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'!He ~~1Atfut- GUARDIAN '!he ~~1atfut- GUARDIAN Contents Meditations in Luke By EDWARD WYBENGA Why Are We Opposed to the NCC? By ROBERT L. VINING A Good Name By ROBERT H. GRAHAM OCTOBER 7, 1935 Aunt Polly's Letter ~~~:b lJt~r1 tin Poetry ,lJilt-d-itin Editorials a .... ...... .. " Form of Government ml1 PRAYER Christ, 9i~e me strength to ,t.nd for Thy dUt N...... Tuientu-tioe Years Ago Fo. 01 the glo.y of Thy Written Word, In 'pif. of jUri or l."9hter, ""•• ';"9 bl._, Or light indifference of mind. uM'ilTed. Thine il the battle.l.m but .. br..th. T.~••11 the honor. fOil' the .1..."".. 011 me. Nerve Thou my erm. end WI' my ...... till ...... Whick hour .lone will HIt the.oIdi.r '",e. De., lord ond Christ. Tholl pe.dOfled I;n.....' Friend, Who ont.... ctOH h.st borne my 1••dof guilt. Howc:ouId I poyTh_for Thy mot<;hleu grece1 Yet give .... fhi.: To •• rve The-e 0' Thou wilt, Until the .nd.---Ilnk.r.d, triumphant ."d, When t.er-climmed ey" th•• 'H'upon Thy F"e. K.l.W. VOLUME 29, NO. 10 D .. II " """ .. .. .. .. .... D OCTOBER, 1960 TME PRESBYTERIAN (ONSTITUTIONAL (OVENANT UNiON Studies and Meditations in the Gospel of Luke The Book and Its Author By EWARD WYBENGA he Gospel of Luke has been Luke shows Christ to be the ideal probably a distinguished Roman or T called "the most beautiful book man, the perfect man, a man of fear­ Greek who had been converted to the in the world." If that be true (and less courage in the face of all oppo­ Christian Faith, and who wished to few would wish to dispute it), then sition, a man of unswerving loyalty have a full and accurate account of we do well to make a study of this to duty. He had no fear of his ene­ the ministry of Jesus. To meet this wonderful book. mies; and he could not be drawn need and desire the evangelist, Luke, Who Was Luke? aside from following the way that now sets himself the task of writing The apostle Paul calls him "the led to the cross. He was also a man the Gospel that bears his name (cp. beloved physician." He was loved by of boundless love, compassion, and Acts 1:1). all, a man of culture and learning. tenderness toward the needy, the And thus we too are reassured that A Gentile by birth, he was a proselyte suffering, the sinful, the lost. our Christian beliefs are founded upon to the Jewish faith. He was a com­ He was further a man of invincible historical facts which can not be dis­ panion of the apostle Paul in his faith in God. He lived in constant proved. We should be thankful to missionary journeys. But Luke was fellowship with the Father and spent God for the solid ground upon which not an eye-witness of Jesus, nor him­ much time in prayer. Already as a our salvation rests; and for God's care self an apostle. As a writer Luke was boy he said: "I must be about my in preserving a record of these facts a careful and accurate historian. He Father's business" (2 :49). And at the in permanent form for future genera­ is the author of both The Third close of his life he said: "Father, into tions to read even until the end of Gospel and The Book of Acts. thy hands I commend my spirit" time. (23 :46). Luke has done the church a service Authenticity of Luke's Gospel Luke not only portrays Christ as of inestimable value; and the world, Proofs for the authenticity of Luke the ideal and perfect man but also too, for a lost world needs this may be adduced from the following as the divine Saviour of the world. Saviour whom Luke so strikingly por­ facts. The Gospel of Luke was re­ The gospel is the good news of salva­ trays, and needs this gospel which ceived by all the churches as divinely tion. That salvation was procured by Luke so clearly sets forth. And we inspired. The book was published the life and ministry, by the death and need it also. The old, old story is during the lifetime of Peter, John, resurrection of Jesus. Thus Luke sets ever new to those who have learned and Paul, and was approved by them. forth Jesus as the Son of God who to know it and love it. May it be It bears the marks of inspiration by its offers salvation to all who will receive that to us! elevated character. It is an indepen­ it in humble repentance and true dent treatise of the life of Jesus, yet faith. it does not contradict the other And now let us enter upon a study Here is the first of a series of medi­ Gospels. of the Gospel itself. Turn with me tations based on the Third Gospel to chapter one. prepared by the pastor of the West­ Characteristics of this Gospel minster Orthodox Presbyterian Church The book has a beauty of literary The Preface - 1:1-4 of Bend, Oregon. style that has not been surpassed. It Many persons had written this and is intensely human, a story of real life that about Jesus' teachings and min­ Forasmuch as many have taken in with its joys and sorrows, its songs istry - things they had heard from and tears, its praise and prayer. It is hand to set forth in order a declara­ others who had been with Jesus. Luke tion of those things which are most a book of universal interest because had made a careful study of these it appeals to the needs and longings surely believed among us, even as detached sayings or fragments of in­ they delivered them unto us, which of the human heart everywhere. formation. It was his intention now from the beginning were eye-wit­ Luke's Portraits of Jesus to write a complete and full and nesses, and ministers of the word; Matthew portrays Jesus in his trustworthy narrative of the life of it seemed good to me also, having majesty; Mark, in his vigor; John, in Christ. had perfect understanding of all his sublimity; Luke, in his beauty ­ This writing of Luke was directed things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent four different portraits which, when to Theophilus, a friend of Luke, and Theophilus, that thou mightest know blended together, give us the com­ a man of high rank and office for he the certainty of those things, wherein plete man, the Son of God, the only is honored with the title "most ex­ thou hast been instructed (Luke Saviour of the world. cellent" or "most noble." He was 1:1-4). The Presbyterian Guardian is published monthly by the Presbyterian Guardian Publishing Corporation, 7401 Old York Road, Philadelphia 26, Po., at the following rates, payable in advance in any part of the world, postage prepaid: $3.00 per year ($2.50 in Clubs of ten or more); $1.00 for four months; 25c per single copy. Second Class mail privileges authorized at the Pas' Office, Philadelphia, Po. 146 The Presbyterian Guardian Why Are We Opposed to the National [ouncil of [hurches • By ROBERT L. VINING At the present time the NCC claims modernist-an individual without pre­ to be composed of 33 member de­ existence, incarnation, and virgin T the triennial meeting of the Na­ nominations with some 38,000,000 birth? Is it the mythical Christ of A tional Council of the Churches members. Bultmann-s-a person stripped of all of Christ in America, held in St. The Council claims that it is con­ supernaturalism? Is it the synthetic Louis, Mo., in early December, 1957, trolled by its member churches, whose Christ of Professor John Knox-a the Rev. Dr. Roy G. Ross, one of the representatives come together trien­ man whom the community elevated General Secretaries, acknowledged in nially in the General Assembly and to a symbol? Is it the metamorphosed his report on the State of the Council, three times yearly in the General Christ of Tillich - a human person that "most of the people of America, Board. In actual practice, a well­ who became divine? Or is it the Christ including the members of our church­ entrenched bureaucracy wields signifi­ revealed in Scriptures-the second per­ es, know little about the National cant influence in formulating the NCC son of the Trinity, God-incarnate, Son Council and its role within the orbit policies and in carrying them out. of the living God, virgin born, Head of the Protestant and Orthodox While we are opposed to the NCC of the Church, and Lord of the na­ Churches" (1957 Triennial Report, p. because of its manifestations of paci­ tions? What Christ will receive the 15). If most of the people belonging fism, socialism and softness on Com­ pre-eminence in the ecumenical move­ to member churches in the National munism, our basic criticism of the ment?" (Ecumenism and the Evan­ Council of Churches are largely ig­ NCC is in the realm of doctrine. It gelical, p. 11). norant of it then it is reasonable to has a doctrinal basis so weak as to be Liberals prefer to have any doc­ believe that Christians in Bible-believ­ practically meaningless. The Preamble trinal statement brief and ambiguous. ing denominations, not affiliated with to its Constitution states: "IN THE Thus all shades of theological belief the National Council, are even less in­ PROVIDENCE OF GOD, the time (and unbelief) may take shelter under formed concerning it.
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