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and accomplishes what the world deemsimpossible.We may apply the test to comfortand hope. So we get discouragedin the Christian life? Do we seem toourselves at times as dull, cold, and almostheartless? Are the fires of emotion burninglow in ourselves, and do we lack the livelyemotions of exultation once experienced?These are not the supreme tests of love.Thank God, wherever we are and whatevercircumstances we are placed in, thecommandmentsstill abide with us and wemay prove our fidelity to Christ inobedience to His commandment to love.—Rev. Edward A. Reed, D.DSome Gall — and other reflections on ear life and tell him that she loved him.by James Buckingham. 148 pages. $3.95. Do you know that is the normal,Word Books, Waco, Texas.natural attitude of the human heart towardThis gives incidents and experiences God at its best? We do not need to knowthat illustrate Bible texts used by Mr. only the facts about Him. Those are allBuckingham. It is very refreshing. known to every one of us. It is not that.M.W.D. God is waiting for you, just to have yourheart move out toward Him and to hear"Tell God That You Love Him"In the Middle West some years agothere was a gentleman whose littlechild was born deaf and dumb. Shortlyafterwards her mother died. He was leftalone to care for her, and so lovingly did hecare for her that a friend said he never sawanything likeit on earth. The child of thefamily who is crippled always gets the mostlove and care. He simply surrendered hislife to her. Outside of business hours hespent his whole time with her. They wereconstant companions and the sweetestkind of affection was theirs.They learned a sign language; no onecould understand it, but they could understandit. So those early years passed byand then he came to the moment he wasgoing to Europe to be gone several months.A friend said to him, "I would place thischild of yours in an institution, where theydo wonderful things for the deaf and dumb.She will be best cared for there." Hedecided to do it.Nearly a year passed and he was toreturn. His child had always respected andcared for her father, but that absenceNOTICEThe Board of Home Missions andChurch Extension will meet onTuesday, May 25, at 10 A.M., Genevacollege. Matters to be considered bythe Board should be sent to thecorresponding secretary before May 23,1971.Edward A. Robson,Corresponding Secretaryalmost took her heart and drew it acrossthe sea. She was all the time talking abouther father. There was a special reason whyshe could hardly wait for him to return. Itwas not enough just to take the step toknow the father and appreciate the father.That was not enough. Something else wasthe supreme element, and when he cameback this was what took place. That childrushed into her father's arms and pressedher little lips to his ear and to hisamazement said, "Papa, I love you." Theyhad taught her in seven months to moveher lips and say, "Papa." He dropped like adead man upon the floor. It was too muchfor him. He was completely overcome.She could hardly wait to get her lips to hisyour whisper of love. Just tell God thatyou love Him. —Cortland Myers, D.D.GENEVA PARTICIPATESIN NATIONAL JOURNALGeneva College is one of fifteencolleges from Massachusetts to Californiasponsoring the Christian Scholar's Review.A quarterly journal for scholars in alldisciplines, the Review seeks to integratethe Christian faith with the arts andsciences.The Review is published by an independentboard of editors, but sponsoredby colleges whose institutional aimscoincide with those of the journal. Dr.Norman Carson, professor of English andChairman of the Department of English, isGeneva's representative on the Board ofEditors.This journal is intended as a mediumthrough which Christian scholars maycommunicate their faith and learning onboth the intra—and inter-disciplinarylevels, providing a forum for the discussionof theoretical issues of Christian highereducation.The Christian Scholar's Reviewwelcomes articles of high standards oforiginal scholarship and of general interestdealing with all aspects of Christianthought and the inter-relationship ofChristian thought with all areas ofscholarly interest.The editorial staff includes: GeorgeK. Brushaber, Gordon College, Editor;Edward E. Ericson, Westmont College,Book Review Editor; James Barcus,Houghton College, Associate Editor(Humanities); George Marsden, CalvinCollege. Associate Editor (Social Sciences)and David Lindberg, Institute for AdvancedStudies. Associate Editor i NaturalSciences).Other colleges cooperating withGeneva are Anderson College, Anderson.Indiana; Barrington College. Barrington,R.I.: Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn.;Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.;Gordon College, Wenham, Mass.;Houghton College. Houghton, N.Y.;Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa;Nyack Missionary College, Nyack, N.Y.;Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor,Mich.; Taylor University, Upland, Ind.;Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights,111.; Trinity College, Deerfield, 111.;Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif.and Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111.EARLW.SCHULTZ,IR.Geneva College has been attemptingto bring leading spokesman of theEvangelical Christian Community to itscampus to address students. As a part ofthat program Earl W. Schultz, Jr., VicePresident, Youth for Christ International(YFCI) in the thirteen-state Eastern Area,was the guest speaker at chapel on March31 and April 1.He pioneered the YFC program in1947 in Hampstead, Md., and continued asits director for 22 years, serves on theYFCI President's Cabinet and is chairmanof the Overseas Committee. In July 1969he was one of the featured speakers at theInternational Convention, Winona Lake,Indiana.Each summer Schultz directs theannual conference at Ocean City, N.J., forthe 57 rallies in the Eastern States areawhich in 1970 had an attendance in excessof 2,500.In the fall of 1968, Mr. Schultzcompleted a six-week assignment for YFCIwhich took him around the world. Heministered to the leadership of Youth forChrist in Europe, the Middle East, Centraland Southeast Asia, Far East and the SouthPacific. In 1959 he took his first trip toMadras, India, for the 10th WorldCongress for Christian Youth.Youth for Christ International is aninterdenominational organizationspecializing in teen evangelism in theUnited States and in 39 other countries ofthe world.King Edward the Sixth of England,cm the day of his coronation, had presentedbefore him three swords signifying he wasmonarch of three kingdoms (EnglandScotland, Ireland). The king said there wasone sword missing; being asked whatitwas, he said, "The Holy Bible which is theSword of the Spirit, and is to be preferredbefore these ensigns of royalty."—Thomas Watson,in Spurgeon s Treasury of DavidAPRIL 14, 1971 15
GROUP THERAPY from page 9may include as few as two, as in the examples given inMatthew 5 and 18. That is to say, a Biblical groupingprovides for the possibility of reconciliation and seeks thisas its end. The group, therefore, must be composed of theestranged parties. Confession is wrongly viewed when it isconceived of as an end in itself. Unbiblical groups distortconfession, making it a personal catharsis that occursthrough ventilation. Confession rather must be seen as ameans leading toward forgiveness and reconciliation. It isa loving act in which the other person is prominently inview, not one focused merely on one's self (Ephesians4:32).Groups stressing confession in a non-reconciliationcontext often actually impede reconciliation. Airing one'ssins before the group may temporarily reduce the pressureof the guilt of unconfessed sin and estrangement. Therelief is temporary, to be sure, because in the long runsuch ventilation increases one's sense of guilt. Since theoriginal problem has not been solved by simply ventilatingit, the poor relationship has not been bettered, and theventilation itself has added the guilt of slander to analready over-burdened conscience.NEED FOR FELLOWSHIPThe amazing growth of groups must be explained asa multi-factored phenomena. For instance, new elementsthat characterize our modern mobile society, such as thevirtual dissolution of village-style community life, havecontributed to an acute sense of need for fellowship andfriendship. After all, God made man a social creature whoshould find his fellowship in the groups that God ordained— the family, the church, etc. There is nothing wrong withthe grouping together of God's people for worship, formutual instruction and encouragement, for service andfellowship. God Himself has endorsed and encouragedsuch grouping (Hebrews 10:24,25).It is not the idea of a group that must be opposed,but the distortion of the Biblical idea. The problem withtherapy and encounter groups is that since they are unbiblicalto start with, they meet for the wrong purposes,they exist on the wrong basis, they operate with the wrongpersonnel, and they use the wrong methods.There is one note yet to sound: The church hasfailed in large measure to help Christians meet their socialneeds and interpersonal relations in a truly Biblicalmanner, ft is time to do so. And this can be done only bymaking provisions for all of those crucial social elementsthat have been lost. The church must provide for itsmembers more wholesome social contact; it must preachand teach more frequently and specifically about themutual ministry of all believers to one another in whichthe Spirit's gifts are used for the benefit of all.Finally, the church must reinstitute both informaland formal discipline among its members for the glory ofGod, the welfare of the church, and the reclamation andreconciliation of the offender. Encounter and therapy16groups are not the answer.• • •The Presbyterian Guardian* Dr. Adams is Associate Professor of Practical Theology,as well as Dean of Students and Registrar, at WestminsterTheological Seminary. He also serves as a counselor forthe Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation.Clergy's StandBy Rev. Don LovingIn "Civilization On Trial," Arnold Toynbee said,"Out of 21 civilizations preceding this one, 19 of themhave been destroyed by a mixture of atheism, materialism,socialism, and alcoholism."Last year, in our country, 25,000 people were killedby drunk drivers on our highways to say nothing of thosestill physically living whose lives are wrecked.Is alcoholism a disease or a sin? If we accept the"disease" concept of alcoholism we must, in all honesty,accept the following facts:1. It is the only disease that is contracted by an actof will;2. It is the only disease that requires a license topropagate it;3. It is the only disease that is bottled and sold;4. It is the only disease that requires outlets tospread it;5. It is the only disease that produces revenue forthe government;6. It is the only disease that provokes crime;7. It is the only disease that is habit forming;8. It is the only disease that is spread by advertising;9. It is the only disease that is without a germ orvirus cause and for which there is no human correctivemedicine.It seems to be very hypocritical to license one to sellthat which will make another drunk and then punish theman who gets drunk. It is hypocritical to license one to sellthat which causes some to become paupers, criminals, andinmates in mental institutions while taxing sober peoplefor their support.It is hypocritical to license saloons to breed vice andcollect taxes for schools to teach virtue. It is hypocriticalto support an enemy which killed, in two years afterPearl Harbor, more Americans than did the Germans andJapanese combined.Maybe sin is not a big enough word to identifyalcoholism but if it is a "disease" it is a self-inflicted one. Aman is not an alcoholic before he drinks alcohol any morethan a child has mumps before he contracts the germ.Those who accept the authority of the Holy Bible wouldbe unrealistic to believe other than that drunkenness is sinbefore it becomes a disease.Editor's Note. This was taken from the Las Vegas Sun. It issignificant that it should come from such a source.—The Kansas IssueCOVENANTER WITNESS
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THE COVENANTER WITNESSOfficial orgr
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Glimpses of the Religious WorldRev.
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REV. J. PAUL WILSON WRITES:Nicosia,
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NOTICE OF CALLOn November 22, 1970,
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STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENTTHE WHITE
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Home for the Aged in Hot Springs."
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How Safe Are You:Rev. D. Howard Ell
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BOOKSFrom The Study Window by Rev.
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The Rest We NeedThe Rev. Joel H. Ne
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