Your friends may greet you on a new day with the question, “What’s new?” People are always interested in hearing something they have not heard before. This is what makes that which we call news. Well, what’s new? One answer was obvious to our readers before they opened this magazine. It’s new cover or, to […]
The Capital city of the world, Scripture reveals, is not on earth but in heaven. “I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven…and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne; and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardius” (Rev. 4:1, 2, 3a). Before […]
“H.J.” is dead. That sounds strange. He has been with us so long, in the kind of providence of God. He has been such a prominent figure on the Reformed landscape for so long. Mind you, he was ordained at the tender age of twenty-one in the year 1907. Has anyone ever been ordained in […]
A MOUNTING PROBLEM The problem I have in mind is literally a mounting one. I am thinking of the new hairdos that obstruct people’s view in church. It is not uncommon to see worshippers craning their necks, first to one side and then to the other, in order to see past the high-coiled pyramids in […]
The Rev. Ned Bernard Stonehouse, Th. D., Professor of New Testament and Dean of the Faculty in Westminster Theological Seminary, Chestnut Hill, died suddenly at his home, 333 Cherry Lane, Glenside, PA, on Sunday, November 18, following an extended illness, during most of which, however, he had been able to carry on his duties at […]
The year 1963 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism. This precious document, one of the creeds of a number of Reformed denominations, in this country and abroad, has enjoyed singular popularity among Reformed people ever since Its first appearance. It has been translated into many languages and is still […]
The thesis of this article is simple. Every church member must work to keep the Church a Church. Only as the Church continues to live as the Body of Christ, the Household of Faith, the Community of the Saved, the Sheepfold of Christ, can she be used by Christ as a blessing in the world. […]
After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was […]
And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. And when the living creatures shall give […]
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, […]