This time we're going to invite a few more pastors to give us a brief testimony. I'd like to call to the platform, Reverend Ed Powey, Reverend Glenn Fisher, Reverend John Gross, Professor Claire Davis, and Elder Bill Bailow. First impressions are important. And I well remember the first time that I met Dr. Carl McIntyre. It was 1964, and I was a student at Bob Jones University. One of my teachers, William Lister, asked me what I was planning to do after graduation. I told him I was planning to go to Westminster Theological Seminary. Why do you want to go there, he said. Don't you know that? and he went on to tell me about Faith Theological Seminary and the differences between Faith and Westminster. He concluded by telling me that Dr. McIntyre, the President of the Board of Directors of Faith Seminary, was coming to Greenville and that he would take me to meet Dr. McIntyre. Mr. Lister was true to his words. He took me to the meeting and afterwards he introduced me to Dr. McIntyre. Praise the Lord for opening my eyes to the issues at hand, particularly the doctrine of biblical separation. Thank God I went to Faith Theological Seminary. I thank the Lord for the training that I received there, but I'll never forget the first time that I met Dr. McIntyre and how he taught separation from apostasy. The very last time we met Dr. McIntyre was the time that was just now referred to, last Thanksgiving. And one thing stands out very clearly in our minds regarding that last visit we had with him. Before we left, Dr. McIntyre prayed. He prayed for us, but he also prayed for his dear prince, Timothy and Quick. Dr. Timothy To and Dr. Casey Quek from Singapore. What a blessing it was to hear the prayer of this man of God. And so we remember his supplications. I would like to relate one further incident in the life of Dr. McIntyre. We were told about this when we first went to Australia. On one of his trips to Australia, Dr. McIntyre visited a wealthy lady. And as she showed him her earthly treasures, Dr. McIntyre said something to this effect, Lady, that is all very nice, but are you saved? That's a good question for all of us today, isn't it? Are you saved? It is only when we confess our sins to the Lord, repent of these sins, and ask the Lord to save us, that we can answer that question in the affirmative. And it is only when we are saved by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that we can have forgiveness of sin and assurance of everlasting life. And it is only then that we can rest assured that we will see Dr. MacIntyre again when we are with the Lord forevermore. That was Dr. MacIntyre. Separation, supplication, and salvation. May his life be an inspiration for us to serve the Lord faithfully all the days of our life. Amen. I'm G.W. Fisher, and I'm pastor of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the retiring moderator of the Bible Presbyterian Church General Synod. I was a squirming little baby. When Dr. McIntyre baptized me in the tabernacle across the courtyard here, I was mourning youth when he presided the service in which my mother was buried when I was nine years old. I was a nervous groom when he married me. And we were getting close to the time for the wedding. I asked him nervously, Dr. McIntyre, do you think we ought to have some marriage counseling going into this new adventure in life? He looked at me and he said, Son, you've been in this church all your life, haven't you? And I said, Yes, sir. That's all the counseling you need. There's a sense in which he was perfectly right in saying that. If I think about the legacy that Dr. McIntyre gave to me, it was the Word of God. He made the Word of God live. And I can never think of a time in my life when I have ever doubted that this was a living document. And that began in this place under his ministry. And of all the great things he's done, I think for all the people that the Lord used, that used Him to give that gift to, that's the most precious thing. To give to young men and to women the knowledge and understanding that this is the Word of God. It applies in every age. I've never been to the Holy Land, but I've been there many times with Dr. McIntyre. I haven't been to heaven, but I've been there many times listening to him preach. And he could hold even a teenager, a distracted teenager, spellbound with the truth. Psalm 119 verse 160 says, Thy word is true from the beginning, and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever. And the 162nd verse says, I rejoice that thy word is one that findeth great spoil. And that's what Dr. McIntyre taught me. That in the word of God, there was great spoil. I remember the last time he and I had a really close one-on-one conversation. I had to ask him to do something that required a great deal of humility on his part. And I wondered how I was going to be able to express that to him and ask him to do that under the circumstances. And I only could think of one of few. And I said to him, Dr. McIntyre, I am a son of yours by faith. You are my father. and the truth. And on the basis of the fact that you are my Father in the faith, I ask you to do this thing." And he looked me straight in the eye and said, okay. And I was a little stunned at first, but he did. And he exercised tremendous humility. But I'll always treasure that moment, because he remembered that, that he had given, the Lord had used him to give me the truth. And he recognized that relationship. and acted on it. And I thank God for his memory, and I pray for the comfort of all of you who love him and know him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now shall they call in him in whom they have not believed. And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be saints? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. God sent Dr. MacIntyre to this church over 60 years ago. He faithfully preached the word of God to us. the only rule of faith and practice. Many were saved, many were edified, and all grew in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. His preaching ministry among us is exemplified by the twelve words in the narthex wall that was placed there when this church was built. And his ministry was exemplified for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. By his preaching, our families were blessed and our lives were firmly built upon that sure foundation that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. One of Dr. McIntyre's favorite verses, as we've heard many times today, is 1 Corinthians 15, 58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. This verse actually describes his person and his ministry. Beloved brethren, I can remember so many times when he preached, he used the word Beloved when he was speaking to the congregation. And he really felt that, I know that he meant it, but it's a wonderful thing, Beloved. And the word Steadfast is actually Faithful. He was steadfast in all that he did. Faithful to the Word of God. And Unmovable. firmly fixed in the truth of the word of God. He certainly was well grounded in the truth of the word of God. And he was not subject to change, you know that. He would not change, he would not take away from any of the wonderful precious promises and the commandments of the word of God. And he abounded in everything that he did, diligently, and a steady, earnest, energetic effort in all that he did. As many saints that have gone on before him could say, he could say also, I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also. that love has appeared. Praise the Lord. Our God ministers to us through the faithful preachers of the word. We also minister to others in many ways. And I'm sure that Jesus will minister to us as we enter heaven. I'd like to call your attention to a wonderful promise in God's word. that all the saints will experience. And Dr. McIntyre has just experienced this treasure one week ago from today. And this promise is in 2 Peter 1.11. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord. It may be at that time that Dr. McIntyre heard his Savior say, well done, thou good and faithful servant. Praise God. I bring greetings from the Cornerstone Presbyterian Church. bring our condolences to the family and loved ones of Dr. McIntyre. You've been in our prayers for many weeks now and we'll continue to remember you through your days in the future. I wrote down some things to keep me focused and to keep me at two minutes. I'm here because my father, who made his way to heaven 16 years ago, and my mother, who can't be here today, would want me to share how the Lord used Dr. McIntyre to bring them to faith. 1965 and 1966, my parents were attending an apostate Episcopal church in upstate New York. That is when a lady who helped our family with babysitting would turn on a Christian radio station as a means of witness to my father and mother. The lady would turn the station on, my mother would turn it off. The lady would turn it on, my mother would turn it off. One day, She began to listen as she heard a gentleman, Dr. Carl McIntyre from Collingswood, New Jersey. And as she listened to Dr. McIntyre, she stopped turning off the radio and began to listen. Dr. McIntyre was talking about the apostasy in Christian, so-called Christian churches. My mother listened intently as Dr. McIntyre spoke of priests and pastors and ministers who did not believe the virgin birth of Christ. or the historicity of the feeding of the 5,000, or in the story of Noah and the ark, or in the story of Jonah and the whale. He said, the best thing you could do is to invite your priest or your minister into your house and ask him the questions to see what he may say. So my father and mother did just that. They invited the rector into our home and asked our priest to come over, and they began to put these questions to him. They posed a question to the priest. Was Jesus Christ born of a virgin? Was Jonah actually swallowed by a whale? Is the Bible God's holy word? When you hear these questions, the priest told my parents, or asked them, where are you hearing these questions from? You need to stop listening to whoever it is that are posing these questions. But he told them exactly what he had been taught at Princeton Theological Seminary. He told my parents that as you read the Bible, if it speaks to you, it is the Word of God. If it doesn't, it isn't. My parents knew, at that point in time, that what he was saying was definitely wrong. And so they began to listen more. They subscribed to the Christian Beacon. And in the Beacon, they found the address of a church in which they began to attend and grow in their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It was through Dr. McIntyre's radio ministry that they came to faith. In the first year of our conversion to Christ, every one of my family had asked Jesus into their heart. But the last one to hold out was my father. My mother heard that Dr. McIntyre was coming to our area to speak at a cow pasture rally. Could have been the one that you were on the plane. This was the first time I had ever heard of such a thing. Dr. McIntyre would speak to thousands off the back of a flatbed truck or the back of a trailer hooked to a tractor. My mother was so excited, she looked forward to hearing Dr. McIntyre in person. My father said he had allowed the family to go under one condition. That was that my mother was not to pick up one piece of literature. So as she packed my brothers and I into the car, she whispered and told us to pick up everything we could, thereby keeping the promise that she had made to my dad. It wasn't long before my father came to faith, and we started to take vacations in Cape May, New Jersey. My father had bought a four-track reel-to-reel tape recorder so that when we came to the Bible conference, we could record some of the most marvelous speakers we'd ever heard. Dr. McIntyre, along with Dr. Bob Ketchum and others, would speak, and we had them and taped them and listened again and again. I marveled as I watched my dad and mom raise their hand when Dr. McIntyre raised an offering. Somebody had to talk about that. It was also at Cape May that Dr. McIntyre led my mother's sister, my Aunt Joanna Little, to Christ. She had long supported the ministry of Dr. McIntyre and often called on his Saturday afternoon radio shows. I just close to say that my father and mother loved what Dr. McIntyre stood for in his stand against the apostasy. It was that sand that caused them to give their lives for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ in service under the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. My father wrote in his testimony As we continued in the Lord, we realized that a strong militant stand for the gospel, naming the enemy of our souls who is attacking on every hand, is so needed in this day. We are truly grateful for the strong stand of the Independent Board, for separation from modernism and the other shades of compromise, and we look forward to our service for him in Kenya with keen anticipation. In conjunction with their mission work, my parents were also active in the International Council of Christian Churches and were a vital part in the administration of the Council's Ninth World Congress in Nairobi in 1975. It was my parents' desire to be linked with this testimony, even in death. So they chose burial grounds right next to their beloved pastor. So when the trumpet sounds and the dead shall be raised, Dr. McIntyre and my dad and several others will go up together to meet the Lord in the air. God bless. I'm Clare Davis, professor at Westminster Seminary, and I'm here today on behalf of Westminster Theological Seminary. In 1924, a young instructor at Princeton Seminary, J. Grissom Machen, wrote a small but very powerful book, Christianity and Liberalism. And the gist of that book was very simple. You can't be a Christian and a theological liberal at the same time. You either believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ or you have a strange theory about it which denies the resurrection of Christ. Very straight talk. The kind of straight talk that Carl MacIntyre all of his life appreciated, perhaps even imitated. And so it's not surprising that Carl MacIntyre went to Princeton Theological Seminary to study with J. Gresham Meacham. And in the summer of 1929, it became very clear that the testimony of Princeton Seminary to the only gospel of Jesus Christ could no longer be maintained. And so in the summer of 1929, J. Gresham Machen was scurrying about trying to put together a faculty, trying to put together a board of trustees, and Carl MacIntyre, who was president of his class at Princeton, was scurrying about trying to convince everyone in his class that they should leave Princeton and come to Westminster. Mason and McIntyre were both very successful that summer. And Westminster came into existence with the faculty and even with students. Two years later, in 1931, Earl McIntyre graduated in the second graduating class of the seminary. There's only one member of that class still alive, Henry Corey in California, who is now 97. I spoke to him yesterday and his memories of Carl MacIntyre were extremely vivid. A very close friend. A man that was easy to be a friend of. And a man who could present the gospel in an astonishingly powerful, clear, helpful way. That's what Henry Corrie remembered. In the meantime, Carl MacIntyre had been called to his first passport, not here, but in Atlantic City, to the Chelsea Presbyterian Church. But he wasn't ready to go right away until he graduated. So naturally, the clerk of the session was trying to get people to preach. I have a letter that Dr. Mason wrote to the clerk of the session, Mr. H.W. Fiedler. The first paragraph says just, I'm all booked up, I'm sorry, I can't make it, I love your church. The second paragraph, though, cuts to the chase. It is hard to see how you could have possibly secured a better man than Mr. McIntyre. He has fine gifts, abundant good sense, and best of all, the truest devotion to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Splendid things, I feel sure, are to be expected from his ministry. Very sincerely yours, J. Gresham Machen. Best of all, the truest devotion to the gospel of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I have read those obituaries, too, and they get it right now and then, but mostly they want to tell the world what Carl MacIntyre was against, including New Jersey beach tax. They missed the point, didn't they? It wasn't what he was against, it's what he was for. And he was for the only hope of sinners, the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was never about Paul, it was never about Calvin, it was never about Machen, it was never about MacIntyre. It was about the gospel. That's why we are here today, giving thanks to God and glorifying his name, because of the gospel which Machen and MacIntyre preached. And just for a minute, each one of you think of that gospel. We were once far off without God and without hope in the world. That's the most terrifying sentence I know in the Bible, without God and without hope. But now he has brought us near. We were once prodigal sons and prodigal daughters coming to the end of our oath and wanting to come back and be some kind of third-rate servant of God. And he made the banquet for us. And he invited us to be his sons and his daughters. And that's what the gospel is about. And that's why friends in the Lord Jesus Christ We are here today to glorify the God of all the universe and our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners, the Savior which Carl MacIntyre preached. Thank you, Clare. I now call upon members of the family to come forward. They warned me that if we had this many preachers, we wouldn't be done by three o'clock. We have testimonies now from members of this family. When I reflect on my father's life, the overarching characteristic was his love of our Lord and of the Bible. As a small child and throughout my whole life, I can remember him constantly reading the Word of God. When I was very young, I can remember him standing in the hall of our home in front And I think now that I look back on it, he was probably trying to keep warm. But he was definitely always immersing himself in the Word of God. He believed it word for word, and in gigantic faith, acted on its promises. He knew how to pray without ceasing. And at that time he would kneel and cast all his cares on the Lord, and then he would leave them there. He lived out the verse in Genesis 24, 7. I, being in the way, the Lord led me. He got out there and the Lord led him. He was an anti-communist before Reagan. He was for victory in Vietnam, for victory in war, before George Bush and Afghanistan. Since my dear father slipped peacefully into heaven, I have found great comfort and joy in thinking about what he's doing up there now. First, I know he found his family. His mother, Hetty, his father, Charles, his sister, Helen, who just went to heaven herself, his brother, Blair, and my dear mother, Ferry. He talked about his family a lot in his last days. I think he probably moved right into their mansion. After that, since he loved to travel, He put on his heavenly shoes and started out on those golden streets. He told me once he wanted to talk to the patriarchs. So I know he found Abraham, and he told him about the Holy Land tour he led following Abraham's footsteps in 1978 from the Ur of the Calvary to Beersheba. I know they had a long talk about Tel Mar Dik and the library at Elba. I'm sure he found the Apostle Paul and told him about the bronze plaque the Holy Land Tours placed at each of the seven churches of Asia inscribed with the Revelation passage about that church. I know he's talking to Dr. Holcroft, to Dr. Dodd, to Dr. Marris, to Clyde J. Kennedy, to T.T. Shields, and the list goes on and on. I am sure he is absolutely having a wonderful time. The Lord blessed my father with a long life and boundless joy in serving him. He absolutely loved to serve the Lord. We will miss him very much, but we rejoice in his homegoing to his heavenly home. I say good-bye to all of that. We are so touched by all of you who have come today expressing your love and your tears. We appreciate it so very much. My dad was a, in the line of succession, 17 generations of preachers and ministers and missionaries. And reading back in some of the genealogy, you see that they had this pure conception that the first child should be dedicated to the Lord as a minister. And I know my dad's mother prayed many prayers that he would become one. And the Lord answered her prayer. It was ingrained. It was in the genes, folks, for 17 generations. And that's why it was so strong. When you look at the history of these forefathers, They were always on the right side of every issue. They were for the revival in the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries. Of course, they were for the Reformation. They came over from England to get away from, to express their religious liberty here. They were for the American Revolution, just like he preached that the Presbyterians in Philadelphia in their pulpits were preaching against the of England, and when the Red Coats came in the back doors, the preachers would go out the doors behind the pulpit. That was the kind of patriotism he felt was in the Presbyterian history, and he believed it. He named me Mariana Hodgkin McIntyre. When I was growing up, I thought that was the most horrible name in the whole world, Hodgkin. Now, why couldn't I have a nice feminine name like Anne or Lee as a middle name, Hodgkin? So nasty. But you know what? He named me for his grandmother, Mary Simple Hoskins. She was the first missionary to the Indians in Oklahoma Territory. And he loved her and admired her so much. And that name has inspired me in my life to try to live up to that heritage and those ideals. In our family, we didn't have what is commonly discussed today. The identity crisis. You know, you hear a lot about that. Nobody knows who they are, or what they are, or where they're going, or why. That wasn't in our family at all. We knew who we were. We were the pastor's kids, and boy, we better act like it, too. No ifs, ands, and buts about that. And our whole life and our whole family was dedicated to the ministry, to the Bible Presbyterian Church of Collingswood, the Independent Board, Faith Seminary, Shelton College, Highland College, International Council of Christian Churches, Faith Christian School, Faith Seminary. Without a doubt, that was what we lived and breathed and ate, morning, noon, and night. He lived at home, but he preached in public. And you know, this note has been touched. The world has caught up with him a little bit. He was anti-communist before it was popular. He wanted to win the war in Vietnam. He said if he stopped supporting the communist government, they would fall. It did. He was a flag-waver. In 1971, we watched opposition protesters held obscene posters and screamed wild things because he was carrying a flag down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Patriotism then was right-wing extremism. It was very evil and very bad. But you know what? Patriotism is now 80% in polls. After 9-11, I said to him, Daddy, PagerToon was popular now. You could see everybody had their flags out. He said, really? He said, call Alice. Ask her to put out our flags. Alice said, our flags are already out. Are you sure? Don't we have to make sure they're out? And you know what? He had to deal with this mixed up press. The New York Times. Inquilers, you know, Dr. McIntyre died, so get out the obituaries. They dragged out the old articles they had for 40, 50, 60 years with all the mistakes in them. Reprint them again. New York Times says four or five or six factual mistakes. They quote him as saying something I never, ever heard him say. Did not believe. They say there were 14,000 people that attended the marches. I have a picture here of the march. You can tell they're far more than 14,000 people there. But they can't give old lies. You know what? The truth pressed to earth will rise again. At the end of February, on a personal note, we brought him home from Medicare. He wanted to come home. We wanted him home. He sat down in his chair. He said, Oh, I'm so glad to be home. I'm so much better now. He said, I want to walk again. And he said, I want to preach again. That was his dearest desire. And you know, he gave a testimony the very last day before we went back to the hospital for the last time. The therapist came, it was two days before, to try to help him get up, get into the living room. He did get him up, got him into the living room with the help of the walker. He sat in his chair, and he was happy now, and the therapist was leaving. And he said, goodbye, I'll see you in heaven. And I thought, that's such a surprising thing for him to say. The therapist did a double page, and I said, this was a young man, I said, He's not going to heaven right away. But he knew he was. Lying in the bed in the hospital, the doctors had said they didn't think he was going to live. But you know what they brought him up? An air mattress. Marvelous air mattress. They put him on this. The doctor came around. How are you, Dr. McIntyre? Oh, I'm in heaven. I'm in heaven. And I looked up and I said, Well, I guess you've heard worse things said about your hospital than that. He said yes. He was put out of his pulpit in 1938. But his pulpit was selling maps to the Southwest, preaching on the boardwalk, witnessing on airplanes, preaching on 600 stations, speaking in Bible conferences at the Washington Monument, a boat on the ocean, his church, the men of all the world. Now his pulpit is with inside the gates, out of which he was pushed in 1967 at the Congress on Evangelism. Let us go forth, therefore, unto him without the camp bearing his reproach. He's within the gates. I'm not sure which one of the 12, but they're all pearly and all fine, and anyone will do. His puppet is with the 24 elders in white robes and golden crowns. And they are throwing their crowns down, and they're saying, thou art worthy to receive honor and glory and power For Thou hast created all things. His congregation there is huge. He is preaching to all of them, out of every nation, people, kindred, and tongue. There is singing up in heaven such as we have never known, where the angels sing the praises of the Lamb upon the throne. Their sweet hearts are ever tuneful, and their voices ever clear. O that we might be more like them while we serve the Master here. Holy, holy, holy is what the angels sing, and I expect to help them make the courts of heaven ring. And when I sing Redemption's story, they will fold their wings, for angels never felt the joy that our salvation brings. That's what he believed. I pray that more will come to know the Lord in his death than came to know the Lord in his life. From Hamlet, Acts 5, Horatio. Hamlet said to him, I am dying, Horatio, thou livest. Report thee and my cause aright. And Hamlet replies, Now crack a noble heart. Good night. Sweet Prince, and Spice of Angels, sing me. This is Isaac. I knew that many would testify to the truth of my grandfather's preaching. I would just like to say a few words about the beauty of his preaching. Over my life, I must have heard more than 2,000 of his sermons. He was a great preacher. And if I close my eyes, I can see him at the pulpit. I can hear him convey the timeless truths in his own very colorful eloquence. Through his stories, the figures of speech, every artful movement, inflection, he bore his truth with beauty and grace. He was foremost a preacher, but he was also a poet. And so, in tribute to my grandfather's artistry as a preacher, I would just like to recite a poem from Rudyard Kipling. When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, and the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died. We shall rest, and faith we shall need it. Lie down for an eon or two, till the master of all good workmen shall put us to work anew. And those that were faithful shall be happy. They shall sit in a golden chair. They shall splash at a ten-reed canvas with brushes of comet's hair. They shall have real saints to draw from, Magdalene, Peter, and Paul. They shall work for an age at a sitting, and never be tired at all. And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame, and no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working, and each in their separate star, shall draw the thing as they see it, for the God of things as they are. Now we call upon Charity McBride to give us a solo in the Lord's Prayer. Am I ready? I am. I think I'm done. I will be gone in a second. Happy New Year. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive those who have sinned. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Let's stand and sing just the first verse of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It's time for the closing remarks. We have the Reverend Robert Anderson from the Tacoma Bible Presbyterian Church. My prepared remarks have been mostly plucked clean, and I've not been left much to say, but I can at least second the emotions that have been expressed here today. Some years ago, down in Cape May, I was with a few fellows in the breezeway connecting the hotel with the auditorium, and Dr. McIntyre was talking to us. With that sparkle in those clear, luminescent eyes of his, he says, boys, he says, I almost hate to go to heaven. There's not going to be any more battles up there. I think I gulped, at least mentally, because I thought one of the reasons that people are looking forward to going to heaven is precisely because there will not be any more battles there. Now that the doctor has passed, I am reflecting on that statement in a somewhat different way. God gave him a spirit that was suited to the work which he called him to do. He led in the battle because he had a heart which rose to that occasion. He is like the old battle horse which we read in the Book of Job. He describes, He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength, he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not uprighted, neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage. He sayeth among the trumpets, Ha! Ha! And he smelleth the battle afar, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." Do you think that describes Dr. MacIntyre? It does to me. More than any other gift, outward gift, that God has given to us, the word of God in the hand of the Spirit of God is that which molds the Christian's beliefs and his endeavors. It was certainly such a scripture as Dr. MacIntyre's life verse, which we've heard about much today. But it was that verse which forged him, I think, into the man of battle that he was. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. I really believe that that verse energized him and sustained him all his life long. It's in the light of that verse that I just want to make a few comments this morning, or now this afternoon. When you're a priest, you're used to preaching in the morning, you're used to doing that, you always think in terms of the morning. He's steadfast, unmovable. I suppose that there would have been times when we wished that he might have been more steadfast in some particular respects. Maybe instances in which we would have wished that he hadn't been quite so unmovable. But in the things that really counted, he was steadfast and unmovable. And we certainly have to love him because of that. I believe it was because he was that steadfast with respect to the Word of God that his work was not in vain. You know why we know it's not in vain? We're the evidence, we're the proof, right here. I think of the impact of that man's life in my own life and the myriad ways in which I was blessed by him, as I know you also were. The doctor was steadfast in his pulpit ministry. Talk to any pastor and they will tell you that the pulpit is a battleground and that the minister has to contend against all the age-old evils and against all the newfangled fads. It's a fight to maintain the integrity of the sacred dance. My mind now slides back to past days when Dr. McIntyre stood in this place and warred a good warfare. By a strange turn of providence, I ended up at Shelton College in the year 1959 when it was up at Ringwood, New Jersey on the old Stetson Estate. I heard about this man by the name of Carl McIntyre. Not everything that I heard was favorable. But I went to a faith seminary the year following and I decided that I was going to go over to Collingswood and find out about this man firsthand. And I want to say that it's not posthumous flattery when I say that I had never before looked forward to going to church like I did in those seminary years. He would step forward to this pulpit, open the Bible, and the look of joy upon his face. He led in the worship of God with a beautiful dignity. When he prayed, it elevated us into the presence of God. I'll never forget his manner of reading the scripture. It seemed like it opened the door of the Bible. not to let his light in, but to let the light of the Scripture out. It was almost as if the Bible explained itself as he was reading it. I think of his preaching. So many have commented upon it, but it was reverent, it was illuminating, it was impassioned. I think he must have been something in the mold of John Knox, who was described as one of his contemporaries. liable to beat the pulpit to blasts and to fly at us." And there's a picture of him almost doing that. When he preached, he touched our conscience, he satisfied the mind, he stirred our affections, he moved our will. Sometimes his preaching was thematic. Most of the time it was expository. I can remember his preaching here on the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, the Ten Commandments. I sat back here maybe four or five rows back on most Lord's Days and I remember him preaching in Genesis and Philippians and Colossians and Hebrews and numerous other passages. When he preached, his preaching magnified the law and made it honorable. His preaching exalted Christ and his gospel. Never doubted of the deity of Christ. Never doubted of his resurrection. Always were appreciative of his shed blood as he sacrificed himself upon the cross for our sins. And he loved to talk about the second coming of Christ. Dr. McIntyre was steadfast, unmovable, as he commended us to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build us up and to give us an inheritance among them which are sanctified. And it was with steadfastness and immovability that Dr. McIntyre strove for the purity of the Church. The idea of the Church is not man's, it's God's, it's Christ's. And the idea of the purity of the Church is Christ. It wasn't something that Dr. Carl MacIntyre invented. Dr. MacIntyre stood for the purity of the Church just because that is what the Bible teaches. Christ didn't say, let believers be equally yoked together with unbelievers. And he didn't say, let there be concord between Christ and Elias. Christ did not say, try to keep the Church pure, if you feel up to it, but don't get in a dither if you can't manage it. Never talk in those terms. Obedience to the command, preach the word, is one of the ways in which we secure and maintain the Church's purity. The word cleanses. Are ye cleansed of the word which I have spoken unto you? The word sanctifies. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. When the Bible teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world. It's teaching us the purity of the Church. And the Bible says, but though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, and that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. What's it doing in joining the purity of the Church? Paul said, to tithe and heretic, after the first and second admonition reject. People have great difficulty understanding that today. They're not even certain that there is such a thing as a heretic, but if there is, after the first and second invitation, accept them. Strange things. When the word of God commands, come out from among them and be separate, sayeth the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. It is for the sake of a pure church. Those who have labored to keep the fountains of the church's doctrine and its life pure have done so because they want to present a chaste virgin to Christ. Dr. MacIntyre labored for the purity of the Church because the Bible teaches it, and I think he did it also because of his own experiences. He was there at the time of the reorganization of Princeton Theological Seminary, which allowed that wonderful seminary to fall into the hands of men of theological indifference. It came as a result of his standing for this, his experiences from the liberalism which infected the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. As a young man, he saw firsthand and up close the dark face of falsehood in the Church. I think all the rest of his life he strove for a church where that faith would not be allowed to enter. For our part, I believe that we have to be thankful that he sought to keep the church in salt and light. I'm very thankful that when we go to the meetings of our Bible Presbyterian Synod that we're not quarreling or doubting concerning the virgin birth. or the bodily resurrection of our Savior. We have to be thankful for Dr. McIntyre standing for the separateness of the Church, and I think that stand has left its impress upon us all. Steadfastness and immovability mark the doctor's labors for national righteousness and freedom. You often would quote the Book of Proverbs. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. We know that righteousness has its standard in the moral law of God, which is summarized in the Ten Commandments. It was that righteousness which Dr. MacIntyre contended for, which will bless and exalt and preserve a nation. He stood against the unrighteousness forbidden in the moral law of God because it subversive to the strength and stability and the well-being of the land. All of us remember that saying, freedom is everybody's business, your business, my business, the church's business, and the man who will not use his freedom to defend his freedom, you all remembered it the last time, does not deserve his freedom. For Dr. MacIntyre, freedom was an exceedingly precious gift of God. I think his position was succinctly stated in the words of the hymn, Thy Liberty is Law. The law of God doesn't just state our duty, but it defines and it protects the individual's freedom. We can bless God for this man who never forgot the patriot's dream. awfully difficult to compress 95 years of life into 10 minutes. But we will remember the energy, the single-minded dedication, the heart with which Dr. MacIntyre lived out his theme birds. I remember when Dr. MacIntyre stood in his pulpit and preached the funeral sermon of Dr. Clyde J. Kennedy. He said, Clyde did what he did for the Lord. because of what the Lord did for him. What Dr. McIntyre said about another man, we can say about him. Christ was the offspring of his life and activity. I can remember him saying, for me to live is Christ. It's in keeping with the assessment of his own life. All the tribute that we pay to Dr. McIntyre today doesn't really end on the man, but it ends upon his master. You think what the sun is to the moon, Christ is to the Christian. All the remembrances of Dr. McIntyre brings us to Christ. It really does. It brings us to Christ, who he was and whom he served. In the years of his prime, Dr. McIntyre may have wanted to delay his heaven going for a time because there would be no more battles up there. But I think now that he has arrived that he would be loath to return and don the battle dress. Here below his hands worn, his fingers fought, he preached, He published, he broadcast, he organized, he marched, he rallied, united, and led. Now he has laid down shield and buckler to enter into the Saints' everlasting rest. Gracious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints. Let us stand together for the benediction. Now may the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. May the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace, now and forevermore. Amen. We're going to sing two verses of Justice I Am, and then we're going to take him to the cemetery. You're welcome to go with us. If you prefer not to, make your way to the fellowship hall. There's some refreshments there, and we'll come back there in a few minutes. Thank you very much.