August 15, 1953

VOL. 22, NO. 8 % ~4laial1- , \ i { GUARDIAN

He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father that sent Him. John 5:23

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but byme.

John 14:6

1 I and the Father are one. ! ... John 10:30

J. Gresham Machen Published Monthly Editor 1936 • 1937 $2.00 per year Meditation And it is a mark of distinction and ism. The theories that defend these reason for praise when it is told well things are but religious opiates that Marks of Greatness with all the grace that God imparts. stupefy the conscience and keep it deaf Silence is never golden where there is to the call of God. . that in everything ye were en­ good news to broadcast. And the Gos­ Let us seek understanding, and let us riched in him, in all utterance and all pel is the best of news. It is the story not conceal the light, for knowledge knowledge."-I CORINTHIANS 1:5. of redeeming love such as God alone and utterance are marks of greatness In some respects the church of could show, a subject full of meaning, in God's Kingdom-part of the riches Corinth was very disappointing. She full of things to talk about. Readily we have in Christ. had a record of schism, immorality, we speak on politics, economics, base­ HENRY P. TAVARES. disorder, and heresy. Yet she was a ball, and the latest automobile. Are we great church. By divine inspiration silent on the love of God? It was not Paul the Apostle praises her for her so at Corinth. There was no lack there Westminster to Reopen virtues, speaking of her as established of those who could speak and tell of September 23 in the faith, enriched in everything Christ. They spoke freely and ably. spiritual, and coming behind .in no gift. And it marked the church as great. THE next academic year at West- To our "perfectionist" neighbors she Knowledge was also a mark of dis­ minster Theological Seminary, Phil­ may be a baffling riddle. But to Paul tinction in this church. It can hardly be adelphia, will begin on Wednesday, she was a church of God for which he lacking where there is praiseworthy September 23, with opening exercises praised him whenever he thought of utterance. To speak without knowl­ at 3 P. M. in Calvary Orthodox Presby­ her. edge is to beat the air-and to show terian Church, adjacent to the Semi­ Two things in particular stirred his the virtues of silence. But Corinth nary campus. heart about this church. and caused him abounded in that insight into the truth The guest speaker for this occasion to give thanks. She was rich in utter­ of God that always marks his children. is to be the Rev. Wilham Vander Haak, ance and knowledge, which she owed There was among them a pronounced pastor of the Christian Reformed to the grace of God. ability to discriminate and to appreci­ Church of Midland Park, N. I. Paul has small comfort for any ate what God has done and what is As of August first, it appeared that brand of Christianity that never opens pleasing to God. We call it Christian total enrollment in the seminary for its mouth. A distinguishing mark of discernment. They were at home in the coming year would be 91. This is a man in his power of speech. He is the things of God, and were happily subject to some change, however, be­ not a dumb animal. And it is common free from the dullness of judgment fore the year actually begins. knowledge that the mouth speaks of that makes men food for every de­ what the heart is full. Why then ceiver. They had a lot of Christian should a Christian be dumb in the sense in this church. And Paul was Son to Uomotos things of God? The Psalmist tells the grateful. redeemed to speak of the goodness of How different his sentiment from son, Earl Minoru, was born on God. Can we do less, upon whom the modern craze that seems to have A July 16 to the Rev. and Mrs. God's mercy has been so richly poured taken the church by storm. Certainly George Y. Uomoto, Orthodox Presby­ out? discrimination can be no virtue where terian missionaries in Japan. The Much is said in some circles about religious differences are treated with Uomotos have four other children, two living the Gospel. And the practice is indifference, and concern for sound girls and two boys. Mother and infant sometimes even thought to be more ef­ doctrine is considered a hindrance and are reported doing well. fective with men than talking about it. a plague in the church. But pastors But while a quiet life of Christian who feed their people on diluted diets obedience is sometimes useful to bring out of professed concern for their di­ Miss Choon Ja Park the rebellious to a readiness to hear (I gestion, and lull them into day-dreams Here for School Peter 3), it can be no substitute at all with sentimental tales of "love" will for telling the good news. The Gospel not produce discerning churches. And Is s Choon Ja Park, eldest daugh­ cannot be lived by us. Neither the in­ can their churches be called great? M ter of the Rev. Yune Sun Park, carnation nor any other part of Christ's Then must Paul be thought a fool, for president of Korea Theological Semi­ work of redemption can be duplicated he rejoiced in knowledge. And well nary, arrived in this country on July 2. or imitated by his people. He did it he might, for Christ came telling us She plans to spend one year in high once for all. And he alone could do the truth, and himself embodies it. school, and then enter an American it. We can but tell the story. And And it was he who said, "The truth college, possibly Calvin. She is at pres­ unless the story is told in words, the shall make you free." Hence for John ent living with Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gospel is not known though the saints also men are of the truth, or they are Burley in Burlington, N. J. The Burley should live in all the glory of the liars; they are of the light, or else in family became well acquainted with eternal state. darkness. The Scriptures know noth­ her father while he was in this country The Gospel is something to tell, that ing of the good of ignorance nor do attending Westminster Seminary, in men may hear and believe and live. they teach us the virtues of indifferent- the late 1930S.

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142 The Presbyterian Guardian THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN AUGUST 15, 1953

Wrath and Mercy

THE guns are silent now on the Korean battle­ is a sovereign purpose of grace that is certain. Never front. Though it be no final peace, the thing was that more clearly shown than when the wrath of they call a truce has been set up, and the prisoners men and the judgment of heaven came down upon are going home-the ones who want to, that is. the innocent carpenter's Son. It was there, where The country is still divided, almost at the point One learned obedience through the things He suffered, where it was when the war began. It is being said and when that occurred which God's hand and counsel that the United Nations "police action" has proven had before determined should take place, that atone­ that aggression can no longer be expected to succeed. ment was made for the sins of men. Perhaps so. But we doubt that anything has been There is, of course, no repetition of that sacrifice. proven in Korea-except that war is a costly business The sufferings of men on battlefields or in POW in ravaged land and dead or damaged men. camps is not like in nature to the sufferings of Christ The prisoners are coming home, with their inevi­ on Calvary. Yet as God rules the, universe, it is also table stories of man's inhumanity to man. And there true that those human sufferings have a place in the are thousands that will never come home, and there purpose of God, either as occasions for the manifesta­ are multitudes that even when they do come home tion of His wrath, or of His mercy. will not be the same. For these are the two attitudes to which we can Such is war. It has always been that way, and point. The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven it always will be. We say, "will be," for whether this against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men particular war has ended or not, it is the tragedy of who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness. But our sin-sick world that there will always be wars and the mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting rumours of war. Pride, enmity, hatred, strife, cove­ upon all those that put their trust in Him. tousness-these always issue from the sinful human And all history stands as the continuing revela­ heart, and when they reach sufficient proportions, tion either of God's wrath, or of His mercy. It is well the guns will boom again. that we learn this. For we are a part of history, and Are we then to rebel against the Ruler of the we too stand to experience His wrath and His mercy. universe? Are we to say, What's the use? Is there At the last we will experience either His wrath or no ultimate justice and will truth and righteousness His mercy. never prevail? The Second Psalm speaks of the foolishness of It is a measure of how well we have learned to men who rise in rebellion against the King on Mt. "be taught of God" that we can wait with patience Zion. And that Psalm ends with the stern but gracious • the accomplishment of His sovereign purposes. Israel admonition-Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye was four hundred years in the land of Egypt, and at perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but their latter end those years became an intolerable a moment. Blessed are all they that put their trust burden. But out of that affliction God's own people in Him. came forth. The wilderness was cruel to the wander­ We humbly give thanks to Almighty God that in ing thousands, but in the midst of that cruelty a His sovereign providence He has seen fit that the merciful God watched over His own. Assyria was shooting war in Korea should stop. May He in His a rod of punishment in His hand, and the prisoners grace also speed the day when, as the gospel goes on who came home from Babylon were few compared its triumphant way, the forces of hatred shall be fore­ with those who had been carried away. ever destroyed, and the triumph of His kingdom shall In the midst of a history we cannot explain, there be complete. L. W. S.

August 15, 1953 143 Thank You! "Since the writing of the Confession ever, that the Commission of Presby­ of Faith in the middle of the 17th cen­ tery chose to handle the case in such E wish to express our sincere tury man has learned much about the secrecy, and that no open hearings on W thanks for the encouraging re­ ways in which God acts in the universe the matter were ever held. When doc­ sponse that has been made to our letter and our theory of how truth is revealed trinal issues arise, the welfare of the concerning finances which was mailed has undergone great change ..• whole church is involved, and the out the latter part of July. The con­ "The writers of the Confession of whole church should have the evidence tributions to the work of the GUARDIAN Faith believed the Bible to be the very available. There are doubtless many in have been substantial, and indicate a words of God which had been 'wholly the Southern church for whom the real interest in the successful carrying committed unto writing.' It, being the views of Mr. Jones would not be heresy. on of this project. direct work of God, was perfect and But as long as the process of secrecy We also appreciate the numerous infallible in every part. prevails, the issue, as it concerns the kind letters that have come, and the "It is no reflection on the framers of whole church, will not be faced. suggestions that have been offered. the Westminster Confession that many L. W. S. Will you not also pray much that the thoughtful and devout persons can no GUARDIAN may be increasingly effective longer hold strictly to this view. In in promoting that Christian faith to the last three centuries historical study which we are so deeply committed. of the Bible shows it not a book whose Back Guardians L. W. S. words or ideas were directly and super­ naturally given to man and infallibly Wanted recorded. The writings reflect histori­ ROM time to time we receive re­ The Voice of Moderism cal situations and root in human experi­ Fquests for back issues of THE PRES­ ence, so much so that to neglect this BYTERIAN GUARDIAN. We would like to H ROUGH OUT the history of the fact makes for religious fanaticism and fill these requests, but our own files are Tcase of Chapel Hill, N. C., which bigotry, and the truth of God goes un­ incomplete at certain points. has culminated in the pastor of the realized ... If some of our readers have files of Presbyterian Church there demitting "We cannot think of God acting the early issues, and would care to help the ministry of the Southern Presby­ directly, externally and wholly outside us close up our own files, we would be terian Church after being ousted from of man and his experience at some happy for this help. his pastorate by the Presbytery, there times and indirectly, internally and in­ has been a lack of information concern­ Issues which are missing from our side man and his experience at other files are for these dates: 1935-0ct. 21; ing the particular charges against the times. We no longer set human dis­ pastor and the officers of the church. I936-May 18, July 6, Nov. 13; 1937­ covery and divine revelation over August, December; 194I-July 10, De­ Presbytery acted through a Commis­ against one another." sion, and the information made public cember 25; 1942-Jan. 10, Dec. 10. was that the "interests of religion" de­ In the course of his continuing re­ We have a sufficient supply of copies marks, Jones sets the God of the Old manded the removal of the pastor. since 1944, but will be glad to receive Testament over against the God of the On the side it was intimated that copies from the earlier dates. Thank New Testament, as does Modernism you. there was theological heresy, violation (In the New Testament "God is no of Presbyterian principles, and espe­ autocratic and fearful power issuing L. W.S. cially departure from Southern social decrees and throwing in a lightning traditions. bolt to scare men into accepting In his statement to the Presbytery at them.") and plays down the authority the time he withdrew from the church, of the Bible in favor of the authority '!L ~liYtimt- the pastor, the Rev. Charles M. Jones, of Jesus ("Theologians today think it GUARDIAN set forth some of his own views as to more accurate to speak of Jesus as the 1505 Race Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. the nature of religion, Chistianity and revelation of God than the Bible as the the church. revelation of God.") And of course, An analysis of these views shows that along this same line, he attacks the Leslie W. Sloat Mr. Jones walked in the tradition of historic doctrine of the person of Christ Editor and Managflr the older Modernism, according to when he says, "The transcendent God which Christianity is a way of life lived becomes known in a joining of divine John P. Clelland after the example of Jesus, rather than truth with human life in human ex­ Arthur W. Kuseltke, Jr. a new life wrought by God and perience. Such is the meaning of the Robert S. Marsden grounded in what Jesus has done in statement that Jesus was both God and Contributing Editor. history. In the language of Dr. man, human and divine." Machen, Jones held that Christianity is It is apparent from his own state­ ADVISORY COUNCIL a life, not a doctrine. ments, that Mr. Jones has no place in Robert L. Atwell This comes out especially in his com­ the ministry of a church holding the Leslie A. Dunn ments on the Confession's view of Westminster Confession of Faith and John Patton Galbraith Scripture, and the idea of revelation. Catechisms, and professing to be a Edward L. Kellogg We quote Mr. Jones: Presbyterian church. We regret, how-

144 The Presbyterian Guardian ied there until the fateful day of De­ cember 8th, 1941, when the Japanese Under the Care of God armies launched their attack on Hong Kong and Pearl Harbor. God merci­ A biographical note fully spared our lives during the weeks of intense fighting in Hong Kong. By JOHN D. JOHNSTON Many thousands of the gallant defend­ ers of the island as well as countless NORTHERN IRELAND, it has THE Rev. John D. Johnston, formerly thousands of defenseless Chinese civil­ been said, is one of the most fa­ of the Presbyterian Church of New ians lost their lives during the siege. vored countries of the world from a Zealand, was recently received as a min­ On Christmas Day the exhausted gar­ spiritual viewpoint. God has gracious­ ister of The Orthodox Presbyterian rison surrendered to the Japanese army ly been pleased to visit that land again Church. He has been approved by the and all British and Americans were church's Committee on Foreign Missions and again with marvelous tokens of His subsequently interned. Thus it was for mission service in Formosa. In this that in company with 2,500 others I favor. In 1859 there was a great spir­ short article he tells of his background itual awakening there which began and refers to the more than three years found myself behind the barbed wires near my home town of Ballymena and spent in a concentration camp. Mr. of a Japanese concentration camp resulted in the conversion of thousands Johnston is at present, pending the com­ where we were to remain for a period of people. It has been estimated that pletion of plans for his going to the of three years and nine months. We upwards of one hundred thousand peo­ field, helping in Immanuel Church of were subjected to all the rigors of a ple were brought into the churches West Collingswood, N. J., in its exten­ Japanese prison camp, the worst fea­ during that memorable year, so many sion work in Cooper Park village. He is ture being the semi-starvation diet. As that the Presbyterian church where my living with his family at the Camden Day a result of this the internees suffered Nursery, where Mrs. Johnston is em­ greatly from the effects of malnutrition family worshipped was built to help ployed. take care of them. Another large and numbers eventually succumbed church in Ballymena seating 2,500 peo­ and were laid to rest in the little ceme­ ple was built for a similar reason. My which I duly graduated. After a year's tery on the hill. grandparents were converted in that ministry in my home church I was ap­ There were times when hope and "year of grace" as it has been called, pointed to serve as a missionary in the faith gave way, especially when news and their conversion in turn was to New Zealand Mission in South China. was bad and conditions in camp stead­ have a great influence upon my father Very early in the year 1941 in ily deteriorated. Though we were cut who became very active in Christian company with a young doctor I set out off from all human resources, we were work though he himself was a farmer. for the field and arrived in Hong sustained by the assurance of God's Our home became a center for re­ Kong early in March. As the Japanese unfailing presence and help. The ligious gatherings and people came were then in occupation of our mission Scriptures were precious in those days from miles around to hear the gospel. field it was deemed advisable for us to and many sacred pages shone with a It was in my own home that I first study the Cantonese language in Hong new luster. Psalm 91, for instance, had heard the sweet music of the gospel. Kong and then when the political situ­ a new meaning, particularly in times of In spite of the fact that I was reared in ation eased we were to proceed to our great danger and trial. We were at the such an atmosphere, it was not until I station just north of Canton. We stud- mercy of a ruthless enemy and but for was in my sixteenth year that I came to an assurance of my own salvation. For years I had been greatly concerned about my spiritual condition and felt deeply the burden of my sin, but there came a night which I shall never forget when the light of God dawned upon my troubled soul and I saw in a flash that it was simply through relying com­ • pletely upon the finished work of Christ alone that my sins were forgiven. At that moment the peace of God filled my heart and His Spirit witnessed with mine that I was now a child of His. From a very early age I had a desire to be a missionary and this conviction deepened as the years went by. My parents emigrated to New Zealand when I was still a boy and it was there I received my education. I studied The Rev. and Mrs. John D. Johnston, with Ruth Helen and John Benjamin. with a view to the ministry and after The picture was taken at the Camden Day Nursery, where they are living at a university course I proceeded to the present. After a term of study at Westminster Seminary, they expect to go Presbyterian theological seminary from out to Formosa as missionaries of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

August 15, 1953 145 the restraining hand of our sovereign again-a small mission of seventeen sands of Chinese in the market towns, Lord we would have perished. men and women confronted with the villages, schools and temples. immense task of seeking to minister to After but a brief period of labor we As I look back now over the experi­ the needs of a million people, the vast were forced again to leave the field by ences of those years I am sure that it majority of whom were still steeped in the coming of the communist armies was part of God's great plan for our who eventually took over our hospital lives. We learned lessons then which heathen darkness. I must confess that my heart failed me as I looked upon and schools and made it impossible for I trust we shall never forget. One of foreign workers to carry on. We re­ the main lessons was that of the need those masses of people crowded to­ gether in hundreds of villages, still un­ luctantly left China again towards the for an absolute dependence upon God, end of 1949, the task still unfinished, and that in seemingly impossible cir­ reached with the gospel. I looked at our resources-three full-time evangel­ indeed scarcely begun. It is our earn­ cumstances. We proved God's faith­ est prayer that God in His mercy will fulness as we could never have done istic missionaries (the rest were nurses, teachers and doctors) and a few poorly again be pleased to open the closed otherwise. How wonderfully our doors and that the gospel may again Heavenly Father took care of us dur­ trained Chinese preachers, and I felt how inadequate they were for such a be freely proclaimed to China's unevan­ ing that period! task. There is neither time nor space gelized millions. Will you join with Some would regard years spent in a to tell of the work we engaged in and us in praying that this may be brought prison camp as wasted, but to me they of how we sought in every way, by to pass and that in the meantime the provided many opportunities for service preaching, teaching and distribution of sorely tested and tried Chinese Church among the 2,500 fellow internees. As the Scriptures to bring the glad tidings may be kept faithful to her testimony well as working in the little hospital of salvation to those benighted people. and may witness a good confession to which was always crowded to capacity, We ran into opposition at times and Christ in spite of the opposition of a I took part in the various church activ­ our lives were threatened by evil men militantly atheistic communism. ities. We organized Sunday Schools, who said they intended driving us out The harvest truly is plenteous, the Bible classes and church services. I of that area. We had nevertheless the laborers are few-pray ye therefore the had the privilege also of organizing a priceless privilege of proclaiming the Lord of the harvest that He will send series of evangelistic meetings and it unsearchable riches of Christ to thou- forth laborers into His harvest. was during these special services that we witnessed a number of striking con­ versions. I remember several young men who came to a saving knowledge of the Lord, saying to us that it was The Long, Long View of Life well worth while coming into that [apanese camp, for as a result they had A Baccalaureate Address found Christ. By JOHN C. RANKIN The long hoped-for deliverance came at last and with great rejoicing and T may be old-fashioned, but I have a presence is fulness of joy; at thy right heartfelt thanksgiving to God we were I conviction that if a preacher is to hand there are pleasures for evermore." set at liberty the end of August, r945. give a sermon, he ought to take a text So understood the passage contains a How wonderful to be free again and and stick to it. So I have taken a text prediction of Christ's resurrection, and enjoy once more the comforts of life today. It is Psalm r6:rr-"Thou wilt of His ascension to His place at the which had been denied us for so long. shew me the path of life, in thy pres­ right hand of God. The "Path of It is impossible to describe the intense ence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand Life" in this sense would be for Christ excitement that prevailed when allied there are pleasures for ever more." the pathway of His exaltation. planes came over our camp and dropped And my subject, based on this text, is, But also this is a Psalm of David, supplies by parachute. The day when "The Long, Long View of Life." the British fleet arrived in Hong Kong and though it speaks primarily of A careful examination of the six­ Christ, it also speaks of David. In the and the admiral came into our camp teenth Psalm will show that it refers same identical words Christ speaks of was another red letter day for us. primarily to Christ. David the Psalm­ Christ, and David speaks of David. Ships were provided to take us back to ist was what is known as a "type" of Taking the words now as those of our homelands and in a month or so we Christ, and it seems rather clear that David, we must ask what he meant were reunited with our families. the language used here was prophetic. when he said, "Thou wilt show me the After a year's furlough in New Zea­ On this interpretation, Christ, in path of life: in thy presence is fulness land I returned to China to take up the David, was speaking of Himself in of JOY; at thy right hand there are work that had been disrupted by the these words-"I have set the Lord al­ pleasures for evermore." long years of devastating war. What ways before me: because he is at my a tremendous task awaited us! Many right hand, I shall not be moved. There seem to be two possible views of the churches in our mission area Therefore my heart is glad and my of these words. It may be that David, had been completely destroyed and the glory rejoiceth; my flesh shall also rest too, was looking forward to his own congregations scattered. Some of the in hope. For thou wilt not leave my resurrection at the last day, and to his towns in which they had been located soul in sheol, neither wilt thou suffer exaltation at that time in Christ and were utterly destroyed. Thus it was thine holy one to see corruption. Thou with Christ. But it may also be that that we had to begin the work all over wilt show me the path of life; in thy he was thinking of his pathway here

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,i New Missionaries to Korea

The Rev. and Mrs. Theodore T. Hard, with children, Rodney, aged 3, and Sterling, aged 5. Mr. Hard is a graduate of Wheaton College, Illinois, and of Westminster Seminary. He served in the Army Air Force during the War, and it was then that he de­ cided to seek foreign mission service. Mrs. Hard (nee Grace Vogel) is also a graduate of Wheaton College (they met while in Wheaton), and she taught for two years in the Willow Grove Christian Day School while her hus­ band was attending Seminary. In the near future the family expects to go to the Orient. Mr. Hard will engage in missionary work in Korea, while the other members of the family will re­ main in Japan until their entrance to Korea is permitted by the authorities. Mr. Hard was ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of New Jersey on June 3. His membership was in Cal­ vary Church of Ringoes. Mrs. Hard's membership is now in Calvary Church it at Westminster, in the periodicals If such a band of God's own see fit of Glenside. and books of the truly Reformed to send us out as front-line troops and A Message to the Christian Brethren of churches, and in our beloved Orthodox messengers for God's kingdom, we, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church Presbyterian Church. though full of the trepidation of the I know that we are not the first to In our six-year preparation and untested, can rejoice in the company of come so lately to your church and leave search together for our avenue of serv­ those stalwarts who went before us so quickly as your representatives on ice for God, we were steadily led by from your bulwarks, and we can stand the foreign mission field. We, no His Word and providence up to, and confident that supply lines of faithful­ doubt with you, keenly long for the finally within the gates of the church ness and prayer shall he kept open to us day when the bulk of your young min­ which is now yours and ours. From by those left on the ramparts. Most isterial and missionary condidates may afar her battlements oft seemed grim strengthening of all is the chorus that be the life-long recipients of her nur­ and bleak, but on closer scrutiny were rings ever stronger within our hearts­ ture in the faith. May they not be like seen to house veritable champions of a crusader chorus of confidence spring­ ourselves-so late in our youth con­ the faith, and within those walls were ing from the Divine Commission and fronted with the claim of Christ upon fires that not only hardened steel points the church's ordination of us to a con­ us, or even more lately, challenged and for the battle for the Faith, but warmed quest God will be sure to win-Deus comforted with the full-orbed presenta­ our hearts with fellowship of brethren Vult. tion of God's great Gospel as we found rich in Christian zeal, love and piety. THEODORE AND GRACE HARD.

on earth as a path of life leading on to You students have been taught to You graduates have had vocational ... glory and to God. The language is take the long look ahead. You have guidance instruction. Now, I under­ well-fitted to suggest this interpreta­ been advised to have something to live stand, something new has been added. tion, and there is abundant warrant in for, an aim, a goal, an objective in life. Recently tried for the first time, you Scripture for such a view of the be­ You have been taught to set your goal, have had what you call "Career Day." liever's life. So I am asking you to fix your gaze on it, and push ahead. Local business and professional men consider with me the forward look, And this is important, that you have a were called in to give you assistance. I the long range view of life. fixed, settled aim in life, a worthwhile have been told by one of the students I shall not ask any of you here tonight goal. Surely that is the way to live. that it was a very helpful occasion. whether you have ever taken the long And you have been trained to live in The purpose was that you might con­ range view, for I know you have. If that way-to develop your abilities, sider your gifts and abilities, and be at any time in your life you have make your plans and devote your ener­ able to plan your lives in accordance thought on death and the hereafter, you gies to the attainment of your objec­ with that for which you are best fitted. have been taking the long view. tive. I would be the last person in W orces-

August 15, 1953 141 ter to discourage that kind of planning eludes not only this present world m comprehending such immense dis­ for life. But I would like to make a which we are, but also the world to tances. suggestion. The manner in which you come and the life of that world. It Now, say our friends who ridicule approach this matter has everything to includes both the here and the here­ us for holding that the Almighty is a do with the outcome. It makes all the after. So that we have our lives to live personal God, "How can you believe difference in the world whether your not only in relation to the world here that a God who made such a stupend­ point of view is secular, and the guid­ and now, but also in relation to the ous universe can take any notice of ance given and received is secular, or world that is to come, and in relation such an infinitesimal speck of cosmic whether it is what might correctly be to Him who made all things. dust as our earth? Or how can you described as "sanctified" guidance. The plain fact is that we are both think He is at all interested in the Let me tell you what I mean. We, mortal and immortal. Our lives have microbes called human beings that here and now, are dwellers in this been planned to be and are designed crawl around on its face-or how can present world of time and place. We to be both temporal and eternal. Your you think He is interested in you?" must live out our lives where we are. body will die and return to the dust M. That is a rather hard question. But then over and above our habitation from whence it came, but your soul Do you have an answer? here, we are also inhabitants of the will never disintegrate, it will never W. Well, I have an answer that sat­ universe of being as a whole. Now this die. Rather it will go on, being and isfies me. I give it to you for what it universe of being, created by God, in- (See "Rankin," p. 155) is worth. To begin, the whole criterion of im­ portance our friend has is one of physi­ cal size, but that is a rather childish When I Consider • standard, though we all are probably •• guilty of using it at times. If it can be A radio interview shown that this world of ours is the only place in our galaxy on which there T HIS is the substance of a broadcast person disbelieve in a personal God? is sentient, reasoning life, then it be­ over station KPOF, Denver, Colorado, W. No, there is not, when astron­ comes most important in spite of its on July 9. The questioner is the Rev. W. omy is applied rightly. There are puny size. Benson Male, pastor of Park Hill Ortho­ those who say, "When you consider When Galileo trained his telescope dox Presbyterian Church in Denver. the size of the universe as it is bounded Answering the questions is Mr. Rollin on Jupiter and saw there a miniature Whitehead, an elder of the church, who by modern astronomy, it is silly to think of a God of that universe bother­ of the solar system, he immediately has made astronomy his hobby. This peopled it in his imagination with liv­ was one of a series of broadcasts arranged ing Himself about creatures as insig­ nificant as ourselves." ing creatures. When Kepler looked by Mr. Male, in which he interviewed through his telescope at the moon and persons of diverse interests. Most of us think of the speed of a saw the mountain ranges and ringed jet plane as being pretty fast. Five hundred miles an hour is fast. Sixty plains, he thought they were ramparts miles an hour is fast enough for the erected by the people of the moon for shelter from the heat of the long lunar Mr. Male: Have there been any dis­ great majority of us. But when we day. He did not realize that some of coveries of modern astronomy which come to the speed of light, 186,000 would disprove any of the claims made miles a second in round numbers, that those plains were over 500 miles in in the Bible, or that would tend to les­ is hard to envisage. And when we try diameter. It was because early observ­ sen a person's faith in an all-wise, all­ to imagine the distance covered by a ers thought the moon inhabited, and knowing and loving God? beam of that light traveling for four because they thought the dark portions Mr. Whitehead: No, there have not. and a third years, we have a good deal were seas and the lighter portions were That is, in factual astronomy. There of trouble measuring the span in our land, that they gave poetic names to is no conflict between any of the sci­ minds. That, by the way, is the dis­ these supposed bodies of water, such as ences and the Bible, if we limit our­ tance to the solar system's nearest the sea of tranquillity, or the sea of selves to factual science. neighbor-a neighbor within "holler­ serenity. But astronomers now know M. Just what do you mean by fact­ ing" distance, so to speak. It is a that life on the moon is utterly out of ual science? Science, of all things, is rather small star in the constellation of the question. There is no water there, considered the most factual. the Centaur. But then when we hear and practically no atmosphere. W. That is correct. But in all of that our own galaxy, of which the M. What about Mars? We hear a the sciences there are a number of high­ Milky Way is a part, is some 13°,000 lot about that planet in these days of ly spun hypotheses and nebulous the­ light years in diameter, and when we flying saucers. ories which should be left out. Of all hear of galaxies so far removed from W. That planet is not much better, the theories that have been so substan­ us that it is said to take light over a and for the same reasons. For a while tiated as to be universally recognized billion years to reach us- and when it was thought Mars might be inhab­ as statements of fact, there is not the further it is reported that the new 200­ ited by reasoning beings. But now slightest conflict between them and the inch telescope on Mt. Palomar, and its practically all astronomers of note reject Bible. sister telescope, the big Schmidt, may such a view, and hold that this earth is M. Is there anything in modern show us galaxies even more distant-a the only place in our solar system astronomy that would tend to make a person's mind is simply incapable of where a higher form of life exists.

14!J The Presbyterian Guardian They have come to this conclusion re­ The Bible presents to us an infinite which thou hast made-what is man luctantly, but they have come to it. God, who created the universe, and that thou art mindful of him, or the M. How about the stars? If they man on the earth. Astronomy shows son of man that thou visitest him?"­ really are suns, might they not have us something of the vast proportions of there need be no hesitation in continu­ planets revolving about them? the universe. ing with the Psalmist and declaring, But when the question is asked, "For thou hast made him a little lower W. They might, that is true. And "When J consider thy heavens, the work than the angels, and hast crowned him even with our most powerful tele­ of thy fingers, the moon and stars with glory aad honor." scopes we cannot tell whether or not they have planets. But present day astronomers lean to the view that life of any kind in this universe is exceed­ Listen to the Souls ingly rare, rather than being plenteous Dark hands extract from the bowels of earth as was once thought. The reason for The gold the whole world wants this is the large number of factors en­ And what is their reward? tering into life as we know it, and the necessity for meeting these factors with Come, see the compounds gold has built. a hairline precision that allows practi­ Listen to the cry of lonely souls. cally no tolerance one way or the other. Shudder at the cry of rebel souls. For example, the star or central sun Fear the hellish cry of drunken souls. must be of the right size, it cannot be Hear the piercing cry of dying souls. a red giant or a white dwarf. It must Ponder ev'ry cry of gold slave souls. not be a binary or a star cluster. The temperature must be just right and can­ White hands extract from blackened hands not fluctuate. The distance of the The gold the whole world wants planet must be just right, and the orbit And what is their reward? of the planet nearly circular. The planet must be right in size, and the Come, see the mansions gold has built. atmosphere of the right thickness and Listen to the cry of restless souls. density, with the proper constituent Shudder at the cry of hardened souls. gasses in their right proportions. And Fear the cruel cry of drunken souls. there is much more. Hear the moaning cry of dying souls. Ponder ev'ry cry of gold bought souls. To show how close the temparature balance is, if the mean or average tem­ Our hands extract from white-black hands perature of the North American conti­ The gold we all do want nent were to drop just a few degrees, And what is our reward? the continent would within a century be covered with a glacier, and the Come, see my soul that gold controls, higher forms of life would disappear. Listen to the cry of my poor soul. Now since all of these factors have Shudder at the cry of my lost soul. to be present, and have to be met with Fear the mocking cry of my crazed soul. such extreme accuracy, many astrono­ Hear the empty cry of my dead soul. mers hold that in our whole galaxy of Ponder ev'ry cry of my slave souL over a hundred billion stars, this earth may be the only place where reasoning Christ's hands extend to all our hands human beings exist. Thus it would A treasure more than gold follow that this tiny "speck of cosmic And what is faith's reward? dust" must be the most important ob­ ject in our whole galaxy, and the Come, see the homes that Christ has built. Creator most certainly would be inter­ Listen to the song of restful souls. ested in the only beings capable of Welcome to the song of softened souls. thinking His thoughts after Him. Do not fear the song of sober souls. And so, although modern astronomy Hear the happy song of living souls. has shown us that the universe is vast Ponder ev'ry song of Christ saved souls. to a degree of which the ancients never dreamed, that same astronomy instead It is the paradox of love of reducing man's stature, has increased To have what it seeks not. it immeasurably. Even the astrono­ mer can say of man, in the words of the It is the irony of gold Psalmist, "thou hast made him a little To have not what it seeks. lower than the angels, and, hast C. A. Busca crowned him with glory and honor."

August 15, 1953 149 have their own translation of the Bible. It is called the "New World Transla­ tion" and the New Testament portion Anti-Christ In Yankee Stadium has sold over half a million copies in By LESLIE A. DUNN the last three years. For an example of this translation in relation to their view of Jesus, the first New York, July 22. More than 82,000 from the doctrine of the Trinity is a Jehovah's Witnesses from 97 countries denial of the teaching of the Bible of verse of John's Gospel-"and the Word thronged Yankee Stadium here for an most serious import. was God"-has been rendered, "And eight-day New World Society Assembly. But surely, you say, no one today the Word was a god." In their effort to Some 43,000 others heard the proceed­ holds to Arianism. Weare accustomed get away from polytheism, they have ings over special loud speaker systems to drawing a line of sharp demarcation but fallen into it again. set up in a tent city outside the stadium between Fundamentalism and Modern­ When they undertake to describe the and in a trailer city near New Market, character of Jesus, they but repeat the N. ]., 30 miles away. ism, between Biblical supernaturalism and blatant naturalism. But perhaps central and crucial error of Arius fif­ we fail to observe that among many teen hundred years ago. Listen to The year is 325 A.D. A tall, soft who hold sincerely to a form of super­ them: Jesus "was not Jehovah God, spoken and able preacher is zealous to naturalism, there are those who fall far but was 'existing in God's form.' How keep Christianity from slipping back short of being true to Scripture. Arius so? He was a spirit person, . . . he into the morass of heathendom. He believed in God. He held to the pre­ was a mighty one, but not almighty as remembers that the Greeks and Ro­ existence of Christ. But he denied that Jehovah God is; also he was before all mans had their mythological gods with­ Jesus was truly God. He was not a others of God's creatures, for he was out number, while only Israel main­ Trinitarian. the first son that Jehovah God brought tained pure worship through Mono­ And those thousands who flooded forth ... He was the first of Jehovah theism. Yankee Stadium were very diligent to God's creatures ... He is not the The man's name was Arius. B. K. be known as Jehovah's Witnesses. author of the creation of God; but after Kuiper informs us in his book, The Some newspapers referred to them as God had created him as his first-born Church in History, that Arius was Fundamentalists. They were very or­ son, then God used him as his working melancholy and austere, "but he always derly, very religious. They have a zeal Partner in the creating of all the rest of spoke gently. He was a pious man of that puts many of us to shame. Yet creation." (LGBT p. 32-3) blameless life." He considered him­ they are followers of Arius. To them These people seem to believe in the self a defender of the faith, a protector Christ is the greatest of all creatures, virgin birth, but when they refer to the of true worship. He felt there was too but a creature. He is not the "same in baptism of Jesus, heresy is again rife. great a tendency among fellow Chris­ substance" with the Father. "By his water baptism ... God begot tians to give to Jesus worship that, in The Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus to be His spiritual Son once his view, belonged to God alone. the doctrine of the trinity "is very con­ more instead of a human Son" (p. 38). There was danger in Christianity be­ fusing," "that it is not of God," but Similarly they speak of the resurrection coming simply another religion. "is traced back to the ancient Baby­ not as a physical raising from the dead, Arius maintained that if Christ be lonians and Egyptians and other an­ but they say, "Jesus was bound to lay considered God, and if the Holy Spirit cient mythologists." And they conclude aside his humanity forever as a sacri­ be considered God, then there must be that "Satan is the originator of the fice" (p. 39). Then they go on to three Gods. He therefore taught that Trinity doctrine." (Quotations are teach that he was raised a spirit-"On while Christ was much like God, still from one of their publications, Let God the third day of his being dead in the he was not fully God. Christ, for Be True, pp. roof.) grave his immortal Father Jehovah Arius, was the first and highest of all The sensitivities of truth loving and God raised him from the dead, not as created beings, but still a created being, Bible believing people are shocked be­ a human Son, but as a mighty immortal and not of the same substance or es­ yond description and their blood runs spirit Son, with all power in heaven sence as the Father. cold to read the crude and blasphemous and earth under the most High God It took many years of arduous theo­ characterizations of the Trinity which . . . God raised him to deathless life logical debate before this matter was proceed from this group. The Trini­ as a glorious spirit creature" (p. 40, 4r). f clarified. But three hundred of the tarian God is carricatured as a "com­ Here is another example of their mis­ church's bishops, meeting in Nicaea in plicated, freakish-looking, three-headed translation of Scripture in the interest Asia Minor, decided that Arius was God." They even argue against the of their view of Jesus as a creature. wrong, that he was an heretic. They doctrine, that man is made in the image Philippians 2:5ff is rendered: "Keep maintained the rather that Athanasius of God, and "no one has ever seen a this mental attitude in you which was was right when he held that Jesus was three-headed human creature." (LGBT also in Christ Jesus, who, although he "very God of very God; begotten, not p. r02). was existing in God's form, gave no created; cosubstantial with the Father." The early founder of the movement consideration to a seizure, namely, that This has been the creed of Christendom was a man named Russell. He advised he should be equal to God. No, but from that day to this. Orthodox Chris­ his followers not to read the Bible as he emptied himself and took a slave's tianity everywhere worships one God such, but to read it only as quoted and form, and came to be in the likeness of in three Persons. And as Trinitarians interpreted by himself. This warning men. More than that, when he found we hold that the slightest departure is no longer necessary for they now himself in fashion as a man, he hum-

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bled himself and became obedient as John tells us that "He that denieth wh.ch had washed out several road far as death, yes, death on a torture the Son hath not the Father" (I In. bridges and caused much damage and stake. For this very reason also God 2:23). And he warns further, "Every even some loss of life not far from exalted him to a superior position and one who ... abideth not in the teach­ Ghinda. However, the mission prop­ kindly gave him the name that is above ing of Christ hath not God ... If any erty was not damaged. every other name. . ." one cometh to you and bringeth not Donald and Dorothy Duff arrived in We do not consider it necessary to this doctrine, receive him not into your New York on July 20, the trip having present the many proofs which are con­ house and give him no greeting; for he taken 15 days longer than was at first tained in Scripture to establish the full that giveth him greeting partaketh in expected. They were in good health deitv of Christ, and the doctrine of the his evil works." and spirits, and after spending about Trinity. Such passages as John 1:1, 14; The doctrine of antichrist paraded in ten days with the Rev. and Mrs. Sloat, IO:30; 14:9; Hebrews 1:8; Acts 20:28 Yankee Stadium the other week. It is during which time they had eye exam­ and many others confirm the doctrine required of us that we shall be no less inations and dental work, they left to which is orthodox in the Christian zealous for the doctrine of Christ, the spend the remainder of the summer at church. Son of God. the Duff farm in Western Pennsylvania. j Orthodox Presbyterian Wade to Guam HAPLAIN Edwin L. Wade, USN, Church News C who recently has been serving with the MSTS in the Pacific, has been as­ Brief Church Notes of July rally for young people's societies signed to a tour of duty with the Navy Wilmington, Del.: Eastlake Church of eastern South Dakota was held on installation on the Island of Guam. had the largest Daily Vacation Bible the Calvin Hofer farm near Bridge­ Chaplain Wade expects to go to Guam School in the church's history, with an water. The message was brought by shortly, and hopes that within a month average attendance of 147. There were the Rev. Bruce Coie. Supply preachers or two his family will be able to join 28 teachers and helpers on the staff, and at Calvary during August were the him there. bus and car pools were used to trans­ Rev. Messrs. Richard We zeman, Rus­ port the pupils. A nearby VFW post sell Piper and Arthur Olson. was used for the pre-school children. Portland, Me.: Work on the new Immalnuel Church The church building was crowded for pipe organ with Austin console for Addition Dedicated the closing exercises. Second Parish church is being carried H E two room Sunday school wing Portland, Oreg.. First Church had on. The dedicatory service is planned built on the Immanuel Church of an average of 125 children for its vaca­ for some time in September. Miss T tion school, and a staff of 20. Women's Beverly Ellis and Lieut. Leroy Hebbard West Collingswood, N. J. was formally missionary society held its annual pic­ were married at the church on June 13. dedicated on July 5. The building of this addition was accompanied by other nic on July 16 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leela Peters, who was brought to improvements to the church including Mrs. Bert Herndon. On Friday eve­ the saving knowledge of Christ under the erection of a steeple and entrance ning, July 3, Miss Carolyn Herndon, a the ministry of the Rev. John Skilton, way, the installation of a new heating member of the church, was united in died on June 22. Mr. Skilton con­ plant, and the redecoration of the audi­ marriage to Mr. Fred D. Meyer, in a ducted the funeral service. torium and other Sunday school rooms. ceremony held at the church. Manhattan Beach, Calif.: The Oostburg, Wise.: About 130 young young people of First Church have people of Christian Reformed and launched a Friday evening "Fun Orthodox Presbyterian Churches at­ Night" with a view to bringing their Kuiper Asks Transfer tended a youth banquet held at Bethel friends to the church and eventually to to C. R. Church Church on June 17. Guest speaker was a hearing of the gospel. During the the Rev. H. Vermeer, pastor of Hope pastor's absence on vacation, the pulpit H E Rev. R. B. Kuiper, formerly Reformed Church of Sheboygan. Mrs. was supplied by the Rev. Louis T professor of practical theology at Lawrence Eyres from Westchester, Illi­ Knowles. Two members were recently Westminster Seminary, has been reap­ nois, was the speaker at a mother­ added to the roll of the church. pointed to another one-year term as daughter banquet given by the Faithful acting president of Calvin Seminary in Gleaner and Ruth Societies early in the Grand Rapids. In consequence of this summer. Fifteen young people from Duffs Have Vacation appointment, and at the request of the the church attended Calvin Bible Camp Christian Reformed Church, he has at Spencer Lake. H E Rev. and Mrs. Clarence W. asked to be transferred to membership Volga, S. D.: Fourteen young peo­ TDuff, Orthodox Presbyterian mis­ in the Christian Reformed denomina­ ple from Calvary church attended the sionaries in Eritrea, recently returned tion. summer Bible Camp conducted by from a month's vacation spent in Ethi­ Professor Kuiper was on the faculty Dakota Presbytery at Lake Hermon. opia. On their arrival at Ghinda, they of Westminster, except for a brief inter­ The Rev. James E. Moore was special found that the day before there had val, from the time of its founding in speaker at the camp services. A Fourth been an extremely heavy rainstorm, 1929 until his retirement in 1952. He

August 15, 1953 151 has been a member of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church since it was formed in 1936. Worldlness (2) Plain Talks With Young People (11) Willis to Baltimore By LAWRENCE R. EYRES In September H E Rev. George J. Willis plans to o you have a driver's license? Do they're bad" without learning what T take up work as pastor of St. An­ D you remember your first road God's Word has to say about them. drews Orthodox Presbyterian Church test? A man (most likely a police­ But such obedience becomes obedience and home missionary in the Baltimore man) got in beside you and off you to men rather than to God, and that is area, early in September. He has been went, You shifted gears, came to a not good. called to this work jointly by the traffic light. He said, "Turn left here." Some Principles church and the Home Missions Com­ You came to a parking space. He said, I want to set before you a few prin­ mittee. "Park here." But he didn't tell you ciples which touch upon this list of how to shift gears, where to cross from "worldly amusements" to the end that one lane to another, how to make the you may do your own thinking, and left turn or how to park. Why didn't that that thinking may be straight Julius Andrae he? Because he just wanted to see if thinking-that God may be pleased. RMY M/Sgt. Julius Andrae, a you knew how to drive safely. And (I) These things are not sin in them­ A member and elder (inactive) of you were plenty nervous! "The Law" selves. By this I mean that they do Knox Orthodox Presbyterian Church, was sitting beside you. You'd better not directly violate the law of God. By Silver Spring, Md., received his call to make no mistakes! no stretch of the imagination can you his eternal home on Friday, February It's like that in the Christian life. make anyone of the Ten Command­ 24. Death came suddenly after a heart You are young adults. The time is ments say, "Thou shalt not go to a attack suffered while Sergeant Andrae past for parents and teachers to give movie," etc. Here is a simple illustra­ was playing softball with some of the minute instruction as to how to avoid tion: it is not a sin as such to drive patients at a convalescent unit ofWal­ the wrong and do the right. You have sixty miles an hour. If, however, I ter Reed hospital. He had substituted a mind and will and conscience. should drive that speed in a thirty-mile for one of the players who had not You've already had some practice in zone it would be sin, not the sin of come that day. steering your own course. Soon, if not going sixty, but the sin of not obeying Sgt. Andrae was one of the early already, you'll be in the "driver's seat." the fifth commandment which in­ members of Knox Church, and he You'll have to know the laws of spirit­ cludes not only obedience to fathers was a faithful, consecrated Christian ual safety, how to interpret them to and mothers, but obedience of civil worker. He had been a member of the the glory of God and your own spiritual governments as well. Or it might be Board of Trustees, and a teacher in the well-being. And you're being observed. construed as a sin against the sixth Sunday school, as well as an elder. He "The Law" is looking on-God sees commandment, since I might in that began his military career during the and will hold you to account for the instance be a potential murderer. But first World War, served with the Army course you are going to steer through whatever the sin may be it is not sin engineers in this country and England life. in itself to drive that fast. I believe during World War II, and returned But what has this to do with world­ that this principle applies equally to all last January from two years in Japan liness? Very much. Last month we the practices mentioned. with the headquarters company of the talked about what worldliness really is. (2) We must not judge others for 24th division. Since January he had It is the waywardness of the heart as it doing these things. When we hear been attached to Walter Reed hospital, tends to stray away from God. It is someone blaspheme God's name, we supervising recreation in the Forest wanting to say Yes when God says No, may judge that one to be sinning, Glenn convalescent unit of the hospital. and No when God says Yes. It's not though even then we must not be cen­ Sergeant Andrae is survived by his to be identified with such things as sorious in such a judgment, because wife, Mary, by a son, Charles M. and a smoking, drinking, dancing, going to rou also are a sinner. But when we daughter Julia Elsie, as well as by his the movies and playing cards. These see a man smoke, even though you mother and two brothers and two things are outward, worldliness is in­ don't like smoking (and personally I sisters. ward, a matter of the heart. Never­ don'tl), you may not judge him in theless, no treatment of worldliness is word or thought to be sinning in what complete if it refuses to face these so­ he is doing. There are two reasons The "Home Study Course called "worldly practices" squarely in for not judging in this instance: First, in Christian Doctrine," by the light of God's word. For, while the Bible doesn't say that the thing he's Professor John Murray, will these amusements are not to be identi­ doing is sin. And second, even if he be resumed in the next issue. fied with worldliness, it often finds ex­ should be involved in sin (through in­ Due to his trip to England pression through these very things. temperance, let us say) it is before God and Scotland, he was unable And many young people would rather he stands or falls, and not before us. to prepare an article for this issue. have their parents and pastors just tell If that man is a Christian, he must them, "Don't do these things because stand or fall before Christ, even as we

152 The Presbyterian Guardian have only one Lord over our con­ gether. It all started with your exam­ liness. It is in the doing of these science. Romans 14:1-2 was written ple. You arc your brother's keeper! things that worldliness of the heart so for this very purpose, and applies to Paul was sensitive about this very frequently shows itself. the practices in question just as much thing. He said, "1£ meat make my Here's what so many young people as to eating of certain meats, etc. Judg­ brother to offend, I will eat no flesh ask me, "What's wrong about danc­ ing, in such cases, is equal to placing while the world standeth, lest I make ing?" It seems that their approach to one's self in the place of God, and we my brother to offend" (I Corinthians the whole amusement question is, ought to have a horror at the thought 8:13). And Paul liked meat, I'm sure! "How many of these things can I do of "playing God!" Yet what he said was not by way of without sinning?" The question really (3) In the doing of these things we command ("Ye shall eat no meat"), ought to be, "How can I glorify God must glorify God. "Happy is he that but by way of testimony or example in the things which I enjoy as pleas­ condemneth not himself in that thing ("I will eat no meat"). It is you who ures?" That young people should en­ which he alloweth. . . . Whatsoever is shall have to judge whether the thing joy God's good gifts goes without say­ not of faith is sin." (Romans 14:22, you do in clear conscience is a stum­ ing. But everything that you allow as 23.) The conscience is a strange thing. bling-block to some weaker Christian. a Christian should positively contrib­ It is God's gift to us. In the Christian These Principles Applied ute to His glory. Instead of seeing how it should be especially sensitive. Its I'm not going to be able to say all many things that worldly people com­ voice may be wrong. It may need that I'd like to say about applying these monly do we can do without being strengthening and enlightening, but it principles to the modern amusements held to be worldly (for that is a world­ should not be disobeyed unless it speaks in question, because there's not enough ly attitude which puts our pleasure first contrary to the Law of God. 1£ your space left in this article. What I'm and God's glory last), we ought to see conscience should lead you to feel it to going to do now is to try to bring to­ how we can find ways and means, even be sin if you were to drink a cup of gether what I said about worldliness in our pleasures, to enhance the good coffee, then you'd better not drink cof­ last month and the exercise of these name of our God and His Son, Jesus. fee. How can you drink to the glory principles just mentioned. Last month I still want to deal more fully with of God if you feel that it is sin to drink I said that worldliness is so much in these modern amusements. I want to coffee? Some have used this argu­ our hearts-s-Christian hearts, too-that set forth some cautions and put forth ment: "Would you like to be in a it takes hold whenever and wherever some practical considerations with re­ moving picture theatre when Jesus there is the spiritual lethargy and dull­ gard to each of these things that you comes?" Well, if you have a con­ ness in which it thrives. And that is may have the utmost in counsel before science against going to movies the why so many good Christians have you establish a hard-to-change pattern answer should be No. But if your thought that the list of questionable of living with regard to modern amuse­ conscience should be free on that ques­ amusements actually constitute world- ments. tion (and the particular picture were one in the seeing of which you can glorify God) the answer should be Yes. Many Christian young people, who Men at Work have been brought up to believe that The Missionary Society page under ship was combed, and twenty-four all these things are bad, when they the editorship of Mrs. John Galbraith names from approximately forty were learn that the Bible does not actually carried items concerning the various selected. Letters were sent these men say that these are sinful, just jump into women's organizations in a number of explaining our plans. A combined them with both feet. They don't stop the churches. We recently queried sev­ work-day and breakfast was held on a to answer the question, "Can I glorify eral churches to discover what if any Saturday morning. Fourteen men God in the thing I'm doing?" men's organizations there were, and came, and three of them carried out the (4) We must beware lest we cause what they were doing. Here are two cooking duties. No women allowed! others to stumble. We cannot please reports concerning the men. We hope After a couple of meetings it was de­ everyone, not even all Christians. to have others in due course. cided that meetings would be held once Therefore it is not to please others that a month, there would be nominal dues, we should sometimes forego what we Beverly Church, Los Angeles officers were elected, and the job of may otherwise enjoy. We are bound The Beverly Men's Club was re-or­ cooking was to be rotated. Meetings to please at all times only God! But ganized in January, 1952. A former would be held either Friday evening or He is not pleased when we, by our club had disbanded some time in 1942 Saturday morning. Arrangements example, cause a weak brother to because of the war. This time one of were made for the speakers and pro­ stumble. His conscience may be very the Deacons decided to try and get the grams. sensitive about, let us say, smoking. work started again. The purpose in The breakfasts were very good, but You feel that it is all right for a Chris­ mind was to meet the husbands of the several men worked on Saturday and tian, in moderation. He admires you many women who came and even be­ so could not attend. The lists were and goes along with you in this, against longed to the church by themselves. scoured again and sixty names were put his conscience. The result? He goes The stories of the success of a club in a on the mailing list. to excess, takes up drinking-to excess, neighboring church helped excite the With the exception of August, a falls in with a bad crowd and finally imagination. meeting was held once a month for one falls away from Christian things alto- The roster of our church member- year. Average attendance was fifteen.

August 15, 1953 153 But in all one-hundred-forty men and tendance, widens our influence, and signed by all present was sent to our eight or ten visitors were present. A awakens interest in our church on the district representative urging him to big pre-Mother's Day dinner was held part of the community. propose legislation on a matter and to with fifty-four present. Again the The evening program consists of an oppose passage of a bill of particular cooking was in our own kitchen, done opening prayer, a 45 minute period of concern to farmers. by the men. This makes a fine annual Bible study, a 15 minute recess, and a There is one leader for each meeting, affair. discussion period on some topic of gen­ who presents the subject and conducts Our usual evening meeting included eral interest-local, state or national. the discussion. Every man gets a turn a song service, opening prayer, reading Currently our Bible study, conducted to act as leader. Occasionally we have of minutes, financial report, kitchen by the pastor, has been on the Epistle a debate such as the one given on the report, and general business. One of James, verse by verse, with plenty of eve of our national election-Resolved, home missionary project was adopted, opportunity for questions and com­ that the future of our country will be with a small monthly budget, and other ments. The remark has been made safer with General Eisenhower than projects were discussed. About half that this part of the evening's program with Governor Stevenson. the meetings featured speakers, the is especially valued. Men's Night has proven a good suc­ other half films. Our speakers were Then follows a recess period during cess so far. The exchange of ideas Christian men but not necessarily min­ which light refreshments are served stimulates thinking and develops self­ isters. and neighborly fellowship enjoyed. expression. After a year, it appeared that the The after-recess period is given to the Two problems remain unsolved. 1. monthly meetings for men, along with presentation and discussion of some How to guarantee good weather and the other meetings of the church, were subject of interest to all the men, such good roads so that we need not miss becoming a burden. The plan is to as: roads, schools, legislation, elections, one meeting, and 2. How to get the carryon on a quarterly basis. socialism, national farm programs, men to quit before midnight! The key to the problem here seems communism, labor unions, Korean war. to be that the men are away from home At one time a petition drawn up and EDWARD WYBENGA. all day at work, and are anxious to stay home in the evenings. But the women have been at home all day, and are anxious to get out in the evenings. What to do? The latest thing at the church is a McIlwalnes' Travelogue "Couples Club." By having something to which the men and their wives can Final stages of trip to Japan come together, and stay as late as they wish, both feel they have had a night By MRS. R. H. McILWAINE out. And with the ladies enthusiasti­ cally getting their husbands out once a N the May issue we carried the first last Sunday in the States. month, this arrangement may work I part of this travelogue, in which Our whole trip to the coast VISlt1ng better. The objectives are the same­ Mrs. Mcllwaine wrote about their the churches en route was very pleasant to introduce the men to other men in travels in this country and their visits and meant much to us. Now we feel the church, and promote the work of to the churches, as they made their way that we know the Orthodox Presby­ the church. We also have formed a to the west coast in preparation for sail­ terian family much better. To all who Couples Sunday School class which has ing to [apan, The Rev. and Mrs. did so much to make our tight schedule been a real help in every branch of the Mcllwaine are missionaries of The work out, and who so graciously enter­ 'Sunday school. Orthodox Presbyterian Church, sta­ tained us we again extend our thanks. GROVER C. COLEMAN. tioned in Watari, Japan. After visiting For the most part our boat trip was the churches on the coast, the Me­ very pleasant. Sea life can be lazy, and Westmiuster Church llwaines sailed from San Francisco on some days we hardly did a thing. Hamill, So. Dakota May 17. We continue the account Late in the afternoon of May 30 we The Westminster Orthodox Presby­ from that point:- reached the breakwater just out of terian Church of Hamill, South Dako­ Yokohama harbor. The water was a ta, is especially fortunate in having a Saturday afternoon, May 16, the bit choppy, and as the traffic is so heavy large number of energetic and capable Elliotts, their car over-flowing with our the port authorities do not wish to take men. This is evident in the attendance baggage, drove us to the China Trans­ any chances so they do not bring ships at the church services, in the Board and port. The Grahams came over too. in under such conditions. However, Session meetings, and in the Men's We had a look over the ship and a passengers were allowed to go ashore Society. time of prayer before these friends left. on a launch, and we were particularly The Men's Society meets every two Then we learned that the ship would glad to be able to disembark, as the weeks on what we call "Men's Night." be delayed several hours and that we next day would be Sunday. Mrs. Hunt, The meetings are not limited to the would have time to attend the morning George and Fumi Uomoto, Henry and men of our church, but all men in the worship at San Francisco. It was ar­ Eunice Bruinooge (Christian Reformed community are invited and urged to ranged that Heber should preach. We missionaries) and the Bruinooge chil­ come. This makes for increased at- had a happy time of fellowship on that dren were there to meet us. My! It

154 The Presbyterian Guardian was good to see them and it seemed Rankin say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a only a short time since most of them (Continued from p. 148) were there to see us off on furlough. year, and buy, and sell, and get gain: A few days were required to get bag­ living, thinking, feeling, willing, for­ whereas ye know not what shall be gage through customs (delayed some­ ever and ever. upon the morrow. For what is your what as this was the rainy season), to The reason for this is that God made life? It is even a vapour, that appear­ get properly registered with both the it so when He made man, when He eth for a little time, and then vanisheth U. S. and the Japanese governments and created us in His own likeness and put away. For that ye ought to say, If to take care of other business in Tokyo. us here. "God created man in His the Lord will, we shall live and do this We stayed with the Bruinooges and as own image, in the image of God cre­ or that. But now ye rejoice in your usual they were very generous with ated He him, male and female created boastings. All such rejoicing is evil." their time and help. During this time He them." Therefore by our very na­ According to Scripture, God knows we had short visits with the Uomotos, ture as created, we are immortal. There what shall be on the morrow. He Mrs. Hunt, and with ministers of the is no such thing as "conditional im­ knows what we are going to do. But Reformed Church in Tokyo. mortality." There is no such thing as we don't. All we can truly say is just On June 9, with the car well filled the loss or the attainment of immortal­ what Scripture says we ought to say­ with baggage, we started the last lap ity. If the Bible teaches us anything "If the Lord will;" deo volente; God of our trip. Though Watari is only at all, it teaches us that our souls are willing, we shall live, and do this or about 220 miles from Tokyo, we de­ immortal, and that immortality, of one that. cided to break the drive and stop over­ kind or another, as one has said, is our Does it seem to you that these say­ night on the way in order to get to destiny. ings forbid the forward look? Do Watari in the afternoon. Sections of Now I would like to speak to you these teachings prohibit long range the road are paved and very good, but with regard to the forward look of life, planning? By no means. All that is for the most part up this way the roads first for our life here, and then for the forbidden is a false conception of our are gravel and on the washboard style. life hereafter. creaturely capacities and powers with The car is feeling her age too, so we Our Earthly Future reference to the future in this life. made no speed records. Probably the First, then, the forward look for our These sayings remind us that God pos­ average was not more than 20 miles per life here. "Hope springs eternal in the sesses the future, not we ourselves. He hour, but that was plenty fast enough, breast." People are always looking has not yielded to us His rights and considering the road conditions and the forward. God made us that way, and powers. We are still creatures, depend­ car. the result is that it is both our nature ent on Him. And as for the future we It was good to get home here. Our and our duty to look ahead. "Ponder "know not what shall be upon the house and things were in good condi­ the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways morrow," but we know that a wise, tion and it hardly seemed that we had be established." merciful and just Ruler controls all been away for more than a long week­ But did you ever notice how confi­ things. Thus we are kept from false end. We were glad to see some new dently people speak not only of what confidence, false boasting, and are faces at the little church and were sorry they have done, but of what they are warned to walk humbly in His pres­ that various problems had caused some going to do? Tomorrow, we say, we ence. of the older members to stop coming. will go here or there and do this or Our Eternal Future Pray for Mr. Tamaki as he works amid that. Often we have the most detailed But what of the more distant for­ difficulties here. He and one of the plans, all laid out in advance, for what ward look, the forward look that con­ elders have kept up the work at the we confidently think of as the years siders also the hereafter? It is passing T.E. hospital in a fine way.. ahead. We plan our work, and plan strange, yet it is true, that one may be Pray for wisdom and ways of mak­ to work out our plans. much more confident, infinitely more ing a more positive testimony in Wa­ Maybe we shall. Maybe not. Per­ well assured concerning the hereafter tari. Because the kindergarten was haps we shall, if all goes well. God than concerning the present. And as being conducted in the manse, it had to willing, we shall, but otherwise, we regards our state in the hereafter, the be discontinued when a pastor was shall not. Don't we know that there prohibition against overconfidence dis­ called. There is no other kindergarten is an element of the unknown and the appears. There one may have an im­ of any kind in town and that was a unknowable in all of the events of life? movable confidence, an absolutely sure good feeder for the Sunday school, and Exactly how much do we know of and certain hope. an entree into some of the homes. I what the future holds? Don't we Scripture solemnly assures the true feel that it was a strong contact, and know that life is full of disappoint­ believer concerning the "hope which is hope very much that one may be started ments and surprises? Can't we realize as an anchor of the soul, both sure and again. Pray that if it would be to the that God is governing and controlling steadfast, which entereth into that glory of God provision for a place and in all the events of life? "There is a which is within the veil," and with a teacher may be provided. The Cath­ destiny that shapes our ends, rough­ regard to his part and his lot and what olics are starting to work here in the hew them how we may." he may expect in "the life of the world town and they are giving us competi­ What does the Scripture say? "The to come through our Lord Jesus tion in the hospital also. Pray that the secret things belong unto the Lord our Christ." Our text reflects this confi­ Word of God may increase and that God." "Boast not thyself of tomorrow, dence of its co-authors-"Thou wilt the number of disciples here in Watari for thou knowest not what a day may shew me the path of life: in thy pres­ may multiply. bring forth." "Go to, now, ye that ence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand

August 15, 1953 155 there are pleasures for ever more." foresaw and foretold both the near and "In the morning they are like grass But again with regard to this matter the far-distant future. Months before which groweth up. In the morning it of the immortality of the soul, the ques­ the bloody sacrifice of Himself for the Hourisheth and groweth up. In the tion is inevitable-Who says so? How sins of His people, He conversed with evening it is cut down and withereth." do we know? Well, as we have seen, His disciples about it, and foretold But he also distinctly foresaw the the Bible teaches it. God says so in how it would be, that, having suffered, never-ending blessedness and glory of His Word. It was also one of the out­ and died and shed His blood for many the believer's life beyond the grave and standing teachings of the Christ. He for the remission of sins and having said, "Thou wilt show me the path of spoke continually and often in terms of given His life a ransom for many, He life: In thy presence is fulness of joy. future punishment and reward, of would rise again the third day. He At thy right hand there are pleasures eternal destruction and everlasting life. foretold the destruction of Jerusalem, for ever more." "Pleasures for ever- It is recorded that Simon Peter on a which occurred in 70 A. D. And He more In thy presence ... ful- certain occasion said to the Saviour, foretold His own second coming, the ness of joy At thy right hand ... "Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou end of the world, the general resurrec­ pleasures forever more." Certainly no hast the words of eternal life. And tion, and the general judgment, when­ one could possibly look ahead any we believe and are sure that thou art ever these things shall be. He could farther than David did, and all who are that Christ, the Son of the living God." foresee all in detail, and describe it sharers in his faith and life may and All of God's prophets and apostles minutely. do share in his long, long view of life. have said this, and all of God's true Concerning His own foresight with and faithful people through all the ages regard to Himself, it was said that, "for have echoed the refrain. Moreover, if the joy. that was set before Him, He we but knew it, we have another in­ endured the cross, despising the shame, contestable witness and that is the wit­ and is set down at the right hand of Murray Lectures ness in ourselves, the witness of our the throne of God." Such was the at Evangelical Library own hearts. Believe me, every heart Saviour's own preview of the final out­ ROFESSOR John Murray on July vibrates on this poignant note. Your come of His own life. 3 delivered the Annual Lecture of heart does-don't tell me that it . David and the Future P The Evangelical Library in London. doesn't. Don't try to tell me your Some try to tell us that there is no Mr. Geoffrey Williams, Librarian, has heart doesn't say you are immortal. such thing as the teaching of immor­ sent us the following summary of the You may not think it does, but if so, tality in the Old Testament. This, that is not because your heart is not however, is not true. It was not true lecture: speaking to you of your own immor­ of David, as we may see from the "The basic issues in the Protestant tality, but because you are deaf to the Psalms. "Sure goodness and mercy Reformation were the questions of voice of your own heart. shall follow me all the days of my life, 'Authority' and Salvation'." What is God and the Future and I shall dwell in the house of the the authority by which we are to be But there is more to be considered Lord forever." "As for me, I shall be­ guided, particularly in matters of faith with regard to the long, long view of hold thy face in righteousness. I shall and worship? The Romanish position life. So far we have only touched upon be satisfied, when I awake, with thy when reduced to its logical and most David's view, and with him that of likeness." "Thou shalt guide me with practical conclusions is that the Church every believer. There is the forward thy counsel, and afterward receive me is the authority-it is the living voice view of God to be considered, and of to glory." "Thou wilt show me the of God. This means the authority of His Son Jesus Christ. For, underlying path of life, in thy presence is fulness men. Against this the Reformers pro­ all forward looks is the long, long look of joy, at thy right hand there are tested, and asserted that God alone is of God Himself and of Christ. All in­ pleasures for ever more." Lord of the conscience and that God's dividual forward views are based upon It is true that it remained for the will is revealed in Holy Scripture and God and His view. His Word informs New Testament to unveil the hereafter, that Scripture alone is the infallible us that He has seen the end from the unfold the future state, and expound it rule of faith and practice. beginning. "Known unto God are all more fully, and for Christ who came "Salvation by grace might seem to be His works from the beginning of the from the realms beyond our low, poor universally acceptable to men. As a world." His view embraces all that bourne of time and place, to disclose matter of fact, it is antithetical to man's has been, all that is, and all that is to the whole situation, and bring "life and way of thinking. This is why the gos­ be, both in time and in eternity. As immortality to light through the pel is a stumbling block to the Jew and one has said, "Past and future are alike gospel." foolishness to the Gentile. Rome has to him; eternity with all its years stands Yet David, too, had the long, long succumbed to this bias of human nature present to His view." The Bible view view of life. There was a faraway as corrupted by sin, and its system of of things, God's view, is great in every look in his eye. His was the far-seeing thought and practice is an architec­ dimension; in length, as well as in view. He saw the littleness, the brev­ tonic elaboration of works and merits breadth, in depth and in height. ity, the uncertainty of our life here, as the way of acceptance with God. We also have the long, long thoughts and said, "as for man, his days are as Luther said, 'This touches God and of Christ, the Son of God, God incar­ grass; as a flower of the field so he His Word. This affects the salvation nate in the world of His own creation; flourisheth. For the wind passeth over of souls.' Here is epitomized the bat­ God dwelling among us; God manifest it and it is gone and the place thereof tle of the ages-the issue of human in our flesh. The Lord Jesus Christ shall know it no more." And again, autonomy versus divine sovereignty."

156 The Presbyterian Guardian GUARDIAN NEWS COJ'J\J'J\ E"I '"r1-\'"r 0 R VIEWING THE NEWS FROM THE RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE AND THE RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR PRESS

Jones 9uits Ministry in denominational church and called Mr. World Council stands for is not a unity Southern Presbyterian Jones as pastor. He has accepted the in the Spirit of truth, but is rather Church call. aimed at a certain fellowship which surpasses dissension in faith, even to H E Rev. Charles M. Jones, who such a degree that the outstanding T was ousted by Orange Presbytery as point like the profession of Jesus Christ pastor of Chapel Hill Presbyterian as God and Saviour may be left in a Church, has requested the termination Far Eastern Conference state of ambiguity." of his ministry in the Southern Presby­ Held in Japan The report noted that though many terian Church. This request is the of the churches connected with the second conference of the Far East­ climax of a case which has been going World Council "might not officially Aern Council of Christian Churches, on for over a year. and deliberately disavow Christ as God an affiliate of the International Council A Commission of the Presbytery had and Saviour in the true Scriptural of Christian Churches, was held in spent six months investigating the sense, (they) allow people who do so to Karuizawa, Japan, July 26 to August 2. Chapel Hill situation before reaching be legitimate members and even act as Some 160 delegates and visitors at­ the conclusion that the interests of church officers. Such churches" the re­ tended, coming from 12 countries. The religion demanded his removal. Spe­ countries represented were Australia, port continued, "are disloyal to their cific charges against the minister were own creed and are 'deformed'." Formosa, India, Japan, Korea, Malaya, not revealed at the time, though they New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philip­ The previous meeting of the Synod have been made public since. There pines, Thailand, and the U.S.A. was held in Amsterdam in 1949. (Two was apparently little concern with delegates from the Orthodox Presby­ Among those in attendance were the either Presbyterian doctrine or Presby- Rev. and Mrs. Bruce Hunt, Orthodox terian Church attended the present terian practice at the church. . Synod, and we hope to have a more Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. When Presbytery's Commission direct report in an early issue. The reached its decision, members of the above is from a RNS bulletin.) Chapel Hill congregation appealed to the Synod. Synod ruled that Jones was entitled to a new hearing immediately. Some members of Synod then appealed Reformed Ecumenical SchauHele Among this to the Assembly. The Assembly Synod Meets Sponsors of Christian ruled that the Commission had been HE Reformed Ecumenical Synod High School within its rights in removing Jones met in Edinburgh August 4-14. from his pastorate, but held that he T new Christian High School which Delegates were present from Reformed was entitled to an open trial before the A will accept students from Maine, churches in United States, Canada, the Presbytery. Jones then asked that the Vermont and New Hampshire on a Netherlands, Great Britain, South trial be held before Synod, rather than tuition-free basis, is to be opened in Africa, Indonesia, Japan and Ceylon. before Presbytery, on the ground that September at Rumney Depot, N. H. Presbytery's Commission had already The Rev. G. N. M. Collins of the The school will be set up in Bethany acted as investigator and prosecutor, Free Church of Scotland welcomed the Home, an institution owned by the and nothing would be gained by a trial delegates. He noted that there is a re­ New England Fellowship. The school before the Presbytery. newed interest in Calvinism, but is to be non-denominational in charac­ When this request was denied, Jones warned that discrimination must be ter, but will include Bible courses as a announced his decision to leave the exercised. "Much that passes for Cal­ regular part of its curriculum. ministry of the church. For a year he vinism today is the pale ghost of what Control and direction of the institu­ has been on leave from the church, it pretends to be. It lacks the consist­ tion will be in the hands of a board of serving with a children's foundation at ent supernaturalism which is the very Christian business and professional Kingsport, Tenn. He expects to con­ essence of orthodox Calvinism." men. The announcement listed the tinue there for the time being. A report submitted to the Synod Rev. Charles G. Schauffele, Orthodox Meanwhile it has been announced contained a strong denunciation of the Presbyterian minister and professor of that some 100 members of the Chapel World Council of Churches. The re­ Christian Education at Gordon College, Hill congregation have set up a non- port said, "The unity of churches the as a leader among the school's founders.

August 15, 1953 157 Presbyterian Union was established in two weeks on a 160 By comparison, over two billion was Agitation Continues acre wheat field. The members of the spent on television sets and repairs, group brought their own municipal while over twice as much went to FT ER the Southern Presbyterian departments - including 20 garbage household appliances as to churches, A Assembly had followed the other trucks-and manned the whole thing four times as much went to tobacco, Presbyterian bodies in deciding to send themselves, without pay. seven times as much to new automo­ the plan of union down to the churches In his closing address to the dele­ biles, and eight times as much, or some for study, it was apparent that various gates, Nathan H. Knorr, president of 9 billion, for alcoholic beverages. interpretations would be placed on the the Watch Tower Bible and Tract So­ In the same year contributions to action. Those who favor the union ciety, governing body of the organiza­ non-public elementary and secondary have found encouragement in the ac­ tion, warned that Armageddon, the schools, mostly parochial, were about tion. Those who oppose union express Biblical war of the universe in which $735,000,000, nearly 50 per cent more the view that discussion of the plan in evil is to be destroyed, is "so near at than four years ago. the churches is the proper way to show hand it will strike the generation now how sad a plan it is, and to bring about living." After Armageddon, Mr. its defeat. Knorr said, a theocratic society will 18.000 .Missionaries, One interesting angle relates to the arise in which "no other God than question as to what the opponents of Jehovah will be permitted." report by the Missionary Research union will do if union takes place. In The organization claims to have A Library of New York indicates an editorial in The Presbyterian Out­ underground movements in countries there were some 18,000 Protestant Mis­ look it was stated that Dr. L. Nelson behind the Iron Curtain, and reported sionaries stationed overseas in 1952, Bell, a leader of the opposition to union, large gains in its membership in such Nearly half of this number were in had said that if union occurred, he countries as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Africa, Latin America and the West would not withdraw from the church. Hungary and Rumania. Indies. Before 1949 about one-fourth In a letter to the paper, Dr. Bell replied During the meeting, 126 graduates of the missionaries were in China, but that he had made no such statement, of the Watchtower Bible School were only a handful remains there now. and added "My concern is that the wit­ given foreign mission assignments, over The missionary listing showed 429 ness for historic Presbyterianism shall 4,000 converts were baptized, and an­ physicians and dentists, 1,028 nurses, be preserved, and I am personally con­ nouncement was made of the publica­ 64 medical technicians, 137 agricultural vinced that should union eventuate, a tion of "New W orld" translation of the workers and 140 social service workers. grave step toward an inclusive church, Old Testament. (See article "Anti­ Two-thirds of the American Protestant not a confessional one, will have been christ in Yankee Stadium" in this is­ missionary force were lay workers, taken." sue.) rather than ordained ministers. Meanwhile the Association for the Preservation and Continuation of the Southern Presbyterian Church has been extending its activities. The national Presbyterian Allia,nce in Lutheran Minister organization was formed about a year Princeton in 1954 Ambassador to Ethiopia ago, with some 400 members. Branches H E 17th General Council of the RESIDENT Eisenhower has nomi­ are being established in various areas. T World Alliance of Presbyterian and Recently one was established in Dallas, P nated the Rev. Dr. Joseph Simon­ Reformed Churches has been called to son, a Lutheran clergyman, to be U. S. Texas following a meeting of 40 lay­ meet in Princeton, N. J., July 27-August men. Ambassador to Ethiopia. If confirmed 5, 1954· The last General Council met he will become the first Lutheran min­ in Geneva in 1948. Theme of the ister to fill an ambassadorial post. He meeting will be, "The Witness of the Jehovah's Witnesses has been associated with the National Reformed Churches in the World To­ Lutheran Council as executive secretary Hold World Assembly day." of the public relations division, since ORE than 165,000 followers of the 1951. Before that he held pastorates M sect known as "Jehovah's Wit­ in Chicago and St. Paul over a period nesses" gathered in and about New Contributions to of 20 years. His ministerial member­ York City, July 22-27, for their New Religion ship is in the Evangelical Lutheran World Society Assembly. They came Church. He gave the invocations at from all 48 states and from over 90 MERICAN S in 1952 contributed the 1944 and 1952 Republican National foreign countries. They set up a tent A $1,296,000,000, an all time record, Conventions. city near Yankee Stadium where their to religious organizations, according to meetings were held, a trailer city 30 a Department of Commerce report. miles away in New Jersey, and took This was a gain of 7 Yz per cent over March of Freedom over hotels and motels as well. In spite 19SI. Other charitable agencies re­ Campaign Starts of the size of the gathering, police re­ ceived $852,000,000. If we should ported it the most orderly they had ever allow 80 million church members in HE national March of Freedom witnessed. America, the average per member con­ T campaign, sponsored by the Na­ The trailer city for 30,000 inhabitants tribution would be about $16 per year. tional Association of Evangelicals,

158 The Presbyterian Guardian started on its way when President Bishop Oxnam was specifically Christian Reformed Eisenhower signed the declaration, cleared by the Committee of any Com­ Synod Meets July 2. The declaration pledges its munist Party membership or affilia­ signers to "understand, exemplify, and tion, though the Committee refused to HE annual Synod of the Christian proclaim the seven divine freedoms go further than this limited clearance. TReformed Church met in Grand found in the 23rd Psalm." They are The Bishop admitted association with Rapids in June. It was the largest freedom from want, hunger, thirst, sin, certain organizations which at a later Synod in the church's history, with 96 fear, enemies, and freedom to live time were charged as subversive, but delegates representing 24 regional abundantly. claimed he had separated from them Classes. The Rev. Emo Van Halsema The declaration is to be signed by before they had become leftist. He was elected President of Synod. government officials of the nation and himself indicated he considered Ward The Synod admitted 27 young men the states, and circulated among the to have been Communist in sympathy. to the ministry. Two of these had public in the hope that there will be a Bishop Oxnam was especially critical taken regular or graduate study at million signatures by next July 4, when of the Committee for allowing un­ Westminster Seminary. They are Ed­ the signed pledges will be returned to verified and unevaluated information win H. Palmer and Martin W oudstra. Washington and placed in the National from its files to be released so that it One of the chief items of business Archives. could be used against him. He charged was the appointment of members to the that the American Council of Christian faculty of Calvin Seminary. Appointed Churches was one of the organizations were Professor R. B. Kuiper, acting which had used this unverified material President with a limited teaching load; Finaly Case Still as a basis for its attacks on him. Martin Monsma for one year in prac­ Not Settled Dr. Ward in a letter to Religious tical theology; Carl G. Kromminga as News Service denied that he had ever H E case of the two Jewish war instructor in practical theology; John been a member of any political party. H. Kromminga as associate professor orphans, Gerald and Robert Finaly, T He asserted he has tried to follow the in church history for two years; Henry is apparently not yet settled. The boys teachings of Christ. McMichael, sub­ Stob as associate professor in Ethics were left in custody of a lay Catholic poenaed by the Committee, denied and Apologetics for two years; Prof. worker when their parents were killed knowing two other witnesses who had Henry Schultze as professor extraordi­ during the war. When their aunt identified him as being a Communist. nary in New Testament; Ralph Stob secured a court order making her their His hearing before the Committee, as lecturer in New Testament for one legal guardian, the Catholic worker however, was somewhat stormy, and year; Herman Kuiper in the chair of had them baptized and instead of re­ he was charged by committee members dogmatics for two years; Fred Klooster turning them to the legal guardian, with being evasive, and using tactics of as lecturer in dogmatics for the coming sent them to Spain. The case went confusion and delay. year. into the courts, and several Catholic In other actions the Synod appointed priests were arrested for complicity in Dr. William Spoe1hof President of Cal­ the affair. Finally, after much delay, vin College for a term of four years; the boys were brought back and turned approved construction of a $100,000 over to the legal guardian. However, Methodists Honor hospital on the mission field in Lupwe; apparently there was some private John Wesley rejected a recommendation that church agreement that they would be brought OME 40,000 Methodists gathered in headquarters be moved to Chicago; up in a religiously neutral atmosphere S Philadelphia June 29 to celebrate granted status of corresponding church until they were of age to decide for the 250th anniversary of John Wesley's to the General Presbytery of the Korean themselves their religion. But now the birth, and to conduct a World Convo­ Presbyterian Church; recommended guardian has taken them to Israel to her cation on Evangelism. The gathering Westminster Theological Seminary for home, and the French Catholics claim launched an evangelistic drive to win moral and financial support, and ap­ this agreement has been broken. The 250,000 more members to Methodism. pointed a committee to study the Re­ lay worker who had them for a time A keynote address was given by vised Standard Version of the Bible has appealed to President Auriol of Bishop W. A. Smith of Oklahoma City with a view to determining the attitude France to recover the boys from Israel. who among other things said, "Min­ of the church toward agencies distribut­ isters must preach the Word with Bibli­ ing this version. cal accuracy and spirit-filled interpre­ The Rev. Robert K. Churchill of t Accused Clergymen Deny tation, and with authority and convic­ Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, was fraternal Communist Ties tion based on personal experience of delegate from The Orthodox Presby­ knowing what it is to be 'born again'." terian Church to the Synod. He was ISH OP G. Bromley Oxnam, the The gathering also honored Wesley's invited to address the Synod. He de­ B Rev. Jack McMichael and Dr. brother, Charles, the famous hymn scribed the two organizations as brother Harry F. Ward, all of whom have been writer. Three of his hymns were sung churches, holding the same doctrines of accused of Communist affiliation of one by a 3,000 voice choir in the mass meet­ sovereign grace, of the authority of sort or another, have denied, the first ing at Franklin Stadium. The hymns God's Word, and of the nature of the two under oath before the House Un­ were: "A Charge to Keep I Have," church. American Activities Committee, that "Soldiers of Christ, Arise," and "0 For Synod recommended Korean Spirit­ they ever were Communists. a Thousand Tongues to Sing." ual Relief to its churches. This con-

August 15, 1953 159 undergone an operation for a leg injury sists chiefly in contributions to Korea The Augustana Lutheran Synod Theological Seminary in Pusan. Synod went on record as approving the RSV, received when he was 12 years old. also granted its committee permission and instructed that the new version be Mr. Bean was a graduate of West­ te allocate $2,000 from its funds for used in the Common Lutheran Hym­ minster Theological Seminary in the 'the publication of a commentary on the nal now being prepared. class of 1946. He leaves a wife and New Testament by the Rev. Yune Sun The Evangelical Mission Covenant three children. He is also survived by Park, president of Korea Seminary. Church called on its members to read a brother, the Rev. Everett Bean, of Mr. Park is at present on his way to the Bible in "all of its translations and New Mills, N. B., Canada, and a sister, Holland, where he plans to study for versions." Mrs. Thomas Gregory, whose husband his doctorate at the Free University ot Church school publications of the is pastor of Cedar Creek United Pres­ Amsterdam. Church of the Brethren will use the byterian Church near Little York, Illi­ With reference to Sunday School King James and RSV texts in parallel nOIS. publications, the Synod authorized the columns. introduction of a semi-graded system of The Missouri Synod Lutheran lessons, and decided to grant the re­ Church refused to endorse any Bible SUNDAY SCHOOL ,I quest of the Orthodox Presbyterian version, but said that there was no evi­ Church for cooperation in this field, by dence that the RSV had as a special ob­ PAPERS inviting that church to have two of its jective an attack on the Christian faith. members meet with Synod's committee It urged its pastors to apply themselves Edited by Orthodox Bible Teachers I in a consultative capacity. diligently to the Greek and Hebrew Flannelgraph Pictures Scriptures, which in the original texts are the sole authority for the doctrines and Helps of the church. CHRISTIAN REFORMED PUBLISHING HOUSE Chaplains Receive Awards The Conservative Baptist Association for Korean Service rejected the RSV as a true translation, Grand Rapids, Mieh. and declared it should be regarded as a number of chaplains have received modern speech translation only. A awards from the Department of the Army for service in the Korean conflict. Among those receiving the Bronze Star for service beyond the call of duty are two men who have attended Alton Bean Westminster Seminary. They are H E Presbyterian Outlook reports Lieut. Stewart K. Lewis of the South­ T that the Rev. Alton Bean, pastor of ern Presbyterian denomination, who Prentis Park Presbyterian Church has received two such battlefield decor­ (South) of Portsmouth, Virginia, died ations, and Lt. Col. Herman J. Kregel on July 13 in a Norfolk hospital. His • of the Reformed Church in America. death came one week after he had 7 WEST36ST· NEW YORK 18. N·Y·

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HE General Assembly of the Pres­ THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN T byterian Church in the U. S. A. voted to "commend" but not to' "ap­ 150S Race Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. prove" the new Revised Standard Ver­ sion of the Bible. It was pointed out Dear sirs: that the church has never "approved" a Bible translation. Enclosed find $2.00 for Nhich please send The Presbyterian Guardian The Assembly of the Southern Pres­ byterian Church voted to approve the for CIne year to: use of the RSV along with the King James Version in Sunday school litera­ Name _ _ . ture. The annual conference of the Lutheran Free Church decided it was Address. __ . not yet ready to endorse the new trans­ lation. The United Presbyterian Assembly determined that "without prejudice, the RSV await appraisal of candid The Presbyterian Guardian is a .nonthly maqazine committed to statinq, defendinq, and study and prayerful years." promoting orthodox Presbyterianism as set forth in the Westminster Confession of Faith.

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