretary                     W . J . D .   ,VanDijck  DJE  4 2 9
Romans 12:3 ..................................................... BW           161     Institutie  1536                             W .            Van'tSpijker  DJE 190
Romans 15:4 ................................................... RGM             51     Knowing the True God                                     S .   Houck  D J E                      6
II Corinthians 4: 17 ............................................ JAH           99     Law, the Gospel, and the Modern
Philippians 3 : 8 ................................................... HH       123            Christian                 Greg L. Bahnsen, et. al.                       HI-I       334
I Timothy 3:8-10 .............................................. GCL             89     Letters to a Young Pastor: Letters to Rev. R.
I Timothy 4: l-5 ................................................ GCL          112            Harbach by A. W. Pink                                                   DJE         453
I Timothy 4:6-9 ................................................ GCL           227     Many Verses!                                  Ernest Springer HH                           382        _
I Timothy 4:7-10 .............................................. GCL            250     Marvellous  Ministry: How the All-round Ministry of
I Timothy 4: 12, 13 ........................................... GCL            328            Charles Haddon  Spurgeon  Speaks
I Timothy 5:17, 18 ........................................... GCL             442                   to us Today               Tim Cumow, et. al.                     DJE         334
II Timothy 3: 14 ............................................... MBL           464     New Charismatics                      Michael G. Moriarty                      DJE         `70 _
Hebrews 11:6 ..................................................... CH          315     Philippians                                        M o i s e s   Silva HH                   70
Hebrews 13:8 ..................................................... CH          219     Revealed to Babes: Children in the Worship
II Peter 1: 10 ....................................................... CH      387            of God                                  Richard Bacon DJE                           334
                                                                                       Revival of the Ecclesiastical Text and the Claims of the
                                                                                              Anabaptists                        Theodore P.  Letus DJE                            47
                                 Book Reviews                                          Studies in Southern Presbyterian                               .
          Book                                 Author Reviewer                                T h e o l o g y                      Morton H. Smith                   .DJE        476
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Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write; Arthur W. Pink; Letters                                 Treatise on Sanctification: An Explication of Romans
         from Spartanburg Richard P. Belcher                           DJE    4 9 3           chapter 6, 7, and 8:I-4                     James Fraser HH                        286
Better to Marry                      David J. Engelsma                                 Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an
                                                                       AS      189
Biblical Interpretation Then and Now: Contemporary                                            U n c i v i l   World               Richard J. Mouw                      HH        333
          Hermeneutics in the Light of the Early                                       We Must Obey God                     Samuel E. Waldron                         DJE          71
                Church                 David S.  Dockery HH 71                         What Is Faith?                         J; Gresham Machen                      SRK         262
Calvin  `s Preaching                        T.H.L. Parker DJE                  429     Writings of John Calvin: An Introductory
Commentary on Proverbs  George Lawson                                  DJE     214            Guide                           Wulfert  deGreef  D J E                            493
Divorce and Remarriage: Biblical Principles and                                        Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Critique of
          Pastoral Practice              Andrew Comes DJE                      380            Dispensationalism                    John H. Gerstner                   DJE         ii7
Elijah the Tishbite                  F.W. Krummacher DJE                       285
Epistles of Peter                              J.H. Jowett HH                  285                                            T i t l e   I n d e x
Evangelical Interpretation: Perspectives on Hermeneutical                                     T i t l e                                                    A u t h o r           page
          Issues                     Millard J. Erickson               HH      405     Abounding Lawlessness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . `. ,....... .., .; . . . . . . .;DJE    448
Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the                                     Abstaining from the Appearance of Evil . . . . . . . . . WGB                              488
          New Age                              Peter Jones DJE                 214     Active Congregational Involvement . . . . . . . . . . . .;. . . ..RVO                     354
                                                                                       Alliance of Reformed Churches . . . . . . :.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD           248

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       Title                                                      Author       page            T i t l e                                                  Author         page
 Another Opinion on the KJV ............................ AVZ                   319      Execution of the Homosexual ............................. AL                        55
 Anti-Law Mentality? ......................................... NLJ              128                  ............................................................ JJH       56
 Arminianism in England .................................. RHH                  61      Exercising Unto Godliness ............................... GCL                     227
 Be Still and Know that I Am God ....................ADH                        159     Exodus Continues ............................................ RDD                   82
 Be Ye Angry and Sin Not (1) ...........................ADH                    326      Faith or Fate ...................................................... JLK          133
       (2) ........................................................... ADH     420      Faithful Saying ................................................ GCL              250
 Behavior Required of Timothy                                                           Far Brighter even than the Sun.. .. . ......................DJE                     29
      as an Evangelist ........................................ GCL            328      Farewell, Brothers ........................................... RDD                418
 Believer and His Bible ..................................... RDD               33      Fear of Single Life ............................................. WB              259
 Believing Bible Study ....................................... DJE             483      First Three Days of Creation ............................ HCH                     277
 Believing What God Reveals .............................JAH                   339                   .......................................................... HCH       302
 Bible Version of the Churches ..........................`DJE                  221                   .......................................................... HCH       330
Bible, a Divine Book ....................................... DHK                42                   ................... ....................................... HCH      445
But What About Logic? .....................................BW                  324                   .......................................................... HCH       466
 Calling of the Westminster Assembly                                                   Fitting Thanksgiving ........................................... CH                 75
  of Divines .................................................... c c          298     Floods and Earthquakes ................................... GVB                        7
 Calvinism and Missions - Irresistible Grace.. . RVO                            65     Foreign Mission Work in the PRC .................... RJD                           399
 Calvinism and Missions - Perseverance                                                  God Is the Creator ........................................... HCH                154
      of the Saints .............................................. RVO         180                  .......................................................... HCH        175
Care of Scattered Groups of Believers.. ............ RLC                       163     God of All Grace (5) .......................................... CJT                205
Caspar Olevianus: Author of the Heidelberg                                             God-Required Honor Due
      Catechism (1) .............................................. HH          248           to Widowed Mothers.. ............................... GCL                     401
            (2) ........................................................ HH    273     God's Indispensable Presence ............................. CH                      147
Christmas ......................................................... MBL        131     God's Wonderfully Different People.. ............... JAH                           283
Church in the New Year: Called to Work.. ....... DJE                           149     Gospel According to John ................................. CJH                     469
Church: Pillar and Ground of the Truth .............JDS                        411     Government Aid to Christian Schools .................. JL                          271
Church's Response to Homosexuality .............. RDD                          437     Great Apostasy .................................................. DJE              304
Classical Meetings ........................................... RLC             295     Headship of the Reformed Husband ...................DJE                            245
Coming to God ................................................... CH           315     Heavenly Song of Joy! ........................................ JM                  135
Committing Our Way ..................................... RGM                   481     Highly Favored Virgin ....................................... DJE                  125
Continuing in Learning .................................... MBL                464     Hoeksema Published by Reader's Digest ...........DJE                               127
Counsel Stands, The.. ...................................... RGM               195     Importance of the Creeds ................................. AVE                     462
Counseling the Grieving ................................... CJT                 15     Introduction to Old Testament History.. ........... HCH                            -106
Counseling Those with Marital Problems.. ....... ADH                           183     Is Grace in Things? ............................................. GR               416
      (2) ........................................................... ADH      207     Jesus Christ, the Son of God Incarnate .............. CJH                          492
Covenant Christian Education .......................... BVS                    111     Judas the Betrayer.. ............................................. CH              267
Creative Work in the Beginning.. ..................... HCH                     236     Kelqng and Net.................................................. JLK              397
      (2) ........................................................... HCH      253     Keys         .......................................................... DHK       ;.  g
Critique of Modern Church-Growth                                                       Knowing the True God ...................................... SJH                   _ 6
     Evangelism (1) ........................................... CJT            357     Locusts from the Bottomless Pit ...................... GVB                         322
           (2) ..................................................., ... CJT    370     Logic of Rhetoric.. ............................................. BW              403
           (3) ....................................................... CJT     422     Lord's Supper at Home .. . .................................. EVT                 295
           (4) ....................................................... CJT     438     Macedonian Call., .....~.. .;. .................................. CJH             346
Cross and a Frustrated Devil! .............................. AT                209     Martin Bucer: Ecumenist of the Reformation ..... HH                                 19
Deacons' Meetings.. ......................................... RLC              257     Ministers Attending Classis .............................. RLC                    427
Death's Triumph ................................................. CH           156     Missing Children: Is Children's
Dinosaurs and Other Monsters ..........................GVB                     109          Church Biblical?........................................... BD                114
Doctrine of Scripture in the Reformed Creeds. ..`. KK                           44     Missionaries Sent Out From Antioch ................ RJD                           343
Doctrine of the Trinity (4) ................................TCM                 59          (2) ........................................................... RJD          394
Domestic Mission Committee Report.. ............... DD                         377     Missionary-At-Large ...................................... RGM                    349
Dutch Churches Adopt New Church Order.. ..... RDD                              247     More Books of Psalms for Singing.. ................... CM                            6
End of the World .............................................. DJE            223     More on Government Aid ................................. KDJ                      391
Essentials and Non-essentials in Missions ..........WB                         369     More on the Death Penalty for Homosexuals ... BVH                                 151
Everlasting Glory Our Afflictions Work.. .......... JAH                         99     More Than Logic ............................................... BW                440
Excellency of the Knowledge of Christ .............. HH                        123     Need for Good Christian Schoolteachers ............DJE                            460

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     Title                                                          Author         iwe            Title                                                           Author         page
New Age Movement and Entertainment ............ WB                                 212      Recent Developments in Church/State Law . . . . . . . . . JL                          178
      (2) ............................................................             233                     ,.............,................................................ JL     307
News From Our Churches ................................. BW                         23      Reformation and Biblical Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                   3 1
              ............................................................ BW       71      Reformation and the Philosophy of Vernacular Translations
              ............................................................ BW       94            of the Bible ................................................ TPL                37
              ..................................................... ..) .... BW    119      Reformation, Revival, and Scripture's Authority . . JJ                                 35
              ............................................................ BW      142      Remarriage of the "Innocent Party" .................. DJE                             186
              ............................................................ BW      167      Renewing the Battle ......................................... BLG                     139
              ............................................................ BW      190      Report of Classis East ........................................ JJH                    22
              ................................................i ........... BW     215                     ............................................................. JJH      238
              ............................................................ BW      239                     ............................................................. JJH     476
              ............................................................ BW      263      Report of Classis West.. ................................... RVO                       21
              ............................................................ BW      286                     ........................................................... RVO        309
              ............................................................ BW      310      Report of the Committee for Contact with
              ............................................................ BW      335            Other Churches ........................................... HH                   137
              ............................................................ BW      359      Season(s) ......................................................... DHK              272
              ...................i........................................ BW      382      Secret of the Lord ............................................... CH                457
              ............................................................ BW      406      Secretary's Annual Report to the RFPA ..............CK                                 63
              ............................................................ BW      430      Self Examination ................................................ CH                  387
              ............................................................ BW      453      Serious Repercussions ...................................... RDD                      367
              ............................................................ BW      477      Shameful Sin of Homosexuality (4) ................. RLC                                12
              ............................................................ BW      494      She Suffered Many Things of Many Physicians . AK                                     472
No Compromise ............................................... CHS                  275      Significant Number of Koreans Leave CRC ..... RDD                                      83
No Creed but Christ? ....................................... RGM                   372      Significant Withdrawal .................................... RDD                       300
Nose of the Camel (1) ....................................... DJE                  269      Sleep          ........................................................... DHK        153
      (2) ............................................................ DJE         293      Some Other Thoughts on Abortion.................... DJE                              435
      (3) ............................................................ DJE         317      Special Issue on Missions ................................... JJP                    391
      (4) ............................................................ DE          341      Spirit of Sonship ................................................                   363
      (5) ............................................................ DJE         365      Spirit-Foretold Apostatizing in Latter Days ...... GCL                                112
Noted American Cleric Dies ............................RDD                         301      Spiritual Requirements of a Deacon
Our Ancient Heritage ..... .;. .............................. WJM                   84           in God's Church ........................................ GCL                      89
Our Christian Liberty ........................................ JAH                 243      Stars          ........................................................... DHK        130
Our Dependence Upon God's Grace.. ................JAH                               87      Story of Two Fredericks (1) ............................... HH                         67
Our Graciously and Freely Given Salvation ...... JAI-I                              14            (2) ............................................................. HH            104
Our New Symbol .............................................. DJE                    5            (3) ............................................................. HI-I          165
Our Salvation's Most Precious Gift ................... JAH                         471      Support of the Good Christian School ............... DJE                             458
Our Savior Who Makes Blind ........................... WB                          171      Supreme Court Invalidates Special Public School
Pastor's Heart (1) ............................................... w               231           District Created for Jewish Sect .................... JL                        490
     (2) ............................................................. HH          255      Synod of the PRC 1994 ..................................... DJE                      389
Pentecostal Baptism ............................................. JC               463      Taking a Stand .................................................. DJE                  53
Persecution a Daily Reality for                                                             That Wonderful Gift of Peace With God.. ......... JAH                                433
     Many Christians ........................................ RDD                  393      Tithe       ........................................................... DHK           103
Peter Datheen: Father of Reformed Liturgy (1) . HH                                 375      To be Church: Upholder of the Truth ............... DJE                               173
      (2) ............................................................. HH         425      Together on the Way ....................................... RDD                       129
     (3) .............................................................             451      Trumpets ......................................................... DHK               204
     (4) ............................................................. HH          485      Ugly Bolsec ...................................................... DJE                 77
Prayer to Become Whiter Than Snow.. ..............JAH                                3      Unchanging Christ in an Ever-Changing World . . CH                                   219
PRC Contra Mundum ........................................ DJE                     197      Victory for Christian Education?. .................... HVM                             79
PRC Synod of Faith, Jenison, 1994 ................... DJE                          413      Walking a Straight Path .................................. WGB                         10
Private Communion ........................................ CWT                     392      Wars - Sign of the End ................................... DJE                       280
Problem of "Scholasticism" .............................. BW                       2 2 9    What Happened to Marriage in the U.S.? ......... RDD                                  128
Problem of Evil ................................................. DJE              101      What Is This "Common Grace"?. ........................ AT                             199
Profit of Our Inspired Bible ............................... JLK                    27      What's in Store for Volume 70?. ....................... DJE                             5
Questions of Article 41 .................................... RLC                   320      When Men Think More of Themselves Than
                                                                                                 They Ought ................................................. BW                  161

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     Title                                                                                                          Author                page    Subject Title                                                                                                                Author        page

When Opinions Vary ......................................... BW                                                                             91    CHILD ABUSE
Whence the Authority of the Bible? .................. RJD                                                                                   40        Recent Developments in Church/State
Women in Church Office ................................. RDD                                                                              438         Law . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JL      307
Wonder Work: Our Children .......................... RGM                                                                                   291    CHILDREN
Worthy of Double Honor ................................. GCL                                                                              442         Wonder Work: Our Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RGM                                                                              291
Written for Our Learning ................................ RGM                                                                               51    CHILDREN'S CHURCH
Zacharias Ursinus: Author of the Heidelberg                                                                                                           Missing Children: Is Children's Church
     Catechism ................................................... HH                                                                      200                   Biblical? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  BD, 114
                                                                                                                                                  CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
                                                                                                                                                      Government Aid to Christian Schools...... JL                                                                                           271
                                                                                                                                                      Need for Good Christian
                                                 Subject Index                                                                                                   Schoolteachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                      460
                                                                                                                                                      Support of the Good Christian School... DJE                                                                                            458
Subject Title                                                                                                      Author                 page    CHRISTIAN LIBERTY
ABORTION                                                                                                                                              Our Christian Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAH                                                    243
     Recent Developments in Church/State Law . . . JL                                                                                     307     CHRISTIAN WALK
     Some Other Thoughts on Abortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                                                        "435       Walking a Straight Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WGB                                                               10
ADVENT                                                                                                                                            CHURCH, CALLED TO WORK
     Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  MBL                    131        Church in the New Year:
    Heavenly Song of Joy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JM                                             135                   Called to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                        149
AFFLICTIONS                                                                                                                                       CHURCH HISTORY
    Everlasting Glory Our Afflictions Work . . . . . JAH                                                                                    99
ANGER                                                                                                                                                 Caspar Olevianus: Author of the Heidelberg
                                                                                                                                                                 Catechism (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                  248
    Be Ye Angry and Sin Not (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADH                                                               326
              (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADH                                                                                                                                                            273
                                                                                                                                          420                    (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
                                                                                                                                                     Peter Datheen: Father of Reformed
APOSTASY                                                                                                                                                         Liturgy (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                          375
     Great Apostasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DJE                                    304                    (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH      425
     Spirit-Foretold Apostatizing in                                                                                                                                      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    451
              Latter Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GCL                                112                    g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ARC                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          485
                                                                                                                                                     Story of Two Fredericks (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                                                 67
    Alliance of Reformed Churches . . . . . . . . . . . RDD                                                                               248
ARMINIANISM                                                                                                                                                               . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    104
                                                                                                                                                                 g; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    Arminianism in England, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .., . . RHH                                                                                                                                                                                                                    165
                                                                                                                                           61
BAPTISM                                                                                                                                              Zacharias Ursinus: Author of the Heidelberg
                                                                                                                                                                 Catechism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH
    Pentecostal Baptism                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      200
                                                              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JC    463
BIBLE STUDIES                                                                                                                                     CHURCH ORDER
                                                                                                                                                     Dutch Churches Adopt New
    Gospel According to John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CJH                                                            469                    Church Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD
    Jesus Christ, the Son of God Incarnate . . CJH                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           247
                                                                                                                                          492     CHURCH ORDER, ART. 39
BIBLE STUDY                                                                                                                                          Care of Scattered Groups of Believers . . RLC
    Believing Bible Study                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    163
                                                                  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE         483     CHURCH ORDER, ART. 40
BIBLE VERSIONS                                                                                                                                       Deacons'Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RLC
    Bible Version of the Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                                                                                                                                                                                                        257
                                                                                                                                          221     CHURCH ORDER, ART. 41
BIBLE, AUTHORITY OF                                                                                                                                  Classical Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    Whence the Authority of the Bible? . . . . . . . RJD                                                                                                                                                                                                                            RLC      295
                                                                                                                                           40
BIBLE, TRANSLATIONS                                                                                                                                  Questions of Article 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RLC                                                         320
                                                                                                                                                  CHURCH ORDER, ART. 42
    Reformation and the Philosophy of Vernacular                                                                                                     Ministers Attending Classis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RLC
              Translations of the Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TPL                                                          37                                                                                                                                                427
BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION                                                                                                                           CHURCH UNION
                                                                                                                                                     Together on the Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD
    Reformation and Biblical Interpretation HH                                                                                             31                                                                                                                                                129
BIGOTS                                                                                                                                            CHURCH, UPHOLDER OF TRUTH
                                                                                                                                                     Church: Pillar and Ground of the Truth JDS
    Lord Give Us Bigots                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      411
                                                              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC      485
BOLSEC                                                                                                                                               To be Church: Upholder of the Truth... DJE                                                                                              173
                                                                                                                                                  CLASSIS
    Ugly Bolsec . . . . . . . . . . ..I................................. DJE                                                               77
BUCER, MARTIN                                                                                                                                        Classical Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RLC                                              295
    Martin Bucer: Ecumenist of the                                                                                                                   Ministers Attending Classis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RLC                                                                     427
              Reformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                   19
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Subject Title                                                Author         page    Subject Title                                                                                                          Author                  page
COMMON GRACE                                                                        DOMESTIC MISSIONS
    What Is This "Common Grace"? .............. AT                           199        Domestic Mission Committee. Report . . . . . DD                                                                                             377
COMMUNION                                                                           DRAMA
    Lord's Supper at Home .......................... EVT                     295        Renewing the Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BLG                                                       139
    Private Communion .............................. CWT                     392    EDUCATION
CONTACT COMMITTEE REPORT                                                                Continuing in Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MBL                                                               464
    Report of the Committee for Contact with                                            Need for Good Christian
         Other Churches ................................. HH                 137                  Schoolteachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D JE                                           460
CONTRA MUNDUM                                                                       EDUCATION, CHRISTIAN
    PRC Contra Mundum ............................. DJE                      197        Covenant Christian Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BVS                                                                              111
COUNSEL-ING                                                                             Support of the Good Christian School . . . DJE                                                                                              458
    Counseling the Grieving ......................... CJT                     15    ELECT
    Counseling Those                                                                    God's Wonderfully Different People . . . . JAH                                                                                              283
         with Marital Problems ................... ADH                       183    ENTERTAINMENT
         (2) .................................................... ADH        207        New Age Movement and Entertainment WB                                                                                                       212
COVENANT                                                                                          (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  m 233
    When Opinions Vary ............................... BW                     91    ESCHATOLOGY
COVENANT REFORMED FELLOWSHIP                                                            End of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DJE                                               223
    Our Ancient Heritage ............................ WTM                     84        Floods and Earthquakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GVB                                                                    7
CRC, DECLINING MEMBERSHIP                                                               Great Apostasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DJE                                           304
    Serious Repercussions ........................... RDD                    367        Locusts from the Bottomless Pit . . . . . . . . . . . . GVB                                                                                 322
CRC SECESSIONS                                                                          Wars - Sign of the End . . . . . . . . . ..*.............. DJE                                                                              280
    Exodus Continues.. ................................ RDD                   82    EUTHANASIA
CREATION                                                                                Recent Developments in
    Creative Work in the Beginning ...........HCH                            236                  Church/ State Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JL                                                178
         (2) ..................................................... HCH       253    EVANGELISM
    First Three Days of Creation.. ...............HCH                        277        Active Congregational Involvement . . . . . RVO                                                                                             354
          .......................................................... HCH     302        Critique of Modern Church-Growth
          .......................................................... HCH     330                  Evangelism (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CJT                                           357
          .......................................................... HCH     445                            . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CJT     370
          .......................................................... HCH    466                   ;; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CJT            422
    God Is the Creator .................................HCH                  154                  (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CJT           438
          .......................................................... HCH     175    EVANGELISTS
CREEDS                                                                                  Behavior Required of Timothy
    Importance of the Creeds.. .....................AVE                      462                  as an Evangelist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GCL                                                328
    No Creed but Christ? ............................RGM                     372    EVIL
CREEDS, DOCTRINE OF SCRIPTURE                                                           Abstaining from the Appearance
    Doctrine of Scripture in the Reformed                                                         of Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WGB                            488
         Creeds ................................................. KK          44        Problem of Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DJE                                          101
DATHEEN, PETER                                                                      FAITH
    Peter Datheen: Father of Reformed                                                   Faith or Fate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . JLK                                133
         Liturgy (1) .......................................... HH          375     FATE
              ....................................................... HH    425         Faith or Fate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . JLK                                133
         ;; ....................................................... HH      451     FIRMAMENT, CREATION OF
         (4 ....................................................... HH      485         First Three Days of Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HCH                                                                            330
DEACONS MEETINGS                                                                    FOREIGN MISSIONS
    Deacons' Meetings .................................. RLC                257         Foreign Mission Work in the PRC . . . . . . . . . RJD                                                                                       399
DEACONS, OFFICE OF                                                                  FORGIVENESS
    Spiritual Requirements of a Deacon                                                  Prayer to Become Whiter Than Snow . . . JAH                                                                                                   3
         in God's Church ............................... GCL                  89    FREDERICK THE PIOUS
DEATH                                                                                   Story of Two Fredericks (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                                                    104
    Death's Triumph ....................................... CH              156                   (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .               165
DINOSAURS                                                                           FREDERICK THE WISE
    Dinosaurs and Other Monsters .............GVB                           109         Story of Two Fredericks (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                                                     67


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GEORGETOWN, ORGANIZATION OF                                                                                                                           JOHN
    News From Our Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BW                                                                   310         Gospel According tb John ...........................CJH                   469
GOD, COUNSEL OF                                                                                                                                           Jesus Christ, the Son of God Incarnate ....... CJH                         492
    Counsel Stands, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RGM                                                       195     JUDAS
GOD, CREATOR                                                                                                                                              Judas the Betrayer ......................... ............... CH           267
    God Is The Creator . . . ..*.......................... HCH                                                                                154     KEYS
              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HCH         175         Keys ......................................................... DHK           9
GOD, GRACE OF
    God of All Grace (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CJT                                                  205         Another Opinion on the KJV ..................... AVZ                       319
GOD, RELIANCE UPON                                                                                                                                        Bible Version of the Churches ....................DJE                      221
    Committing Our Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RGM                                                              481     `LAWLESSNESS
GOD, RULE OF                                                                                                                                              Abounding Lawlessness .............................. DJE                   448
    BeStillandKnowthatIAmGod . . . . . . . . ADH                                                                                              159     LEARNING
GOD, SOVEREIGNTY OF                                                                                                                                       Continuing in Learning ....................... ...... MBL                  464
    Cross and a Frustrated Devil! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AT                                                                        209     LIBERTY, CHRISTIAN
GOD, UNCHANGEABLE                                                                                                                                         Our Christian Liberty.. ............................... JAH                243
    Unchanging Christ in an Ever-Changing                                                                                                             LIGHT, CREATION OF
            World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CH                       219         First Three Days of Creation ..................... HCH                     302
GODLINESS                                                                                                                                             LOGO
    Exercising Unto Godliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GCL                                                                   227         Our New Symbol ........................................ DJE                  5
    Faithful Saying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GCL                                       250     LORD'S SUPPER
GOVERNMENT AID TO SCHOOLS                                                                                                                                 Lord's Supper at Home .............................. EVT                   295
    Government Aid to Christian Schools . . . . . . JL                                                                                        271         Private Communion .................................. CWT                   392
    More on Government Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KDJ                                                                    391     LUTHER, MARTIN
GRACE                                                                                                                                                     Taking a Stand ............................................ DJE             53
    Is Grace in Things? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GR                                              416     MARRIAGE
GRADUATION ADDRESS                                                                                                                                        what  Happened to Marriage in the U.S.?. . RDD                             128
    Farewell, Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD                                                  418     MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
GRIEVING                                                                                                                                                  Counseling Those with
    Counseling the Grieving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CJT                                                              15               Marital Problems (1) .......................... ADH                  183
HEADSHIP                                                                                                                                                        (29 ...................................................... ADH       207
    Headship of the Reformed Husband . . . . . DJE                                                                                            245     MISSIONARIES
HOLY SPIRIT                                                                                                                                               Macedonian Call ........................................ CJH               346
    Spirit of Sonship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                          363         Missionaries Sent Out From Antioch ......... RJD                           343
HOME SCHOOLING                                                                                                                                                  (2) ....................................................... RJD      394
    Victory for Christian Education? . . . . . . . . HVM                                                                                       79     MISSIONARY-AT-LARGE
HOMOSEXUALITY                                                                                                                                             Missionary-At-Large.. .............................. RGM                   349
    Church's Response to Homosexuality. RDD                                                                                                   437     MISSIONS                                                 :
    Execution of the Homosexual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AL                                                                         55         Calvinism and Missions:
              . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JJH     56               Irresistible Grace .........:-. ..................... RVO             65
    More on the Death Penalty                                                                                                                             Calvinism and Missions: Perseverance
             for Homosexuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BVH                                                  151               of the Saints .....I.; ............................... RVO           180
    Shameful Sin of Homosexuality (4) . . . . . . . RLC                                                                                        12         Essentials and Non-essentials in Missions ... WI3                          369
INSPIRATION                                                                                                                                               Kelong  and Net ........................................... JLK            397
    Profit of Our Inspired Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JLK                                                                   27         Special Issue on Missions ............................ JJP                 391
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE                                                                                                                                    MOVIES
    Calvinism and Missions:                                                                                                                               Renewing the Battle .................................. BLG                 139
             Irresistible Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RVO                                                65     NEW AGE MOVEMENT
JACOB                                                                                                                                                     New Age Movement and Entertainment ...... WB                               212
    Our Dependence Upon God's Grace . . . . . . . . 1.. JAH                                                                                    87               (2) ........................................................ WE%     233
JEWS                                                                                                                                                  NEW YEAR
    Supreme Court Ruling Invalidates Special Public                                                                                                       Church in the New Year: Called to Work... DJE                              149
             School District Created for                                                                                                                  God's Indispensable Presence ...................... CH                     147
             Jewish Sect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JL                         490


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          OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY                                                                                                                                  S A L V A T I O N
              Introduction to Old Testament History . . . . . . HCH                                                                                      106         Our Graciously and Freely Given Salvation JAH                                                                                     14
          OLEVIANUS,  CASPAR                                                                                                                                         Our Salvation's Most Precious Gift . . . . . . . . . . . . JAH                                                                   471
              Caspar Olevianus: Author of the                                                                                                                    SCHOLASTICISM
                       Heidelberg Catechism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                                       248         Problem of"Scholasticism" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BW                                                     229
                       (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HH             273     SCHOOL TEACHERS
          PAMPHLET REVIEW                                                                                                                                            Need for Good ChriStian Schoolteachers . . . . DJE                                                                               460
              Knowing the True God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                                       6     SCHOOL VOUCHER
          PASTORS                                                                                                                                                    Recent Developments in Chur&State  Law . . . JL                                                                                  178
              Pastor's Heart (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HH                                      231     SCRIPTURE
                       (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HH              255        Believer and His Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD                                             33
          PEACE                                                                                                                                                      Far Brighter even than the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                                          29
              That Wonderful Gift of Peace With God . . . . JAH                                                                                          433     SCRIPTURE, AUTHORITY OF
          PEALE, NORMAN VINCENT'                                                                                                                                     Reformation, Revival, and Scripture's
              Noted American Cleric Dies l..................... RDD                                                                                      301                    Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JJ         35
          PENTECOSTALS                                                                                                                                           SCRIPTURE, DIVINE BOOK
              Pentecostal Baptism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JC                                         463         Bible, a Divine Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DHK                                         42
          PERSECUTION                                                                                                                                            SCRIPTURE, DOCTRINE OF
              Persecution a Daily Reality for                                                                                                                        Doctrine of Scripture in the
                       Many Christians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD                                              393                    Reformed Creeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KK                                 44
          PERSEVERANCE                                                                                                                                           SCRIPTURE, WORD OF GOD
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       51
     I        Perseverance of the Saints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RVO                                                           180         Written for Our Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RGM
          PHYSICIANS                                                                                                                                             SEASONS
              She Suffered Many Things of                                                                                                                            Season(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DHK              272
                       Many Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AK                                          472     SECESSIONS
I         PRAYER                                                                                                                                                     Exodus Continues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD                                    82
              Coming to God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CH                                   315         Significant Number of Koreans
          PRC SYNOD                                                                                                                                                             Leave CRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD                        83
              Synod of the PRC 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                                      389          Significant Withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RDD                                            300
          PRE-SYNODICAL SERMON                                                                                                                                   SELF-EXAMINATION
              Church: Pillar and Ground of the Truth . . . . . JDS                                                                                       411          Self Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CH                            387
          P&DESTINATION                                                                                                                                          SIGNS OF THE TIMES
              Ugly Bolsec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..*...... DJE                                     77         Wars - Sign of the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                               280
          P S A L T E R                                                                                                                                          SINGLE LIFE
              More Books of Psalms for Singing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CM                                                                              6         Fear of Single Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WB                                259
          PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS                                                                                                                                SLEEP
              Supreme Court Invalidates Special Public School                                                                                                        Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DHK       153
                       District Created for Jewish Sect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JL                                                                   490     SORROW
          RELIGIOUS FREEDOM                                                                                                                                           Counseling the Grieving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..a..*..... CJT                                                    15
              Recent Developments in Church/State Law . . . JL                                                                                          1 7 8    SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS
          REMARRlAGE                                                                                                                                                 Our Savior Who Makes Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WB                                                          171
              Remarriage of the "Innocent Party" . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                                                             186     STARS
          REPORTS                                                                                                                                                     Stars . . . . ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DHK    130
              Domestic Mission Committee Report . . . . . . . . . . DD                                                                                   377     S Y M B O L
              Foreign Mission Work in the PRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RJD                                                                            399         Our New Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                   5
              Report of Classis East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JJH                                              22     SYNOD, PRC, 1994
                       ,............................................................. JJH                                                                238         PRC Synod of Faith, Jenison, 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                                                    413
                        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JJH     476     TELEVISION
              Report of Classis West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RVO                                                      21         Renewing the Battle . ..*.*............................ BLG                                                                      139
                        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . RVO         309     THANKSGIVING
              Report of the Committee for Contact with Other                                                                                                         Fitting Thanksgiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CH                                   75
                       Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HH                           137     T I T H E
              Secretary's Annual Report to the RFPA . . . . . . CK                                                                                        63         Tithe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DHK       103
                                                                                                                                                                 TRINITY
                                                                                                                                                                     Doctrine of the Trinity (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TCM                                                 59

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TRUMPETS                                                                                                                                WOMEN IN CHURCH OFFICE
       Trumpets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DHK       204          Nose of the Camel (1) ................................. DIE               269
TRUTH                                                                                                                                              (2) ........................................................ DIE    293
       To be Church: Upholder of the Truth . . . . . . . . DJE                                                                   173               (3) ........................................................ DIE     317
URSINUS, ZACHARIAS.                                                                                                                                (4) ........................................................ DIE    341
       Zacharias Ursinus: Author of the                                                                                                            (5) ........................................................ DIE     365
                 Heidelberg Catechism . . . . . . . . . l...,.......,.... HH                                                    200          Women in Church Office .......................... RDD                     438
VIRGIN MARY                                                                                                                             WORD STUDIES
       Highly Favored Virgin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DJE                                  125          Keys ......................................................... DHK           9
WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY                                                                                                                         Season(s) .................................................. DHK          272
.'      Calling of the Westminster Assembly                                                                                                  Sleep ......................................................... DHK        153
                 of Divines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CC      298          Stars ...................................................i.. .... DHK      130
WIDOWS                                                                                                                                       Tithe ......................................................... DHK        103
        God-Required Honor Due to                                                                                                            Trumpets .................................................. DHK           204
                 Widowed Mothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GCL                                401




                                                                                                            RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY                                          NOTICE OF BIBLE STUDY
                                                                                                                The Council of the First Protes-                                         AT DORDT
        WEDDING ANNIVERSARY                                                                          tant Reformed Church of Grand Rap-                                     A group of students dedicated to
       On August 2,1994, our dear par-                                                                ids expresses its heartfelt sympathy                           the historic Reformed faith meets to-
ents and grandparents,                                                                                to its fellow officebearers, Elder Ken                          gether Monday evenings at 7:00 in the
      MR. and MRS. TUNIS JANSMA,                                                                      Doezema, in the passing of his son-in-                          Dordt College library for a Bible study.
celebrated 45 years of marriage. We                                                                   law,                                                           The meetings are sponsored by the
are thankful to God and grateful to                                                                               MR. BERNARD WIGGER,                                 Protestant Reformed Churches in the
them for providing us with a covenant                                                                                                                                area. The plans are to begin the study
home with godly instruction in the way                                                                and Elder Willem Hofman, in the pass-                          with the prophecy of Jonah. The
that we should go. It is our prayer that                                                              ing of his brother-in-law,                                     study is in no way limited to Protestant
God will continue to keep them in His                                                                                MR. ERNEST PLUGER.                               Reformed students; those outside the
loving.care  and grant them many more                                                                 May the comfort of the families be in                           PRC are most welcome. If you know
years to share with each other.                                                                      this: that the death of His saints is, in                       students at Dordt who may be inter-
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everlasting to everlasting upon them                                                                  116:15).                                                       attend. Questions may be directed to
that fear-him, and his righteousness                                                                       Rev. Meindert Joostens, President                          Rev. Russ Dykstra (712) 726-3382.
unto children's children; to such as                                                                                             Donald J. Faber, Clerk
keep his covenant, and to those that
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