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The following announcement appeared in The Banner of August 8th: Consistories, Attention: Reliable sources of information state that Prof. Dr. K. Schilder and Rev. D. Van Dyk expect to arrive in our country some time in the month of August to engage in preaching and in speaking engagements to provide information as to the schism which occurred in the “Gereformeerde Kerken of the Netherlands” and led to the organization of a new denomination known as the “Gereformeerde Kerken maintaining Article 31.” We beg to inform our consistories and churches that we do not maintain church correspondence with the denomination to...

Most of our readers have heard the sad news that our editor, the Rev. H. Hoeksema, suffered a heart attack on Tuesday, June 17th, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, while enroute to California where he intended to spend his vacation. We realize that this notice comes to you at a rather late date. The reason is that the editor had prepared ail the material for his three departments in our paper for three months ahead, prior to his vacation in June. It is a cause for profound gratitude to hear how our beloved brother is recuperating at a fast rate....

This is the third article, written by the Rev. Doekes of the Reformed Churches, Art. 31, of the Netherlands, in answer to the 4 questions which our Editor asked him, and which are found in Volume 23 of our Standard Bearer, March 15, 1947, page 271. This third article appeared in De Reformatie, July 12, 1947, page 325. (DUTCH REMOVED) Here follows the translation: You and your Seed (Reply to the Rev. Hoeksema) How does Scripture speak? In the language which the Synods of 1942 and those that followed would force upon us: that the full promise of salvation “properly”...

In The Banner of July 11 and also of July 18, the Rev. Ghysels writes about the parable of our Lord which is commonly called the parable of the Wheat and the Tares. He writes as follows: “Our Lord’s warning against judging—his counsel to let wheat and tares grow together till the harvest comes, does not preclude the necessity of self-judging and self-criticism. We must not let them grow together in our own life. We must exterminate the weeds, the sooner the better. “Neither does his warning preclude the necessity of mutual discipline. Even if we may not judge one...

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.” I Cor. 13:1 What does Paul mean with this astounding verse? Well, you must know that things were not as they ought to be at Corinth. There was a division in the church. Some of the household of Chloe had told Paul about the sorry state of affairs at the church of Corinth. There were four different parties there. And it seems as though all the members were included in the four parties that are...

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“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.” I Cor. 13:2 The Apostle will teach the church at Corinth the difficult lesson that all their gifts and talents, if they are to be conducive to edification of the congregation, must spring from conscious love of God.

This is the fourth article, written by the Rev. L. Doekes of the Netherlands Reformed Church, maintaining Art. 31, in answer to the four questions our Editor asked him, Vol. 23 of the Standard Bearer, March 15, 1947, page 271. This fourth article appeared in De Reformatie, Sept. 13, 1947, pp. 398, 399.

Under the above title, the Rev. Ring Star of the Christian Reformed Chin eh at Bemis, South Dakota, writes an article in the Calvin Forum of Aug. and Sept., 1947. I do not know the meaning of the word Forum in Calvin Forum. It may have reference to the use of that word in Roman Antiquity. In Rome it meant a public place or square where popular assemblies were held and justice was administered, such as at the celebrated Forum Romanum.

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. I Cor. 13:3 There was schism at Corinth through the foolishness that was still in them. It is not foolish to make schism in one body?