Vol 15 Issue 16

Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Rom. 13:8 Apparently paradoxical debt of love! You owe it, you pay it, you still owe it! A debt which accumulates as you pay, which never decreases though you pay! An obligation which, though you always faithfully fulfill it, is never fulfilled! Owe no man anything, render unto every man his dues, above all do not fail to render to every man the dues of love, yet acknowledge that you still owe the debt of loving one another. In your various and...

The above title will probably lead to expect a lengthy and profound treatise, for such could, indeed, be written on that subject. But be at ease, reader, for at present I have no such purpose. I merely intend briefly to answer a question I received from Mr. K. H. of R. Calif. The brother read my article on “The Vaunting Axe” and became somewhat confused by the following sentence: “It teaches that God did not forsake the works of His hands, as is the doctrine of the Deist; that He did not surrender them to the whims of fortune or...

Esteemed Editor: Will you kindly allow me space for a few columns in your paper? In The Banner of April 20, there appears an article by Dr. W. H. Rutgers, which I believe calls for some reflection in our Standard Bearer. The article discusses the oft-occurring question of the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart and treats it in such a way that it constitutes an unconscious challenge to anyone who has learned to see and feel the Reformed view of God and the creature as we have it taught us in Scripture. I believe, to express at the very outset my...

The question still remains whether the name “bread of presence” is not expressive of something more than has thus far been mentioned. It is indeed. Let us consider that this provision was bread and that its being called “bread of presence” must signify that it was placed in God’s presence in respect solely to Him. In what respect? If our answer is going to be an improvement on the view that this provision was set before God’s face merely for being seen and looked on by the watchful eye of God, then we must concentrate upon the heavenly reality here...

Rev. D. Zwier is writing a series of articles on “The Image of God.” What we have from his pen on this subject in De Wachter for the second of this month reads, as freely translated, thus: “The old reformed distinction between the image of God in the broader and narrower sense is to be preferred above the new distinction to which the editor of The Standard Bearer gives preference,—the distinction between the image of God in material and formal sense. According to him, fallen man has retained something of the image of God in the formal sense, but of...