Vol 15 Issue 12

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Ps. 2:1-3 Foolish raging! The heathen furiously rage! And shall not He, that sitteth in the heavens, laugh? For, they are raging, they set themselves in battle array and they take counsel together, they plot and conspire, against the Lord and His Anointed! Concretely their fury is directed against the Anointed of Jehovah. Their deepest purpose is to rage against the...

Recently it occurred more than once that some well-meaning brethren in the West considered certain articles I wrote in the Standard Bearer, particularly in connection with the coming of Dr. Schilder and the criticism of Rev. H. J. Kuiper, sufficiently important to be published in pamphlet form. Without consulting me, or even informing me about it, they took these articles to the printer, transformed them into pamphlets, signed my full name to them, and distributed them among the public in their neighborhood. I hereby inform the recipients of such pamphlets that I am in no wise responsible for such publications....

S. D. V. of Grand Rapids, Mich., sent me the following communication. In The Standard Bearer for Feb. 1, 1939, the Rev. Ophoff writes, “Think finally of Calvin himself who approved of the death of Servetus.” In Calvin’s Calvinism, p. 15, I read, “It was a false report that Calvin was the adviser that Servetus should be put to death.” It was most solemnly denied. On p. 20 we find the same statement. Will you please be so kind as to explain. Explanation. I take it that what the brother asks me to do is to explain how that there...

In defending themselves against the charge that through their marshalling Scripture on the side of their theory, they set the Bible at variance with itself, the brethren have conceded that there is conflict but maintain that this conflict is not actual but only apparent. Zwier tells his readers (so I have shown by quoting from his writings in De Wachter) that apparently contrary truths are indeed to be found in Scripture and that therefore no one needs to be alarmed by the circumstance that there is no organic connection between what he calls the doctrine of common grace and the...

(This article is a continuation of the one that appeared in Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 52, 53. Material of a different nature had the preference and till now crowded out this closing article on the above subject. Ed.) The question remains: what may be the causes that the people of God in the world so often relapse into a jargon of Yankee-Dutch in doctrine and in walk, so that it seems so difficult for them to maintain and confess the pure truth of the Word of God in their generations? Why do we not, why can we not remain...