SIDELIGHT ON THALIDOMIDE EPISODE Newspapers in Europe and in America have commented elaborately on the expose given the use of the German drug Thalidomide (U.S. trade name: Kevadon) which is now officially connected with the birth of thousands of deformed babies abroad. Prominently associated with the discussion about this drug is the name of Dr. […]
They found her dead in her apartment. Apparently she had taken too many sleeping pills. Within hours after her death a flood of eulogies, judgments, diagnoses, and appraisements began to Bow from the nation’s printing presses. Radio and television gave broad coverage to “the tragic death.” Drew Pearson, writing from Brioni, Yugoslavia, said that the chief subject […]
CONCERN FOR FELLOW CALVINISTS… As many readers possibly know, the eastern bastion of the Reformed faith in Europe has always been found among the Magyars, better known in the English-speaking world as Hungarians. Among these people, found not only in Hungary but also in large numbers in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania and certain border lands of […]
The Reformed Ecumenical Synod which met in Potchefstroom, South Africa, in 1958 adopted certain resolutions pertaining to “Creation and Evolution.” It is not my purpose to discuss those resolutions as such. However, in one of them the Synod admonished the Church to adhere to its divinely assigned task, “to preach the Word of God,” and not to meddle […]
Present world wide ecumenical movement feeds the unnecessary divisions in the church. It has the eyes of many to the sin of those divisions which were the result of personal ambition, pride, and unwillingness to bear with brethren who differed on issues that did not touch the fundamentals of the Christian faith. Many of the so-called splinter […]
The question posed by our title is one that is being asked by very many people today. We believe they have a right to an answer, and this article seeks to make it clear what that answer is. Perhaps it would clear the air if we state first our conclusion, and then note the factors which […]
Those of us who trace our spiritual ancestry to the 16th century Protestant Reformation are fond of saying that the questions then at issue are of lasting relevance. For that reason self-conscious Protestants never weary of celebrating this great event in the month of October each year, and a magazine such as this one cannot help […]
A. WHY? Why should we study the book of Revelation? I am writing this Outline February 20, 1962, a day long to be remembered because on it our country finally succeeded in putting a man into orbit. We are living in the spaceage. In the opinion of many this is wonderful. But wonderful or not, […]
C. WHERE? Where shall we find the material we shall need in order to carry on this study? Perhaps the best way to answer this question would be to refer you to just one basic Commentary for each school of interpretation of the Apocalypse. You probably already have one or two of these books, and […]
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things […]