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11. ~tt~bam matben (fbitor 1936=1937 i ~a1!t11a1t i One Year-$1.50 Published Twice Each Month-Ten Cents a Copy EDITORIAL COUNCIL 1505 Race Street John P. Clelland John Patton Galbraith Edwin H. Rian Thomas R. Birch Philadelphia, Penna. Leslie W. Sloat Ned B. Stonehouse Managing Editor An Open Letter to Westminster Graduates In .th~ Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. By the REV. HENRY W. CORAY Pastor of the First Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Long Beach, California

pROBABLY the greatest man you and I have ever Let us look a little closer at our opening paragraph. known-possibly the greatest we ever will know­ I believe we shall all agree that Dr. Machen is correct once wrote these penetrating words: "Paganism has in charging that modern paganism has marshaled its made many efforts to disrupt the Christian faith, but forces in an "all out" attack against the Christian faith never a more insistent or a more insidious effort than most insistently and most insidiously right before our it is making today. There are three possible attitudes eyes. I dare say every Westminster man will subscribe which you may take in the present conflict. In the first to that proposition. The question then logically fol­ place you may stand for Christ. That is best. In the lows, "What are we to do about it?" "In the first second place you may stand for antichristian Modern­ place," responds Dr. Machen, "you may stand for ism. That is next best. In the third place you may be Christ. That is best." Do I hear a chorus of Amens? neutral. That is perhaps the worst of all..The worst sin I think I do. today is to say that you agree with the Christian faith But do I really stand for Christ? No, I confess that and believe in the Bible and then make common cause in my personal life I have dismally and .shamefully with those who deny the basic facts of Christianity. ignored many a golden opportunity to stand for Christ. Never was it more obviously true that he that is not Too many times I have kept silent when I should have with Christ is against Him." spoken out. On more than one occasion I should have I think we would all do well to ponder those thoughts rebuked the blasphemer. I confess with sorrow that of Dr. Machen soberly every little while. And I in­ I have not been quick to reprove the unfruitful works clude myself in that "we." Let us be very honest. We of darkness. In practice I have been a pretty miserable all know that we are by nature compromisers. There failure as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. is within us all the possibility of the worst evil. "The In reading over the passage again, however, I rather heart," says McCheyne, "is like a volcano; sometimes think Dr. Machen had in mind the relation of the it slumbers and sends up nothing but a little smoke, church to paganism when he wrote those words. The but the fire is slumbering all the while below and will context would seem to justify such a conclusion. Well break out again." Some there are today who speak of then, I ask myself, does my church stand for Christ? having "graduated" from Romans 7 to Romans 8. It Does it truly honor His Word? In its corporate witness, may be so. For myself, I can only say that I have not does it proclaim His gospel? Is it jealous for His Lord­ yet received the sheepskin. ship? I can say without boasting that I believe the 162 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN June 10

answer is, Yes. It is, as was prophesied asked by a friend of mine, "Why do entrenched in your theological semi­ at its formation, a sinful church. It you stay in the Presbyterian Church naries, what future is there for your has made mistakes. It is still a million in the U.S.A.?" He replied, "If I left denomination? And what possibility miles from perfection. I know of none my church the Modernists would get of "reform from within"? of its members who claim that it is it." Thus speaking, he condemned Moreover, the blasphemous man­ without spot or wrinkle. Its Head, himself. He admitted that he was date of 1934 still stains the records viewing it subjectively, cannot say, building for time and not for eternity. of your official proceedings. Until that "Thou art fair, my love, there is no He confessed that he was feathering action is rescinded, it is my convic­ spot in thee." And yet in principle a nest for the birds of liberalism. tion that your church has officially and in rule and in fidelity to the At the time of the Syracuse Assem­ apostatized from the Word of God gospel of the grace of God I am per­ bly in 1936, when most of the mem­ and from the gospel of the Lord Jesus suaded that it does stand for Christ. bers of my church withdrew from Christ for which you are seeking to I am proud to be a minister of The yours, a fine conservative minister in stand. Some of us who have been Orthodox Presbyterian Church. the city of Cincinnati halted at the on the foreign field have seen at first May I turn the pronoun from the exit of your denomination, and then hand the devastating effects of your first to the second person? Do you went back. Shortly after that, he was foreign mission board's modernist ac­ stand for Christ? Are you jealous called unexpectedly out of the world. tivities as well as its antichristian enough for His Kingship to testify His presbytery sent some ecclesiastical policy in the shrine issue, in which it against error and corruption in the G-men to his church to assure the called shrine worship "an act of loyal high councils of your church? You people that they had a man who consecration." have taken holy vows to be faithful stood theologically exactly where their Where among you is any concerted in maintaining the peace and purity former pastor had stood. They ac­ effort to check the avalanche? Stand of your church. Vows are binding. cepted him in good faith and, after among the myrtle trees and you will And you know as well as I do that to he had been installed, the tragic truth see how your ecclesiastical earth testify for Christ in presbytery is much came out. He was a wolf in sheep's "sitteth still and is at rest." All is more difficult than to testify for Christ clothing. sweetness and light, on the surface. publicly on the Great White Way. After all, can you expect bitter But it is only on the surface. Under­ Others have tried to testify for Christ fountains to send forth sweet water? neath, the termites of unbelief have in presbytery--and have found them­ Is not one of the hopeless features done their deadly but successful work. selves out of ecclesiastical favor and of your church the fact that you have Many of your friends in my church out of a pulpit. "But," you say, "I not a single rallying point? With your would rejoice to see you cast in your am preaching the gospel every Sab­ leadership in the hands of the Mod­ lot with us. We cannot offer you vast bath." ExceIIent, but how about your ernists (behold the spectacle of last material benefits, but we can give vows? "Souls are being saved." Splen­ year's Rochester Assembly!), your you the right hand of fellowship. We did, but the ordination vows, what universities and colleges under the say to you, "Come with us and we about them? "Presbytery knows my control of "those who deny the basic will do you good." We can offer you church is evangelical." Good, but it doctrines of Christianity," and Mod­ a part in this ministry of clear-cut is no substitute for other duties. "We ernism in one form or another solidly testimony to the glorious gospel of the do not give much to the boards and blessed God. And even though you agencies of the denomination." But TABLE OF CONTENTS may not yet be willing to join your I repeat, what are you doing about forces with ours, we do want to press June 10, 1941 your vows? "I have a responsibility you at least to stand for Christ where to my people." There is a higher An Open letter . 161 you are. I do not see how it is possible responsibility. "I am praying for light Henry W. Coray for you fully to honor Christ so long and guidance." So did Balaam. I would The Miracle of Grace at Newport 16i as your name remains upon the roll still press you with the question, Robert S. Marsden of the Presbyterian Church in the "How about those vows?" U.S.A., but take the strongest and "In the next place," continues Dr. Feathers Without Arrows 165 John C. Hills, Jr., and William E. Welmers most aggressive stand for Christ that Machen, "you may stand for anti­ you are able. "Lift up thy voice like chnstian Modernism. That is the next Wandering Jews...... 167 a trumpet and declare unto my people best." I assume that no one wishes to Burton L, Goddard their transgressions." If you really argue this point. A Personal Message " 168 obey that commandment, cost what "In the third place you may be To Readers of The Presbyterian Guardian it may, we believe you will be with neutral. That is perhaps the worst of Editorial 169 us soon. all. The worst sin today is to say that It would seem fitting to close this you agree with the Christian faith The Spirit's Work in the Christian life .. 170 Alexander K. Davison letter with another reference to the and believe the Bible and then make writer of that opening paragraph. Go common cause with those who deny Two Assembly Previews...... 172 back with me seven years. It is the the basic facts of Christianity." Thomas R. Birch seminary's commencement night. We One of the most eloquent and Christianity and Shintoism: Part 1/ .... 174 are in Witherspoon Hall in Philadel- gifted preachers in your church was By a Qualified Observer (Please Turn to Page 176)

The Presbyterian Guardian Is published on the lOth and 25th ef each month by The Presbyterian Guardian Publishing Corporation 514 Schaff Building 1505 Race Strolll Philadelphia. Pa., at the. fol1Trinity Orthodox Pres­ sonal work finally reached the parents. byterian Chapel, Newport, Kentucky A happy family is now united in the -they are verily father and mother to church, and Mrs. H. sings in the those people. choir, which, incidentally, has four­ The miracle of grace which the teen members. The F. family is like­ sending of these cards signifies had a wise evidence of the grace of God. most humble beginning. When the The father is a World War veteran, Shaws took over the work there-they with an 87 per cent. health deficiency. each refer to themselves as "we," in His continual drunkenness, followed discussing the work-the only place by a kind of fit, had made the family available was a cold, drafty garage, life one of the worst in Newport. with a stone floor and broken window­ After he had driven the family of six panes. The Lord had used a conse­ children out at the point of a gun, he crated and promising young minister, was arrested and incarcerated as crim­ the Rev. Gerard H. Snell, in the last inally insane. Through the ministra­ few months of his life to lay the foun­ tions of Mr. Shaw he was released, dation for the work. After his tragic and now, having professed Christ, he death the work was carried on by has given up his former habits, is em­ volunteer workers of the Presbyterian ployed and likewise cares for the Constitutional Covenant Union of chapel building. Cincinnati in the year preceding the That building is indeed a beautiful organization of The Orthodox Pres­ structure. The mortuary became in­ byterian Church. The Lewis Street adequate not long after the 1937 garage housed the tiny group of chil­ The New Home of Trinity Chapel flood. As the social service work of the dren when the Shaws arrived in Octo­ chapel expanded, through continued ber, 1936. bring many of these people to Christ. generosity of various church groups The coming of the Shaws to New­ Whereas before the flood there was throughout the country, it overflowed port was not under auspicious cir­ not one professing Christian within into the modest home of the Shaws. cumstances. The garage meeting­ the group, now there are at least fifty­ There was no place to keep and sort place was most inadequate. Of those seven, and many of the Sunday school the clothing into sizes and classifica­ who attended none was a professing scholars, which now number one hun­ tions, the mortuary was in ill-repair, Christian, and their crude and often dred and thirty-five, are being pre­ and the superstition against using as vile manners could not but offend the pared for the public profession of a church a place from which relatives sensibilities of cultured Christian Christ as their Saviour. The effect of had been buried had militated against people. It was the flood in the early conversion upon lives can certainly be the continued use of it. Through the part of 1937 that provided the op­ seen in Newport. Families which generosity of a friend from Cincin­ portunity for the Shaws to win the were broken are now united; saloons nati, the present chapel was pur­ hearts of the people. Very shortly be­ and night-clubs, which were the usual chased, and entirely remodeled. It fore the flood, the mission had moved haunts of parents while children is complete in every way-there is on to better quarters in an abandoned literally starved and froze at home, the first floor a beautiful auditorium, mortuary at 34 East Fourth Street, are now deserted by them, and at­ furnished with excellent seating, Newport. While the flood raged, the tendance at the chapel has taken their stained-glass windows and pulpit, and Shaws cared for literally hundreds of place in the lives of the people. a complete social center and Sunday refugees, feeding, clothing and hous- Homes are now happy, and it is in- school downstairs. One of the most 164 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN June 10

"inquiry room" which was main­ tained in connection with the huge tabernacle Mr. Shaw built there. At four services a day in Cleveland, and later in Akron, Ohio, Mr. Shaw and his fellow-workers preached so that thousands professed Christ. When the depression reached Cleveland, where the Shaws had settled, and that city was impov­ erished, they prayed that the Lord would establish a faithful church where they could find another field of I i service. The founding of The Ortho­ I dox Presbyterian Church was the J answer to their prayers. After so fruit­ / ful a ministry, the work in Newport was most humble, but with a will and with constant prayer and supplica­ Before the Dedication ExerCises of Trinity Chapel of Newport tion backing their efforts in personal evangelism, they went to work. The striking features of the church audi­ in. The interest of the people of Trinity Orthodox Presbyterian Chapel torium is a large mural of the Trans­ Trinity Church, Cincinnati, which of today is the result. Generations will figuration which occupies the whole of largely supports the work, is undoubt­ rise in Newport for many years to the front wall beside the pulpit. edly an important factor, as well as come, and call them blessed. Painted by a leading Cincinnati the interest of the church at large artist, it serves to focus the attention which contributes through its Com­ of the worshipers the moment they mittee on Home Missions and enter the building. The upper floors Church Extension and directly of the structure are as yet unfinished, through missionary boxes. The great The Home Evangel but they will be equipped for Sunday generosity of a friend who has pro­ By the REV. CLIFFORD S. SMITH school purposes as soon as they are vided the present building is, of needed. course, an important factor in putting N JANUARY, 1940, the first issue The services of dedication were the work on a permanent basis. But I of The Home Evangel appeared held for five days, beginning on May undoubtedly the greatest human as a cooperative enterprise of nine 11tho On the morning of that day the factor in the success of the work is churches of The Orthodox Presby­ Sunday school pupils, a hundred and the Shaws themselves. By their lives, terian Church. Since that time seven­ twenty-six strong, led by mounted po­ as well as by their testimony, they teen issues have been published, a licemen, paraded from their old build­ have pointed these poor people to total of over 25°,000 copies, and this ing on Fourth Street to the new build­ Christ and have shown them that in month thirty-six churches will dis­ ing at Fifth and York Streets. At three Christ there is real happiness and joy. tribute approximately 21,000 copies o'clock that afternoon one hundred Their lives have enforced the precepts of the June number in their com­ and five adults filled the auditorium they have preached. Their evident munities. for the dedication service, at which it love for those among whom they The Home Evangel is a four-page was my privilege to speak. I had been work and their ardent prayers have tract filled with a variety of brief mes­ in Newport two and a half years ago, brought down the blessing of God sages and presenting the general call and the contrast brought tears to my upon the work. They would be the of the gospel to the unchurched and eyes. Instead of about two score un­ last ones to claim credit for the suc­ to those who are members of false dernourished and generally disheveled cess, and would give all the glory to churches. It is well printed and con­ people, a well-dressed and orderly God; yet He has used them in a re­ tains numerous short features designed group of this size greeted me. To be markable way. to attract and enlighten the uncon­ sure, a number of friends from Cin­ The Shaws are perfectly fitted for verted. Door-to-door canvassing by the cinnati augmented the congregation, the task which the Lord has now young people of the churches is the but the people from Newport were in given them. They have had a wealth usual method of distribution. a large majority at the service. On of experience in the Lord's service. The use of The Home Evangel Monday night a reception was held First in the United Presbyterian enables a church to obey in some for a large group of invited guests Church and then, when they felt that measure the command of the Lord from Cincinnati and Newport, and the inroads of Modernism in that to go out to the byways and hedges on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and church compelled them to withdraw to present the gospel invitation. In Thursday nights we held evangelistic in 1928, in independent work, they addition, it serves to keep the name services. The attendance reached had reaped a rich harvest of souls. Mr. of the local church before the com­ eighty-five on Thursday evening. Shaw had been a most successful munity by means of a clear testimony What is the secret of the success of evangelist-in one campaign of eleven concerning the stand and message of this work? Undoubtedly there are a weeks in Cleveland, Ohio, he reports the church. Such month-to-month ad­ number of factors which have entered that 35,000 souls passed through the vertising seems certain to produce re- 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 165 sults, and one of the results will be she had never been in a church nor this amount includes a quarter-page that person~ who want to hear the ever knowingly seen a Bible. This advertisement of the local church and true. gospel will be brought to the woman has come to faith in Jesus its services, the economy of this services. Christ, and has united with the San method of securing publicity can be Some of the churches have reported Francisco congregation. appreciated. encouraging response to their distribu­ The charge to churches for The The committee in charge of the tion of The Home Evangel. A woman Home Evangel is remarkably low. The project is composed of the Rev. Robert in San Francisco who received it wrote smallest order accepted is three hun­ Strong, the Rev. William T. Strong to the local pastor telling him that dred, and the bill for that number is and the Rev. Clifford S. Smith. All she would like to attend the church. $2.08 plus postage; each additional inquiries should be' addressed to Mr. When he called on her to extend a hundred copies cost but thirty-six Smith at 137 West Commerce Street, personal invitation, he learned that cents. When it is remembered that Bridgeton, N. J.

Feathers· Without Arrows The Fifth in a Series of Articles on the Crisis in EvanfJelism • By JOHN C. HILLS. JR.• and WILLIAM E. WELMERS

T'S a weary road that has no bend­ The stream of religious history reminds us of the way some of us in I ing. It would also be a weary series which we are going to trace had its our childhood learned to parrot the of articles that had no turning-point. main course in Europe, but its back­ Shorter Catechism at the feet of So far we have been viewing only one wash has left its silt on the shores of modernist ministers in the Presby­ side of the crisis in evangelism-the America. So then, before we can terian Church in the U.S.A., while firm entrenchment of the modern un­ evaluate the feathers and arrows of little or no attention was given to the believer. Having come to our turning­ American preaching, we must observe Bible as the source of that admirable point, which in this case happens to the background of European religious summary of Christian doctrine. Chris­ be of the hairpin variety, we shall history. tians have an unfortunate tendency to now look at'the other side of the During the period of the Protestant learn doctrine by unquestioned hear­ crisis, in order to see what the Chris­ Reformation, things religiously speak­ say, without searching the Scriptures tian church has been and is doing ing were in fairly good shape. Of to see if these things be so. It is the about that entrenchment. We shall course, the Christian church has never nature of sinful man to divorce doc­ try to show how the Christian church been perfect, and never will be until trine from Scripture. It is one thing, has through its negligence been al­ the second coming of our Lord. How­ for example, to memorize as an intel­ lowing the unbeliever to build the for­ ever, a short time after Luther and lectual exercise the facts of the doc­ tifications which he now so smugly Calvin had shivered the timbers of the trine of the Trinity; it is quite another and securely occupies. Roman Catholic Church with their thing, however, to cherish this doc­ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the powerful proclamations of the truth trine as an important teaching of prince of preachers of two generations of God as it is found in Scripture, it God's Word and as a foundation for ago, used a neat phrase to describe seems that more people knew more godly living. The Christian church at his sermon illustrations. He referred sound doctrine than at any other time that time had performed the intellec­ to them as feathers for his arrows. in the church's history. It is said that tual exercise of memorizing doctrine, The arrows, of course, were the shafts at that time many a farmer, inter­ but had failed to make the all-impor­ and barbs of Christian doctrine-the rupted in his plowing, could discuss tant connection between doctrine and teachings of Scripture. The feathers theology more profoundly than nine­ Scripture, with the result that there were the interesting illustrations ty-eight per cent. of the ministers of was no real foundation for true piety, which guided the arrows and made our day. There was a vigorous and and true piety began to crumble. The them strike home to the hearts of his wholesome emphasis on doctrinal in­ whole position of the church can be listeners. For, although God's truth struction; thus the teachings of the summed up in the phrase, "This is in its own right demands our undi­ Bible were unmistakably proclaimed our doctrine," rather than "Thus saith vided attention in church, it seems and strenuously defended. It began to the Lord." For this reason, this phase that it takes illustrations from the look as though, after a thousand years of the church's history can be called pulpit to make us sit up and take of darkness and ignorance about the the period of dead orthodoxism. notice. Now while feathers on arrows Bible, the Christian church might However, there was soon a reaction, are desirable and even necessary, you really be advancing. The church at known as pietism, against the dead cannot shoot feathers without arrows. this time was, on the whole, orthodox. orthodoxism of the church; on the We shall undertake to show how the However, the greater part of the surface, it appeared to be a healthy re­ history of the Christian church in this church soon became careless. Strict action. We may thank pietism for re­ country has been characterized by a vigilance about doctrine as such was newing an almost lost emphasis on the growing neglect of arrows, and how not relaxed, but the tendency was Christian life. Dead orthodoxism had this same church has become more arising to forget that doctrine is rooted lacked a warm devotion to God and a and more choked with feathers. and founded in the Scriptures. This deep concern for holy living. Pietism 166 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN June 10 awakened the church to the need for and believed of the Bible that when doctrinal preaching flourished, these essential elements of true Chris­ counted; rather it was how emotional and when the shafts of God's truth tianity, by insisting on a consecration his experiences had been. It all were long and sharp, and if anything of the whole heart to God. Unfortu­ amounted to this: "My heart has been was lacking it was the helpful feathers nately, however, pietism was charac­ strangely warmed. I have a feeling of of illustration. Or, if the reader pur­ terized by that faulty posture termed benevolence toward God. In fact, I sues his study with persistence, he "leaning over backwards," which lit­ feel fine. I must be a Christian." The might allow his thoughts to drift erally speaking hurts the spine but conclusion from all this is that, theo­ down through the years until he which figuratively speaking does con­ retically and practically, pietism aban­ comes to the preaching of Dwight L. siderable damage to one's religious doned the Bible with the thoroughness Moody, who was undoubtedly used by balance. In reacting against the one­ of a Hess deserting Germany. God, but whose arrows of preaching sidedness of dead orthodoxism, the It is now possible to write the last were noticeably shorter than those of pietists went to the other extreme. chapter in this sad history of religious his predecessors, and whose feathers The air was thick with talk like this: decline-a chapter that has a tragic of illustration were noticeably more "Christianity is not a doctrine but a ending. Anti-doctrinal pietism was by numerous. The reader's mind might life. Doctrine is man-made. Let's get nature fertile soil for the seeds of un­ drift still further, to the time of Wil­ back to the Bible. No creed but belief. Partial denial of the Word of liam Ashby Sunday, the dynamic Christ, no book but the Bible!" Now, God had to give way finally to total evangelist, whose arrows of doctrine .. it is a commendable thing, of course, denial. The Modernists have simply were even smaller than those of to want to get back to the Bible; but worked out the position of the pietists Moody, and whose illustrative feathers did pietism really accomplish that? to its logical and unavoidable con­ were extremely plentiful, to say the Pietism not only did not get back to clusion. The Modernists believe that least. Modern pietism is in an even the Bible, but as a matter of fact got Christianity is only a way to live, or, worse plight. The arrows are almost farther and farther away from it. if you will, a fine code of ethics. invisible, while the feathers dominate Pietism actually departed from the Christianity consists for them in lov­ the scene. Finally, the reader need Bible in two respects. In the first ing the neighbor, and doing the good only think of the modernist ministers place, it was admittedly anti-doctrinal. deed each day, but not in believing of our day; the arrows of doctrinal Now, doctrine is simply the teaching facts. The pietists had said, "No creed truth are entirely absent from their of the Bible stated in such a way that but Christ, no book but the Bible." preaching, and their pulpit exercises it cannot be misunderstood and mis­ The Modernists now say, "No creed, consist only in throwing feathers of represented in the manner that iso­ no book." We see, therefore, that illustration and pious advice, and lated texts of Scripture often are. For three centuries after the days of nothing but feathers." . example, the Biblical words, "God is Luther and Calvin, the Reformed It is clear that, while the church's love," are often quoted as proof that churches of Europe had in large part message was thus being diluted and God cannot condemn sinners to hell. forgotten the very soul of the Protes­ weakened, no real attempt could be A doctrinal statement of the nature of tant Reformation, declining slowly made to prevent unbelievers from God would combine this text with through dead orthodoxism and pietism strengthening their position. The de­ all the others bearing on the subject, into Modernism. What the final end cline of doctrine within the church and hence would make it unmistaka­ of this decline will be we cannot say; gave unbelievers the opportunity to bly clear that God is not only love, perhaps, if the faithful remnant of strengthen their fortifications and to but also holiness and justice. In other those Reformed churches girds itself entrench themselves more firmly in words, if Scripture is not interpreted for battle, and if that remnant fights their unbelief. While the church's doctrinally, it will invariably be inter­ with the right weapon, another refor­ arrows of doctrinal truth were rapidly preted superficially and carelessly. So, mation will flower. disappearing in favor of feathers, the in spite of all the pious prattle about Having sketched the broad outline fiery darts of unbelievers, as we saw getting back to the Bible, pietism was of European church history since the in the previous article, were becoming actually getting away from the Bible; Protestant Reformation, there remains hotter and more numerous. by opposing doctrine, it had cut itself little to be said about the history of But what of that remnant which loose from a sound interpretation of the American church. Although Amer­ has endeavored to maintain a true Scripture. Many pietists went so far ica has been characterized by many doctrinal position in spite of the de­ as to claim direct and special revela­ new things, its church history is not structive and deteriorating effects of tions from God-they "felt led"­ one of them. The events which trans­ the decline which has gone on all thus completely abandoning the Bible pired in Europe had reflections and about it and which at times has struck as "the only infallible rule of faith echoes here. The American church deeply into its own midst? If we were and practice." has undergone the same decline of to be heartened at any point in our All of this meant, in the second doctrine through dead orthodoxism, survey, surely it would be because of place, that even the "life" which pietism, and Modernism, but with this small but courageous remnant. pietism so strongly emphasized was greater rapidity. However, the heart must never be bound to become an unbalanced life The reader will have no difficulty -not true piety at all, but pietism, a in tracing for himself the decline of * For a further discussion of the doc­ superficial and shallow religion of orthodox doctrinal preaching in Amer­ trinal decline in the American church, see works. In a desire for glowing warmth ica. He might, for example, recall the the article "Our American Christian in religion, feeling and emotion were decline of doctrinal preaching in his Future," by Professor Paul Woolley, in substituted for the teachings of God's own lifetime. Or he might think of THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN for June Word. It was not what a person knew the period of the American colonies, 25, 1940. 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 167 allowed to interfere with the head, Knox, and The Orthodox Presbyte­ served, but God sees all that he does and it is unwise to praise courage rian Church. That orthodoxy must be and knows all the places he goes. No alone when prudence is lacking. It is effectively defended, and must be pre­ less does He mark the course of the one thing to fight valiantly; it is quite ceded in battle by an equally effective spiritual vagabond. And while He for­ another thing to fight with the right offensive. We shall see what the gets the sins of the penitent, He re­ weapons. It must be admitted with proper weapon is after we have seen members the iniquities of the wan­ deep regret that the right weapon has what weapons the Christian church derer. This was His declaration to been and is seldom used by the cham­ has been accustomed to use, and how Judah through Jeremiah. pions of the truth. It is not enough pathetically unsuccessful, for the most Not only is God aware of the sins to have the orthodoxy of Calvin, part, those weapons are. of the wanderer, but also those sins separate him from God. Moses, David, Hezekiah, Josiah, the prophets and every righteous, believing Jew had sweet communion with God, but Wandering Jews Jeremiah's contemporaries had lost that fellowship. Jeremiah told them A Meditation by the REV. BURTON L GODDARD that it was because of their wandering, because of their sin. Like the psalmist, Thus saith the Lord unto this people, As a matter of fact, almost all he knew that only those with clean Thus have they loved to wander, they have Biblical mentions of wandering are hands and pure hearts are acceptable not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord either actual departures from God or before the Lord. doth not accept them; he will now remem­ have some intimate connection with His message was not ended, how­ ber their iniquity, and visit their sins (Jer. turning away from Him. It was be­ ever. The justice of God demanded 14: 10). cause Cain slew his brother that he that the wanderer suffer just punish­ CCORD ING to the legend of became a wanderer on the face of ment for his sin, and so he went on A the Wandering Jew, our Lord the earth. The sin of unbelief was to say that God would "visit their paused before the door of Joannes responsible for the years of wilderness­ sins." The divine covenant promised Buttadeus while on His way to Cal­ wandering on the part of the Israe­ blessing to an obedient people; but it vary. The Jew, however, drove Him lites. Isaiah was thinking of the uni­ made plain the fact that wanderers away, saying, "Go! why dost Thou versality of sin when he said, "All we would bring upon themselves curse tarry?" But Jesus, looking sternly at like sheep have gone astray." And the after curse. him, rebuked him with these words, Good Shepherd spoke not of a lamb How true were the words of the "I go, but thou shalt tarry 'til I absent from its Palestinian sheepfold covenant! How the wandering Jews come." Though he repented and be­ but of one wandering away from God, have suffered throughout the years! came a changed man, Joannes But­ when He told of the "ninety and They have become outcasts, natural tadeus could not die, and throughout mne.. " branches broken from the tree, unac­ the succeeding centuries wandered Read the Old Testament Scrip­ ceptable to God. Their punishment from place to place throughout the tures. Their testimony is unanimous has seemed almost greater than a earth. -the i: were a people constantly people could bear. Persecuted, reviled, The legend arose from the confus­ astray rom God. Condense the Bible exiled, slaughtered-they have reaped ing of certain incidents mentioned in witness to a single statement, and this a just reward for their sins. And all the Bible, and is historically untrue. is the result: Wandering from God the time God has extended to them Yet, strangely enough, the Bible does was their first love. the offer of full and free reconciliation speak of "wandering Jews," for in our Wandering Jews! We join in their and salvation through the Messiah text is recorded a description of the reproach. But is not the same true of whom they rejected and slew. Wan­ people of Judah. us? Do we not love to wander, too? dering Jews, oh that you might be­ There is probably no more apt The human race, fallen with its first come repentant like Joannes But­ characterization of the Jews than this: representative, is a wandering people. tadeus! "They have loved to wander." Their It was for this that Christ must come, But wandering Gentiles, there is no first and dominating love was not for that He might seek out and save the more hope for you unless you also Jehovah, but for wandering from Him. lost. And he who is not rescued by the forsake your wandering and embrace The word used by Jeremiah is not one Good Shepherd remains lost and con­ the Son of God as your Saviour, Ex­ primarily descriptive of mere moving tinues in his wandering. ample and Guide. Have you been from one place to another. It indi­ This is the song of every true wandering from God? Wander no cates the staggering course of the Christian: more! Make this your confession of drunkard and the unsteady gait of I was a wandering sheep, penitence: mariners as their ship is tossed by an I did not love the fold, angry storm. It describes the faint and I did not love my Shepherd's voice, I've wandered far away from God, uncertain tottering of the beggar. It I would not be controlled. Now I'm coming home; pictures the unstable ways of the The paths of sin too long I've trod, harlot. It is ideally applied to men Our first love was for wandering, but Lord, I'm coming home. seeking to escape the controlling hand God put a new love in our hearts, a Coming home, coming home, of God that they may enter unre­ love for obedience, a love for Him. Nevermore to roam, strained upon a course of sin. Jere­ It is so natural for a vagabond to Open wide Thine arms of love, miah so employs it. think that his wanderings are unob- Lord, I'm coming home. 168 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN June 10

A Personal Message • To Every Reader of THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN HERE are about 6700 public Here is a -high school boy. He has are much more likely to be the cen­ Tlibraries in the United States. Go come to the library to search for ma­ ters of community attraction and in­ into the periodical room of anyone terial on some religious question dis­ terest than libraries in the large cities. of them tomorrow, and you will find cussed in the class room. His home is Every dollar contributed to THE there at least one Christian Science not a Christian home, but he is in­ PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN'S Library paper, several Roman Catholic jour­ terested in "religion." We could reach Fund will mean that another library nals, and all shades and tints of him! Here is the president of the local will receive a full year's subscription, modernist propaganda, not to men­ women's club, an intellectual leader and every library receiving such a sub­ tion an assortment of miscellaneous in the small town. The club meets at scription represents several hundred trash sufficient to poison the minds of her home next Friday, and she is to potential readers for every issue. an entire generation. Now, if you lead the discussion. She is searching Think for a moment of the mis­ have lots of time, begin a systematic for subject matter. We have a message sionary value of such a program. Too search of the files of that library for for her! Here is a young girl who prob­ often our subscribers are inclined to some periodical that represents at least ably will not be able to go to college, view THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN as an approach to the orthodox, evangel­ but whose mind is active and alert. a commercial enterprise and to sepa­ ical position. It is quite possible that She is eager for knowledge, and re­ rate it in their thoughts from the rest your search may be successful, and ceptive to new ideas. She would listen of the missionary program of The that you may discover a more-or-less, attentively to us! Here is an old man, Orthodox Presbyterian Church. That hit-or-miss "conservative" journal. But browsing among the recent publica­ is a grave mistake. THE PRESBYTERIAN even this is doubtful. If, however, you tions, hoping something new will GUARDIAN is in many ways the most are not yet content, try to find a mag­ catch his eye and occupy his attention effective missionary that the denomi­ azine that presents, clearly and un­ for a brief hour. We have something nation has. It can go into thousands compromisingly, the Word of God, to offer him! And here is a young col­ of places that our missionaries never the whole Word of God and nothing lege student, visiting his Christian reach. It can repeat its message to a but the Word of God. Hunt for a home during a brief vacation. His pro­ limitless number of readers. It can journal that teaches historic, Biblical fessors have planted doubts in his spread the fame of the denomination Christianity, that is militant against mind concerning the validity of his more powerfully than any other all forms of modern unbelief, that Christian faith, and he is bewildered. medium. It can influence the thoughts stands for the defense and the propa­ Perhaps more than any of the rest, of the non-Christian world, and com­ gation of the whole counsel of God. he needs our message! And these are mand the attention and respect even The chances of your finding such a but a few of the pitiful lost multitude, of those who differ theologically with periodical in any public library in this groping through the dusty wisdom of it. great, broad, "Christian" land of ours the centuries in search of they know are just about non-existent. not what. A Personal Responsibility How long shall we neglect their This is not something about which A Golden Opportunity need? How long shall we allow the you can be indifferent. It is an open We in The Orthodox Presbyterian false creeds of antichrist to hold the door for The Orthodox Presbyterian Church have adopted a mission pro­ field unchallenged? How long shall Church, but every member must bear gram of no mean proportions. We we hold back from them the blessing his share of the burden. Instead of the give sacrificially to reach the lost in of a full-orbed Christian gospel? It is regular rate of one dollar and fifty those communities where our handful time that every church, every session, cents a year, library subscriptions will of missionaries labor. And we deplore every member of The Orthodox Pres­ be entered at the rate of one dollar a the fact that our unique message byterian Church awakened to the op­ year. We have available a list of the reaches such a limited audience, that portunity at our very doors. entire 6700 libraries, so that it is not our influence is so small, that so large necessary for anyone to name the a part of the world is not even aware A Practical Possibility libraries for which his contribution is of our existence. Yet every weekday \\1 e would like to place THE PRES­ sent, though he may do so if he de­ of the year a vast army of inquiring BYTERIAN GUARDIAN twice each sires. Our goal for the year ending boys and girls, of thoughtful men and month on the tables of every one of June 1, 1942, will be one thousand women storm the periodical rooms the 6700 public libraries in the coun­ libraries, and each fortnight the of every library in the land-and we try. To do so would require $6700 GUARDIAN will announce just how make not the slightest effort to reach every year, and that is an obvious im­ many libraries have been added since them. The Christian Scientists have possibility at the present time. But the preceding issue was mailed. One done it, the Roman Catholics have because we cannot reach them all thousand dollars will be needed to done it, the Modernists have done it, immediately is no reason for not mak­ reach that small goal, and that means but we, with the most precious mes­ ing every effort to reach as many as the very fullest cooperation of every sage in all the world, are allowing possible just as soon as possible. member, of every session, and of aureoled opportunity to slip daily We shall begin with libraries in the every church. Why not use the through our fingers. smaller cities and towns, since these coupon on page 176 today? 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 169

Bible such as the full truthfulness of the first time in the history of the Scripture, the virgin birth, the substi­ Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., a tutionary atonement, the bodily resur­ signer of the Auburn Affirmation was rec~on and the miracles of Jesus elected moderator of the general as­ Chnst; that the board issued litera­ sembly. At the same assembly, an ture equally heretical; that it sup­ overture asking the church to reaffirm ported institutions openly defiant of its loyalty to the full truthfulness of historic Christianity; and that it en­ the Bible, the virgin birth, the substi­ EDITORIAL tered into doctrinally compromising tutionary atonement, the bodily resur­ alliances with other churches. All of rection, and the miracles of Jesus these charges, we repeat, were ac­ Christ was voted down unanimously. After Five Years companied by evidence and were never Could there be any plainer signs of T IS now five years since Dr. J. successfully contradicted. Such a mis­ the drift of that denomination? I Gresham Machen and other mem­ sionary program, said Dr. Machen The General Assembly of the Pres­ bers of The Independent Board for and his friends, could not be supported byterian Church in the U.S.A. has Presbyterian Foreign Missions were by Bible-believing Christians. The met again to transact important busi­ suspended from the ministry of the church said, in effect, "You must ness and to elect a moderator. One Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. be­ support the boards and agencies to of the two leading candidates for cause they chose to obey God rather the utmost of yourability even as you moderator was the Rev. Henry Sloane than man. The question arises, Have obey the injunction of Jesus Christ Coffin, D.O., President of Union the intervening years proved Dr. to partake of the Lord's Supper, or Theological Seminary in New York Machen and his friends wrong in their be suspended from the ministry of the City, a signer of the Auburn Affirma­ conviction regarding that church? Are church." But the founders of The tion and an arch enemy of historic the issues that were then at stake as Orthodox Presbyterian Church chose Christianity. Although he was finally real today? Has the Presbyterian to remain true to the Bible. defeated by Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, Church in the U.S.A. altered its It is now 1941 and we are five years whose theological position also can­ course and become loyal to the Bible? removed from that controversy. Are not by any stretch of the imagination The 1941 General Assembly of the those charges still true? To the best of be called orthodox, Dr. Coffin polled Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. our knowledge, not one missionary more than forty-six per cent. of the which has been held in St. Louis has been recalled because of his un­ total votes cast. The Modernists who presents an opportunity to ponder faithfulness to the Bible, not one were content to let the middle-of-the­ these matters carefully and calmly. piece of literature has been withdrawn roaders fight their battles for them Five years is sufficient time to prove because of its Modernism, and not five years ago have now assumed full or disprove the contention of the one compromising alliance has been and. public command. They know founders of The Orthodox Presby­ severed. The facts of 1936 with refer­ then strength, they control the situa­ terian Church that Modernism con­ ence to Modernism in the church tion and they intend to keep the trols the Presbyterian Church in the have not changed for the good. In church in line with the trend of the U.S.A. and that doctrinal indifference truth, it is impossible to point to a times. Their long, hard fight has been dominates that church just as surely single sign of doctrinal improvement. victorious; the soldiers of the Lord as the Nazi regime rules the European What is the situation in the Board who, in 1936, chose to remain in the continent. of Christian Education, which we church, have abandoned the fight or The central point raised in the weighed and found wanting in the have been routed completely. The controversy concerned the ultimate scale of adherence to the Bible and fifth columnists can now welcome the source of authority in religion. Should the Westminster Confession of Faith? conquerors publicly while the Bible­ a Christian obey the voice of the Has the antichristian literature been believers still in the church are dumb church speaking through its councils withdrawn? Have the Auburn Affirma­ with fright or staggered with the fu­ and general assembly or the voice of tionist chaplains on the college cam­ tility of the situation. God speaking in the Bible? Must a puses been removed? The answer to And that brings us to the question, Christian and a member of the Pres­ these questions is an unequivocal No! Where are the evangelical leaders of byterian Church in the U.S.A. sup­ And to add to the further indictment the past who remained in the church? port the boards and agencies of the of this board since 1936, the Rev. We refer to those who led the fight church, even though they are not in Paul C. Payne, D.O., a signer of the for the faith in 1923 and 1924, when accord with the Bible and the creed Auburn Affirmation, has been made the Auburn Affirmation was issued of the church? its general secretary. and when these men were loud in This all-important question of the A similar accusation can be made their denunciation of unbelief in the Bible versus the church as the final against the Board of National Mis­ church. We do not hear their clarion authority in religion became a prac­ sions, with the same result. And it has call to battle? Their sword is not un­ tical issue with reference to the boards just elected Auburn Affirmationist sheathed to lead the soldiers of the and agencies of the church. It was Jean S. Milner as its president. Lord against the foe! Where are they? claimed and proved that the Board What is worse, there have been We ask again, Have they lost their of Foreign Missions, which was the new developments demonstrating fur­ courage? Is their faith weak? Is their center of the attack, had missionaries ther that the grip of Modernism on voice of protest stilled? under its administration who were not the church is growing stronger and In 1936 they urged ministers and faithful to the great facts of the more secure each day. In 1940, for members not to leave the Presby- 170 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN June 10 terian Church in the U.S.A., but to an epoch. Christianity Today was In the editorial announcing the remain to fight the good fight from brought into being to support with suspension of the journal there is an within. Unless we are badly misin­ the power of the printed word the incidental reference which has pro­ formed there is no fight from within. cause which Westminster represented, voked a bit of surprise and mirth. The There is not even a skirmish, but the militant and powerful presenta­ statement is made that in 1936 a only a total surrender. Those "evan­ tion of the gospel in opposition to minority of the board of trustees se­ gelicals" are living in Modernist-occu­ error and unbelief. cured control of Westminster Theo­ pied territory and must do what they When, a little over a lustrum later, logical Seminary by a coup d'etat. A are told. And they are doing. it; if it became apparent that those who minority coup d'etat which is worked they are protesting, it must be under had valued the presentation of the out over a period of some two or cover of darkness and in a corner gospel more than ecclesiastical con­ three months with the procedure sug­ where no one can hear them. formity were to be cast out of the gested by a leading member of the We look back upon the develop­ Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.. majority would seem to be something ments of the past five years within Christianity Today chose to support a bit novel in that line. Political defi­ the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. a position which would not involve nitions change nearly every day now and say without hesitation that Dr. excision from the church organization. in some parts of the world, but to call Machen was a prophet and that his We can easily leave to the judgment an amicable arrangement of this sort predictions and assertions concerning of our readers the decision as to the where everyone had the time and the that church -were and are about one wisdom of this course. Effective op­ freedom to vote as he pleased a coup hundred pcr cent. correct. We do not position to Modernism within the d' etat may be good fun but it is not rejoice in these revelations. Rather we Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. quite good sense. mourn, because these facts tell so seems to be well-nigh extinct. Sad as We wish Christianity Today might plainly of the great apostasy that has it is to say it, Christianity Today in have had a happier and more glorious overtaken the visible church, and at a recent years has not been effective in end. time when the world needs the mes­ stemming this tide of unbelief. -PAUL WOOLLEY sage of salvation through Jesus Christ as never before. We see a bright ray of hope in the establishment of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church and in the several other churches which are loyal to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is The SpiritIS Work in the Christian Life our prayer that God will use The Orthodox Presbyterian Church and other Bible-believing churches to By the REV. ALEXANDER K. DAVISON. S.T.D. bring a new breath of spiritual life Pastor of the Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Vineland. N. J. to the world and revive His church again. -E. H. R. N OUR treatment of the Spirit's of the praise to ourselves. God will I work in regeneration we were very not divide the glory of our salvation careful to ascribe all of the glory of with us or anyone. It is all His and A Voice Is Stilled that work to the Holy Spirit. In the His alone. The Spirit has a varied progress of the Christian life we must ministry in the life of the Christian. N NEW ENGLAND, and to a be equally careful that we take none Let us look at the main features of I lesser extent throughout the coun­ this gracious work. try, there were many sad hearts a few First of all, the Spirit indweIIs weeks ago when it was announced Young People"s Topics permanently the Christian heart. By that the last issue of that grand old HE article on this page wiII be an our sins we grieve the Holy Spirit and newspaper, The Boston Evening T. aid in studying the young people's lose the sweet consciousness of His Transcript, the very incarnation of lessons published by the Committee presence. But that does not mean that New England preciosity, had rolled on Christian Education of The Ortho­ we lose the presence of the Holy off the presses. dox Presbyterian Church, which may Spirit. That the Holy Spirit is present Not long after, a journal, whose be­ be secured from the Rev. Burton L. within the Christian heart is one ginnings were recent but whose found­ Goddard, Box 73, Carlisle, Massa­ thing. That the Christian is conscious ing graced an even more important chusetts. Topics now being studied of His presence is something quite cause than did the Transcript, mailed are: different. David after his sins did not its final number. Christianity Today June 1St - THE SPIRIT AND THE pray, "Restore unto me thy salva­ was born to proclaim the glorious \VORD. tion," but "Restore unto me the joy gospel of the Son of God and to de­ June 8th-THE SPIRIT AND CON­ of thy salvation." He had not lost fend the Reformed presentation of VERSION. God's salvation, but through his sins that gospel. In 1930 a great conflict June 15th - THE INDWELLING OF he had lost the joy of that salvation. was raging in the Presbyterian Church THE SPIRIT. William Cowper's hymn, "0 For A in the U.S.A. It had been going on June zznd - THE SANCTIFICATION Closer Walk With God," would be for many years, but the loss of Prince­ OF THE SPIRIT. an admirable composition were it not ton Seminary and the founding June 29th-THE SPIRIT THE COM­ for a serious flaw at this very point. of Westminster in 1929 marked FORTER. One of the verses says: 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 171

"Return, a holy Dove, return, The Holy Spirit also engenders in power when He said, "But ye shall Sweet messenger of rest; the believer a hatred of sin in the receive power, after that the Holy I hate the sins that madc Thec world without. This opposition to sin Ghost is come upon you." Here is mourn, in the world has brought men of God power to fight sin, power to grow into And drove Thee from my breast." into dire trouble many times. Be­ the likeness of Christ, power to testify cause of it, Jeremiah was cast into the of the grace of God to the uttermost The last line contains an unscriptural dungeon and Daniel into the den of parts of the earth. The modern church, thought. What a miserable salvation lions. It secured the death of John the in spite of all her equipment, seems we would have if the Holy Spirit Baptist and the stoning of Stephen. to lack this power so essential for the deserted us every time we grieved But the Christian in whose soul there execution of Christ's purpose through Him! It would really be no salvation is no burning against the sins and her in the world. at all. iniquities of this wicked world may Sixthly, the Holy Spirit is the In the second place, the Holy Spirit well question the validity of his Chris­ minister of comfort in the life of the illumines the mind of the Christian. tian experience. believer. Sin's scars linger in the Chris­ He is the One of whom Christ said, In the fourth place, the Holy Spirit tian's memory. The Spirit reminds "He will guide you into all truth." works in the believer a love for holi­ him that Christ's blood cleanses from The true believer must be on his ness. And what is holiness but a con­ all sin. Bereavement puts the believer's guard against various aspects of mod­ forming to God's will as revealed in life under the cloud, but the Spirit ern unhealthy mysticism which teach His moral law? If the Spirit engenders reminds him not to be troubled but that the Spirit illumines the minds of in the Christian heart a hatred for to fly to Christ who is the resurrection men apart from the Scriptures. It is those things which are contrary to and the life. We mourn over losses regrettable that many pious people God's law, He also engenders in the of position and property, but the fall into this error of expecting divine soul of the believer a love for those Spirit tells us that God shall supply illumination aside from the Word of things which are in conformity unto all our needs according to His riches God. The Spirit's task is not to give that moral law. This is true Christian in glory by Christ Jesus. a special illumination beyond the experience. The things that, in his Finally, it is the task of the Holy Bible, but rather to take the things unregenerate state, the believer loved Spirit to perfect the work He has of the Bible and make them clear to he now hates, and the things that begun in the Christian's life. The the believing heart. He does not give once he hated he now loves. He loves Bible does not say that He will perfect new revelations of God's mind and God's Word, for there he finds God that work in this life. There are some will but simply makes clear the reve­ speaking to his heart. He loves to Christians who claim a measure of lation that has already been provided pray, for thus he unbosoms himself to perfection in this life, but then their in Holy Scripture. The Christian his Father. He delights in the worship perfection is of a very inferior kind. opens his Bible and prays that the of God's sanctuary, where he can lay It is a perfection judged by human Spirit may open his eyes that he may aside earthly loads and meet in fel­ criteria (and often only by their own behold wondrous things out of the lowship with the Lord's saints. We criterion) and not by the perfect law Lord's law. should be better Christians today than of God. I can jump over the church In the third place, the Holy Spirit we were a year ago. When we cease spire, provided the spire be low engenders a hatred for sin in the to grow in grace, we grieve the Lord. enough. I can stand upon the stars, Christian life. The believer becomes Oliver Cromwell was a great soldier. if only they can be brought down to more than ever conscious of sin within But he was also a devout Christian. my level. So I can be perfect, if only his heart. The Spirit's work is to In a Bible that belonged to him was the law of God can be sufficiently create a hatred for sin. As the burnt this inscription in the Latin, "O.C. whittled down to suit my imperfec­ child dreads the fire, so the Christian 1644 Qui cessat esse melior cessat tions. It is safer far to believe that heart, wrought on by the Holy Spirit, esse bonus" (Who ceases to be better our holiest longings need to be re­ dreads sin. The Christian will fight ceases to be good). pented of and our very tears to be sin in his life. He will become sin's In the next place, the Holy Spirit washed in the blood of Christ. It is executioner until the hour of his de­ not only creates within the believer the experience of true sainthood that cease. If it be true that the believer a hatred for sin and a love for holiness the closer one comes to Christ the has a rest of which the world knows but He also gives to the believer the more vile he seems to be. Isaiah felt nothing, it is equally true that the power to express these principles. It himself to be undone, a man of un­ believer has a warfare of which the would not be enough to incite within clean lips. The saintly John on Patmos world is ignorant. He fights a good us a hatred for sin and then leave us had a vision of the exalted Christ and fight; he wars a good warfare; he powerless to execute our desires upon he fell at His feet as dead. George wrestles with principalities and powers; sin. It were not enough for the Spirit Mueller, the great philanthropist, was he mortifies sin in his life. As fire to create within us longings after holi­ known to pray at the end of his life, burns, so the old nature lusts against ness to· be conformed to the image "Lord, save me from being. a wicked the new and the new opposes the old. of the Son of God and yet leave us old man." The Holy Spirit will as­ The Holy Spirit enables the believer to scale those heights of our own ac­ suredly bring the believer to perfect to die more and more unto sin's cord. No, the Holy Spirit empowers sainthood, but He takes a long time domination. Christian experience has us to put into operation the principles to do it. A student who desired to take demonstrated that this warfare is al­ against sin and for holiness which He a shortcut to a college diploma once ways bitter and fierce, but in the end has placed in our hearts. Christ's asked the president of the college if victory is assured because of the Spirit promise to His disciples implied the there were not a shorter course he who dwells and operates within. guarantee of the fulfilment of this could take to reach his goal. The wise 172 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN June 10 man answered to this effect, "Yes, takes a hundred years." There are ballot by a comparatively microscopic there are shorter courses but these some Christian who take shortcuts to margin. There were 404 commis­ depend on what you want to make out perfection but they are "squashy" sioners who wanted the Auburn Af­ of yourself. When God wants to make Christians. But when God wants to firmationist candidate, and 461 who a squash He takes six months to make make a perfect Christian, He takes preferred Dr. Smith. it; when He wants to make an oak He His time. It is worth noting, also, that Af­ firmationist Coffin was nominated by Affirmationist Jesse Halsey, and that a dark horse who was scratched after the second ballot was Affirmationist Two Assembly Previews William R. Farmer of Pittsburgh, By THOMAS R. BIRCH Visiting Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Seminary in 1937-38. Church union, that hardy perennial The Northern Church Dr. Smith, pastor of the second of previous assemblies, will again OR those Bible-believers who have largest church in the denomination, is come under the spotlight. Serious F.elected to remain in the Presby­ a member of the Permanent Judicial wooing of the Presbyterian Church in terian Church in the U. S. A., the Commission-the body that brought the U. S. (the Southern Church) and 153rd General Assembly, meeting in in the Christ-dishonoring decisions of of the Protestant Episcopal Church St. Louis from May zand to 29th, the Syracuse Assembly in 1936, which has been going on for some time, presents no bright ray of hope. These ordered the ecclesiastical executions along with a mild flirtation with the lines are being written as the assembly United Presbyterians and the Metho­ opens, and a bureaucratic big-wig has dists. The Southern Church is the just nosed out an Auburn Affirma­ only one that offers much hope of tionist in the moderatorial race, no foe early nuptials, and it is likely that of Modernism has lifted his voice serious troth-plighting will occupy the against the corporate unbelief of the current assembly. The Southern denomination's boards and agencies, Church, quite plausibly, has enter­ and the air is filled only with a tained some doubt as to the doctrinal frenzied enthusiasm for church union soundness of its neighbor, and last and for the mass-production of resolu­ year those doubts were strengthened tions on the subject of war. by the refusal of the Northern as­ We confess that we are appalled sembly to adopt an overture reaffirm­ when we consider that, for the first ing, in substance, the five points of time in the history of the church, the the 1923 assembly which the Auburn general assembly received the sacra­ Affirmation so effectively denies. This ment of the Lord's Supper from the year conservatives and Modernists hands of an Auburn Affirmationist, have lovingly linked arms and declared retiring Moderator William Lindsay their united hope that the assembly Young. The ugly and unadorned fact will adopt an overture from the Pres­ is more powerful than any editorial bytery of Cedar Rapids, designed to comment we could make about it. assure the Southern Church that the Dr. Herbert Booth Smith of Los Northern denomination is oh so Angeles, California, and Dr. Henry sound and that together they could Sloane Coffin of New York City were be just one big happy family. Because the only two moderatorial candidates of its tremendous significance, no mentioned prior to the opening of the matter which way the vote goes, we assembly. There was little to choose Moderator Smith reprint the entire overture: between them. Dr. Smith might, it From headsman to head man Whereas, The General Assembly of the seemed, lose out to Dr. Coffin, for the in five years latter possessed one qualification for Presbyterian Church, U. S., has deemed it election which each year becomes wise to declare itself in a "didactic, ad­ of those who could not bow before visory and monitory" manner concerning more important. Dr. Coffin is, in the iniquitous 1934 mandate. This the essential truths involved in the ordina­ short, a signer of the Auburn Affirma­ seemed likely to give him a slight ad­ tion vows to which ministers and elders tion, which denies the doctrine of vantage over his rival. On the other subscribe; and plenary inspiration and holds as mere hand, Dr. Coffin, as president of Whereas, The doctrinal standards of theories, which mayor may not be be­ modernist Union Seminary, New the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. are lieved, the doctrines of the virgin York, for the past fifteen years, was substantially identical with our standards, birth, the substitutionary death of sure to give him a stiff battle. It was and Christ, His bodily resurrection and impossible to forecast the outcome. Whereas, It is the hope and prayer of His miracles. For other facts about Dr. cur denomination that these two great But Dr. Smith, nominated by branches of the Presbyterian Church might Coffin, see the article, "Modernism's Princeton's Charles R. Erdman who once again be organically united in the Coffin," by the Rev. Robert B. stressed his candidate's "orthodoxy" service of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Brown, in THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARD­ and the "genuineness" of his Presby­ Christ, and IAN for April 25th. terianism, won the gavel on the third Whereas, We believe that this will be a 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 173 step toward bringing the two denomina­ torium at Montreat, North Carolina, Faith. How. possibly can a formula­ tions together, on May 22nd. Far less dramatic than tion so destitute of Reformed truth Therefore, The Presbytery of Cedar the Northern assembly, it was also ex­ on so vital a subject be defended in Rapids, meeting in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, on pected to be far more profitable. Reformed Confession? There is no April 28 and 29, 1941, respectfully over­ tures the General Assembly of the Presby­ At its opening session the Rev. defense." terian Church in the U. S. A., meeting in Charles E. Diehl, n.n, LL.D., Presi­ The committee has agreed unani­ St. Louis, Mo., in May, 1941, to declare dent of Southwestern Presbyterian mously that no amendment to the that it regards the acceptance of the in­ University, Memphis, Tennessee, was Shorter Catechism's definition of God fallible truth and divine authority of the elected moderator, succeeding Dr. is needed, "but inasmuch as there is Scriptures, and of Christ as very and Frank C. Brown of Dallas, Texas. a desire on the part of many in the eternal God, who became man by being The two most important and far­ church, both ministers and lay mem­ born of a virgin, who offered Himself a reaching items of business facing the bers, to have the word 'love' expressly Sacrifice to satisfy Divine justice and reo concile us to God, who rose from the assembly are the rroposed changes in included in the definition of God," dead with the same body with which He the Confession 0 Faith and the pro­ suffered, and who will return again to posed union with the Presbyterian judge the world, as being involved in the Church in the U.S.A. The Ad In­ ordination vows to which we subscribe. terim Committee on Changes in the UNION LESSON HELPS Confession of Faith and the Cate­ on the International Uniform Lessons In commenting editorially upon chisms will recommend that the as­ this overture and urging its adoption, sembly approve the addition of two stand for and proclaim the reputedly conservative journal, new chapters to the confession: one a The Presbyterian, naively declared: chapter on the Holy Spirit, the second the heart of the Gospel "To us the most interesting and most a chapter to be called "Of the One hundred and twenty-two years of possible is union across the old Mason Gospel." These chapters are similar experience are back of these true-to-the­ and Dixon Line. We believe that Bible periodicals. Can be used with con­ to the chapters, "Of the Holy Spirit" fidence by Christian teachers and pupils. cause can be helped by a ringing de­ and "Of the Love of God and Mis­ liverance on our part asserting our sions," which the Presbyterian Church Write for free specimen copies doctrinal soundness." Can it be that in the U.S.A. added to its confes­ AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION 1816 Chestnut St. Philadelphia. Pa. The Presbyterian really believes that sion in 1903 in the interests of in­ mere "assertions" are enough? It differentist church-unionism. Of the hardly seems so, for in its issue of May two chapters, the second -is far more 8th the editorial voice of that same objectionable than the first, but it is magazine said, of a totally different our hope that neither will be adopted. matter: "Men and women can rise to Minor changes made by the commit­ 2,000,000 JEWS great heights in proclaiming their tee have in some measure alleviated gathered in New York make it the purity and their desire to promote bad features of the chapter on the largest Jewish mission field in the purity, but some people reserve the world. The New York Jewish Holy Spirit, but it still remains a weak Evangelization Society, Ine., right to have doubts." We find it very and wholly superfluous addition. The founded in 1908 by the sainted Dr. difficult to believe that the Southern chapter, "Of the Gospel," has been THOMAS M. CHALMERS, is striv­ Church will accept a "ringing de­ altered from the 1903 form in only ing zealously to reach them. Its liverance asserting doctrinal sound­ manifold ministry includes the one insignificant respect. Of that e a r e of Hebrew. Christian ness" as conclusive evidence of the ex­ earlier form, the Rev. Professor John refugees. This faith work is de­ istence of such soundness. Murray wrote, in THE PRESBYTERIAN pendent upon your cooperation by Toyohiko Kagawa, famed Japanese GUARDIAN, September 26, 1936, "In gift and prayer. Modernist, was the featured speaker at brief, the objection to this chapter is Official organ: "JEWISH MIS­ the annual pre-assembly conference that it is not Reformed, indeed, that SIONARY MAGAZINE." Sample on evangelism-a fact which in itself there is nothing distinctly Reformed copy lOco should be eloquent enough to drown in it. The subject treated of lies close REV. FREDERICK A. ASTON, Director out "ringing deliverances." And Dr. to the very heart of the Reformed New York Jewish EVaDgeU••tion Soelet'1 Jean S. Milner, pastor of the Second S6 Second Avenue New York, N. Y. Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, and a signer of the Auburn Affirma­ tion, has just been elected president of the Board of National Missions. Unabashed Modernism, very ob­ viously and very securely, holds every department of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. in its grip today, and no sane person can believe that tomorrow will be any better. The Southern Church The Si st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. con­ vened in the new Anderson Audi- 174 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN June 10 the committee will recommend that structions that the explorations pro­ find the new type both more attrac­ the assembly give its judgment as to ceed, then automatically a sub-com­ tive and more readable. In line with whether or not this matter should be mittee, appointed to write up a plan our policy of constantly improving submitted to the presbyteries for of union, will proceed with its work. every department of the magazine, we their advice and consent. The Presbyterian Church in the have searched for some time for a type The proposed additions to the con­ U.S. is proceeding with great caution face that would combine the economy fession will not become incorporated on the matter of union, and has ex­ of our former type with new beauty in the standards of the church unless hibited none of the frantic eagerness and legibility. We believe that the they are approved by this assembly, by shown by its Northern neighbor. We answer is to be found in the new type three-fourths of the presbyteries, and hope that a continued thorough in­ face that we have adopted, and we by a subsequent assembly meeting in vestigation of the doctrinal condition would appreciate the comments of our 1942 or 1943. of the latter denomination will even­ readers on this change. The Permanent Committee on Co­ tually lead the Southern Church to For those interested in such details, operation and Union, erected by the abandon the entire project. the new face is o-point Electra, cast 1937 assembly "to explore the pos­ on a to-point body. On the cover sibilities of cooperation or union with page, ro-point Electra is cast on a 12­ other Presbyterian bodies and report Our New Typography point body. The smaller type, such as each year its progress to the general that used at the bottom of page 172, is assembly," will present two recom­ HIS issue of THE PRESBYTERIAN 8-point Electra on a o-point body. The mendations--one regarding coopera­ T GUARDIAN appears in a new dress. display type, Vogue Extra Bold, re­ tion and the other regarding union. We believe that our subscribers will mains the same as before. That committee and the correspond­ ing department of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. will propose to their respective assemblies "that each assembly direct its responsible Christianity and Shintoism agency, or agencics, in the areas of By a (j)ualified Observer of the Japanese Missionary Scene Foreign Missions, Home Missions, and Christian Education (including Religious Education and Publication) Part II tries of the earth. The Japanese state to appoint small committees of not A National Religion was instituted in the divine edict of more than three representatives in N THE seventeenth century a re­ Amaterasu-Omikami, wherein she each case, to confer with one another I vival of Shinto began. This was to commanded her grandson, Ninigi-No and with a sub-committee of our free pure Shinto from the influence Mi-Koto, to go down and take pos­ Joint Committee, for the purpose of of Buddhism and Chinese thought. session of the land and rule over it, formulating plans by which all of our The three writers, Kamo-no-Mabuchi himself and his descendants, forever. foreign missionary, home missionary (1697-1769), Motoori Norinaga (1730­ The divine will that is thus made and educational work shall be more 1801) and Hirata Atsutane (1776­ explicit has been perpetuated in the effectively coordinated and where pos­ 1843) were the leading lights in this perfect harmony of the thought, feel­ sible unified." revival, and some of their flights of ing and act that has ever existed be­ As for union, last year's assembly imagination are, to be sure, fantastic. tween each succeeding ruler and Ama­ had instructed the committee to It is impossible to divorce Shinto terasu-Omikami. The central fact of "continue to explore in search of suit­ from the government and Emperor Japanese history is that of the un­ able ways and means of bringing into of Japan. To extract it would be to broken eternity of the divine imperial one body all the branches of the Pres­ ruin the state and government. A Jap­ dynasty and this is why Shinto sur­ byterian family," but it had added the anese proverb illustrates this thought: passes all other systems. A doctrine of restriction that the committee was to "Tsuno wo tamete, ushi wo korosu,' Messianic destiny with reference to all "safeguard the purity of doctrine, the which means, "If you straighten the the other people of the earth immedi­ properties of the churches and en­ cow's horn, you will kill the cow." ately follows." dowments, the theological seminaries, The government of Japan would col­ In The Revival of Pure Shinto and other educational institutions, the lapse if Shinto were given up. Govern­ (transactions of the Asiatic Society of administration of Home Missions, the ment officials from the emperor down, Japan), by Sir Ernest Satow, we read direction of Foreign Missions sup­ and the Shinto literati, succeed in de­ that "From the central truth that the ported by the respective synods, and ceiving the masses, keeping them in Mikado or emperor is the direct de­ the content of Sunday School litera­ willing subjection by imposing upon scendant of the gods, the tenet that hue, so that the synods whether as at them the outworn ideas of the divine Japan ranks far above other countries present constituted or enlarged wiII be origin of their nation and imperial is a natural consequence. No other the final authority in such matters" line. nation is entitled to equality with her, (italics ours). This restriction will be Dr. Holtom in his most excellent and all are bound to do homage to the the subject of this year's report, for volume, The National Faith of Japan. Japanese sovereign and pay tribute to the committee will state that the prc­ page 49, sums up Motoori's main him. . . . These truths are enlarged cise form of union thus set forth teaching as follows: upon in great detail by Motoori." cannot be attained and will ask the "Japan, since it produced the great In a similar vein proceeds Hirata. general assembly for further instruc­ deity, Amaterasu-Omikami, the Sun Japanese learning-namely Shinto­ tions. If the general assembly gives in- Goddess, is superior to all other coun- he insists is the "chief of all knowl- 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 175

HOTEL WHITFIELD edge, the soundest and most inclusive Sai, February 17th), at the festival of Ocean Grove, N. J., by the Sea. A ChrIs­ of all the products of the human Presentation of First Fruits (Kanname tian Hotel away from home. Since 1914­ mind, since whatever there is in for­ Sai, October 17th) and at the Harvest C. M. Herman, Owner. eign science and technique that can Festival (Niiname Sai, November be turned to the service of.Japan is 2 3rd), he dispatches imperial messen­ WANTED AT ONCE thereby Japanese learning. In this way gers and presents offerings. At the time Experienced cook, male or female. Shinto is made to comprehend all the of dispatching the imperial messenger, Give references, age, experience, church knowledge necessary to man. Japan, as the emperor personally views the offer­ affiliation and salary desired. Approxi­ the foremost of the nations, lies on ings and delivers a ritualistic report mately 250 persons. Apply, Director of Nurses, Christian Sanatorium, Midland the summit of the globe and was to the messenger. Also, the emperor Park, N. J. formed first among the lands of the does not withdraw prior to the de­ earth by the greatest of the creation parture of the imperial messenger. deities, Izanagi and Izanami, while all Again, on the day of the Festival of other countries were produced much the Presentation of First Fruits, a later by relatively inferior deities out solemn ceremony of distant worship SU·NDAY SCHOOL PAPERS of sea foam and mud. All the coun­ toward the Grand Imperial Shrine of Bible Lessons in Bible Order tries of the world, however, owe their Ise is carried out. Each year at the Orthodox explanations and interpre­ origin to the creative activity of Jap­ ceremony of Beginning of State Affairs, tations by Reformed Bible Scholars anese gods and goddesses." Such a the first item of business is the receiv­ falsification of the facts is endorsed bv ing of a report of matters relating to Write • THE KEY the Department of Education in th~ the Grand Imperial Shrine, and when­ for • THE INSTRUCTOR schoolbooks of the nation. ever there is an affair of great irn­ Samples It is impossible to understand Japan portance, either to the Imperial Family • CHILDREN'S COMRADE without a knowledge of the big part or to the nation, it is reported to the Christian Reformed Publishing House played by the sun goddess, Amaterasu­ Grand Imperial Shrine. Furthermore, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Omikami, in the national structure of at the time when the emperor carries the empire, The textbooks of the out the ceremony of accession to the nation clearly show the way the gov­ throne, he worships in person at the ernment secures approval of that na­ Grand Imperial Shrine. tional structure, for a clever concoc­ The Imperial Family regards affairs tion of history and mythology has relating to the removal of the shrines been compounded and is administered as of unusual importance. At the time in suitable potions to the young in of the rebuilding carried out in the their most formative years. forty-second year of Meiji (19°9), As the sun goddess is the absolute Emperor Meiji took a deep interest center of the Shinto system, definite in the matter, and had the minute de­ instruction concerning her is given tails regarding construction written the children. Her shrine is the greatest and presented to him beforehand for in all Japan, and she is not a topic for his personal inspection. casual discussion. Children must not "Thus deeply does the Imperial ask questions about the origin of thc Family venerate and worship the sun goddess, but meekly submit their Grand Imperial Shrine. The people minds to the instruction prepared by of the nation also have from ancient ~~!deIlL the government. times deeply revered the Grand Im­ The sixth book on ethics reads as perial Shrine and have regarded it as GRAND CENTRAL LOCATION follows: "The Grand Imperial Shrine necessary to make pilgrimage to the Free use swimming pool, solarium, [Kodai Jingu] where the Imperial An­ shrine once in a lifetime without fail" library and gymnasium. cestress, Amaterasu-Omikami, is wor­ (Textbook of Ethics for Ordinary Squash courts and Health Club shiped is situated in the city of Uji Primary Schools). facilities with steam cabinets and Yamada of Ise. The sacred enclosure The corresponding manual for massage available at nominal cost. lies along the course of the Isuzu teachers says: "The purpose of this Popular Priced Restaurant River at the foot of Mt. Kamaji. It is lesson is to deepen the sentiment of a place of great solemnity and when reverence for the Imperial Ancestress e once one has entered therein, regard­ [Amaterasu-Omikami] by instruction SENSIBLE RATES less of who he is, he experiences to in the greatness of the reverence and the depths of his heart a spontaneous worship on the part of the Imperial DAILY •• from $2.25 tranquillity." Fa~ily" for. the Grand Imperial WEEKLY from $11.00 The reverence accorded the Grand Shnne. Imperial Shrine by the Imperial Family is of an extraordinary nature. The Deity of the Emperor SHELTON HOTEL The emperor takes charge of rites by The textbooks prepared by the De­ LEXINGTON AVE., at 49th ST. virtue of his responsibilities as head of partment of Education clearly teach NEW YORK ceremonies of the Imperial Family that the emperor is a direct descend­ ·J,ufe, KNOTT Menellemen' and, at the time of the festival of ant of the Sun Goddess and an object A. R. WALlY, Menelle, Prayer for the Year's Crops (Kinen of worship, both while living and after {

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his decease. its ends. It specifically says that state Article I of the national constitu­ Shinto is not a religion, but simply AShort Walk to the tion reads thus: "The Empire of Japan patriotism-the national ethic. This shall be reigned over and governed by enables the government to teach a line of Emperors unbroken for ages Shinto in the schools and keep out eternal." Article III says, "The Em­ both Buddhism and Christianity. Uhuruhof Your Uhoiue peror is sacred and inviolable." Any system, however, that employs Prince Ito, who played an important an ordained priesthood, offers sacri­ When in Atlantic City, you will part in drafting the constitution, in fices to supernatural beings and en­ find the Hotel Runnymede, lo­ his commentaries says, "The Emperor gages in prayers to deities for help cated on beautiful Park Place is heaven-descended, divine and and protection is ipso facto a re­ and free from the noise of traffic, sacred." ligion. And the Japanese government's but a few minutes walk to what­ A national reader for primary contention that state Shinto is not a ever church you wish to attend. schools contains a poem on "Great religion deceives nobody. Japan" and one verse reads as follows: (To Be Continued) Here at this lovely hotel, you "Great Japan! Great Japan! Our sev­ will find bright sunny rooms, an enty millions of citizens look up to the enclosed Solarium and open Sun Emperor even as to God and love and Deck overlooking the Boardwalk serve him even as a parent." An Open Letter to and Ocean, good wholesome "Shinto, as a Theanthropic reli­ food properly prepared and a gion," to quote Dr. Kato again, "has Westminster Graduates cordial personnel that antici­ culminated in Mikadoism, or the wor­ (Concluded From Page 162) pates your desires. ship of the Mikado or Japanese Em­ peror, as a divinity, during his lifetime phia. Dr. Machen is addressing the No Liquor Served as well as after his death. graduating class in a final word. Some For Moderate Rate. and lllu.trated "This is because in Shinto, or more of you are in that class; others of you Folder, write strictly speaking, in state Shinto, where are in the audience. Simple, eloquent words come to us as the speaker's EVERETT J. HIGBEE, Manager theanthropic expression of religion pre­ dominates as it does in the religions of heart overflows with a goodly matter. ancient Greece and Rome, the object We are strangely moved. From the of worship is a secular ruler on earth lips of one of God's noblemen, of in flesh and blood." whom the world is not worthy, we are The Japanese government used the listening to a stirring message, a mes­ deification of the emperor, and the sage worthy of all acceptation. Hushed Shinto religion centralized in the wor­ is the great audience as, with passion­ ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY ship of Amaterasu-Omikami, to further ate earnestness, the challenge is driven home: "My brethren, ye are bought with a price! Be ye not servants of men!" First, Read the Article on Page 168, Then Use This Handy Coupon for YINGKOW BIBLE SEMINARY YOUR GIFT TO THE LmRARY FUND CLOSED BY LOCAL" POLICE

To The Presbyterian Guardian, RIE F word has been received of 1505 Race Street, B the closing of Newchwang Bible Philadelphia, Pa. Seminary at Yingkow, Manchukuo, where the Rev. Egbert W. Andrews, Orthodox Presbyterian missionary, has WANT to help place The Presbyterian Guardian in public Iihra- been teaching. Mr. Andrews has re­ ries. I enclose my gift of $ to be used for this purpose. I turned to his post in Harbin. The Bible Seminary was forced to I shall endeavor to make an additional contribution of $_ close on March i oth because it was to The Library Fund, prior to June 1, 1942. declared by the local Police Bureau to be "unnecessary for the promotion of the national program of education." Name 0 _ The officials of the seminary, among whom was the Rev. Johannes G. Vas, Address were given just one day to wind up all the affairs of the institution and to remove the students from the Date _ premises.