Dear Friends: We left San Francisco on Tuesday, May 24th, for Honolulu. It was good to spend a day on the Oahu Island to see the pineapples grow. We recommend that you go there and get a drink of fresh pineapple juice at the fruitstand. While on a four-hour sightseeing tour the tidal wave warnings […]

When we think back to Calvin and his valiant defense of the faith we can only wish that to some extent we might be filled with as much love for the truth and hatred of sin as he was. IMPARTIALITY When Calvin was about to die he had a deep consciousness of his lack of […]

There is back of all that Calvin wrote a deep joy because of sins forgiven. He knew that through Christ he had been reconciled to God. He therefore looked with deep compassion upon the multitudes of men about him who knew not this reconciliation with God. These multitudes of men had no one to point them […]

Dr. Carl F. H. Henry’s book Evangelical Responsibility in Contemporary Theology is small in size but rich in content. It gives a bird’s eye view of the current theological scene. And, of course, it gives this survey from the evangelical point of view. In particular it wants to discover the opportunity and therewith the responsibility […]

Of Law and Love: The Ten Commandments and the Cross of Christ PETER H. ELDERSVELD (Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1954, pp. 85. $1.50.) It was a heartwarming experience to read this slender book. The thirteen sermons are on a timely subject. They display that same quiet but compelling style that has distinguished Mr. Eldersveld as one […]

“Ye are my witnesses” said Jehovah God to Israel through the mouth of his prophet Isaiah. “This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise” (Isaiah 43:21). In those words are summed up the whole task of the people of God in this world. The New Testament through Peter tells us […]

“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (I Cor. 15:58, A.R.V.) Paul wants the Corinthian Christians to be witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This was, however, a very difficult matter, especially in Corinth. […]

In preceding articles we have sought to indicate something of the difference between a Reformed and an “evangelical” apologetics. Both Mr. White, the Reformed apologete, and Mr. ‘ Grey, the evangelical apologete, seek to defend the truth of Christianity. Both seek to get Mr. Black, the non-believer, to accept the truth about God and his creation. […]

We are concerned in this series of articles with the problem of Reformed apologetics. In the first three articles we discussed the general nature of Reformed apologetics. Its method, we saw, is radically different from that of Romanist-evangelical apologetics. The latter starts from the presupposition that man has a measure of ultimacy or autonomy. This […]

THE Concordia Publishing House of Saint Louis, Missouri, is currently publishing a translation of the late Francis Pieper’s book on Christliche Dogmatik, or, translated, Christian Dogmatics. There are to be three volumes. Two or them have already appeared. With great force and conviction, Dr. Pieper sets forth orthodox Lutheran theology. For Pieper, Lutheranism is Christianity come to its own. Non-Lutheran forms of […]