Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 99:394 (Apr 1942)
Article: Editorials
Author: Anonymous

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Editorials

One Hundred Years of Testimony

This quarterly completes its first hundred years under the name BIBLIOTHECA SACRA on January 1, 1943. It is evidently the oldest theological journal in America and is to be honored for its strong, orthodox testimony from the beginning to the present hour. It is more quoted in encyclopedias and dictionaries in the English language than any other theological magazine. Its articles have always been of the highest order and contributed by the leaders of conservative thought in their generation. The completed files occupy a seventeen-foot shelf and every page is vital from the first number to the last.

The magazine has been made more definitely an instructive agent in theological thought since it came under the editorial management of the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1934. It now provides, as no other periodical in the world, a full-rounded, advanced study for ministers and instructed laymen in all departments of theological discipline-Systematic Theology, Hebrew Exegesis, Greek Exegesis, Church History, Homiletics and English Bible Interpretation. Many are writing us that no minister or student who wishes to go on in the knowledge of God’s truth can afford to be without this means of study.

Very special plans are being made for the centennial year and especially the centennial number of January 1, 1943. Though that number will be much extended and of special import, it will be included at the same rate to all who are subscribers.

All Truth

Little indeed is the practical use that is made of the divine provision for learning which the indwelling Spirit is appointed to undertake. In the

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Upper Room the night before His crucifixion Christ introduced a new and marvelous ministry for the Spirit with the words: “But I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you” (John 16:12–15).

The extent of this field is limitless. Not only does Christ say that the believer will be shown things to come and things of Christ and of the Father, but also that the Spirit “will guide you into all truth.” The objective is immeasurable and the method is assuring since it is said once that He, the Spirit, will guide into truth and three time...