Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

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The Editor's Page
I DARE YOU
A stunning letter received two or three years
ago said something like this : "Please cancel my sub
scription. The paper carries no
Sixteen
pages weekly, going into thousands of homes, more
than 800 pages in a year, and not a challenge in a
carload if that charge can be sustained, the crime
is unpardonable. "Guilty, or not
"Your Honor, I confess that I am
guilty to a de
gree, for 'there is not a just man on the earth that
doeth good and sinneth but I am not so guilty
as the plaintiff affirms, as the defense will attempt
to show, and the readers and the fail-to-read-ers
are particeps criminis. Cross examine yourselves.
EHIBIT A. Our front page.
Name
"The Cove
nanter Witness." That is YOU. To the left is his
picture, a man with a seed bag, going forth to sow.
The field is the world see map. The seed is the
Word of God, including the Gospel of Salvation, and
all the truths for which our church stands
to every
creature. Is that challenge too small for your abili
ties Dr. Paul McCracken took that name plate for
the theme and preached a most challenging sermon
on it.
EXHIBIT B. The Guest Editorials on page 1.
These have been most highly commended by those
who have ears to hear. Some weeks ago there ap
peared one "We Win by Surrendering." A challenging
title! The Christian Digest asked for permission to
reproduce it and did in their March number. Since
then three other magazines (one of them a Rescue
Mission publication) have asked our permission to
print the article. Perhaps others are printing it also
without asking;
nators, just one of the relays.
we hope so. We were not the origi
EXHIBIT C. Two pages of news,
never profane, by Drs. Allen and Russell. Very in
formative. If you do not find in them a challenge to
take courage, take up arms or tools, or pen to write
legislators, to pray, or to pass on your paper, whose
fault is it, theirs or yours
religious but
EXHIBIT D. The Editor's Page: No comment.
This is it. Does it challenge
EXHIBIT E. The next few pages are devoted
to the milk and the strong meat of the Word. Do not
skip them if they look too long for a restless mind.
They were written with considerable effort and care
for your edification, and they may be concerning the
very matters for which you will have to give an
account in the Day of Judgment. For this cause,
many are weak and sickly among you.
What of the church member that doesn't keep
up on his mission news Maybe he doesn't even know
of Japan, China, Syria, or Cyrus. The congregation
that does not insist on a Covenanter Witness going
into every home every week is inviting disaster in
the not distant future.
Now about those book reviews and the Tither's
Corner, surely no one will chalsay
that there is no
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lenge in either of them, to read a book, and to give
to the cause of the Lord that bought you.
EXHIBIT F. The Lesson Helps. The very head
ings are a challenge for every person from the Junior
to the aged to find their place in the Church Pro
gram, either as a teacher or a pupil and to grow
in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. You are challenged to attend
the mid-week prayer meeting, Sabbath School, etc.
Over against the letter mentioned above I cite
one from an out-of-bounds member, asking for sev
eral Witnesses of a particular date, and the addresses
of certain persons. She had found several items in
that number that had challenged her. The C.Y.P.U.
Topic had been "What I Find in My Psalm Book"
and she had induced a choir leader of another church
to train the choir to sing the Psalms, and other
groups to do likewise. She wanted Bible readers for
other groups, and I have forgotten other matters, but
she was really putting her Witness and its chal
lenges to work.
EXHIBIT G. If the ladies will pardon, we will
pass by their W.M.S. column, to mention the Church
News. There are many challenges here if you will
search for them. "Mr. and Mrs. A are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. B, C, and D." Visiting and breaking bread
from house to house is a real Christian service if
properly performed. "I was sick and ye visited
Visited Christ. "Pure and undefiled religion is
this to visit the fatherless and "And be
not forgetful to entertain strangers, for many there
by have entertained angels
The sick are
to be prayed for, and the bereaved to be comforted.
The retired minister who sends out all those cheer
ful postcards is doing a magnificent service. And
then there is that Sabbath School that increased
their attendance from 65 to . 265 in a few months
through advertising and visiting! Isn't that a chal
lenge to us all
THE COVENANTER WITNESS
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REFORMED PEESBYTEBIAN CHURCH
OF NORTH AMERICA
at 129 West 6th Street. Newton, Kansas or
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Doctrine, Worship and Life
For individuals, churches and nations
Opinions expressed in our columns are those of the individual writers
not necessarily the views of the Covenanter Church or of the Editor.
Dr. Raymond Taggart, D.D., Editor
1209 Boswell Avenue, Topeka Kansas
Contributing. Editors
Frank E. Allen. D.D.
Prof. William H. Russell
Walter McCarroll. D.D.
Remo I. Robb. D.D.
Departmental Editors
Rev. John O. Edgar
Mrs. J. O. Edgar
Mrs. Ross Latimer
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