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A MONTHLY The Soul's Deep Need An Editorial Buchmanism An Evaluation The Joseph Story Thomas Mann's Classic New Musical Trends Church and School Choirs Theodore Beza Calvin's Successor Art, Truth, and Beauty Calvinistic Aesthetics Letters Reviews News Index Verse Vol. IV, No. 11-12 June-July, 1939 Two Dollars a Year 242 The CALVIN FORUM June-July, 1939 (ffe CALVIN FORUM PUBLISHED BY THE CALVIN FORUM BOARD OF PUBLICATION: EDITORIAL COMMITTEE CLARENCE BOUMA, Managing Editor HENRY J. RYSKAMP JACOB G. VANDEN BOSCH HENRY SCHULTZE HENRY J. VAN ANDEL CALVIN FORUM CORRESPONDENTS s. LEIGH HUNT (London) JOHN G. VAN DYKE (U.S. News) P. PRINS (Netherlands) WM. CHILDS ROBINSON (Presbyterian) J. CHR. CoETZEE, (South Africa) PETER VAN TUINEN (Boston) G. J. PENNINGS (Arabia) JACOB T. HoOGSTRA (New Yo1·k) STUART BERGSMA (Northern India) MARCELLUS WEERSING (Georgia) ARTHUR v. RAMIAH (South India) MARK FAKKEMA (Chicago) HARRY A. 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CONTENTS---Vol.IV, No.11-12, JUNE-JULY, 1939 EDITORIALS Can Science Save Us?.-------------------------------------------------------------------------·--···-··---------·--··· 243 The Soul's Deep Need ... ---··----------------·--·--·-------·-····-·-·-···----··--·---·--------··-·····-·-----··----·-·--· 240 The Torch of Liberty Still burns...................................... -------········----··--····--------·--···- 244 Hyphenated Americanism Must Cease .... ------------·---··------·-----------·--·-------····-·-·----------· 244 To the Cambridge Conference·-········--·------------·-·--------·--··---··-----------·····----·-···--------------· 245 Looking Forward ···-····-··-···---··-··-----·-·-----·-·----··--·--···-··--···-----····---------··-------····-·-----------· 245 ARTICLES • - _, I What is Wrong with Buchmanism? By Henry J. Triezenberg.......................... 246 Children's Day -·-····-----····----···---·····--········---·········---·-----················-··-------·--·-----····--·-------- 249 St. John and Greek 1nw1lectual1s1n. By Jesse De Boer........................................ 250 Thomas Mann's Joseph Story. By Bastian Kruithof.. ·-------·-·-------------·······-··-------- 251 New Musical Trends. Church Choirs and School Chon·s. i:;y Henry J. Van Andel. ... ----·-----------·--····------···--·--··--····--·····------·-····--····--···--···--·--········------------·-· 253 Theodore Beza (1519-1605). Associate and Succe;;sor of Calvin. By D. H. Kromminga...................................................................................................... 254 Fourth or Force of July?.. .......................................................................................... 255 Art, Truth, and Beauty. By Cornelius Van ZwolL .............. ________________________________ 256 FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS From Seattle and the Northwest.. .............................................................................. 260 From Philadelphia and New York. _____________________________________________________________________________ 260 The Reformation at Fontenelle.................................................................................. 260 Hungarian-American Relations .................................................................................. 261 Calvinistic Educational Conventio1i... ......................................................................... 262 The Near East and Islam........................................................................................... 263 From the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly.............................................. 264 More About Early Man ................................................................................................ 264 BOOKS REVIEWED Pastoral Psychiatry .......................................... -----------------··--·----·-···-·-·----------------------· 265 The Plymouth Brethren............... ·--·--·----······---·-····---·---·-········----··············----····--·----------- 265 ~:t:r~b~~t.:~,·~~~·••••••···•••••••••••••••·····•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••·••••····••••••••••••••·•••b~e H~1::;_~;~:::i ~~'.~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. m~~~ Christian Education in South Africa ............................................. ___________________________ 268 Modern Education ·-----------------------···-----·------------------------------------------------------------------------- 268 VERSE "If Ye Abide in Me"... ·----------------------------------·------------------------------------------------------------- 249 I Know -----------------------------·------·--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 250 ~f!s~~~~~ AC~nf'r~~~~~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~~~ NEWS AND COMMENTS ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 269 INDEX to Fourth Volume ..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------·---·----------- 271 We CALVIN FORUM VOLUME IV GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., JUNE-JULY, 1939 NUMBER 11-12 EDITORIALS of 100 miles per hour? When will Americans grow Can Science up to know the difference-and what a difference Save Us? it isl-between fun and joy, between amusement and happiness, between physical comfort and spirit- HAVE just finished reading and viewing the ual satisfaction? C. B. I picture of "America's Future" and "The Ameri can Destiny" as Life's editors and photographers, together with Walter Lippmann as their seer and prophet, have etched it for the benefit of their mil The Soul's lions of American readers. It is supposed to be a Deep Need picture of achievement, of aspiration, of hope and enthusiasm, of courage to face the future. Some J LOOK again upon Life's kaleidoscopic "Portrait how it has left me sad, inexpressibly sad. of America, 1939." This colorful panorama of Of course, there is much in this cross section of our continent from Atlantic to Pacific is deeply sig American life in 1939 and, by way of projection, in nificant. Here are ocean liners, sky scrapers, steel 1960 that one desires to appreciate. Who would works, oil derricks, radio towers, stock yards, har think lightly of the development of the natural re vesting machines, trailers, speeding autos, football sources of the great Northwest? Who would care stadiums, race tracks, Hollywood stars, railroads, to underestimate the progress made in the field of aeroplanes, gas stations, bathing beaches, university applied science? Who would care to deny that the buildings, world expositions, tunnels, mountains, projected picture of America in 1960 presents us farms, cowboys, silos, grain elevators, cattle ranches, with a number of interesting improvements in the pleasure yachts. And then, tucked away in one of field of transportation, building construction, and the Southern states and partly hid behind a New the like? And who that has carefully studied the England hill, you see a church steeple. That church two dozen still pictures of "the evolution of U. S. steeple once dominated the American scene, when urban living" is not impressed with the faithful por our country was still in its infancy. Today it is trayal of the actual transformation that has taken overtopped by sky scrapers, smoke stacks, and oil place on this score? It is not to this that one obiects derricks. And, what is infinitely worse, the church and all it stands for has been largely crowded out or would demur. v But all this turns into downright tragedy when of the American mind by the things that strike the one reads of the significance, meaning, and value eye, by the comforts of the body, by the pleasures ascribed to these actual or projected facts. It is the of life, by the accomplishments of applied science. "American" philosophy of life reflected unmistak Our Lord's Days dedicated to worship have become ably in this special edition of Life which fills one week-ends devoted to carnal pleasure. with deep disappointment. Here is a eulogy, in That, it would appear, is our fundamental malady. word and picture, of the religion of science. Here We have put God out of the picture. We have is the glorification of technical, scientific progress as thrust religion into a position of insignificance. We the great end of human living. Here is scientific, have treated the church with condescension and naturalistic Humanism presented enthusiastically pity, if we have not completely ignored it. We have as man's only hope for the future-as his religion, travelled the way from Puritanism to Pragmatism. as the ultimate philosophy of life. We have thrust God out and placed ourselves on No, I would not discredit science. Both pure and the throne of our lives. That is America's sickness applied "science" have their proper place in human and-unless God intervene-it will prove a sickness