Vol 15 Issue 22

But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thess. 2:13, 14 But! Amazing contrast! Similar to that which is found in the second chapter of First Peter, where the apostle writes about those that are appointed to stumble over the Stone and then addresses the Church: “But ye are a chosen generation”...

With the permission of our Editor-in-chief, the undersigned has been instructed by our Convention to give a report in our Standard Bearer, concerning the latest activities and undertakings of our youth as they are organized into various Societies. We sincerely thank our Editor for this allotted space. Our first National Convention of Young People’s Societies was held August 2 and 3, in the auditorium of our South Holland Church. A year ago the desire was expressed by members of the South Holland Society to unite more closely the young people’s societies, and immediately a committee was appointed to study the...

What was the special purpose and design of the great atonement? The view of writers in general is that the great sacrifice, as compared with the acts of expiation which from time to time were made through the year, was a more perfect sacrifice, so much so that by it the mass of sins for which the daily acts of expiations had but imperfectly satisfied was blotted out. Now this view, as was previously said, will not do. It is thoroughly Jewish. The Jews, it was pointed out, have such a saying among them, “That on the day of expiation...

The book of Obadiah is comprised of but one chapter of 21 verses. It is the shortest book in the Old Testament. Of the personal history of the prophet nothing is known. Some identify him with Obadiah mentioned in II Chron. 17:7, who was sent by Jehoshaphat to teach in the cities of Judah, but his identification is exceedingly doubtful. It is probable that the prophet was a native of Judah, for all his interests seem to be centered in the south. The prophecy of Obadiah has been dated very early and very late. Some writers assign it to the...

Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18 ‘‘Come now, I pray.” . . . It is the Lord speaking to His people. He bids them to come to Him that He and they may reason, dispute together, speak with each other, He with them and they with Him. Mark the Lord’s manner of speech. What eagerness it betokens! What yearning after His people! “Come now, I pray.” It is, to be sure,...