All around the battle rages With the hosts of sin and wrong; Only to the true and loyal Shall the victory belong. Lo! Our Captain goes before us! Shall we follow where he leads? Who is willing for the service? Who is ripe for noble deeds? Lo, the ranks of sin and error, How they […]
He didn’t care a thing about Christ. Oh, he went to a Congregational church every Sunday morning, but he didn’t hear of the Christ who died for sinners. Then, one day, after his pastor had moved to another church, he went to a church in a nearby city—also Congregational—and there, after many months of biblical preaching, became […]
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth, or saith he it assuredly for our sake? I Corinthians 9:9, 10a Frequently this Bible text is assumed […]
The Synod of Dort convened on November 13, 1618. It was, however, January 18, 1619, before they addressed themselves to the intricate problems posed by the five articles of the Remonstrants. One big reason for this long delay was the subtle strategy of Episcopius. As a clever parliamentarian he wanted to formulate the problems to be discussed. He wanted to […]
In the September 29, 1955, issue of The Christian Century a challenging article appeared under the title of ‘“The Church’s Suburban Captivity.” In it the writer attempted to point up what he considered one of the greatest perils of American ecclesiastical life. Since World War II the trek from the larger cities with their overcrowded streets and outmoded houses to the […]
Charles Darwin was not the inventor of the idea of Evolution, but it was he, more than anyone else, who first popularized it by the publication of his book The Origin of Species in 1859. The transformation produced in the thought of the Western world by the evolutionary theory and its advocates was both rapid and […]
The Messianic Prophecies of Daniel EDWARD J. YOUNG (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1954 pp. 88, $1.50) Professor E. J. Young’s The Messianic Prophecies of Daniel might well have been subtitled “An Antidote to Dispensationalism.” Prof. Young considers these great Messianic passages of Daniel not only from the dispensational interpretation but also from the higher critical point […]