Calvin Synod Herald, 2004 (105. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2004-01-01 / 1-2. szám
10 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD Section 1, Part 2 describes the intolerableness of a wounded conscience. It explains why some do not always feel the sting of sin, and it provides twenty persuasive against sin. Section 2, Part 1 shows how wrong it is to comfort those who do not sorrow over sin or who do so for wring reasons. Bolton explains how ministers should apply comfort to such people - neither too little nor too much. Section 2, Part 2 deals with the right methods and ways to cure afflicted consciences. Section 3, Part 1 addresses ways of comfort that arise from outside of us and from within us through the Scriptures and the marks of grace. It also tells how those marks may be identified. Section 3, Part 2, the longest section of the book, deals with maladies of the conscience and various ways to heal each one. Here Bolton especially offers help for dealing with a tormented soul. Most of that advice flows out of a lifetime of counseling many troubled believers, including some from the continent, who sought Bolton’s spiritual counsel. Despite his busyness, Bolton’s devotional habits were strong. He habitually prayed six times a day and observed days of humiliation, especially before the Lord’s Supper. One biographer wrote, “He used such humility, and such fervency and faith with God, as if he had been a child talking with his parent.” Bolton died December 17,1631. He had a painful, prolonged illness prior to death. His sickbed served as a pulpit from which he spoke to his family and numerous visitors. He often expressed his ardent longing to be with Christ, saying, “Oh, when will this good hour come? When shall I be dissolved? When shall I be with Christ?” Two days before he died, he said, “I feel nothing in my soul but Christ, with whom I heartily desire to be.” He said he had never taught anything in his sermons that he had not first sought to “work on my own heart.” When he said farewell to his children, he reminded them of what he had taught them so many times, and said that he “was persuaded that none of them durst think to meet him at the great tribunal in an unregenerate state.” Blessed is the father who has liberty to say this to his own children on his deathbed! Bethlen Home - Good News! Dear Friends and Supporters of Bethlen Home: We are finally able to report some good news to Bethlen Home’s many supporters and friends. On October 14th, the Bethlen Home received verbal commitment from Fleet National Bank concerning our letter of credit application. The Vice President of Fleet Bank is ready to provide the Letter of Credit commitment which would support the bond financing of construction of the new Bethlen Nursing Home. The Lord willing, Bethlen Home is on track to begin construction of the new nursing home. The residents and staff of Bethlen Home thank the many supporters and friends who keep the Home in their prayers, and who support the Home with their volunteer rime and monetary donations. We are grateful to God for you! Please do not stop praying now or helping. We will keep you abreast of all developments as we progress toward construction. In Christ. Rev. Imre A. Bertalan Karen M. Laude and Reverend Koloman Karl Ludwig were united in marriage on Saturday, November 29, 2003, at the Hungarian Reformed Church in Whiting, Indiana. Rev. Zoltán S. Süttőfrom Davison, Michigan officiated at the marriage ceremony.
