DEAR FELLOW-MEMBERS,

As we pen these opening words, our minds travel back over the

years to 1914, when we wrote the foreword to Volume IV, in the

shadow of the Great War. We find no mention there of the fearful

conflict then raging, but instead, an expansion of the words:

Since that year, what experiences have been ours!  What

failures of the flesh, what triumphs of grace have marked our path!

Twenty-five years of unpopular testimony have filled the interval;

many precious lessons have been learned; much truth made clear;

mysteries resolved; interpretations discovered; and joy in the

Lord and His Word deepened--yet when all has been said, we find

it impossible--even in the darker days that may await us--to ask

for our readers anything better than the prayer of 1914:

Yours in the truth that makes free,

CHARLES H. WELCH

FREDERICK P. BRININGER

PHILIP DIVE