Vol 16 Issue 12

*This speech was delivered at the last December meeting of our League of Men’s Societies. The movement known as the “Reformation” is characteristically spiritual. It denotes that work of God whereby His people, His church was liberated out of the shackles of Roman Catholicism. To be sure, the Reformation also had far-reaching political results. Yea, to many it was merely political. This is due to the fact that the Roman Catholic, Church, besides being a spiritual power, was also clothed with political might. Nevertheless, the Reformation, in its origin and according to its fundamental significance, is decidedly spiritual. We associate...

Cromwell’s Protectorate Cromwell allowed a large degree of toleration to all Protestants, viz., the Presbyterians, the Episcopalians and the Congregationalists. He left the great majority of clergymen undisturbed. His rule, however, was disliked for its rigor on the one hand and for its broad tolerance on the other. As the result of his tolerance there was much controversy of rival religious bodies. For the great majority of the people of England this was greatly distasteful. This majority wanted peace and to get peace they would see one established form of the faith inculcated upon the nation, that all controversy might...

And when He had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. Mark 6:41 Herod first heard of Jesus immediately after the Baptist’s death. While some said that this Jesus so much spoken of was Elias, or one of the prophets, there were others about the Tetrarch who suggested that He was John risen from the dead, Herod had little faith, but that did not prevent his lying open enough...

A peculiar incident, these Greeks, at the feast at Jerusalem. That is, if we grasp the true relation of their coming to the feast and their request to see Jesus. We read “And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast (original: who were wont to go up): The same came therefore to Philip. . . . saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.” We do not deem it necessary to elaborate on their coming to the feast as something peculiar, for it was their custom. Nor is it of importance whether they were Greek...