Radio Station, WIP, was founded by the Gimbal Brothers. They had built their

flagship department store in downtown Philadelphia and in 1922 they put a

radio antenna high atop that building for advertising and promotional

purposes. It soon became the most popular radio station in Philadelphia and in

1935 in 1936, J. Gressam-Machin, formerly of Princeton Theological Seminary and

the founder of Westminster Theological Seminary began recording a radio show

that aired on Sunday afternoons that he called the Westminster Seminary Hour. His

broadcasts were recently published in a beautiful book called Things Unseen,

a systematic introduction to the Christian faith and reform theology. Let's look

at one of those radio episodes. It was the 39th of 50 and Machin called it the

Progress of Christian Doctrine. He begins this particular episode by saying,

for the benefit of my listeners, it may not be a miss for me to say just a word or

to about the plan which has governed this Westminster Seminary Hour from the

beginning. What I've been trying to do is to present just as plainly as I can,

the system of truth revealed in the Bible. Now when I say system of truth I mean

what I say, I mean that the Bible is not just a storehouse of inspiring sayings

thrown out in some haphazard or isolated fashion, but that it presents one

great system. Then Machin says this, fortunately I do not need to undertake this

task as though no one has ever undertaken it before. The Bible has been in the

world for nearly 19 centuries and during all those centuries, learned and

truly devout men have been searching the Scriptures and have been endeavoring

to summarize what the Scriptures teach. It would be a sad mistake indeed.

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