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The Christian Home

A series of essays on the Christian home stressing parental responsibility for religious education, covenant children, family worship, and warnings about mixed marriage and worldly influences.
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The Christian Citizen

Claims Christians should be active, loyal citizens—vote, hold office, defend country—but refuse state laws that violate God's commands. Cites Romans 13, Acts 5, Matt. 22.
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The Hope of a Christian World Order

Goddard: Christ’s resurrection is essential to Christian faith. Only the supernatural gospel, applied by the Holy Spirit and proclaimed in preaching, can produce a truly Christian society.
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The Word of God and the Present Return to Religion

Evaluates the wartime 'return to religion', arguing true revival is mediated by the Word—marked by Bible interest, repentance, and Christ-centered conversion, not mere experience.
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Thanksgiving and Repentance

1942 Presbyterian Guardian pieces: a missionary exposes Japan's Shinto imperialism; editorials decry America's dechristianization, call national repentance, and criticize clergy wartime politics.
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The Best Kind of Preaching

Argues that rejecting the Bible undermines ethics (illustrated by Shinto), defends expository Reformed preaching that proclaims both Christ's cross and kingdom, and considers pulpit duties in wartime.
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The Cross and the Kingdom

Argues that rejecting the Bible undermines ethics—using Japanese Shinto as an example—and warns of societal decline. Urges expository, Reformed preaching that proclaims both Christ's cross and kingdom.
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Christianity and State Totalitarianism

Denounces state totalitarianism as an antichristian usurpation of Christ's sovereignty. Defends divine 'sphere sovereignty' of family, church, and state and urges the church to proclaim Christ as remedy.
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Dr. Romig on Original Sin

Urges Christians to speak clearly on WWII—rejecting pacifist modernism—and rebukes Dr. Romig's denial of infant guilt, defending the Reformed doctrine of original sin.
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The Reformed Church in America on Trial

Editorial links modern war and cultural crisis to Enlightenment rationalism and denial of divine law, and warns the Reformed church against rejecting original sin and doctrinal drift.
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Presbyterianism Versus Independentism

Two essays defend the significance of Christian (and biblical) history and historic doctrines, and contend that Presbyterian polity better preserves doctrinal truth, unity, and discipline.
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God’s Will and God’s Word

Reflection on Christ's crucifixion ('It is finished') and an argument that Scripture alone, illumined by the Spirit, is the sole infallible rule for knowing God's will.
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A Good Book on a Great Theme

Editorial criticizes Princeton's post-1929 shift toward experience-based theology and inclusivism, defending traditional Reformed faith; includes a review on Christian faith and reports on home missions' visitation progress.
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Two Features of the Reformed Faith

Argues the Reformed Faith is broad and universal, rooted in Westminster standards. It embraces genuine Christians but excludes Modernism, affirming salvation by sovereign grace.
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A Plea for Peace

A plea for Presbyterian unity grounded in truth and holiness; warns against Modernism, Arminian compromise, factionalism and antinomianism while allowing liberty on nonessentials.
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