Vol 34 Issue 21

Should the undersigned ever find time and interest to write his “memoirs” of his experience as Home Missionary he would not omit, a chapter at the most, or a large footnote at the least, of “A Fourth of July in South Dakota.” 

The Banner of August 22, 1958 presents a report to the synod of the Christian Reformed Church of the meetings of a committee of the Christian Reformed Church and a committee of the DeWolf group. Most of our readers no doubt were aware that such meetings were being held during the last year; and if they do not receive The Banner, they will be curious to read the report of these meetings. The report in The Banner appeared under the following caption: “Conference with Protestant Reformed Churches.” 

PART TWO  EXPOSITION OF THE CANONS  FIFTH HEAD OF DOCTRINE  OF THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS 

VIEWS DURING THE THIRD PERIOD (750-1517 A.D.) THE SUPREMACY OF THE POPE, THE DECLINE OF THE PAPACY AND THE AVIGNON EXILE. (A.D. 1294-1377)  The next year, 1325, Lewis suffered a severe defeat from Leopold of Austria, who had entered into a compact to put Charles IV of France on the German throne. He went sol far as to express his readiness, in the compact of Ulm, 1326, to surrender the German crown to Frederick, provided he himself was confirmed in his right to Italy and the imperial dignity. At this juncture Leopold died. 

Before these lines of this typewriter are reset by linotype and appear upon the printed page which you have taken from your mailbox, another school year will have begun. 

The text to which we call attention in this essay reads as follows: “But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the power of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

held under the Auspices of the Committee for Protestant Reformed Action, Hull, Iowa, July, 1954  (Continued) 

PART TWO CHAPTER V  The First Four Trumpets  Revelation 8:7-12  7. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and Ere mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.  8. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 

Faith and Perseverance, by G.C. Berkouwer; translated from the Dutch, by Robert D. Knudsen. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Price $4.00. 

We must remember that the Declaration of Principles emphasizes the absolute sovereignty and unconditionality of the promise of God unto salvation. It states that “the promise of the gospel is not a gracious offer on the part of God to all men, nor a conditional offer to all that are born in the historical dispensation of the covenant, that is to all that are baptized, but an oath of God that He will infallibly lead all the elect unto salvation and eternal glory through faith.”