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lJ. c8)resbam :matben ~bitor t 936= t 937 l::I a 1! 11. One Year-$1.50 ilia Published Twice Each Month-Ten Cents a Copy Eight Months-$1.00 EDITORIAL COUNCIL 1505 Rac:e Street John P. Clelland John Patton Galbraith R. B. Kuiper Thomas R. Birc:h Philadelphia, Penna. Edwin H. Rlan Leslie W. Sloat Managing Editor Can Christianity Face the Crisis? By W. STANFORD REID, Ph.D. Westminster Theological Seminary. Class of 1937

IF ONE could take his stand today upon a high tower things. The laws which God established in the universe which overlooks the whole world, wherever he might have been laughed out of court, while man believes look he would see smoke rising: either the smoke of himself to be the victim of a whirling maelstrom which preparation for war, the smoke of battle, or the smoke takes him nowhere, except downward to his death. of cities and homes devastated by bombs and shells. East or west, north or south, to whatever point he The Origin of the Crisis might turn, there would be traces of war, and he would We cannot understand this situation, however, un­ probably descend from his vantage point with a heavy less we understand its roots. So we must turn back the heart, believing that the world of man is as close to pages of history to discover, if we can, the reasons for destruction today as it has been since the days of Noah. and the causes of this terrible blight which has fallen It is this situation which we face, and must face today upon the soul of man. In this waywe may be better no matter which way we turn, for we have reached a able to find some means of meeting and solving the crisis in the history of our race, and to its resulting problems which face us today. problems Christians must prepare to address themselves When we look back some two thousand years, we in the very near future. find that at the time of the apostolic church there were We must beware, however, that we do not gain the current throughout the world, in addition to Christi­ idea that the present war is the crisis, nor that it is the anity, pagan world- and life-views which were based, not most essential part of it. God in His providence governs on special revelation, but upon the work of unaided the world through many lines of development, and no human reason. The most important and most dom­ single event nor series of events is the ultimate explana­ inant of these philosophies with which Christianity tion of any historical movement. Therefore, when we came into contact was Stoicism, the roots of which look at the present struggle in Europe, let us realize went back into the thought of Aristotle and Plato. that it is but the manifestation of something which is Although the Stoics had at first emphasized the dignity not limited merely to Germany or France, nor even to of man and of natural law, having virtually ruled God the eastern hemisphere. It is the result of a universal out of the universe, they at length came to deny all law, disease: an irrationalism which has laid its grip upon and to accept life as entirely meaningless. In this they all thought and action of men throughout the civilized were by no means alone. Other philosophies of various world. Chance is now regarded as the governor of all brands had come to the same conclusion, and despair

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was spreading throughout the intel­ same views of man and creation. not but lead to a complete denial of lectual world of the Roman Empire. Therefore, men began to declare that the sovereignty of God, and to an ex­ Therefore, to this world, Christianity God's revelation was one source of altation of man as the master and came as a God-breathed revival of truth and human reason another. only interpreter of reality. Such faith, for it brought both the news of They might even contradict each "pagan humanism," which claimed redemption through Jesus Christ and other, but they were at the same time that humanly-discovered truth was an insistence upon the sovereign equally true. God revealed that one alone true, was the dominant note of power of God over creation. By this thing was true; Aristotle said the op­ the Renaissance. means, the idea of law and the inter­ posite. Therefore, both positions were In opposition both to those who pretation of creation were given to correct. would fuse Christianity and pagan the world as something established by Such a concept as this could not be philosophy and to those who set up God, the creator. held for any length of time. Men the human intellect as the final judge But in spite of man's need for the either had to serve God or serve man; of all truth, there were men who de­ gospel of grace, many were not willing they could not serve both, especially clared that God's revelation in the to accept its demand that man submit when they were mutually contradic­ Scriptures was the only true and final to God in humble dependence upon tory. Some men, therefore, turned interpretation of the universe. These Him for salvation and for the true away from revelation in the belief men taught that the only ultimate interpretation of the universe. The re­ that, after all, the human reason was truth was in the Scriptures, to which sult was opposition. There were, first the final authority. To support them reason must conform or be rejected as of all, persecutions by those who re­ in their view there came at this time false. This was the contention of fused to submit; but as that ac­ a considerable increase in human Wycliffe, Huss and others who, by complished little, Satan tried his next knowledge of the universe. Men began their insistence on the sovereignty of weapon-heresy. Paganism first tried to make discoveries in the material God, began the battle which eventu­ to destroy faith in the humanity and world, which only increased their ally brought about a breach both with divinity of Christ. When that failed, self-confidence. But what was of equal Rome and the Renaissance, in order the doctrines of grace were attacked, importance and effect, new documents that man might acknowledge God's Augustine's predestinarianism being and manuscripts of classical antiquity place in the universe. rejected in favor of his doctrine of the were being resurrected. Men began to church. This resulted in such a per­ delve deeper and deeper into Greek The Reformation version of Scriptural teaching that it thought, with the result that they When the great religious revolution was, to a large extent, responsible for were completely overcome by the finally took place, Luther, Zwingli and the development of the medieval grandeur of the capabilities of men's Calvin all asserted the absolute au­ papacy and the idea of the church as minds. This proved their contention, thority of the Scriptures and the the repository of grace which man they felt, that human rationality was sovereignty of God over all men and could take or reject as he pleased. to be the final test of truth. There­ nature. Yet even here there was the These tendencieswere further strength fore, Christianity and the Scriptures danger of compromise, for Luther de­ ened by an attempt to reconcile the must submit to human wisdom, with sired to retain all those practices of the pagan humanistic teachings of the which they must agree or be rejected medireval church which he could not Greek philosophers, such as Plato as impossible and false. This could find explicitly forbidden in Scripture. and Aristotle, with Christian doctrine. This meant that his testimony to the Reason, unaided by grace, it was said, pure gospel was, to a certain extent, taught certain things; revelation weakened. Calvin, on the other hand, taught others. Thus, since all truth TABLE OF CONTENTS maintained the principle that God's was contained in these two categories, Word alone must be regarded as our Aristotle and Christianity were com­ August. 1941 guide, and thus all things must be pletely reconcilable, and could be brought under His authority. This united in one great system. Can Christianity Face the Crisis? 33 view of life, temporarily driving pa­ W. Stanford Reid ganism under cover in certain quarters, An Impossible Compromise Praise Amid Peril in the Far East 35 spread rapidly over Switzerland, This unnatural union, however, did Bruce F. Hunt France, The Netherlands, western not exist for long. It was soon found Faith at Pittsgrove 36 Germany, Scotland, and even Eng­ that Greek and Roman philosophy, Robert S. Marsden land. Christianity in its fullness, with­ which started with a belief in the out the influence of pagan thought, ability of man to understand all Cutting the Gordian Knot 37 began to dominate the scene and it things, did not agree with the Chris­ John C. Hills. Jr., and William E. Welmers looked as though, for the first time in tian view of man as not only finite but Prayer 39 history, a truly Christian world- and also sinful, and therefore In need of John H. Skilton life-view would be spread throughout salvation. The attempt at compromise at least the western half of Europe. failed, for men found that purely Editorial 41 This was particularly true in the human, unregenerate reason and the Today in the Religious World .,. 46 field of politics. Wherever Calvinism Scriptures did not really teach the Thomas R. Birch (Please Turn to Page 42)

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.... - 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 35 Praise Amid Peril in the Far East By the REV. BRUCE F. HUNT • Orthodox Presbyterian Missionary to Manchukuo Weare troubled on every side, yet not age, teaches Bible twice a week to the average attendance, since my last visit, distressed; we are perplexed, but not in lame, halt, and blind Koreans in the of 450; the Harbin figures bring this despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast charity ward of the city hospital, close to five hundred. Including the down, but not destroyed (II Cor. 4: 8,9) . teaches Bible twice a week to the Harbin figures, during the spring, I N TUESDAY, April 29th, I children in the city poor-house (the have baptized forty-one adults and O arrived home from my sixth adults have recently begun to show nine infants, and admitted five to the country trip since February Sth, hav­ an interest also), and makes a trip communion who were baptized in in­ ing spent a total of forty-four days once a month to the group at Chu fancy. Twenty-six were examined and among the country churches. I started Yuan Ch'ang (the first country com­ taken in as catechumens. Forty-one out on a seventh trip, but came back munity I visited after coming to baptized persons were received into when I was informed at the bus sta­ Harbin). The work at Chu Yuan communicant membership upon their tion, an hour and a half by train Ch'ang, which has always seemed acceptance of the covenant. And the from Harbin, that parts of the road just on the verge of getting started, financial report of the twenty-one which I must traverse on a two-day really seems to be progressing now, groups, including Harbin, for the past trip to reach my destination were and the helper's regular visits have year is equally encouraging. buried a couple of feet under water given them great encouragement. He This report shows that we are not by the melting snow and would not also leads services in the city as op­ distressed, that though perplexed, it be passable for more than a week. Ex­ portunity and necessity demand, and has not been unto despair, that we cept for the two out-of-the-way places is doing well among the children. have not been forsaken or destroyed, on this bus line, which I still intend Having him here helps me to get my that, on the contrary, the work has to visit, I have been able already this growing Korean correspondence an­ leaped forward beyond what it had spring to visit all of the groups for swered in reasonably prompt order, been in any previous year. which I am responsible that hold and he does countless errands-a true Since my last quarterly report we regular meetings. There is a district evangelistic helper. have been saddened by the imprison­ north of Tsitsihar, to which I have These new helpers give evidence of ment again of our local evangelist and made several trips, where there are in­ the progress in establishing the work the one, mentioned above, imprisoned dividual Christians in good-sized more solidly, and promise much for in Korea. Our local evangelist was Korean communities, but no groups the future growth of the work. Word not yet well from the hardships en­ as yet. There are also localities near has just come that one of the evan­ dured during his last imprisonment, Harbin which I hope to visit. gelists on native pay has recently been when he was taken again. On the Altogether this spring I have visited imprisoned in Korea, where he had other hand, we have been greatly re­ twenty groups which hold regular gone on a trip. Including the one in joiced by the uncompromised release meetings. They show steady growth the city here, that means that two of the three laymen and Mrs. Byram's since my last visit. In the southeast of those on native pay are in prison, Bible woman. The latter was in a field, which took on a Bible woman besides the Bible woman in our em­ terrible condition but, we rejoice to last fall, an additional evangelist was ploy who is still behind bars. But say, is making a steady though slow employed this spring, making three we feel that they are preaching where recovery. We have been saddened by full-time workers on native pay in that they are, as much, if not more, than the expulsion from their land and field alone; with the one in Harbin if they were free. homes of some of our people because and one in the northeast, there are In examining the records of the of their Christian stand, but we re­ five full-time workers on native pay. churches which I visited I found 687 joice that they have been led to Two small groups on the railroad names (children and adults) on the placeswhere their witness has strength­ southwest of here, in addition to rent­ rolls of the twenty groups; adding ened weak groups. We have been sad­ ing places of meeting last fall, em­ those in Harbin it comes to well over dened by the threats which have ployed an evangelistbetween them for seven hundred. The rolls show an caused fear and the consequent fall­ one month this spring, and are look­ ing off in the numbers of those meet­ ing forward to employing one perma­ ing in some of our groups, but we are nently in the near future. Another rejoiced to see the strengthening of group, northeast of here, only a year Libraries the faith of those who, having been old, employed the same evangelist FIFTY-THREE public libraries so tried, have nevertheless continued. During our spring work, we have for a month. now receive The Presbyte­ Recently I have taken on as a helper been threatened with assassinationand one of the voung men. who studied rian Guardian regularly. Have imprisonment. We have been urged in our Bible Institute, and have you sent your contribution to by friend and foe to leave the coun­ found himimost satisfactory. He the Library Fund? try. We have been followed by the teaches Japanese six hours a week to police and have been called before the children in the Russian orphan- them. We have seen some of our 36 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN August

people put out of houses and lands, and others forced to leave school and Faith, at Pittsgrove jobs, for Christ's sake. We have seen some of our workers imprisoned and By the REV. ROBERT S. MARSDEN others called before the authorities General Secretary of the Mission Committees of and threatened. One of our former The Orthodox Presbyterian Church missionary colleagues in Korea and a fellow station member of his are serv­ ing prison sentences in Korea, and ITTSGROVE, New Jersey, is but The group was constituted as a Mrs. Hunt's uncle was in the hands Pa crossroads, nearly equidistant church on October 12, 1936, and was of the authorities for nearly two from Woodstown and Elmer; it is cer­ admitted to the Presbytery of New weeks. Another missionary lady in tainly not a place where one might Jersey. A Sunday school was organized Korea whom my wife and I have expect to find a flourishing church. and, in due time, a missionary society known from childhood has just been The organization of a church at such and a senior and a junior Machen released after spending a month be­ a spot violates most of the best­ League. Under the leadership of Mr. hind bars, and others there have had established tenets of church manage­ Cooper the congregation has grown their houses searched and their free­ ment: it is not at a center of popula­ until it now has fifty-two comrnu­ dom curtailed. We have seen many tion, nor was there a sizable group of ni:ant members and a Sunday school of our British, American and Russian people interested in its organization WIth an enrollment of sixty-five. Four neighbors, business folk and mission­ from the beginning. Yet within five able elders have been elected and they aries, leaving singly and in groups. Yes, years a good congregation has been have done much to strengthen the "we are troubled on every side, yet not built up and the people of the Faith testimony of the church. distressed; we are perplexed, but not Orthodox Presbyterian Church of The congregation has adopted plans in despair; persecuted, but not for­ Pittsgrove have begun the erection of for a modest building which will be saken; cast down, but not destroyed." a house of worship. erected at a total cost of about $4500. The beginnings of the Faith Of this amount nearly $2500 has (EDITOR'S NOTE: About a month Church were meager. On Sunday been secured in cash and $2000 has after this report was written, Mr. morning, June 14, 1936, three women been borrowed by the congregation. Hunt sent the following brief word gathered at the home of Miss Eliza­ The ground-breaking service was of additional persecutions.) beth Reading in Woodstown to pray. sc?eduled for Ju~y 6th, but a heavy We just had word that the sixteen­ The Orthodox Presbyterian Church ram prevented It from being held year-old son of Evangelist Lee has had been constituted as a denomina­ ?utdoors so the congregation gathered been imprisoned. Lee himself has been tion three days before, and these m the h.all for the s.en:ice of worship in since April. He had been on a women hoped to be united with it and praIse. The bmldmg will be of trip to Korea and was holding very but saw no way by which they could frame construction, fifty by thirty successful cottage meetings in differ­ belong to a local congregation of the feet. The auditorium will be com­ ent parts of a large city. The police new church. There was no church in pletely finished, and provision will be heard of the meetings and one night the vicinity from which a pastor had made for modern Sunday school surrounded them. Lee was in the withdrawn to enter the new denomi­ rooms in the basement, which will midst of preaching when a policeman nation, nor was there any group of be completed later. interrupted. Lee called on the group people who had determined to with­ The congregation, begun with so to unite in prayer. "What do you draw in a body from the Presbyterian small a group, has been striving to­ mean, 'prayer'?" said the policeman, Church in the U.S.A. Yet these war~ self-support in a remarkable way. and slapped him across the cheek. A humble women prayed that the Lord Dunng the first years it was able to deacon called on the group to unite would raise up a testimony at that contribute only a small portion of the in song. The commotion of the sing­ place, and their prayers were answered. pastor's salary, but within the past ( ing excited the police who were guard­ The second Sunday there were six at year it has contributed seventy-five ing the gate and the door, so that they the meeting which they held, and the per cent. of his salary, and is looking rushed in, making it possible for some following week eleven. In faith they forward to complete self-support in of those who had gathered to escape, applied to the Committee on Home the near future. but in all about eighteen were taken. Missions and Church Extension for a Undoubtedly much of the success Of these, about half have compro­ missionary, and the committee ap­ of the Faith Church has been due to mised and been released, but the pointed the Rev. Edward B. Cooper. the unremitting labor of Mr. Cooper. others still remain in prison. Our local Mr. Cooper's home had been in The Coopers are truly loved by the evangelist and Bible woman have been Bridgeton, N. r, and he was familiar people of the church, for through taken bound to the border of Korea. with the neighborhood near Pittsgrove. Mr. Cooper's ministry many who are There they are being given much bet­ Since but few of those who were in­ now members of the church have ter treatment than they had here. Out­ terested in the new congregation lived come to know the Lord. The Faith side food and changes of clothing can in Woodstown, it was decided to rent Church was indeed begun by faith, be sent to them, and friends are al­ a hall at Pittsgrove as the more central and has continued to grow by faith in lowed to visit them. There are none spot for a church, and the Township Him whose promises never fail, whose of our Christians in bonds in this Committee of Upper Pittsgrove made faithfulness is eternal, and who will city at present, though four of our available the hall which is now occu­ honor His gospel when it is faithfully people are not yet released. pied. proclaimed. 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 37

Cutting the Gordian Knot

The Seventh in a Series of Articles on the Crisis in EvantJelism

• By JOHN C. HILLS. JR•• and WILLIAM E. WELMERS

HE Greeks had a word for it. In tlety of Modernism, been duped into revelation which God has given con­ Tfact, they told quite a story about adopting modernist attitudes and cerning it. The church must show it. Once upon a time, there was a cer­ methods. Because Modernism looms the unbeliever that the world is not tain Gordius, who was king of ancient so large in the battle against unbelief, independent of God, although God is Phrygia. Now, it seems that this let us examine carefully the ingenious quite independent of the world. This Gordius spent his spare time in tying but completely unscriptural and is the great issue between Christianity knots; as a matter of fact, he became equally futile weapon it. has been and paganism, and this is the Gordian so proficient at tying knots that one using against modern paganism. knot which the Modernists have un­ day he achieved a masterpiece. He tied Now, the consistent unbeliever pre­ scrupulously cut. They have attempted a knot which nobody could untie. tends to be entirely unconcerned to hold on to some sort of Christian­ This knot was never untied by ortho­ about spiritual and religious matters. ity, but they have denied that there is dox methods, but one day Alexander He confines himself, so he says, to the any real opposition between them and the Great cut it with his sword. After outward world of facts. True Christi­ the pagan world. They have made that, anyone who avoided a real dif­ anity, on the other hand, maintains peace with the enemy on the enemy's ficulty in favor of a somewhat shady that the unbeliever has no right to terms. shortcut was said to be guilty of "cut­ say such a thing. "The earth is the Modernism, like the blatant pagan­ ting the Gordian knot." Lord's, and the fulness thereof," and ism it seeks to oppose, willingly di­ The champion Gordian knot-cutters hence the unbeliever denies God vides life into two parts, the spiritual of our day, religiously speaking, are when he attempts to separate the and the material, and freely admits the Modernists; for the method which world from God. Figuratively speak­ that paganism is right in saying that the modernist wing of the Christian ing, the unbeliever wants to put God these two have nothing much to do church uses to meet the rising tide of and Christianity into one little house, with each other. Let science do what unbelief is strikingly similar to Alex­ and the world into another; and then it will with the world of facts, say the ander's wily trick of cutting the he wants to live exclusively in the Modernists; but let us seek "higher Gordian knot. The Modernists have second house and pay no attention to spiritual values." This reminds us im­ never seriously faced the difficulty pre­ the first. This condition of things, mediately of that great German phi­ sented by consistent paganism; they however, exists only in the imagina­ losopher, Immanuel Kant. You will have simply slashed it into non­ tion of the unbeliever, for the Bible remember that Kant divided the uni­ existence. teaches us, still figuratively speaking, verse into an island and an ocean-the This is precisely what we should ex­ that the world is one big house which island of human experienceand knowl­ pect, for Modernism is not Christi­ God has planned and created; and the edge, floating in an ocean of Mystery. anity at all. We can hardly look for a Bible further teaches that God is the Modernism has done exactly the same Christian method of evangelism where owner and landlord of that house, and thing. Now, to the God of the Bible Christiani ty itself does not exist. It is the ever-present master of every part there is no mystery, and the things inconceivable that the gospel should of it. Of course, the unbeliever may which we can see and know are firmly be properly and consistently preached dwell in that house and ignore for the anchored in Him. Instead of proclaim­ by those who do not preach the gospel time being the God who has created ing that God, however, the Modernist at all. Unbelief can never successfully it and who rightfully demands that teaches the philosophy of Kant in a be conquered by unbelief itself. Can every part of it be used to His glory. streamlined and pious-sounding form. Satan cast out Satan? How can there But it logically follows that if the un­ From thousands of pulpits and in be any real evangelism where there is believer wants to know the truth countless books by church leaders, the no gospel to be preached? about that house, he must examine pathetic appeal of Modernism to the Nevertheless, we must investigate its blueprint and deed-the Bible. It pagan world is stated somewhat like thoroughly this "evangelism" of the is therefore the first duty of the this: "You say that man has become Modernists; for, although Modernism church, in preaching the gospel, to what he is because of evolution. You is not Christianity, it has at least the make the unbeliever see that life does are probably right. You say that every­ outward appearance of being Christi­ not consist of two small houses-God thing happens by mere chance, and anity. Modernists insist that they are and the world-which have nothing that 'sin' is only the struggle of evolv­ preaching Christianity, and that they to do with each other, but rather that ing man to rise above his old bestial are opposed to outright materialism, life consists of a house which God has nature. We shall take your word for to consistent paganism. Furthermore, created, and which He owns and up­ it, because you have studied those Modernism is today the religion of a holds and pervades, and that we can­ things. What you say is not exactly discouragingly large part of the not know where this house has come what the Bible says, but that makes no church; and, what is worse, many from, what it is here for, and what difference, because the Bible too must sincere Christians have, by the sub- will be its end, unless we heed the be part of the evolution of man's 38 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN AUCJust mind. We hope that you will con­ of Calvin, Barthianism has received as it was; it has made no effort to pre­ tinue the fine work that you have done an open-armed welcome from many sent the Bible's claims that God is the in your field, and we won't interfere people who are somewhat afraid of the creator and sustainer of this world, at all. However, wouldn't you like to extremes of Modernism. Under the that He demands that we recognize leave your work on Sunday morning, influence of this new theology, the and glorify Him in all our thoughts and come with us into our stately words of the Bible and of the Re­ and actions, that we have sinned Gothic church to seek for 'higher formed doctrinal standards are again against Him, and that we need Ior­ things'? Your work will take on new resounding from many pulpits. When giveness and redemption through meaning if you will but share with us we look more carefully, however, we Christ. The Modernists have reserved the mountain-top experience of wor­ see that this is nothing but a wolf in the field of religion for themselves, ship. You will forget the worries of sheep's clothing-the same old Mod­ but they unhesitatingly leave every­ this life as you commune with the In­ ernism deceptively clothed in the thing else for men to use as they finite in the beautiful and mysterious phrases of historic Reformed theology. please. In other words, the Modernists garden of Prayer. You will catch a new The same fault lies at the bottom of say that the universe is on exactly the glimpse of the universal brotherhood both Modernism and Barthianism­ same level as God. Let others talk of man from the humble Carpenter our world, with its time and space, its about the universe, they say, and we of Nazareth. By all of this, you will be experience and knowledge, is separated will talk about God-the universe uplifted from the sordid touch of from God and His Word. The out­ does not interfere with God, but everyday life." Thus the Modernist ward world, history, and experience neither does God interfere with the invites the materialist to leave his are put into one compartment; and universe. With that as their founda­ little island, and together they will God, who is confined to another com­ tion, the Modernists seek to retain grope their way along in the darkness partment, has nothing to do with any some sort of religion. They have suc­ of the surrounding Mystery. Seldom of this. The experience of the Eternal ceeded in doing exactly that-they has the Modernist's caricature of -deceptively described in the old have retained some sort of religion. Christianity been more aptly described terms of the sovereignty of God, the Their religion, however, is not Chris­ than it was some fifty years ago by virgin birth, miracles, the resurrection, tianity. In an effort to "evangelize" Dr. Abraham Kuyper: "Almost sensu­ regeneration, conversion, and even the the pagan world, they have given up ously, modern mysticism gulps down Second Coming of Christ-drops Christianity itself and have embraced intoxicating drafts from the nectar down upon us without disturbing the paganism. They have forsaken the bowl of the Infinite." The "evangel­ course of this world, telling us that foundation of Christianity's essential ism" of the Modernists consists sim­ there is Something "out there." For truths-the inspiration of the Scrip­ ply of seeking to introduce the pagan all practical purposes, Barthianism dif­ tures, creation and providence, the world to this vague and misty feeling fers from Modernism only in the doctrine of sin and total depravity, the of universal benevolence. words it uses-what the Modernist eternal plan of salvation, the virgin It is this sort of evangelism which vaguely calls "worship," Barth impres­ birth of Christ, His miracles, His sin­ is practiced by the National Christian sively calls "the revelation of the Sov­ less life and atoning death, His bodily Mission, by the Federal Council of ereign God." In spite of the fine lan­ resurrection, the work of the Holy the Churches of Christ in America, guage, however, Barthianism is not Spirit in applying salvation to the and by countless ministers who are founded on the Bible as God's Word; elect, and the promise of the glorious more concerned about "building a bet­ the God of Barthianism is not the return of Christ to judge all men and ter world" than about their ordination God of the Bible; and Barthian theol­ glorify His saints. All of this is of no vows and the truth of God's Word. ogy and Barthian evangelism are not importance to the Modernist. He This is the evangelism of the "social the gospel of Jesus Christ. gladly dispenses with all that is essen­ gospel." Even the missionary program If we were to judge by outward tial in order that he may win the un­ of many large denominations has been appearances, it would seem that the believer. We confess that he has often invaded by it. The attitude of Mod­ evangelism of the Modernists is just won the unbeliever-to what? To a ernism is not that the heathen need what we need. Not a few books and slightly more respectable form of un­ the gospel of Jesus Christ to savethem magazine articles have lately been belief. from sin and the ultimate pangs of written by men who had despised the A true Christian, of course, would hell, but rather that their religious ex­ church until one day they happened never be guilty of denying his faith perience and their daily lives would be to learn the satisfaction of "the more in order to preach it. Yet we must re­ uplifted by "the spirit of Christianity." abundant life" through "meditation gretfully point out that sometimes a No attempt is made to change the and prayer" in worshipful surround­ sincere Christian will tread on danger­ attitude of the pagan world toward ings. In offering an escape from the ously thin ice in an effort to evangel­ God and the Bible, toward historic sordid materialism of the everyday ize the pagan world. Many churches Christianity. The Modernist contents life of the laboratory, the office, or the which pride themselves on their ortho­ himself with the timid suggestion that store, Modernism has attracted many doxy will eagerly and blindly co­ a little attention to "higher values" to its pillared temples, or at least to operate with the compromising "evan­ will make for a "more abundant life." the "worship of God in nature." gelism" of the National Christian A particularly subtle and dangerous Yet this is a far cry from true, Scrip­ Mission or the Federal Council of the form of Modernism is found in the tural evangelism. Modernism has not Churches of Christ in America. Even increasingly popular theology of Karl even begun to answer the problem of those of us who would never think Barth and his followers. Claiming to paganism. It has merely cut the Gor­ of taking part in such a surrender are be a revival of the Reformed theology dian knot. It has left paganism exactly often tainted by the same impurity. 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 39

Whenever we fail to apply the prin­ ciples of Scripture to some phase of Prayer our life or thinking, we are guilty of By the REV. JOHN H. SKILTON taking that phase out of God's hand Instructor in New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary and putting it into man's control. Do we insist on recognizing the sover­ eignty of God in our evangelism? Do HE eighth lesson in the current grace and determined the answers to we apply the principle of God's Tseries of young people's studies in be made to prayers that are accep­ sovereignty to our daily practices, to the Epistle of James deals with "The table to Him. the education of our children, to the Purpose and Power of Prayer." It Weare to pray, not to lifeless gods services of worship in our church? Are would be profitable for us to supple­ of human manufacture or imagina­ we not rather content 'all too often to ment our examination of the specific tion, to dead saints, or to any hving let the opinions of men be our moral passage assigned as the lesson text created beings, but only to the one standards, to allow our children to be (James 5:13-20) with at least a par­ living and true God. As the Larger educated on pagan principles, and, in tial review of the teaching of our Catechism says, "God only being able our church services, to think of enter­ subordinate doctrinal standards. and to search the hearts, hear the requests, tainment rather than the true worship of the whole Word of God on the pardon the sins, and fulfill the desires and glory of God? All of this has a subject of prayer. of all; and only to be believed in and great deal to do with our evangelism; Prayer is defined by the Shorter worshipped with religious worship; for, if we will be inconsistent in these Catechism as "an offering up of our prayer, which is a special part thereof, things, we are likely to say to the desires unto God, for things agreeable is to be made by all to him alone, pagan world in our evangelistic serv­ to his will, in the name of Christ, and to none other" (Question 179). ices: "We don't want to argue about with confession of our sins, and thank­ Prayer may be offered to God abso­ the more subtle teachings of pagan ful acknowledgment of his mercies" lutely or to Persons in the Godhead philosophy and science, although Dar­ (Question 98). It is a means of grace (I Tim. 1:12; Rev. 1:5,6; 5:13; Acts winian evolution is really dangerous. through which we are brought very 7:59,60; II Cor. 12:8, 9; Eph. 1:17; It makes no difference whether or not near unto God. Through it our gra­ 3:14; I Thess. 3:11). you can defend the Bible against the cious Father in heaven imparts bene­ We should pray only for such intellectual scorn of professors and fits to the souls of His people and in things as are lawful (Confession of modernist preachers. Weare not con­ response to it works out providences Faith XXI:IV); for things which God cerned about the theology you choose for His glory and the good of His indicates in the Scriptures He is to accept. All we ask is that you accept church. God, of course, does not pleased to grant to His children; and Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, change. He is "the Father of lights, which tend to His glory, the welfare and then 'testify'; we don't care about with whom is no variableness, neither of the church, and the good of our­ anything else." May God grant that shadow of turning" (James 1:17)' His selves and others (Larger Catechism, we shall not so compromise the Re­ eternal all-embracing purpose can in Question 184) . We are not to ask formed Faith! Even though God may no respect be altered. But He has God, for example, for new revelations occasionally be pleased to strike a established means and secondary of the Spirit today. Our Confession straight blow with a crooked stick and causes, as well as ends. He has from of Faith rightly says, "The whole convert one to whom we preach so eternity decreed prayer as a means of counsel of God, concerning all things carelessly, let us not be fooled into necessary for his own glory, man's sal­ thinking that this is Scriptural evan­ vation, faith, and life, is either ex­ gelism. If we preach this way, we shall pressly set down in scripture, or by deny the Lord who bought us. Young People's Topics good and necessary consequence may We have traced the sad history of August 3rd-THE POWER OF THE be deduced from scripture: unto which nothing is at any time to be the decline of the once-faithful Chris­ TONGUE. tian church through dead orthodoxism added, whether by new revelations of and pietism into Modernism. We have August 10th-THE FRIENDSHIP OF the Spirit, or traditions of men" also seen how unsuccessful the modern THE WORLD. (I:VI). forms of these errors are in their war August 17th-Two VICES AND Two We are to pray for ourselves (Matt. against fortified paganism. Again the VIRTUES. 6:9-13; Gen. 32:11; Luke 18:13) and question arises, What about the faith­ August 24th-THE PURPOSE AND for others, even our enemies (Matt. ful remnant? What about those Chris­ POWER OF PRAYER. S: 44), indeed for "all sorts of men tians and churches that still uphold living, or that shall live hereafter" the whole counsel of God? Is not their THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN re­ (Confession of Faith XXI:IV; and evangelism Scriptural? Sad to say, grets that unforeseen circumstances see I Tim. 2:1, 2; Eph. 1:16, 17; even here we do not find the en­ make it necessary to omit, for the next 3:14-17; 6:18; John 17:20; II Sam. couraging consistency that is neces­ two months, the usual series of articles 7:29). We are not to pray, however, sary in this day of militant unbelief. supplementing the lesson material for "for those of whom it may be known We must now turn to that faithful young people issued by the Commit­ that they have sinned the sin unto wing of the church, to see the fatal tee on Christian Education of The death" (Confession of Faith XXI:IV; weakness of even the best weapon Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Sup­ and see I John 5;16) or for the dead commonly used today against pagan­ plementary articles wi11 be resumed in (Luke 26:25, 26; Rev. 14:q). ism. the issue of October 25th. Petitions bearing particularly on our

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own needs and those of others have a ments not expressive of our real state eth our infirmities, by enabling us to very important part in prayer. But of heart. In social or public prayer, understand both for whom, and what, prayer is not to be limited to them. when we appear to be uniting with and how prayer is to be made; and by In I Samuel 2:1-10 we are given the others, we should be participating in working and quickening in our hearts words which we are told Hannah spirit with them. (although not in all persons, nor at prayed. They are devoted to thank­ We should pray with true faith in all times, in the same measure) those tul acknowledgment of God's mercy God and we should believe that He is apprehensions, affections, and graces and to magnitying the divine name. able and willing to answer the prayers which are requisite for the right per­ The Lord had previously heard a of His people, and that He actually formance of that duty" (Question prayer of petition that Hannah had will do so if the requisite conditions 181). See also Rom. 8:26, 27; Psalm offered; now she renders to Him a are met (I John 5:14). 10:17; and Zech. 12:10. prayer full of praise. She relates her Weare further to pray with im­ As recipients of the marvelous grace present felicity to Him; celebrates His portunity (Matt. 15:22ff; Luke 18:5­ of God, as those on whom our Father attributes; acknowledges His sover­ 8; 11:5-8); submissively (Matt. in heaven has multiplied His benefits, eignty; bears testimony to the judg­ 26:39); in humility (Psalm 130:3; we are impelled to cry, "Bless the ment which He will bring upon the Luke 18:13); and with penitence Lord, 0 my soul: and all that is wicked, and to His preservation of His (Psalm 51: 17), understanding (I Cor. within me, bless his holy name." saints; and, rising to a prophetic emi­ 14:15), fervency, and love (see the nence, envisions the day when He will Larger Catechism, Question 185)' give strength unto His king and exalt We can come unto God in prayer the horn of His anointed, His Mes­ only in the name of Jesus Christ our siah. This is true prayer. We too must Redeemer, mediator of the covenant not omit thanksgiving and praise from of grace. If it were not for the merits LABOR DAY CONFERENCE TO our prayers. of our Saviour, we would be forever Another element proper to prayer excluded from the presence of God BE HELD AT QUARRYVILLE is confession of sins. In the Lord's because of our sin. But, united to the Prayer we petition God to forgive us Lord Jesus Christ, who continually GENERAL Bible conference for our debts. The publican has provided makes intercession for us, we ask to be A adults will be held on the us with a good example of confession. heard for His sake, pleading His per­ fifteen-acre conference grounds of Standing afar off, he "would not lift fect righteousness. The Larger Cate­ Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church, up so much as his eyes unto heaven, chism says that "to pray in the name Quarryville, Pa., from Friday evening, but smote upon his breast, saying, of Christ is, in obedience to his com­ August zqth, to Monday afternoon, God be merciful to me a sinner" mand, and in confidence on his prom­ September i st, Speakers for the three­ (Luke 18: 13)' See also Psalm 32: 5; ises, to ask mercy for his sake; not day Labor Day week-end will be the 51:4; and Daniel 9:4ff. by bare mentioning of his name, but Rev. Robert H. Graham of Middle­ We are to pray in a reverent man­ by drawing our encouragement to town, Del., the Rev. George W. ner, being mindful of the majesty, the pray, and our boldness, strength, and Marston of Philadelphia, the Rev. infinite exaltation, and illimitable hope of acceptance in prayer, from Cary N. Weisiger of Charlottesville, glory of our Father in heaven (Psalm Christ and his mediation" (Question Va., and the Rev. Professor Edward 33:8; 95:6). No vulgar familiarity is 180) . J. Young of Westminster Theological permissible as we approach the creator Prayer is to be addressed to God, Seminary. and ruler of the whole earth, who is when we are alone (Dan. 6:10; Matt. Mr. Marston will conduct a course full of perfections. With holy fear we 6:6), in social groups, as the family, on "Modern Cults and Isms"; Mr. should come before the supreme ex­ and in public, in the church (Isa. Weisiger will speak on "The Vine cellence of the eternal sovereign who 56:7; Acts 2:42; I Cor. 14:14-16). and the Branches"; Professor Young condescends to hear us. Nevertheless Our prayers should be offered con­ will lecture on "How to Study the we draw near to God with "confidence stantly and with regularity. We are Bible"; and Mr. Graham will conduct of his fatherly goodness, and our in­ to pray with, as well as for, others the morning devotional hour and the terest therein" (Larger Catechism, (Shorter Catechism, Question 100). campfire service, and will have charge Question 189) and "as children to a No one posture is required by the of the musical portion of the program. father, able and ready to help us" Scripture for praying (II Chron. 6: 13; The Quarryville Bible Conference (Shorter Catechism, Question 100). Mark 11:25; Luke 5:8-12; Gen. Association extends a cordial welcome See also Romans 8:14-17; Galatians 24: 26) . to delegates from all churches and 4:7; and John 14: 13, 14. We come The whole Bible is of aid to us denominations. The total cost, in­ to a Father far superior to any on in prayer, but in the Lord's Prayer we cluding the registration fee and board earth. Our Lord has said, "If ye then, have a special rule for our direction. and lodging in the regular dormitories, being evil, know how to give good Grace truly abounds to us. Not only is $5. There is a slight additional gifts unto your children, how much has God provided prayer for us as a charge for lodging in the new dormi­ more shall your Father which is in means of grace and given us infallible tory or in private homes. Registra­ heaven give good things to them that directions for praying, but also He tions should be sent now to the Rev. ask them?" (Matt. 7:11). actually assists us in the exercise of Franklin S. Dyrness, Executive Di­ We are to pray sincerely, not using prayer. The Larger Catechism wit­ rector, Quarryville, Pa., and additional words to which we do not give con­ nesses that "we not knowing what to information concerning the confer­ scious assent in our minds and state- pray for as we ought, the Spirit help- ence may be obtained from him. 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 41

evidence, it is Paul who teaches that remove this doctrine only from the "through one man sin entered into church's liturgy. But his reason is the world, and death through sin; and readily surmised. With the liturgy he so death passed upon all men, for has to deal frequently. Every time he that all sinned"; that "death reigned is called on to administer Holy Bap­ from Adam until Moses, even over tism, he is supposed to employ the them that had not sinned after the Baptism Office. The church's doctrinal likeness of Adam's transgression"; that standards, on the other hand, he may EDITORIAL "the judgment came of one unto con­ usually ignore. To be sure, he did demnation"-Romans 5:12, 14, 16. subscribe to them when he was ad­ And David confesses: "Behold, I was mitted to the ministry in the Re­ The Reformed Church in brought forth in iniquity, and in sin formed Church in America. But what America on Trial did my mother conceive me" (Psalm of that? Is there not tacit agreement 51:5)· among the leaders of most Protestant T IS customary for the president of Every student of the history of doc­ denominations that the creeds of the I one year's General Synod of the trine should know that the doctrine Reformation age are by this time Reformed Church in America ­ of original sin has been confessed by largely outmoded and may therefore formerly known as the Dutch Re­ the Reformed churches throughout be regarded in considerable part as a formed Church-to report to the the centuries. When the arch-heretic dead letter? General Synod of the next year on Pelagius denied it, the great Augustine Beyond dispute there is room The State of Religion in the denomi­ had risen to its defense by appealing within a Reformed church for differ­ nation. Accordingly, Dr. E. F. Romig to inspired Paul. And the churches of ences of opinion on certain points of presented certain observations on this the Reformation followed Paul and doctrine. Is it possible that the doc­ theme to the 1941 synod. They were Augustine when they took pains to trine of original sin falls within that published in the June 13th issue of formulate this truth in their creeds. category? To answer that question The Intelligencer-Leader, the official The Westminster Confession of Faith is not difficult. On some detailed denominational weekly. teaches that, since our first parents aspects of this doctrine various views Dr. Romig recommends a revision were the root of all mankind, "the are held among Reformed theologians. of the church's liturgy. In the office guilt of this sin [eating the forbidden But the teaching that, in consequence for Holy Communion, for instance, fruit] was imputed, and the same of the first sin of man, every child is he feels that "certain phrases, particu­ death in sin and corrupted nature born guilty before God and with a larly those having to do with 'wrath conveyed to all their posterity" (Chap­ corrupt nature may unhesitatingly be of God' should not be retained." To ter VI, Section III). All three of the declared to be an integral part of that be sure, he is careful not to deny the doctrinal standards of Dr. Romig's system of doctrine which is known as reality of the wrath of the Almighty, church teach original sin. The follow­ the Reformed Faith. The fact, for his reason for the suggested elimina­ ing citations are offered in evidence: instance, that the imputation of the tion being that such phrases are The Confession of Faith, Article XV; guilt of the first Adam to his descend­ "stumbling blocks to the lay mind not The Heidelberg Catechism, Questions ants is linked inseparably with the versed in theology." That it is the 7 and 8; The Canons of Dort, Third imputation of the righteousness of church's duty to see to it that its and Fourth Heads of Doctrine, Arti­ the last Adam, Jesus Christ, to be­ members become versed in theology cles II and III. The last of these lievers, makes that patent. "For as does not seem to occur to him. How­ references states succinctly that "all through one man's disobedience the , ever, in dealing with the office for men are conceived in sin, and are by many were made sinners, even so Holy Baptism he waxes bold. "Tradi­ nature children of wrath." through the obedience of the one t tionalist that I am," says Dr. Romig, Since original sin is taught in both shall the many be made righteous" .~ "I could no more in the Baptism the creeds and the liturgy of the Re­ (Romans 5:19). In that light the Office ask parents to subscribe to the formed Church in America, it may denial of original sin becomes ex­ question, 'Do you believe that our seem strange that Dr. Romig would tremely serious. children are sinful and guilty before By boldly rejecting an essential God?' than I could ask them to be­ teaching of the Reformed Faith, lieve in Mohammed. For I cannot find Your Summer Dr. Romig has put the Reformed warrant in Scripture for any doctrine Church in America in a strange that children whose wills have not yet Contributions position. It is no exaggeration to been formed and who therefore can­ DO NOT neglect to send assert that he has placed his de­ not exercise the power of moral choice your contributions for nomination on trial. No truly Re­ are guilty before God." formed .church will tolerate in its Thus flatly does the president of a missions during the summer pulpits deniers of the Reformed Faith. General Synod of the Reformed months, for the need is very Itwill demand that deniers either re­ Church in America deny the Re­ great! Gifts should be sent to tract or depart. Nor does such a de­ formed doctrine of original sin. the Rev. Robert S. Marsden, mand constitute a violation of re­ That he cannot find this doctrine general secretary, 514 Schaff ligious liberty. Rather is it a recogni­ in the Bible is no proof that it is not tion of religious liberty. A Reformed there. Perhaps he has not searched Building, Philadelphia, Pa. church does not seek to force its diligently. 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acceptance of its faith. He who does presently. May the Reformed Church lip-service was paid to Him, He was not and cannot accept may leave. He in America not be a church which has usually ignored as relatively unim­ also must leave, tor a Reformed in its midst a number of Reformed portant. The human intellect was de­ church will insist on remaining Re­ preachers and laymen but has none­ clared to be its own lord and master, formed. theless as a denomination forsaken with capacity to find out all truth in­ What is the Reformed Church in the Reformed Faith. If that is not to dependent of revelation or regenera­ America going to do about the case be the case, those ministers and elders tion. This theory was so emphasized in hand? 1£ history is to repeat itself, and other members of the church who in the following century that men be­ it will do nothing or next to nothing. adhere to the Reformed Faith will lieved themselves capable of attaining This is not the first time that that have to band together, bring issues almost to the status of deity. Voltaire, denomination is confronted by a such as that raised by Dr. Romig's Diderot, Hume, Adam Smith, Ben­ brazen denial of original sin. In 1923 address to a head in the judicatories of jamin Franklin and others looked not the General Synod was considering the church, and press their fight for to God but to the human intellect the election of Dr. Edward S. Wor­ the faith to a finish. Not only must for salvation, and in the early stages of cester, a Congregationalist minister, to they do this, but if they love the Re­ the French Revolution, reason was the chair of Systematic Theology at formed Faith passionately, they wiIl. worshiped as the supreme being in the the New Brunswick Theological Semi­ -R. B. K. universe. This is the era from which nary. Some members of synod ques­ comes our modern world, our scien­ tioned Dr. Worcester's doctrinal tific, skeptical and disillusioned twen­ soundness. Well might they, for in a Can Christianity tieth century. memorandum he had described the Face the Crisis? Man as Sovereign Reformed doctrine of original sin as (Concluded From Page 34) "a bit of the fanciful and allegorizing One of the most important ele­ theology of the Rabbinic period of went, it resulted in the rise, or the ments of the eighteenth century ra­ Judaism and similar schools in Chris­ attempted rise of democracy. It tionalism was its philosophy which tianity, which is worse than meaning­ showed itself in the struggle of the forms the basis for modern thinking. less." And yet, believe it or not, Dr. Dutch against their Spanish oppres­ Kant and Hegel, the two dominating Worcester was elected. Today it is al­ sors, in the battle of the Huguenots influences of nineteenth century phil­ together likely that several deniers of against the absolutist French monar­ osophy, both adopted the view that this doctrine occupy pulpits in the chy, the struggle of the Puritans the human intellect could find out all Reformed Church in America, and against both Tudor and Stuart des­ truth necessary to man. Experimenta­ doubtless doctrinal indifference has potism, and the rebellion of the Scots tion and interpretation could both be made such headway among the minis­ against an Arminian and arbitrary done by the human mind, so that any ters of that communion that a great prelacy. Much more might have been desired truth could be discovered. many applaud Dr. Romig's pious accomplished in the economic, artistic This resulted in scientific discoveries vaporizings: "Our denomination is and literary fields, had it not been for which have brought to us a knowledge going to take a great stride in the the rise of heresy within the church. of the world much greater than ever direction of vital spiritual growth, if Arminianism and prelatism were the before, but God has received no praise while holding to the real essentials two great foes which had to be for enabling man to increase his of evangelical Christianity, we get be­ destroyed, and this was done at Dort knowledge. Man took all the credit yond the perverse tendency to set up and Westminster. However, when to himself. From this source came rules of orthodoxy that our Saviour this work had been accomplished, the Darwinism and the evolutionary hy­ would have found confusing and in Reformed churches seem to have for­ pothesis, with its emphasis on the sur­ I brotherliness toward one another, gotten that they had the work before vival of the fittest and the concept of respect for diverse interpretations of them of bringing the whole world self-existing natural law. But the , the Gospel, and oneness of devotion under the banner of Christ. Political human mind could not rest there, for , to Christ, address ourselves to the freedom had been obtained, so the it had to acknowledge that if there actual plight of this sin-sick world." Calvinists turned more to theological were no God but nature, nature itself And yet a cloud has appeared, the controversy, forgetting about all other might change without notice and, in size of a man's hand, which gives some phases of our earthly life. Therefore, doing so, would destroy all existing promise for the future. Hardly had before they realized what was happen­ laws. Therefore, in both the phil­ Dr. Romig's address appeared in print ing, the paganism of the Renaissance, osophical and the scientific fields, when protests began to arrive at the aided by a revivified Roman Church, there has been growing up for the office of The Inte11igencer-Leader. had laid hold upon so-called secular past fifty years a distrust of law. This Only one of them, the first received, thought and was in complete control has resulted today in the irrational was printed. It was an able refutation of everything but Reformed theology. physics of Jeans and Eddington, who of Dr. Romig's position by the Rev. This appears most clearly, perhaps, tell us that chance governs the physi­ Leonard Greenway, pastor of the in the philosophy of a Hobbes, the cal universe. It has given us modern Eighth Reformed Church of Grand legal theory of a Grotius, the scien­ irrational philosophy which tells us Rapids, Michigan. tific attitude of the Royal Society, the that "eternal novelty" is the keynote Such protests are heartening, but dramas of Beaumont and Fletcher, of our existence. We can believe they are not enough. The cloud the and the reasoning of John Locke. God nothing and do nothing with any cer­ size of a man's hand must grow. If it was pushed completely out of His tainty, for there is no beginning, no does not, it is certain to evaporate universe for, although on occasions end, no middle to anything, and 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 43

chance is all and in all. means the only ones which have been was forgotten. The result has been The same forces and ideas have affected by irrationalism. Besides the national and international lawlessness, dominated our artistic development declaration of philosophy, science and class warfare, the exploitation of one for the past century and a half. When art that life is the plaything of chance group by another for its own selfish we go back to the early part of the and has no meamng, economics and ends, and the domination of the state nineteenth century, we find the poets political science have practically by one group or another to gain ad­ of the Romantic Revival setting forth, reached the same conclusion. With vantages for itself. The will of what­ in regular and symmetrical form, the the opening of the last century, we ever faction is dominant is law, for essential goodness and beauty of man; saw the beginning of a completely all factions are responsible only to the musicians writing great sympho­ materialistic conception of the nature themselves. This has led to complete nies and concertos according to "na­ of man. It was felt that man could hopelessness in the field of political tural" mathematical laws; and the live by bread alone. Therefore, the theory and practice, for the state is artists painting and drawing on ra­ satisfaction of man's material needs under no higher rule, nor is it subject tional principles. This, however, has was placed at the head of the list of to any but its own arbitrary authority. all changed. Toward the end of the man's objectives in life. Since Adam For this reason, men are beginning to nineteenth century, the idea that Smith, in his Wealth ot Nations, as­ deny man's rights to freedom, sub­ "there is a destiny which shapes our serted that each man endeavoring to stituting instead the supremacy of the ends" was thrown overboard.in favor satisfy his own needs would help to state-and that, ruled by a dictator I of an evolutionary concept of life. satisfy the needs of all, complete Even in the sphere of religion the This has led to the representation of economic freedom to do as one pleases same story is true. As early as the reality as completely irrational and has been man's highest ambition. eighteenth century, Christianity came subject to no laws. We find, for in­ Economic law became mechanized, largely under the influence of ration­ stance, our magazines publishing and man's responsibility to God for alism, with its insistence on man's bursts of completely irrational "free the welfare of his fellow men was perfectability and rationality. The re­ verse" which, like much of Walt ignored, with disastrous effects on all sult has been that, more and more, Whitman's work, mean nothing ra­ classes. Capital has largely acted as official Christianity has tended to be­ tional. The novelists have followed though it had the right to do just as come a kind of ansemic humanitaria­ the same road through Joyce, James, it pleased in gaining wealth. It mat­ nism, with all elements of the super­ and Sinclair Lewis, until they have tered little whether the poor were natural scrupulously excluded. Higher reached their culmination in Gertrude oppressed or the country impoverished. Criticism has destroyed the faith of Stein's Ida, which portrays life as en­ Labor, on the other hand, has tended many in the Bible, and modern phil­ tirely irrational. Music has gone the to feel that it itself is the only party osophy has killed what was left by same way, so that we now have, as to be considered, and that, as long as modernist anti-supernaturalism. Irra­ typical of our age, the atonal, dis­ its economic needs are satisfied, all tionality is the only refuge to which sonant productions of such modern is well. The results have been bad for one who has followed these false composers as Stravinsky and Antheil, both sides. There have been labor dis­ prophets may flee. Therefore, we have who claim to be a law unto them­ putes, monopolies, trusts, business many turning today to Theosophy, selves. The height or depth (it all crashes and depressions, until men Christian Science, I Am, Buch­ depends upon our point of view) has have begun to lose all faith in the manism and the National Preaching been reached by the modern surrealist existence of any economic laws, and Mission, while the theologians are painting of Picasso, Dali and others are demanding, in the name of econo­ turning with great joy to the para­ who, in their artistic expresion, have mic security, that a dictator be set up doxes of Karl Barth. Irrationality has consciously sought the borders'of in­ to govern all phases of the nation's conquered its last enemy. sanity. Indeed, one of the surrealists, economic life. The Crisis of Today , in advocating this form of expression Along with this development, po­ , as that closest to the truth, tells us litical theory has tended in the same Today's crisis consists, therefore, with considerable pride that all such direction. With the rejection of not in the threat of Hitler to overrun paintings are "associated with the Christianity in the eighteenth cen­ the world, bad as that threat may be. mechanism of paranoiac interpreta­ tury, the rationalists had to formulate The crisis which faces us is that tion. Bringing the world of delirium new principles upon which to base caused by the danger that humanistic on to the plane of reality . . . they the results obtained by their Chris­ irrationalism may gain the complete bring into question our existing con­ tian predecessors. Thus we find that victory, Hitler being but a manifesta­ ventional reactions to dreams, obses­ the constitutions of the era of revo­ tion of this tendency. Above all other sions, hallucinations, diurnal fantasies, lutions all commence by asserting that lands, Germany has stressed the love, fear, insanity and hysteria." An­ every man is good and naturally able human reason for, since the days of other advocate of surrealism frankly to govern himself for his own profit Leibniz and Spinoza, the German in­ declares that irrationality is the and that of the community. The state, tellect has been striving more and essence of the meaning of modern therefore, is to do as little as possible more to maintain the autonomy of the art. Here, it would seem, we have to restrain people, and itself is subject human mind. Luther, failing to make reached the ultimate and logical end to no law but that of its own making. a complete break with the mediseval of human self-sufficiency. From this developed the idea that all compromise between Christianity and law and government was for the pur­ paganism, left room for human self­ Fruits of Irrationalism pose of social control and benefit, and assertion which has, especially in Yet these phases of life are by no the concept of God's law as supreme Germany, been growing stronger from 44 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN August generation to generation. Unfor­ reason have failed, we are told, so wc But, some may object, how can tunately, however, all the other na­ must accept the conclusion that there Calvinism be the means of bringing tions or the civilized world have been is no such thing as law for the human the world back from the brink of in­ not far behind. Germany reached the mind. We may as well admit our sanity? And to this we can but reply ultimate conclusion only a little failure, say the protagonists of this that Calvinism alone can accomplish more quickly than the others. When view, and content ourselves with this work, for it alone gives the true Nietzsche set forth his philosophy of making the necessary biological ad­ and Biblical emphasis to the doctrine the super-man, he actually rejected all justments to our environment. This is of the sovereignty of God. Men today law, and might became right. From virtually what has been urged by some have lost all idea of law, physical or that day forward, despair alone could recent writers who have invited the social, because they have placed man be the lot of Germany, if it followed democratic countries, and especially at the center of the universe. Only by such ideals to their logical conclusion. the United States, to admit the Nazi insisting,that God is the ruler can the This it did; and, in despair at the philosophy of the defeat of the human world's rationality be restored, and utter futility of the resulting human mind, and plunge into the sea in this Calvinism does in a unique way. irrationality, it has cast itself into the order to ride on "the wave of the It alone emphasizes that God is sov­ hands of a dictator-one who gives future." Others, of the same point of ereign over nature which He estab­ it its marching orders so that, without view, attempt to persuade us to co­ lished and has upheld from the day thinking at all, it can live in spiritual operate with Nazi ideology and ap­ on which it was created. It alone de­ and economic peace. Those who have pease it, the implication being that clares that God rules over history and refused to take this despairing attitude the irrationality of the human inter­ men whom He created and has pre­ have either been imprisoned, liqui­ preter of reality can be counteracted served, establishing them in societies dated or exiled, while the rest of the only by means of the humanly­ under laws, and enabling them, in world which, through the grace of created authority which is found in spite of their sin and rebellion, to de­ God, has not come to such a terrible dictatorship. velop the gifts and faculties bestowed situation, is being terrorized by the The second proposal offered to us upon them. It alone makes God sov­ dictator who needs war in order to as a means of overcoming the effects ereign in salvation, whereby men are keep the people in their fear. If Hitler of humanistic thought which have re­ brought from their man-centered life should win, we too will be reduced to sulted in irrationalism, is that of to a realization that God alone is the slavery. We too will be forced to Roman Catholicism. It asks us to ac­ source of law and rationality. Thus worship at the shrine of the God of cept, not a revamped form of Roman­ Calvinism is the sole interpretation of irrationality or pay the penalty. ism, but the revived mediaival teach­ reality which can bring back order to Believing, however, that the cause ing of Thomas Aquinas, the great ap­ man's understanding of the physical, of freedom and rationality will prevail, peaser between Christianity and pag­ social and psychical worlds. It is the we must also realize that when peace anism. But there can be no question only one which gives God His true has corne we shall face a task even as to the effectiveness of this view for, place as the creator and upholder of greater than that of winning the war. as history has shown, its ultimate end the universe. We shall face the task of reconstruc­ can be but one of two: either it will When, however, we speak of Cal­ tion. This nation and the other demo­ go completely pagan, or it will become vinism or Christianity, we do not cratic nations of the world are being completely Christian. In either case, mean that we are to content ourselves riddled with the irrationality which it will no longer be Thomism, as its with repeating the statements of such reduced Germany to her slavery. Un­ artificial reconciliation of two such men as Calvin, Knox, Kuyper or less law and rationality can be re­ opposing life- and world-views is im­ Bavinck. We must continually reex­ stored, and although Germany be d~­ possible and cannot last. amine their thoughts and teachings feated men even in the democratic in the light of Scripture. We must count;ies will begin to cry for dic­ Christianity's Solution realize that our faith has its content tators to solve their troubles and to The third solution offered is that of not in Calvin's Institutes nor any protect them from the demon~ of the true Christianity. By the use of this other such work, but in Scripture universe. This can but result m even word we do not imply so-called alone. Therefore, while using the more appalling wars in the near "modern" Christianity, nor even that teachings of these great men of the future, and all the other terrible ex­ which contains merely a few of the past, we must always be ready to test periences of which dictatorship and fundamental doctrines. We mean the their views by the Scriptures, and at aggression are parts. At this moment, full-orbed Biblical Christianity set the same time work out and apply the therefore, we face a stupendous prob­ forth in the Westminster Confession Biblical principles which they enun­ lem. Is there anything in this world of Faith and Catechisms, for such ciated more fully than ever before. If which can bring sanity, and once Christianity alone is truly Biblical and we are going to meet the needs, in­ again establish order, bringing peace self-consistent. It is the Christianity tellectual, spiritual and social, of the to the hearts of men? If there is, do which, after ten centuries of obscurity, modern world, we must know our we know the solution and in what came to light at the Reformation, Bibles not in piecemeal character, but does it consist? when the semi-paganism of Rome was in their full systematic form as ex­ The reply to this question has been rejected and the Bible restored to its pressed by Calvinism, that we may be given in three ways. In the first place, proper place of authority. In other able to offer a Scriptural, and there­ some urge us to submit to the rule of words, it is Calvinism. This alone can fore divinely provided, solution. irrationality as the only road left open solve the problems with which the This means that we must be realists. to us. Both Christianity and human world is faced at this time. We must know the exact character of 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 45

those problems which face us, and laid down in the Scriptures, must to the men of this age the Christian not try to gloss them over or fit them strictly apply them to the world's solution for the world's disorders, To into what we would like them to be. problems, in an endeavor to bring their support all Christians should Too long have Christians been in­ man to an acknowledgment of the rally, in order that the Biblical view of clined to close their eyes to the world sovereign power and authority of God. reality may be spread abroad and that as it is, employing shibboleths and By this means alone can man's desire once more men may realize that they cliches of the past as answers to for authority be satisfied, for only then are not living in a world of chance, modern problems. This can no longer will he be led to acknowledge the true be done. It may be that, when recon­ and proper source of authority: the Make MORE Money This struction comes after this war, the sovereign triune God. 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WANTED tion of reality which will make reality riddle of the universe refuse to give it mean something. We believe that we to men, if we hold it to ourselves and OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST: Esperleneed. EvanlleHeal Christian. Between aile. 25.45. Pri. have the answer, and even as God, do not try to show others that in the vate mental institution. Salary '70.00 with the Holy Spirit, enabled Calvin to sovereignty of God alone can ration­ maintenance. Give qualifieatioDs and references. wield such a mighty influence in his ality be found, then we shall be held 'Write: Supervisor of Nurses, c/o ChrUtian Sana­ day, it is possible that He will use us responsible by God for neglecting the torlnm, Midland Park. N. J. in the same way in our own age to souls of our fellow men, and for re­ WANTED restore rationality to the world. But fusing to show forth His glory to the world. NIGHT SUPERVISOR: Evangelical­ if we who hold the solution to the Christian, single, between ages 25-45. Give qualifications and references. Ap­ ply at once, Director of Nurses, Chris­ tian Sanatorium, Midland Park, New Jersey. Today in the Religious World WANTED By THOMAS R. BIRCH Young men and women to take training in psychiatric nursing, must be of the Evangelical-Christian faith, Smoking the Pipe of Peace were the Protestant Episcopal Church single, ages 18-35. Apply at once, Di­ T'S always fair weather when good and the Presbyterian Church in the rector of Nurses, Christian Sanatorinm, U.S. The Federal Council now has Midland Park, New Jersey. I fellows get together, and Auburn Affirmationist Robert Hastings Nichols twenty-four denominations officially is one man who knows how to wring federated in its membership, and the last ounce of burbling enthusiasm claims a total membership of 25,964,­ UNION LESSON HELPS out of an old-fashioned, palsy-walsy 082 persons. on the International Uniform Lessons reunion. Writing in the July issue of The Church of the Brethren has The Chapel Bell, semi-annual publica­ 1,017 local congregations, with a total stand for and proclaim tion of Auburn Seminary, he tells how membership of 176,908. the heart of the Gospel much the boys in the back room en­ "Christian" Endeavor One hundred and twenty-two years of joyed a little love-feast between two experience are back of these true-to-the­ one-time mortal enemies. Emotes Dr. Five months of coast-to-coast cele­ Bible periodicals. Can be used with con­ Nichols: bration of the sixtieth anniversary of fidence by Christian teachers and pupils. Thirty Auburn alumni at the General the founding of the Christian En­ Write for free specimen copies Assembly in St. Louis had a lively reunion deavor Society, climaxed last month AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION "in association with" eighteen Union with the Rainbow Jubilee Interna­ 1816 Chestnut SL Philadelphia. Pa. alumni, wives of many adding numbers tional Christian Endeavor Convention and pleasure. Before eating was finished (sic) in Atlantic City, should have but one created and upheld by the Leo A. Gates, Auburn, 1912, as toast­ been sufficient to revolve the founders providence of God. master, introduced Dr. Henry Sloane in their graves. The Christianity for Coffin. His speech, in which he empha­ the propagation of which Christian The reply will be returned, no sized the success of the Auburn-Union doubt, that this is impossible. How relation, delighted everybody and raised Endeavor was originally organized can the relatively few Christians hope the highest enthusiasm for him. Hardly found no place on the program, and to induce the world to accept the had he left to attend the Princeton alumni the only gospel featured was the social Christian view of reality, even though dinnerwhenDr. JohnA. Mackay ofPrince­ gospel of modernist unbelief. Speakers it would save the sanity of some scien­ ton carne in, receiving a rousing welcome, were Governor Harold E. Stassen of tists and philosophers? The question, and made a very happy speech, compar­ Minnesota, Dr. Daniel A. Poling, Dr. however, is not exactly relevant. We ing interestingly the theologies of Prince­ Ralph W. Sockman, Dr. Oscar F. are not to sit down and count our ton and of Auburn and Union. Professor Blackwelder, Dr. Louis H. Evans, and Nichols described the work of Auburn in Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. chances of success before taking ac­ the Union association and spoke of further tion. Our duty is to bring every possibilities there. According to the cus­ In a message to the convention thought under captivity to Christ, not tom of Auburn reunions, everybody around sent by President Roosevelt, it was basing our efforts upon the probability the tables introduced himself or herself. declared: "We, as a people of many of success, but upon our marching Then before we knew it time was up. origins and diverse cultures and spirit­ orders. This has been the view of all ual allegiances, can in full loyalty to those who have ever accomplished Brethren Join Federal Council our individual convictions work and great things for the kingdom of God. The modernist Federal Council of pray for the establishment of an in­ If Calvin had first of all counted the the Churches of Christ in America ternational order in which the spirit cost, or weighed the chance of his In­ has cut another notch on its gun­ of Christ shall rule. In such an order stitutes ever being accepted by any barrel. The Church of the Brethren. alone will our cherished freedoms, but a few people, we would probably meeting in general conference at La including the freedom of conscience, still be under the bondage of Rome. Verne, California, voted to become a be secure. Let us unite in labor and Our duty is before us and the results member of the vast interchurch and prayer to hasten its coming." And that are in the hands of God whose arm is inc1usivist body. This is the third na­ gospel of spiritualized economics not shortened that it cannot save. The tional denomination to sign up within seemed to keynote the entire con­ world today is seeking an interpreta- the last nine months. The other two vention. t ;I i j 1941 THE PRESBYTERIAN GUARDIAN 47

Missouri Lutherans Pursue Unity complishments of the league to the Unity of a far more desirable char­ fact that the Communist Party not 20% S1IIIIIDer Disc.IUII Sale acter than the unity of the Federal only seeks to promote the league in Discount applies to every book in stock. Councilor of International Christian a general way but also exercises direct Send for catalog. Mention THE PRESBY' Endeavor was a goal of the thirty­ control over its work. Pointing out TERIAN GUABDIAN. eighth triennial convention of the that the influence of the church has SCHULTE'S BOOK STORE Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Mis­ not been as greatly weakened as is 80 and 82 Fourth Ave., New York City souri, Ohio and Other States (Missouri popularly thought, the arch-atheist de­ Synod Lutheran. Church). "We ex­ elared that "this calls for increased press our deep regret," said the Synod, efforts by the Godless League." He CHRISTIAN "that the Lutheran Church of our also cited as a reason for the need of country is not united, especially in greater activity, the "future special these days of spiritual indifferentism, tasks abroad where, except in the LIFE SERIES apostasy and unbelief, which have in­ United States, England and Switzer­ creased its responsibility to hold aloft land, all free-thinking associations Sunday School Literature the banner of purity of doctrine." In have now been dissolved .. ." past years, members of the Missouri Yaroslavsky states that the total following the Synod have repeatedly made it clear number of Godless cells in the sixty­ that the only unity with which they two subdivisions of the league on Janu­ Int. Uniform Lesson Topics will be content is that true unity ary 1, 1941, was 115,477, as against HELPS FOR ALL which embraces purity in both doc­ 95,159 during 1939. Enrolled mem­ trine and practice. bers of the league were reported as DEPARTMENTS 3,45°,182, as against 2,292,036 in Sample pack on application Nazis Gag Dutch Press 1939. Other statistics given are as by Sunday School Officials Following an order issued in Amster­ follows: Address dam by the Dutch Ministry of In­ Anti-religious discussion groups: formation, which requires all editors 9,698 with 71,982 participants, as UNION GOSPEL PRESS to join a state-dominated journalistic against 5,086 with 82,536 participants BOll: 6059 . Cleveland, Ohio association, the heads of most of the in 1939. Protestant synods informed the minis­ Anti-religious seminars: 5,060 with try that church journals are privately 77,011 participants, as against 4,824 owned and that the state cannot inter­ with 77,231 participants in 1939. vene in their affairs. The churchmen Anti-religious museums: Two prin­ also instructed the editors of religious cipal museums (in Moscow and Len­ papers to ignore the order. It is likely ingrad), seventeen "republican" and that the result of this refusal to "co­ twenty-seven "regional" museums. operate" will mean the end of the Anti-religious lectures: 239,000 with Dutch Protestant religious press; if so, 10,765,000 auditors, as against 200,­ the suppression will be justified by 000 with 6,323,000 auditors in 1939. the Nazis. in the name of the con­ Publications: 1,832 books with 140,­ servation of paper to be diverted to 200 copies, representing a total of other more important uses, as was four hundred million printed pages, ideal done in the case of the entire Roman published between 1928 and 1940. Catholic press in Holland. In 1941, according to Yaroslavsky, it GRAND CENTRAL lOCATION For the second time since March is planned to publish forty general Free use swimming pool, solarium, zoth, the War Cry, Salvation Army scientific writings, fourteen works in library and gymnasium. weekly published in Amsterdam, has natural science and thirteen specialized Squash courts and Health Club been ordered by Nazi authorities to scientific works. facilities with steam cabinets and suspend publication. German officials massage available at nominal cost. stated that the magazine's circulation Dutch Churches Protest to Government was too high, and the paper was An official protest which the Dutch Popular Priced Restaurant Protestant churches made to repre­ needed for other purposes. The Salva­ e sentatives of the government last tion Army of Holland was dissolved SENSIBLE RATES some weeks ago, but a few former March over the "development of officers were permitted limited activity. events" throughout The Netherlands DAILY •• from $2.25 has just been made public in Geneva. WEEKLY from $11.00 Godless Russia The communication was sent to the During the past year, the League council of general secretaries of the of Militant Godless in Russia has various government departments by SHELTON HOTEL strengthened its propaganda and in­ the Convention of Churches. This LEXINGTON A,VE., at 49th ST. creased the success of its movement, body includes the Dutch Reformed NEW YOU according to its leader, Yaroslavsky, Church, the Reformed Churches, the ;.I...... KNon Mono.emeRt in a recent issue of the magazine, Christian Reformed Church, the A••• WALTY, Mo"o... ., Antireligiosnik. He credited the ac- Arminian Brotherhood, the Men-

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nonite Brotherhood and the Evan­ of Westminster Seminary are urged to j gelical Lutheran Church. make every effort to be present on this GRADED The communication said, in part: important occasion. "The churches are deeply disturbed I about the development of the events LESSONS which becomes increasingly evident. The proclamation of the Word of LECTURERS AT MINISTERIAL j God which has been entrusted to that TEACH them obliges them to take their stand CONFERENCE ARE ANNOUNCED for law and justice, for truth and love. THE BIBLE They must raise their voice when in HE Fourth Annual Ministeri~l public life these great values are TConference sponsored by" the ) If you believe that the Bible should be threatened or rejected. That these Alumni Association of Westminster taught in the Sunday School, you will be values are now in great danger can­ satisfied with nothing less than STANDARD Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, True-to-the-Bible, Christ-Centered Sunday not be denied by those who observe will be held at the seminary from School Courses. Send for the situation of our national life. Monday, August z cth, to Friday, I "Thus, there are in the picture August zoth. The first lecture will i FREE PROSPECTUS which life in the streets shows more begin at 3 P.M. Monday and the final which gives complete details of these out­ and more clearly, in the treatment to lecture will conclude at noon on standing Sunday School Lessons, both which the Jewish section of the putch Friday, thus enabling ministers to at­ Graded and Uniform. Tell us department population is increasingly subjected, in tend between Sundays. in which you are interested. Enjoy the the growing uncertainty with regard The lecturers will be Dr. Gordon same splendid results from your teaching to the administration of justice, in H. Clark, Professor of Philosophy at that thousands of STANDARD-using schools the continuing jeopardizing of such are experiencing. Mail your request today. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, Address Department PG-8. liberties as are indispensable condi­ the Rev. John H. Skilton, Instructor tions for the fulfilling of Christian in New Testament at Westminster THE STANDARD PUBLISHING CO duties, clear symptoms of a situation Seminary, who will speak on the rela­ sOH & CU1TER STS CINCINNATI OHIO which not only lies like a great burden tion between Christianity and Culture, on the consciences of our fellow and the Rev. Robert Strong, S.T.D., countrymen, but which also conflicts, pastor of the Calvary Orthodox Pres­ according to our deepest convictions, byterian Church of Willow Grove, with the claims of God's Word. Pa., who will lecture on Amillennial­ ASbort Walk to tbe "It is for this reason that the ism. Mr. Skilton and Dr. Strong will churches feel obliged to tum to your lecture each day; Dr. Clark will not I council with the urgent request to use be present on Monday and Tuesday. Cburcbof Your Cboice all means at your command to insure Each evening there will be a worship that justice, truth and mercy may be service, addressed by ministers attend­ When in Atlantic City, you will the standards of action of government ing the conference. find the Hotel Runnymede, lo­ in the present time." Meals will be served at the semi­ cated on beautiful Park Place nary and dormitory facilities of the and free from the noise of traffic, seminary will be available for the dele­ but a few minutes walk to what­ gates. With the exception of Monday, ever church' you wish to attend. DR. GREENWAY TO SPEAK all lectures will be given in the morn­ ings and the afternoons will be free Here at this lovely hotel, you AT WESTMINSTER OPENING for recreation. The cost will be $i for will find bright sunny rooms, an registration and $4 for board. Dele­ enclosed Solarium and open Sun HE opening exercises of West­ gates are invited to bring their wives Deck overlooking the Boardwalk Tminster Theological Seminary's for whom there will be no registra­ and Ocean, good wholesome thirteenth year will be held on tion charge. The only charge for chil­ food properly prepared and a Wednesday afternoon, September dren will be half the cost of board, 1 cordial personnel that antici­ 24th, on the campus at Laverock, or $2. l pates your desires. Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. The ad­ The conference is based on the No Liquor SeNled dress will be delivered by the Rev. consistent Biblical Christianity set Leonard Greenway, Th.D., pastor of forth in the Reformed Standards, and For Moderate Ratel! and lllul!trated the Eighth Reformed Church of this point of view will be interpreted Folder, write Grand Rapids, Michigan. His subject and maintained throughout. Although EVERETT J. HIGBEE, Manager will be "Historic Fact and Christian the conference is primarily for minis­ Faith." ters, any laymen interested are cor­ Dr. Greenway is reputed to be one dially invited to enroll. Those wishing of the best orators in this countrv to enroll may do so by sending their among ministers who hold to the Re­ registration fse as promptly as possible formed Faith, and his address is ex­ to the Rev. Leslie W. Sloat, Westmin­ pected to be eminently worthwhile as ster Theological Seminary, Chestnut ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY well as thoroughly popular. All friends Hill, Philadelphia.