A GREAT HYMN WAS BORN (text on page 14) Much of modem hymnody. though produced in great quantity, is mere trash, from the point of view of both content and music; but occasionally we find a jewel among so much rubbish. The latter must be said of some of the popular hymns which arc being […]
REPORT ON THE WORLD COUNCIL MEETING IN NEW DELHI, INDIA The Editorial Committee of TORCH AND TRUMPET is greatly pleased to be able to present to its readers a report of the third meeting of the World Council of Christian Churches. It came fresh from the pen of one of our own ministers, Rev. Roger Greenway of […]
October 27, 1961 Some of us present here tonight recall those days, ten years ago, when we met informally in Mr. Muller’s office building and discussed plans for a new magazine. It was our brother Henry Van Til who gave the magazine its name. We remember the twinkle in his eyes when he added, “Let it […]
In these days of the welfare state we are all familiar with the road that leads to bureaucracy. The government sets up a bureau in a certain area of service, seemingly rather innocent at first, but it soon mushrooms into something very important, that clings to the body politic, like the barnacles that attach themselves to […]
Many years ago Bacon wrote that reading maketh a full man. No one can be well-informed, well-adjusted and well-developed, unless he cultivates the art of reading avidly what others have written. Even radio and television are incompetent to take the place of this practice. It makes all the difference in the world, however, what a […]
O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Throughout the universe displayed; When through the woods and forest glades I wander, And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees; When I look down from lofty mountain […]
Is it plane geometry When you’re called a Square? Or plain ignominy, When people call you rare? If principle makes me Square, or queer or odd, Lord, help me ever be A square for thee my God!
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for […]
And they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Acts 2:4 And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, […]
And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as […]