Volume I, Number 6 of Torch and Trumpet is in your hands. This means that our magazine is now one year old, since it appears every two months. Has the magazine proved its worth? Has it expressed the sense of mission for the Reformed Faith that we, its sponsors, stated in the first issue? Has […]
The Pharisees were angry. The disciples were afraid. After all, they were identified with Jesus of Nazareth, they followed him and loved him and everyone knew it. But now he has deliberately offended Israel’s most important people. “Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people honor me with their lips; but their heart […]
A new dictator has risen to power! He is not a member of the United Nations Security Council. He is not officially recognized by any existing national government. He has not been elected to any office by any constituency. That dictator must be destroyed or we and our children shall be destroyed. But he is very […]
Does the first chapter of Genesis teach the doctrine of absolute creation? Did God, according to this remarkable chapter, create all things of nothing? From earliest childhood we have been taught that such was the case. When, even as little children, we looked out upon the beauty of the world round about and unto the glory or […]
We are living today in a highly critical age. People no longer are afraid of attacking anything or anyone. Even the Lord of heaven and earth is openly criticized and blasphemed as if He were mere man. And surely if they fear not God, they have lost all respect for the Word and the service of the […]
In previous issues we have concerned ourselves with the question of the lawfulness of participation in war for the Christian, and the Scriptural doctrine concerning God and his purposes in sending wars.* We came to the conclusion that the Bible war rents such participation and that war does not mean that God is no longer the […]
Did you ever visit a hospital for mentally ill? Your first visit to such a hospital was most likely a very unsettling experience. Possibly sleep was slow in coming lhe following night. You saw such unforgettable faces faces screwed up into the weirdest expressions, faces with silly grimaces on them, faces whose eyes had lost the […]
THE Concordia Publishing House of Saint Louis, Missouri, is currently publishing a translation of the late Francis Pieper’s book on Christliche Dogmatik, or, translated, Christian Dogmatics. There are to be three volumes. Two or them have already appeared. With great force and conviction, Dr. Pieper sets forth orthodox Lutheran theology. For Pieper, Lutheranism is Christianity come to its own. Non-Lutheran forms of […]
A great, green wave of Dutch immigration has hit the province of Ontario, splashed over into the rolling prairies of Alberta. and flattened out into the barbaric back-reaches of British Columbia. This wave came in 1951, and in 1950, and in 1919 and in 1948; each time the splash was bigger than any preceding one. Thousands […]
(A Series of Lessons on the 37 Articles ofThe Confession of Faith, A Reformed Creed usually called the Belgic Confession.) Lesson 13 Article XV: Original Sin We believe that through the disobedience of Adam original sin is extended to all mankind; which is a corruption of the whole nature and a hereditary disease, wherewith even infants in their mother’s womb arc infected, and which […]