Vol 31 Issue 16

Once again we had the God-given privilege of congregating as Christian Mothers of the Protestant Reformed Churches at the Western Ladies Aid League, held at Edgerton, Minnesota, April 13th.  We sang some well-chosen Psalter numbers. Then our president, Mrs. H. Veldman opened with a word of prayer and welcome after which she read Ephesians 6:1-9. 

In A New Garb  This is the time of the year when all creation appears in a new garb. In harmony with this people, especially of the feminine sex, choose to make their appearance in new apparel some of which may create admiration, some disgust, and some even stimulate laughter. 

“The Consistories shall see to it that there are good Christian schools in which the parents have their children instructed according to the demands of the covenant.”—Art. 21. 

The three Netherlands professors, Polyander, Thysius, and Walleus, offer the following opinion over against the Arminian proposition that there is neither election nor reprobation of young children: 

Before continuing with the quotation from Reinhold Seeberg, we wish to call attention to a part of the quotation from his writings which appeared in our preceding article. Writing on the three-day conference which was held at Carthage in June, 411, between the Donatists and the Catholics, he declares: “Both the historical and the doctrinal questions were here discussed. No reader of the proceedings of this assembly can escape the impression that the Donatists here appear in.

When these lines and this edition of the Standard Bearer appear in the mailboxes of its subscribers, it will be almost two years since Classis East of the Protestant Reformed Churches took steps to rid our churches of and to defend our churches against the conditional theology of the Liberated. It was in May 1953 that Classis East condemned the heretical statements of Rev. De Wolf as Liberated—which they surely are—and as heretical and demanded of him that he do likewise. 

This essay, which I am about to write, will be a positive exposition of Romans 10:9 against the background of the “testimony” that “Classis West” purported to give Classis East in regards to the Statements of Rev. De Wolf and Classis East’s condemnation of the same. 

The Prophecy of Malachi  VII. Concluding admonitions, Malachi 4:4-6.  4. Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb upon all Israel with the statutes and judgments.  5. Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the day of Jehovah, the great and terrible (day): 

Lord’s DAY 46  Chapter 1: Addressing God as our Father 

Schism in History HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (3) Following is the last of the quotations which Candidate Harbach sent to us for the Standard Bearer.  They are very instructive, not so much because from them we learn to know what the heretics taught something which, especially in regard to the Arminians, we knew already, but because of two elements in them.