Vol 20 Issue 18

Our first task is to define terms. In the abstract, we can speak of three kinds of human freedom, to wit, moral freedom, metaphysical freedom and psychological freedom. Moral freedom is to be defined as the ability of man—the natural man dead in his trespasses and sins—to do the right and (or) the wrong as he chooses. Metaphysical freedom has reference to the counsel and providence of God. Here the question is whether God’s counsel is the determining necessity of man’s deeds (works, words and thoughts) and thus whether these deeds proceed from the store of God’s sovereign providence. To...

Long range guns which can shoot twenty years into the future are now firing on the United States in a war potentially as destructive as that being fought around the world today. No section of the country is out of their range. We refer to the employment of mothers in War Industries and consider the children the victims of this prevalent destructive power. In the comparative quiet Midwest this is no problem, but it is a very real one in many Industrial Centers. This, however, does not necessarily exclude all those not living in such cities because principally this subject...

This subject as we wrote in our last article is putin question form because there is no unanimity of action and conception about this matter in Reformed Churches. It concerns the important question of discipline of adults who were baptized but who refuse to make a confession of faith and partake of the Lord’s Supper, and also such adults who have committed sins for which members of the Church of Jesus Christ are disciplined. I also gave in my last article a brief sketch of some of the actions and opinions of Reformed leaders from the sixteenth century, up to...

*Addess delivered on the occasion of the commencement exercises of our Theological Seminary. The kingdom of heaven has keys. Christ tells us so in saying to Peter, “I give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. . . .” Through this speech, He set the kingdom—His kingdom—before us under the image of a walled city with a gate that is locked and unlocked, opened and shut—opened to admit the friends, the rightful residents, and closed to shut out the enemy. In his vision, John sees this same kingdom—the holy Jerusalem—ascending out of heaven from God with its gates...

5. After The Order of Melchisedec. (cont.) In both these respects, that the priestly office and the kingship were combined in one person, and that he was a priest for ever, Melchisedec is a type of Christ. Christ is the real Melchisedec, the royal priest, the king of righteousness, and the king of peace. He functions in both the royal and the priestly office. From this viewpoint it may be said, indeed, that there was a figure or image of this priesthood in that of the first Adam in paradise in the state of rectitude. He was an earthly image...

I take it for granted that all our readers, even those that thus far have revealed little or no enthusiasm for a school of our own, and among these even those who definitely opposed it especially by the “moral obligation” argument, will have to agree with me, that our obligation to the existing schools and school societies can be none other than, and is rooted in the obligation of the parents with regard to the education of their children. These school societies are, with respect to the instruction of our children only a means to an end. If parents were...