Serious Call or Well-Meant Offer? (2)

In an earlier article, in the March 15, 1897 issue of The Standard Bearer, I showed that the teaching (and practice) of a "well-meant offer of the Gospel" to all who hear the preaching is a lively issue in Reformed, Presbyterian, and Calvinistic circles to day, both in our country and abroad, and that adoption of this explanation of the Divine calling vitally affects fundamental doctrines of the historic Reformed Faith. In the course of their defense of the offer, some are now referring to the...