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Publ ished monthly by MID-MAY, 1934 $1.00 A YEAR EVERYWHERE THE PRESBYTE RIAN AND Entered as second-class matter May 11, 193 1, at REFORMED PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Vol. 5 No. 1 the Post Office at Philadelphia, Pa., under the 50 I Witherspoo n Bldg ., Phil a., Pa. Act of March 3, 1879. The Question of the Hour: An Editorial "'----""'ORE than once in the history of nations and the challenge of a temporary emergency, they will be cutting churches, issues in themselves important have sud­ the very spinal cord of missionary and benevolent giving. The denly and dramatically given rise to other issues of Presbyterian Church has behind it a great record as a truly Il such tremendous moment, that the new have come liberal church. By whom was that record made? By slaves to overshadow the old. That is happening now in who toiled at the crack of the taskmaster's whip? No-it was ""~t;\;.(j the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. The issue made by the voluntary, free outpouring of gifts of the plain ~'" concerning Foreign Missions is a great issue-let man and woman-men and women whose hearts were inflamed no mistake be made about that. Yet, it is the with love for Christ and those for whom He died. Nothing less evident intention of the bureaucracy now dorninat­ than this motive will maintain a great volume of gifts over a i~g the machinery of the Church to compel support period of years. And if Christian people do not believe that any of the official Board of Foreign Missions and to use force against particular agency will spend their money in the way they want those who have established an Independent Board. Thus a new it spent, the remedy is not to threaten and coerce these donors, issue, that of Christian liberty, has arisen. And with it the but to see to it that the agency involved is so reformed and so Church must now answer a question which will determine her administered that the question of confidence need never again future. be raised. The question is simply this: Who is to be the master of the These are the counsels of prudence and foresightedness, which conscience of the Christian man? God or men? When a minister the General Assembly of 1934 would be well advised to consider. stands up in the pulpit, whose minister is he to be-the minister Doubtless other counsels will be urged upon the commissioners. of men or a minister of Christ? To whom does the minister They will be told that loyalty to the Church and its law demands go for his authority? The moment you make a man pledge to the suppression of those who believe the whole policy of the support a board or agency-any board or agency, no matter Board of Foreign Missions to be not loyal to the Word of God, how good it is now-whatever its policies may become in the and who have, whether wisely or unwisely, yet clearly within future (on the plea of loyalty or any other plea), that moment their constitutional rights, established their own voluntary, inde­ you have created a slave-a man who cannot call his soul his pendent agency. The commissioners should resolutely refuse to own. For this man's conscience has abdicated in favor of the be stampeded by the excitement of the moment or by the mis­ consciences of other men. The ordination vows of a minister directed zeal of those who think they do God's service in making do not pledge support to the future policies of successive General support of the agencies of the Church a matter of compulsion Assemblies, much less the policies of the Boards, the creatures and not of free will. If they are so stampeded in their anxiety of those Assemblies. To ask a man who has sincerely taken to save a Board they may succeed in wrecking and disrupting his ordination vows, who is completely loyal to the Bible and a whole Church. For there are hosts of persons in the Church the constitution of the Church, to pledge support to an agency who, while they may not as yet be concerned about the Inde­ that he himself believes not to be loyal to the Word of God, pendent Board, will rise in indignation to fight for their liberties is to ask a fearful and a monstrous thing. This is true even if if short-sighted counsels prevail, if in the hysteria of an hour, the man is mistaken. The instant that the Presbyterian Church the General Assembly sets itself up as an authority to bind (or any other church) decrees that the Christian conscience men's consciences, coordinate with the Word of God. No Chris­ must be bound by boards, agencies, courts of the Church, or tian but wants Christ in His Word to be the master of his any thing beside the Word of God, then that Church ceases conscience; no Christian truly aware of what Christian liberty to be an abode of free men, ceases to be a truly Protestant means, but will resist to the death any attempt to make the Church. And no matter how vigorous or large such a church will of other men the master of his conscience. Let the com­ may seem now, if it sets up its own authority as binding on missioners ponder carefully the great pronouncement of the men's consciences in the place of the Word of God, it will surely Westminster Divines as to liberty, and as they read, let them die as a Church of Christ. remember that these words, in Chapter XX of the Confession All these things ought to be recognized not only by those who of Faith, and not Assembly deliverances, are the law of the do not have confidence in the Board of Foreign Missions, but Church: "God alone is lord of the conscience, and hath left it also by those who do. They should see clearly, looking down free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are the corridors of the years to be, that if they introduce the in any thing contrary to His Word, or beside it, in matters of principle of compulsion in support and giving, in order to meet faith or worship. So that to believe such doctrines, or to obey (News, Pages 20 to 32; Table of Contents, Page 32)

l 2 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934 such commandments out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of the Church and the transactions of the General Assembly of conscience, and the requiring of an implicit faith, and an than has any other minister or any elder. Whether or no absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, DR. MUDGE is aware of it, the. parity of the ministry is a basic and reason also." principle of the Presbyterian form of government. DR. MUDGE, Is Jesus Christ still to be the only Head and King of this of course, has the same right to his opinion as to the meaning Presbyterian Church? and binding force of the Constitution and the deliverances of the General Assembly as any other minister, but no more OUR FIFTH YEAR awtho1'ity attaches to his pronouncements than attaches to the r------,ITH this issue CHRISTIANITY TODAY enters upon opinion of the youngest or least known minister in the Church. its fifth year. We have been grateful for the many DR. MUDGE is not lacking in ability as a clerk, but as judge expressions of appreciation we have received from and j ury we see little about him to commend. We would suggest our friends, though we have been conscious that that he confine himself to the duties that have been assigned they have often' been more flattering than our him by the Assembly. merits warrant. We have also been greatly grati­ fied by the fact that even our enemies have acknowl­ THE CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY edged that the paper is "ably edited" and that it HE organization in Seattle, Washington, of the manifests "great ability and vitality," though they "Christian Assembly" by a group of earnest and have intimated at times that our zeal and ability able laymen is, in the estimation of the editors, might be better employed. We feel as strongly as we ever did exceedingly significant. Without prior consultation that there is need of such a paper and we shall endeavor to with conservative groups elsewhere, this band of make it more and more worthy of the cause it seeks to further. believers has issued a trumpet blast for the faith. We always like to receive suggestions looking to its improve­ It will be found elsewhere in this issue. It is hoped ment, even though it is not always possible to adopt them. that chapters of the Christian Assembly will be Indirectly, if not directly, they have done much to shape our organized from coast to coast. Perhaps the min­ course. A number have suggested that we renew our "Question isters of the Church, who, as a body, have been and Answer" department. We would like to know whether others ecclesiastically complacent in the face of growing unbelief, are approve this suggestion. We are glad to be able to say that about to find lay people assuming the leader ship in the battle. our list of subscribers has increased during the past year. This The launching of the Christian Assembly is, we r epeat, an has been largely due to the fact that our subscribers have encouraging and significant event. commended the paper to others. We trust they will continue to do so. For only as they do so can we hope to go from strength MODERATORS to strength. HE usual pre-Assembly maneuvering for position on the part of those with avowed or Jatent ambi­ CLERK AS JUDGE AND JURY tions to be Moderator is under way. Just now two HE Form of Government makes it mandatory that names are most prominently mentioned. DR. HER­ each judicatory choose a clerk whose duty it shall BERT BOOTH SMITH of Los Angeles has been reported also be to preserve the records carefully and to as waging his own campaign personally, and with grant extracts from ,them whenever properly re­ great vigor. DR. WILLIAM CHALMERS COVERT, retir­ quired (Chapter XX). ing General Secretary of the Board of Christian The clerk chosen by the General Assembly in Education, has been nominated by his Presbytery, accordance with that provision is apparently of Chicago, and would doubtless feel the honor to be the opinion that his duties are much more extensive a fitting one. Other commissioners to the Assembly will be than the Form of Government indicates. It would waiting patiently to see if the call will come to them. DR. WIL­ seem, in fact, that he thinks he has been author- LIAM HIRAM FOULKES, of Newark, N. J., sometimes described ized not only to record the "transactions" of the General as a hardy perennial among candidates, will be there, as well Assembly but to interpret them-the word "transactions" being as RULING ELDER JOHN H. FINLEY of the N ew Yat'k Times, taken so broadly as to include the constitution of the Church rumored as the possible nominee of the New York group. Others as it is or as it may be altered or amended by the presbyteries. will no doubt be mentioned. There are plenty of strong, evan­ What is more, he seems to be of the opinion that it is his duty gelical, faithful pastors who might be nominated, who would be to speak' with authority to ministers and elders as to their entirely free from any connection with the Boards. It is about fiduciary obligations relative to any and all funds that may be time for the Presbyterian Church to recognize the forgotten collected in Presbyterian churches. man and, in a practical way, reaffirm her belief in the parity Evidence of the above is afforded by letters which the present of the clergy. clerk of the Assembly recently wrote to the members of the presbyteries of Baltimore and Lackawanna affirming that the THE PLIGHT OF THE BOARDS Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions is illegal r------,DMITTEDLY the Boards of the Church-at least and unconstitutional, that "any minister or r uling elder who apart from the Board of Pensions-are in a bad gives his official sanction or support to this Board is disloyal way. Naturally those more immediately responsible to his ordination vows," that presbyteries should neither license for their administration are ready with explana­ or ordain students from Westminster Seminary "until they have tions of the existing situation. There is truth of given a written pledge that they will support the official course in the statement that shrinkage of gifts has agencies of the Church as a part of their pledge of loyalty to been due to business conditions. That, however, is the government and discipline of the Church," and that it is by no means the whole story. It is even more true, a "diversion of funds" for any session or society connected in our opinion, that the Boards themselves are to with any church, Presbytery or Synod "to take offerings for blame. or vote money to the so-called Independent Board." In the first place, the Boards have not confined themselves to It would be interesting to know just where or how DR. MUDGE the tasks assigned them. Instead of looking upon themselves as got such a conception of his duties. Possibly he has been the servants of the Church they have sought to play the part of reading about HITLER and other modern dictators and has been its masters. Take, for instance, the matter of the re-organiza­ led to conceive of his duties after their manner. Be that as it tion of Princeton Seminary when that matter was agitating the may, he has no more authority to interpret the Constitution Church a few years ago. It will hardly be denied that the May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 3

Boards, indirectly if not directly, threw their influence in favor PROFESSOR SLOSSER has the temerity to allege that the Con­ of the reorganization. In fact unless the Boards-men like fessional Statement of the United Presbyterian Church and the ROBERT E . SPEER and JOHN McDoWELL in th~ van-had thrown Auburn Affirmation are "equally condemned" by the "trouble­ their influence in favor of the reorganization it is quite unlikely making group" that is opposing the merger. Such a statement that it would have been put into effect. Naturally this was not is, of course, absurd as well as contrary to fact. While the fitted to make those who opposed the reorganization think well Confessional Statement is regarded as inadequate and in serious of the Boards. This is only an illustration of the manner in respects faulty, no one, as far as we know, supposes that it is as which the Boards have attempted, with no small success, to bad as the Auburn Affirmation. determine as well as carry out the policies of the Church. PROFESSOR SLOSSER repeatedly refers to those in the Presby­ It is more important to note that multitudes have lost con­ terian Church in the U. S. A. who oppose the union as a "willful fidence in the Boards because they have not shown themselves troublemaking minority." This is not the first time, however, loyal to the doctrinal standards of the Church. It could hardly that those most loyal to God and His truth have been called be expected that those who believe the Bible to be God's Word, trouble-makers. The case of Ahab and Elijah will be recalled. and the system of doctrine set forth in the Confession of Faith to be the system of doctrine taught in that infallible Word, DR. MACKENZIE VS. DR. VAN TIL would feel that organizations run in a manner to meet the ap­ HE correspondence between DR. MACKENZIE and proval of Auburn Affirmationists were deserving of their sup­ DR. VAN TIL, occasioned by the latter's review of port. As a result Presbyterian gifts have, in large part, been the former's book, carried on through these columns, turned into other channels. What is more, the Boards-at least is now closed (see page 13). We are sure our the Board of Foreign Missions-are doing nothing to lead any readers have found it interesting as well as highly one to think that they have been misjudged. Witness the "Reply informing. Without pronouncing any editorial judg­ to the Board of Foreign Missions" by Chester Presbytery to be ment as to ~ho should be judged the victor, we found in the April issue of this paper. want to say that we think the event has shown We believe, then, that the Boards themselves are largely re­ that we made no mistake when we asked DR. V AN sponsible for their present plight. To raise a hue and cry about TIL to review DR. MACKENZIE'S book because of the Independent Board may be useful as a means of diverting what we considered his special qualifications for the task. attention from Ute Boards themselves but it will not be effective In the covering letter that accompanied his final letter, in restoring confidence in them. The Independent Board is a DR. MACKENZIE advises us that our suggestion in our March symptom, not a cause. Remove the cause and the Independent issue that he lost his temper while writing his first letter was Board will disappear almost overnight. Destroy the Independent "thoroughly erroneous." We stand corrected. We may be par­ Board by ecclesiastical action, if that is possible, and the plight doned, however, for expressing the hope that DR. MACKENZIE, of the Boards will be made worse, not better. To condemn others if he ever does lose his temper, will not write for publication because of their orthodoxy is not fitted to create the impression while in that state of mind. For if he writes that way when that you are orthodox yourself. "cool," it is somewhat fearful to contemplate what he might write if he should get really mad. But even if DR. MACKENZIE DR. SLOSSER'S REPLY TO DR. MACARTNEY has not been guilty of losing his temper, we think he 4as been N the United Presbyterian of April 26th, PROFESSOR guilty of "attributing unworthy motives" to his adversary. He GAlUS JACKSON SLOSSER of Western Theological seeks to convey the impression that DR. VAN TIL reviewed his Seminary offers a reply to the article by DR. book unfavorably because of his connection with Princeton MACARTNEY against the proposed merger of our Seminary. Church and the United Presbyterian, printed in the "The head and front of my offending in your sight," he last issue of CHRISTIANITY TODAY under the title writes, "is that I am a modern Princetonianist-a new heresy "Thou Shalt Say, No!". unknown to the Westminster divines." Again he refers to "the While PROFESSOR SLOSSER is not himself a signer new Westminster brand" of Calvinism. Here, we are sure, of the Auburn Affirmation, his reply is in large DR. MACKENZIE is "thoroughly erroneous." It is zeal for the part an eulogy of that document. Apparently he Reformed Faith, not antagonism to Princeton Seminary, that would have approved if the Committee on Organic Union had animates DR. VAN TIL. Moreover there is no such thing as a made it a part of the doctrinal basis of the proposed union. After citing copiously from it, he asks, "Do you not see clearly "Westminster brand" of Calvinism. If the word "Westminster" that both the Affirmation and its signers were and are absolutely is substituted for the word "Princeton" in the following state­ loyal to the Scriptures and to their Church ?"-and this not with­ ment of PROFESSOR CASPAR WISTAR HODGE, made in 1927-as is standing the fact that it expressly states that the doctrine of the justified by the fact that Westminster Seminary was estab­ full truthfulness of the Scriptures is not only false but harmful! lished to carryon and perpetuate the policies and traditions PROFESSOR SLOSSER fails to mention the fact that the Auburn of Princeton as it existed before its reol'ganization in 1929- it Affirmation was an attack on the deliverances of previous As­ will afford an admirable statement of the brand of Calvinism semblies relative to the so-called "five points." And yet that is for which Westminster Seminary stands: absolutely essential to any real understanding of the meaning "It has sometimes been mistakenly supposed that there is and significance of that document. In the light of that fact it a 'Princeton Theology.' DRS. ALEXANDER and CHARLES HODGE appears to be a creed that represents the writers of the Bible always repudiated this idea. Princeton Seminary has always as untrustworthy both as recorders of historical facts and as taught and upheld the theology of the Westminster Confes­ doctrinal guides, that is ambiguous in its assertion of the true sion-the majesty and sovereignty of Almighty God, the total deity and humanity of our Lord, that knows nothing of the inability of fallen man to save himself, and that the whole death of. Christ as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and that of salvation is to be ascribed to the power and grace of God. refuses to assert that Jesus was virgin-born or that He rose from the dead in the same body with which He suffered. We This is simply the pure and consistent form of evangelicalism submit that such a creed cannot be confessed by those who are which says with Paul, 'by grace have ye been saved, through intelligently loyal to the doctrines of the Presbyterian Church faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's Gift.' and earnest preachers of evangelical Christianity. PROFESSOR "This generic Calvinism has been taught in Princeton Sem­ SLOSSER'S article is at least fitted to confirm what we have pre­ inary under the specific form of the Covenant Theology, and viously stated relative to the degree to which the Presbyterian so richly developed in the Westminster Confession, and Church in the U. S. A. is permeated by Modernism. (Concluded on Page 11) 4 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934

Name-Calling In• the Presbyterian Church

By Frank H. Stevenson

MONG the penetrating observations with which standard with vast reserves of gold in the treasury it was Talleyrand indulged his taste for acid comment under the sanction of a title of virtue. Thereupon prac­ is his remark that tatesmanship consists largely tically all opposition vanished. in the finding of new names for measures that Americans used to hate Pork Barrel projects. They under old names have lost their popularity. might hate them now if they bore that description even The propel' application of name ', he 'aid, from the lip of the minority party in Congress. Was always will be the test of succe sful political ad­ it not at least partially beca u e impre' 'ive initial like ministration. rrhe theory is worth consideration. C. W. A. and many another" A." were attached to these If a perfect rose by any other name projects that the Pork Barrel was sud­ will smell a. weet, the Talleyrand for­ denly lifted from degradation to dig­ mula induces an assurance that in thc nity? Overnight the attitude of taxpayers meadows of statesmanship a dabious was altered completely. Panic and despair 1'0 e, given the right name, will distil the had much to do with shifting sentiment perfumes of Araby. Let us ee. during the fir t months of the incoming Talleyrand's own experience in apply­ administration but cryptic symbols were ing helpful name certainly justified him a prominent factor in gaining univer.. al in explaining at least his personal suc­ approval for the expenditure of billions ce s thereby. He held exalted po ition of dollars in public works. in France with four sovereigns-Loui So it is along other lines. We now are XVI, Napoleon, Louis XVIII and Louis holding to a rather transparent delu 'ion Philippe. Each of them wa diametri­ that Socialism is far from us at the very cally opposed to the others in character moment a government - planned and a and object yet the resourcefulness of government - regulated life is gaining a Talleyrand served them all. He pro­ foothold in the United States which our duced favorable labels for unfavorable cherished Individualism may never be methods, mea ures and offices, and able to recapture. ,Sociali m is on the France u ually accepted his word at face field and prepared to march in every value. His earliest wish was the estab­ direction, only we are calling it by other lishment of a constitutional monarchy names. Under the emblems of The Na­ similar to Great Britain '8, and it mu t tional Emergency the most conservative be . aid that after a devious career he The Rev. Frank H. Stevenson, D.D. among us contributed to the erection of ended by being instrumental in accom­ state-controlled business, state-controlled pli hing it. Les ingenious politician farming, state-controlled banking, tate­ fell all around him during the forty years when he ,\'as controlled charity, etc., inging prai es as the granite foun­ the power behind the throne. Was it becau 'e he knew, a. dations were laid. they did not, the magic of names 1 H;e thought 0, and A facile substitution of good ~ames for bad quietly the conclusion is reasonable. accomplished the miracle ; revolution was not nece sary. The idea has been tested in American politics also, if A shrewd government knew that we the people would not one may venture to discuss a development so close at hand. mind being fooled a part of the time notwith tanding Every recent measure of recovery was tremendously helped their occasional acknowledgment that the joke was on u . by expert name-calling in Washington. Possibly the mo t With most of us a resounding name will transform sordid valuable men in the present government are those who reality into a glorious ideal at any time, and although we devised new titles for measures of national relief in the are dimly aware of the trickery of the device our remon­ past year. Ask yourself what the fate of the bill for the strances usually can be depended upon to be excessively abandonment of the gold standard would have been if the feeble. Candid politicians confe. s that the system is wrong legislation had been called Repudiation. This is a forth­ but with them the end ju tifies the means. right word and for generations it has expressed the mean­ Frequently the mechanism of name-calling is set in ing of a nation's refusal to pay bonds according to promise, reverse. The Talleyrand technique is adaptable to circum­ unle. s the nation is bankrupt. But Repudiation carries stances and can be directed to the de truction of a cause with it uch a frank admi sion of dishonesty that neither men want to defeat just as effectively as to the bolster­ this name nor any imilar to it was suggested a. a heading ing up of a measure they want to promote. Names are for the enactment. When the government went off the gold benedictions; likewise they are weapons. When they operate May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 5

as weapons they are devastating to the point of annihila­ He does not object to the label. Not only does it have no tion as plenty of incidents in the chronicle of human events painful sting of reproach; it is a substantial recommenda­ abundantly prove. The potency of names is a startling tion to every worldly circle he wishes to enter and is phenomenon any way we take it. The fact is not flatter­ welcomed eagerly. ing but it is beyond dispute. But turn to the company of ministers who are doing And this brings us to our own territory, The Presby­ their best to defend the Bible. Ponder their lot and try terian Church in the U. S. A. One wonders if we are to to imagine how they ever will be able to rise above the go forever on in the Church itself, swayed to and fro in names fastened upon them. Medievalist is the mildest and our decisions by the prejudices and recommendations least damaging title thrust upon a zealous advocate of attached to labels. 'fhe reign of Prince Talleyrand's maxim God's Word and even that may be taken as an indication is unwholesome enough in the State; in the Church it is of appalling indifference to current realities and as a hint the sign of gross immorality, a sin against the light that of scarcely suppressed desires to apply the thumb-screw guide. men to the truth. of the Spanish Inquisition. In its popular connotation For twenty years Presbyterians have been moving not Medievalist is a terrible designation. according to reason or logic but strictly in accord with Fundamentalist might be a satisfactory name in spite names. God did not intend that the weapons of a Chris­ of the fact that it manages to convey the intimation of an tian's warfare should be carnal but we have forgotten His eighth grade education and a generally arrested mentality. commandments while we have dealt in epithets and in­ But a minister could accept this implication and survive, vectives. for the apostles with considerably less equipment than a Presbyterian ministers wear emblems today which have grammar school provides "lifted empire off their hinges been pinned upon them by unfriendly hands. Either they and changed the course of history." Moreover the term, are Modernist, Liberal or Middle-of-the-Road preachers; when it stands alone, tells a story of loyalty and stead­ or else they are Fundamentalist, Medievalist or Reactionary fastness in sharp contrast to the opportunism inherent in preacher '. No minister escapes classification; each is cor­ the more flattering term Modernist. ralled and branded as horses used to be at western round­ The trouble is, Fundamentalist is a name seldom per­ ups. After that he is estimated by the mark. We may as mitted the privilege of independence. Almost always it is well admit at once that few of us are guiltless of the qualified with adjectives until in common speech it is prac­ procedure. For the sake of convenience and custom, if not tically inseparable from the words Bitter, Extreme, Con­ for the sake of malice, we have sorted our colleagues into tentious and Fanatical. A detached observer would con­ definite divisions where they are labelled indelibly for sider it incredible that Christian men and women ' could future reference. be cruel enough to besmirch other Christians with an But if all of us have shared in the name-calling the appellation like Bitter Fundamentalist. The writer has lea t guilty are far and away the principal sufferers. In the known many Fundamentalists who are kindly and he has exchange of diatribe the Bible-believing ministry of the yet to encounter one ' who is bitter, but conspicuous as a Presbyterian Church, the very strength of the Church, has Scarlet Letter the ominous word accompanies hundreds been forced into a virtually untenable position until it is of faithful ministers through life, limiting their influence face to face with immediate and overwhelming disaster. and handicapping their endeavors. Call a man a Funda­ Possibly churchmen who are known as Modernists or mentalist and notice how quickly the pulpits of university Liberals or Middle-of-the-Roaders will have difficulty in chapels are barred against him. The average president of appreciating this assertion, but that is because they them­ a university would readily have a Communist preach to the selves are neither injured nor disturbed by the names they ,tudentR, but never a Fundamentalist. bear. For one thing their titles are within the limits of Of all the ruin wrought by the habit of name-calling, exact truth. Rarely are they called Heretics or Apostates and that ruin is immeasurable in the Presbyterian Church, or Agnostics which probably a majority of them could be the attack on the character of men who have undertaken called without slightest exaggeration. Whatever else these to persuade the Church to hold fast to God 's Word ha non - doctrinal ministers may think of their orthodox been the most serious. It has gone beyond the ministers brethren they must concede that their restraint is admir­ at whom the blow is aimed and has struck squarely at the able, for they have spared them the denunciation that up cause they sponsor. Both the outside world and Christ's to recent years might have destroyed their movement. They people inside the fold are bound to conclude that none allowed it to develop when a direct appeal to crush Heresy but ignorant fanatics believe the Bible in its entirety, or conceivably would have aroused the Church to set its house care enough about it to go forth and champion its rights in order and Liberalism might have returned to the places before the tribunal of public opinion. They cannot fail whence it came to the benefit of a unified, evangelical to discern that Bible-believing ministers are in disrepute communion. in their own household of faith. Now, of course, an actual benefit accrues to the Presby­ What chance has a Christian teacher who is rotmdly terian minister who is a Liberal or who walles in the middlr denotmced as a Fighting, Bitter, Extreme Fundamentalist of the theological road. Thus pictured he has access to and who i 'ubmerged under the prejudice provoked by contemporary preferments that mean a great deal to him. the constant repetition of the description by prominent 6 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934

Church leaders-what chance has he to present the cause a single concession to unbelief. Suppose they are disquiet­ of the Bible adequately save to his immediate constituency ing controversialists. Were Paul or Augustine or Athana­ of friends who know him Y Small, indeed. He may speak sius or Calvin or Luther or Knox any less di quieting ~ with due humility and his appeal may be to the finest I it for this that we ridicule the testimony of Funda­ instincts of his audience; what he says may be supported mentalists and try to exile them from human sympathy ~ by able scholarship and riches of learning, but he has been Ministers who have been leading the Church to peace pictured to the public as a menace and that reputation with the world deserve no honors from Christians. 'fhey does not die. He is beaten before he says a word, and his have their reward: But ministers whom God has raised up cause is beaten. 'fhe persistent application of an evil name to be the advocates of His Word and who must confront has its expected result. Talleyrand's cynical maxim is a hostile civilization with the preaching of the Cross are vindicated in the very House of God. worthy of every encouragement we can give. To stone The consequences are apparent. It is useless to hope for them in order to win the approval of fashionable opinion a peaceful or spiritual or advancing Church :while a is emphatically not the way to build the Church. tyranny of epithets usurps the throne of reason. The Lord's Call faithful ministers Fundamentalists if we must. But cause and the Lord's people must suffer while the assault as long as names rule an extensive domain of human continues, and this may be a long time. Nor is it our right thought let us beware of applying the more fatal name' to discuss the motives behind the flood of calumny that is to men Christ requires for the protection and projection overwhelming the friends of the Bible. Possibly the accus­ of the Gospel. Five words in the Presbyterian vocabulary ers of Fundamentalists are simply misguided; their real of name-calling should be exorcised forthwith: Bitter, motives will not be determined until every man shall Extreme, Contentious, Medieval and Fanatical. If they con­ presently appear before the judgment seat of Christ. If tinue to flourish the Presbyterian Church will be commit­ their victims are tempted to reprisals against them they ting a crime against itself that will bring an increasing must resist the temptation with the grace God gives. punishment. One thing we can accomplish. We can defend the intel­ It will be interesting to watch the approaching General lectual and moral worth of men who are the targets for Assembly. Men will be there who represent a variety of ceaseless propaganda. The defense will have to be well beliefs, including some who believe that the Westminster informed and explicit, but it can be achieved. When an Confession of Faith is true. These, unless the As embly advocate of the Old Book and the Old Faith addresses a is different from any held in the last ten years; will be Presbytery or General Assembly or a company of college set apart promptly as a peculiar people. One of them may undergraduates or a public gathering, we who are able be nominated for Moderator, others may speak against the ought to anticipate the abuse that is the customary prelude weakening of our doctrinal standards in the plan of merger and aftermath of such efforts. Gossip can be contradicted. with the United Presbyterians, still others may be bold In 'pired condemnation in the press can be answered. The enough to explain why the Board of Foreign Missions has official attitude of the Church can be protested respectfully. lost their confidence. One or two, we hope, will preach in We can see to it that men who take the side of the Bible Cleveland churches on Sunday. have a fair opportunity to speak and be heard. A blessing would come to the General A.ssembly if they Their testimony is needed more than anything else in are treated with a fraction of the respect shown to their the world today. .All mankind (see any newspaper or opponents. If publicity managers for once would refrain magazine) is drifting towards atheism and despair; the from announcing in the press that "Dr. So-and-So who is night of skepticism and pessimism is dark around us. Little the candidate of the Extreme Fundamentalists will run is known of the deep and eternal things of God, and that for Moderator" the effect would be refreshing spiritually. little is a candle hid under a bushel. People are entitled As a matter of fact the Reverend Harold S. Laird, who may to know if the commandments of the Bible are authorita­ be nominated,! is as far from being the unpleasant person tive, and why. They have a right to learn if there is a that menacing de cription conjures up as could be found. hell and a heaven. Is the history recorded in the Bible He is a high-minded, hard-working pastor with a distin­ dependable; are its promises sure? Our own colmtry is guished record and he is capable of serving the eh ul'ch slowly descending into the animalism of Russia because men magnificently. He is entitled to fair play. do not know. The debates on the floor of the Assembly surely would be improved by omitting aspersions upon men who are We shall not help them through the agency of the Pres­ concerned about the security of the Church's own stand­ byterian Church if we hoot at ministers who are competent ards. Directing attention to the advertised sweetness and to show that the Word of God is trustworthy and His amiability of men who want to liberalize the standards judgments are true and righteous altogether. Suppose these and contrasting it with the equally advertised depravity of same ministers do warn the Church that it is under obliga­

tion to maintain its corporate witness to the faith without 1 Dr. Laird will not be a commissioner at this Assembly. · May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 7

men who feel that this would be' the betrayal of a trust suggestions about heading the report of his sermon with from God, is manifestly more becoming to Tammany Hall blazing stream lines calculated to rob his words of dignity than to the Court of the Lord Jesus Christ. What a happy and caricaturing him as some frenzied bigot on the war­ day would dawn if this well-worn subterfuge of politics path ~ were bowed out of the General Assembly forever! And Talleyrand's methods have brought irremediable loss to if a zealous Fundamentali t preaches on Sunday is it too the Presbyterian Church. The hour of their departure is much to expect Monday's newspapers to have heard no decidedly overdue.

A Missionaryis Statement to the Home Constituency By the Rev. Albert B. Dodd, D.O.

S THE writer, after much prayerful examina­ Church in the United States of America, are producing tion, knows his own heart, he has been con­ and distributing literature some of which is distinctly strained to make the statement which follows inimical to those artic!Les of faith which the General only by loyalty to Christ, to his ordination Assembly of our Church in America has repeatedly vows, to the sacred cause of Foreign Missions declared to be essential doctrines of the Word of God to' which he has devoted his life, and to the and the Standards of our Church; and, inasmuch as there highest interests of the Church and Board he is real and imminent danger of other large amounts of serves. Keenly aware of the delicacy of the situ- our Board's funds being used in the same way; ation, he is determined to confine his disclosures to those (1) We would request our Board of Foreign Mi ions which are not only true, but kind and necessary, in the to take such steps as would prevent the continuance of earnest prayer that they may bring only good and no real such abuse of the Church funds in its hands. harm to the cause he loves. ' (2) We would protest to the China Council arId the Through the sale of the Presbyterian Mission Press in Board against making any new or additional 'grants Shanghai, there has come into the hands of our China from the proceeds of the sale of the Presbyterian Mission Council a large sum of money which with Board approval Press at Shanghai (such as that voted by the Ad Interim has been constituted a Literature Fund to be dispensed for Committee- of the China Council for a Rural Newspaper the promotion of the sale and distribution of existing, and and held up only temporarily by the protest of one of the production of new Christian literature. Realizing the the China Councillors, see C. C. 33193), or from any immense importance of the proper use of such a fund and other funds under their control to bodies or agencies the tragedy which might follow its misuse, the writer, in which are tmwilling to offer a definite guarantee commit­ hearty cooperation with his Station, has tried his very best ting themselves and their literary output to loyalty to to persuade his Mission, the China Council, and the Board those doctrines which our General A sembly in America of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the has declared to be essential. United States of America to approve grants from thi fund While rejecting the e very essential safeguards, the Board only to such bodies or agencies as are willing to furnish has substituted therefor a simple reque t that the China guarantee as to their truly evangelical character. Since Council "be thoroughly assured that the literature pro­ these efforts have proved futile and earnest warning has duced and subsidized by this fund has a distinctly Christian been disregarded, it becomes his plain duty, however and evangelical viewpoint and purpose and make ' a direct painful and at whatever co t, to make to the supporters and desired contribution to the work of the Presbyterian of our Foreign Mission work a frank statement of certain Missions and of the Churches with which they are formally important facts of which he is cognizant and which they cooperating. " However, in view of the lack of care on the have a right to know. part of the Board as to the sort of literature they put 1. The resolutions of the Tenghsien Station adopted on before the study classes in the Church at home and recom­ April 15, 1933, by unanimous vote were rejected by both mend to their new missionarie , one scarcely sees how this the Council and the Board, though abundant proof was request can prove an effective safeguard. presented to each of these bodies of the imperative need 2. Although detailed proof was pre ented that a con­ for these resolutions. The resolution read a follows: siderable amount of the output of the Chri tian Literature Inasmuch as certain cooperative bodies such as the Society in China was distinctly destructive of faith in such National Christian Council of China and the Christian essential doctrines as Christ's substitutionary atonement Literature Society, which draw their support in part and the infallibility of His Word, and some of it even of from the Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterian faith in His deity (see evidence presented by the writer 8 CHRISTIANITY T ODAY May, 1934 to Dr. J. Gresham Machen at his request and incorporated their reorganization which, in spite of the consistently by him in his "Modernism and the Board of Foreign Mis­ expressed desire of the North China Presbyterian Synod, sions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A."), the the unanimous vote of everyone of its representatives full time of a missionary and a grant of 3,000 dollars together with two missionaries in the reorganization com­ Chinese for the year 1933-34 were given with Board consent mittee, eliminates the requirement pa sed by the former to that society for the promotion of the sale of religious Provincial Church Council that all local councillors answer literature. This new and additional grant to the Society in the affirmative the doctrinal questions propounded to may be taken as their answer to our protest. church officers in the Pre, byterian Church in the U. S. A., 3. A grant of $400 Chinese per month for one year was or at least assent to the five truths repcatedly declared made to the North China Rural Service Union for the by the General Assembly of that Church to be essential establishment and maintenance of a "Rural Christian doctrines of the Word of God and its standards. The Paper." Although this union, as thc writer clearly pointed prote t of the writer again t Board money being adminis­ out to the China Council and the Board, contains a number tered by such creecUes bodies brought only the stipulation of influential electing units whose doctrinal standpoint is by the Board that the new constitution must be passed radically at variance with that of the Presbyterian Church by a majority of the six Presbyteries concerned (three in the United State of America, and although a number Presbyterian and three belonging to the Church of Chri t of the principal promoters of the paper are pronounced in China) and that the requirement be added that thc "modernists, " no promises were demanded as to the doc­ local councillors must be members of evangelical churches. trinal character of this paper. Word of the Board's It is only right that the Church at home hould know that approval of this grant also has l'ecently come to hand and the above seems to be a deliberate policy of the Board may be regarded as a further direct answer to our protest. for the administration of much of its funds. In view of the 4. Although the Tenghsien Station confined their protest trend toward loose doctrine especially among graduates to the very acute situation arising from unguarded coopera­ of union institutions who are obtaining employment in tion in the matter of religious literature, they and many church and mission work, it seems very far from a sound other evangelical mi sionaries have long felt the serious policy. menace to our cause involved in other forms of cooperation It is true that the Board claim in defense of its general not secured by a definite doctrinal basis. It is widely known policy of creedless cooperation that it is the agent of the here in China and should be in America as well that the whole church rather than of the conservative element and inevitable tendency among creedle s union universities, that it is at lea t as con 'ervative as a cro '-section of that theological seminaries and church federations, such as the church. But are those who approve 'uch cooperation ational Chri tian Council, is toward a so-called" modern­ entirely loyal to the Word of God (Rom. 16 :17, II Cor. ism" which is distinctly antagonistic to faith in God's 6 :14-15, II John 9-11) or the standards of our Church? Word and certain doctrines of that Word which our Church Is the Board to be permitted to repre ent not only thc has ever held to be essential. What is actually happening loyal but the disloyal element as well ? What answcr will in the ca e of certain institutions of that character in the Bible-believing Presbyterian, the spiritual de cendant. which our Missions and Board are cooperating may be seen of those who willingly hed their blood in defense of the from unchallenged testimony from China used in Dr. great truths now at stake-what answer will they make Machen' pamphlet which I have mentioned above. A num­ to this question 1 May the Holy Spirit lead them to make ber of years ago Dr. J. W. Lowrie, then Chairman of our the right answer and to give themselves to prayer and do China COlllcll, claimed that insufficiently safeguarded union their utmost to lead the Board and the General Assembly in titutions of higher learning were much more of a liability to make that answer, too! than an asset to our cause, and, on the whole, things have Then will our precious cause be saved from great and by no means improved since then. imminent disaster. Then can all true Presbyterians again Such unguarded cooperation is being extended also in unite with all their heart in the support of the old Board another dangerous direction. Regular station appropria­ whose loyalty it will no longer be possible to doubt. Then tions in many cases are being put under the control of local will such a blessing come upon our work as we have not council , boards of directors, and so forth, composed of seen in many a day and untold multitudes of soul be representatives of Stations, Chinese church courts (some saved. What will you do to bring this about ? The writer of which have left the Presbyterian fold and joined the would gladly give his life for that result. inclusive Church of Christ in China which as a whole flatly Let us by no means give up the old Board with its refuses to profess its faith even in such vital doctrines blessed history, nor desert the hundreds of true missionaries as the substitutionary atonement), and others coopted or now connected with it; but, at the same time, let loyal elected by other units. No definite requirement i made Presbyterians throughout the Church with all firmnes' and by the Board as to the faith of the e repre entatives other persistency demand its reform and r escue from those than perhaps their membership in some "evangelical unevangelical and compromising influence which detract church" which, alas! may mean almost anything these days. from its present and menace its future u e£ulness. Our In the case of the local councils in Shantung, the Mission, Board has no truer friends than those who have tried to China Council and Board have approved of a scheme of render it this service. May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 9 Servants of God or Servants of Men Address to the Graduating Class at the Commencement of Westminster

Theological SeminarYI Philadelphial Tuesday Eveningl May 81 1934 By J. Gresham Machen, Profe,ssor of New Testament

OU will notice that I have written what I shall Micaiab. IIe does not 'peak to you by direct sup rnatlll"nl say to you upon these few sheets of paper that revelation. You are not propbet '. But He speaks to yon I hold in my hand. That does not mean that through the supernatural Book. It is only when you pro­ what I shall say does not come from the heart. claim the words of that Book that you are a true minister It does not mean that when in deep affection I of Jesus Christ. Only then can you say: "Thus saith bid you Godspeed in my own name and in the tIl e Lord." name of my colleagues in the Faculty I de­ The congregations for which you labor may, as the world si re to place any cold medium of a written page look .. upon them, be but insignificant groups of humble between my heart and yours. But it people. But never forget that those in­ means that I am conscious of tanding significant and humble groups are the here in a very great crisis in the history Church of the living God, and that you of tbe hurch to which many of us be­ as their ministers mu,t proclaim to them long, tbe Presbyterian Church in the the awful and holy and blessed ·Word. U. S. A. On such an occasion it is incml1- If yon obtain your message from any bent upon a man to weigh b is words, and other autJlOrity than the Word of God, 10 keep precise rccord of what he says. the Bible, jf you obtain it fl'Om the pro­ I am speaking, indeed, without consulta­ nouncements of presbyteries or General tion of my colleagues. I alone am respon­ Assemblies, then you may wear the garb sible for what I shall say. But I am of ministers, but you are not ministers aware of the momentous issues involved; in the sight of God. You are then dis­ and I want, therefore, to have a copy of loyal to the Lord Jesus Christ; yo'u have this little address, insignificant though betrayed a precious trust. it be in itself, in case there should be 'fhe temptation to you to be disloyal any inquiry as to what it contains. i ' coming to you in insi tent fashion just You are seeking entrance into the at the present moment. It is coming to Christian ministry. At such a time it is you through the words of cultured and proper for you to count the cost; it is well-meaning gentlemen, and it is coming proper for you to ask just what being to you through the unwarranted acts of a Christian minister means. There is ecclesiastical councils and courts. In the just one thing that I want to say to you Presbytery of Baltimore, at a meeting in answer to that question. The thing The Rev. J. Gresham Machen, D.O., Litt.D. on April 17, 1934, the temptation came that I want to say to you is that you through the Stated Clerk of the General cannot be a Christian minister if you Assembly of the Presbyterian Church proclaim the word of man; you can be a Christian mini, tel' in the U. S. A. The following passage from a letter of tbe only if you proclaim, without fear or favor, the Word Stated' Clerk of the General As embly to the Stated Clerk of God. of that Presbytery wa read in open session: In the twenty-second chapter of the First Book of If and when any students from Westminster Seminary come Kings we read how the messenger who was ent to call the before your Presbytery, they should be informed that the Pres­ bytery will neither license nor ordain them until they have prophet Micaiah the son of Imlah coached the prophet given a written pledge that they will support the official as to what he should say. "Behold now," he said, "the agencies of the Church as a part of their pledge of loyalty to words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one the government and discipline of the Church. mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one Tbe Presbytery of New Brunswick, acting, earlier, on t he of them, and speak that which is good. " But Micaiah said : same principle, and equally in contradiction to the Con­ "As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that stitution of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., has will I speak." placed in its manual, by an action taken September 26, You, my brethren, must be like Micaiah the son of Imlah; 1933, a provision that no one shall be received into the you, too, must say: "AJ the LoYd liveth, what the Lord Presbytery without being subjected to an , examination as saith unto me that will I speak." The Lord does not, to his willingness to support the regularly appointed Boards indeed, speak to you in the ma1111er in which He spoke to and Agencies .

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I feel compelled to say to you, my brethren, with the in God's own way. But, above all, remember that that utmost plainness, that if you sign the pledge demanded of Captain is worthy whose service you are thus preferring you in that letter of Dr. Lewis S. Mudge and practically to the favor of men. He is worthy because of His infinite implied in that action of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, power and glory. But He is also worthy becau e of some­ if you obtain your licen. ure or ordination in that way, thing else. There are other things besides the effulgence then, quite irrespective of the question whether the Boards of His royal majesty which mark Him as our Lord: and Agencies are or are not worthy of trust at this moment or at any particular moment, you have become servants Hath He marks to lead me to Him, of men and are not in the high Biblical sen.·e servants of If He be my Guide? "In His feet and hands are wound-prints, the Lord Jesus Christ. If you promi e to adapt your mes­ And His side." sage to shifting majorities in church councils or to the mandates of church official. , if you promise to commend one Is there diadem, as Monarch, kind of mis ions this year and an opposite kind next year, That His brow adorns? as the General A sembly, newly elected every year, may "Yea, a crown, in very surety, But of thorns." direct, if you thus take the Bible from your pUlpit and place the Minutes of the General Assembly in its place, If I find Him, if I follow, if you thus abandon the Reformation and do despite to all What His guerdon here? the blood and tears that it cost, if you thus abandon the "Many a sorrow, many a labor, high liberty guaranteed you by the Con titution of the Many a tear." Pre. byterian Church in the U. S. A., and if (a , ala , you If I still hold closely to Him, do if you abandon that liberty) you abandon also your What hath He at last? allegiance to the Lord J esus Christ by putting fallible men "Sorrow vanquished, labor ended, into the place of authority that belongs only to Him, then Jordan passed." the ministry has become, as far as you are concerned, If I ask Him to receive me, merely a profession, and rather a contemptible profession Will He say me nay? too. You may, by taking such a step, obtain high eccle­ "Not till earth and not till heaven siastical preferment; but never can you. be mini ters of the Pass away." New Covenant, never can you be ambassadors of God. If, on the other hand, you choose, as indeed you have Finding, following, keeping, struggling, Is He sure to bless? already shown very nobly that you have chosen, to obey "Saints, apostles, phophets, martyrs, God rather than men, then you may look to the future with Answer, 'Yes.''' unconquerable joy. If anyone door be closed to you by the usurped authority of human councils or officials, be assured "Ye were bought with a price," my brethren; "be not that some other and greater door will be opened to you ye the servants of men."

The Christian Assembly A Christian Fellowship for I/Continuing and Contending Christianity, based on a Protestant Declaration and Purposel/. (Seattle Chapter.) WE BE LIEVE: and devitalized Christian testimony; discouraged sacri­ 1. That the only remedy for the present confused, dis­ ficial dedication, and has encouraged license rather than tressed and changing world, is the Word of God, Scripture the service of love. interpreted, believed, taught and lived. (b) In the questioning, disbelieving or declaring as an 2. That the threatened dissolution of our political, social, unnecessary doctrine, the Person of the Lord Jesus economic and Christian order is due to forces antagonistic Christ, as God in the flesh. to God, His Holy Word and our Lord Jesus Christ. (c) In the qualifying, doubting, and denying of the 3. That these forces are headed toward anti-God com­ inspiration and authority of the Word of God. munism; which, consciously or unconsciously, is supported (d) In the substituting of a legal, rational, ethical and by or allied with many schools of rationalistic thought, non-supernatural Christianity, for Scripture interpreted representing in varying degrees, forces antagonistic to God Christianity, a substitution which the Apostle Paul de­ and the Lord hip of Jesus Christ. clares as no Gospel at all. 4. That the impact of these forces on the Chri tian Church has resulted: WE BELIEVE: (a) In the preaching and teaching of an impure and 1. That while the polity or government of the Presbyte­ perverted Gospel, which has confused, perplexed, misled rian Church is mainly ministerial and declarative, its fun- May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY II dam ental purpose is to maintain pure doctrine, a valid Gospel of God's Grace; and to associate ourselve::; in a testimony, unity of action and peace among the brethren. fellowship for the purpose of: 2. That the power delegated or lodged in the leadership 1. Seeking by prayer and the study of God 's Word to of the church, particularly that represented in the General obtain a better knowledge of the Will of God and His Assembly, has failed and is failing to maintain pure doc­ revelation concerning the Church. . trine, which has resulted in an uncertain and conflicting 2. Seeking the Lord's way as to how we can best contend testimony, destroyed unity of action and is threatening for the Faith. peace among the brethren. 3. Seeking to know no authority above the Lord J e us 3. That this failure is evidenced by: Christ, and to recognize no leadership above the Holy (a) Failure to make an adequate declarative repudia­ Spirit. tion of the Auburn Affirmation. 4. Informing ourselves as to the true and actual con­ (b) Failure to disapprove the action of Presbyteries ditions within the Church. and Boards of the Church in admitting to the ministry 5. Accumulating and disseminating true and clear infor­ and the mission fields of the Church candidates who mation concerning these conditions. failed to concur in or accept the essential doctrines of 6. Ceasing acquiescence and becoming protestant against our Confession of Faith, some of which were re·affirmed Modernistic preaching, teaching, and leadership that is by the General Assembly of 1923. contrary to the Word of God. (c) Failure to make an adequate declarative repudia­ 7. Determining our individual and collective duty, r ela­ tion of the Laymen's Mission Appraisal and Report; to tion and responsibility to and in the church, in view of prohibit and protect against an outside organized and the 'e conditions. financed propaganda from using and exploiting our In testimony thereto, we have attach cd our namcs: churchcs in the intere t of putting into effect the Faith­ destroying program proposed in" Re-thinking Missions." Signed...... (d) Failure to separate itself from the Federal Coun­ cil of Churches, whose national radio broadcasts have The Chri tian Assembly is not an attempt to organize belittled and ridiculed doctrines of our Confession of a new movement or promote any new doctrine, but is pri­ Faith. marily intended as an organization to inform, unify and (e) Failure to give, and in preventing from being furnish a medium through which Bible-believing Christians given, adequate consideration to the charge of Modern­ may voice their protest again t so-called ModernisID: in thc ism in the Board of Foreign Missions. Presbyterian Church. WE BELIEVE: The Leadership of the Church ecm to be entangled in That the annual election of Moderator of the Gencral loyalties: to organizations, in titutions, pCI' ons, financial Assembly is now looked upon as a measuring of the supports and outside groups : which has all but closed our strength of the Modernistic and Evangelistic forces for church courts for corrective action. 'rhe time has come leadership in the Church-a contest with political flavor, when the laity must act, if the church is to continue as a humiliating before the judgment of the world and de truc­ witness for the truth, once for all delivered to the saints. tive of true Christian testimony. That each year has seen the wedge of Modernism driven The Board of Directors deeper and deep'er into the body of the Church, the doc­ Mr. Albert S. Green, Mr. Waltcr H . Harrah, Mr. J. trinal destination of which is now clearly r evealed in the Forbes McBurney, Dr. Wilford M. Nelson, Mr. William H,. Laymen 's Missionary Appraisal and Report, and which we Sibley, Mrs. Grace G. Bliss, Mrs. Margaret Bidlake, Mr... believe to be a doctrine of men, intellectually conceived, Roxie L. Osborn, Dr. Georgia B. Sattler, Mr::;. Carrie W. ethical, cultural, man-powered, Christless, and not the vital Talbott, W. R. Sibley (president). and essential Gospel of the Grace of God. For information, address Mrs. Grace G. Bliss, General Secreta,ry, 1618 Ninth Street W est, Scattle, Wash. BELIEVING: That the above statements are symbolical of a generally known condition in the Church, which i grieving and distressing evangelical Christians, who are perforce made Editorial: MacKenzie v. Van Til a party thereto: (Concluded from Page 3) grounded in the Scripture statement, 'I will be your God, and THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: ye shall be my people.' That we, evangelical Christians, stand fast and " car· "The newer modifications of Calvinism have passed away, nestly contend for the faith once for all delivered to the and this pure and consistent form of Christian supernatural­ saints" (Jude 3) ; and believing that God's Word is "For­ ism and evangelicalism alone stands as an impregnable barrier against the flood of naturalism which threatens to overwhelm ever, 0 Lord, settled in Heaven" (Psalm 118-89), and all the Churches of Christendom. 'Soli deo gloria' may well that "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him" be called the motto of Princeton Seminary, as it is of all true (Shorter Catechism) ; do hereby refuse to depart from the theology and religion." 12 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934

Dying of Thirst Impressions of Philadelphia Let us therefore recognize that hell phobia, like hydrophobia, is a malignant distemper, due to a deadly virus that has been introduced into the spiritual life of our race by a raging foe, Presbytery and communicating to humanity a foretaste of the agony of By An Observer Hell. In plain words, because "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3 :23), and because "The wages of N April 16th Philadelphia Presbytery adopted a res­ sin is death" (Rom. 6:23), the fear of retribution is native olution presented by the Rev. Wm. L. McCormick to us all. This is the "evil conscience" from which all hearts need cleansing (Heb. 10 :22). It is the congenital fear on account disapproving of the Independent Board for Presby­ of which all who have not availed themselves of the only cure terian Foreign Missions. The resolution did not ask for any approval of the Official Board, but was in Jesus Christ are "All their lifetime subject to bondage" (Heb. 2 :15). Many, very many, in whom this principle is wholly condemnatory splenic; and denunciatory of the new Board. The feeling generated was alto­ working are unaware of their true condition and would resent gether ungracious. The mover of the motion was any suggestion of this. But since all have an inherited sinful vociferous in his intimidation of his fellow pres­ nature, the latent germs of this innate malady are sure to byters demanding a yea and nay vote, "so that it incubate eventually, there is no self-cure, and without recourse to the only divinely appointed Remedy graciously provided in could be determined how every man stands," with dire conse­ Christ's Redemption, the end is inevitable. quences insinuated against dissenters. But that is a sword that cuts two ways and no man will Refusing Help respect it. It was openly charged that the Independent Board A fatal element in this situation is that so many who are was the result of personal spite. However, all indications of afflicted in this way resist and set themselves against the spite were on the other side, and were obvious in every advocate Physician and His cure. It mayor may not be true that victims of the resolution except one. The friends of the Independent of hydrophobia cannot partake of water and, though dying for Board kept their temper and dignity and discussed the matter lack of it, have a morbid and unreasonable antagonism to that with becoming courtesy. life-giving supply-according to an old tradition being thrown Attempt was made to show from the "Manual of Presbyterian into convulsions at the sight, sound, or even the thought of some­ Law" that the individual's liberty is curtailed by the organiza­ thing every normal person craves. But there is no uncertainty tion , and that the local church must support the machine about the behavior of many Hell-deserving sinners toward the agencies willy nilly. The whole attempt revealed an effort at Lord Jesus Christ, who offers Himself to us as the "Water coercion which might do credit to Germany or Russia. But it of Life" (Jno. 7 :37). This attitude, so unreasonable and tragic, might as well be realized that no American will stand for makes their fate, apart from our Saviour's miracle-working tyranny in Presbytery or General Assembly. Coercion awakes mercy, so hopeless. Then if they have abilities as teachers or resentment. Persecution will raise up friends for the Inde­ leaders while still needing relief, their presence in society is pendent Board. Every attempt, such as this was, votes money a public menace. We summarily dispose of a mad ' dog and out of the treasuries of the denomination, and each Church quarantine his victims; but what protection have we against will continue to dispose of its benevolence as it pleases. Some those who, though seemingly well, in their innermost life are per-fervid appeals were made to excite sympathy for the mis­ u1l'ering under something infinitely worse than rabies, and sionaries-ali well and good in its place; but no more the whose placid madne s is satisfied only when they are making attitude of one side than the other. It was not the Independent other victims? Board that cast aspersion on the missionaries. The Laymen's Report did that, which some of the Official Board commend and Attacking the Truth circulate. The missionaries themselves are more in line with The foregoing thoughts have been suggested by the hostility the principles of the Independent Board than with the old one, now shown in some quarters to everything the Bible has to say and would stand ten to one against the Modernism that has about the future retribution of the wicked. The doctrine of made the Official Board an object of suspicion. endless punishment has always been one of the most-hated truths of Christianity; but neither the Church, nor the Creed, nor the Ministry are responsible for its claims. It is an integral part of the Gospel, as fully revealed in God's Word as the Atonement of Christ and His way to Heaven, and has been Is This Hellphobia? given in charge by our Divine Lord to be believed and preached throughout the whole world (Mark 16 :16). By Thomas M. Slater Opposition to this truth has always been intense but mol' deadly and persistent at some times than others. Like other r----...,HE word "Hell phobia" is not found in the dictionary, Bible truths it has had its days to be attacked and defended. but was coined a generation ago by Professor History shows that such opposition is most bitter during ages William Shedd of Union Seminary, to designate of luxury, when men are devoted to pleasure and self-indulgence, that rebellious and impenitent fear felt by guilty and when the glory and power of natural forces and human and unforgiven sinners when they allow themselves, intellect and effort are greatly exaggerated and vaunted. A day or are forced by an awakened conscience, to think of special hostility to this part of the Gospel is with us now. of the future life and future retribution. Of this no thoughtful person can be ignorant, nor about it any This is a word which, it seems to me, should be friend of the truth be indifferent. The chief difference between re-minted and put into circulation at the present the present outbreak and others seems to be that, while such time. True, it has to do with some very distressing hostility has always been shown by atheists or those who make things. The misery of lost souls, their behavior before death, no profession of religion, some of the worst foes of this doctrine and their ultimate destiny after death, are not pleasant subjects are now found in the Church. Formerly it was people like upon which to dwell. But we live in a world of stern realities. Voltaire, Ingersoll and Paine who led in the attack. Now the while the possible issues of a change of worlds have even greater assault is made by professed ministers, missionaries, university solemnities and challenge serious consideration. men and others who profess to be friends of Christ. May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 13

How About This? the care with which they sought to isolate and analyze the The present writer is not here attempting to give a full germ-cell of this great foe of public health, the tireless search account of the many vicious attacks of this kind he has recently they made to discover its true antidote, the publicity they gave noticed, neither is he as yet prepared to report his full conclu­ their findings, and the warnings we heard about this danger. sions concerning them. I merely call attention to their preva­ I remember very gratefully our own family doctor's part in \ lence in the pulpit, press and elsewhere as others must have that battle with the case of one very dear to me. And shall observed. I record my alarm concerning them, and resent the these guardians of physical health, the physicians and hospitals, challenge which they throw in the face of all who know and still exhibit a greater degree of faithfulness than our ministers and believe what the Bible has to say about Hell. I feel that God churches who have in charge the eternal welfare of immortal and His Angels are asking, "Has the Church no answer to these souls? things?" And surely we should be asking ourselves if we shall Our great challenge right now, as it seems to me, is to isolate be cowed into silence by the prominence, popularity, or professed and analyze the germ-cell of all this present outcry against the piety of some who are making these utterances. Doctrine of Hell, rightly classify and deal with those who are I was recently reading of the alarm with which the faithful carriers and distributors of an infection infinitely worse than physicians and nurses of our country recognized the first appear­ rabies and for which the Atonement is the only cure; and so ance of infantile paralysis some years ago, the vigilance with help with our Great Physician in His battle with a world which they set themselves to study and combat this new menace, malady.

Mackenzie v . Van Til (Conclusion) of nearly one thousand pages-of which my article occupies Dr. Mackenzie: only seven-he gives me one-fifth of his space, and the notice Dear Dr. Van Til. is on the whole most flattering and appreciative. He says it is "an oasis in which to rest our spirits," and he quotes from it ,------, OUR long rejoinder suggests (1) that brevity is approvingly. I refer to this reluctantly, but you compel me commendable in writers of articles, and very grate­ to do so. ful to their readers-in short, that "Brevity is the Then another article of mine, in another Volume, he describes soul of wit." as "a bright discussion abounding in illuminating statements." Consider the state of the case. In March you He suggests that I give too much weight to Kant's dictum­ used 2000 words to prove me a heretic, or rather "Every ought implies a can"-a suggestion with which I agree. a perfect colluvies of heresies-an irrationalist, You will notice that in my book, I myself (unconscious at the an evolutionist, an agnostic, a tychist, an Auburn­ time of Warfield's suggestion), criticise this very sentence of ist, an Arminian, and, worst of all, a modern Kant's even more drastically than he did. Again he devotes Princetonianist-a new heresy unknown to the old a considerable portion of his review to my article, which would Westminster divines, but the head and front of my offending in indicate that he saw something good in it. Does not that suggest your sight. a great contrast between your method and his? Is there any In April you use 6000 words for the same purpose. At that tenet of Calvinism, even of the new Westminster brand, which rate of progression you will have to produce 18,000 words in compels one to look for scorpions under every Princeton stone? May. This is not calculated to add to the gaiety of nations or So much for your method; now for your matter. the edification of the church. Do you wonder that the prospect of this labored loquacity fills the adamantine souls of the AGNOSTICISM AND TYCHISM editors of CHRISTIANITY TODAY with a canonical apprehension You again reiterate the charge against me of Agnosticism that this flood may carry us all away? and Tychism, as if I held that God Almighty was defective (2) It suggests also a great contrast between Warfield and in knowledge and experimented in ignorance of results. To Van Til. state the case is, for honest men, sufficient refutation of your My five articles in The Encyclopedia of Religion & Ethics you poor calumny. There is no "chance" with the Eternal, nor impale on the five points of Calvinism. These five points, really darkness of ignorance in Him. What I am concerned with is fabricated in the Arminian workshop, Calvinists transformed our knowledge of Him and His ways-not His perfect knowledge into the beautiful mnemonic tulip. You plait them into a crown of Himself and of our ways. This separates, by the whole of thorns with which to crucify my theology. You despaired of diameter of being, my treatment from that of the agnostics and proving your case from my book alone, so you suborn the tychists you have in your brain. evidence of these articles. You have appealed to Caesar, then "We are compelled," says Hilary, writing on the mystery of to Caesar let us go. the Trinity (Bk. 2.2) "by the errors of heretics and blas­ These articles were written from the philosophical standpoint, phemers to handle unlawful matters, to scale difficult heights, and not, save incidentally, from the theological. I was asked to speak of ineffable things, and to tread on forbidden ground. to do so because other writers had the handling of Calvinism, And when by faith alone we ought to do the commandments of Arminianism, Predestination, etc. That explains the absence God, to adore the Father, and with Him to venerate the Son, of direct theological reference which you find so ominous. You and to abound in the Holy Ghost, we are constrained to stretch find in them nothing worthy of commendation. Would it have the inadequacy of our speech to the handling of things unutter­ stained the ermine of your new orthodoxy to have noted in able." them any merit whatsoever? Forgive me, then, if I prefer to stand with all reverent writers Now contrast your cuttle-fish criticism with Dr. Warfield's in Scripture and in the Church, and not with those sequacious methods. He also in his reviews of the Volumes of the Encyclo­ quasi-theologians who speak of the Eternal as if they knew pedia (reviews which are in The Princeton Review, Vols. 11 in logical detail every jot and tittle of His decrees and purposes. and 13), deals with some of these offending articles of mine. Spencer and James and others of that ilk move in a different In a review of four pages of small print, covering a volume universe of discourse from mine. For I believe in the Trans- 14 C HR ISTI AN ITY TODAY May, 1934 cendent God who has in His Word revealed Himself for our "that a decree of reprobation which will damn men though redemption and our regulation. Why persist in covering me with they should repent and believe, or will hinder any man from the confusion which is in your own mind? repenting and believing, or will cause and work any man's impenitency or unbelief," or any doctrine of election "which ANTINOMIES will save men whether they repent or not repent, believe or Nor am 1 greatly perturbed by the charge of being a Kantian not believe, persevere or not persevere, is not Calvinism at all , or Kierkegaardian antinomist. There are no antinomies for but its perversion"-an "error" and a "blasphemy"; and again God-but there are for me, and for most men who hesitate to to make clear, (I use the words of another Calvinist), that claim omniscience. Can you satisfactorily reconcile foreknowl­ "election bars no man from blessedness . . . is not in any sense edge and freedom? If you can, you are the first man I've heard a doctrine of exclusion, its whole design is to be an instrument of who could do so, and you ought not to deny your fellow­ of security. Election shuts no one out; but it is so contrived mortals the benefits of your esoteric knowledge. If we believe that it shuts the elect effectually in." only what we thoroughly know, our creed will be very short That is the Calvinism in which I delight, and I refuse to be indeed. con cussed by your inferences or overwhelmed by your irrelevant "Beware of reasoning on Scripture statements, for logic in citations. I say with a great Calvinistic preacher "Election or theology can effect anything. Its utter inapplicability is shown 110 election, predestination or no predestination, believe on the from this that we frequently believe in religion, what on Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved", or with the Synod admitted premises we can logically disprove, and on the other of Dort, "The death of the Son of God ... is of infinite worth hand, refuse to believe what on admitted premises we can and value abundantly sufficient to expiate the sins of the whole logically prove. The mind is not logic-truth streams into it world. Moreover the promise of the gospel is that whosoever through a thousand channels. And it is no proof in religion believeth in Christ Crucified shall not perish but have ever­ that you are in the wrong way if you see a precipice before lasting life. This promise together with the command to repent you-you will be in the wrong way if you go over it. Reflect and believe ought to be declared and published to all ;nations then that in the economy of providence no principles are carried and to all persons promiscuously and without distinction to to their full application, but there is an equipoise of forces." whom God out of His mere good pleasure and wisdom sends (A. B. Davidson.) the Gospel. And whereas many who are called by the Gospel So much for antinomies. They are not applicable to God, do not repent and believe in Christ, but perish in unbelief, even if Kierkegaard had said they are, which is doubtful, but this is not owing to any defect or insufficiency in the sacrifice to us. That brings me to your third charge, which I fancy you offered by Christ upon the cross, but is wholly to be imputed regard as the most serious of all, viz., my to themselves (Art. 3.5.6). ANTI-CALVINISM Therefore I say to you as Luther said, "If thou wilt needs (3) 1 am grateful to you for your effort to teach me Calvin­ dispute about predestination, then I truly advise thee to begin ism. I flatter myself, rightly or wrongly, that your attempt first at the wounds of Christ, and then all that disputation will is like bringing owls to Athens, or enchantments to Egypt, or cease" (Table Talk, p. 405). indulgences to Rome, or coals to Newcastle--a work of superero­ Let us end our dispute there and refute the taunt tha.t "party gation in which as a good Protestant I do not believe. But men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a down­ let me return the compliment without being guilty of superero­ right enemy." gation. Yours in equanimity, The first principle of Calvinism is the supremacy of the Word of God-not of the word of John Calvin or of any DONALD MACKENZIE, Confession. And so Calvinism has corrected Calvin on some Princeton Theological Seminary. points, as on the relation between faith and assurance, and others, and there is no reason why it may not correct itself by the Word, if necessary. We must keep that in mind, other­ wise we put a system between us and God. Dr. Van Til: Again while we hold that God's eternal purposes are known to Him and are His alone--yet the difficulty for us is the rela­ N his second reply to me Dr. Mackenzie complains tion of these to events and to the nature of man. In the passage of the fact that 1 have gone to his article in the you quote, I state the dangers and defects of Calvinism against Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics in order to which it must ever guard-the spectre of Fatalism, as Dr. Hodge justify the criticism I had made on his book. It is .. difficult to see the justice of this complaint since calls it. Every Calvinist knows it, and against that I warn, . .... as all of us who are true Calvinists must do, for our enemies ~.. :" Dr. Mackenzie himself appealed to what he called easily misrepresent us. , his well-known theological position in order to meet And yet you captiously, like the Arminians of old, raise \:.'-> my charge against his book. against me the spectre of reprobation. You isolate it and raise As to Dr. Mackenzie's reflections on my remarks this to the level of a main tenet of Calvinism which it is not. with respect to Agnosticism, Antinomies and Cal­ The doctrine of reprobation in any form is, as all Calvinists VInISm little needs to be said. Dr. Mackenzie does not go to admit, not revealed in Scripture as the positive doctrine of the his articles in order to prove that my criticism of them was Election of believers is. It is an inferential, rather than an unfair or incorrect. He practically limits himself to stating integral part of revelation, which some good Calvinists hesitate what he now believes. Moreover, he does not give the references to draw, but which their opponents for the sake of obloquy for the quotations he makes from theologians. The quotation insist that they do draw, and that they exclusively emphasise, from the articles of the Synod of Dort do not prove that to the neglect of the positive side of God's sovereign grace in Dr. Mackenzie believes in limited atonement. Dr. Mackenzie salvation. quotes from articles three, five and six of the "second head of N ow your method with me is the method of the Arminians doctrine." I will quote article eight. "For this was the sovereign at the Synod of Dort. I repudiate it, as it was then repudiated, counsel, and most gracious will and purpose of God the Father, nor do your copious quotations from the Confession substantiate that the quickening and saving efficacy of the most precious it in the least. death of his Son should extend to all the elect, for bestowing My purpose in the obiter dictum you quote from my article upon them alone the gift of justifying faith, thereby to bring was to make clear (1 use the words of a famous Calvinist): them infallibly to salvation: that is, it was the will of God, May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 15 that Christ by the blood of the cross, whereby he confirmed is on solid ground when he adds: 'If any libertarian holds that the new covenant, should effectually redeem out of every people, good fruit can come from a bad tree without changing the tribe, nation, and language, all those, and those only, who were tree itself first, then libertarianism is a lingering chimera.' from eternity chosen to salvation, and given to him by the But as certainly he has lost his footing on the rock when he Father, that he should confer upon them faith, which together contends that libertarians must, in the nature of the case, with all the other saving gifts of the Holy Spirit, he purchased therefore be able to point to a 'possibility of changing the bad for them by his death; should purge them from all sin, both character itself.' True enough, 'for Christianity at any rate, the original and actual, whether committed before or after believ­ possibility of new creatures and a new world is basal.' But ing; and having faithfully preserved them even to the end, it is equally basal for Christianity that this is a possibility should at last bring them free from every spot and blemish for God (with whom 'all things are possible') and not for a to the' enjoyment of glory in his own presence forever." Now man himself. It is therefore that Christianity is a religion of I have in effect maintained that Dr. Mackenzie rejects article Salvation. It is a faulty exegesis which reads our Lord as eight. He replies in effect by saying that he believes articles exhorting us ourselves to make the tree good that the fruit may three, five and six. To be sure, he says he was seeking to defend be good: and the Kantian doctrine that every 'ought' implies Calvinism against misinterpretation, but this cannot be accom­ a 'can' is but an obiter dictum, which Kant himself confessed plished by rejecting the doctrine of limited atonement itself. had to be taken on faith and could not be rationally justified. Dr. Mackenzie has in the past definitely rejected limited atone­ Creation is not such an easy thing that we can lightly assume ment. Nor does he even now say that he believes in it. that it lies in our daily, nay momently, power, because without it we cannot escape from our evil selves-except by an act WARFIELD'S CRITICISM of God. It were better to abide in the obiter dictum of a greater One more point remains to be noted. Dr. Mackenzie once than Kant: 'Ye must be born again'" (Princeton Theological again appeals to Dr. Warfield. He attempts to prove that Review, Vol. XIII, page 283). Dr. Warfield's review of his articles has been much more favor­ One could scarcely think of a more serious criticism than able than mine. Now while it is true that Dr. Warfield makes that contained in the quotation given. Warfield found it neces­ some commendatory comments especially on matters of form, sary to point out at length, in the little space at his disposal, as I might also gladly make, the fact remains that Dr. War­ that man cannot save himself. Warfield found that the theology field's criticism is basically the same as mine. Even in the of Dr. Mackenzie is of doubtful orthodoxy, not merely on ques­ review which we are told, is "on the whole most flattering and tions of detail but on the most important point of the new appreciative," Dr. Warfield says that Dr. Mackenzie is "a bit birth. It is difficult to see how Dr. Mackenzie can think of this uncertain" in his handling of the "really creative nature" of review of Warfield as on the whole very favorable. Has the the operations of the Holy Spirit in relation to the activities matter of soundness on the question of the new birth become of the human will (Princeton Theological Review, Vol. XI, so insignificant that a most severe criticism of Warfield on that page 495). This criticism, serious as it is, is made stronger point can be lightly dismissed? still in another review. We quote at length. "Professor Macken­ My criticisms were made without knowledge of Warfield's zie sees no outcome without the postulation of a truly creative reviews. It now appears that Warfield's criticism was at least power of the will; but so far as we can see he discovers no as serious as mine. I am very sorry that in all this discussion ground for such a postulation beyond the extreme desirability Dr. Mackenzie has not seen fit to go into the merits of the case. that a new and better world should somehow be created. His replies have only convinced me more deeply of the justice 'Surely,' he exclaims, 'the real question is: Can the tree itself of my criticism. That criticism was most serious and therefore be made good? not, Can grapes grow on thorns?' He certainly not lightly made. "He Was a Good Man" [Fune ral sermon for J oseph Lynde Day, of the O ld Historic Church of Londonde rry, N. H ., t he old est ru li ng e ld e r in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He died lit the age of 103 years, 2 mo nths a nd eleven days, on March 20, 1934.] By the Rev. Alexander Marlowe, Ph.D., S.T.D.

"With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation" under these earthly skies. Thus the Covenant-Jehovah accord­ (Ps. 91:16). "He was a good man" (Acts 11:24). "He shall ing to promise, satisfied him with long life. receive the Crown of Life, which the Lord promised to them The second clause of the divine assurance was, "and show that love Him" (James 1 :12). him my salvation." That, too, was abundantly fulfilled. Our HIS is not a day of grief and sorrow. We have come revered brother, the other morning, when his Father's call to this sanctuary to pay our respects to the memory came to him, entered into the fullness of his soul's salvation. of one of God's sweetest saints, Joseph Lynde Day, Shortly before he left, two of us stood by his bedside, and I and to celebrate his heavenly coronation, which took said: "Mrs. Livingston, I am not superstitious; but I am con­ place Tuesday morning, March 20th, at five o'clock, scious of spiritual presences in this room, and it seems to me according to the time of earth. that they are smiling." She understood me, for she replied: "With long life will I satisfy him, and show him "I have felt the same several times." Why not? Surely, the my salvation." These words contain two promises, holy angels, those ministering spirits, sent forth by the Most and both were fulfilled in his case. When God High, were there, forming up an escort to conduct him home makes a promise, you may definitely rely upon it. to the land where his well-beloved Master had prepared a place Not one of His promises was ever broken. God satisfied His for him. But listen carefully. Joseph Day did not have to die venerable servant with a long life. "The days of our life are to realize the salvation of God. That salvation had been a three score years and ten, and if there be strength, four score present possession of his for more than ninety years. He entered years." That is the Holy Spirit's time-allowance for average into covenant relationship with God through the shed blood of humanity. But the Lord of Life allotted Joseph Day more years the Redeemer when he was only a young boy, and his Master than that. He spent 103 years, two months and eleven days kept him safe and steady in the Faith all through his long life 16 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934 up to the very end. He relied upon the keeping power of God, tion, and for all other things. Joseph Day was such a man. and he was not disappointed. He lived in Christ, and Christ in him, and that was the secret The story of his long and well-spent life has been written of his beautiful character. many times, and is known throughout the land. He was born 2. Another trait of a good man, is his love for God and his on January 9, 1831, in Melrose, Massachusetts. That was, as fellow men. He loves God for what He is, and for what He you will note, during the Presidency of General Andrew does. He loves his fellow men as the creatures of God, and as Jackson, "Old Hickory" himself. Reflect on that, and consider standing in the same relation to God with himself; but most what under God's providence has happened in this country and of all he loves those of the household of faith. This trait was in the world, since that far-off day. At the age of twenty-five abundantly in evidence in our brother's life. he moved to Wakefield, Mass., where he married his first wife, 3. The good man loves the W01·d of God. He loves the Bible Miss Laura Gould. She died in 1871, after which he married as the infallible Word of God. He reads the Bible as the Word Miss Susan Gore, who died in 1912. of God. He obeys it as the Word of God. He loves its doctrines. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Joseph Day enlisted in the He rejoices in its promises. He follows its direction . He makes Eighth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, and served with it his counsel and his guide of life. Joseph Day was a Bible distinction for the entire duration of the war, under Colonel lover, and studied it assiduously as long as he was able to read Peach of Marblehead. He was the oldest Civil War veteran it-that is, up to about a year ago. When his eyesight failed, in New England, possibly in the United States, and also, as far he would sit and quote aloud long portions of its contents to as can be ascertained, the oldest Ruling Elder in the Presby­ himself. He had stored away a large part of it in the chambers terian Church in the U. S. A. It is a striking coincidence that of his memory. the oldest Ruling Elder in the country served the oldest Pres­ 4. The good man reverences the Sabbath Day. He loves the byterian Church in New England, the Church of Londonderry, sacred stillness of the holy morning. He loves its peaceful and N. H., founded April 12, 1719, and reorganized in 1736. quiet hours. He loves its sweet and delightful associations. On his return from the Civil War, Joseph Day moved to He loves to lay aside worldly thoughts, cares and anxieties, and Londonderry, where shortly afterwards he was elected and on the wings of faith and meditation to rise above the world ordained an elder of this Church which he has served with that he may anticipate the glories of heaven. You, who knew devoted faithfulness since 1867. He was a true lover of Christ; Joseph Day, knew him as a consistent lover of the Lord's hence, also, a true lover of Christ's Church. It had his constant holy day. prayers, his undivided interest, and his utter devotion. After 5. The good man delights in public wo?·ship. With the saints the death of his second wife, he retired from his farm, and of old he says: "How amiable are thy tabernacles, 0 Lord!" for a number of years made his home with Elder and Mrs. As long as he was able to come, up to about a year ago, Elder Wilbur Barrett. It was an experience I have heard him speak Day's seat in the House of God would be occupied by him. of with appreciation. As Mr. and Mrs. Barrett, like Mr. Day When he finally complained that his hearing had become im­ himself, were quiet, unostentatious servants of the same Master, paired, I induced him to sit with me in the pulpit where he they spent the time together in a very congenial way, appre­ might be close enough to the preacher to be able to hear. He ciating one another. During the last sixteen years of his life, was a bit bashful about that arrangement; but I have never felt he lived with Mr. and Mrs. William Livingston. If he had been more deeply honored than when he consented to do so. His their own father, they could not have loved him more, or given soul and spirit was in the worship of God. him a more devoted care during his declining years than they 6. A good man loves to hear the Gospel p1·eached faithfully. did. It has always been an inspiration to me to visit that home He does not go to church to be entertained or diverted. He and note the beautiful Christian relationship that existed wants the full, unadulterated Gospel, with preaching that probes between those people. the conscience, insists on the conversion of the soul and the A little more than three years ago, our congregation, the New Birth, searches the heart, stimulates the affections, and people of the town and members of various military organiza­ presses the motives to obedience. Joseph Day loved that kind tions, met here to felicitate Mr. Day on his one hundredth of preaching, and would abide by it and support it. birthday anniversary. Messages of congratulation from two great Presidents-the late Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, 7. The good man is governed by Christian principles. This as well as from other dignitaries of Church and State, were is seen in all his relations. It influences all his conduct. He is read. One striking incident from that occasion comes to mind. a promoter of "whatsoever things are true, honest, just and One of his aged comrades, the late Captain Pillsbury, presented pure." If all men were like Joseph Day you could safely dis­ him, on behalf of the members of the local Grand Army Post, charge every policeman in the country and break down every with a walking cane. None of us who were there is likely to jail. There would be no need of them. forget the impromptu response of Mr. Day. We can yet see 8. A good man is a man of pmyer. Joseph Day was a mighty the venerable form of that saintly century-old patriarch with man of prayer. He was at it early and late and in between. the beautiful, silver-crowned head, standing before us, and we The first time I visited the Livingston home, more than eleven all marvelled at the graciousness of his speech and the keenness years ago, I heard him talking in his room for more than a of his mind. Veterans of Foreign Wars and members of the half hour. I asked Mr. Livingston: "Is he talking to himself?" American Legion, do you remember the striking, beautiful "Oh, no," he replied, "he is praying." And he added: "And he words, which, on that occasion he addressed to you? I do. These means every word of it." Just so. He did. Because he was were his closing words: "And I hope you will all become the a true man of prayer, I am prepared to state with full convic­ friends of the Saviour that I may meet you all up yonder in tion, that even in his declining days he was probably more the blessed home of our heavenly Father." What about it, useful to the world than many a famous person of vast activity. gentlemen? Will you keep that tryst with him? None of us The politicians and diplomats may lay their plans and form would want to disappoint him. their schemes; but the mighty saint of prayer who has the ear Now, what. lessons can we legitimately draw from the life of the King of Heaven, can go into his closet and upset their of our saintly friend and brother, who has left us for a little most cunning schemes of wrongdoing, because God will do what while? he asks. What the world needs today is praying people of the "He was a good man." What does that mean in a scriptural type of Joseph Day. sense? Of him we may confidently quote the last text: "He shall 1. First it means a man who has surrendered to God, and receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them lives his life by faith in Christ, trusting in Him on ly for salva- tha.t love Him." He is gone. But his holy influence remains, May, 1934 CHR I STIA N ITY TODAY 17

and will continue to remain. In the Christian Church we have abiding, and his memory shall be blessed. He shall be missed for nineteen hundred years had people who are symbolized by among us, for his seats in God's House and in his home are Mr. Appearance and Mr. Reality. Mr. Appearance is usually vacant. But a seat of splendor has been provided for him at faithful in the sense in which the Pharisees were faithful. He his Father's table on high. He loved his Lord, and therefore is in the Church to make a show of himself. It is the stage he has received the promised Crown of Life. Well may it be on which he exhibits for possible admiration. He will advise said of him as of the great Apostle: "He has fought a good and direct, and he will blow his own trumpet till your ear-drums fight-he has finished his course-and henceforth there is laid shiver. Not so, Mr. Reality. He has the Lord in mind. He up for him a crown of glory," which he has now gone to inherit. cooperates gently, and he prays and works and gives to the And so we salute him with those majestic words with which glory of God. Hence his influence is lasting. The sun in heaven the Christian Church for seventeen centuries has committed does not blow a trumpet. It merely shines. The little flower her dying children into the arms of the Triune J ehovah, saying: does not make a noise to attract attention to itself. It merely "Depart in peace, thou ransomed soul! May God the Father, blooms in beauty. But how wonderful the influence of sun and Almighty, who created thee; and J esus Christ, the Son of the flower! Thus is the influence of Mr. Reality for good-quiet, living God, who r edeemed thee; and the Holy Spirit who sanc­ potent, beautiful, but unostentatious. Joseph Day was Mr. tified thee, preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from Reality in his relations to God and man. Hence his influence is this time forth, even for evermore!" Amen.

iments with red rays.) But this order does not last forever. The sun cools off through This Changing World more aeons. Organized life disappears in By the great cold. Only unicellular plants and "Calvinist" animals survive, with bacteria. At length only the last named remain, themselves to T has long been a popular device of tion, in any attempt to forecast the future die in their turn as the cold even solidifies I fictionists to imagine the end of the of the globe. What is the fate of the world earth's atmospher e. At last the light of the world. It is a notable fact that such proph­ to be as it drifts with the rest of the solar sun flicker s out and "like a ship of death, ecies of doom gain greater currency in ages system through the abyss of space? A new the black cold sun is drifting through the when mankind is disillusioned and tired than book called "Creation's Doom" by Desiderius deserts of space with the mournful retinue in more robust times when men see them­ Papp, an Austrian, has been making some­ of its barren planets." But there is an end selves so large that they fill the whole of thing of a stir. It represents a serious -so far as anything may be said to end the future's horizon. A few years ago the attempt to predict a probable future on the completely-when the sun, drifting crazily cult of progress had been erected into what basis of forces now known to operate. t hrough space plunges into a great gaseous amounted almost to a new and infallible (Here, as will appear, is the fatal flaw.) cloud. (Such an event happening to another religion-a religion, by the bye, that seemed In his preface the author remarks. star was observed in the heavens in Feb­ well on its way to capture Protestant Chris­ "The future pictures of humanity and ruary, 1901.) The engendered heat makes tendom. The man who doubted progress as of the earth which the author sketches the sun expJo~ e , and one after th·e other a never-ending upward spiral endured the are based upon the law of probability; the planets "are dissolved into electrons in twentieth century equivalent of burning at their claim to be regarded as the presen­ the consuming power of the devouring sun­ the stake- namely, the lifted eyebrow and tation of real events of the future is balL" The solar system is gone from the the sadly shaken head. Poor fellow! He founded on the almost indisputable prin­ universe. had simply fallen behind somehow in the ciple that the same forces which have Now, just what is wrong with this pic­ race for intelligence. shaped our past will also mold our future, ture? And what is wrong with Spengler's Today it would be only a commonplace that the natural laws which were opera­ vast yet comparatively insignificant can­ to say that critical opinion is very skeptical tive in the processes of this planet mil­ vas? The clue, I think, lies in noting the concerning this thing called "progress." lions of years ago, and are so today, will flaw hinted at above. The man who proph­ Amusingly, the situation is now reversed, also retain their validity during all the esies upon the basis of known forces and and the poor gentlemen who still vociferate aeons that are to come." laws operating in the universe must, if he about progress are themselves regarded as Herr Papp believes that earth is yet is to be accurate, include all the forces in having fallen behind the times. It is in young, and intelligence is in its infancy. operation. If he omits even one major forc e~ 1934 the fashion among intellectuals who He believes also that man has before him his "solution" is nothing better than a guess, know their contemporary fashions (and who a future of undreamed-of mental develop­ and perhaps even worse, since it bears the are not merely content to adopt them twenty ment and mastery of his environment. Yet, similitude of scientific exactitude, without years late), to bow at the shrine of the he believes that, after millions of millions the accompanying reality. What have German colossus Oswald Spengler. To of years to come of stupendous development Spengler and Papp left out of their calcu­ Spengler, civilization is spinning straight and achievements, man will die. To the lations? Much, perhaps, that we do not down the precipice of ruin, and nothing can author the law of the death of species is know, and at least one Fact that we do stop the process because that civilization fundamental. Man must go. What then? know. And the Fact we do know, is the most bears within itself the seeds of its own Since nature never, according to him, important fact of all! Papp envisages a destruction. And this view is buttressed by repeats itself, the day of the vertebrates universe without God in it, and that uni­ Spengler and his followers with an enor­ is done. After another period of millions of verse simply does not exist. The universe mous amount of learning and historical in­ millions of years, the scepter of empire that does exist is the univer se in which sight. (I do not mean to be understood as devolves upon-the ants! The sun is old. the God and Father of our Lord Jesus adopting his thesis. I am only stating it.) Its rays, no more yellow, but an ageing red, Christ is Sovereign, and in which human Spengler, of course, is concerned princi­ have given to the ants such an increase in history and destiny is the working into the pally with the future of man in society. brain power and in actual physical bulk fabric called time of His wise and glorious Most of us, I suppose, care far more about that they erect a mighty civilization. It decrees. The man who does not understand what happens to the human race than we covers the earth. It is organized more the self-revelation of God as given in the do about the possible fate of the planet on highly than the civilization of man ever Bible can understand neither himself nor which it lives. Yet even so, there is a pe­ was. (This startling idea came to Herr the universe in which he lives. The man culiar fascination to a person of imagina- Papp as the result of recent scientific exper- who grasps something of the cosmic, stu-

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pendous meaning of the death of Christ and "progress, progress," dazzled by utopias True, His arrest was obtained through in­ the power of the God-man's shed blood, will of human construction. Nor will he sur­ formation supplied by one who had been in never envisage a world organized by ants, render to the pessimism of the man who intimate association with Him; His death or a dying universe. has no God, no Saviour. To him, the Chris­ was demanded by the r ulers of His own One last remark: a true understanding tian, confidence for the future is placed nation and when His release might have of the Word of God shows the folly of these in the Person of God Himself, and progress been gained His own people counted it a two extremes. The Christian man will not is the fuller understanding (eternal in pos­ greater favor that a notorious robber should be swayed by the enthusiast who cries sibility) of His revealed will. be set free; "Roman justice" in the person of Pontius Pilate delivered Him over to execution. But the remarkable testimony of this chapter is that the very persons who Sunday School Lessons for June brought about His death confessed by word (International Uniform Series) and deed that He had done nothing worthy of death. Judas, filled with remorse, con­ By t he Rev. Prof. N. B. Stonehouse, Th.D fessed that he had been guilty of "innocent blood" (4) . The rulers replied, "What is Lesson for June 3, 1934 treachery of Judas and the crucifixion at that to us?", and confirmed their indifference to truth and justice in the matter in other JESUS IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS the hands of the rulers stood the eternal purpose of God (Acts 2: 23; 4: 28) . Jesus ways (see 26 :59 ff.; 27 :20) . The people, (Lesson Text-Matthew 126. Golden T ext had taught that. To go to the cross was asked what evil Jesus had done, answered -Verse 89) simply to mind the things of God (Mt. that their only concern was that Jesus F Christ's death were like the death of an 16:23) . The Shepherd was smitten of God should be crucified (23). And Pilate, after I ordinary man, this chapter would be one Himself (v. 31; Zech. 13 :7). And this is he had been warned by his wife, agreed of the gloomiest recorded in history. It de­ the great lesson of the agony in the garden: that Jesus had done nothing wrong, and scribes His utter rejection by His own people the only reason that Jesus drank the bitter tried to absolve himself of any complicity in and betrayal at the hands of one of the cup was that it had been given Him of His the death of Jesus (19-24). inner circle of confidants. And, sadder still, Father to drink (36-46; see Heb. 5:7 f.) . But the description of the death of Jesus His last days with the disciples-their lack Then they proclaimed that salvation was in this chapter is more than that of an inno­ of whole-hearted devotion, their misplaced possible only through the Crucified Christ, cent man. We have here the death of a self-confidence and their abandonment of the Servant of Jehovah (Acts 4:10-12; 3:13; king-the King of Israel. There can be no Him in the hour of agony and crisis. But Is. 53 ) . Jesus had taught, too, that His doubt that Jesus was crucified because He death was redemptive in character. It was the shadow of the cross retreats in the light claimed to be the Anointed of the Lord, the a ransom for many. And in the institution of Jesus' own reflection upon His death. Messiah, the King of Israel. These claims What His friends and foes did and said of the Supper, He declared that His blood, before the Sanhedrin had brought the charge gives the setting for what Jesus did and the blood by which the New Covenant of blasphemy (26: 63 ff.), and His confes­ said as He went to the cross, and our great promised in J er. 31 :31-34 was to be in­ sion before Pilate that He was King (27:11) concern is with the meaning He gave to the augurated, was poured out for many unto cross. the remission of sin (26-29). was repeated as an accusation above the Jesus had told His disciples that the very And then they witnessed to the fact of cross (37). purpose of His coming into the world was His deliverance from death by the mighty How ridiculous the claim seemed! He that He might die, and from the very begin­ power of God (Acts 2 :24, 31, 36; 3 :15). had been rejected by the Jews themselves, ning of His ministry (Baptism, Temptation) And Jesus had prepared them for that, also, and then had remained silent in the face had shown that the way He was to pursue when He had spoken of His death at Jeru­ of their expressions of hate. The claim was was one of humiliation and suffering rather salem (Mt. 16 :21 ff.). Though they would taken up by hostile lips, and the mere utter­ than that of the glory which belonged to be scattered at His death, there would be a ance of "King" and "Son of God" appeared Him as the Messiah. There had been early reunion in Galilee (32). And even to those to offer a sufficient refutation of it. The intimations of His approaching death (like who rejected Him, Jesus disclosed the great soldiers made mock obeisance to Him Mark 2 :19 ff.), but it was especially after truth that, although He had been humiliated (29 f.), and the people and rulers, having Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi that and condemned and was facing the most reminded him of his claims, asked Him why Jesus insisted upon talking about His death. debasing form of death, nevertheless, He He did not save Himself from the cross But the disciples did not care to hear remained the Son of God and the heavenly (39-43) . Son of Man, and the time was coming when about it. Peter, so little, that Jesus tells But Jesus obviously claimed to be King the tables would be turned, when His judges him that he has become an instrument of in a different sense. His kingdom was to be would appear before Him to be judged, for Satan by making the Messianic program of realized through His own death and in suffering and death a stumbling block to the Son of Man would be seen sitting at the those who recognized His right to make Him (Mt. 16 :23). And the twenty-sixth right hand of God and coming on the clouds the claims He did. His endurance of the chapter records the sad prophecy that Peter of heaven (64). and the rest will find the Shepherd who was cross, and even the agony of separation from God expressed in His cry from the cross, about to be smitten a stumblingblock (31- Lesson for June 10, 1934 35) and its fulfillment in the flight of the were but a prelude to the joy and exaltation J ESUS ON THE CROSS disciples and Peter's denial (56, 69-75). which were to follow. He suffered, He died, But how .glorious the transformation after (Lesson T ext-Matthew 27. Golden T ext He was buried and a guard was set, but He Pentecost when, as true followers of Christ, -Hebrews 12:2) remained the Son of God and King of they too insist upon talking about His Jesus had taught that He was to go to Israel, and so He must r ise according to His death! They preached Christ and Him cru­ the cross to accomplish "for many" what own word. But already before that great cified, an offence and a stumblingblock to they could not do for themselves. For the event, God answered Jesus' yielding up of Jew and Greek, but God's wisdom and God's sins of many His blood was poured out­ His spirit by working stupendous miracles, power to those who believe. not for His own, for He was innocent of so that even the soldiers could not help cry­ Then they proclaimed that back of the any wrong . ing out, "Truly this was God's Son" (50-54).

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Lesson for June 17, 1934 Great Commission, the rrusslOnary text of the gospel "to the obtaining of the glory of the church (see also Luke 24:47; Acts 1:8). our Lord Jesus Christ" they believed a lie. THE RISEN LORD AND THE It sets forth the tremendous claims of Jesus The Galatians were led astray which caused GREAT COMMISSION as Lord and King as possessing absolute the Apostle to say, "0 foolish Galatians, (Lesson Text-Matthew 28. Golden Text and universal authority; it demands obedi­ who hath bewitched you, that ye should not -28:19,20) ence to His program and teachings; it obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus The Messiah had to go to the cross. It teaches that all men must recognize Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, cruci­ was God's will. But because He was the as Lord and Saviour from sin by becoming fied among you?" How Christ struggled Anointed of the Lord, the Son of God, the His disciples; it gives the promise of His against deceivers and how He labored with cross could not be the end. And in setting presence until the end. A missionary pro­ the deceived. His face towards Jerusalem where He was gram that is true to Christ, the Head of the The Church's history is one long story of to die, Jesus also invited His disciples to Church, must be true to His commission. the working of the "mystery of iniquity" look beyond to His resurrection. And in Christ is Lord of all and His authority only "with all deceivableness of unrighteousness the accounts of the days that followed His is normative; His name is the only name in them that perish." The lines are clearly death-in the Gospels, the Acts and I Cor. whereby men must be saved; His Spirit drawn. The Prince of Darkness is at en­ l5-we possess many proofs of the fulfill­ must guide and make effective the whole mity with our God and His Christ. ment of His prophecy. missionary endeavor. But the note of au­ In our day there are many who are de­ There is, first of all, the fact of the thority in it all, its supernaturalism, its ex­ ceived. Think of churches that were once empty tomb. Pilate had ordered that it be clusiveness, its finality, its universalism, its true churches of God, where the gospel was made as secure as possible. A guard had intolerance, its offence have long since be­ heard in all its purity, now submitting to been set and the stone sealed. But just as come unpalatable to the modern taste. The the errors of Satan and tolerating within God had spoken at the moment of Christ's old missionary message and the old mis­ them the deadly enemies of the cross. death when His enemies seemed to have sionary motives must be rethought and There are all forms of deception. Satan succeeded entirely in their plans, by earth­ restated, it is said, for they are obstacles in has many weapons to dislodge men from the quake and other wonders, so now God spoke the way of promoting brotherhood and un­ truth. We believe a lie before we know it again. There was another earthquake and derstanding in the earth. There are only so crafty is the Evil One. God's Word alone an angel appeared to roll away the stone. two sides. The one is that of the disciples is truth. All else is delusion. As for the guards, they became so frightened who, through divine grace, placed their con­ Even Christians may be deceived. Men that they could not move. But a little later fidence in the crucified and risen Saviour, rise up and say, "Lo, here is Christ, or they became witnesses of the empty tomb to and made Him their only message. The there." Great signs and wonders are the Jewish rulers. However, the rulers con­ other preaches another gospel which is no shown; "insomuch that, if it were possible, tinued in their unbelief, and in their satanic gospel at all, which fails to declare the cross they shall deceive the very elect." This can purpose to destroy faith in the Messiah. All and resurrection as great redemptive acts only be when God's children do not hide His of the money available for this purpose had of God which are to be believed because life Word in their hearts. not been given to Judas, nor their zeal to . depends on faith. The latter alternative In following men we lose sight of the persuade the people that He was a deceiver makes Christ a deceiver and faith in His Gospel message. Nothing pleases' Satan expended when they brought Him to the gospel deception. It is the side taken by the more than when God's children are side­ cross. rulers of the Jewish people. On which side tracked from the message of salvation and But the Stone of stumbling, rejected of is the modern missionary program? follow something other than that salvation the builders, who were about to be broken which is "through sanctification of the to pieces and scattered as dust, was to be­ Lesson for June 24, 1934 Spirit and belief of the truth." come the Head of the Corner. The death Between the present and the glorious com­ and resurrection of Jesus were an offence REVIEW ing of Christ in the clouds of heaven we are and a savor of death to unbelief, but, These lesson studies themselves, if taken exhorted to patience and endurance and through the grace of God. the crucified and as a whole for the second quarter, will give struggle against Satan and his errors. risen Saviour was believed on by His own. suggestive review treatment. If readers do "'For still our ancient foe Doth seek to work us woe ; God did not leave the empty tomb to be dis­ not have the March and April numbers in His cr aft and power are g reat, covered by the disciples, but caused His which the first lessons were treated, they And, armed with cruel hate, will be furnished free upon request. On earth is not his equal." angelic messenger to lead the two Marys to sang Martin Luther. Let us not under­ the tomb, and command them to inform the estimate the deceiver's strength. rest. So God Himself brings forth faith A falling away must needs come. The in His children. The Comfort of the mystery of iniquity is now working and will And there was more than the witness of Scriptures culminate in the man of sin. the empty tomb to accomplish this work of Should we be discouraged when we see God. For Christ Himself appeared to them A Devotional Meditation these things? Did not our Lord and His time and again during a period of forty By the Rev. David Freeman, Th.M. Apostles tell us before that these things days, in Jerusalem and Galilee, actively wit­ must be? Rather let us rejoice that our nessing to His own Resurrection, and so "Let no man deceive you by any means : names are written in the Lamb's book of binding their minds and hearts to Him in a for that day shall not come, except there life. faith that never again wavered. He began come a falling away fir st, and that man of Let us stand fast until He comes. Let us a work which He was to continue after His sin be revealed, the son of perdition."-2 fight the good fight of faith. Let us' endure. Ascension when He poured out the Spirit Thess. 2:8. To those that trouble us God will recom­ from on High, so that His own no longer T is so easy to be deceived. Why? Be­ pense tribulation. But our patience and stumble at the Crucified Saviour but place I cause there is that in the human heart faith will only the more render us worthy their trust in Him for time and for eternity. which loves not the truth. Think of the of the Kingdom of God. Our endurance There was much that had to be told now countless numbers who have forsaken the declares aloud that the seal and token of after His death and resurrection had taken ways of the Lord and given themselves over His love is upon us. Hereby we know that place, concerning the meaning of these to delusion. Our sinful nature is fertile soil we are the children of God. great facts and the coming of His King­ for any wile of Satan to grow and flourish. The reproach of Christ is "greater riches dom. And included among them was the Even after the Thessalonians had heard than the treasures in Egypt." 20 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934

hand. It is significant that none of the speakers for Dr. McCormick's side tried to News of the Church deny these facts. They were passed over in silence. The most amusing moments of the after­ noon, however, were when the Rev. Vincent Foreign Missions- Freedom Dee Beery, his voice quivering with emotion, read long extracts from the "Manual of EETINGS of several Presbyteries in 2. The Presbytery is still convinced, as wus Presbyterian Law." He prefaced his re­ M April and early May gave abundant indicated in the overture which it passed on marks by saying that he would not quote evidence that the official party in the coun­ May 1, 1933, that confidence of Bible-believing individual opinion. He would read them the Christians in the Board of Foreign Missions of cils of the Presbyterian Church in the law of the Church! And then he proceeded the Pre byterian Church in the U. S. A. can be U.S.A. were determined to make support of restored only if the General Assembly elects to to read for about fifteen minutes f~'om a the official Church agencies compulsory, and membership in the Board no pel' ons except book of opinion, reading not one sentence that they were prepared to unlimber the those who are "fully aware of the danger in from the actual law of the Church! (The "big stick" in an effort to crush opposition. which the Church stands and who are deter­ "Manual," of course, is not law, only a help mined to insist upon such verities as the full to its understanding by lay people, written Philadelphia truthfulness of Scripture, the virgin birth of our by Drs. Mudge and Finney.) The implica­ The Presbytery of Philadelphia, generally Lord, His substitutionary death as a sacrifice tion of what Mr. Beery read was to the considered one of the most consistently con­ to satisfy Diviue justice, His bodily resurrection effect that a good Presbyterian ought to do servative in the Church, was chosen as the and His miracles, as being esseutial to the Word whatever the General Assembly says, no of God and our Standards and a being neces­ first battleground. At an adjourned meet­ sary to the me age which every mi sionary matter what it may command. To see ing on April 16, the matter of Foreign uuder our Church shall proclaim." Auburn Affirmationists, whose document be­ Missions was the order of the day. Admin­ 3. In consonance with the great principle gan as a protest against what they con­ istration leader Dr. William L. McCormick, which was enunciated by the General Assembly sidered as illegal usurpation of powers by led his coalition of Modernists and middle of 1 70, immediately after the union between the Assembly, voting against their own of the roaders, augmented by a number of the Old and New Schools, to the effect that principle, and in favor of those who aim to frightened conservatives to a 67 to 37 vic­ "Equally free and responsible directly to Chri t make the Assembly lord of conscience, made tory in a resolution "disapproving" the In­ are all Christian people, in deciding through more than one presbyter smile sadly. dependent Board. An analysis of the vote what agencies th y will do their share of Hi The vote on the substitute was 65 to 38. work of Mis ious," the Presbytery holds to the showed that Dr. McCormick was supported Some who voted for the substitute voted for historic positiou of the Church that it levies by the Modernist element in the Presbytery no taxes upon its membeL's, that support of par­ Dr. McCormick's motion later with visible to a man. The usual number of doctrinal ticular Boards or Agencies in the Presbyterian reluctance. A roll call was ordered after it neutrals who vote consistently with the mod­ Church, including the official Board of Foreign had been demanded by Dr. McCormick him­ ernist party, also were out in full force. Mi sions, is a matter purely of free will, and self, who declared "We want to have a rec­ What then became of the usual conservative should not be enforced by auy kind of ecclesia'­ ord of just how every man votes 'on this," majority? Almost forty were there to tical disability or penalties. uttered in a not-too-reassuring tone. battle to the end. Of the remainder, some After the substitute was seconded, Prof. The motion as adopted was as follows: were absent and others voted for Dr. Mc­ MacRae made abundantly clear why it was WHEREAS in the e days of financial stress Cormick's resolution not, it is supposed, being offered. The Presbytery was being it is very necessary that our Presbyterian because they were in favor of it, but because asked by Dr. McCormick to express itself Churche support the work of Foreign Mission­ they were afraid not to vote for it. Great upon a subject which did not properly con­ aries we ha\' e already established if we are to pressure had been brought to bear on some cern it. The Independent Board had not asked avoid the recall of consecrlLted men and women of the members; and threats of what would for any endorsement. It had nothing to do, who have gone forth in good faith and who were happen to those who voted against the reso­ ecclesiastically, with the Presbyterian never more needed in the foreign field than lution were publicly made even on the floor Church in the U.S.A. Passing a resolution today. of Presbytery. The large number of ab­ like that was going out of the way to pass BE IT RESOLVED tbat we as a Presbytery sentees is generally credited to these judgment on an organization which was not di approve of the e tablishment of a new Board thl'eats. Under those circumstances, the before the Presbytery. Then, speaking to of Foreign Mission in the Presbyterian Church. wonder was not that the resolution was not his own resolution, Mr. MacRae brilliantly U. S. A., and that we urge Ollr people to support defeated, but that thirty-seven members of marshalled the evidence that showed some­ the work already established. Presbytery wel'e willing to vote their con­ thing to be radically wrong in the policy of Baltimore victions in the face of threats to their the official Board of Foreign Missions. In the Presbytery of Baltimore at its ecclesiastical lives. Others who spoke for the substitute resolu­ As soon as Dr. McCormick had intro­ tion were, the Rev. C. J. Woodbridge, the spring meeting occurred another happening duced his motion, making an impassioned Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and ruling elder of unusual significance. Two young men, speech in its support, in which he intimated Henry C. Albin. Mr. Albin told the Presby­ both of them seniors in Westminster Semi­ that the backers of the Independent Board tery in a vigorous and forthright manner nary, were to come up for licensure. They were promoting it because they had a that what he had heard was enough for him, were informed by mail by the chairman of grudge against certain members of the of­ --even if only a quarter of it was true. In the examining committee a few days before ficial board (a much repeated libel which a business establishment, persons who were appearance, that they must be prepared to has no foundation in fact), the Rev. A. A. not more faithful to their trust than the state their attitude toward the boards and MacRae introduced a substitute motion members of the official Board would be out­ agencies of the Church. Before the com­ which read as follows: side on the street in about five minutes, he mittee they were quizzed at length. One of 1. The Presbytery of Philadelphia gives said. Messrs. Woodbridge and Griffiths the students, Mr. Calvin K. Cummings, of­ thanks to God for the work of the many true spent most of their time bringing facts fered the following answer when asked if missionarie who are serving uuder the Board about the official Foreign Board home to the of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church he would be "loyal" to the boards of the in the U. S. A., and expresses its earnest hOl1e Presbytery, many of them startling facts Church: that they may not be deprived of their support which had only come to light since the last It is my firm intentiou to lIpport the boards even in these difficnlt times. Assembly, some even that had just come to and agencies of the Presbyterian Church in the May, 1934 CH R ISTIANITY TODAY 21

U. S. A. in so far as they themselves in their Officeholder Number One preach the gospel. What more should be whole policy are loyal to the Constitution of asked of them? It appeared that they were the Presbyterian Church U. S. A.., and the Word not willing to pledge blanket loyalty to the of God. In so declaring I place myself under Board of Foreign Missions. But who of them the protection of the Confession of Faith, Chap­ would be willing to make such a pledge? ter XX, Section 2, which, as the law of the Pl·esbyterian Church, declares that "God alone Was any Board infallible? If he should i Lord of the conscience, and hath I ft it free oppose the licensure of these properly quali­ hom the doctrines and commandments of men fied young men it would distress him all the which are in any thing contrary to his Word, rest of his life. or beside it, in matters of faith or worship. So The Presbytery, according to custom, that to believe such doctrines, or to obey such voted on the candidates separately. The commandments out of conscience, is to betray vote on Mr. Morris was 40 for licensure, tl"lle liberty of conscience, and the req ui ring of 25 against. Before the vote could be taken an implicit faith, and an absolu te and blind on Mr. Cummings, Dr. Leetch announced ohedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, his intention of "appealing" the matter to and reason also." the Synod and the Assembly, thus holding When asked if he considered the Board the matter up until 1935. In the ensuing of Foreign Missions to be loyal now to the discussion it was decided by the party favor­ Constitution of the Church, he replied: ing licensure to let the matter lie over until I wish that it were possible for me, in good June, awaiting, among other things, some conscience, to say that I believe the "Presen t Board of Foreign Missions" as now constituted possible clarification from the Assembly. to be loyal to the Constitution of tbe Church This action, was, of course, superfluous, for and the Word of God. With the evidence that I no "appeal" lay in such a case, which would now have I cannot conscientiou ly affirm that have only been stayed by a complaint signed I believe this Board to be loyal to the Consti­ by more than one-third of the members of tution of the Presbyterian Church U. S. A., Presbytery present. and the Word of God. l\Iy mind is open to Some observers professed to see in the receive any new facts. Should I become con­ The Rev. Lewis S. Mudge, D.O. decisive vote for licensure a Presbyterial vinced that this Board is loyal to the Presbyte­ rebuke for Dr. Mudge in bringing his official rian Standat·ds and the Word of God, I will gh'e Students must give "a written pledge." influence to bear upon a matter that lay it my hearty and enthusiastic support. I take this matter, however, to be within the sphere wholly within the province of the Presby­ of liberty allowed in the Presbyterian Church tery. U. S. A. as set forth in the Confe sion of Faith, Presbyterian Church should hasten to re­ Lackawanna Chapter XX, Section 2. No man of honor could verse its whole historic attitude toward free­ promise in advance to support a board regard­ The Rev. Henry Coray is pastor of dom of conscience. The fight in Presbytery W. less of what it might do in the future. My the flourishing Church in West Pittston, Pa. was led for the young men by the Rev. John willingness to support this Board insofar as in Mr. Coray is under appointment as the first H. McComb, and the Rev. T. Roland Philips. it .. whole policy it is loyal to the Presbyterian male missionary of the Independent Board. They ~rgued tbat to ask such a pledge of Standards and the Word of God seems to The Church is in the Presbytery of Lacka­ me to be a far as any Christian mllll who the students was unconstitutional; the only wanna. Early in March the Rev. C. J. Wood­ values his word can hone tly go. questions to be asked being found set down bridge, the Independent Board's magnetic The other student, Mr. Irvin Morris, made in black and white in the Form of Govern­ young Secretary, preached in the church. A a statement of his own in which he would ment. Nor did tbey feel that the question garbled account of the sermon was sent to not promise unqualified future support of in the Form of Government referred to by Dr. Mudge by a person whose name has not the boards. Dr. Mudge could possibly be stretched to in­ been divulged. Thereupon, the next day Dr. Before the Presbytery the Stated Clerk, clude a promise of board support, or even Mudge wrote to the Stated Clerk of the the Rev. A. Brown Caldwell, D.D., read a of what successive Assemblies might do, but Presbytery of Lackawanna, as follows: that the question bad to do with the candi­ portion of a letter from the Rev. Lewis A communicant member of the West Pittston eymour Mudge, D.D., Stated Clerk of the dates' belief that the government and dis­ Presbyterian Church who was present in said General Assembly. The letter had been cipline of the Church as set forth in the church last Sunday morning, March 11th, has, written in response to one asking advice as constitution was Scriptural-a very different on his own motion, given me the enclosed to what action the Presbytery should take thing. account of the addres then delivered by the toward the Independent Board. The portion The Rev. R. G. Leetch led the fight against Rev. Charles J. Woodbridge, the secretary of of the letter read to the Presbytery of Balti­ licensure, being aided by the Rev. Bruce the o-called "Independent Board of Presbyte­ more is as follows: McDonald and Thomas Guthrie Speers, for­ rian Foreign Missions." If and when any students from Westminster merly associated with the First Church in It is of great importance that the ministers and ruling elders of your Presbytery should be eminary come before your Pre bytery they New York during the time of Dr. H. E. Fos­ informed of the action taken by our last General . hould be informed that the Presbytery will dick's presence there. Dr. Speers is an neither license nor ordain them until they have Assembly after a full investigation of all matters Auburn Affirmationist. Unexpected opposi­ relating to our Board of Foreign Missions to given a written pledge that they will support tion to the official party, however, came from the official agencies of the Church as a part of which Dr. Woodbridge refers. This action will two other Auburn Affirmationists, who at their pledge of loyalty to the government and be found in the 1933 Minutes, Part 1, page discipline of the Church. least thus evidenced their consistency with 158, seq. The time has come for kindly but forcefnl the non-doctt·inal portions of that document. In view of this investigation made under the auspices of the General Assembly, through its action, and when the law in the matter is so The two were the Rev. J. J. Coale, of An­ duly elected Standing Committee on Foreign perfectly clear, relating as it does to funda­ napolis, and the Rev. Hugh Lenox Hodge, mental principles of orderly government and D.D., of the First Church, Baltimore. Dr. Missions, it is unconstitutional for any congre­ gation belonging in the Presbyterian Church in procedure, I am sure that a Presbytery like that Hodge, who was later elected as Moderator the U. S. A. to give any suppor.t whatever to of Baltimore will act with definiteness and vigor. of the Presbytery, declared that the law had the so-called Board and any minister or ruling But others were not so s ure that the law been superseded by the gospel. The gospel elder who gives his official sanction or support was so delightfully clear and simple that dispensation was characterized by grace. to this Board is disloyal to his ordination vows. at the nod of officeholder number one the These young men were ready and willing to Individuals are at liberty, of course, to dispose 22 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934 of their money as tl1l'Y may individually choose, the churches within its bounds from assisting accordance with the Constitutiou of the Church but no congregation or Session, under the juris­ this so-called Board either by financial contribu­ and the spiritual and moral obligations which diction of the Presbyterian Ch urch in the tions or by inviting or allowing its representa­ bind all those who are in its fellowship. U. S. A., can legally take offerings for or vote tives to speak in the churches of tills Presbytery. The deliberations of the conference, un­ money to the so-called Independent Board, nor And be it further resolved that the Stated fortunately too long to report in full, can any society or organization under the au - Clerk be instructed to send a copy of tills reso­ abounded in illumination. When the official pices of a local church, Presbytery, or Synod lution to every Minister and Clerk of Session party representatives insisted politely that so do. I suggest that you take prompt measures in the Presbytery, a copy to the Board of For­ they "were not making charges," one of the to make all tills known to the pastor and Session eign Missions and a copy to each of the Church of the West Pittston Church. papers. conservatives replied, "No-you have done ·With fraternal regards, I am Notice of complaint against this action that to which charges are a mere preliminary. Yours sincerely, was later filed by five members of the Pres­ The General Council brought in a verdict LEWIS S. MUDGE, Stated Olerk. bytery. It is generally conceded that the not a mere charge!" Conservatives inquired Notwithstanding the suggestion of Dr. terms of the resolution greatly exceed the by what authority the General Council Mudge in the last sentence of his letter, no powers possessed by the Presbytery, and are assumed to judge the case, even reading effort was made to "make all this known" an unjust usurpation of the freedom of conclusions. It developed that, while the either to the pastor or the people of West members and churches. statement said that "after a most careful Pittston. Instead, the letter was "sprung" study the General Council is of the unani­ on the Presbytery of Lackawanna at its U.nive~sity Club Conference mous opinion," etc., Dr. Kistler, a member April 17th meeting, in urging the adoption of the Council had not even read Mr. M. F. Upon invitation of last Assembly-Modera­ of a resolution against the Independent Thompson's article in the legality of the tor McDowell, an informal conference was Board. Immediately after the reading of the Independent Board! It also appeared that held on Thursday, May 3, between repre­ correspondence Auburn Affirmationist the the official party were sending out to the sentatives of the General Council and of the Rev. P_ S. Heath, of Wilkes-Barre, offered Assembly Commissioners an argument Independent Board. Present: For the Gen­ a mild resolution exhorting the Churches of against the legality of the Independent eral Council, Drs. McDowell, L. S. Mudge, presbytery not to cooperate with the Inde­ Board, too late for any possible reply befo7'e and Raymon Kistler of Rochester, N. Y. pendent Board. Then Dr. S. Turner Foster the Assembly,-after having known of the For the Independent Board: Dr. J. G. of Carbondale, reputed to be a conservative, Independent Board for almost a year. As Machen, the Rev. Prof. Paul Woolley, Mur­ threw a bombshell into the meeting by in­ an excuse it was offered by the official party ray Forst Thompson, Esq., and the Rev. H. troducing a much more drastic resolution. "that the Independent Board had only re­ McAllister Griffiths. After luncheon in the Dr. Heath was so well satisfied with the sub­ cently been incorporated, hence prior infor­ University Club, the first named group stitute that he promptly withdrew his own mation was all hearsay." This was met by provided their guests with a typewTitten resolution. The effect of this, together with the crushing rejoinder by Dr. Machen that statement. During the discussion it was the reading of the letter containing a garbled "It is not our incorporation you object to, somewhat revised, and finally emerged in report of Mr. Woodbridge's sermon, was to which is only a legal convenience. You ob­ the following form: secure the passage of the resolution by a We have asked you to meet with us at this ject to our existence. And that was cer­ large majority. Mr. Coray opposed the reso­ time with the purpose in mind of bringing to tainly definite for months before incorpora­ lution on Constitutional grounds, and re­ your attention certain matters of vital interest tion." quested that his vote be recorded. The text to us all. These we shall set forth just as briefly It also emerged during the discussion that of the resolution adopted is as follows: and as kindly as we can. the official party had an entirely erroneous According to the provisions of our Form of You and others have associated yourselves conception of authority in the Presbyterian Government, Chapter 23, Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, in an organization known as "The Independent Church. Moderator McDowell urged that all special orgllnizations collecting and distrib­ Board for Presbyterian Foreign Mission ," and there must be, in the Presbyterian Church, uting moneys in the churche of our denomina­ have incorporated under the law of the Com­ somewhere, a final authority,-that could tion for benevolent work shall be subject to the monwealth of Pennsylvania. As representatives speak with supreme power. To this the power of oversight and direction vested by the of the General Council of our General Assembly, Constitution in the session and in the higher and especially of its Administrative Committee, Conservatives replied: "Of course there is judicatories. to which Committee our General Council has such an authority in the Presbyterian Our Board of Foreign Mi~sions, duly consti­ committed ad interim the problems involved, we Church! But it is not found in the General tuted by the General Assembly, has received and wish to make known to you that after a most Assembly. The Presbyterian Church is a continue to enjoy the full approval and unqual­ careful study the General Council is of the Protestant Church, and its supreme author­ Hied endorsement of the General Assembly after unanimous opinion that the following inferences ity is in the Word' of God." Then one of a most careful scrutiny of its policies and work. may be drawn from its study: them said, "Dr. McDowell, the kind of au­ It is the accredited and official agency of our (1) That "The Independent Board for Pres­ thority you are looking for can be found denomination for the receiving and administer­ byterian Foreign Missions" in its organization only one place in the world,-and you know ing of all fund contributed through our churches and operation, i contrary to fundamental prin­ for Foreign Missions. ciples of the Constitution of our Church. where that is." "No, I don't," replied Dr. WIthout the consent or approval of any (2) Tbat you and your associates in this McDowell, "where is it?" "In the Church judicatory of our Ch urch, a group of ministers organization are violating your ordination or of Rome" was the grim reply. and elders has undertaken to establish, in an membersillp vows, or both. Later, Dr. McDowell said with great posi­ unconstitutional manner, a so-called Indepen­ We feel that it is our official as well as our tiveness, "If you don't like the decisions of dent Board of Presbyterian Foreign Missions, Christian duty as your brethren to bring tbese the General Assembly, there are two things willch is now appealing for financial support facts in a friendly way to your attention and you can do: you can either submit to the from Presbyterian Churches. This so-call ed that of Y01.!r associates. The General Council decision and obey, or you can withdraw from Board is not "under the immediate direction, is most reluctant to bring these matters to the control and oversight of" any se. sion, presby­ attention of the approaching General Assembly. the Church." To which a conservative Te­ tery, synod or of the General As. embly, nor is It earnestly bopes that before the Assembly plied, "No, Dr. McDowell, there is another it "subject to the power of oversight and direc­ convenes it may have your assurance and that thing we can do. It is something clearly tion vested by the Constitu tion in the session of your associates that you will discontinue the recognized in the report of the Assembly's and in the higher judicatories." It is therefore organization and operation of The Independent Commission of Fifteen, in its 1926 report. operating contrary to the constitution of our Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and We have a right to remain in the Church church in soliciting funds from the churches of that in your endeavors to advance the purposes our denomination. and principles in willch you believe, you will, as and work to have the decision reversed. Do Therefore, be it resolved that the Presbytery ministers or laymen in the Presbyterian Church we not have that right?" of Lackawanna hereby enjoins its members and iu the United States of America, proceed in Dr. McDowell: "Well, I suppose so." May, 1934 CHR I STIANITY TODAY 23

Answer: "Then you see that we do not Breathing out threatenings . . . The Sunday School Times, perhaps the have to submit or get out, for how could most influential evangelical periodical in the we be working for a change if we did world, in its "Fundamentals Number" of either?" (General laughter.) May 5th, devoted its leading editorial to the One other point in the communication also Independent Board, entitling it "A New caused some discussion : "that you and your Mission Board for the Old Faith." Signif­ associates . . . are violating . . . your mem­ icant excerpts : be?'ship vows." It is a well-known fact that These were two of the amazing examples of the only membership vows in the Presby­ Modernism in missions given by Cha l'les J. terian Church are those by which one de­ "Voodbl'iI1ge, General Secretary of the newly clares Christ to be his Saviour and Lord­ formed Independent Board for Presbyterian a fact which the General Council in its Foreign Missions, at the first public meeting of the Board held last month at tbe Centml North "careful study" had somehow apparently Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Philadel­ overlooked. phia. This church has been standing like a The conferees parted in perfectly good Iighthollse of Gospel truth and uDcompromi ing spirit, but with each party apparently un­ testimouy under the pastorate of Mel'ril T. l\fac­ shaken. The official party took with them P hel"Son, who led the singing at this meeting some food for thought in the suggestion by with his usual contagiou enthusiasm, and who one of the conservatives, that, instead of himself is a member of the ne.w Board. MI'. making accusations to the General Council Wool1b l"i ilge gave these facts among others in or the General Assembly, they should make answer to the question, ","'hy was it necessary to form the new Board? As he toW of these them to his presbytery, in accordance with thing, expressions of urprise and gasps of the law of the Church and not to find him astonishment were audible tbroughout the guilty in the General Council without crowded auditorium. ~'he iIIu tratiou of defec­ bothering to ask him to appear. tion in the PresbyteL"ian Church, given by MI'. \ Voodbridge and other speakers, were typical of Press Mention what is happening in many denom inations. In Time, in its issue of April 23, told of the our own land and other countries the fog of Independent Board and of its Secretary. The Rev. John McDowell, D.O. Modemism has been settling upon the churches, Its story follows : damping the fires of evangelism, and dimming "Submit . . . or withdraw . .." to a feeble light the church's testimony to the Missionaries Old-Style Lord Jesus Christ as · the only Saviour and to Fundamentalists in the Presbyterian Church the whole Bible as the infallible Word of God. stoutly believe that the Virgin Birth, the In­ some "Christer" he was quietly, sincerely, and The Presbyterian meeting just held in Phila­ spiration of the Scriptures, the Substitutionary it seemed merrily, pious. delphia was a public expression and demonstra­ Atonement, the Bodily Resurrection of Our Lord Charley Woodbridge emerged from Priuceton tion of the deep conviction held by many in all and the Historicity of His Miraculous Life are Seminary untouched by its liberalism, studied denominations a to the need of cleansed denom­ true, unique, not to he tampered with. Never at Berlin and Marburg, took a pastorate in inational mission boards. The Sunday School tired of figh ting for their heliefs, they were espe­ Flu hing, L. I ., where he married a missionary's Times, which is an interdenominational journal, cially incensed last year when the Presbyterian daughter. When he went as missionary to the cites the denominational meeting of last month Board of Foreign Mis ions failed to repudiate French Cameroun in 1932 it was to replace a as a profoundly significant event, and one that Author Pearl Buck who, as a mi ionary teacher man who had been fatally stung by an insect. is likely to promote similar action in various in China, was decidedly a tamperer. Led by Studying the local dialect, Missional'y ' ¥ood­ denominations. An action of the same sort was Dr. J ohn GI'esham Machen, who five years ago bridge evangelized for six month in the malaria­ left Princeton Seminary because it was too lib­ ridden jungle, then took charge of 110 evan­ taken in England some years ago when the evan­ eral and helped found Westminster Theological gelists covering 5,000 sq. mi. A firm Bible­ gelical or Bible-believing Chl'istians in the Seminary in Philadelphia, the Fundamentalists believer, he learned to deplore the ways of the Church of England parted company with the took their fight to the Presbyterian General As­ official Presbyterian Board, such as when a Church Missionary Society and formed the sembly. They were soundly trounced (Time, membel' on an inspection tour addressed 3,500 Bible Church Missionary Society. June 5). Very well, said they. They would go naked Cameroun heathens who had never heard The meeting of last month in Philadelphia home and found a missions board of their own, of the Gospel, on the subject: "The Power of was thrilling, and was, many felt, a historic oc­ to get contributions from Fundamentalists and Personality." When informed of his election casion. It was led by Profes or DI·. J . GI'esham send out Fundamentalist missionaries to preach as secretary of the upstart Board, Missionary Machen, of Westmin ter Theological Seminal'y, God's own Fundamentals to black, brown and Woodbl'idge resigned his po t, returned in Jan­ Philadelphia, who is President of the new yellow men in far corners of the earth. In uary with his pretty wife and two daughter. Board.' He read 1 Corinthians 1 : 1 -24, that Philadelphia la't October they set up the Inde­ With another General As embly meeting next wonderful passage beginning, "For the preach­ pendent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Mis­ month, the Fundamentalists last week were ing of the cross is to them that perish foolish­ sions. And for its general secretary and most tightening their line for a new battle. And ness; but uuto us which are saved it is the active worker they chose no grizllled Presbyterian SecI'etary Woodbl'idge, with his Independent power of God." D r. Machen said that he was die-hard but a keen, quick-smiling young mis­ Board incorporated and installed in a new office, filled with a profound feeling of thank giving as sionary named Char'les J . Woodbl·idge. was enthusiastic and confident. How much Princeton students, and especially soccer money was coming in he would not say. But he realized what this meeting might mean to the players, of a decade ago remember Charley 40 people have volunteered to serve as mission­ Church. The central sin of the Church, he W oodbridge well. They remembe1" him carrying aries in Madagascar, India, China, Korea, said, had heen that of unbelief and setting limits trays in Commons as he wOI'ked his way Japan, the Sudan. At lea t four will be sent to the power of God. The Church must ask through. They remember his antic agility on out in the next few months. Appointed last forgiveness for that sin. The Spirit of God is the occer field, where he 11101"e than held his week were the first two, R ev. and MI"S. Hem-y all powerful, and the working of the Spirit in own in the forward line against much heavier W. Coray of Pittston, Pa., who will go to north men. He had learned the game from the English China. ' Dr. Ma chen has written a notable book of 110 pages at school in China, where he was born in 1901 entitled "Modernism and the Board of Foreign Mis­ Announcing this from a church pulpit, SecI'e­ sions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A." in a family which counts 14 generations of tal'y "Voodbridge cried: "This is a historic which should have a wide reading by Christians of all ministers, back to 1493. They rememher that, occasion! ... This movement is the vanguard denominations; it is packed with invaluable informa­ tion on the issue that is not only a Presbyterian crisis, without being a "greasy grind," Charley W00l1- of a Reformation in the Pre 'byterian Church. but that con1ronts every evangelical branch of the bl'idge was always near the head of his class in .. . We stand four-square on the Word of Christian Church. The book may be had, free of charge, by writing Dr. J . Gresha m Machen, 206 South studies and that without ever being a meddle- God." Thirteenth Street P hiladelphia. 24 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934 the Church can be felt today as it could not be approving discussion of the Independent minster Commencement, which rose as he even three or four months ago. Board, among them The Restoration Herald came forward to speak and greeted him Dr. Machen called upon other members of the of the Disciples of Christ. This conservative with prolonged applause. His solemn appeal Independent Board for words of greeting. periodical hailed the Independent Board as for freedom in the Church and the Lordship Harold S. Lah·d. pastor of the First and Cen­ following in the footsteps of those who had tral Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Del., of God alone over conscience, brought fre­ spoke of an Old Testament promise that had already done the same thing, with great quent bursts of handclapping. been a great blessing to him recently, and which success, in their own Church. Then followed the hymn he thoul:ht of in connection with the new move­ "The Son of God goes forth to war ment: "When the enemy shall come in like a A Kingly crown to gain." flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Westminster Seminary And the benediction. standard against him." Charles F . Ball, pa tor of Bethany Church, Philadelphia, brought a Commencement word of encouragement from the hi tory of the HE Fifth Annual Commencement Ex­ World's Fundamentalist Convention Reformation, and said that if a cleansing comes Tcises of Westminster Theological Semi­ Held in Washington in the Church it may come as a result of this nary were held on Tuesday, May 8th, at eight new Board. Joseph A. Schofield, Jr., a pastor HE World's Christian Fundamentals in Gouverneur, N. Y., spoke of the influence of o'clock, in Witherspoon Hall, Philadelphia. Association met in annual convention at Modernism in northern New York. The Rev. Clarence E. Macartney, D.D., min­ T It was an impressive moment when Dr. ister of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, D. C., May 6th to 13th in the Machen presented the first two missionaries of Pittsburgh, Pa., presided. The processional Fourth Presbyterian Church. the Independent Board, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. hymn "0 Worship the King All Glorious The Convention theme was, "Mode1'n Coray. (At least twenty-two persons have ex­ Above" was sung as Faculty and students P1'oblems in the Light of Infallible Revela­ pressed their desire to serve as missionaries slowly entered the hall in a column of twos. tion." under the Board.) ... Following the Long Metre Doxology, the in­ Under the general theme the following There was a feeling of expectancy a D.'. vocation was offered by the Rev. J. C. Mc­ subjects were discussed: Machen introduced the General Secretary of the Independent Board, the Rev. Charles J . Wood· Connell, of the J. R. Miller Memorial Pres­ Russia in the Light of Prophecy. bridge. He is a graduate of Princeton Univer­ byterian Church, Upper Darby, Pa. Then Is America Doomed, or, What is God's sity and Princeton Seminary, and obtained a followed that most moving of all hymns: Message to the Nation? fellowship enabling him to study in Germany When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died. Is Evolution a False Philosophy? for, a year. For fifteen years of his early life The Scripture lesson was l'ead by the Technocracy and the Lord's Return. he lived in Cbina, where his father was a mis­ sionary for forty-four years, and at one time Rev. T. Stacy Capers, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., What is Fundamentalism? Charles Woo(lb.·idge taugh.t in Nanking Univer­ and prayer was offered by the Rev. John H . What is the Gospel? sity. After finishing his studies he was pastor McComb, of the Forest Park Church, Balti­ The Signs of the Times. in Flushing, Long Island, during which time more, Md. The Infallible Bible. the membership of the church doubled. Then, The address of the evening was delivered The Duty of Christ. under the (Northern) Presbyterian Board of by the Rev. Samuel G. Craig, D.D., Editor The Challenge of the Depression'. Foreign Missions, he went to Africa as a mis­ of CHRISTIANITY TODAY. His subject was The Cause of the World's Unrest, or, sionary, where he spent nearly two years. He "Westminster Seminary and the Reformed has just returned to become the Secretary of the Who Rules the World? Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Faith." It will probably appear in an early issue of CHRISTIANITY TODAY. The speakers included the following: Missions (Room 1531, 12 South Twelfth St., Dr. W. B. Riley, pastor of the First Bap­ Philadelphia). Dl·. Machen said that, in choo - The certificates of graduation were then inl: the new secretary, the Board had looked for awarded as follows: the regular certificate tist Church, Minneapolis, and President of a man who would be at the same time a true for the three years' course, to: Henry A. Northwestern Bible and Missionary Train­ mis ionary, a preacher of the Gospel in this Atkinson, Donald K. Blackie, James H. ing School; Dr. Paul W. Rood, Chicago, country, and one who, as he did his work and Blackstone, Jr., W. Hobart Childs, Glenn R. President of the World's Christian Fun­ went about speaking, would stir the fires of love Coie, Percy R. Comer, Jr., Calvin K. Cum­ damentals Association; Dr. Charles G. for the Lord Jesus. mings, E. Harlan Frischer, Wm. P. Green, Trumbull, Editor of The Sunday School When M.". Woodb"idge rose to speak, his first Times; Dr. W. H. Rogers, Dr. Haldeman's words were to give glory to God for his Chris­ Lewis J. Grotenhuis, John A. Kauffroth, tian heritage, to which Dr. Machen had referred. Irvin M. Morris, John F. Nute, Russell R. successor as pastor of the First B!l.ptist His father was a minister, his grandfather was Paton, Leonard S. Pitcher, James W. Price, Church, New York; Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, a minister, and so on back through fourteen H. Wilson Sieber, Clifford S. Smith, Robert Jr., President of Wheaton College; Dr. B. H. generations, with only one exception, to 1493. Strong, Wm. T. Strong, Theodore S. Wray, Shadduck, Methodist Episcopal pastor and All have known only one Gospel, the Gospel of Jack Zandstra. lecturer. Many other speakers appeared on the Lord J esus Christ as set forth in the early The graduate certificate was awarded to the program. ve rses of 1 Corinthians 15. Mr. Woodbridge Henry S. Atkinson, Chi Syun Kim, Chas. S. declared he believed the meeting was a historic McKenzie. occasion, and that the parting of the ways had been reached in the Presbyterian Church. "I The Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr. Prize in Mecklenburg ' Presbytery feel very humble, and yet proud to represent an Apologetics was awarded to Robert B. Cun­ organization that stands four quare on the ningham, of Langhorne, Pa. Asks H. W. Smith Inquiry Word of God." ... The Robert Dick Wilson prize in New HE Presbytery of Mecklenburg, Presby­ Mr. Woodbridge said he knew some were Testament was awarded to Donald K. Tterian Church in the U. S., at its meet­ asking, "Is the Independent Board legal?" "Ye ," Blackie, of Inglewood, Calif. ing on April 25th adopted an ov~rture to he said with conviction, "it is. This is a volun­ The Richard H. Wallace prize in Homi­ the General Assembly which meets in Mon­ tary missionary organization, and is responsible letics to James H. Blackstone, Jr., of South to God and to the Commonwealth of Pennsyl­ treat, N. C., on May 25th, to appoint an :pasadena, Calif. vania." He believes it is the beginning of a The address to the graduating class was "ad interim" committee to investigate the reformation in the Presbyterian Church. Many alleged heretical views of Dr. Hay Watson are praying that there may be a true reforma­ delivered, as usual, by the Rev. J. Gresham tion, divinely planned and l:uided, in other Machen, D.D., Litt.D. It will be found in Smith of Little Rock, Ark. branches of the Church of Christ at home and full in another page of this paper. The decision was the result of a pam­ abroad. Dr. Machen was given a great ovation by phlet submitted to presbytery and written Other periodicals also devoted space to an the largest audience ever to attend a West- by the Rev. W. M. McPheeters, professor May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 25 emeritus of Columbus Seminary, Decatur, Champions Reformed Faith Montrose Bible Conference Ga., who charges that Dr. Smith is out of harmony with the standards of the church. ARIOUS conferences, general and spe­ cial, will be held as usual at Montrose, The resolution adopted was as follows: V Pa., in 1934. "Resolved that inasmuch as there seems The General Conference from July 25th to be good reason to believe that the pres­ to August 5th, will have as speakers H. A. bytery of Arkansas did not investigate thor­ Ironside, A. Z. Conrad, Will H. Houghton, oughly the rumors concerning the soundness Lewis Sperry Chafer, Robert F. Fritsch, of the faith of Dr. Smith, therefore that Reginald Wallis, Charles J. Woodbridge, the presbytery overture the assembly to Mrs. Grace Livingston Hill, and others. appoint an ad interim committee to investi­ The Young People's Bible Confet·ence will gate the whole matter in the pamphlet of be held from July 2nd to 8th. Among the Dr. McPheeters and to report its investiga­ speakers will be Roy Talmage Brumbaugh, tions to that body." Harold S. Laird, and Harold T. Commons. There was a minority report which wished A Ch1-istian Education Institute will be to accept the pamphlet as information and held from July 9th to 15th, a Ministerial that since the whole matter was adjudicated i nstitute from July 16th to 26th, and a in the last assembly it was deemed unwise Prophetic Bible Conf erence from August to reopen the case. The majority report 6th to 12th, under the direction of Arno C. adopted was signed by W. H. Frazer, E. A. Gaebelein. Dillard, Q. N. Huneycutt, J. S. Sibley and Information may be secured from R. M. J. D. Woodside, while the minority report Honeyman, Executive Secretary, Montrose, was signed by J. M. Walker, W. M. Ross Pa. and C. S. Massie. The movement to investigate Dr. Smith's views was started by a paper from Caldwell The Rev. Samuel G. Craig, D.O. New York Summer School Memorial Presbyterian Church which was "Simply . .. Biblical Christianity." Plans Third Season represented at presbytery by Dr. S, B. Mc· HE New York Summer School of The­ Pheeters, a son of the Rev. W. M. McPhee· percentage of which has been given away Tology, conducted by Dr. Will H. Hough­ tel's, D.D. Dr. McPheeters, the minister who gratuitously. ton of the Calvary Baptist Church of New wrote the pamphlet, was present at the During the past year 5,899,103 pieces of York, will conduct its third season from presbytery, although he did not take part Christian literature were printed by the June 18 to 30, 1934. The Faculty and sub­ in the discussion. Society in twenty-five languages, and in the jects are as follows: Dr. A. T. Robertson month of March of this year it printed a of Louisville; Ky., "The Epistle of James" American Tract Society larger number of pieces of Christian litera­ and "The Epistle to the Philippians'~; Pre - ture than it has printed in anyone month ident J. Oliver Buswell of Wheaton College, I 09 Years Old in the past fifty years. At the present time "Theism"; Dr. Cornelius Van Til of West­ HE 109th Annual Meeting of the Amer­ the Society has nineteen missionaries who minster Seminary, Philadelphia, "The Theol­ Tican Tract Society and of its Board of are laboring among many nationalities in ogy of Crisis"; President Nathan R. Wood, Managers was held at the Chapel of the the City of New York and vicinity. Other of Gordon College, Boston, "The Secret of Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth colporteurs are working in various parts of the Universe"; Dr. Max I. Reich, Chicago Avenue and 48th Street, New york, N. Y., the United States among neglected and un­ Hebrew-Christian scholar, "The Gospel of on Wednesday, May 2, 1934. churched people. John," and Dr. Harris H. Gregg, New York, The following officers were re-elected: "The Lord Jesus and His Bible." President, Mr. William Phillips Hall, elected The school is for ministers and ministerial for the 29th time; First Vice-President, Special Summer School at students only. Other than the above, there Mr. Hugh R. Munro; Second Vice-President, Moody Institute are no entrance requirements, and there are Mrs. Finley J. Shepard. New Honorary no examinations. Rooms may be secured A N opportunity for summer study has at six dollars per week in the nearby Na­ Vice-Presidents elected: Mrs. Samuel G. .tl. been made available at the Moody tional Bible Institute building. Registration McRoberts, Mrs. Don O. Shelton, Mrs. J. E. Bible Institute, Chicago, through the launch­ L. Davis. New members of the Board of is one dollar for one week, two dollars for ing of a six weeks' special summer school, two .... eeks. Information may be secured by Managers: the Rev. W. H. Greever, D.D., from June 18th to July 27th, during A Cen­ Mr. Philip A. Benson, the Rev. Wm. H. addressing Dr. W. H. Houghton, Calvary tury of Progress Exposition. It is intended Baptist Church, New York, N.· Y. Rogers, D.D., the Rev. Stewart M. Robin­ for college and seminary students, gradu­ son, D.D. Members of the Executive Com­ ates and seniors of high schools, Sunday mittee re-elected: Mr. Robert M. Kurtz, the School teachers and other Christian work­ Second Annual Rev. Walter McCarroll, D.D., Mr. Paul H. ers, with elective courses for pastors and Wildwood Bible Conference Graef, Mr. Hugh R. Munro, Mr. Simeon B. Imss\onaries. The subjects will include Chapin and Mr. J. Frederick Talcott. besides the Bible and Christian Doctrine, HE second annual Wildwood, N. J., Bible A report of the work of the past year Christian Education, Modern Apologetics, TConference, under the direction of the was given by the General Secretary, the Expository Preaching, New Testament Rev. Henry Shepard Atkinson, was held from Rev. William H. Matthews, D.D. The Soci­ Greek, Home and Foreign Missions and May 10 to 13, 1934. Mr. Atkinson is the ety has, since its organization in 1825, pub­ other subjects; and in Music, Notation, Con­ vigorous pastor of the First Presbyterian lished and distributed Christian literature in ducting, and Harmony. Tuition will be free, Church. The Conference was divided into 181 languages. Its missionaries have visited credit will be given for work completed, three parts: a "Summer Bible School Con­ two and a half million homes and 650,000 and all applicants will be granted the usual ference," a "Young People's Conference," religious meetings have been conducted by student rate for board and room, $6.45 to and a "General Bible Conference." Speak­ its colporteurs. Up to the present time $8.70 a week. Particulars may be secured ers were: Dr. A. L. Lathem of Chester, Pa., 855,000,000 pieces of Christian literature by addressing the Institute, 153 Institute founder of the Summer Bible School move­ have been circulated by the Society, a large Place, Chicago, Ill. ment, whose all-Bible courses are studied 26 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934 by 170,000 to 200,000 children each summer; Heads Education ' Board much to say that every presbytery and every Dr. Harold S. Laird, minister of the First presbyter ought to reconsider the solemn and Central Church, Wilmington, Del.; Prof. truth of the ordination vows before men R. B. Kuiper of Westminster Seminary; the and especially before the God of truth. Now Rev. Chas. J . Woodbridge, General Secretary as ever an honest man is the noblest work of the Independent Board for Presbyterian of God. The Book still pronounces its bless­ Foreign Missions; the Rev. James Black­ ing upon the man that sweareth to his own stone, the Rev. Otis D. Fuller and Messrs. hurt and changeth not; and still excludes Robert and William Strong. those who make and love the contrary. Rev. 22:15. Standing in the shadow of eternity the Dr. H. McA. Robinson Elected eighty-year-old Southern Prophet, Dr. Wm. By Board of Christian Education M. McPheeters, has issued a clarion call for a more faithful observance of the third and N its annual ~ession, closing April.1~th, the ninth commandments-for truth and the I in PhilauelphIa, the Board of ChrIstian keeping of vows made to the Holy God. Education of the Presbyterian Church, Will the Church of today hear t his word U. S. A., elected the The Rev Harold MeA. and gird herself to keep the faith before Robinson, D.D., general secretary to succeed man and before God; or will she stone Dr. William Chalmers Covert, who retires another prophet and leave it to the genera­ because of age in October of this year. Dr. tions to come to build him a monument? Robinson is at present the administrative DECATUR, GA. secretary of the Board. The new secretary of this Board, which deals with the whole educational work of the Denver and Vicinity Church, including 53 colleges and work at By the Rev. H. Clar'e Welker, Th.M. 47 university centers, has held the office of administrative secretary since 1927. In that The Rev. Ha rold McAfee Robinson , D.O. ENVER Presbytery met in the Central office he has been responsible for executing Braintruster' of the Board. D Presbyterian Church, Denver, the Rev. all plans for the presentation of the work Martin E. Anderson, D.D., pastor, on April of the Board to the church, for the prepara­ 17th. The Women's Presbyterial met in the tion and administration of the Board's has been conected with the Board of Chris­ same church on the same day. The two budget, and for the administration of the tian Education as director of the Depart­ bodies assembled at 9 :30 for an opening educational policy and program of the Board ment of University Work since 1929. devotional service at which the sermon was in all its departments. preached by the retiring moderator, the Dr. Robinson was born in Shelbyville, Mo. Rev. Benj. F . J udd, pastor of t.he North He was graduated from Park College, in his The Southern Presbyterian Church Church, Denver. The Rev. A. W. Liggett, home state, in 1901, and received his Bach­ By the Rev. Prof. Wm. Childs Robinson, pastor of our churches at Idaho Springs and elor of Divinity degree from Princeton The­ Th.D., Columbia Theological Seminary Georgetown was elected moderator for the ological Seminary in 1904. He did graduate new year. A crowded docket of business work at the seminary from 1909 to 1911, Shall We Ke ep the Faith? occupied the attention of the presbytery. on his l'eturn from studying at the Univer­ ,tCCORDING to news items appearing in The following were elected commissioners sity of Leipzig, Germany. In 1919 he re­ H. the religious press the Rev. Donald H. to the General Assembly: ministers, Martin ceived his Doctor's degree from Lafayette. Stewart who was twice refused admission E. Andersdn (Central Church, Denver), Before becoming connected with the organi­ to West Hanover Presbytery on account of G. Henry Green (South Broadway Church, zation in 1919, when he took the position his modernism is undertaking the pastorate Denver), Garrett S. Tamminga (First of secretary of the Presbyterian Board of of the University Church at Chapel Hill, Church, Golden). Elders, H. A. Davis (Cen­ Publication and Sunday School Work, Dr. North Carolina. This item raises several tral Church, Denver), Dr. A. J. Murray Robinson held pastorates in Milroy and Ger­ questions. Has Mr. Stewart changed the (First Avenue Church, Denver), Har ry mantown, Pa., and was professor of Bible views he so emphatically re-affirmed before Bashford (First Church, Wray). and college pastor at Lafayette College, West Hanover Presbytery? Did the Pres­ An abortive attempt was made to vote Easton, Pa. He has written much religious bytery which dismissed him satisfy itself blanket approval of the Boards of National education material and is author of a, book as to his doctrinal soundness; that is, did Missions, Foreign Missions and Christian entitled "How to Conduct Family Worship." it observe the requirement of the Constitu­ Education, and to discourage the diversion The financial situation of the Board is re­ tion of the Church and examine into his of benevolent funds to other agencies. Lack ported to be considerably improved. While reported unsoundness as required in para­ of time at the moment the matter was first contributions from the churches were still graph 183 of the Book of Church Order? presented prevented its immediate discussion below those of the preceding year, the per­ Did the Presbytery which received him for and it was not brought up later. The nai­ centage of decrease for the latter part of the North Carolina work satisfy itself as to vete of those who advocate such actions is the year closed March 31st was much less his doctrinal fitnesss to renew the ordination apparent when one stops to consider that in than in the earlier months. The Board and installation vows? The reports of the spite of the fact the report of the Appraisal closed the year without adding to the deficit former examination indicated that Mr. Stew­ Commission of the Laymen's Foreign Mis­ occurring in the two years preceding and art accepted religious experience as his rule sions Inquiry has been repudiated both by which made necessary heavy retrenchments of faith rather than the Scriptures as set the General Council and the Board of For­ in personnel and expenditure. forth in the first ordination vow. eign Missions, four members of the three Rev. William Lindsay Young, LL.D., has While the pamphlet issued and now being boards mentioned above are voluntarily serv­ been elected director of the Department of circulated by Dr. Wm. M. McPheeters was ing as members of the National Committee Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Train­ called forth by the actions of Arkansas Pres­ for the Presentation of the Foreign Mis­ ing Schools to replace Dr. Frederick E . bytery, it is a message which other presby­ sions Inquiry. Those members are the fol­ Stockwell, who died last year. Dr. Young teries need to hear and heed. It is not too lowing: Foreign Missions, E lder Alfred E . May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 27

Marling; National Missions, the Rev. Wm. The Reformed Church in America H. Boddy, D.D. ; Christian Education, the By the R ev. G. M. Van Pernis Rev. James E . Clarke, D.D., and the Rev. M. "The Independent Board for Pres­ By Way of Introduction Willard Lampe, Ph.D. Seemingly, loyalty byterian Foreign Missions is not an OST gladly do we comply with the to t he boards is a matter solely for the com­ organization in the Presbytery of mon or garden variety of ministers, elders M request of the editors of CHRISTIANITY and communicants. Board members them­ Philadelphia, or in the Synod of Penn­ TODAY to send a monthly contribution to selves reserve the right to be or not to be sylvania, or in the Presbyterian Church the pages of this splendid magazine. The firm stand taken by these men and loyal as suits their own fancy. in the U.S.A. In a somewhat similar connection it is their colleagues, respecting faithfulness to the Word of God, witness the establishment interesting to note that the only Presby­ "The term 'Presbyterian' refers to terian minister who was a member of the of Westminster Theological Seminary, the church polity and, by extension, to Appraisal Commission of the Laymen's For­ publication of this very monthly, their re­ eign Missions Inquiry, namely, Dr. William doctrine. Its use is not confined to action towards "Rethinking Missions" and Pierson Merrill, pastor of t he Brick Church, anyone church or to anyone part of the consequent organization of the Inde­ pendent Board for Presbyterian Foreign New York City, is one of t he seven minis­ the world. There are a large number terial members of the "Advisory Commit­ Missions, is a challenge to all that which tee" on the new hymnal, one of the seven of churches in our own country using is called Reformed. ministerial member s of the "Content Commit­ the term, as, for example, the Presby­ We therefore are very happy indeed to tee" of the same and that the organist of terian Church in the U.S., the United cast our lot with these "watchmen on Zion's walls," to defend the "Faith once delivered the church of which Dr. Merrill is pastor, Presbyterian Church, t he Cumberland served as "editor-in-chief" of this work. unto the saints." Dr. Wm. L. Barrett of the Montview Presbyterian Church (Colored), the In these days of tolerance-with a result­ Church, Denver, welcomed a class of ap­ Reformed Presbyterian Church, the ant "milk and water religion"-with our readiness to fetch within our gates any proximately one hundred new members on Reformed Presbyterian Church, Gen­ Easter Sunday. Other churches also re­ Trojan Horse, without figuring up the con­ ceived large classes but the writer does not eral Synod, and the Associate Re­ sequent cost, we, who still believe in the have the figures at hand. formed Presbyterian Synod. Further, authority of the Scriptures, need to stand Thr ough t he courtesy of t he Rev. Wm. the name 'Presbyterian' is widely used shoulder to shoulder. G. Kiery of P enrose, Colorado, stated clerk The day has come for all the Reformed by independent institutions orga'nized churches (this includes the Presbyterian of Pueblo Presbytery, the writer is able to for charitable and other purposes Church) to unfurl the Banner of Truth. report the following items of business trans­ throughout the world. Ours is no policy of fault-finding and of acted by t hat presbytery at its spring meet­ hair-splitting, but a defending of the truth. ing. The Rev. Wallace H. Carver, D.D., "The I n d e pen den t Board was This necessitates an exposure and opposing pastor of the First Church of Colorado fo rmed for the pu rpose of sending of all the subtle means put forth . by the Springs, was elected moderator. The pres­ forces of evil, to undermine the foundations bytery unanimously endorsed the Board of out missionaries who would propagate of our Reformed Faith. For, "if the founda­ Foreign Missions and commended the Senior Presbyterian doctrine and organize, tions be destroyed, what can the righteous Secretary, Dr. Robert E. Speer. as opportunity might be afforded, do ?" Through t he courtesy of t he Rev. JIarry This being the first monthly letter coming churches along the lines of Presbyte­ Heinecke of Greeley, Sunday school mission­ from the Reformed Church in America, we ary and stated clerk of Boulder Presbytery, rian polity. must needs introduce ourselves. This we come the f ollowing items of news from t~at do by means of the following: "It is not of importance to the In­ presbytery: Presbytery met in the First "1834-1934" Church of Sterling, the Rev. E. R. Cameron dependent Board wh ether its mission­ Although only for a part of the ecclesias­ pastor. The meeting of presbytery was pre­ aries or its members are members of tical world, 1934 ' is a centenary year, we may readily say that all christendom has ceded by an elder's conference, presided over t he Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. been affected by two events which took place by E lder F . S. Leuthi of Boulder. Elder or not. What does matter, and mat­ 100 years ago. Milt Warner was elected president for the • ter t remendously, is that its mission­ The first of these events which we have new year. The Rev. Leon Stewart, pastor of aries and its members should be in mind, and with which no doubt the larger t he First Church of Ft. Collins, was elected part of the church is acquainted, is the moderator. Commissioners to the General wholeheartedly in accord with Presby­ birth of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, t he great Assembly are: ministers, Wm. F loyd Kuy­ terian doctrine, and believers in a English Baptist preacher. He was born in kendall, Estes Park; Frank L. Greenway, Presbyterian system of church polity. the year 1834 at Kelvedon, Essex. His student pastor at Boulder; elders, Hugh followers built for him the well known SciIley of Loveland, and Charles S. Scott of "The Independent Board neither Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, which Longmont. A memorial to the General has, nor desires to have, any official was opened in 1861. Besides this immense Council calling for the reviving of the Pres­ tabernacle, we think of Stockwell Orphan­ relationship to t he Pre s by t e ri a n byterian Magazine was introduced by the age, the Golden Lane Mission, of his ser­ Rev. Norman E. Nygaard, pastor of the Church in the U.S.A."-(Statement mons, but especially of his Treasury of church at Boulder, and adopted by presby­ adopted by the Executive Committee David. Surely Spurgeon's life has blessed the tery. The writer of these notes was inter­ of the Independent Board on May 10, British Isles, the Continent, and even ested to note that t he Rev. Mr. Nygaard is 1934, in view of certain misconcep­ a signer of t he Auburn Affirmation as was America. The other event, possibly not so well the editor of t he former Presbyterian Mag­ tions as to the ecclesiastical status of known, but to which we refer especially, is azine. the BoardJ . in connection with a man whose name is BRIGHTON, COLO. not so familiar. He lived across the English 28 CHR I ST I ANITY TODAY May, 1934

Channel in the land of dikes and mills. In forth her graduates by the score into the ing service for the year in the Central the very year which gave birth to Spurgeon, Gospel Ministry at home and upon the For­ Presbyterian Church, Friday evening, May this man was in the thickest of his battles, eign Field. 4th. Seventeen students completed the four­ actively engaged for the purification of the Pella, Iowa, and its settlement under a year courses and were awarded diplomas. Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. This Scholten, where today Central College has Dr. Herbert Mackenzie of Cleveland man has done as much for the Reformation become another fountain to bless the Church, preached the sermon. The Detroit Bible of the deformed church, as Charles H. Spur­ holding forth the Reformed teachings as Institute is interdenominational. The Rev. geon ever did for the deepening of the purified by the movement of 1834. Roy L. Aldrich, pastor of Central Church, devotional life of the Church. That man While in 1857 a large section seceded is the principal. was the Rev. Hendrik de Cock of Warfum from the United Reformed Church (1628- The Rev. Ralph C. Crissman has resigned in the province of Groningen, Holland. 1847), giving rise to a new Reformed de­ from the pastorate of the Highland Park N ow Holland has played a very important nomination, the Christian Reformed Church, Presbyterian Church due to ill health. role in the life of the nations. Our national we gladly extend to them the right hand of DETROIT, MICH. system of education-a free public school­ fellowship. Calvin College and Theological as also our form of government, was copied Seminary; the two Church organs, "The after that of ' the Dutch Republic. Above Banner" and "De Wachter," have stood for New Letter from Western all, our religious liberty we owe in a large decades for the purity of the Reformed Pennsylva'nia measure to the Netherlands. Faith. By the Rev. H. J. Ockenga America can never forget Holland. Think Thus we see how 1934 is indeed a cen­ of a Henry Hudson, the Half Moon and its tenary year for the Reformed churches. NION sentiment seems to be running cargo of Dutch settlers. Of New Amster­ We rejoice to celebrate that event this year U high in Pittsburgh area. With few dis­ dam, a Stuivesant, and a Rev. Jonas Michael­ and thank God for raising up men like senting votes the Presbytery voted to hold ius. Think of the oldest Protestant church de Cock and his associates, men who have a large Fellowship Meeting of the two local in these United States, the one-time Dutch hazarded their lives for the Word of God denominations. This will take place May 8th Reformed Church, now known as the Re­ and for the honor of our Triune God. in the Third Presbyterian ·Church of which formed Church in America. Some six years In that movement of 1834 was struck a Dr. Louis H. Evans is pastor. The modera­ ago, in 1928, she was privileged to celebrate note which of late has found an echo, if not tors of both assemblies, Dr. W. B. Anderson her tercentenary. a consonant, in CHRISTIANITY TODAY. and Dr. John McDowell, will speak. With But to return to Holland for just a mo­ That note is the desire to be Reformed few dissenting votes the Presbytery also ment, what a debt of endless gratitude does and to continue the process of Reformation adopted a report favoring the plan of union the Reformed world owe her, as we think of by a constant return to the Word of God. between the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., the eighty-year war with Spain (1568-1648) While the days are evil, let all Reformed and the United Presbyterian Church of for religious liberty. The great Synod of forces-Presbyterian, Reformed, and Chris­ North America. Dort (1618-1619) and the work it accom­ tian Reformed-rally, that the Church may Dr. C. E. Macartney's "Thou Shalt Say plished. So also, in line with these great be manifested and God's honor triumph. No!" raised a considerable protest from the and telling events, is the movement of 1834 FULTON, ILL. United Presbyterians who groundlessly under de Cock, known as the Secession. charged him with a breach of ministerial One hundred years, approximately, after courtesy. They said: "In the judgment of the great Reformation under Luther, Zwingli News from Det roit and Vicinity your brother ministers of the United Pres­ and Calvin, the Church again needed a byterian Church, this encroachment upon By the R ev. Roy L. Aldrich Reformation from the Arminian errors. The the evening service was a breach of minis­ Synod of Dort in re-establishing the "five EV. JOSEPH A. VANCE, D.D., minister terial courtesy, and under the circumstances points" of a formerly "one-pointed Calvin­ R of the First Presbyterian Church, was was calculated to have a disturbing effect ism" brought about such a Reformation. elected moderator of the Detroit Presbytery on their work." The resolution was not And when after the Napoleonic days of at the spring meeting. The Rev. E. P. Clark, unanimous. It was correctly ignored. the early 19th century Holland's king re­ who has served 24 years as stated clerk April 30th, the Pittsburgh Ministerial organized the Reformed Church by super­ of Presbytery, was re-elected for a term of Union met at the Smithfield Methodist imposing a General Synod which was not five years. The commissioners to the Gen­ Church to discuss the Kirby Page Ques­ a Synod according to our Presbyterian form eral Assembly elected are the Rev. A. M. tionnaire on war. The Rev. Herbert B. of Church Government, and then attacked Boyd of Milford, the Rev. Homer Noble of Hudnut of Bellevue Presbyterian Church the Reformed doctrine, it was a de Cock Howell, the Rev. Ralph Cummins, director and the Rev. W. K. Anderson of Johnstown who opposed that Synod and who insisted of the Dodge Community House, Detroit, spoke. The pacifist sentiment is growing. on the faithful preaching of the Word of and the Rev. David Porter of Ypsilanti. All of us are pacifists of some stripe and God in all its purity. That was the begin­ The elders elected are William Craig Keith, should pray and labor to prevent war, but ning of the fight against "modernism." J ohn Farmer, Irvin Newcomer and St. Clair I can find no prophecy or promise in the The emigration to the United States of Sterns. Bible that this age will be warless or con­ 1847, under th'e leadership of Dr. C. Van Dr. Charles G. Sterling was installed pas­ verted. Adequate national defense is neces­ Raalte, was a direct result of the secession tor of the Bethel Presbyterian Church, Tues­ sary. Much energy is wasted in pacifist of 1834. The coming of that contingent day evening, May 1st. The sermon was meetings. Harvey O'Connor, the author of of Holland colonists to the virgin woods preached by Dr. F . Paul McConkey, pastor "Mellon's Millions," was in Pittsburgh at surrounding Black Lake in Western Michi­ of Immanuel Church; the questions were the invitation of the League for Social Jus­ gan, meant the strengthening of the Dutch asked by Dr. Morton C. Pearson, Secretary tice. He spoke on "Surveying the Wash­ Reformed Church in America. It also meant of the Board of Church Extension; the ington Scene." an extension of its missionary endeavor, charge to the pastor was given by the Rev. Two Y. M. C. A. secretaries who have both at home and abroad. Norman H. Camp of Chicago; the charge grown famous visited Pittsburgh recently. There in the heart of that Holland Colony to the congregation was given by the Rev. Max, Yergan of South Africa, who has done arose Hope College, graduates of which Roy L. Aldrich of Central Church, and the a daring piece of work in race relations have gone forth to all parts of the world, installation prayer offered by the Rev. spoke on "Pioneering Good Will in Africa." and are active in all fields of science. The George Muran of Knox Church. Without a doubt South Africa is one of the Western Theological Seminary also has sent The Detroit Bible Institute held its clos- hot spots of race prejudice and class exploi- May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 29 tation. Mr. Yergan's message is entirely Patton, of Calvin Church; George G. Mc­ Delaware-Maryland Letter Ewing, of Arch St. Church; Harry Rickards, practical and embraces brotherhood of man By the R ev. H enry G. Welbon with the principles of Christ in operation. of Westminster Church; James H. Irvin, of His statements about a spiritual experience Reeve Memorial Church; J. Wilber Yeats, of HE Presbytery of New Castle met on and faith are so hazy that there was noth­ Central-North Broad St. Church; Matthew TApril 16th and 17th at White Clay ing to commend or criticize. His idealism Neilly, of Scots Church; and James C. Creek Church, near Newark, Delaware, the is practical. His faith a nebulous nothing Leeper, of Evangel Church. Rev. Clyde E. Richabaugh, pastor. The Rev. Thomas A. Williams of Salisbury, Maryland, when expressed, although it may mean much Synods, councils and columnists do some­ was elected moderator. The Rev. John P. to him. Waldo H. Heinrichs, the present times err, and this column tenders its Y. M. C. A. secretary of Jerusalem and Clelland, pastor of the Eastlake Church, apology to Dr. Jesse M. Corum for the Wilmington, was the other nominee. The famous war ace, spoke of the "Y" work statement in the last issue that his church during the Arab riots in Palestine. A mag­ following commissioners to General Assem­ no longer sUPPol'ted the official Board of bly were elected, the Rev. Hermann Bi chof, nificent new building is the property of the Foreign Missions. Obtained from an official the Rev. John D. Blake; elders, William B. Y. M. C. A. in Jerusalem. The present source, the information was nevertheless Steel and F . Leonard Wailes. Mr. Steel has writer saw it in 1932. There Arabs, Chris­ erroneous, and we are glad to make the cor­ been an elder in the Port Deposit Church tians and Jews meet on common ground, rection. for 53 years without having gone to General and while the feeling ran highest during the Two opposite petitions to Presbytery Assembly. The Rev. Franklin W. Stevens riots the "Y" remained open and carried emanating from the Holland Church I'e­ of Delaware City made the nominating on its usual work. Bible classes are held suIted in the appointment of a committee of speech for the Rev. Harold S. Laird who only for Christians, and men of all three Presbytery to investigate the status of this had been suggested by the Presbyterian races are on the staff. It is interesting to vacant church. League of Faith as the conservative candi­ note that of the tv!elve Y. M. C. A. centers An overture from Lehigh Presbytery re­ date for moderator of General Assembly. in India only three are now operating due garding the changing of the terms of a The coalition of the modernistic group with those who consider themselves conservatives to curtailed income. No doubt, this accounts pastoral call, and requiring action by Pres­ but vote otherwise, succeeded in preventing for the presence of these two "Y" leaders bytery even in cases of mutual consent, was Mr. Laird's election, and thereby showed in America just now. not concurred in by Philadelphia Presby­ The writer while lecturing at Taylor Uni­ great discourtesy to him and to a large tery. group of the Presbyterian ministry. It has versity was impressed with the splendid Statistical reports showed that West­ body of devoted Christian students. Many been stated in one of the other Church minstel' Church, Dr. Warren R. Ward, papers that "New Castle Presbytery declined are expecting to enter the ministry. The pastor, leads the presbytery in accessions on to allow an outside group to name in pressing question they all asked was, "What confession, as well as in total accessions advance their commissioner to General As­ seminary shall I attend in order to be thor­ during the year, 139; while Tenth Church sembly." It has not been so long, however, oughly trained in the faith?" Not a few are leads in its gifts to benevolent causes, when an outside group put forth their can­ looking toward Westminster. Some were $34,115. didate for moderator and asked that his fitting themselves as medical men to enable Four students from Westminster Seminary presbytery, although conservative, elect him them to be self-supporting missionaries. were licensed and dismissed: Donald K. a commissioner out of courtesy. This it did The flame of the gospel still brightly burns. Blackie, to West Jersey Presbytery; Clifford unanimously. It is apparent that generosity A group of seven candidates were licensed Blakey, to West Jersey Pr.esbytery; Clifford is to be expected from the conservatives, by Pittsburgh Presbytery on April 30th. S. Smith, to Connecticut Valley; Robert but that the liberals have no liberality to Four were sons of ministers, six were grad­ Strong, to Philadelphia North, and his spare. An overture asking that General Assem­ uates of Western. Many questions on the­ brother, William T. Strong, to West Jersey. bly sever its connections with the Federal ology were asked. The students for the Older members of the presbytery arose to most part revealed a sound faith and they Council of Churches was presented by the commend the examinations and sermons of Rev. Robert Graham. The committee on preached ably. Two will study abroad. these four young men, Dr. William P. Fulton PITTSBURGH bills and overtures was divided on the mat­ remarking that never in his life had he seen ter but debate was prevented by a motion four such examinations as they sustained. made by the Rev. Albert H. Kleffman, Ph.D. Eastern Pennsylvania Letter This feeling was evidently universal among to lay it on the table. The Rev. John P. the presbyters, and reflects, as another said, Clelland presented an overture asking that By the R ev. John Bu?·ton Thwing, Th.D. great credit upon their teachers. It was a we oppose the proposed union with the R. HAROLD McAFEE ROBINSON, of real occasion, though we must regret that United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Clelland D Philadelphia North Presbytery, was the presbytery immediately lost them as they very ably presented the dangerous features recently elected General Secretary of the accepted charges elsewhere. of the proposed union. This matter was also Board of Christian Education, succeeding An impressive memorial service was held tabled. Dr. W. C. Covert. The Summer Evangel­ for the 22 elders lost by death during the On account of the ill health of the Rev. istic Committee of Philadelphia PX'esbytery year. The Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and Charles H. Bohner who is chairman of the has opened an office at 419 Witherspoon Elder D. T. Richman were appointed a com­ Home Missions Committee, the Rev. Colin Building in connection with its Daily Vaca­ mittee to defend the presbytery in the com­ C. Weir gave the report of that committee. tion Bible School program, said by the com­ plaint, now. regularly filed with Synod, He pointed out that approximately $500,000 mittee's chairman, Dr. Warren R. Ward, to against the reception of Dr. J. Gresham of Home Missions money goes to support individual churches, while two millions of be the most complete and practical program Machen from New Brunswick Presbytery. dollars is used for other causes. Members yet put forward. Other appointments and elections included of Presbytery were advised to find out Dr. William P. Fulton to the National Mis­ Delegates to Synod from Philadelphia where this sum is spent. One of the matters Presbytery are: the Revs. O. T .. Allis, John sions Committee, and the Rev. I. Sturger presented by the Council of Presbytery for B. Thwing, Ralph E. Wallis, George F. Shultz to the General Council of Synod for approval was that the Rev. William P. Ellison, George H. Bucher, Vincent Steffan a term of three years. Shriver of the Board of Home Missions be and H. M. Morgan; and Elders George C. PHILADELPHIA invited to make a survey of the home mis- 30 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934 sions work here. In spite of his ill health, giving to God, and the election result was sand seven hundred. The pastor, Dr. Stew­ the Rev. Charles H. Bohner vigorously op­ evidently of Him. Elders Jeanson and Oliver art P. MacLennan, recently conducted two posed the measure on the grounds that it and Deacon Hagen were re-elected by large weeks of special services to deepen the spir­ was unnecessary and a waste of money, in­ majorities. A hearty vote of thanks was itual life of the church. The attendance asmuch as some years ago a survey was given our faithful and efficient musicians was most gratifying and increased steadily. made by Mr. Shriver which resulted in the and other volunteer workers." ... At the Every department of the church was deeply formation of Italian, Polish, and Negro mis­ South Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, N. Y., stirred. The spiritual life of the church sions in Wilmington and cost the Presbytery the Rev. John T. Reeve, D.D., Minister, large increased most significantly. The Bible thousands of dollars. He said these missions congregations were present at all the serv­ School has an emollment of nearly 3000, had all been closed and that the weak ices in connection with the Easter season. with 800 more enrolled in week-day Bible churches in Makemie land had received no At the Good Friday evening Communion study classes and in the Cradle Roll ... Dr. help from these outside experts. This meas­ Service and on Easter Sunday there were Francis Shunk Downs, pastor of the First ure failed to pass. The Foreign Missions the largest congregations in many years. Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, California, committee presented its more or less usual The offerings were larger than last year. has accepted the invitation of the Chosen report, with nothing said in opposition to Twenty new members united with the Mission to participate in the Golden Jubilee the support of the Independent Board for Church on Good Friday evening. Cottage of the beginning of Presbyterian Missionary Presbyterian Foreign Missions. prayer meetings which have been held all work in Korea, to be held in Seoul, the first NEW ARK, DEL. winter, bringing a great blessing, will be week of July. First Presbyterian Church continued.. .. The 7-year-old son of the has given him a leave of absence that will Rev. Ralph B. Colton of Fort Branch, Ind., enable him to see some of the Mission work Parade died of scarlet fever recently. Mr. Colton, in Japan and China as well as Korea. He R.. F. W. LEWIS, Vice-President of the his wife, and three other sons have all been will visit various mission stations and will D Biblical Seminary in New York, has sick, but are expected to recover. The Rev. fill different preachint and conference ap­ been chosen as minister of the influential Jack Masters, Sullivan, Ind., has been given pointments, meeting with groups of mis­ Throop Ave. Presbyterian Church of Brook­ a leave of absence by the Presbytery of sionaries and national church leaders in lyn, succeeding the long-time pastor, Dr. Vincennes for 90 days, owing to ilness .. .. each one of the three countries. He will William Carter. Dr. Lewis is, however, not The Rev. Milton Bennett Lambdin of Wash­ have nearly three weeks in Japan before severing his connection with the Biblical ington, D. C., has recently come into pos­ giving a series of addresses at the Annual Seminary of which Dr. W. W. White is session of a huge brick, in perfect condition, Mission Meeting in Korea the last eight President, but will still serve it in a limited from the ruined walls of ancient Babylon. days of June. He will visit other stations and honorary capacity.... The Moody Bible Recently Dr. Lambdin was elected to the in Korea the last eight days of June. He Institute in Chicago has revived the practice American Academy of Political and Social in Korea and from there go to Man­ of putting out student gospel teams, and Science, and to the Victoria Institute, of churia and to various mission centers in during the spring recess five or six such Great Britain. . . . The Forks of Brandy­ China, sailing from Shanghai to be home teams were in operation in Illinois, Indiana, wine Church, the Rev. H. H. Kurtz, minis­ early in August. . . . The Presbytery of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri. ter, in the Presbytery of Chester, has been EI Paso convened at Fort Davis, Texas, This activity was in addition to the regular bereaved of one of its most faithful elders, on Tuesday evening, April 10, 1934. The church, mission, and visitation work done Samuel D. Curry, who after a lingering ill­ Rev. Wistor R. Smith, Moderator, preached by students in and around Chicago. Each ness entered into the presence of the Lord the opening sermon. The Presbyterial group consisted of a speaker, a vocalist, an on Saturday, April 14th. Although he had Society met at the same time and place. instrumentalist, and in some cases vocalists. been kept from the services of the Sabbath . .. . The regular Spring meeting of Wil­ ... Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., for more than two years, and had been living lamette Presbytery convened at Corvallis, held a Spiritual Emphasis Week for Youth, within the bounds of another parish, so April 2nd and 3rd. The Rev. John S. February 26th-March 4th. The services were large was his place in the affections of the Burns, pastor of the federated churches of conducted by the Rev. Herman L. Turner, people, that loving inquiries as to his con­ Corvallis, was elected moderator of the pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church dition characterized every gathering. Not Presbytery. The Rev. E. W. Warrington, of Atlanta, Georgia. Although attendance only the congregation, but the entire com­ Professor of Religion in Oregon State Col­ was not compulsory, the services were well munity, feels a sense of great and intimate lege, led a forum discussion on "What Is attended. Many fraternities and other loss. Mr. Curry was a commissioner to the Spiritual," and Dr. Henry B. Master, secre­ groups on the campus invited Mr. Turner Assembly of 1929, and labored earnestly in tary of the National Board of Pensions, as special guest to dinners and meetings prayer for the security of Princeton -Sem­ preached the evening sermon on the topic, where he made informal and inspirational inary. The organization of Westminster "What Think Ye of Christ?" The election talks. At the last meeting in the First interested him intensely. He was present at of the Corvallis pastor as moderator fills Presbyterian Church the students rededi­ the meeting in Philadelphia at which the the position held during t he past year by cated themselves to more faithful and effec­ founding of the Seminary was decided upon, Dr. G. C. Birchet, Salem. Other officers tive spiritual service. Cumberland has a and at every commencement and opening elected at the opening session were Dr. large Law School, the only professional exercise, until increasing weakness pre­ W. H. Lee, Albany, stated clerk; the Rev. school connected with a Presbyterian insti­ vented. "He held fast the truth of Christ J . Y. Stewart, Albany, permanent clerk; tution. It is said that practically every as the ground of his personal hope, and t he Rev. G. H. Wilbur, Salem, recording student in the University, including the stu­ quietly but unflinchingly maintained the clerk; F. E. Graham, Cove Orchard, tem­ dents in the professional school are not only doctrines upon which the Presbyterian porary clerk. All the churches of the Willa­ Christians but interested in Christian actitv­ Church stands. His monument is the rever­ mette Valley were represented at the meet­ ities. ence and love of a sorrowing people." ... ing. A call from the McMinnville Church The annual meeting of the Olivet Presby­ The past year was one of the best in the to the Rev. Harry G. Kenney was accepted terian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., the Rev. history of the First Presb-yterian Church of and t he Presbytery was given authorization Jos. G. Snyder, minister, was a great suc­ Hollywood, Calif. Four hundred and eighty­ to arrange for installation in the near cess. "The spirit of prayer was upon Olivet's two new members were received into the future. The Presbytery also accepted a call birthday, and the annual meeting was rich church, of whom two hundred and eighty­ from Mill City Church of the Rev. James with a sense of God's presence and blessing. seven were on confession of faith. The McAuley with installation set for April 12th. The report called forth repeated thanks- active membership now numbers two thou- Presbytery elected four commissioners to May, 1934 CHRISTIANITY TODAY 31

the General Assembly at Cleveland, Ohio, Rev. Alex. Frazer (Aberdeen), the Rev. John love of the people. !i great estate, the May 24th-29th. These were the Rev. James Macbeath, M.A. -(Glasgow), the Rev. J. legacy of her royal husband, she devoted A. Smith, Cottage Grove; the Rev. Louis Stuart Halden, D.D. (London), Mr. A. Lind­ to the nursing of consumptives, and she M. Anderson, Newport; Mr. F. C. Graham, say Glegg (London) and Mr. G. F. White­ did not cease to visit and to show her inter­ Cove Orchard; Ralph S. Harper, Gervais. head. The convention is to be held the last est in all institutions of social work. In the report of trustees, the Rev. G. H. week in June. And now, when after more than forty Wilbur reported the sale of the old defunct At the annual meeting of the local auxil­ years the royal crypt of the famous church church at Whiteson for $50.00 and the iary of the China Inland Mission held in at Delft, the last resting place of the money sent to the Board of Erection, and Belfast on April 10th, Mr. J. B. Martin Orange Nassaus was opened again, a whole the bell given to the new edifice being con­ (Secretary of the Mission) said that 1933 people mourned its queen. Even the social­ structed at Cannon Beach. Presbytery voted was a year of advance. Baptisms numbered ists testified; she was a good woman and an adjourned meeting for May 28th at almost 7000, this being the largest in the loved our people as a mother. Eugene to ordain Mr. Glen Coie, a graduate history of the Mission. The membership of The weeks after Easter are the weeks of of Albany College and soon to graduate the C. I. M. was now 1313 and 19 new sta­ the meetings of the ministers of the dif­ from Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia, tions were opened during the year. The ferent churches. It is a remarkable fact who is to assume the pastorate of the income from all sources in 1933 amounted that not only in the conference of the min­ North Bend Church. to £138,000. isters of the Reformed churches, was the Towards the end of April . a two days' great secession of 1834 commemorated, but Irish Letter Conference of Presbyterian, Church of Ire­ that other conferences took notice of it. land, and Methodist ministers was held at However, the last published number of the By S. W. Murray Howth (near Dublin). This was arranged quarterly, "Onder Eigen Vaandel," the (Corrections - In the "Irish Letter" on jointly by the Irish Christian Fellowship paper of the confessional party in the Dutch page 20 of CHRISTIANITY TODAY fa?' March, and the Friends of Reunion. Among those Reformed Church (singular) is completely for "Rev. James McCameron, M.A." please taking part were the Dean of Belfast, Dr. devoted to remembrance of the secession. read "Rev. James McCammon, M.A.," and J. J. Macaulay (Presbyterian) and the Rev. Although all members of the Reformed fa?' "Rev. James Hutton, MA.," 1Jlease read J. E. Neill, B.A. (Methodist). One of the Churches cannot be content with many ex­ "Rev. James Hunter, M.A.") speakers said, "If the problem of uniting planations in this number, I regard it as a WO eminent ministers of the Irish Pres­ the Churches were settled we should gain happy token, that in the Reformed Church Tbyterian Church recently passed away a valuable equipment with which to tackle the secession is mentioned with considerate -the Rev. Wm. Colquhoun, B.A., Minister­ the immense difficulty of reconciling the esteem. Emeritus of Fitzroy Church, Belfast, and religion of the man who wanted to be free AMSTERDAM the Rev. E. J. McKee, B.A., LL.D., of St. to think with that of the man who accepted Andrew's Church, Bray. News has come to his faith on authority. The reconciliation of Korea Letter hand of the death of Mrs. Miskelly of faith and unbelief is surely an 'immense By the R ev. Bruce F. Hunt Manchuria who has been a missionary for difficulty.' " many years. BELFAST HE retreat has been sounded! A cable A recent letter received from the Rev. Tfrom the Board, requesting the first Morris Sigel of Damascus tells of encour­ Netherlands Letter official withdmwals f?'om the mission, has agement in his work among J ews~ Owing been received. to the closing of the Zionist Workmen's By the R ev. Prof. F. W. Grosheide, D.D., Dr. S. A. Moffett, pioneer missionary, Club by Government action, many of the of the Free University, Amsterdam whose retirement was announced in the club members are now attending the meet­ N the 20th March died our very beloved February letter has been presented with a ings addressed by Mr. Sigel. He asks prayer O Queen-Mother Emma of Waldich-PYT­ gold medal from the Japan Imperial Asso­ that the message of the Gospel may be mont, and the royal family, which consists ciation for "distinguished service in the brought home to many hearts during this of only four members, was reduced to three. cause of education in Chosen." He was time of opportunity. There is great reason to remember in this twenty-five years president of the Presby­ Mr. Robert E. C. Calhoun, B.A., has been ecclesiastical journal the death of Queen terian Theological Seminary, and ten years ordained to the ministry and appointed to Emma. As a girl of twenty-two she mar­ president of Union Christian College, and it the pastoral oversight of the congregation ried our last king William III, who was at was largely due to his stand that the Pres­ of Boyle and Ballymote (Connaught Pres­ that moment a man of twenty-two. Three byterian academies, while recognized by the bytery). Mr. Calhoun is a graduate of princes born out of his first marriage died Government as standard, are allowed to Magee College; Derry and Trinity College, the one after the other. And it is the teach Bible as a regular part of the cur­ Dublin, and studied theology at Princeton daughter of Queen Emma, who is our reign­ riculum (these schools being known as "des­ Seminary, and Assembly's College, Belfast. ing Queen Wilhelmina. King William III ignated" schools, as opposed to "recognized" Mr. A. W. E. Forbes, B.A., a licentiate of died in 1890, when his only remaining child schools, which may not teach the Bible in Derry Presbytery, has received a call from Wilhelmina was a girl of ten. So Queen school hours). Roseyards Presbyterian Church (Route Pres­ Emma took up the regency. She governed The question of closing some of the mis­ bytery). our people in difficult years excellently. She sion stations, due to the reduction in Board On April 12th the closing public meeting cemented the ties between the people and receipts, has been raised, and the Executive of the Assembly's College 1933-34 Session the dynasty and she acquired the love of Committee of the mission has taken action was held. The Rev. Principal F. J. Paul all. Above all, she was a very religious that, due to the fact that we have accepted delivered the closing lecture, his subject woman and she educated her royal child responsibility for the fields worked by com­ being "Discipline in the Christian Church." according to the Word of God. That our ity agreements with other missions, we can­ At this meeting the Honorary Degree of present Queen fears the Lord and is not not close any of our Stations "unless its Doctor of . Divinity was conferred on the ashamed to confess her faith at all oppor­ territory can be turned over to the Presby­ Rev. Wm. Elliott, M.A., of Ballinasloe and tunities, she owes, in God's providence, to tery concerned, to the Boards of the General the Rev. T. M. Johnstone, Belfast (Mod­ her mother. Assembly of the Korean Church, or to some erator Designate). After her retirement Queen Emma de­ other Foreign Mission Board." A committee The speakers at the 1934 Portstewart voted herself to various social and religious was also appointed to ascertain what sav­ Convention are announced as follows: the work and in this manner she retained the ings could result from the closing of any 32 CHRISTIANITY TODAY May, 1934

Station, institution, or form of work, and to of one of China's very strongest young study practical plans to turn over the work evangelists, Mr. Wang Ming Tau, at their to the Korean Church. special Spring holiday meetings. A time of Korea lost one of her prominent men on Almost everyone deep spiritual refreshment and victory is February 27th, in the death of Elder Y 00 who subscribes to Christianity Today, reported. (Sung Jun), who has served many govern­ The League of Evangelical Students in renews. We are proud of the faith­ ment positions in his lifetime, including the China asks the earnest prayers of God's Governorship of two of Korea's provinces fulness of our growing "family." We people that the way may very soon be open and the Vice-Governorship of two others. will appreciate your sending your re­ financially for it to hold its first national He was a proud witness to the Gospel dur­ newal without waiting for a notice, conference. They regard the early holding ing all of these years and at one time served if it is due. Your address-label will of this conference as vital and are praying on the board of editors which put out the for one next summer. inform you. A blank is enclosed for mixed-script version of the Korean Bible. TENGHSIEN, SHANTUNG PROVINCE, CHINA March is graduation month in Korea and your convenience and for any who the following institutions graduated work­ wish to join our world-wide circle of Letter from Melbourne, Australia ers who will take up positions in the readers. Christianity Today is still the church: By the Rev. H. T. Rush (Secretary of the same old price-one dollar a year, Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Py­ Bible Union of Victoria) engyang), 33 men. EVERYWHERE. Women's Higher Bible School (Presbyte­ T is reported that a very great number of rian, Pyengyang), 21 women. I persons witnessed the enthronement of Methodist Theological Seminary (Seoul), Archbishop Mowl recently as Metropolitan 7 men, 7 women. a most enthusiastic reception and hearing of New South Wales and Archbishop of Martha Wilson Women's Seminary (Pres­ to Dr. Norwood, the noted "modernistic" Sydney. St. Andrew's Cathedral could not byterian, Wonsan), 10 women. pastor of the City Temple Church, London, accommodate the people, and more than a There was a debate at the last General upon his recent visit to China, and they feel thousand are said to have been refused Assembly whether the name "Seminary" that he has done much to strengthen their admittance. applied to the -Martha Wilson School in cause. Those who would take the Bible Very much appreciation may be ex­ Wonsan did not indicate that a group in the rather than the Laymen's Appraisal as guide pressed of the article in January number Presbyterian Church had committed them­ in Mission work cannot but deplore his influ­ of CHRISTIANITY TODAY entitled "The Great selves to the ordination of women as min­ ence, especially in the community churches Delusion," by E. Van Deusen. It is a valu­ isters, following the example of the Meth­ and mission universities. able summary of the position in regard to odist Church in Korea. The live group of evangelical students at the popular doctrine. Evolution has broken CHU NGJU, KOREA the Shantung Christian University were down on all lines of proof. fortunate this year in securing the services In Australia, though in some quarters we do not hear quite so much about evolu­ China Letter tion, and this may perhaps be true of the pulpit, yet the popular magazine for the By the R ev. Albe1·t B. Dodd, D.D. most part and the newspaper still give it a GREAT revival was experienced among IN THIS ISSUE: great vogue. The university and the college A the students of the Lutheran Theolog­ still seem infatuated with it. Many of ical Seminary near Hankow under the lead­ Name Calling in the Presbyteria'n Church 4 those who claim to speak with authority ership of the Rev. Chia Yu Ming, D.D., FRANK H. STEVENSON apparently ignore the fact that it is desti­ Chairman of the League of Christian tute of real proof, brush aside all sugges­ A Missionary's Statement to the Home Churches. tions of doubt, and with amazing assump­ Never have the faculty and students of Constituency ...... 7 tion and assurance, treat it not only as a the North China Theological Seminary and ALBERT B. DODD faith (more properly termed credulity or the Mateer Memorial Institute entered more superstition) but as science. Probably on Servants of God or Servants of Men . .. . 9 heartily into nor been more signally blessed that ground a speaker not long since re­ in their spring holiday evangelistic cam­ J . GRESHAM MACHEN ferred to the early chapters of Genesis as paign throughout the Tenghsien field than The Christian Assembly ...... 10 poetry. they have this spring. Their reports have Much the same is true in regard to those been most thrilling and show a real soul­ Impressions of Philadelphia Presbytery . . 12 Modernistic and Higher critical interpreta­ hunger on the part of multitudes all over AN OBSERVER tions of the Bible which are founded on this great county. evolution. Here again we are told that we The Rev. Chang Feng Ming, a graduate Is This Hellphobia? ...... 12 must study the Bible in the light of modern of the North China Theological Seminary, THOMAS M. SLATER knowledge, presumably evolution assumed to whose work among the Chinese in KOl'ea be science. Lord Kelvin said-"I marvel at MacKenzie v. Van Til...... 13 has been richly blessed, reports a l'ecent the undue haste with which teachers in our preaching tour along the Manchurian­ He Was a Good Man: A Sermon ...... 15 universities and preachers in our pulpits Korean border in which the Holy Spirit's ALEXANDER MARLOWE are re-stating truth in terms of evolution, presence was powerfully manifested and while evolution itself remains an unproved 232 Chinese and 36 Koreans professed con­ This Changing World ...... 17 hypothesis in the laboratories of science." version. At the urgent call of the Presby­ "CALVINIST" Perhaps more amazing still is it that so­ terian Station at Tengchowfu, Mr. Chang called modern views of the Bible should now returns to Shantung to become super­ Sunday School Lessons for June ...... 18 have such persistence in face of the true intendent of evangelistic work in that sta­ N. B. STONEHOUSE science of archreology. Can this fact be ade­ tion field. The Comfort of the Scriptures ...... 19 quately explained apart from the revelation The unevangelical and inclusive elements in Scripture of the subtlety and power of in church and mission circles, especially in DAVID FREEMAN the great spirit of evil and of error? such centers as Shanghai and Peiping, gave News of the Church ...... 20 MELBOURNE

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