Vol 20 Issue 16

Although Scriptures record of the great event of Pentecost is simple and brief, Pentecost is, nevertheless, the most significant event in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ. Of all Christian holidays it is the most glorious. Its benediction is of eternal value. Its significance is far-reaching. Without Pentecost the day of Christmas is meaningless; without it the joys of Easter are vain and the hope of the resurrection is deceptive. Undoubtedly, Christmas, Easter and the Ascension are indispensable to our salvation, yet, without Pentecost and its gift of the Holy Spirit we are yet in our sin, we...

If Deborah had definite and special significance for Israel and the kingdom of God in general, so too, Gideon (and for that matter all the heroes and prophets of God). Deborah was prophetess, who told the glories of Israel’s God, as revealed in all his marvelous redemptive works, and who thus anew united God’s believing people, instrumentally, on the foundation of the great principles of truth that, as was said, lay embedded in Israel’s history. Gideon and his band of three hundred—the hero cannot be dissociated from this band—was raised up and, prepared by the Lord to demonstrate of what...

To bring out this significance, attention must be directed to the relaxation of the national bond and internal disorder that characterized the period of the judges. By the death of Joshua the people of Israel were deprived of their second national leader. After his death there subsisted in the nation a certain government, which is indicated by the name “elders.” They were not chosen by the people but were the born princes and representatives of the people. Their task was to preside and watch over the general interests of the nation and so to continue the rule of Moses and...

3. Christ Our Chief Prophet (continued) As God’s prophet, Christ is far more excellent than the first man Adam in paradise. For He is the Person of the Son of God, Who is eternally in the bosom of the Father, the eternal Word, the express image of His substance, the effulgence of the Father’s glory, God of God, Who knows the Father with an infinitely perfect knowledge. It is this Person of the Son of God Who from eternity to eternity is essentially and truly God, assumed the flesh and blood of the children, took upon Himself our nature, and...

From The Christian Labor Herald we learn that the annual meeting of the C.L.A. will have to consider and decide upon a proposal from one of its locals to eliminate the strike clause from its constitution. In the May issue of The Christian Herald there occurs an article by a certain Frank Rottier in favor of the proposal and arguing for its adoption by the annual meeting, while in replying to that contribution the editor, Mr. J. Gritter, voices his opposition to it. It is not my purpose to review the arguments pro and con, and to weigh their value....

Of all the arguments and would-be arguments the opponents of the movement for schools of our own wherever possible adduce for their position, that concerning the moral obligation to the existing schools, is the weakest of all. As far as I can see, it is in this argument that they reveal that they are not interested in school education of our children along strictly Protestant Reformed lines. They do not admit the necessity of Protestant Reformed instruction also in the schools. They cannot see that the school has anything to do with Protestant Reformed principles. That the principles adopted by...