Edward Joseph Young: 1907·1968

• The Challenge of S-A-V-E: Albright • I Submission in Sorrow: Skilton

Can We Trust Our Bible? Young

Editorial - Letters - News

Guidance

Here and There in the OPC

VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1968

EDWARD JOSEPH YOUNG: 1907·1968

J A Challenge to Young People closed - every home from which a scholar came. Where there was oppor tunity, the plan of salvation was pre THE CHALLENGE OF S-A-V-E sented ... Work done by the team was not child's play, but as definite H. WILSON ALBRIGHT and aggressive evangelism as I have ever been involved in ... A Baptist o you realize that if you are an people of team calibre, you ought to pastor who attended the closing pro D earnest Christian young person, urge them to apply and pledge your gram remarked that it was the best you may be able to do something this selves to support them. You will find he ever had seen . . . The team did a summer that some of us older Chris that they will come home again far great job and the parents and home I J tians would almost give our right arm stronger and more devoted than ever, church can be very proud and thank to be able to do? No, I'm not exag and with an enlarged vision for Chris ful for them. I, gerating. Some of you can make an tian service, and with a more vital (Excerpts from team member letters impact on youngsters in a "foreign interest and concern for the outreach to Hacienda pastor) ) field"; an impact some will not forget I of the gospel. How can I ever say thank you for as long as they live, and perhaps in all you've done for me this summer? heaven too. You can do it by volun The Team at Hacienda The hospitality and Christian fellow teering (or by being drafted?) to Heights in '67 ship were just overwhelming. It's a serve on a S-A-V-E team this summer. (Excerpts from letters to the Rev. real comfort to know that Christ has That's Students As Volunteer Evan Donald Stanton) chosen people from all over, not just gelists. June 15: The team already has close in (home town). I think that's prob It won't be easy, but it will be ex to 50 youngsters lined up for the ably the greatest thing I realized this citing. It won't be part time; it will VBS . . . What a team! The poor summer. Visiting your church for five take all you have and then some. Your girls wore blisters on their feet the weeks and many other OPC's for a feet will hurt from walking, and your first day, then changed shoes or san- few days has not only made me feel muscles will be sore from throwing closer to the denomination, but long yourself into the activities. Your heart all the more to meet still more Chris may ache too, for the kids you will Write to Rev. Donald Stanton tian people. try to love for Jesus' sake. But the (629 Center Ave., Oostburg, Wisc. pay is great. Not money. Money can 53070) to apply to serve on a One of the greatest things about not begin to buy the satisfaction that S-A-VE team this summer, or to being able to go on S-A-V-E team comes in doing something like this get information. Applicants aren't was that I could tell about Christ and for Jesus. You'll be away from home accepted automatically. You will be also meet great and wonderful people and friends but you will get acquainted screened, you will need a recom ... It will be my turn to speak in with another OPC and you will get to mendation from your home church. church pretty soon (chatter, knock, meet and make some new Christian But begin by writing to Mr. crack). The others have done theirs friends. Stanton. already (very good) ... Had an ex cellent plane ride. We saw towns and A Challenge to Churches cities by night - some really fantastic Why not ask for a S-A-V-E team daIs for the second day so the new sights - including a magnificent to help you this summer? We had a blisters would be in different places sunrise. great time last summer with a team and all with no complaining! for the first time. We old-timers July 18: Seems mighty dead around here today without the young folks CHRISTIAN SCHOOL TEACHERS sometimes think no one can do things NEEDED quite so well as we can, but last sum · . . Put them on the bus yesterday For kindergarten, grades 5-6 and mer I realized afresh what a tremen · .. Thoroughly enjoyed them ... 7-8 in Pittsburgh, Pa, with a mis dous reservoir of largely untapped en Impossible to thank the churches ade sionary challenge, good salary and thusiasm, energy, zeal and dedication quately for providing travel expenses, living conditions. Write Rev. Calvin and to you for the preparations you Cummings, 1608 Graham Blvd., to the Savior there is in the kind of Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235. young people who are selected for made in training the team members these teams. Why not apply to have · . . Over a thousand homes were For elementary grades in Vine a team come to help you? A fellow canvassed, VBS enrollment was twice land, New Jersey. Write Mrs. pastor testifies, "What a blessing they what it was last year . . . and every Robert Eckhardt, 1029 Landis Ave., were to our church and young home was visited after the school Vineland, N. J. 08360. people!" The Washington, D.C. Christian Or why not send a S-A-V-E team School invites applications for a member or members? The home teaching position in the lower ele church recommends team members and Students as volunteer evangelists is mentary grades. Write to Mr. pays their travel expenses to and from a great program. Let us publicize it, Ronald Boss, principal, 1216 Arcola Ave., Silver Spring, Md. 20902. the field where they serve. If you support it, and use it as widely as Teach near the nation's capital! have in your congregation any young possible.

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SKILTON works all things, including our present sorrow, after the counsel of his will sheep have gone astray; we have tutions and denominations as well? for his own glory and for the good turned every one to his own way; and Did he not have an exemplary zeal, of those who love him and who are the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity so greatly needed in our times, for the the called according to his purpose of us all" (Isaiah 53:4-6). whole counsel of God and for the in (Eph. 1:11; Rom. 8:28). We would also not forget in our errant, infallible holy Scriptures? Our grieving hearts do not ask for suffering that our Saviour fulfilled for Did he not commend his doctrine any poet to justify the ways of God his sheep all the requirements of the with a godly life which endeared him to man. As our loved one knew and law of God and earned eternal life to his family and to his countless now knows, our great God and Saviour for them. friends? Despite the incessant de does all things well. His unfailing He died that we might be forgiv'n, mands on him to perform large and love can warm our hearts in life and He died to make us good, prominent tasks, he always seemed to in the solemn hour of death. That we might go at last to heav'n, find the time to come to the side of Saved by his precious blood. his friends in their less conspicuous Indeed, especially in our anguish There was no other good enough and distress, we would not for an in To pay the price of sin; and humbler needs. He was present stant becloud the love and the power He only could unlock the gate to weep with them when they wept of our merciful Saviour and the full Of heav'n, and let us in. and to rejoice with them when they perfection of him whose kingdom .In the time of our affliction we rejoiced. Yes, we may wonder why ruleth over all (Psalm 103:19). We would not obscure by any doubts or our Lord has called him now - now have but One to whom to turn: we questionings the glorious truth which at the height of his usefulness, in a have One who provides unfailing our Lord taught us when he said: "I day when he seemed to be especially comfort in life and in death. We am the resurrection, and the life: he needed by so many. would not in our grief fail to magnify that believeth in me, though he were With the Lord the gospel of grace which is the power dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever But if such questions arise and if of God unto salvation to every one liveth and believeth in me shall never we cannot, because of our limitations, that believeth (Rom. 1: 16). die" (John 11 :25-26). provide detailed answers to them, we We would not forget that we all Although we mourn, we do not know that our Lord does not rule have sinned and that we come short mourn as those without hope; but we over his people in any capricious way. constantly of the glory of God (Rom. would rejoice in the saving love and "Precious in the sight of the Lord 3:23); that we merit in ourselves empowering presence of the Lamb is the death of his saints" (Psalm nothing but the wrath and curse of who was slain and who is worthy "to 116: 15). He does not call them until God, misery in this life, and the pains receive power, and riches, and wis their appointed time. Their departure of eternal punishment. We would not dom, and strength, and honour, and from this life of labor and witnessing forget that we were unable to save glory, and blessing" (Rev. 5: 12) . is highly valued in his sight. And ourselves from our sins, that nothing when our Lord calls them at the time which we could offer, no works which *** which he wisely chooses, they fall we could perform, could satisfy the espite our comforting Christian asleep in him and through him. Truly, justice of God for our guilt. D faith, however, we may be blessed are the dead who die in the The Gospel's Comfort tempted to wonder why our Saviour Lord, who rest from their labors and We would rejoice in the good news has seen fit to call from us at this whose works do follow them (Rev. that the eternal Son of God, the sec time one whom we so greatly need 14:13). For them to be absent from ond person of the Trinity, came to and love and one whose life was so the body is to be present with the this world, took to himself a true hu interwoven with our own that it seems Lord - to die is gain for them (Phil. man nature, yet without sin, and suf as if a vital part of us has gone with 1:21-23; II Cor. 5:8). fered and died in the place of his him. Was not our loved one at the Of late our loved one had felt people to save them from their sins. height of his powers, mature in schol unusually tired. And the few who We would glory in the cross of him arship, with a testimony which was knew about it may have expected him who was "despised and rejected of respected and influential around. the soon to regain his strength and con men, a man of sorrows and acquainted world? Was he not unusually gifted tinue to do the work and bear the with grief." to speak to all sorts and conditions of burdens of two or three men. But this "Surely he hath borne our griefs, men today ? Were not his gifts sought time our Lord graciously called him and carried our sorrows: yet we did after not only in his own seminary from his arduous labors and into his esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and denomination, but in other insti- promised rest. and afflicted. But he was wounded for To Him, to the Father, and to the our transgressions, he was bruised for Holy Spirit, our help and our hope in our iniquities: the chastisement of our Professor Skilton gave this message life and in death, be glory and ma peace was upon him; and with his at the [uneral service for his friend jesty, dominion and power, both now stripes we are healed. All we like and colleague, Dr. Young. and ever. Amen.

February, 1968 15 ometime ago there appeared a car S toon in a religious magazine. One Can we trust our Bible? glance was sufficient to show that it was a unique cartoon. Its purpose was EDWARD J. YOUNG not to produce a smile but to convey a truth. An elderly man and his wife To say the least, these are not com In the first place he asserts that were shown seated at a table reading forting assertions. If the Bible is like all Scripture is "inspired of God." the Bible. Underneath were the words every other book, in that it is merely Paul, of course, wrote in Greek, and which the wife spoke to her husband: a human production, it follows that the Greek word which he uses at this "Read it again, where it says, 'I am there is no point in turning to the point is tbeopneustos. The rendering the resurrection and the life.' " Bible to hear the voice of the living "inspired of God" is an unhappy one, An elderly couple, knowing that God. And if the Bible is trustworthy for inspiration is the breathing into their time upon this earth would not only in matters of faith and life but something, and that is not what the last much longer, were finding com not in historical points, then the ques Greek word here means. A much bet fort in the words of Christ. They were tion immediately arises, "Who is to ter and more accurate rendering is facing the future, looking even beyond decide what is a matter of faith and "God-breathed." When Paul asserts the grave with hope, for they were life?" that all Scripture is God-breathed, placing all their confidence in the Furthermore, even a cursory read what he means is that all Scripture truthfulness of what Jesus Christ had ing of the Bible makes it clear that was spoken by God. To put it simply, spoken. Christianity is an historical religion, all Scripture is God's Word. Can the Bible be trusted today? based upon what God has done here God-breathed Did Jesus Christ really speak the upon this earth in history. If, there words which brought such consolation There are passages elsewhere in the fore, we begin to assert that the Bible Bible which say the same thing. For to this elderly couple? And, if he is not completely trustworthy in his did speak those words, how do we example, we read phrases such as torical matters, it is pertinent to ask "And God said," "And God spake know they are trustworthy? How do where this trustworthiness begins and all these words, saying," "The mouth we know that the accounts of Christ where it ends. of the Lord hath spoken it." These in the Bible have been accurately The resurrection of Christ, for ex all attest the great fact that the Scrip transmitted to us? Has not modern ample, is an historical fact. There are ture is the product of the divine science and scholarship generally some, however, who think that we can breath. shown that the old-fashioned view of have Christianity without the physical, God as Creator of the world is one This emphasis, we may note, is bodily resurrection of the Lord. Are quite contrary to that of men today. that can no longer be held by think they correct when they tell us that a ing people? Is not the Bible filled Today men speak about the human scientifically-trained mind cannot ac side of the Bible but say comparatively with unscientific statements? cept the doctrine of the resurrection? Questions such as these are con little about its divine origin. And What is to be the position of the when they do speak of the divine stantly being raised, and they have every-day Bible-believing Christian as had a share in creating doubt and origin, they very often do so dis to these many questions constantly paragingly, suggesting that the Bible uncertainty in the minds of men. being raised? There are some who flatly assert did not drop down from heaven. that the Bible is nothing more than What the Bible Claims Paul, however, thought that the a human book, subject to the limita One thing is clear. If we are to important thing for Timothy to know tions that accompany everything hu be earnest Christians we cannot ignore was that the Scriptures are from God, man, and that the traditional view of them. We can give to every one that for when he declares that they are the Bible as the infallible Word of asks us a reason for the hope that is "God-breathed," he is asserting their God simply must be abandoned. There within us (see I Pet. 3:15). And we divine origin about as clearly as can are others today who tell us that the may turn to the Bible to learn what be done. Bible is the Word of God, but they claims it makes for itself. One need What a strange statement this ut go on to assert that we cannot trust not search far in the Scriptures to dis terance of Paul's is! He says not a all of its statements. When it speaks cover the claim that they make as to word about the human writers of the of spiritual matters, they assure us, their nature and origin, but we shall Bible nor about the situation in which we may trust it, but we cannot expect confine ourselves to the consideration the writings came into existence. Nor to find scientific accuracy in matters of just two passages. does he concern himself about the of detail. In the realm of faith and In writing to Timothy, Paul makes types of literature and writing that are practice, the Bible, we are told, is a two assertions about the Scriptures (II found in the Scriptures. His one con trustworthy guide, but in questions of Tim. 3:16). He speaks of all Scripture cern is that Timothy should know that history, geography and the like, it as being inspired and profitable. Schol the Scriptures are of divine origin; contains its share of errors. ars have discussed the meaning of this they are God-breathed. text, and while there are differences In the second place, Paul declares of opinion and much has been writ that the Scriptures are profitable. This This article, reprinted by the kind ten on the subject, nevertheless, we also is an emphasis not heard often permission of Moody Monthly, is a may say that Paul is talking about all today. Paul does not tell us that only [ine example both of Dr. Yormg's Scripture and makes two predicates certain Scriptures are profitable, nor style and of his view of Scripture. about all Scripture. that only those parts of the Bible that

16 The Presbyterian Guardian are immediately connected with the being borne along by the Holy Spirit. The writers of the Bible were super plan of salvation are profitable. In The figure is striking, for it suggests intended by the Holy Spirit so that stead, Paul declares that all Scripture that the human writers of the Bible they wrote precisely what he desired is profitable. were actually being carried by the Holy them to write . .. the resultant product was the written Word of God. Profitable Spirit as they wrote. This, of course, implies that they were completely sub We may indeed be thankful that ject to him. We may accurately bring he has so spoken, for we are tempted out the force of the passage if we to pick and choose in the Bible. Nat Spirit of God, nevertheless, wrote the say that the writers of the Bible were passages of Scripture attributed to urally some parts appeal to us more superintended by the Holy Spirit so than others, and we are likely to con them. The Bible therefore is the that they wrote precisely what he de centrate upon those parts. We have Word of God given to us through sired them to write. our favorite passages, and the result the media of human writers. too often is that we allow large por In the light of these two passages If, however, the Bible is the Word tions of the Bible to be neglected. we may assert that the Scriptures are of God, then it follows that all that But this is wrong. We neglect the the very Word of God and that they God has spoken is trustworthy. We Bible at our own loss. were written down by holy men of do a man a grave injustice if, when What Paul says is that all of Scrip God's choosing who were superin he speaks the truth, we refuse to be ture is profitable. If we heed his tended by the Holy Spirit as they lieve his words. We do God a grave words we shall read all of Scripture, wrote, so that the resultant product injustice if we refuse to believe his and the strange thing is that, as we was the written Word of God. words. It follows as the night the day do this, we make the discovery that In the view of Scripture which we that if God has spoken a word, that Paul is right. At first sight it may have just presented there is a mystery. word must be true. To assert other not appear to us that some portions The thinking person will ask how it wise is to fall into the grossest kind of the Bible are of particular signifi is possible for the Bible to originate of idolatry; it is to exalt the opinion cance and relevance, but the more we with God, and yet for men to write of the creature above the truth of the read the Bible, the more we realize down the Scripture, unless these men Creator. that all of it, without exception, is for were mere secretaries who worked in For this reason we speak of the in our learning and admonition. a mechanical fashion as they wrote fallibility and inerrancy of the Scrip As a companion to the passage in what was dictated to them. Indeed, tures, and in so doing we are taking Timothy we may consider briefly thre are those who claim that we who a Biblical position. If the Bible is Peter's words in which he tells us accept the Bible do believe in a "dic God' s Word, so the church has rea about the human writers of the Bible tation" theory of inspiration. But the soned, what it teaches must be the (II Pet. 1:21). Peter speaks of the Bible itself makes it clear that the truth and we must believe that truth. prophetic aspect of the Bible and tells human writers whom God chose were The Bible cannot deceive us. Thus, us that it came not by the will of not treated as so many typewriters. men speak of the infallibility of the man. This is a clear-cut rejection of Bible. This simply means that the the idea of a merely human origina Responsible Human Writers Bible does not deceive. Whatever tion of the Scriptures. There are times In the writing of the Bible, God the Bible teaches is to be believed when one must be negative in order used their own personalities and char because the Bible teaches the truth; that the positive truth may more acteristics, so that in a very real sense it is infallible in all that it says. This clearly be understood. different portions of the Bible may means that no matter what the Bible Although the Bible is not of human be attributed to them. The style of says, we may believe it and not be origination, nevertheless, so Peter ar Paul is certainly unique, as is that deceived. gues, it was written by holy men of of John. These men were not mere If the Bible teaches that Adam was old, and these holy men wrote not on robots, but living responsible writers, created by God (Gen. 2:7), we may their own authority but as they were who, although superintended by the accept that fact with the assurance that we are accepting the truth. If the Bible teaches that Moses wrote (Mark 12:26; John 5:46, 47), we may as suredly believe that fact; if the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ rose from the dead (John 20), we may believe that truth and not fear that we shall later have to abandon it. The Bible IS In fallible. Infallible and Inerrant The Bible is also inerrant. This means that whatever the Scriptures say they tell the truth, and their state ments are to be trusted. When they tell us that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin (I Pet. 1:19), we may rest assured that this is true

February, 1968 17 and that later investigations of men became a rnrruster in the Orthodox will not prove the contrary. When the Presbyterian Church in 1936. Active Bible speaks of Tirhakah in connec in the local church, the presbytery and tion with Sennacherib (II Kings the general assembly, in 1956 he 19:9), we may likewise be sure that served as moderator of the latter body it is speaking the truth and that, even and for many years was a member of though we today may not know as its Committee on Christian Education, much about Tirhakah as we might for which he wrote a number of wish, what the Scripture says about tracts. He was serving on its advisory this ancient king is in strict accord committee at the time of his death. with the fact. An amateur cellist - for several years likewise, when the Bible says that he belonged to the Old York Road God spoke, "let there be light" (Gen. Symphony Orchestra - and a student 1:3), we need not fear that science of hymnody, Dr. Young labored for will some day make the discovery that the fifteen years of its existence as this assertion is not true. We simply a member of the committee which pro accept what the Bible says because the duced Trinity Hymnal in 1961. Bible is the Word of God. After graduating from Stanford It has not been our purpose to dis (A.B. in 1929) he studied in Madrid cuss difficulties involved in certain de and in the Newman School of Mis tails of the Bible itself. That there are sions in Jerusalem. Receiving both his difficulties no thinking person would Th.B. and Th.M. from Westminster deny. But these difficulties seem al EDWARD J. YOUNG Seminary in 1935, he studied for a most trifling when compared with year at the University of leipzig be fore joining the seminary's Old Testa those that are inherent in any other Minnesota, at Toronto Baptist Semi ment department in 1936. In 1943 he position than that the Bible is God's nary (a week of studies on "The Au obtained the Ph.D. degree from Word. thority of Scripture" is now appearing Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cog The Christian may place his con in the Gospel Witness) and at l'Abri nate learning, Philadelphia. fidence in the words of the Bible and Fellowship in Switzerland. Former stu he need not be dismayed by the many dents of his are teaching on three Professor and Lecturer attacks that are being made today upon continents. Besides his lectures and other en it. If the Bible is the Word of God gagements on four continents, Dr. and because of the inward testimony Author of a dozen books, Dr. Young had very recently completed Young was on occasion a guest pro of the Holy Spirit the Christian is fessor at the Winona lake Summer compelled to believe that it is - then the manuscript of the third and final volume of his Commentary on Isaiah. School of Theology and twice par it follows that the Bible is infallible ticipated in that school's Flying Semi and inerrant and that we may repose Among his other works are The Prophecy of Daniel, Introduction to nar to the Bible lands. He was a our confidence not merely in some, member of the American Oriental So but in all of its wondrous declarations. the Old Testament, Arabic for Begin ners, My Servants the Prophets, Who ciety, the Evangelical Theological So For it is truly the holy Scripture which ciety and the Society of Biblical liter is able to make one wise unto salva Wrote Isaiah? and Thy Word Is Truth. ature and Exegesis. tion through faith which is in Christ Professor Young's courses at West Jesus. He was editor of The Westminster minster Seminary for this year are Theological Journal and of The New being completed by Dr. John Zinkand, International Commentary on the Old associate professor of Old Testament, EDWARD JOSEPH YOUNG Testament, Two recent paperbacks and Mr. Thomas Nicholas, doctoral showed his ability to combine exegeti candidate at Dropsie College. rofessor Edward J. Young, Ph.D., cal with devotional studies: Psalm 139 Dr. Young is survived by his wife, P a member of the Old Testament and Genesis 3. lillian; a son, Davis, a candidate for department in Westminster Theologi He was second to none in his re his doctorate in geology at Brown cal Seminary since 1936, suffered a search in depth of the Scriptures, with University; a daughter, Jean (Mrs. heart attack just as he arrived home a reading knowledge of thirty or more Richard Gaffin, Jr.) and three Gaffin from the day's work on February 14. languages, ancient and modern. Writ grandchildren; and a brother in Cali Death came quietly within minutes as ing articles for various journals year fornia. he was taken to the hospital, and a after year, Dr. Young did not neglect Funeral services took place in Cal loyal servant passed into the presence the ordinary reader in his conscien vary Church of Glenside with a host of the Savior to whom he had de tious effort to explain Biblical truth of friends present from far and near. voted a life of unswerving toil. and its relevance as the Word of God. Pastor Henry Coray and Professor Dr. Young was known and re A willing listener and counsellor, he John Skilton, whose message appears spected around the world as a faithful was esteemed as a friend by pupils, elsewhere in this issue, participated. interpreter of the infallible and iner colleagues and many others. Interment was in George Washington rant Word of God. Among other Ordained to the ministry in San Memorial Park. Dr. Young had places, within the past year he had Francisco in 1935 by the Presbyterian reached his sixtieth birthday on No lectured at a lutheran conference in Church in the U. S. A., Dr. Young vember 29, 1967.

18 The Presbyterian Guardian Faithful in attendance at meetings it to say that he has left a mark in of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, for the evangelical and reformed world many years he gave particular attention that will not be easily approached. The to the young people's work. One of twentieth century church stands much the last pleas he made, at the January in his debt. meeting, was for greater promotion of In all that we say we would give the Machen League activities through all the glory to God, as did our quiet out the church. As a long-time mem and modest friend, for he never failed EDITOR ber of his denomination's Committee to acknowledge the source of his on Christian Education he saw the knowledge and gifts. A lifetime of ROBERT E. NICHOLAS importance of the over-all need for study and interpretation of the in printed materials, from evangelistic spired and inerrant Word of his tracts to a Sunday school curriculum. heavenly Father was his witness to the ..I All correspondence should be ad ! dressed to The Presbyterian Guardian, He was one of the members of the reality and depth of a faith that 7401 Old York Road, Phila., Pa. 19126 hard-working committee that produced trusted alone in the blessed Savior of the church's Trinity Hymnal. sinners offered to us in the gospel. Convinced of the cause of the Our sympathy is extended to his Orthodox Presbyterian Church, he loved ones in their loss. Westminster Faithful Steward fought liberalism-by whatever name Seminary, the Orthodox Presbyterian "And Enoch walked with God: and -with a cutting sword, but without Church, and many friends will miss he was not, for God took him." any personal animosity or anything but him. But we bow, as he always did, o it was with Edward Joseph sadness over the deplorable situation in submission to the will of the merci in the ecclesiastical world that re s Young, whom it pleased God to ful God of heaven and earth, and we take suddenly from this life in the late quired such a joining of battle for rejoice in the hope of the resurrection. the sake of the truth. So far as he was afternoon of February 14, 1968. One -R.E.N. day he was here with us in the vigor concerned, the Reformed Faith or of his yeoman service of the Lord; Calvinism was simply the system set forth in Scripture. He found its most and the next, we were trying to adjust to the realization that our beloved eloquent and consistent expression in EDITOR'S MAil BOX friend "was not" - for God had the Westminster Confession and saw no reason to compromise with any called him unto himself, granting him DEAR SIR: thing less Biblical. a much needed rest from his toil. Psalm 11 :3: If the foundations be Dr. Young was first of all a humble Defender of the Faith destroyed, what can the righteous do? servant of the Lord his God, walking One of Dr. Young's final efforts, with him in faith day by day, devoted in the week prior to his death, was nother, and certainly more arrest to his helpmeet, his children and to testify at some length at a civil A ing, paraphrase of that verse is: grandchildren. He was present morn court trial in Seattle in behalf of a "When the foundations were being ing and evening and at midweek congregation that had renounced the destroyed, what were the righteous prayer in the house of the Lord, and United Presbyterian Church in opposi doing?" Can anyone question that the on the final Sabbath of his earthly tion to the Confession of 1967. He foundation of the moral order in life he saw his six-week-old grand defended their contention that this America - which, in turn, is the daughter baptized. He loved the church confessional change is so substantial foundation of law and government where he worshipped, visiting its as to amount to a forsaking of true is being fiercely attacked and danger members at home or in the hospital Presbyterianism, and that they there ously shaken today? when illness came. A sympathetic lis fore had every right to retain their The Bible deals with individuals tener to many who sought his coun property when they left their former their duties, sins, sorrows, judgments, sel, he was regarded by all, including denomination in order to maintain and hopes. But it also deals with na his students, as a friend in the bonds their Christian integrity and witness. tions. The mission and destiny of one of that precious fellowship which is We have not forgotten Professor particular nation is a chief theme of ours in Jesus Christ. Young as a scholar of Scripture's deep Scripture; but much is said also of the A zealous minister of the gospel, treasure. This part of his career as rise and fall of contemporary nations. Dr. Young found delight in preaching professor of Old Testament and fa The most obvious fact of history is the Word. This he did with careful culty member in Westminster Theo that nations rise and fall and disap j attention to its exegesis. He spoke with logical Seminary since 1936 is so well pear. The Bible makes plain to us the warmth and power-the power of the known and recognized, however, that reason for the fall of empires. There authority of "Thus saith the Lord." we mention it last only because his is a moral law at work among nations His concern for his hearers was seen ministry of friendship and preaching for nations are made of men. "What in the simplicity with which he sought and labor as presbyter may not be so soever a man soweth, that shall he also to make plain just what the Bible widely appreciated. President Clowney reap"; and whatsoever a nation sow taught and how it was to be applied wrote fittingly of "the commentary of eth, that also shall it reap. in his listeners' lives. Salvation by his life for Christ." In its annual report on U.S. crime, grace through the cleansing blood of Elsewhere in these pages is an ac the F.B.I. reported that the nation's God's dear Son was at the core of his count of his scholarly contributions as crime rate rocketed 48 percent in the message. a teacher, lecturer, and writer. Suffice past six years, with violent crime soar-

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J ing 11 percent last year alone. Since ism which has discarded the Scriptures The Rev. Gordon D. Mouw, 3 1960, while the nation grew nine per as the very Word of God and has de Jamaica Way, Trenton, N. J. OS610. cent, the volume of crime rose 62 cided to get involved." percent. Unfortunately, many liberal churches The Rev. Daniel H. Overduin, 513 The American home is still the basis have abandoned the Word of God and Ave. G, Apt. E, Redondo Beach, Calif. of our social order, and the nation have made social pronouncements be 90277 (ordained by Presbytery of will never be any stronger than its yond the Biblical realm. But evangel Southern California as associate pastor homes. The rising youth problem in ical Christians fail to learn and merely for chapel in W. Torrance). crime stems directly from the home. discard the issues as "liberal." Why There is no character-building agency must we always be on the defensive, that can take the place of a good critical of those who "are getting in home. volved," ignoring the issues and the The tragedy of crime in America world around us? also has a direct connection with the Instead of wasting our time on COVENANT decline in true religion. There is a nec meaningless shortsighted criticism let essary connection between crime and us be concerned with the perfection the decline of faith and religious prac of our own witness. Where is the COLLEGE tice. When men do not know God desperately needed Christian dialogue or his justice, they do not respect his on economics, on foreign policy, on laws. The way to make America safe civil rights? The tragedy of Christian 15 NOT from crime, the way to make her answers for directly Christian issues people moral, is to return to the reli and secular answers for everyday gion of the Bible. problems demands correction. We BiS. The moral law which runs through should be ashamed to see liberals history applies to the U.S. as well as closer to a Christian dialogue than we Old. to other nations. Why did other na are. tions die? The best answer is the It is the responsibility of every Word of God spoken of Nineveh: "I Christian citizen to get involved in a Impersonal. will dig thy grave because thou art Christian way. Now it is certainly not vile." Babylon fell while her king the role of the church to make direct Secular. Belshazzar and his nobles were in the pronouncements on social issues. It is midst of a drunken debauch. Then it the role of the church to teach its Ten or Ivy. was that the king saw the handwriting members how to deal with these is BiS on the wall: "Thou art weighed in sues at the principle-level. Nearly all the balances and found wanting." The these matters can be reduced to ethical At sea level. moral law first weighs, and then questions. The Bible deals with these judges and destroys. very clearly. Perhaps the church will A men's school. "Wherever the carcass is," said not give us the answer on the Vietnam Christ, "there will the eagles be gath war, but it must prepare us to deal ered together." And whenever a na with this conflict in a Christian way. A women's school. tion is sufficiently ripe for divine I have to answer for my involve judgment, then appear the eagles of ment in the Vietnam war before the StuffY. judgment and destruction. The foun Lord Jesus Christ - as do we all. dations are being destroyed. What will Will the church assist us in formulat the righteous do? ing a Christian answer? An NCAA champ. Let us arise and build the walls of Sincerely yours, Jerusalem and call upon the name of JOHN A. INGWERSEN Irrelevant. the Lord. "Be watchful and strengthen Manchester, Mass. the things which remain, that are But if you are looking for a vitally ready to die" (Rev. 3:2). Christian education of excellence in the Very truly yours, liberal arts, with a faculty of 25 leading WILLIAM BOLEYN New Addresses a cooed student body of a few more Dubuque, Iowa The Rev. Larry D. Conard, 1447 than 300 in an exciting exploration of Locust St., Denver, Colo. S0220 (pas 8 major disciplines on a mountain-top DEAR SIR: tor-elect of Park Hill Church, to be campus - if you are looking for a col was very disturbed after reading the ordained in March by Presbytery of lege like that, and then if you don't I letter of Mr. Churchill to the the Dakotas). write for our catalog and brochure, we'll President (December issue). My con The Rev. George E. Haney, Ws6 tell you sornethinq you're not. cern is both with its immediate con Wl7295 Joss Place, Menomonee Falls, Thorough. tent and, more important, the general Wise. 53051. trend of evangelical Christians today The Rev. Hendrik Krabbendarn, as implicated in the letter. This trend 167 Acalanes, Apt. 15, Sunnyvale, COUENANT COLLEGE is most clearly illustrated by the Calif. 940s6 (received by the Presby Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 37350 method of attack on "churchly liberal- tery of the West Coast).

20 The Presbyterian Guardian God created man, and concurrently he interpreted man to himself. He set Guidance man in an environment which spoke Christian naturally asks about the At the heart of the religion of the of God in its every part. Although A guidance of God through the Bible is this personal relationship of God spoke with man in words, his Holy Spirit. That is not only because fellowship and communion of man, guidance was also present in the re he must at every moment be conscious the covenant head of creation, with the sponse that man gave to the revelation within himself and in his environment of his entire dependence upon his sovereign Creator God. Creator, but the Creator himself brings Even the Old Covenant at its heart as his powers of judgment matured. the true believer, who is his child, was a covenant of grace. Its promise God guides by his Word. He also into situations where he is forcefully was that man, in spite of his dread guides by the refinement of the judg reminded of his own insufficiency and ful fall into sin, will again be the ment, the wisdom, which man de • of his complete dependence upon di child of God. It is the inner, spiritual velops in his involvement with that If we speak of guidance, there vine providence and grace. character of the covenant in the Old Word. fore, we may not restrict its meaning. At times of great decision when he Testament that in all its provisions it God guides us with his Word. He is faced, for example, with the de points to the reestablishment of the cisions of marriage or the choice of a deepest religious bond and fellowship also guides us in the use of our powers of judgment and discernment which profession or when he is placed in between man and God (Gen. 17: 7) . grave situations, the believer would be It was this fellowship of the deepest come with the increase of wisdom. callous and indifferent to his calling personal character that pervaded all GUIDANCE THROUGH THE WORD as a Christian if he were not to ask divine-human relationships. Even the f basic importance for our under about the guidance of God, whose eye laws of God could not be thought of standing of God's use of his writ runs to and fro over the entire earth, as being simply outward and formal. O ten Word is the fact that it is his to whom nothing is hid, and who has They were at bottom the expression sufficient revelation of his will to us. promised to uphold and to direct all of God's sovereign will as he disclosed As the Westminster Confession sum those who trust in him. It is he who to man the way of fellowship with marizes the matter, "the whole coun has promised to guide his church into him (Ex. 19:5,6). His Word touches all truth. He will certainly not remain the deepest level of human existence sel of God, concerning all things nec aloof from his own in their need. and calls to personal fellowship of the essary for his own glory, man's sal Fundamental Principles most intimate nature. vation, faith, and life, is either ex pressly set down in Scripture, or by The Scriptures teach that man was Man is, therefore, always dependent created in the image of God. Among upon the guidance of God. The Chris good and necessary consequence may other things this means that we cannot tian must sense that in every one of be deduced from Scripture." first start with man and then consider his .acts and even in his deepest self Sufficiency of Scriptures him in his relationship to God. Rather, he IS completely dependent upon his Consider the comment that Paul at every point man is completely de Creator and Sustainer, in whom he made to Timothy in the second letter p~ndent upon his Creator. Although lives, and moves, and has his being. which he wrote to him (2 Tim. 3:15 hIS acts have real significance, al He is completely dependent upon the 17). After noting the inspiration and though there is in him a personal grace which is offered to him in usefulness of the Scriptures, Paul then identity, he was nevertheless from the Jesus Christ. goes on to point out the completeness outset completely taken up in his God The Ways of Guidance of the help which they offer to the relationship. Because of the all-pervasiveness of man of God. It is through the teach From his first act of consciousness God's presence in his revelation, the ing, reproof, correction and training he was surrounded by the revelation Christian must look everywhere for of these writings that Timothy may of God. No part of this environment, guidance. Guidance is not restricted to expect to be complete, equipped for whether external or internal, failed this or that act of God; it is not ap every good work. The whole effect of to speak to him of his Creator. Both prehended by this or that faculty in Paul's language here is to impress one what was within and what was out man. All things are ultimately the ex with the fact that the Scriptures fur side spoke to him of the presence of pression of God's counsel. Everything nish the believer with guidance for God. In the original state of man, be is included in his providence. At the every possible good work. When we fore the advent of sin, all of his acts very heart of his existence man is de stop to think that Paul was saying this were performed with the awareness pendent upon this guidance, of which in regard to the Old Testament Scrip that he was moment by moment de he should be aware at every point. tures, can there be any reason to doubt pendent on God and was guided by Nevertheless, it is possible to dis that this is even more true of the him. tinguish between God's guidance in a completed Word of God, containing In this situation his spontaneous more general and in a more particular also the New Testament? reaction was a full and complete obedi way. Consider also the answer that Christ ence, a natural response to the central gave to his tempter in the wilderness. commandment to love God with all This is part 1 of a IIpreliminary re In the situation in which he found his heart. He was involved in a su port on guidance" presented at the himself he was faced with a· decision. premely personal relationship, which 34th OP Assembly by a committee What should he do? His answer is engaged all of his faculties, including which is studying that doctrine. It is that here, too, he will live by the the deepest levels of his powers of printed here as deserving of wider Word of God. This harks back to the discernment. reading. day when Israel was about to enter

February, 1968 21 j their land and Moses told them that the verb Paul uses in verse eighteen. In 1: 1, again we have a combined they must remember that man does He says that they had been catechized. sense of the concept. Paul was ap not live by bread alone, but by every In other words, they had simply heard pointed to be an apostle. God decreed thing that comes from the mouth of the law read in synagogue services and it. He also revealed it to Paul ver God. Careful consideration of this in by hearing memorized. This was the bally (Acts 9: 15). Arndt and Ging cident shows the use that Jesus made way they would know God's will. We rich have summarized this very well in of the Old Testament Scriptures for might comment in this connection that their Greek-English Lexicon (p. 354) guidance in a practical situation. His we today not only have God's com as "what one wishes to bring about principle was that he would go by pleted revelation, but we also have by the activity of others, to whom one what God had written (Mt. 4:4 and it readily available for study and ref assigns a task." The assigning of tasks Dt. 8:3). erence when we need to know God's is done today through the written Focus in Christ will. Word. When we return to 2 Timothy 3: 16, (to be continued) ... When we think of the completed we notice the ways in which the God revelation, the Old and New Testa breathed Word informs us of God's ments, we must look at them in the will. There are four words listed: perspective of Hebrews 1:1,2. The teaching, reproof, correction and train whole process of revelation is sketched ing. The truth is taught. Error is re here for us. It comes to climax and buked, a standard is given for making finality in God's Son, the Heir of all corrections. Training is given to the and the Creator of the age. He has child of God, day by day, in the prac also finished the process of revelation, tice of righteousness. All this is done, for it says that he has spoken in the as we have noted, so that this man of Son. In Jesus Christ, then, as he is God might be equipped to do God's offered to us in the gospel, declared will, i.e., every good work. first by Christ and then by those who At least two of these words imply heard him (Heb. 2:3), we have all a process of learning. The words for the revealed guidance that God has teaching and training also imply con designed to give us. tinued activity on the part of a teacher This guidance is given in written (God) and a learner (the man of form where it may be studied and God). This leads us to speak of the learned, in the words which the Holy necessity of regular systematic Bible Spirit teaches (1 Cor. 2:13). By speak study. Catechesis, teaching, training THE BOSGRAF FAMILY ing of it as revealed guidance we dis all underline the need for diligent tinguish this from the providential sustained effort if one is to know control of God over human lives. This God's will. The Scriptures must he Hanover Park Erects providential leading cannot be per mastered. These words also imply, in ceived before it comes to pass in day deed promise the sustained diligent New Place of Worship to-day events and is not to be con efforts of the Holy Spirit in opening fter meeting in the fieldhouse in sidered as a guide to conduct. our minds to understand the Word. It would seem clear then that to A Ahlstrand Park for five years, the seek for guidance elsewhere, or along "The Will of God" people of Grace Chapel in Hanover side of the Scriptures, would be to The Scriptures use the phrase "the Park, Illinois are now holding services fail to heed the Scriptures themselves will of God" in more than one way. in their own building on Barrington as the sufficient guide to God's will. Theologians often distinguish the will Road, a major thoroughfare. The men For instance, to seek it in signs or of God as his decrees by which he of the congregation did the work other forms of special guidance would makes everything come to pass, from themselves under the able direction of be to regress in the perspective of the revelation of his desires and com Mr. H. Wickland, a member and Sun God's developing revelation from the mands which forms the precepts by day school teacher at the chapel. Plans day of his final revelation in Christ which men are to live. Thus we may were drawn by a member of Bethel to the time of the "many and various speak of the decretive and preceptive Church of Wheaton. ways God spoke of old to our fathers will of God. When we note the use The chapel work began in 1962 by the prophets." of the phrase in the letter to the under the auspices of the session of Colossians we can see this. The matter Bethel Church, whose pastor is the .. Study of the Word is mentioned in 1:1; 1:9 and 4:12. Rev. Francis Breisch, and five families As the sufficient guide the Bible In the latter two instances, there is in Hanover Park soon became inter tells us what God's will is, or what prayer that the Christians might know ested. Mr. Donald Duff assisted in we are to do to please him. Paul, and perform the will of God. This the early and sometimes discouraging in writing to the saints in Rome, primarily has to do with the precepts days and the faithful nucleus persisted speaks of knowing God's will through of God, revealed in his Word. Con in carrying on with the encouragement the instruction (catechesis) of the Law formity to the preceptive will, of of the Home Missions Committee of (2 :18). This Law is the embodiment course, leads to the purpose of God the Presbytery of Wisconsin. Pastor of of knowledge and truth (v. 20). It being fulfilled, namely conformity to the Grace Chapel flock is the Rev. is interesting to reflect upon the Christ for the redeemed (Romans James L. Bosgraf. method of learning that is implied in 8:28). Young people from the Oostburg 22 The Presbyterian Guardian 1

and Cedar Grove churches have as GRACE CHAPEL VOLUNTEERS AT WORK sisted in Hanover Park in recent sum The photos were taken last fall during construction of an mers with Vacation Bible School and addition to the parsonage at 6951 Hanover Street, at Bar enrollments have exceeded 200. Regu rington Road. The large room, where the garage used to be, will seat 80 people for Grace Chapel services. A white steeple lar attendance in the six classes of the will call attention to the building as a place where the gospel Sunday school runs in the fifties and is proclaimed. Volunteers put in many days of work in tes new families are being reached in this timony to their determination to establish a witness for Jesus way. It is hoped that the more satis Christ in Hanover Park. factory place of meeting, which in cludes space in the lower level of the adjoining parsonage, will help to at here and there in the orthodox tract visitors. Born in Chicago, Mr. Bosgraf grew presbyterian church up in Wheaton, where he attended is hoped that ministers and elders of La Mirada, Calif. - A new ap college. After graduating from Gordon the two churches may come to know proach to missions in the Sunday Divinity School he accepted the call and understand each other better school was introduced in Calvary of Bethel Church to work in Hanover through these three days together. Church with the new year. Instead of Park and took up the task in the fall On Thursday, May 9 all ministers a monthly missionary Sunday pro of 1966. He was ordained in March and elders are invited to another joint gram, missions will be presented in 1967. His wife, Judy, a native New conference arranged by the Committee the nine classes from 4th grade Englander, is a nurse. The Bosgrafs on Ecurnenicity "to discuss the Biblical through adult once every month. Gear have two children: Kimberly Anne, a principles concerning issues which ing their teaching to each age level, year and a half old, and Scott Alan, have been historical differences be selected "missions teachers" will make two months old when the picture was tween the RP/ES or its antecedents taken. a ten-minute presentation at the be and the OPC" ginning or end of the class period. All the fields will be covered in each Pre - Assembly Conferences Portland, Ore. - First Church was class, and specific prayer requests scheduled to be host to the March given for the month. An occasional in Willow Grove meeting of the Presbytery of the West missions quiz in the opening period Coast. This may be the final meeting keeps the pupils on their "listening n fulfillment of plans made at ears." last year's Assembly a conference of the Presbytery as presently consti I Four carloads from Calvary Church on missions, church extension, and tuted, according to the "Tidings," since a petition to divide the Presby welcomed the Hunts from Korea as Christian education has been planned they arrived at the Los Angeles Air for May 10, 11, and 13 prior to the tery is coming to the General As sembly. port. Banners waved, people cheered, 35th OPC General Assembly which and cameras snapped to give the Hunts begins on the 14th. The conference, Westfield, N. J. - Grace Church "their greatest welcome in 40 years"! people are busy with preparations for which is jointly sponsored by the OPC Hors d'oeuvres were served later at and the Reformed Presbyterian Church, the 35th General Assembly, according the home of Pastor and Mrs. Eugene Evangelical Synod, will convene at to Mrs. F. J. Griffin, registration Saltzen while everyone got acquainted, chairman. Business sessions begin Calvary RP Church of Willow Grove, according to the "La Mirada Herald." Pa. The Assembly is in Westfield, Tuesday morning, May 14, preceded New Jersey. by a public worship service on Mon Glenside, Pa, - Sterling Hard has The purpose is to provide the agen day evening under the direction of the recuperated from his injuries and re cies of the two denominations with the Session. Pastor Robert Atwell and the turned to active service in Vietnam. opportunity of setting forth their goals Session are the Committee on Arrange Mrs. Mildred Kuschke reports im in the light of Biblical principles. It ments appointed at the 1967 Assembly. proved health in Palm Springs, Calif. February, 1968 23

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where she met the Norman Colemans works in the snack bar, takes care of ning 10 mid-January. Eight carloads of Bend at services of the Presbyterian the chapel, serves as treasurer and be with 45 victors made the trip from congregation which recently voted to longs to its fishing club! Only one Lincoln and were welcomed by 43 withdraw from the UPUSA Church other member of the church is older, losers in Omaha and Superintendent under the ministry of Dr. James Black Mr. William Holle, age 92. Hair. Devotions, musical saw solos by stone. Mr. Karasek, chalk talks by Miss The Calvary Church's men's prayer Hacienda Heights, Calif.- Schackneis, games and refreshments, third Saturday of the month is a men's breakfast on the first Saturday of each all "helped to draw the three Sunday work breakfast starting with sausage, month has had an attendance of 15 schools together in closer OPC con pancakes, eggs and coffee (served free to 20. Pastor Henry Coray is the newly sciousness." at 8 a.m.). After a devotional time elected president of the Westminster work projects are assigned and carried Alumni Association. Greenville, Mich. - The nearby out "amid good-natured raillery and Spencer Mills (or is it Spencer's Silver Spring, Md. - Mrs. Elma fine Christian fellowship," according Mill?) Church was formally welcomed McClintock Moran, a charter member to a report in "Highlights." Pastor on January 21 as the first congregation of Knox Church from its beginnings Wilson Albright's son, Cpl. Robert, of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in downtown Washington, was taken with the military police in Korea, has in Michigan. The Rev. George Mar to be with the Lord on December 22. received two $25 savings bonds as ston acted on behalf of the Presbytery "soldier of the month." Troy, Alabama - On January 13 of Wisconsin. For a year and a half Winifred Armour Clelland went home Kirkwood, Pa. - The Rev. Lester the work has been under the over to be with her Lord after many years Bachman has resigned from his pas sight of the Presbytery's Church Ex of illness and patient suffering. Un torate of more than ten years, effec tension Committee consisting of the able to walk since September, she had tive June 15, and the congregation has Rev. Messrs. Fikkert and Stanton to been confined to her bed the last two concurred in his request to Presbytery. gether with Elder Ralph Voskuil, who months. She was the wife of the Rev. Mr. Bachman is secretary-treasurer of is treasurer of the committee. John Clelland, charter minister and the denominational Committee on At the same service Mr. Marston long-time pastor of Orthodox Presby General Benevolence. ordained and installed as elders terian churches in Wilmington, Dela Seattle, Wash. - Pastor D. R. Messrs. Clarence J. Worst, Chester E. ware and Valdosta, Georgia. The Rev. Lindberg has noted difficulty people Hunter, and Calvin K. Cummings, Jr. Messrs. Donald Graham, Adrian De have had in locating the church since Prayers are requested throughout the Young and LeRoy Oliver took part they do not have a business phone. church for this new congregation and in the funeral service. Puget Sound Church meets at 28th their need of a pastor. Carson, No. Dak, - After exami Ave. S.W. and S.W. Holden St. in Seattle. Mr. Lindberg lives at 7820 Gladstone, Ore. - As this branch nation by the Presbytery of the Da mission of First Church, Portland N.E. 195th, Bothell (phone HUnter kotas the Rev. Jack Peterson was in nears its first year of regular services, stalled on February 8 as pastor of the 6-7920) . Elder Delong may be reached at WEst 5-7649. The church would it is encouraged by increasing attend congregations in Leith, Lark, and Car ance with recent highs in the fifties. son. At the same meeting of the Pres like to have names of persons in the Seattle area on whom they might call. A committee of the Session made up bytery on January 30 in Hamill, So. of Elders Schmurr, Huber, and Rob Dak., licentiate Larry Conard com Bangor, Maine - Pilgrim Church bins is assisting the work. The Rev. pleted his parts of trial for ordina has issued a call to the Rev. Carl Alan Wyatt, supporting himself with tion, planned in conjunction with the Ahlfeldt, who is pastor of Knox a super-market job and also studying spring meeting in Colorado. Mr. Church of Oklahoma City. The for at Western Evangelical Seminary, Conard is pastor-elect of Park Hill mer pastor, the Rev. George Haney, serves as supply pastor. He preaches • Church, Denver. after six years in Bangor is now pastor twice, conducts a communicant course, i Cedar Grove, Wise. - A charter of the new Falls Church, Menomonee and finds time for some pastoral member of Calvary Church, William Falls, Wisc. calling. 1 Damkot, was feted on January 20 Omaha, Nebr. - Pastor Reginald The communicant members (18 as his 90th birthday - at an open house Voorhees graciously reports that the of December) have their membership in the social rooms. Pastor Henry Omaha Sunday school (losers in an in First Church pending the formation Fikkert spoke briefly. Mr. Damkot is autumn attendance contest) enter of a separate congregation. The group an active resident of the Sunny Ridge tained the winners from Faith and is purchasing a two-and-one-half acre Home, where he sings in the choir, Pioneer Sunday schools at a social eve- site on the outskirts of Gladstone.

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