Orthodox Presbyterian Assembly Makes Declaration on the Confession of 1967 he approval of the proposal to revise the confes­ T sional position of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by two-thirds of the presbyteries of that church brings near to completion a long process of departure from the position of a catholic, evangelical, and reformed church. The Or­ thodox Presbyterian Church was brought into exist­ ence when believers who sought to resist this depar­ ture a generation ago were thwarted in their efforts at reform and were forced to withdraw from the church. The Thirty-fourth General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, meeting at Long Beach, California, on April 28, 1967, regards it as its solemn responsibility, therefore, to make the follow­ ing declaration concerning the proposed constitu­ tional revision of the United Presbyterian Church: 1. The proposed constitutional revision - includ­ ing the Confession of 1967, which is designed to give expression to the faith of the church today, and the revised forms of subscription - effectively removes the Bible from its position as the only infallible rule of faith and life, and thereby repudiates the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, King and Head of the church. The Confession of 1967 disallows written re­ velation; it refuses to speak of the Bible as inspired l., by the Holy Spirit and therefore the Word of God; it speaks of the Bible as the "word of God" only in the context of its reception and interpretation by the church. 2. The repudiation of the doctrine of Scripture of the Westminster Confession of Faith is but one aspect (continued on page 55) A story from Korea for young readers have come to see are about to begin. The filmstrip told the story of Daniel's three friends who had to face the fiery furnace because they would Two Sisters not bow down to the king's idol. ~yu~g Sook grabbed Bong Sook's arm in fright when she saw the picture of GRACE HARD the terrible fire into which the three young men were to be thrown, and 'm going to tell you a story about B.S.: Yes, that is strange. But it they both gasped in surprise when the I two little girls in Korea. Now, must have something to do with their three were found alive. Kyung Sook maybe this conversation never took religion. I've even heard them call couldn't help asking a question even place just as I've set it down here, First Day, 'Rest Day.' And you know though the "tall man with the long but from what I know about Korea that the Christians do rest on that day nose" was talking: and Koreans, it very well could have and don't do any work they don't have K.S.: Do you really think God happened this way. The girls are Bong to. I guess it's all just part of being a could take care of his believers like Soak, eleven years old, and Kyung Jesus-person. Anyway, don't worry that, so that they wouldn't be burned Soak, nine years old. about it, there are going to be a lot of in such a terrible furnace? K.S.: (running into her yard) Big children there that never went to B.S.: Hm-mm. I don't know. If sister! Big sister! Guess what I saw church before. They won't know what God is so powerful, why did Mrs. down at the Christians' worship build­ to do, either. Sim's only cow die after she believed ing! There's a big sign out front that K.S.: I suppose I shouldn't feel in him? But the pictures showed that says they are showing pictures to­ strange; I've watched enough of the this God is able to do wonderful night. Do you think Mother will let services through the windows. Why, I things. Maybe we'll have to come to us go? believe I could even sing some of their the Lord's Day school and learn more B.S.: I don't know; let's ask her. songs! about this. But let's not let Grandmother hear us K.S. (in a whisper): My! The place K.S.: Sh-h, they've asked the Amer­ ask. You know that she doesn't want is crowded already. (But an old ican man to show some more pictures. the family to have anything to do with woman near the door points out a Another Bible Story Christians because she thinks the vil­ little empty spot on the floor and the lage spirits will get angry with our two girls wriggle into place there.) A little shiver ran through the girls family. Remember what she said about K.S.: Bong Sook, look how tall that as the title of the next filmstrip was Mrs. Sim? - that Mrs. Sim has only man is who's talking. He must be an announced; "Naarnan the Leper." But had bad luck since she became a American. What is he saying? soon the two girls were putting them­ Christian, and that her only cow B.S.: What do you mean? He's selves in the place of the little servant wouldn't have died if she hadn't made talking Korean; can't you understand girl who wanted to help her kind the spirits angry by becoming one of your own language? master get rid of his terrible disease. those 'Jesus-people.' K.S.: Korean? How can a long­ On the way home, the girls talked K.S.: Yes, but I don't think Mother nosed foreigner be speaking Korean? about what they had heard at the end would mind our going. She's always es: I don't know; I guess he of that story. talking about the big change that came learned it. Be quiet and listen. K.S.: I'd hate to be a leper, even over Mr. Kim since he became one of if I know God could heal me. those Jesus-people. Why, he doesn't The Foreigner Speaks B.S.: Yes, but don't you remember even go to the wine shop any more, Mr. Hard, the strange foreigner that the preacher said everyone is like and remember how he used to be so about whom the girls were speaking, a leper inside if his heart is not clean? mean to his wife and children when is closing his sermon with a prayer. He said our sins make us unclean be­ he was drunk? Father says he can't be As those in the church sing the clos­ fore God. That's even worse than bribed any more to get special favors ing hymn of the worship service, the being a leper. from the government for his friends. minister asks them to move forward K.S.: But if God could heal the to make room for those coming in leper, couldn't he get rid of our sin, Many Questions just to see the pictures. Even though too? K.S.: Aren't you a little scared to go the girls thought the place was B.S. I think so. Isn't that what the into the Christians' worship building? crowded when they came in, by jam­ preacher said? - something about be­ B.S.: Scared? Why should I be? ming up close to each other, they can lieving in Jesus to have our lives freed Don't lots of our friends go to Lord's make enough room so that almost from sin. Kyung Sook, we'll just have Day school there? twice the number of people can now to go back to the church next week K.S.: Maybe we won't know what be seated! The room is buzzing as and learn more about this Jesus-way, to do. The Christians do some strange more and more children crowd in and because I want to be made clean from things. For instance, they call it Lord's Mr. Hard gets the filmstrip projector my sin that makes me ugly in God's Day school. Why don't they call the ready to work. After some words of sight. first day of the week 'First Day' like introduction, the lights go out and the K.S.: Yes, let's do. I want to be everybody else does? children sigh, for the pictures they clean inside, too.

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Chapter 3 THE SCHOLAR

wo Princeton Seminary students Dr. Machen was unyielding. In his joyous and quite undismayed in all Twalked out of Machen's class in Christian Faith in the Modern World the sorrows and all the battles that Beginners' Greek. he has this to say: may come upon him in the world. "I can't stand that man," one of In Christianity and Liberalism you I hold that Biblical writers, after hav­ them said. ing been prepared for their task by will find this ringing affirmation: "Why?" the other asked. providential ordering of their entire The doctrine of plenary inspiration "Well - he's such a perfectionist lives, received, in addition to all that, ... supposes that the Holy Spirit so he gets me upset." a blessed and wonderful and super­ natural guidance and impulsion by the informed the minds of the Biblical 'That's why I like him," said the Spirit of 6-od, so that they were pre­ writers that they were kept from fall­ second. "You have to admit he makes served from the errors that appear in ing into the errors that mar all other you learn." other books and thus the resulting books. The Bible might contain an book, the Bible, is in all its parts the account of a genuine revelation of Shakespeare in his Henry VIII of­ very Word of God, completely true in God, and yet not contain a true ac­ fers an earthy definition of scholar­ what it says regarding matters of fact count. But according to the doctrine ship. He has Griffith say of Cardinal and completely authoritative in its of inspiration, the account is as a commands. matter of fact a true account; the Wolsey: Bible is an 'infallible rule of faith and practice.' He was a scholar, and a good one; That is the doctrine of full or 'plen­ Exceeding wise, fair spoken and per­ ary' inspiration. It is not a popular An Exciting Course suading: doctrine. It is not in accord with the Lofty and sour to those who lov'd wisdom of this world. A man cannot One of the books I treasure most in him not; take it seriously (and really act in accordance with it) and at the same my library is a copy of The Origin of But to those who sought him, sweet Paul's Religion. On the fly leaf are as summer. time enjoy the favor of the world or the favor of the ecclesiastical authori­ the words, "With the warm regards Which things one may transfer from ties in many of the churches of the of the author, J. Gresham Machen; present day. Yet it is a very blessed Wolsey to Machen in a figure. I have doctrine all the same, and if a man October 7, 1930." observed certain students, as the com­ founds his life upon it he can be very Origin, published in 1921, was used plainant mentioned above, storm from as our textbook in his elective course, his classroom savage in their criticism "Paul and his Environment." I could of his uncompromising thoroughness. never understand why every Princeton On the other hand, those who appre­ student did not enroll in the class. I ciated him would come away from his thought of the course then, and I lectures as exhilarated as bathers slip­ think of it now, as the most exciting ping from a cold shower. one of all my seminary days. The Encyclopedia Britannica records C. S. Lewis, in the introduction to this of him: Phillips' Letters to the Young Churches, Machen enjoyed a world-wide reputation as a Greek scholar and learned Christian has an illuminating comment on Liber­ apologist. His theological position, he was alism's assault on the apostle Paul: wont to emphasize, was not fundamen­ In the earlier history of every rebellion talist, but the Reformed Faith of the there is a stage at which you do not Westminster Confession of Faith. yet attack the King in person. You say, "The King is all right. It is his Min­ Doctrine of Scripture isters who are wrong. They misrepresent In the field of Biblical criticism he him and corrupt all his plans-which, I'm sure, are good plans if only the Min­ took his starting point squarely on the isters would let them take effect." And Bible as the infallible Word of God. the first victory consists in beheading a From the beginning of his labors this few Ministers: only at a later stage do was for him the specific framework of you go on and behead the King him­ self. truth. He never budged from it. Now, some thirty years after his passing, the In the same way, the nineteenth century attack on St. Paul was really only a doctrine of Scripture is still a storm stage in the revolt against Christ. Men center of controversy. Even in evan­ were not ready in great numbers to at­ gelical circles there is increasing re­ tack Christ himself. They made the nor­ luctance on the part of theologians and mal first move-that of attacking one of his principal ministers. Everything they ministers to affirm confidence in ple­ disliked in Christianity was therefore at­ nary or total inspiration. On this point tributed to St. Paul. I t was unfortunate April, 1967 51 that their case could not impress anyone Scholarly Approach supernatural Redeemer, presupposed who had really read the Gospels and the While Dr. Machen disagreed vigor­ in the Epistles of Paul and presented Epistles with attention: but apparently in detail in the Gospels, is held to be few people had, and so the first victory ously with the three latter views, he the real Jesus who walked upon this was won. St. Paul was impeached and was never contemptuous of the efforts earth. banished and the world went on to the advanced to solve the problem on next step-the attack on the King Him­ Here we get a clear view of Ma­ self. scholarly grounds. For example, he Dr. Machen, as well as Professor considered Bousset's interpretation so chen's methodology. It was simply to Lewis, understood thoroughly the na­ ingenious that he pays glowing tribute take the arguments of the two schools ture of the discrediting of Paul. Out to it in this passage: of thought he was opposing, the radi­ of the matrix of that awareness was Since the rise of F. C. Baur, in the cals and the Liberals, place one over former half of the nineteenth century against the other and allow them to born the material that went into "Paul there has been no such original, com­ and his Environment." "Explain the prehensive and grandly conceived reo cut each other down, as ancient Abi­ origin of the religion of Paul, and writing of early Christian history as melech and the men of Shechem de­ you have solved the problem of the now appears in Bousset's 'Kyrios stroyed each other in combat. It was origin of Christianity," he used to say. Christos.' To which he adds the gentle barb: brilliant maneuvering. The Question of Origin The only question is whether origi­ Thus doth he turn their swords nality in the historical sphere is al­ In their own bosoms . . . He proceeded to show that certain ways compatible with truth. efforts had been put forth, chiefly by I must confess that there were mo­ Exposition of Scripture Continental theologians, to resolve the ments in class when I almost held my problem on grounds other than that Nor was his approach merely nega­ breath. How plausible appeared the tive. As Jeremiah was ordered to "root declared by the apostle, namely, that formulations spelled out by pundits he derived his gospel from no human like Wilhelm Bousset, historian and out, and to pull down, and to destroy, source. To the Galatians Paul wrote, Biblical critic at Gottingen, and Wil­ and to throw down" before he was "I neither received it of man, neither liam Wrede, known as Extraordinary "to build, and to plant," so Machen's was I taught it, but by the revelation Professor of the New Testament at challenging of the arguments of the of Jesus Christ." Breslau and Gottingen. Their views, destructive Biblical critics was pre­ Fundamentally, there are four though contradictory, were neverthe­ liminary to his positive exposition of schools purporting to explain the less so starkly compelling that I would Pauline Christology. He moved in the origin of Paul's theology. wonder how anyone could possibly currents of the apostle's thought pat­ The first is the evangelical or su­ puncture them. Before the end of the terns as one who had found great pernatural position to which Machen course I came to realize that my fears spoil. Many a student sitting in his was committed and which he defended were groundless. classes felt his heart burn within him stoutly. He says: Machen took on his opponents with as this man mighty in the Scriptures According to this explanation, Jesus all the boldness of David as he moved opened up new vistas on the glory of was really a heavenly being, who in out against Goliath. When he had set the person of God's matchless Son. order to reclaim sinful man came vol­ ~hat untarily to earth, suffered for the forth their arguments with detached Richard E. Day says of the sins of others on the cross, rose from fairness he would accept their chal­ Puntans was also true of him: they the dead, ascended to the right hand lenge and go into action. No army were "men who so fed on the Word of God, from whence He shall come to engineer assigned the task of removing th~t they ~ad ~nly to squeeze their judge the quick and the dead. If this representation be correct, then there the pin from an enemy time bomb ap­ minds to fill their alabaster vases with is really nothing to explain; the re­ plied more skill than Das (an affec­ ointment, and these precious vases ligious attitude of Paul toward Jesus tionate nickname) as he went about they broke week after week with pro­ was not an apotheosis of a man, but the task of demolition. Coolly and digal liberality at the feet of their de­ recognition as divine of one who really was divine. systematically he proceeded to take lighted people." The other three schools of thought, apart the mechanism until the whole The Origin of Paul's Religion cata­ while differing in their frames of was dismantled. pulted its author to international re­ nown. Critics abroad as well as at reference and lines of reasoning, His Strategy agree in their rejection of the super­ home hailed .the work as a valuable In his piece titled "Christianity in contribution to theological knowledge. natural. The religion of Paul, they as­ Conflict" in Contemporary American sert, was a purely naturalistic phe­ B. W. Bacon, director of the American Theology (Volume 1, Round Table nomenon: it can be understood only School of Oriental Research in Jeru­ Press, New York; 1932) he tells us salem, accorded it "a high place among when purged of its miraculous ele­ something of his strategy: ments. the products of American biblical Briefly, this three-pronged genre I tried to show (1) that the "Liberal" scholarship." James Moffat, Professor or Ritschlian historians were right of Church History at Union Theologi­ takes the form of (1) old-line Liber­ over against Wrede and other radicals alism, (2) the view of Wrede, namely, in insisting that Paul possessed and cal Seminary in New York, wrote, that Paul had worked out his doctrine cherished a knowledge of the real "Dr. Machen is nothing if not acute. Jesus, but (2) that the radicals were He has read thoroughly, presents of the person of Christ prior to his right over against the "Liberals" in conversion, and (3) the hypothesis of insisting that the Jesus whom Paul clearly and fairly his opponent's view Bousset, which is that the apostle drew presupposes is no mere teacher of and answers it logically." his image of Jesus from certain similar righteousness but a supernatural Re­ The Princeton professor was begin­ deemer come into the world for the concepts of deity prominent in the salvation of men. The true synthesis, ning to bear witness to the uttermost "mystery" religions of Paul's day. I argued, is found only when that parts of the earth. 52 The Presbyterian Guardian BOOKSHELF AT THE MANSE develops, she forms a friendship with Pedro Chimbu and his children, learns their language, and begins to translate Mark with their help. One night she is called out to help with the de­ .. . to behold the beauty of the Lord . .. livery of a baby. Although it came feet first, the child lived-much to the hen a missionary sits down to tribulum (Roman threshing-sled) is Indians' surprise. One by one, slowly W write, what does he say? What the heaviest, then the richest grain is and with great difficulty the triumphs is the valuable thing taught by God threshed, for God himself comes close are chiseled into the hard rock of a that must be shared? Bruce Hunt and to deepen the believer's sense of his pagan culture. People begin to listen Elizabeth Elliot have thought it through glory. 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It was not until June 1, 1942 headed for humiliation and weakness. nesses, with insults, with distresses, that the family finally left Harbin on Her goal is to work with the Indians, with persecutions, with difficulties, for their way home to the United States. to bring Christ to them. As the story Christ's sake; for when I am weak, Indeed, nothing moves on the mis­ sionary front except by God's design. This is a major point in Hunt's book. You see it work out during those days BE SURE TO READ in prison and concentration camp. God's choice of cell mates, the amounts of food, the sleeping condi­ tions from night to night, interaction with guards and interrogators all serve his eternal purpose. When a man ob­ viously can make no plans of his own he can see even more clearly that God makes plans-right down to details­ for his servants. Now that God has brought him out of prison, Mr. Hunt gives his thanks to the name of the Lord (Psalm 142: 7). 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April" 1967 53 then I am strong" (II Corinthians impact on a Christian's life is real and thodox Presbyterian Church in Glen­ 12:10). humbling. She says that then God is side, Mr. Cottenden worked this past Elizabeth Elliot writes against a seen clearly and his glory is over­ summer in Sonora, California with the background of God's work in her dur­ whelming. "... and when I saw him Rev. Robert K. Churchill, an experi­ ing a missionary career that included I fell at his feet as a dead man" (Re­ ence which was of great value to both service in Ecuador and the tragedy and velation 1: 17) . Mr. Cottenden and the church. The triumph of the Auca story. She writes second Sunday Mr. Cottenden was in with honesty. What she expresses is LAURENCE C. SIBLEY, JR. Sonora he had an opportunity to not doubt but faith-faith that God's Glenside, Pennsylvania preach over the radio! At present he is a licentiate of the Presbytery of Philadelphia and desires a pastorate in one of our congregations. Seven Seniors Seek to Serve Former United Presbyterians Covenant Church of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Second Parish Church of Orthodox Presbyterian Church Portland, Maine, and Paradise Hills es ~mi n s t er Theological Seminary that he was impressed by the church's Church of San Diego, California all WWill graduate seven students this "good potential in the field of evan­ had Allen Curry as a summer worker. year who plan to enter the gospel gelism as well as by its sound doc­ After graduation from Geneva College ministry in the Orthodox Presbyterian trinal base." The Overduins have been Allen began his work in the Orthodox Church. Of these seven young men, asked to serve as summer assistants Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. two of them come from other lands. with the Hacienda Heights (Cali­ Three years later, having been licensed Noel Weeks comes to us from Graf­ fornia) Orthodox Presbyterian Church. by the Presbytery of Philadelphia and ton, Australia. Dan Overduin comes No religious background at all upon graduation from Westminster, to our denomination from Canada, characterized the life of John Bettler he, with his wife Marilyn, now hopes where he was a member of the Free until he was saved through the Vaca­ to continue to serve the church in Christian Reformed Church. tion Bible School of an Independent ministering to one of our congrega­ When Mr. Weeks was asked why Baptist Church. After graduating from tions. Both Mr. Curry and Mr. Cot­ he chose the Orthodox Presbyterian Philadelphia College of the Bible and tenden, it may be noted, left the denomination as a place of service, he taking a year of study at Rutgers Uni­ United Presbyterian Church to enter replied that when he first came to the versity John entered Westminster the Orthodox Presbyterian Church out United States he tried the United Pres­ Seminary. Before he entered the semi­ of conviction for its stand. byterian Church because it had ties nary he had joined Immanuel Church Paul Doepke, with degrees from with his home church in Australia. in West Collingswood, New Jersey. both Washington State and the Uni­ Eventually, however, he became con­ Stating that he "definitely feels called versity of Washington, spent four vinced that his heart and convictions of the Lord to the gospel ministry," years at Westminster, supporting him­ were really with the Orthodox Pres­ John awaits graduation as a licentiate self and his wife, Donna, with a job byterian Church, which he joined be­ of the Presbtyery of New Jersey. as maintenance man for a dairy. The cause, in his own words, "it is Pres­ Doepkes have a daughter, Susan, not byterian and Reformed and nonschis­ Varying Backgrounds quite two years old. Paul has supplied matic." Now a member of Calvary Larry Conard, the only graduating pulpits regularly during the summers, Church, Glenside, he worked this past senior who grew up in the Orthodox mostly Orthodox Presbyterian churches summer at Covenant Church in Pitts­ Presbtyerian Church, is a member of in New Jersey. The Doepkes' home burgh, an experience which proved to the Valley Church in Santee, Cali­ church when they came east was the be rewarding both for him and the fornia, where his father is an elder. Puget Sound Chapel in Seattle. When congregation. This summer he will as­ Mr. Conard came to Westminister that formerly independent group, to­ sist at Covenant Church, Rochester, after serving in the United States Air gether with their pastor, the Rev. D. N. Y., before undertaking a year of Force. He has assisted in the Middle­ Robert Lindberg, entered the Ortho­ graduate study. town, Pennsylvania Orthodox Presby­ dox Presbyterian Church two years Dan Overduin was born in Indo­ terian Church, and at present is serv­ ago, the Doepkes thereby became nesia, spent some of his early years in ing as an assistant in Mediator Church members of the denomination. "This the Netherlands, and eventually came in Philadelphia. He hopes that his was much to our satisfaction," says to Canada, where he studied for two background of practical experience will Paul, "for by then we were committed years at the University of Western be of real help in the ministry. With to the Reformed faith." After gradua­ Ontario. Subsequently he came to the his wife, Bonnie, and six-year-old son tion Mr. Doepke will be working with United States and was graduated from Jeff, he is waiting for a call so that the Puget Sound Church and begin­ Highland College. After attending they may begin their service. ning his trials for licensure in the Faith Seminary for two years, Mr. George Cottenden was related to the Presbytery of the West Coast. Overduin transferred to Westminster. Orthodox Presbyterian Church before There are one or two others among Along with his wife, Dale, he has he was a member! After graduating the 20 senior graduates who are giving been active in the life of the Hatboro from Gordon College George married serious thought to the Orthodox Pres­ Orthodox Presbyterian Church. When Barbara Benson, daughter of the pas­ byterian ministry, but their decisions asked his reason for choosing the de­ tor of our church in Ringoes, New are not final at this writing. nomination, Mr. Overduin answered Jersey. A member of the Calvary Or- -ALLEN D. CURRY

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~ 7401 Old York Road, Phila., Pa. 19126 I \ Orthodox Presbyterian General Assembly Statement on the The Rev. Lawrence Eyres, host pastor to the Thirty-fourth General Assembly Confession of 1967 of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, greets worshippers at First Church, Long Beach, California. (continued from cover) (Tak Hohri photo)

WESTMINSTER SYSTEM RE·PUDIATED and his need for the sovereign grace and of the repudiation of the whole system of mercy of God available only through the doctrine set forth in the Westminster stand­ Mediator who died and was raised for his ards. The proposed new Confession omits own, the Confession of 1967 obscures such any assertion of the virgin birth of Christ, an antithesis with universalizing state­ his miracles, his physical resurrection and as­ ments that ground the promise of social re­ cension. Further, the Biblical theology of newal in a reconciliation in which all men the atonement is reduced to a series of rela­ are included apart from repentance and tive expressions of a truth that "remains faith. beyond the reach of all theory" in the love The Confession of 1967 is not catholic, for of God. Not only does the Confession of it releases the church from that subjection to 1967 omit, question, or deny doctrines es­ apostolic authority in the Scripture which is sential to the system of faith of the stand­ the hallmark of catholicity; it is not evangelical, ards; it removes the very possibility of such for it both obscures the gospel and omits the doctrinal formulation and confessional af­ sovereign work of God by which salvation is firmation as is manifest in all the historic wrought and attested; it is neither Presbyterian Reformed confessions. These confessions nor Reformed for it denies the necessity of main­ set forth faithfully that truth which God taining any system of doctrine or government has revealed concerning himself, his rela­ in the church. tion to man, and the salvation which he wrought for his people through the death DOCTRINAL DISCIPLINE IMPOSSIBLE and resurrection of Christ; the Confession 3. Not only does the constitutional re­ of 1967 is an expression of the modern view vision set aside the evangelical and re­ that both revealed words and unchanging formed doctrine of the church and the in­ truth are impossible and that Christian doc­ spired authority of the Bible from which it trines are at best situational truths to be is derived, it effectively removes any confes­ dated rather than debated. sional foundation for the life and witness of Further, whereas the historic Reformed the church. In the revised subscription ques­ confessions sought to stress the total sin­ tions for church officers the promise to fulness of man in his rebellion against God, labor under the "continuing instruction and

April, 1967 55 guidance of the confessions of this church" This statement was adopted without dissent replaces the commitment to "receive and by the General Assembly of the Orthodox Pres­ adopt the Confession of Faith and Cate­ byterian Church on April 28, 1967 at First chisms of this church as containing the sys­ Church of Long Beach, California. tem of doctrine taught in the Holy Scrip­ The proposed constitutional revision of the tures." The word "accepts" has been deleted United Presbyterian Church, already approved with reference to the creeds of the Book of by more than the necessary two-thirds of the Confessions in the final version of the pre­ presbyteries, is scheduled for final ratification face to the Confession of 1967 and of the at the UPUSA General Assembly meeting in formulas for ordination. Portland, Oregon before the end of May. Under such vague terms of subscription, A full report of the OPC General Assembly doctrinal discipline is constitutionally im­ will appear in the next issue of the Presbyterian possible. The adoption of the proposed Book Guardian. of Confessions cannot enrich or strengthen the confessional foundation of the church *** when declarations which have been set believer with an unbeliever. No faithful aside in the contemporary confession are Christian may live with that yoke. permitted to remain unamended in the older The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, confessions for historical reasons. The ef­ humbled by its own sins and shortcomings, fect of this procedure is to remove the pos­ expresses its profound concern for those sibility of binding any ordained person to who are compelled to choose between the any particular creedal statement. authority of the Holy Spirit speaking in the Word of God written and the authority of CONCESSION TO UNBELIEF men speaking in ecclesiastical councils. The 4. By the deliberate loosening of creedal Church grieves over the multiplying con­ subscription and the abandonment of creedal fusion in the professing church of our time orthodoxy, the gospel is accommodated to and yearns for the open manifestation of current unbelief. Only the supernatural the unity in Christ of all who submit them­ gospel can give answer to the naturalism selves to the Lord and to the rule of his and humanism of our secular age. By fail­ Word and Spirit. ing to assert the gospel in opposition to the prevailing errors of our time, the proposal THE WORD OF CHRIST undermines the very reconciliation it pur­ The word of Christ to the church of our ports to advance. time thunders from the Scripture: "Behold, Not only does the proposed constitu­ I come quickly: hold that fast which thou tional revision remove the means for the re­ hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that formation of the church through doctrinal overcometh will I make a pillar in the tem­ discipline; it also places an intolerable bur­ ple of my God, and he shall go no more den upon the conscience of any officer or out: and I will write upon him the name of member who believes the Scriptures of the my God, and the name of the city of my Old and New Testaments to be the Word God, which is the new Jerusalem, which of God, the only infallible rule of faith and cometh down out of heaven from my God: practice, and who sincerely receives and and I will write upon him my new name. adopts the Westminster Confession of Faith He that hath an ear, let him hear what the and Catechisms as containing the system of Spirit saith unto the churches" (Revelation doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures. All 3:11-13). such are required to seek the peace, unity, and purity of a church that has revised its constitution to join together those whom TEACHER NEEDED San Jose Christian School is seeking a teacher the Reformed confessions, the Word of for grades 5 and 6. Small school, pleasant climate, God, and Christ himself have put asunder. in the growing San Francisco Bay area. Address inquiries to Mr. Arnold Larson, % San Jose Chris­ The model of an inclusivist church requires tian School, 2350 Leigh Ave., San Jose, Calif. 95124. the joining under an unequal yoke of the

56 The Presbyterian Guardian EDITOR'S MAIL BOX hand was negative, but subsequent events have confirmed to me the valid­ Dear Sir: There is no truth, be it historical ity and value of their action. n recent letters regarding Dr. truth, "true truth," or otherwise quali­ Had I continued to worship in the I Schaeffer's article "The Practice of fied, except as it stands under and in broadly evangelical context I had Truth" (Guardian, December, 1966) relationship to the Triune God who chosen and not heeded the session's the first one overshot the mark. Schat alone is absolute Truth. It is not a directive, I am convinced that my com­ and Commeret (Guardian, February, question of what Renaissance man, mitment to Reformed doctrine would 1967) push certain remarks of the Greek man, or modern dialectical man have been greatly decreased. It would author a good bit further than he ob­ thinks of truth, but of what it is as seem to me that the vows of member­ viously intended. revealed by the Word of God. ship taken when we enter a church of In rebuttal to this, the three letters If we would speak meaningfully to truly Reformed persuasion not only from Miller, Clowney, and Elliott this modern relativistic age, or to any bind those who take them, but lay (Guardian, March, 1967) overshot in other unregenerate age, we can do no upon our church courts the responsi­ the opposite direction. To note the other than to begin with the Triune bility of exercising disciplinary watch­ good fruits of Schaeffer's ministry or God. He alone is the Truth above all care over those who pledge due sub­ the good things he has said in this principles of verification devised by mission in the Lord. article or elsewhere is beside the point. man. "The written Word is truth be­ Too often we wait until a situation Let us agree with the article's main cause God has said it is; the Word becomes so aggravated that the only point, that orthodox evangelism must incarnate is the Truth, the Revelation official action a church can take is not only proclaim the truth but must and the Revealer of all "true truth." punitive rather than remedial. Is not also be set forth in clear opposition to The antithesis to this must surely in­ our task to "restore such a one over­ error. Let us agree that Schaeffer's clude the statement that there is no taken in a fault"? work has borne good results in many truth "neutral" to or independent of Aside from this specific issue, may lives. Let us suggest that this may be God. so because he has insistently sought to I add one more comment? Would it Is there a fault in Schaeffer's ap­ proclaim the truth. be possible for a magazine such as the But is there still a problem? In the proach? In that he failed to follow Guardian to undertake a symposium his own precept, there is something of limited scope of on the principles and present state of "The Practice of a fault since he left us uncertain as Truth" there is much unsaid that church discipline in our Reformed to his meaning. As to his own under­ might have been said. Does that con­ communions? standing of truth, we can only en­ stitute a fault? RONALD W. NICKERSON courage him in his announced inten­ To this letter-writer it does. Schaef­ Reformed Presbyterian Church tion to make his apologetic system of North America fer speaks of truth, of "truth in the available in printed form in the near sense of antithesis and absolutes" as Lisbon, New York future. Personally, I hope that when in the "classical concept of truth" pre­ he does, he will make his concept of vailing before Hegel's day. He wants the truth abundantly clear by stating to have the truth proclaimed "not as what it is and what it is not. an abstract concept, nor ... as 're­ Church Gets New Name ligious truth,' but objective truth." JOHN J. MITCHELL and New Building What sort of truth does he mean? Roslyn, Penna. ormerly the Conservative Presby­ It is the burden of Schaeffer's ar­ F terian Church of Harriman, Ten­ ticle that we practice the use of the nessee, this congregation which affili­ antithesis in order to communicate Dear Sir: ated with the Orthodox Presbyterian meaningfully with this modern dialec­ denomination in June, 1965 adopted a pastor I am deeply disturbed tical age. We are to use "negative a new name as of March 1 - West statements that clearly say what we do N. about young people who are for­ ~eformed Hills Presbyterian Church. The Rev. not mean, so that the 20th century mally committed to. the John H. Thompson, Jr. is the min­ man understands our positive state­ faith and yet not lending their support ister. ments of what we do mean." Perhaps to churches of Reformed persuasion in First services in its just completed the author thought it unnecessary to their immediate area when they are building were scheduled for March 19. follow his own prescription in ad­ away from their home congregations The new site is on Emory Valley Road dressing avowed Christians, but in (see a paragraph in "The Changing in the West Hills area of Harriman. failing to do so he left us confused Scene" for January). as to his view of truth. Are the sessions of our churches so Ruling elders of the congregation Is truth to be conceived of in accord negligent in the oversight of their are Messrs. Fred Herron, M. W. with some "classical concept"? Is "ob­ membership that they do not look Walker, Howard Lueking, and Roy jective truth" absolute in and of it­ upon this as a disciplinary problem? Diefenthaler. The latter is a resident self, possessing validity .in its own Distance in one case prevented me of Chamblee, Georgia, a suburb of right? Is there such a thing as truth from worshipping in my home con­ Atlanta where an Orthodox Presby­ apart from its relation to the Creator gregation, and the session took direct terian 'Chapel has been organized God ? Would that Schaeffer had ex­ action to see that I attended regularly under the sponsorship of the Harri­ pressed himself in some antithetical upon the worship of a sister Reformed man Session. statements here! As it is, he leaves us church near my residence. I admit that Deacons are Robert Lueking, Edwin in doubt. my immediate reaction to session's firm Arnold, and John Fielder.

April, 1967 57 Socialism and the 1967 Confession Is Economic Theory the Test of True Worship?

FRANCIS E. MAHAFFY

Agreat deal has been written about the theory that we live in a world of tianity becomes the acceptance of a .ti: the theology of the 1967 Confes­ abundance but that this abundance is particular theory of economics. Mem­ sion of the United Presbyterian too unequally distributed. The church bers who remain in the United Presby­ Church. I This is a theology radically must assume responsibility in economic terian Church and who reject this diverse from that of the Reformers. affairs. This responsibility, we are told Marxian theory of economics are al­ Its doctrine of Scriptures, Christ, sin elsewhere, is assumed "in cooperation ready judged as infidels by the stand­ and salvation reflects the liberalism with powers and authorities in poli­ ards of the denomination; standards and nee-orthodoxy of our age. tics, culture, and economics."! The which have little in common with the The theology to which a man sub­ end of this effort is a more equitable divine standard of God's infallible scribes influences his view of eco­ redistribution accomplished in coopera­ Word. nomics; his economic view in turn tion with the coercive power of the frequently colors his theological posi­ state. Also this beneficence, we learn, Reality Contradicted tion. It is not accidental that the 1967 must not be given with the expectation The Confession of 1967 asserts that Confession articulates an erroneous po­ of gratitude. (One wonders if the ex­ we live in a world of abundance. This litical-economic view, one far more in pectation of ingratitude is meritorious flatly contradicts reality. In Africa accord with the principles of Marxian or if any kind of expectation is deemed where I have served for many years Socalism than With the moraljrecepts evil.) as a missionary, there is an accute of the infallible Word of Go . Lest some conclude that such eco­ shortage of bath tubs among other The assertion in the section on "Re­ nomic activity of the church is merely things. Nor does there exist a super­ conciliation in Society" that there ex­ abundance of bath tubs in the United ists enslaving poverty in a world of States waiting only for the order of a abundance is deduced from the fact of The Christian is certainly not in­ wise president to see to their distribu­ the reconciliation of man through different to the needs of the poor, tion. There is, rather, in Africa and and there are many voluntary Jesus Christ. agencies through which he may the rest of the world also a shortage The reconciliation of man through j esus give help. He is to seek to do good of bath tubs, land and other natural Christ makes it plain that enslaving pov­ unto all men, especially to those of resources, food, shelter, heat, tools, erty in a world of abundance is an in­ the household of faith (Gal. 6:10). fertilizer, machines and consumers' tolerable violation of God's good crea­ The church through its deacons' goods of many varieties. tion.t funds has a particular responsibil­ There exists also a shortage of labor, It is because man allegedly has been ity toward its own needy. But this reconciled, whether or not he is aware is not to say that the church is to brain power, energy and organizing cooperate with the civil govern­ ability to turn nature's raw material of the fact, that makes this enslaving ment in a forced program to try to into goods for man's use. There is a poverty intolerable. Hence we are eliminate all poverty in the nation scarcity of capital available to be in­ warned that: or the world. vested in producing goods for con­ The church cannot condone poverty ... A church that is indifferent to poverty, sumption. The reason the U.S. is eco­ or evades responsibility in economic af­ on the periphery of the Faith, it is nomically more advanced than other fairs, or is open to one social class only, boldly asserted that to expect gratitude nations is the fact that here there is or expects gratitude for its beneficence for beneficence or to evade this re­ more capital invested per person in makes a mockery of reconciliation and offers no acceptable worship to God.s sponsibility in economic affairs "makes After making it clear that the a mockery of reconciliation and offers 1. For example see the following pub­ no acceptable worship to God." In lications of Presbyterian and Re­ church is under moral obligation to formed Publishing Company, Phila., take action toward the elimination of other words, to reject the economic Pa.: this enslaving poverty, the Confession policy advocated in the Confession is Another Foundation, E. P. Clowney enumerates the causes of this poverty to identify oneself as a heathen unable The Proposed Confession of 1967, Oswald T. Allis in the following words: to offer acceptable worship to God. The NEW Confession, Mariano Di ... whether it (poverty) is the product This appears to be the one great sin Gangi of unjust social structures, exploitation that keeps men from God! Thirteen Arguments Against the Pro­ of the defenseless, lack of national re­ While radically diverse views of posed Confessional Position of 1967, sources, absence of technological under­ God, Christ, Scripture or the atone­ A. Culver Gordon standing, or rapid expansion of popula­ The Confession of 1967, E. .T. Young tions." ment erect no barrier to Christian fel­ 2. The Proposed Book of Confessions, This section of the Confession sets lowship, failure to adopt the Confes­ General Assembly of the UP Church forth a theory of economics to which sian's view of the cause and cure for in the USA, 1966, page 184. 3. Ibid. the members of the United Presby­ poverty brands one as a mocker of the 4. Ibid. terian Church are committed. This is gospel. The standard of true Chris- 5. Ibid, page 180.

58 The Presbyterian Guardian the tools of production. But even here ket principle of voluntary, rather than Christ, pardon for their sins, been progress is limited by shortage of capi­ coerced exchange, and reject Socialist adopted into the family of God and tal, and with our present extravagant economics as unworkable and contrary live by the one final standard of the welfare rrograms, a considerable to God's standard of morality, are de­ revealed Word of their God, the Holy amount 0 de-capitalization is taking scribed in this Confession as people Bible. place which could result in a serious who offer "no acceptable worship to We may well be grateful for the depression. To state as the new Con­ God." Thus it is made abundantly adoption of the 1967 Confession by fession does that this is a world of clear that the standard of acceptable the United Presbyterian Church. For abundance is to assert something which worship and thus of true Christianity now it will become abundantly clear has little relationship to reality. has become for the church which sub­ that this church has both officially and . T~e causes given for poverty in this scribes to this Confession a purely actually repudiated historic Christian­ 1magmary world of abundance omit human, Marxian one. ity and in its place has substituted the the significant causes which are lack The Bible tells us, on the other religion of secularism. Well may we of capital, savings, hard work, frugal­ hand, that God accepts the worship of urge the true sheep of Christ to sepa­ ity; applying our God-given energies, his children who are united to Jesus rate themselves from this church which talents and minds to the creation to Christ their Lord by true faith. They has clearly repudiated historic Chris­ subdue it and use it for the glory of have found the mercy of God in tianity. God and our own good. The Scrip­ tures extoll the virtues of hard work and thrift and admonish us to care for our families (Proverbs 13:22, 24: 33-34, Exodus 20:9, I Timothy 5:8). Here and There in the They urge voluntary charity to the needy but condemn the concept of Orthodox Presbyterian Church forced redistribution taught in the Torrance, Calif. - The Manhattan nyvale, California. Calvary's former 1967 Confession as contrary to the Beach Church, the Rev. Ralph Clough, pastor, the Rev. Laurence Sibley, ex­ law of the sovereign God which pastor, has undertaken a branch chapel pects to work in Ohio with Inter­ states: "Thou shalt not steal ... Thou meeting in the Torrance Family Varsity Christian Fellowship, follow­ shalt not covet." YMCA, 2900 W. Sepulveda Blvd. ing a period of leadership training Socialist Philosophy The Rev. Louis Knowles, a teacher in during July in Madison, Wisconsin. Valley Christian High School, has Among others most of the Orthodox . The philosophy of this Confession been preaching during the five months Presbyterian seniors at Westminster 1S that of Karl Marx and the Socialists. since the effort began, with Elder Seminary have supplied the pulpit in It was the existence of owners of pro­ John Reynolds doing follow-up calling recent weeks. The Rev. Robert Nich­ perty for Marx which kept the poor on visitors. olas is moderator of the session. impoverished. A change in the eco­ The Norman Byers, Ralph Cannons, nomic environment, which would Thornton, Colo. - Immanuel and Duane Hefts, along with the Church has welcomed its new home­ bring about the bloody communist re­ Reynolds family, all of the Manhattan volution, would effect the destruction missionary pastor, the Rev. Abe Edi­ Beach congregation, formed the orig­ ger. After six years in Winner, So. of capitalism and property, inaugurat­ inal nucleus. Torrance is the third ing the utopia of abundance for all. Dakota, Mr. and Mrs. Ediger and largest city in Los Angeles County, their four sons have moved to Thorn­ For Marx and for the 1967 Confession but has a scarcity of churches and no ton. the basic problem is one of distribu­ Reformed witness whatever, according tion, not of production. For Marx the Portland, Ore. - On the Sunday to a report in the "Southern California before the General Assembly Dr. enemies of progress were those who Presbyterian." The area is about half­ advocated ownership of property. Edmund P. Clowney, president of way between Greyfriars Church and Westminster Seminary, addressed a According to the 1967 Confession First Church. the unbelievers are those who deny public meeting in the afternoon at the that a forceful redistribution of an Trenton, N. J. - A- call from YWCA auditorium on the proposed existing abundance, which constitutes Grace Church for the pastoral services Confession of 1967. He was also the a denial of property, will solve the of the Rev. Leonard Chanoux has guest preacher at First Church. world's economic problems. The prin­ been declined. Frank B. Smith, first editor of the ciples of this Confession, like those of Hacienda Heights, Calif. - The monthly "Tidings" and for many Marx, demand violence, for it is im­ Sunday school under Superintendent years an elder in First Church, fell possible to refuse to tolerate or con­ Robert Kopecky set a goal of a 40 asleep in Christ some months ago. done poverty apart from coercion. percent increase in attendance during Westfield, N. J. - The Rev. Where the less violent but no less March and April. Following a series Robert Atwell has begun his work as immoral "legal" coercion fails, as it of cottage prayer meetings special the recently called pastor of Grace must - for Socialism is a system that services with the Rev. Albert Edwards Church, after five years as the first inevitably produces poverty - the of Portland, Oregon were scheduled pastor of Galloway Church, Miami, next logical step is the violent revolu­ for immediately after the General As­ Florida, which recently became self­ tion advocated by Marx and the Com­ sembly. supporting. munists and increasingly by many Glenside, Pa. - Calvary Church Silver Spring, Md.-Knox Church church leaders today. has issued a call for the pastoral serv­ profited by a series of expositions of Those who believe in the free mar- ices of the Rev. Henry Coray of Sun- the Sermon on the Mount delivered

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Melvin Nonhof, moderator. The Rev. munity that is predominantly Men­ Thomas Champness of Modesto con­ nonite and Lutheran. The pastor is tinues as stated clerk, with the Rev. the Rev. Howard Hart. Albert Steever of San Francisco chosen Fountain Valley, CaUf.-In Feb­ as assistant clerk. ruary the chapel group was consti­ Licentiate David Hitt sustained his tuted a separate congregation by pres­ oral examination on the floor of pres­ bytery, with the Garden Grove Session bytery, and is engaged in completing acting also as its session. The Rev. other parts of trial necessary for ordi­ Edwards Elliott preached for over a nation. He has received a call from year at an early service held in an Westminster Church, Bend, Oregon. elementary school, until January 1966 Licentiate Carl Erickson finished all when the Rev. Stanley Allen began the parts of trial requisite for ordina­ preaching. Mr. Allen is fully employed tion and arrangements were made for in another job, but Mrs. Gladys Coie his ordination in San Francisco, which has made thousands of calls in the took place on March 31. He is the area since October as a half-time em­ new pastor of the Brentwood congre­ ployee of presbytery's missions com­ gation in South San Francisco. For two mittee. years he had served as an assistant in Services are now held in the Foun­ First Church of Manhattan Beach, tain Valley High School, 17800 Bu­ Calif. shard. The population of the com­ Garfield, N. J. - The Rev. Gordon munity, less than 600 a decade ago, Elder S. E. York and Licentiate David Hitt Mouw and a committee arranged for is now 20,000. (Westminster Church, Bend, Oregon) and the second annual spring sacred con­ Elder Paul Brown and Licentiate (now or­ Portland, Maine - Second Parish's dained) Carl Erickson (Brentwood Church, cert for the benefit of Westminster popular "Couples and Singles" group South San Francisco) at the spring meeting Seminary in the North Jersey area. has grown from an original member­ of the West Coast Presbytery in Newberg, Soloists were Mrs. Rosemary Com­ ship of ten to attendances of 50 to 60. Oregon. meret, Mrs. Geraldine Mouw, Me. Among other active groups for fellow­ Maurice Penn, and Me. Eugene ship, study, and work are Young by the Rev. John Hills of. Franklin Westra. The Seminary choir sang and Adults, Mailing Committee, Sunday at Square, N. Y. during the second week Dr. E. J. Young spoke. It took place Six, Ivy Club Women, and Machen in April. at the First Christian Reformed Church Leagues. Santa Cruz, Calif. - Pastor Mel­ of Paterson. Vienna, Va.-The trustees of Grace vin Nonhof reports the election by Waterloo, Iowa - Twin sons born Church have been calling on members the congregation of two new elders, prematurely in late January to the and friends of the congregation in a Messrs. John Bambauer and George Rev. and Mrs. William Shell lived continuing effort to secure sufficient Dietz, and of Mr. John Bentz as a only a short time. "We have experi­ loans to begin a $40,000 building pro­ trustee. The church is considering an enced to overflowing the love of God gram on their permanent site. They offer from one of its members of a and rest in his will," wrote the par­ now meet in a Seventh Day Adventist two-acre tract for possible relocation. ents. "The Lord gave, and the Lord school Sunday morning, a fire house Evergreen Park, Ill. - Since the hath taken away; blessed be the name in the evening, and in the manse for first of the year Westminster Church of the Lord" (Job 1:21). midweek services, according to the has been meeting for worship in the Cranston, R. I. - Calvary Church Rev. Laurence Vail, home-missionary chapel of Trinity Christian College as again has a pastor with the ordination pastor. Loans may be made through a relocation program gets under way. and installation of licentiate Richard the denominational Church Extension The church's original property has Horner on April 14. Loan Fund. been sold and a new site purchased Lewiston, Maine - It has just 12 miles to the southwest. With the been discovered that the oldest child addition of several young families in of the Rev. and Mrs. Bernard J. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR recent years God has granted "a new Stonehouse, aged four and a half, is POSITION OPEN lease on life," writes the pastor, the suffering from leukemia. The prayers We invite confidential inquiries for r Rev. Donald Parker, who requests the of the church are urged for young a position available to a man with I, prayers of the denomination "in this Bernard and the family. There are basic knowledge of accounting. Of­ . fers opportunity for diversified ex­ \ work of conquest for Christ." three younger children. perience in college financial man­ «, Bridgewater, S. Dak. - Trinity agement, budgets, purchasing and Newberg, Oregon-Trinity Church, physical plant supervision. Write: whose pastor is the Rev. Robert New­ Church saw a growth of 50 percent Dr. A. C. Dejong, President som, was host to the Presbytery of the during the past year through diligent TRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE West Coast at a two-day meeting effort and emphasis on the historic Palos Heights, Illinois 60463 early in March, according to the Rev. Biblical and Reformed faith in a com-

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