Vol 15 Issue 11

An overflow audience greeted Dr. K. Schilder, when on the 8th of February he entered the auditorium of the First Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids to deliver his lecture on the subject of Common Grace. The large auditorium had been filled to capacity with numerous extra chairs. Loudspeakers had been installed in the basement for those that could find no room upstairs. In the auditorium every seat was taken, and many remained standing during the entire lecture. And more than one hundred made use of the loudspeakers downstairs. Without a doubt it was easily the largest audience the professor...

At the last meeting of the classis of our churches a plan was adopted to divide the classis into two classes, a classis east and a classis west, and to arrange for the annual convocation of a synodical meeting. A previous gathering of the classis entertained an overture from the First Protestant Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, proposing that classis appoint a committee to work out a plan with a view to such division and organization of a synod. This overture was adopted and the committee was appointed. The report of this last mentioned committee was before the classis at...

The cross of Calvary, which is again the subject of preaching in a special sense during the Lent season now upon us, is a power of God unto salvation. We do well to emphasize that the cross is indeed the salvation of the Church. According to Paul in 2 Cor. 5:19, it is the word of reconciliation. By it our reconciliation was effected. Upon Golgotha’s accursed tree God purchased us with His own precious blood and we have been redeemed from all iniquity. And no less striking is the truth as expressed in John 1:29, namely, that Jesus is the...

The brethren, exponents of the theory of common grace and of the well-meaning offer of salvation, have been told over and over that, through their marshalling Scripture on the side of their theory, they set the Bible at variance with itself. In defending themselves against this charge, the brethren have conceded that there is indeed conflict between their theories (the brethren, of course, call their views not theories but doctrines) and Scripture. Their contention is, however, that this conflict is only apparent and thus not actual. They correctly maintain that there can be no actual contradictions in the Bible. What...

Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord dost thou wash my feet? John 13:6 Christ washes the feet of His disciples. How great the love He bears them. How firm His determination to offer Himself. How the zeal of God’s house consumes Him. According to John, it is before the feast of the Passover. He knows that His hour has come that He shall depart out of this world unto the Father. He knows that the one way that leads out of this world will take Him into the company of strong bulls of Bashan,...