Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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He atone merited the Father s favor . He alone received the full blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from llie God of His salvation. It is true that every man is under divine blessing. God ' s children arc peculiarly sensible of that fact, believing that “Every good gift ami every perfect gift is from above, and cometli down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning,” but that they receive them as unworthy dependents, not on Lhe basis of merit. God’s blessing to sinful men is all of grace, but His blessing upon this Man is of merit, for Ills righteousness is from the God of His salvation. lie alone is worthy of worship. Thai is why the generation of believers seek Him; that is why they arc attracted to Him; that is why they hope Lo spend eternity with Him. He is the embodiment of all for which believers hope. In fact, He is Head over all things lo the Church, and on that account, is spoken of here as Jacob, the name that compassed the Old Testament church, the church of the Psalmist’s lime. He Is Also the Coming King “Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, 0 ye gales; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory. Selali” (verses 7-10}. The king- ship here spoken of, however, is the kingship of promise as well as position. When Christ completed His earthly ministry as the sinner’s substitute, He started straightway for His final office of the world’s kingship, and while His path led by the throne, where He stops as our intercessor, it will end as the world’s ruler. In that glorious estate He i$ recognized by the heavenly host, and the words of the Psalmist here are addressed to the heavenly ones, “Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; and he ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in” (verse 7). The figure employed here seems to refer to the faeL that when He had finished His conflict with the adversary, had conquered by the cross, and had triumphed over death and the grave. He returned Lo Liu? Land of Glory and this is the inspired record of His recep¬ tion. The gates of Heaven opened; the everlasting doors lifted up to let the King of Glory in. The second question, “Who is the King of Glory?” gave occasion to the answer, “The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle” (verse 8). This refers to the completeness of His work. At the very moment when Satan and all hell supposed that they had finished Him. He was coming Lo the completion of 11 is ear Lilly ministry, and could say, concerning His entire earthly work, “It is finished.” The soul’s redemption was purchased; the victory against death and the grave was absolute, and the righteous hopes of all heaven were realized. But to put past dispute the Messianic character of the Psalm, our last question arises—“Who is this King of Glory?” with the answer, “The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory.” Christ is the Lord of Hosts. We are told that in the Orient, doors were sometimes taken from their hinges, or, if they were the port-cull is form, drawn up at the ap¬ proach of the conquering king, Jt was an expression of the wide welcome which they accorded lo the approaching conqueror. This fact is made a figure of our Lord’s return to the Father’s House after His redemptive work was finished. It is little wonder that such a figure should he employed, and yeL, we feel that it hut faintly, represents what must have taken place in Heaven when all the archangels and the angels, and the en¬ tire portion of God’s family that was there, received our Saviour as He came from the scenes of earth’s conflict, a victor in all. And yet how poorly human language portrays such a scene! Our figures of speech fall far short, for the greatest demonstrations of earth are faint symbols of what Heaven must have witnessed when ChrisL returned, having accomplished salvation for man. [2-i]

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THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST PSALM 24 By Dit. V. B. Riley The Earth Is the Lord’s HE EARTH is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods (Psalm 24:1, 2). This statement conforms perfectly to the general teaching of the Bible, and asserts an accepted truth. I his Lordship of llie earth rests in certain definite and divinely recorded circumstances. First , He created the earth “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:3 ) He is the Creator of the earth not only in the sense that He gave it form, but in the fact that lie brought it into existence. He filled the earth “The earth is the Lord ' s and the fulness thereof. That is to say, He placed in it everything which the earth holds He created its grass, herbs, and trees, its fish and fowl, its creeping things, its mammals, its man I haL is why the silver and the gold are His; why the cattle upon a thousand hills are His; why all men all women, all children are His, so far, at least, as physical creation and factual origin are concerned He also founded ti. “For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods” (verse 2). Science and Scripture alike hear their testimony to the effect that the earth originally was without form and void, and it was God who said, “Let the waters under the heaven he gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it w f as so And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:9, 10 ) Mr, Spurgeon calls attention to the fact that waters make an unstable foundation, and moralizes, “They who trust in worldly things build upon the sea; hut we have laid our hopes, by God ' s grace, upon the Rock of Ages ” There is, however, a com¬ plementary truth, namely this, that God can make the unstable to he stable, and though He founded the earth on the seas, and set the continents to float in the same, yet He hath made them stable, dependable! Such is God ' s ability In fact, according to Job 26:7, “He hangeth the world on nothing,” and yet. since it is in His hand, its stability is assured. Who Is This Lord? This is the question raised in the third verse and answered in tire fourth fifth and sixth. “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place?” (verse 3) The answer is, Christ alone , Among all the men known Lo all the ages, He alone is holy; He alone hath clean hands and a pure heart; He alone lifted not up His soul to vanity nor swore deceitfully. Of all others there was none that did good; not one w-ithoul sin; not one with clean bands; not one with a pure heart In these relations, He stands solitary and alone. Of the rest, it is written, “They arc all gone out of the way there is none that doetli good, no, not one.” Rut of Him it was said, “Without sin ” He challenged Ills enemies as no other dare, “Which of you con vinceth Me of sin?” [ 23 ]

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HE OFFICES of our Deans form Lhe center from which radiates ilie program and work of Lhe school. It is here that the burdens and the problems incident to the administration of the institution are faced and solved. We can scarcely J appreciate the unnumbered hours of work and study and prayer spent here bv our Deans in behalf of the school life in its every phase. To the office of Mr. Robert L. Moyer, Dean of Men. the hoys come for coun¬ sel and advice. There is perhaps no one in Northwestern who bears a greater burden than Mr. Moyer. Yet, in spite of multiplied duties and innumerable demands upon Ids time, we find him kind, helpful, wise in his counsel. IIis remarkable ability as a teacher of the Word, his zeal and earnestness in the preaching of the Gospel, and the testimony of his life will ever be a blessing to us. To Miss Marie R. Acomb, Dean of Women, the girls of the Training School come with their problems and perplexities. Many a consultation has been held in her office. Many a difficulty has been thoughtfully discussed and prayed about, l ew are the moments in which there is no one waiting to see Miss Acomb. In addition to her many pressing duties as Dean of Women, Miss Acomb is also llie faculty adviser of the two student publications of Northwestern, the Pilot, our monthly magazine, and the SCROLL, our annual To her untiring efforts and capable direction is due, by the grace of God. the success of these literary enterprises. Miss Acomb is marked by rare executive and administrative ability and earnestness in her work. Her influence in the school is most keenly felt. We thank God for our Dean of Men and our Dean of Women, and for all that they have meant to us. [ 25 ]