Vol 17 Issue 03

We are redeemed! Redeemed we are, from all iniquity; redeemed, because Christ gave himself for us; redeemed, in order that He might purify unto Himself a people, zealous of good works! Such is the beautiful content of the fourteenth verse of the second chapter of Paul’s epistle to Titus, his own son after the common faith and fellow-laborer. Redeemed! What is, dear reader, redemption? It is the being bought, ransomed, delivered through the payment of a price. From that point of view our redemption is the most important single aspect of our salvation. For the very word redemption reaches down...

“Thou shall not kill. Ex. 20:13 It must not be supposed that the command, “Thou shalt not kill,” that is, “Kill thou not thy neighbor,” is being kept when we merely refrain from killing, hurting, hating the neighbor. The keeping of this command consists positively in loving our fellow man. And I now have reference to a definite man, neighbor. Love is the fulfilment of all the law thus also of the sixth command. It would seem that it is hardly necessary that we be told this. For the absence of hatred is respect of a definite individual spells the...

We speak sometimes of the Spiritual heights in the life of the Church. Of such periods we read in the history of the Church time and again. There are times when the Church is spiritually capable to wage a battle with the enemies of the truth. Her life is healthy and strong and what seems to be almost impossible is accomplished. Read the history of the Apostolic Church, immediately after the Lord’s Ascension. Or turn to the time of the Reformation and that of the Secession and you will find such periods filled with heroic actions. There are no buts...

Psalm 42:1, 2: “To the chief musician Masehil, for the sons of Korah. As the heart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, o God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?” The Bible, beloved, is full of sharp contrasts. And one of them comes to our mind when we read the superscription of this most wonderful Psalm. We read that David composed this Psalm for the use of the sons of Korah. Now the name Korah reminds us of that other history where many men and...

From the Roosevelt Park Men’s Society we received the following question: “How is it to be explained that the weak brother perishes for whom Christ died, according to II Cor. 8:11?” Peter De Vries, secr. It must be I Cor. 8:11 (not II Cor.) to which the brother refers in his question. We read there: And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? The difficulty confronting the Roosevelt Park Men’s Society is evident, especially if we consider the thought of the text as it is expressed in the question of their secretary. In that question...