“I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.” (John 17:15 ASV) It has been well said of late that the question of permeation or separation will remain live and relevant for some time to come in the Church. That means that those who […]

The december 1962 issue of The Reformed Journal contains an article by the Reverend Harold Dekker, Associate Professor of Missions in Calvin Theological Seminary, under the title “God So Loved—All Men!” That piece has created a considerable stir in the Christian Reformed Church and beyond. To date the editors of at least three religious periodicals, De Wachter, […]

The specific concern of this note can be stated by this question: Is the proposed revised Church Order of the Christian Reformed Church really a primary document? Another way of putting the question is this: Does this document have the character of a basic constitution of the church? This question is prompted by certain language that […]

LABOR UNION POWER The excessive power of American unionism has been painfully felt by our country again. The recent dock strike on the East and Gulf coasts has dealt a staggering blow to the economy of the country. U.S. News and World Report estimates that at the end of the fourth week of this strike the […]

“Since foreign mission work is beyond the scope and resources of the congregations and classes, it demands the cooperation of all the churches and is therefore to be performed under the auspices of synod” (Article 81a of the Proposed Revised Church Order). The synod of 1963 of the Christian Reformed Church will consider and be […]

We mourn the death of Herman Kuiper, Th.D., professor-emeritus of Calvin TheolOgical Seminary and member of Reformed Fellowship, Inc. With his passing the Reformed community in which this paper has a name loses another uncompromising voice. For Herman Kuiper was a Calvinist in his theology, and his theology was more than a mere scientific enterprise. […]

And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the fun, and his feet as pillars of fire; and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, […]

And the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard it again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the little […]

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city […]

And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voice in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever. And four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces […]