ACTIONS SPEAKING LOUDER THAN WORDS? Anyone acquainted with our (Christian Reformed) periodicals, both “official” and, as this one, free, will have noted that the brethren of the Christian Labour Association of Canada have not been hiding their light under a bushel! They have engaged in sharp debate with all comers, and the discussions produced have served to enlighten […]
We must hurry. Time is too short for all the necessary holiday preparations that must be made. But let’s take a moment out of our hurry and scurry to ask ourselves if Christmas has not become for as merely a night so dark and so long ago. If it has, something is lacking. Like Mary, we must […]
When I think about the making music by man in his home, his school, or his church, I inevitably find my thoughts wandering to the other great, mysterious creatures of God’s world who also make music, music which is continuous and which is great. The music of the angels, we are told, is devoted to the […]
Could I proclaim in tones of clearest language, And spread abroad the words, that all could hear; I would waft forth a song this blessed season Of glorious hope, to men both far and near. Describing, too, the vigil of the shepherds, Who, trembling, heard the clarion herald voice; They joined the ecstasy of holy […]
Objections have been raised repeatedly, as we have seen, against the Bible’s teaching of its unique inspiration. In this way an attempt has often been made to undercut the sovereign authority with which the Word addresses men. Many of the so-called objections against the doctrine of verbal inspiration are caricatures of what the Bible and therefore […]
PART TWO IV A Brief Historical Review of Glossolalia The pagan graeco-roman world had its priests and priestesses and its oracles, relaying their messages from the gods to men “while their consciousness was in complete abeyance,” the messages often characterized by “obscurity and unintelligibility” requiring interpretation. (19). A condition was produced “in which the normal state was […]
Recently Time magazine (Oct. 16, 1964) ran a short article on one of the unusual men of our age, suggesting that he “has emerged as one of the century’s most remarkable prophetic thinkers, an Aquinas of the atomic era.” In an interesting column we are reminded of the uniqueness of Teilhard du Chardin, Jesuit father who […]
This is a monograph of thirty-nine pages, constituting part of “An International Library of Philosophy and Theology” (Biblical and Theological Series ) and published in 1964 by the Presbyterian and Reformed Publish. ing Company, Philadelphia, Pa. The writer is the well-known Philip Edgcumbe Hughes. He is introduced as an Anglican clergyman and as the editor of […]
Their huddled forms loomed dark against the blazing fire, A barrier built against the piercing cold— Columns of smoke rose steadily into the clear, brisk air, Then spiraled into fading mist upon a rising stair. The shepherds spoke in muffled tones as though the hills could hear, And heaven’s canopy, star-strewn, seemed very near. But […]
Karl Barth is reported to have said that all music should have only one goal; the honor and glory of God. What an ideal! What a challenge for the music departments of our schools and colleges. And that this ideal applies equally to the other departments such as literature, sports, etc., goes without saying. One just […]