Vol 53 Issue 05

Present Truth is a magazine which apparently has a rather wide readership among people of Reformed persuasion, including not a few who are also readers of our Standard Bearer. Although the originally favorable opinion of this magazine which some Reformed people had has probably changed somewhat, nevertheless occasionally I still hear favorable comments about it. Besides, the magazine itself claims to go under the banner of the Reformation. Its masthead boasts that it is “dedicated to the restoration of New Testament Christianity (why not Old Testament also?

In our previous editorial we explained that our Form of Ordination of Missionaries was originally only a form designed for the ordination of missionaries to the heathen. If you want to read the Form as it was originally composed, then you must omit the section entitled, “Unto the Dispersed.” The latter was added by the Christian Reformed Church in the early 1900s, and we inherited this revised form.

“And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.”  Romans 11:6