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':')':"->. i ,~~"~~~ '7he~ftt~ \ GUARDIAN J• GRESHAM MACHEN· EDITOR 1936·1937

Sunday Sehools For Salvation

Edmund P. Clowney

(Page 35) •

The {ltristian's Comfort in a HostUe World

Le Roy B. Oliver

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Released Time Evangelism

Frances L. Poundstone

(Page 40) •

Seienee and Evolution

Edward J. Young

(Page 42) •

Colorado's Children

Barriet Z. Teal

(Page 43)

"In thy light shall we see light." 34 THE PRESBYTERIAN ,GUARDIAN Fehrnary 16 Dave You Noticed That ••• Version of 1901. The question of the faithfulness of the new translation to the ~E National Opinion Research Center bers are Catholics and that national com­ original text of Scripture wiII be of the .I. of the University of Denver says that mittees are to have two-thirds of their greatest possible interest and concern to 42% of Americans go to church or syna­ members from the Roman Church. all who hold to the inspiration of the gogue at least once a week and 64% at Scriptures. least once a month. Not one Christian in good standing is However 69% of Catholics report that on the list of Japanese war criminals. Dr. John R. Richardson, reviewing Dr. they go once a week at least, while for There are five, however, who had given up Cornelius Van Til's Syllabus on Syste­ Protestants the figure is only 36% and a previous Christian profession. matic Theology for Juniors in The Soutb­ for Jews only 9%. em Presbyterian Journal, speaks highly of According to regions, attendance at least Some American army chaplains in Japan its spiritual and intellectual value. "For­ once a month amounts to 77% in the are giving funds "for the rebuilding of a tunate indeed," he states, "are theological South, 63% in New England and the modernist theological seminary in Tokyo. students who have the privilege of sitting, Middle Atlantic States, 62% in the Mid­ at the feet of this distinguished teacher dle West, but only 44% in the Rocky Progress is being made, at conferences of the Reformed Faith." Mountain and Pacific Coast states. of representatives, towards the organic union of the Presbyterian Church of Eng­ The United Presbyterian Church and , There was wagered on dog races III land and the Congregational Churches of the Reformed Church in America have Great Britain in 1944 the sum of £70,­ England and Wales. undertaken to explore the possibilities of 452,961, through the betting windows union. A joint meeting of the committees alone. Perhaps as much again was gambled In spite of Allied control, Italian au­ of the two churches has been held, and on dogs through private bookmakers. thcrities are hesitant about giving the "go­ preliminary work is being carried forward Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish ahead" signal to the Protestant churches by five sub-committees. opposition to a new dog racing track in in Italy who want to settle questions aris­ Boston, Mass., has forced abandonment ing out of war difficulties. At a recent rally of "Young Calvinists" -,i of the proposal. held in Grand Rapids there was an at­ The heroic man who as dean of Trond­ tendance of five thousand. The rally was ~, J. Edgar Hoover says that 21.4% of the heim cathedral in Norway defied the Nazis sponsored by the American Federation of arrests in the U. S. last year were of peo­ with a militant Christian sermon in 1942, Reformed Young Men's Societies and the ple too young to vote. has just been made bishop of that diocese. American Federation ,of Reformed Young f,

Women's Societies, which cooperate in ,: i The U. S. Supreme Court has ruled The First Baptist Church of Memphis publishing the attractive monthly, The that the principles of freedom of religion has a girl interpret the minister's sermons Young,Calvinist. At the same season nearly and freedom of the press require private in sign language for the deaf while he is forty other rallies were held in other parts owners of towns, and the government preaching. of the country with an attendance of itself, to permit the distribution of religious nearly nine thousand. Most of the speak­ tracts freely, even though the town prop­ Even the return of eighty chaplains will ers were ministers in the Christian Re­ erty is owned entirely by a private cor­ not fill the vacancies in the churches of formed Church. poration or by the Federal government. the Presbyterian Church in Canada. The provisional committee of the World In Norway a Christian youth movement The Protestant Episcopal bishop of Council of Christian Churches is sched­ in the schools and universities is flourish­ Western Michigan hopes that the whole uled to meet in Geneva, February zoth ing. One of the leaders is Professor O. C. project for the union of his church with to 23rd, at which time actions wiII be Hallesby whose book on P!ayer appeared the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. taken to convene the first world Assembly in English before the war. will be dropped. He believes that the of the Council, which had been originally House of Bishops should have been given intended for the United States in 1941. The President of the Missouri Synod an opportunity to discussthe matter freely. Among the American members expected Lutheran Church, who has just returned to attend areJohn R. Mott, Henry Smith from a trip through devastated Europe, On February 11th a new version of the Leiper, Samuel McC. Cavert, and Douglas criticizes the Federal Council and the New Testament, to be known as the Re­ Horton. The calling of the Council, ac­ World, Council of Churches for sup­ vised Standard Version, will be offered for cording to Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hoeft, porting a drive to unite the Protestant sale for the first time. In preparation for general secretary of the provisional com­ Churches of Germany. fifteen years by a large committee of mittee, is not to become "merely an organ American scholars, the translation is a re­ of practical collaboration and theological An organization called Unitas, spon­ vision of the American Standard Version conversation between Churches which de­ sored by Roman Catholics, is attempting of 1901. It takes account of the Authorized fend their sovereignty"; rather it is "to to enlist Christians who are not Catholics (King James) Version of 1611, however, hold up constantly before the Churches in promoting international good-will. It is for evidently one of its' chief aims is to the image of one holy apostolic Church, notable that the union is controlled by an recover the simple, classic English style of which contains a judgment and a promise international committee all of whose mem- this version, which was largely lost in the for each Church."

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i.. ~~~~"\- 'oi' ,~;:, . r5tXt\A~b¥NA¥&,f\:e';; . -"'$ 3- J 1946 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 35 S'unday Schools For Salvation By the REV. EDMUND P. CLOWNEY Pastor of the First Orthodox Presbyterian Church, New Haven, Conn.

HE outlook for many American tinguished from the world, and them to teach the child until he is about to T Sunday schools is as cheerless as that are without, and united with be­ become a communicant member of their traditional basement quarters. lievers; and all who are baptized in the church. Rather they will be com­ Some observers even predict that the the name of Christ, do renounce, and mitted to a whole program of religious whole institution will pass with this by their baptism are bound to fight teaching and training. generation. Such a suggestion is a against the devil, the world, and the Can the Sunday school be made rousing challenge to every true friend flesh: they are Christians, and feder­ the chief feature of such a program? of the Sunday school. But before the ally holy before baptism, and there­ No one can deny that the Sunday champion of the Sunday school rushes fore are they baptized .. ." school can aid in such a program, but to horse and rides off in all directions The aim of the church's instruction it cannot bear the main load. In the at once, he 'might do well to reflect of these children is not to win them first. place, it is too limited in time. for a moment. A preacher should aim to Christianity, as if those that had Taken by itself, a twenty-minute pe­ at a little more than the salvation of been received in Christ's arms were riod of instruction at weekly intervals his sermon; the Sunday school leader aliens in need of reconciliation; the is a starvation diet for the Christian should have a little more in mind than aim is rather to bring them to full child. It is also limited in its staff. the salvation of the Sunday school. realization and avowalof the covenant Many devoted Sunday school teachers Just what should the Sunday school claims and blessings. They are the are both capable and experienced, but set itself to accomplish? Surely much Lord's, and in the nurture and ad­ the fact remains that the pastor, the of the ineffectiveness and befuddle­ monition of the Lord 'they must be teacher of the church, must be held ment which have settled like a fog educated. responsible for teaching little church over Sunday school work issue from a The responsibility for their training members as well as grown ones. He is failure to answer this simple question is shared by the parents and the best equipped for this task both by clearly. church, and it is great. The very fact general education, by his knowledge To begin at the beginning, we may that we claim so much for our chil­ of the Holy Textbook, and by the take for granted only that the Sunday dren in the boldness of faith places a special calling and blessing of the Holy school is an agency of the church solemn weight of responsibility on us. Spirit. which seeks to teach children Chris­ We have laid hold upon the privileges If the Sunday school becomes a sub­ tian truth. But what is sometimes of the covenant of grace. We are.laid stitute for systematic instruction by overlooked is that the church has a hold upon by the claims of that cove­ Christian parents and the Christian twofold task in the instruction of nant. It is mockery and sacrilege to pastor, it becomes a menace to the 'children. It has direct responsibility claim for a child this holy privilege youth of the church. Exactly this has for the religious education of Chris­ and then fail to discharge the duties been the case in countless churches tian children. It also has a solemn of instruction and training which the throughout our country. obligation for the evangelization of Lord of the promise requires. There is, however, another great nonchristian children. An examination This joint responsibility demands teaching task of the church with re­ of these two related tasks should help the closest cooperation of the home spect to children. Little ones outside us to find the most valuable function and the church. Most of the actual the church must hear the story of the for the Sunday school. religious training of .the child must be gospel. The solemn indictment of the The distinction between Christian done by the Christian parent, but the Word of God is that man is born in and nonchristian children is plainly church must prepare and direct the sin, that the imagination of his heart evident in every church which recog­ parent in this sacred task. Not only is evil from his youth. The child no nizes the promise of the covenant in does Paul command parents to bring less than the man needs the message infant baptism. Believing that the up their children in the nurture of of salvation. This fact too is vividly promise is to them and to their chil­ the Lord, but he also speaks to the symbolized in infant baptism as we dren, Christian parents bring their children directly, reminding them of confess that these helpless infants are little ones to be received into Christ's their duties of obedience to the Lord sinful before God except for the wash­ visible church. Baptism is the sign and their parents. Paul does not for­ ing away of sin by the blood of Christ. and seal of their engrafting into get that portion of the work of an Let us not forget that children can Christ as members of His mystical apostle of which Christ reminded receive the gospel. Unlike the tor­ body. As the Directory for the Public Peter when He charged him to feed tured reasonings of man, the Word of Worship of God of the Westminster His lambs. Where church sessions God is marvelously simple. Many a Assembly expresses it: "Children, by take their duties as under-shepherds mystery hidden from the wise of this baptism, are solemnly received into. seriously in respect to the young mem­ world it has been the Father's good the bosom of the visible church, dis- bers of the church, they will not wait pleasure to reveal to babes. Who dares

.. '" 36 TaE PR£SBYTERIAN GUARDIAN Fehruary .8 to declare to the Creator Spirit that imum of children can be instructed classes during the week, since he will any little child is too young to receive at one time. Gathering a large group attend the Sabbath services as well, that new life which is from above, or of children provides a distinct advan­ but an evangelistic program reaching to express it in an appropriate re­ tage for evangelistic work. Children children outside the church is best sponse of childish faith? from nonchristian homes are often conducted on Sunday. . And the church must give these very reluctant to attend small meet­ Finally, to make the Sunday school little ones the gospel. In our days we ings but eager to be present with an evangelistic agency will go far to are witnessing a revolt among Funda­ numbers of friends and schoolmates. assure that the church will take child mentalists everywhere directed against The Sunday school is just· the evangelism seriously. It is the non- . church-sponsored preaching of the agency to carry on the best type of christian child of the neighborhood gospel. Christian laymen's groups con­ child evangelism: teaching evangel­ who has too often been· neglected duct evangelistic programs for men; ism. Children, of course, are easily while earnest Sunday school teachers "Youth-far-Christ" sponsors the swayed by appeals, and just as easily struggled to do the work of both par­ preaching of the gospel to young peo­ forget them if they have not been re­ ent and pastor in teaching the chil­ ple; the Child Evangelism movement inforced with solid instruction. We dren of the church. But if the Sunday seeks to reach the children. Sum­ must furnish the children with a thor­ school is resolutely made an organ of mer conferences, private foundations, ough knowledge of the Word of God evangelism, the church will find that "movements" good, bad, and indif­ if they are to stand, for Christ against its catechetical program must be set ferent undertake to sponsor gospel the wiles of the devil. up for covenant children, and child preaching. In the maze of organiza­ Again, the Sunday school forms a evangelism will receive its rightful tions it has been somehow forgotten splendid nucleus for a wider program place of importance in the recognized that Christ left but one organization, of activity. Class and department church school. His church, and that to the church meetings on weekdays can clinch the The Committee on Christian Edu­ was given one great task: to preach teaching of the Lord's Day, and pro­ cation of The Orthodox Presbyterian the gospel to the whole world. It is vide excellent opportunities for per­ Church has concluded, from consid­ doubtless because the churches have sonal work. Teacher contacts can be erations such as these, that the Sun­ failed in this work that these zealous expanded and developed to bring the day school must be first of all evan­ independent groups have mushroomed gospel to bear on the child's daily life. gelistic. Committee materials are pre­ over the nation. Yet it was with divine Wholesome recreational activities and pared with this direct aim, and leaders wisdom that Christ committed the social affairs should bring these chil­ are urged to conduct their program in "deposit" of the gospel, as Paul calls dren into the homes of church fam­ harmony with this objective. Of course it, to the stewardship of. an organiza­ ilies and into association with Chris­ the teaching of the Sunday school and tion which had elders equipped to tian friends. of the catechetical program must be guard the purity of its doctrine and The Sunday school organization coordinated so that there is no need­ teachers approved of God in handling can also assure a close follow-up of less duplication for covenant children, aright Its riches. Excellent as the work absent children. Nothing is more es­ who attend both. But while the needs of some of these private organizations sential than persistence in this. The of the children of the church ought has been, a real church can do it teacher can usually be expected to call not to be neglected in the Sunday better. on absent members of her class, or at school, they ought not to determine How does the Sunday school fit least to correspond with them. Here the program. We desperately need into this program of the church? The is one simple form of Christian serv­ Sunday schools which will pointedly, .Sunday school is a "natural" as the ice that the humblest teacher can do systematically, and lovingly present church agency for child evangelism. well. the Word of the Saviour to the chil­ A few of its advantages ought to be Another evangelistic advantage of dren of America who know Him not. mentioned. the Sunday school is that it is partic­ These children can be reached. There is the appeal of the well­ ularly fitted to lead nonchristian chil­ Some Sunday schools in our denom­ known name and time as a means of dren to gain some conception of the ination have doubled in enrollment in attracting children from nonehristian Christian Sabbath. Often we fail to the past year. Pastors testify that it is homes. A class meeting at some other associate Sabbath-keeping with evan­ much easier to reach the children than time and place might be mistrusted gelism, yet even a superficial recogni­ their parents. or disregarded by parents of these, tion of the Lord's Day is an important These children must be reached: children, but hosts of pagan Ameri­ influence in pointing the child to the for their own salvation; for the preser­ can parents still feel that it is only Lord of the Sabbath. On the other vation of our nation, where the rela­ decent to send at least the younger hand, evangelism which neglects to tivism of modern education is break­ children to some Sunday school. (In train children to keep the Sabbath ing down all standards of morality, all frankness it must be admitted that often achieves temporary results only and juvenile 'delinquency threatens this advantage sometimes works in to see the child drift away from decades of crime to come; for the ex­ reverse. A segment of America's Christ in the stream of Sunday amuse­ istence of our own church, whose junior population remembers "Sunday ments. Attendance at an evangelistic future leaders must be trained now, school" just as vividly as "castor oil," Sunday school provides practice as if they are to be thoroughly grounded and with about the same enthusiasm!) well as instruction in Sabbath-keeping, in the truth; above all, for the glory In the Sunday school the largest and should lead naturally to church of our Christ, who loves little chil­ teaching force which the church can attendance as well. The child of the dren, and rejoices to hear their sweet muster is usually on hand, a.nd a max- church may well have his instruction .voices. sing the praises of His name. ,Ut44 TR~ paESBYT~RIAN GUARnlAN The ~hristian~sCOOlfort in a Hostile World Froa"TheOrthodox PresbyterianPulpit" . By the REV. Le ROY B. OUVER Pastor of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Middletown, DeL

"Ye are of God, little children, and have in God, they overcome this hostile overcome them: because greater is he that world by God's power, and they have is in you, than he that is in the world" God dwelling within them. (I John 4:4). HEN Elijah stood atop Mount The Christian's Source W Cannel facing the hosts of the When John says that humble be­ followers of Baal and beheld the peo­ lievers in the Lord Jesus Christ are ple of Israel wavering between two of God, he does not mean that they opinions, whether to serve Jehovah or alone have been made by God. All baal, he must have experienced mixed men are products of God's creative emotions. On the one hand, he be­ power. It IS this fact that makes their lieved that God would vindicate his opposition to Him such a heinous message and, on the other hand, he thmg. When John says that Chris­ was conscious of faithless Israel and tians are of. God, he is speaking about the vehement opposition of the priests a special relationship which exists be­ of the false god. Later on, he expressed tween true believers and God; a rela­ his despair of seeing the true religion tionship which has been established restored in the land and cried out in by God Himself. The source of the anguish of soul, "It is enough; now, 0 children of God is contrasted with Lord, take away my life; for I am not the source of antichrist. The Chris­ better than my fathers." Immediately tian draws all his life, inspiration, and God comforted and assured His strength, all that dominates and regu­ prophet of His care for him and sent lates his thought and action from him forth to battle for the faith once Introducing Mr. Oliver ••• God. The phrase "of God" haspri­ more. HE Rev. Le Roy B. Oliver was mary reference to the sinner's becom­ In the New .Testament period of Tborn in Philadelphia and attended ing a living child of God by the the history of the church, unbelief schools there, completing his second­ regenerating power of the Holy Spirit, once more crept into the church and ary school training at Stony Brook but that act of the Spirit which makes the followers of Christ again faced School, Long Island. In 1939 he was the spiritually dead to live is based formidable foes of the truth. They graduated tram Wheaton College, and upon an even deeper relationship faced an even more subtle foe than from Westminster Seminary in 1942. which the Lord God established with the priests' of Baal: they faced men He served as student pastor of the that sinner in eternity through the who professed to hold to some of the Livingstone Memorial Orthodox Pres­ covenant of grace and which is further truths of Christianity and yet denied byterian Church while in seminary, assured by the work of Christ in time. other equally essential truths. The and in 1943 was called to the Grace God has made us His children by the apostle John calls these men anti­ Orthodox Presbyterian Church of execution of the great plan of salva­ christ. They had denied that Jesus Middletown, Delaware, of which tion devised in His .eternal counsels. Christ had come in the flesh, asserting church he is nowthe pastor. , When sin had plunged the mass of that His earthly life and His body the human race into a state of rebel­ were only illusions. John tells his lion against the Creator, Cod in His readers in this first epistle that these sovereign love had chosen to save a forces of antichrist must be opposed with the words, "Ye are of God, little multitude of the lost. He chose this as the enemies of God and His church. children, and have overcome them, multitude in Christ and passed by The apostle exhorts his readers to try because greater is he that is in you, others ordaining them to wrath for or test every teacher of religious doc­ than he that is in the world." With their sins. Believers are of God be­ trine to see whether he teaches' truth, these words John sets believers in cause their salvation has its ultimate especially the truth that Jesus Christ Christ on one side and antichristian ground and source in His eternal de­ was truly man and that His earthly forces on the other. Antichrist is of cree respecting them. life was an historic fact. the world, Christians are of God. The God's "little children" are also of Undoubtedly some of the Chris­ great truth John would teach his "lit­ Him because their salvation has been tians of that day were timid about tle children" is that they have a great secured by Christ's life and death on opposing those who taught, but John comfort in their battle against a hos­ their behalf. The Christians of Peter's encourages them and comforts them .tile world. Christians have their source day were told that they were not re- 38 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN Fehrnary 10 d,eemed with corruptible things, as Priest, and King has had over Satan, finitely greater in every way. Christ is silver and ,gold, from their vain con­ our arch-enemy and the prince of this God, Satan is created, limited as to versation received by. tradition from world. Christ in His life and death time and sphere of action. Christ is their fathers, "but with the precious put to flight the enemy of the .souls greater in that He bears a sceptre of blood of Christ, as of a lamb without of men, Satan. The prince of this righteousness. The believer's victory blemish and without spot." The fol­ world is a defeated enemy. In the gos­ is possible and certain because of the lowers of Jesus Christ are of God pels, tribute is paid to the complete­ indwelling Christ. because Christ, the second person of ness of Christ's victory over the leader Robert Browning wrote, "All hu­ the Trinity, purchased them with His' of the forces of antichrist. Whenever man plans and projects come to own blood. As Paul tells us, "Ye are the title "prince of this world" is used naught." And Robert Bums, "The not your own; for ye were bought of Satan, there is also the thought that best laid schemes 0' mice and men with a price" (I Cor. 6:20). He who he is a vanquished foe. In John 12:31, gang aft a-gley; an' Ide us. nought is very God of very God paid the Jesus' words, declaring HIS victory to nut grief and pain, for promis'd JOY," price of our redemption from sin, and come, are recorded, "Now shall the hut that may not be said of God's therefore we are of Him, of God. prince of this world be cast out." plan for His children. The possibility The central thought of this phrase, Again, before the Cross, the Saviour of defeat for the United Nations was however, is that we derive our spiritual says, "Hereafter I will not talk much great in the early years of World War life and strength from Him. This re­ with you: for the prince of this world 11, but there is not the remotest pos­ lationship has been made possible by cometh, and hath nothing in me" sibility of defeat for God's people. No God's Spirit who works effectually to (John 14: 30)' Christ makes clear wonder one of the favorite verses of give life to sinners. Those who were that Satan has no hold on Him, no john Calvin was, "If God be for us, dead. in trespasses and sins have been charge to make against Him. Again, in who can be against us?" The Chris­ quickened by the Spirit, new life has John 16:11, in telling His disciples of tian needs not to whistle in the dark­ been imparted to them, a new prin­ the coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus ness of this world to keep up his cour­ ciple of .action breathed into them so says that the Comforter would reprove age. Let him go forth to battle anti­ that they have been born again. To the world of judgment "because the Christ, confident that the victory is his use John'S words: "But as many as prince of this world is judged." God's through Jesus Christ our Lord. received him to them gave he power people conquered Satan and his forces to become the sons of God, even to of antichrist when Christ came The Indwelling Christ them that believe on his name: which through the wilderness temptation The third comforting thought in were born, not of blood, nor of the unscathed, to march to the Cross, this text is stated in the words "greater will of the flesh, nor of the will of there to deal a death-blow to the son is he that is in you, than he that is man, but God" (John 1: 12, 13)' of perdition. . in the world." This means that God Can anything be more comforting This grand and glorious triumph dwells within His children. In various to Christian soldiers than this thought, which the Lord Jesus Christ achieved parts of the Scriptures, each of the that we are on God's side and that over our adversary was on our behalf. three persons of the Godhead are said our very life and strength are from Christ acting as the representative of to dwell in the believer. And this in­ Him who is Lord of all? His people did for them what they dwelling is mediated by the Holy could never do for themselves. Satan Spirit. That the Holy Spirit inhabits The Christian's Power had bested our first parents in Eden, every true Christian is a fulfillment of Having been placed on the side of and he would have continued to do the promise made by Jesus to His dis­ the Lord, believers are assured of vic­ so had not the last Adam ended the ciples in John 14:16, "And I will tory over the forces of antichrist, The reign of the prince of this world by a pray the Father, and he shall give you text informs us that this is the case, life of obedience to the Father's will another Comforter, that he may abide "Ye are of God, and have overcome and a vicarious, sacrificial death for with you for ever; Even the spirit of them." The "them" refers to the false sinners. truth; whom the world cannot receive, teachers who deny the true doctrine The victory achieved for God's peo­ because it seeth him not, neither of Christ. Notice that this statement ple by Christ enables them to have knoweth him: but ye know him; for concerning the victory which God's actual victory over antichrist today. he dwelleth with you, and shall be in people have over antichrist is put in Satan is still active in the world today, you." Again, there is I Corinthians the past tense. It is accomplished fact. but God has rebuffed him since the 6:19, "What? know ye not that your Every Christian has conquered the death and resurrection of Christ. It body is the temple of the Holy Ghost worldly spirit of antichrist, the enemy is an assured fact that believers have which is in you?" There is a mystical of God. Our faith is an evidence of victory over unbelief because of the union of Christ and believers. And victory. "For whatsoever is begotten power of Christ in their lives. The this union is most mysterious, for of God overcometh the world: and text states that in God's children even though the Scriptures set it this is the victory that hath overcome there is a power greater than that forth by such figures as the Vine and the world, even our faith. And who is which is in the world. That greater the Branches in John 15, and the re­ he that overcometh the world, but he power is the power that Christ has lationship of husband and wife, this that believeth that Jesus is the Sen of over Satan in the lives of His people. vital, mystical union is still beyond God" (I John 5:4, 5)' This actual He who is in these "little children" is the comprehension of man. It is not victory which Christians have from Christ, but he who is in the world is a union of sympathy such as that ex­ day to day is based upon the victory Satan, the leader of antichrist, In what pressed by Paul to his beloved Philip- which their Mediator, their Prophet, way is Christ greater than Satan? In- (See "Oliver," Page 46) 1946 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUAR.IAN 39

troubling him may perhaps be found It is their privilege, and likewise duty, %~laitYL. in the tact that, being a Presbyterian, to provide for their children adequate GUARDIAN he is "a small part of something greater religious, as well as secular, training. 1505 Race Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. than Paul, or Apollos,or Cephas, or Both should be Christian. Because the world, or life, or death, or things parents have, in so many cases, been present, or things to come. For I am neglectful of this, even school officers EDITORS Christ's; and Christ is God's." have realized the lack. Ned B. Stonehouse No doubt Presbyterian Christians As a result, action has been taken, Paul Woolley treasure nothing as much as the assur­ and one of its most popular forms ance that they are Christ's. And as has been to arrange for the release of ADyISORY COUNCIL Christ's they must be zealous for the school' children for, perhaps, one hour Robert L. Atwell unity of the body of Christ. But such a week during regular school time. In­ John P. Clelland convictions do not involve the judg­ stead of their being quite free, how­ Leslie A. Dunn ment that doctrinal distinctiveness is ever, they are sent to classes in re­ John Patton Galbraith to be discarded in the interests of co­ ligion held under the auspices of Edward L. Kellogg operation and church union on the religious authorities, Jewish, Roman platform of the lowest common de­ Catholic, Protestant, perhaps of other nominator. The Spirit who gives life connections. Parents are given the EDITORIAL and unity is the Spirit of truth. privilege of choosing what class, if any, WhyIAma If the position enunciated by Dr. the child shall attend. Imbrie is typical of the prevailing There are potentialities for good in Presbyterian viewpoint among Presbyterians, and this system. One of the ways in which NDER this title, the Presbyterian there are many signs that such is the they can be realized is set forth by U Tribune for January carries a very case, it is evident that genuine Pres­ Miss Poundstone's article. It deserves frank confession of a minister to the byterianism is pretty rare. In many careful study. Another is for the local effect that he doesn't really know any areas which are still nominally Presby­ church, if large enough, to provide good reason for being a Presbyterian. terian, the robust Calvinism of an adequate space and teaching staff and The writer, Dr. Charles K. Imbrie, earlier generation is not much more offer instruction for the school or who has been in the Presbyterian min­ than a memory. It is no wonder that, schools in its neighborhood. istry for nearly thirty years, states on the background of such inclusiv­ There are also, however, potentiali­ that, however ridiculous it may appear, ism, the historic testimony of Presby­ ties for evil in the system. If the forces he has been trying to give an honest terianism, as expressed in its creeds, of evangelicalism are not strong answer to this question for many has virtually become. a' dead letter. It enough to compete with Modernism years. His ancestors were Presbyterians, is not surprising that church union or Romanism in a given community, and he is certain that the majority of and cooperation, on as broad a base the mass of the children will be worse them "would have replied that they as possible, are the order of the day. off than with no religious instruction were Presbyterians because Calvinism We propose to continue to fly the outside the home. It is hard for a was the one true system of doctrine Presbyterian colors at our masthead child to stay in school when everyone taught in.the Holy Scriptures." He because we still share the faith of our else is trooping off somewhere to an says: fathers. That faith is old but not interesting change of scene and archaic; it is historical but not dead; teacher. Most children will beg the I do not mean an emasculated version it is distinctive but not narrow. It parents to let them go along, and of Calvinism which an increasing number rests on eternal foundations. It speaks unless the parents are very firm, con-. of our candidates for ordination "receive with a living and abiding voice. It still sent will be given. Then the child and adopt" with mental reservations, and challenges her sons to give themselves which our ruling elders "receive and will be receiving definite instruction adopt" without even reading the Confes­ over, without, reserve or apology or in error. Far better no religious in­ sion of Faith. I mean the real thing, that fear, to proclaim and defend and live struction than false instruction. Under which sets us forth from "other breeds the truth of the entire Word of God. "released time" those two alternatives without the Law," Papists, and Baptists, In its dynamic there is the hope of a are often the only ones. Metropolitan and Methodists, and Quakers, and the great Reformation. In its message of and town church councils are nearly Church of England. My ancestors felt pure grace there is life for men who always in modernist or indifferentist strongly that they werc much nearer the are dead in trespasses and sins. hands and they are usually the super­ Divine revelation as interpreters of Truth. visors of "released time" instruction. I cannot share their enthusiasm and I Instruction in the Bible is a parental want to know what is wrong with me. "Released Time" responsibility. Where "released time" Dr. Imbrie goes on to state that it can beneficially aid the parent, it is a would be useful to be able to supply E BELIEVE that our readers blessing. But more often than not, it a definite answer in the interest of in­ W will be particularly interested in is going to bring the Christian child .creasing the number of Presbyterian the article on "released time" religious face to face with false and soul­ communicants, but nothing distinc­ education by Miss Frances L. Pound­ destroying teaching, There need be no tively Presbyterian in doctrine or pol­ stone which appears in this issue. Edu­ rush for Christians to promote "re­ ity, he saysin effect, seems to be worth cation lies at the heart of our entire leased time"! But when it is offered, insisting upon. Finally he suggests civilization. In particular, it is a Chris­ let us try our best to capture some of that the answer to the question that is tian obligation of parents before God. it for genuine Christianity. 40 THE ,PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN February 10 Released Tinte EvangelisDl. , By FRANCES L. POUNDSTONE

T IS .ll :25 Tuesday morning. Three Hampshire) now have legislation pro­ board. To do so may result in com­ I teachers are standing in tront of viding for the release of public school pncarions, delay and even defeat. It is a little, brown, vine-covered church, pupns during school time for religious nest to begin with the churches of the talking, of course, but keeping an eye education. By a law that became etfec­ denominanons which have manitested on the corner a half a block away. tive August 4, 1943, California be­ cooperativeness by membership in the There they come! A long procession came the thirty-ninth state to make Federal Council of Churches, or the of children, accompanied by three or such provision. But the California law Southern California Council of four women escorts, rounds the corner is permissive only, that is, the decision Churches. These groups should set and at the same time gains momen­ as to whether pupils shall be released the norm. Other groups may be recog­ tum. Now there are three groups of to classes in religious education is left nized on the basis of their willingness children. They stand at attention for with the local Board of Education; to work in accordance with the norm." a moment to recover their breath and hence, a year passed before any classes But there were Christians in Los (we hope) become quiet. While the were opened in the Los Angeles pub­ Angeles who, fully aware that the twenty-seven fifth graders and the lic school district. During that year Church Federation could not speak twenty-eight sixth graders file through the Los Angeles Board ot Education for evangelical Christians, determmed the front door to their respective class­ agreed to release pupils to religious by God's grace to establish an organ­ rooms, the thirty-two fourth graders education, the Inter-Faith Committee ization through which they might con­ march around the side of the church composed of representatives from va­ duct released-time classes that would to a departmental room in the rear. rious religious groups and from the faithfully teach the Word of God. In another moment they are in school board was set up to provide a It was recognized at the outset that their assigned seats and on the table single agency through which the although technically speaking each in­ before them is a Bible, a workbook, a churches might work with the Board dividual church might secure the re­ pencil, and perhaps a box of colored of Education and vice versa, the dif­ lease of children for religious instruc­ pencils. Provided with a seating chart, ferent religious groups acquainted tion, practically speaking tew churches, the teacher needs less than a minute their constituencies with the proposed working alone, could afford to provide to check the roll. Then all heads are program and laid the foundations for an adequate program. Furthermore, bowed and eyes closed while together making it an actuality, and a great vic­ for each evangelical church to con­ the group talks to .the Lord and asks tory was won for evangelical Chris­ duct its own classes and to make its His blessing upon the class. The Bible tianity. own contacts with the schools and is the only textbook used in the class­ In practically every community Board of Education would be to in­ room, but the teacher has received where the released-time program is in vite the disfavor of the Board upon help in preparing her lesson from a operation, the Church Federation, or the whole program and might lead to course of study designed especially for a similar group which locally repre­ a withdrawal of the permission. Con­ weekday classes by the Christian Edu­ sents the Federal Council of the sequently, about a month after the law cation department of Wheaton Col­ Churches of Christ in America, has became effective, the challenge and lege and published by the Scripture been the sole representative of the obligation which it presented was Press. Protestants. That the Church Federa­ placed before a group of about a hun­ All too quickly the hands of the tion of Los Angeles intended to arro­ dred and twenty-five interested Chris­ clock point to noon, and the precious gate to itself the leadership of all tians at a dinner meeting in down­ thirty minutes for searching the Scrip­ Protestants here is apparent from town Los Angeles. Out of that rally tures are gone. There is no time for statements in the "DIgest of Min­ grew the state-wide organization now talking now. Materials are hustled utes," dated May 24, 1943, by the known as Evangelical Released-Time back into cupboards, the church win­ Board of Directors of Weekday Re­ Education, Inc. dows and doors locked, and sand­ ligious Education of the Church Fed­ Which children attend these classes? wiches eaten en route to another eration of Los Angeles, which read After the Board of Education granted church where rooms must be set up "That we recommend that in the permission to release the children, the for one o'clock classes. Problems mul­ matter of Protestant churches, Public next move had to be taken by the tiply here. The church is four blocks School authorities follow the pro­ parents. It is the parents who by their from the school. Only one escort can cedure of dealing with only one united written consent determine whether or be secured to bring the eighty-five administrative agency ... and that in not their children shall be released children. What is taught must be so far as possible the Church Federa­ and with which religious group they packed into a brief period of twenty tion be recognized as the Protestant shall go. Of course, it may be that a minutes that occasionally shrinks to agent for this purpose in Los Angeles. child is not in a school participating fifteen minutes. . . . Except where cordial, cooperative in the released-time program, for only Who are these children? And how relations already exist, do not be 153 of the approximately 400 elemen­ does it happen that they are going to overly concerned at first to bring the tary schools are releasing children. church during school hours? All but less stable, less cooperative or inde­ These schools have been selected in two states (North Dakota and New pendent groups into the planning response to requests made by the va- 1946 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 41

rious religious groups-requests usu­ tack doctrines peculiar to any cooper­ writer, the programs ought not to be ally based upon the abihty of the ating church. Every effort has been set one against the other. Each has its group to find a suitable meeting place made to keep the program interde­ place; each can achieve certain objec­ within a block or two of the school. nominational. tives beyond the reach of the other. Preference is given to those schools Affiliated with Evangelical Released­ For example, many of our classes are requested by several groups in view Time Education are churches from conducted in the poorer districts of ot the tact that the board of Educa­ the' following denominations: Meth­ the city where it is very doubtful that tion is now requiring a mimmum of odist, Wesleyan Methodist, Free a Christian school would be largely thirty per cent. from each classroom Methodist, Kegular Baptist, Northern patronized. Furthermore, as high as involved to begin released-time classes Baptist, Ortnouox Presoyterian, Cum­ twenty per cent. of the children III our and an enrollment of twenty-five per berland Presbyterian, Presbyterian classes are unchurched. While it is cent. to maintain the classes. Further­ U.S.A., Lutheran (Augustana Synod), true that Christian schools reach some more, the program is limited thus far Mission Covenant, Christian and Mis­ unchurched children, the possibilities to children ot the fourth, fifth, and sionary Alliance, Brethren, Mennon­ along this line are far greater with the sixth grades in the elementary SChools. ite, Friends, Nazarene, Four Square, released-time classes. On the other This year thirteen junior hign schools Pilgrim Holiness, Assembly of God, hand, the released-time program has were admitted to. the program. The Ghurchof God, Church of Christ, served to strengthen our conviction expectation is that eventually !the and the Christian Church. Very few that Christian parents ought to count project will extend into every grade churches of denominations repre­ no sacrifice too great to provide Chris­ of all schools. ' sented by the Federal Council have tian schools for their children. They According to the law, children may cared to jeopardize their position in cannot regard the released-time class be released tor an hour a week, pro­ the denomination by cooperating with as a substitute. It merely adds a crumb viding the school day is not thereby Evangelical Released-Time Education. of Christian instruction to the crumb shortened beyond the minimum day A .few statistics will enable the furnished by the Sunday school, while required by the local board. Applied reader to judge somewhat how the re­ the child receives his main course to the Los Angeles public SChOOl sys­ leased-time program is being received from the pagan table set by the public tem, this means that not more than in this area. Last year thirty-five per school. forty minutes a week may be allotted cent. of the eligible pupils participated for released-time classes. Within those in the program; this year forty-two per forty minutes the children must be cent., or 12,605, have enrolled from taken from the school to the church the elementary schools and slightly and back to school. The local board more than twelve per cent., or 2,171, requires that the children be escorted. from the thirteen junior high schools. , Eerdmans Announces Cooperating churches are expected We cannot say yet this year what per­ Fiction Contest to provide the escorts, and usually do. centage of the tofal is Roman Catho­ Although neither the state law nor lic, what percentage Church Federa­ "HE Wm. B. Eerdmans Publish­ the local board has set up any stand­ tion, etc., but last year the five groups l ing Company, of Grand Rapids, ards for teachers and curriculum, represented on the Inter-Faith Com­ Mich., has announced a new contest Evangelical Released-Time Education mittee lined up in the following order: for writers of Christian adult fiction. has from its inception sought to estab­ Roman Catholic, Church Federation, A prize of five thousand dollars will lish and maintam high standards for Evangelical Released-Time Education, be awarded for the novel most suc­ its own program. It is the policy of Jewish, and Christian Science. Our cessfully depicting Christian faith and the organization to employ only those organization had approximately one­ Christian living. teachers who have public school cre­ fourth the number enrolled by the In publicizing the contest, the pub­ dentials as well as special training in Church Federation. We began classes lishers call attention to the fact that Christian Education, a policy strictly last year with an enrollment of 629 Christian fiction has fallen far short .' adhered to in Los Angeles and fol­ pupils; this year the enrollment is of the literary standards established lowed at least in a general way close to 1300 and is increasing daily. and maintained in the secular field. throughout the State. While this Last year we operated in thirty-one Taking note of recent critical articles standard has been appreciated by most schools; this year we are in thirty-six on the subject, they aim, through this evangelicals, it has drawn much critic schools, including three junior high contest, to encourage Christian writ­ cism from some who feel that the schools. ers to raise the art of the Christian classes should be taught by volunteer Readers of the GUARDIAN, at least novel to a new and acceptable level. teachers and from others who seem to somewhat acquainted with the Chris­ It is emphasized that the presentation regard an educated teaching staff and tian school program, may have been of Christianity in the manuscripts sub­ a consecrated one as mutually ex­ wondering how. the two programs mitted for the prize should not take clusive. compare in value. We have heard the form of direct teaching or moraliz­ Teachers of Evangelical Released­ some Christians (incidentally, not ing but rather should be achieved Time Education are expected to teach Orthodox Presbyterian Church peo­ through the skillful delineation of the within the organization's statement of pIe) declare themselves against the .characters as they move naturally faith, which is similar to that of the released-time program on the ground through the narrative. National Association of Evangelicals that they believe the Christian school, The contest closes March 1, 1948. and the American Council, and are not released-time classes, is the answer The other contest rules can be ascer­ not at liberty to promulgate nor at- to our problem. In the mind of the tained by writing to the publishers. .':-.

42 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN February 10 Science and Evolution Letters to a Boy About to Enter High School By the REV. EDWARD J. YOUNG, ~h.D. Assistant Professor of Old Testament in Westminster Theological Seminary

PART TWO however, is not physical; it is spiritual ishness. Here lies the basic reason why -that is, we cannot see, hear, touch, men do not accept the first chapter of EAR TOM: In the last letter, I taste or smell it. Nevertheless, we Genesis-they consider it to be fool­ ) D discussed with you the question know that we have souls, since we ishness. how the world began. Have you ever can think about ourselves and about When you study your textbook in wondered how man appeared upon God. biology, you will discover that several the earth? What was the origin of The Bible further asserts that God reasons are given for believing that the man? It is this question about which created man in His own image. This is origin of man was different from what I shall write in the present letter. In an interesting phrase, and one which the Bible says it was. Some of these order to discover what man's origin I hope you will try to understand. It reasons may seem to be very appeal­ was, we must turn to the Bible for, as does not refer to man's body. Our ing. In fact, you may even think that we S!lW in the last letter, the Bible is bodies are not the image of God, be­ some of them are correct, and that the God's Word. cause God is a Spirit, and a Spirit Bible is mistaken in what it says. You What then does God tell us about does not have a body. Some people may pass through a period of doubt. the origin of man? In the second say that God has a body, and that It is for that reason that I am writing chapter of Genesis, it is said that the man looks like God. However, that is these .letters-to help you overcome ", . . Lord God formed man of the not what the Bible means when it says doubt and to strengthen your faith in dust of the ground, and breathed into that God created man in His own what the Bible says. his nostrils the breath of life; and man image. God does not have a body. In the next letter I shall begin to became a living soul" (v. 7). This is The phrase "in his own image"has discuss what men who do not believe a very important verse, and I want reference to our souls. It is in the soul the Bible have said about the origin of you to examine it with me carefully. or spirit that we bear the image of life. However, that you may know to In the first place the verse asserts that God. How, you may ask, is this so? distinguish between the true and the God formed our bodies from the dust It is so in two respects. In the first false, read the first three chapters of of the ground. Our bodies are made place, we have minds as has God. We Genesis. Read them many times. of dust, and in this respect are similar can think, and reason. We are, in Know what they say. I understand to those of animals. When a man dies, other words, reasoning or rational be­ that those whose business it is to de­ his body decays and turns into dust. ings. The fact that we can think is tect counterfeit currency spend their The body of. man did not come into. because we bear the image of God. In time not in studying counterfeit but being by chance; it was formed by the second place, God created man so in studying genuine bills. Thus, by God. Pay particular attention to this that man was holy, free from evil and thoroughly knowing the genuine, they fact. The body of the first man was sin; man, as far as he knew anything, are able to detect the counterfeit. molded into its shape by God. It is knew it truly; man was in a right re­ That is what you must do, Tom. not an accident that man appears as lationship with God. Thus, in what Know the Bible well. Then, when he is. God fashioned man's body. God may be called a moral sense, man also counterfeit doctrine comes your way, ./ gave us eyes for seeing and ears for bears God's image. you will be able to detect it. ~- hearing. He made our bodies so that As you know, sin entered the world Sincerely, they would serve us in all the needs of and struck hard at the very image of YOUR UNCLE JOE. our life. God in man. It defaced-blotted out, We ought to be grateful to Cod be­ as it were-that image, as far as the cause He has formed our bodies as moral sphere was concerned. Thus, He did. And one way of showing our because of sin, man was no longer A New Reformed gratitude is by striving to keep the holy-he became unholy; he no longer Church in Japan body in strength and health. There had true knowledge-his understand­ are some people who tell us that the ing became darkened; he no longer (This news report is composed of body is in itself evil, but the Bible says had true righteousness-he sought to information received in a letter from differently. We should look upon our hide from the Lord God in the midst a recent visitor to the Orient who, for bodies as gifts from God and seek to of the trees of the garden. Further­ military reasons, is forced to remain glorify God in them. more, man's mind was also affected by anonymous.) This verse in Genesis also declares sin, and he no longer regarded God N OPPORTUNITY and need, f' that man has a soul. Hence you see as truly his Creator. I Japan is wide open. Every person ~' that man, according to the Bible, pos­ Today, all men are sinners. For this I have heard of, in all classes, would .. sesses both a body and a soul. Both very reason, because they are sinners, like to have the missionaries back. were created by God. The body, of they do not, in any adequate sense, United States soldiers; whose only course, is physical; we know of its ex­ believe that God is their Creator. contact with missions has been since istence through the senses. The soul, Spiritual things they regard as fool- they have been in the field, join in 1946 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 43 the chorus that now is the time for by that name. They have adopted the sible," or rather, "As soon as possible." missionary effort; Church leaders high Westminster Confession of Faith as The problem is bound up with the and low say they will be welcomed. their subordinate Standard, with the shortage of food for the Japanese and Elders and people in general say the Shorter Catechism as an introduc­ the lack of food suitable for mission­ same. General MacArthur has said he tion. The purpose is to stand on the aries in the outlying places. I say in hoped the missionaries would return Bible as the very Word of God, not the outlying places, and yet food is as soon as possible. merely as containing the Word of easier to get in the country than in Actually the country is stunned as God. The Bible is true and is to be the city. Hence, it will be some time few countries have been. They are proclaimed through the church under before civilians not attached to the dazed and groping for help. They do the direction of the Holy Spirit. They Army will be allowed to come out. not know what to do. The leaders of intend to give the answer to the ques­ I understand the various churches the Kyodan don't know which way to tion being asked today, What is Chris­ connected with the Federal Council tum. They have had meetings in tianity? are planning to send committees out which they have discussed the situa­ As for the possibility of work out to look over the situation. I am sure tion fully and can arrive at no con­ here in the near future, I must say it they will be welcomed by those in clusions. It seems that they are going is not very rosy. The Supreme Allied authority and will receive every assist­ to have a SOKAI (General Confer­ Command is favorable "When pos- ance in making their investigations. ence Meeting) in the Spring. In the meantime, a directive of the Allied Supreme Command says that, since the Religions Law has been abolished, ~olorado~s ~hildren each group or groups may form as they wish. This should mean that no A Letter for Readers of the Children's Honr undue pressure can be put on any per­ By HARRIET Z. TEAL son or persons to force him to stay in, or get out, and should be a new and never been to church and Sunday wholesome experience for many of the PART THREE school and had not been taught at church leaders as well as former gov­ ernment officials. . HEN I went over to Oak Creek, home to fear God and believe His I learned more about the young Word. It all made me want more The two paragraphs above should W man I was discussing last month. show to us plainly something of the than ever to help those'other boys It seems this was the second time he opportunity that is before us to help and girls in Oak Creek to learn to be­ rebuild the church and in addition had broken out of jail. The first time, lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and to help rebuild the nation. one evening about three years ago, he love and obey God's Word, while they I want to tell you in some detail of and a couple of other young men are still young. the Christian Reformed Church of went into a house right across the Before I finish speaking about camp Japan. For those of us who hold the street from where I stayed this I want to tell you about some other Reformed Faith, the die has been cast. summer, and tied up a mother and visitors we had there.not outlaws, nor The church is organized. There are daughter; later the father of the bears, nor pack-rats, but nice ones. eight churches: two in Kobe, one in family, who had been out on an We had many fine campers, about Fukui, one in Yokkaichi, two in errand, came back and they tied him eighty-five altogether and all nice, but Tokyo, two in Sendai. There are seven up, too. Then these wild fellows I shall mention just six because they pastors: Okada, Haruna, Matsuo, To­ cooked themselves a meal and sat were from far away outside the state kiwa and three others. Four of them down and ate it. Finally, they dressed of Colorado. The first was Professor are former Kobe Seminary men. As themselves up in the best suits of the Edward J. Young of Westminster far as the Southern Presbyterian father of the family and of his son Seminary in Philadelphia. He was Church is concerned, it would seem who was serving in the army. They chief speaker and teacher at this year's that the way has been shown very did not hurt the people, but stole all camp; also advisor and helper and clearly. The suggestion has already of the things they wanted and went chief playmate of the young people, been made that the Southern Presby­ off leaving them tied to their beds. going with them for hikes and horse­ terian Church take over all of SHI­ Does this sound like a wild west back rides. Everyone. received a bless­ KOKU as the promising field. It story? ing from Dr. Young's presence at would be nice for The Orthodox Pres­ I found out later that this young camp. Some of our young readers byterian Church to lend a hand up in man was the son of a woman whom I probably know Dr. Young very well Sendai. Or, since there are two pres­ had met there in Oak Creek. I called indeed. byteries, Kansai and Kanto, the terri­ at her home several times and she was Another who came to camp from a tory could be divided along those always very pleasant and friendly to distant state-New York-was Mr. lines. How do you like my plans to di­ me, but though I often invited her to Donald T. Kauffman. He had been vide and conquer? Premature? Maybe. come to Sunday school and church sent to Colorado for the summer by But to return to the Reformed services, she had all kinds of excuses the Home Missions Committee to Church, its name is, in Japanese, for not coming. As I thought about take charge of the Sunday school and Nihon Kirisuto Kaikakuha Kyokai. this later, I pitied the poor boy who, church services at the Orthodox Pres­ The organizers did not know that those who had known him said, used byterian Chapel at Oak Creek. Mr. there was actually in America a church to be a nice lad, who had probably Kauffman had just been graduated 44 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN from Westminster Seminary, and he verymuch. And I think many of them met her. The poor girl was very lonely is a very fine preacher and teacher of look on me as a friend of theirs. Some and frightened for she knew she might God's Word. He taught classes at of the same boys and girls have been never get well. Mrs. Male tried to en­ camp and was a great blessing and coming ever since the very first Bible courage her to trust in the Lord. Later, help there also. school, and I believe that some of when she told me about Ruby, I went A third visitor from another state them have come to have real faith in to see her. She was glad to have some­ was Mrs. Jeanne Swedberg of Lincoln, the Lord Jesus Christ. one come and tell her about the way Nebraska, whose husband, Lieutenant This summer I learned that a young to have her sins washed away, and Erle Swedberg, gave his life for his girl.named Beatrice, one of our most soon gave her heart to the Saviour. country about a year ago. She is really faithful attendants at Bible school, as Every week we had Bible study to­ just a young girl and so most of us well as at the regular Sunday services, gether. Ruby had other sorrows beside called her "Jeanne," and we were so had died last winter as the result of a being sick, for a short time after I met happy to have her with us there at sledding accident. I remembered how her, her husband went off and left camp. She taught a class of Junior the very first year we had Bible school her and her little baby girl. Ruby girls part of the time after the teacher in Oak Creek, Beatrice was a member stayed at her mother's home fora was called away unexpectedly. of my class of Juniors and she told while, but at last had to' be taken to Three other out-of-state visitors me she had given her heart to the the hospital. She wanted to be a mem­ were Virginia and Miriam Westberg Lord Jesus Christ, and as I watched ber of our church, and so .a little and Frank Marshall from Norristown, her each following year when I went service was held at her bedside in the Pennsylvania. They and their respec­ to OakCreek for Bible school, I could hospital one Sabbath afternoon last tive families were members of Mr. see that Beatrice was truly a child of spring, and Ruby was received into Male's church when he was pastor God. Her mother told me this sum­ the membership of the First Orthodox there a number of years ago. (I am mer of Beatrice's trust in the Lord Presbyterian Church. A short time also from that part of the country and and of her prayers to Him on her sick­ later there was another service when have known these young people since bed. I know I shall meet this dear girl little Barbara, Ruby's baby girl, was they were little children.) They are in Heaven some day. baptized as a covenant child. all fine Christians and it was a bless­ Mr. Kauffman had a fine Bible Ruby truly loved and trusted in ing to have them in camp. school in Oak Creek this summer. her Saviour. She said to me one day, Before I go on to the next part of Mrs. Swedberg was in charge of the "I am so glad I ever came to know this letter, I want to give you a little music and. taught two classes, one of Him!" Once another girl asked her, news item-a rather sad one to me. Beginners in the mornings and one of "What do you want to do if you get Do any of you remember the story Junior girls in the afternoons. We well?" Ruby replied that she wanted "The Spook House;' which was pub­ were obliged to hold our school in to be a missionary and go about to -­ lished in the GUARDIAN a couple of morning and afternoon sessions due tell others of Jesus-"As you came to years ago? You may remember that to the shortage of teachers and space. me," she said, speaking to me. An­ the log house in the story was a real A fine program was held at the close other time, someone of her family house on the highway you travel to go of the school-an outstanding feature said, "What good does it do Ruby to from Steamboat to Oak Creek. Well, of which was an exciting game of be a Christian? Look where she is?" this year when I went back there, I Bible baseball, Mrs. Swedberg's girls But Ruby said earnestly, "I'd rather found the old house had burned to against my boys. It was a closegame­ be here, the way I am, than to be-well the ground-s-no one knows how, for it but the boys woIl! and to be out living the kind of life I did before I was a Christian." She was vacant at the time and it stood Visits at the Hospital alone out of sight from any other prayed that her family might all be Right after the Oak Creek Bible saved. dwelling. There is nothing left of it School was over I had to go back to but a black spot on the ground. Ruby was still there when I came the city of Denver. Usually I stay up back to Denver from Oak Creek, but Bible School in the mountains for another summer two weeks later the Lord took her at Oak Creek Bible school for the children in the home to Heaven. After camp was over Mr. Kauffman little mining camp of Haybro. I was We are praying for Ruby's parents went back to Oak Creek to get ready sorry not to be able to do so this and her 1 s-year-old sister and her for summer Bible school there. Jeanne year. little seven-year-old brother; none of Swedberg and I went over a few days I was anxious to get back to the them are Christians yet. And espe­ later, as we planned to help with the city because of Ruby. Let me tell you cially for the baby, little Barbara, who school. This was the fifth year I have a little of her story. When Ruby was is nearly two years old, that she may helped with summer school at Oak a little girl she was not taken to be taught God's Word and to love Creek: two summers with the Rev. church and Sunday school, nor taught the Saviour. Would you young read­ and Mrs. Clarence W. Duff, next at home about the Saviour; her parents ers like to pray for little Barbara and with Mr. Bryce Senter, then with Dr. did not go to church either. While she the rest of Ruby's family, too? and Mrs. James B. Brown, and this was still very young, Ruby married a While I visited Ruby in the hospi­ year the Bible school was under the young man who did .not know the tal, I became acquainted with a num­ direction of Mr. Kauffman. Lord either. She became ill with a ber of other girls and women. There So you see after all this time I have very serious disease, tuberculosis. One are two, Artie and Reva, whom I call come to know and love the people in day our pastor's wife, Mrs. Male, "my girls" (grown-up girls). Neither Oak Creek, especially the children, called at a house where Ruby was, and of them have anyone to come to see Ut48 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 45

them, so I go as often as possible and on Saturday morning from ten to been attending Sunday school and try to pretend I am their mother. We ' eleven. We have a program all to­ church services, faithfully learning are having Bible study together-we gether for half an hour and then di­ more and more of God's Word. He is study the Shorter Catechism, and then vide into three classes for our Bible eighteen years old now and is pre­ the Bible to see what each question study. We are following the outline paring to become a minister of the means. There are others in the in the "Covenant Children's Cate­ gospel, though he has a good many women's ward at the hospital (all chumen Course" as far as possible. years of study still before him. But have tuberculosis) who want me to Do you study that at your church? although he is so young, he takes a come to their beds to talk and to pray Before I close this letter I want to very active part in the work of the

~ for them. Our Young People's Society introduce to you one more person church. He is choir director, Sunday holds a service in both the men's and whom I have met out here in Color­ school teacher and president of the t, -J the women's wards at that hospital ado.. His name is John Alexander. Young People's Society. one Sunday afternoon a month. When John was just a little boy, he He also frequently gives the gospel I go to 'another hospital once a and his younger brother and sister at­ message at the services which the week also. This one is the Children's tended a Bible class conducted by a young people conduct at the hospital Hospital and the little girl I go to see dear woman who is called Mabel and at the Denver Rescue Mission. is named Loralta; she is. twelve years Britten by old and young alike, though Recently John has been appointed to old and is being treated for a crooked she has gray hair (she has been teach­ assist the Superintendent of the Mis­ back. Her family live way out in the ing the Bible to children in little sion in the afternoons after school country on a farm and can't get to classes ever since she was a young girl and on Saturdays. see their little girl very often, but she herself). The class John attended was Do you see how the "living waters" has an aunt and cousins in Denver, held in a home-s-I believe for a while in flowing out from Mabel Britten's life and they con* to our church. Though John's own home-and it was through are going out into all the world? Loralta has had to have braces and that little Bible class that this whole May God make all of us channels operations and all sorts of unpleasant family became interested in the gos­ of His love and grace. things, and has to lie flat on her back pel. Since Mr. Male became pastor of Lovingly your friend, in bed all the time, she is always this church seven years ago, John has HARRIET Z. TEAL cheerful and seems happy and more contented than lots of little boys and girls I've known who were able to run about and play. And you should see The Life of Jesus ~hrist the things Loralta has learned to make -a pink yarn poodle dog with a bow A Home Study Course by the REV. LESLIEW. SLOAT on his neck, a stuffed brown horse with a red wool mane and tail, a pink LESSON 6 thus became His first two disciples. and blue woven pocketbook, a doll's One of them was named Andrew. It hammock, a braided belt and lots of The First Miracle of Jesus is generally agreed that the other was other nice things. She.was planning SCRIPTURE: John 1:35-2:11. the author of the fourth gospel, John to give these to her brothers and sis­ TRENGTHENED by the minis­ the son of Zebedee. This John was of ters and cousins as Christmas gifts. S trations of the angels, Jesus re­ course a different person from the When I go to see Loralta I give turned from the wilderness to the Baptist. her Bible verses to learn-we are mak­ scene of His baptism. One day as He The following morning Andrew ing an alphabet of verses now-and was passing, John the Baptist saw went and found his brother Simon when she has learned one she gets a Him. Turning to the crowd John said: Peter and told him quite bluntly, "We star. For a certain number of verses "Behold, the Lamb of God that tak­ have found the Messiah." Simon came learned, she receives a prize. We also eth away the sin of the world." And to Jesus and was given the name of have Bible stories and other stories. then John went on to say that Jesus Cephas (in Hebrew) or Peter (in One time lately I took a lot of papers was the one about whom he had pre­ Greek). The following day two more from our Sunday school, with pictures viously spoken, as coming after him. men joined the disciple group, Philip to color and stories to read, so Loralta And he referred to the sign he had and Nathanael. The conversation be­ and I shared them with all the little seen, the descent of the Holy Spirit, tween Jesus and Nathanael, when girls in the, ward. Will you pray with as establishing that Jesus was the one they met, is interesting. Nathanael, me that this little girl may come to who would baptize with the Holy who at first doubted, seems to have give her heart to Jesus? And then Spirit and who was to be considered, been convinced by his interview, and from her life, even as she lies there therefore, as the Messiah. Jesus used the occasion to make a in the hospital, the "living waters" The day after this, John again saw prophetic remark concerning their can flow out to bless other lives. Jesus, and once more referred to Him seeing angels "ascending and descend­ as "The Lamb of God." Two of John's ing upon the Son of Man." Winter Bible School in Denver disciples heard the words and followed With these five disciples, Jesus now I want to tell you about the winter Jesus. He turned to them and asked returned north to His home country. Bible school at our church. This year what they wanted, and they replied, In some way He received an invitation instead of having it on a week-day perhaps in some confusion, asking to a wedding feast at a village of Cana, afternoon, after school, as we have where He was living. He invited them near Nazareth. His mother was al­ always done before, we are holding it to come and see. They did so, and ready there, and He went with His 48 THE PRESBYTEaIAN GUARDIAN February 10 disciples. For some reason not told us, the good wine until the latter part of wedding feast. Jesus did not give any . either because of the poverty of the the festivities. All of this had taken encouragement to those who think host family, or because of the addition place so quietly and unobtrusively that our Christian life should be a sort of of a larger number of guests than ex­ no one save the servants and disciples ascetic affair, with no joyful social oc­ pected, the supply of wine for drink­ knew what had happened. But what "casions. Jesus was serious about the ing purposes failed. In a land where had happened was simply that Jesus business of living. But He did not the water supply was very poor, and had performed the first of many mir­ hesitate to enjoy social fellowship. He where wine was the usual drink, lack acles. By the divine power which was asks only that our social times shall of wine would be not only embar­ His as the Son of God, He had not interfere with our serious business, rassing but definitely unfortunate at a brought about in the external world and that they shall be such as He social event where a large number of an event which normally would. have Himself might enjoy attending. people were together for an extended required time and numerous inter­ period of time. These wedding feasts vening agencies. And by it He had, QUESTIONS ON LESSON 6 might last for a week, and the failure for those who knew of it, given wit­ Detail Questions of the drinking supply was most in­ ness that He was the Son of God, the 1. Who were the first disciples of convenient. Messiah of Israel. Jesus? How did they come to fol­ Jesus' mother, who seems to have The author of the fourth Gospel low Him? 1 had some responsibility in the arrange­ tells us that by this sign Jesus mani­ 2. What is the significance of the ments, came to Jesus and told Him .of fested His glory, and in consequence description of Jesus as the the situation. Jesus appears to have of it His disciples believed on Him. "Lamb of God"? 3. What is a miracle? What was I read in her remark to Him a deeper By the term "glory" we mean that suggestion, that here was an oppor­ which exhibits and suggests the at­ the first miracle that Jesus per- tunity for Him to do something that tributes of a person. And the glory of formed? .. might indicate His true nature. He God is that which exhibits and sug­ 4. Locate Cana on t1le map. How answered her in words that seem to gests the attributes of God. Jesus in far is it from Nazareth? What us unnecessarily abrupt: "Woman, performing this miracle was exhibit­ body of water is it near? what have I to do with thee? Mine ing the almighty power of God, who Discussion Questions hour is not yet come." The term by the simple word of His power 1. Do you think Mary knew Jesus "Woman" was not unusual, however, brings to pass the desired result. was able to work miracles? for Jesus used it when speaking to her Thus far the disciples had followed 2. Jesus was not willing to make a from the Cross. But His reply defi­ Jesus largely on the basis of the testi­ stone into bread during the nitely rebukes a desire He read in her mony of John, and of the impression temptation. Why then was He question, that He openly manifest Jesus made on-them through His per­ willing to provide wine here at Himself at this time as the Messiah. sonality. Now they had something a wedding feast? His mother of course remembered the more tangible. They had a specific act 3. When it is said that His dis­ miracle of His birth, and it is possible of divine power. They had a new ciples believed on Him, do you she and He may have talked often of basis for their confidence in Him. And think this was saving faith as we His work. Moreover John the Baptist so it is that John says that the dis­ know it, or some lesser degree of had begun his ministry, and she doubt­ ciples believed in Him. confidence? less knew that Jesus had gone to see Jesus had come to earth to be the 4. Are social gatherings which you him, though whether she knew the Saviour of sinners. The channel attend such as you would be glad whole story is not certain. And for through which such salvation would to have Jesus attend? If not, how some reason she may have seen in the be received by men and women was can they be made such? present circumstance an opportunity their believing or trusting in Jesus. It 5. The Roman Catholic Church for Him in some sensational fashion was necessary that He Himself should worships Mary,. and thinks she to reveal Himself. provide sufficient ground for that can intercede with Jesus on be­ Although Jesus rebukes a presump­ faith. He became finally and perfectly half of those who pray to her. tion on the part of His mother to sug­ the object of saving faith when He Do you think that idea is sup­ gest to Him times and seasons, He had completed the redemptive work potted by. the account of this does not definitely refuse her request. on the cross, and had risen from the first miracle? Give reasons. She told the servants to do whatever dead. But before that took place, He 6. Give a brief account of the life He asked them. And He told them to provided other and likewise sufficient of Jesus from His birth to the fill up some large water pots, standing ground for men's faith through the time of his first miracle. near, with water. The pots together evidences He gave of His own deity. held perhaps one hundred and twenty And the chief evidences of this that gallons. They usually held the supply He gave were His miracles. John calls Oliver of water that was used for washing and them "signs." And he says at the end (Concluded From Page 38) general household purposes. When of his Gospel that these signs were the jars had been filled, Jesus told the written that men might believe that pians when he tells them, "I have you servants to draw out the water and Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, in my heart"; nor is there a mixture or bring it to the ruler of the feast. and that believing, they might have the Holy Spirit and the soul of the When he took some and drank it, he life through His name. Christian. Nevertheless, there is a real, found that it was very good wine, and We might remark that Jesus per­ true union of the Lord Jesus Christ commended the host on having kept formed this first of His miracles at a and every child of God. Without this 1946 THE PBESBYTE.IAN GUABDIAN~

union, no one may be a Christian. As But, what are these when compared ground of these high thoughts, Job is an automobile will not run without a with our divinely energized souls, led to perceive his unhappy reflections motor, so a sinner cannot live unless temples of the Holy Ghost, filled with against God. When tempted to ques­ he has Christ dwelling within him. a power not of ourselves and of the tion His providence, think on these The life of God must flow unto and world but of heaven and of God?" things and rather glorify the Name of through His people. Let us look at the apostles, Peter the Lord your God! Let the false teachers raise their and John, as they stand before the 23RD. JOB 35 (14) voices, says John, but let not the little Sanhedrin, at Martin Luther before Elihu comes to \ grips with Job's children of Christ be moved. Let the the Diet of Worms, at Ridley and arguments and answers them. In effect people of God be a Mount Zion Cranmer, at Machen, and we see little Job had cried, How long shall God which shall never be moved because it children of God who overcame the hide His face from me? How easy to is fortified from within. This is indeed world, for greater is He that was in a comforting thought, that in these them than he that is in the world. days when the spirit of antichristis "Did we in our own strength confide, among us, when within and without Our striving would be losing; the professing church there are those I.i Were not the right man on our side, \ who deny the deity of the Lord Jesus The man of God's own choosing." Christ, His atoning death for sin, His bodily resurrection, His kingship over the church and the world, we who trust in God may rejoice in -our posi­ tion. We who are members of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church may be timid about speaking out against this manifest unbelief, for those who deny the true doctrine today hold TheProhlem Of Suffering prominent places of leadership in the FEB. 20TH. JOB 32 (zb, 3)* CHRISTIAN OPINION great ecclesiastical bodies of our na­ ITHERTO Elihu, the youngest, ROOM 1106, 95 LIBERTY ST. tion. But let us not hold our tongues. H had not spoken, in deference to Weare' of God, and have overcome . the age of his companions. But his NEW YORK, N. Y• them, for greater is he that is in us anger was kindled by a twofold fire: than he that is in the world. Little Order one or more copies of the Job had justified himself at the ex­ special issue on The Color Problem. children of Christ, insignificant in the pense of God's moral government; and Seven articles setting forth what eyes of the world, must raise their the other three had condemned Job is believed to be the Reformed voices against unbelief. Christians are without mercy or cause. It is a sinful position on inter-race relations. like the back-waters of a great dam. In thing to question God's providential (Price: 50 cents per cony) the comparatively small plant at the rule. It is likewise sinful to break the foot of the dam, there is little to sug­ second table of the law by unjust § gest the power that moves the tur­ criticism and condemnation. Balance Your Budget bines. But it is only the principle of 21ST. JOB 33:1-18 (4) MUlions of the old water mill applied on a grander Acknowledging that his life comes scale; By harnessing tons and tons of from the hand of God, declaring that SUNFLOWER DISH CLOTHS water, men have secured for them- have been sold by individuals and groups God is greater than man, Elihu tells who needed more cash. Finest Quality