Vol 22 Issue 01

Approximately one week ago I was approached by a committee of the Auxiliary with a request to give a talk on this occasion, your annual picnic. And having accepted the invitation, I naturally began to ponder as to what was required of me, and as to what I should say; and I furthermore came to certain conclusions, which I shall pass on to you in the form of a declaration of intentions. In the first place, what you will hear tonight is not to be classified as an oration, nor even as a speech, but as a mere talk. For...

Since our Editor has been criticizing the Complaint against Dr. Gordon H. Clark of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church we thought it might be interesting to inform our readers concerning both Dr. Clark and the disposal of the case. In 1936 Dr. Clark was invited to become Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. At that time Dr. Clark was a member and ruling elder of the Redeemer Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. After a year’s probation at Wheaton College, Dr. Clark was elected Associate Professor of Philosophy and made a permanent member of the faculty. In June, 1942, a committee of...

We had in mind to begin this column in an entirely different manner, perhaps by introducing the writers and making a statement or two of our plans for this rubric. Since the evening of September 20, however, these have appeared irrelevant and this article must take precedence. The reason for this should become evident as we proceed. On the evening referred to above, the Reformed Free Publishing Association held its Annual Membership meeting in the First Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. The Board of the association had expended a special effort in an attempt to arouse interest in this...

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is: the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matt. 7:13-14 We may definitely assert that the “Kingdom of Heaven” is the subject of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Throughout this sermon in Matt. 5:7, the spiritual character of this Kingdom receives all emphasis. It is spiritual in distinction from the earthy expectation of the disciples on the one...

The Wrong Way. As these words are written, the short but pleasant summer season has again come to an end, and schooldays are with us once again. Throughout the country the schools have opened their doors to receive the nation’s children. Our own covenant children, too, have returned to their respective institutions of learning, and on the whole they seem quite happy about it all. We parents are likewise happy. The summer months may be ever so pleasant from many points of view, there is nothing like the satisfaction one gets when home and church and school all come down...

As already has been pointed out, the age of the judges was characterized by lawlessness. In these final chapters, the sacred writer tells us over and over that every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and the reason he gives is, that there was no king in Israel. The final section of the book of Judges is formed of examples of such lawlessness to the number of three and the second of these is the exploration of the tribe of Dan, the first one being that of Micah’s spurious sanctuary, which has already been dealt with....

Q. 45. What doth the resurrection of Christ profit us? A. First, that by his resurrection he has overcome death, that he might make us partakers of that righteousness which he had purchased for us by his death; secondly, we are also by his power raised up to a new life; and lastly, the resurrection of Christ is a sure pledge of our blessed resurrection. Strikingly brief is the chapter of the Catechism on the resurrection of our Lord from the dead. No less than eight questions and answers were devoted to the suffering and death of Christ in the...

Before I proceed to offer our readers more information concerning the schism caused in the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands, I want to say a few words of clarification in regard to a statement I made in the previous issue of our paper, and on which the Rev. H. J. Kuiper reflects in The Banner of Sept. 14, 1945. The, editor writes: “When we explain the nature of the objections which the schismatic group made against the official stand of the Reformed Churches (and of our Church as well) on the significance of the covenant of grace for the children...

If I should refer to all the passages of Holy Writ that prove that the complainants contradict Scripture when they insist that God sincerely seeks the salvation of the reprobate through the preaching of the gospel, this discussion would become practically endless. And I intend to conclude it in this article. Hence, I will just make a few selections, in order that it may become abundantly evident that my position is not based on human reason, but on the revelation of God in the Holy Scriptures. Let us attend to Matt. 11:25-27, the context of that well known passage: “Come...