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Bible Doctrine: A Treatise on the Great Doctrines of the Bible, Pertaining to God, Angels, Satan, the Church, and the Salvation, Duties and Destiny of Man is unavailable, but you can change that!

At the Mennonite General Conference of 1911, a committee of ten was appointed to prepare a work on Christian doctrine. The design of the work was not to serve as a confession of faith, but rather as an exposition of the doctrines which a confession of faith ought to contain. A table of contents was formed and writers were chosen to prepare each chapter. They divided the contents into eight...

God … now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.—Acts 17:30. It is a common thing in modern times for people to come into the Church with very little knowledge of genuine repentance. When it has been explicitly stated by our Lord, that, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish,” it is certainly needful that we determine carefully what He meant by repentance. For this reason we shall consider first the meaning of the term repentance; then what true repentance is; the
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