America today stands at the cross roads of her destiny. Her situation is remarkably similar to the conditions which prevailed in Western Europe during the later Middle Ages. There is the same disrespect for the authority of government, the same breakdown of social and family life, the same skepticism and uncertainty regarding the nature and […]
For many Christian Labor Association of Canada supporters this is the most common as well as most-revered of all truisms: “Life is religion.” We love the very sound of this pithy, punchy saying, and we love to see the effect which its implications and applications have on life. For we believe that life on this […]
Relevance! This is the battle cry of many today. “Anything old is bad; anything new is good,” so they say. Consequently, there is a breakdown in morals such as the world has never before witnessed. “New Morality” is the sophisticated term applied to age-old SIN. The Bible has been attacked to the point where it […]
A PREDICAMENT WE ALL SHARE We may learn from the experiences of Ohio Valley College, Parkersburg, West Virginia. Here’s the story. Ohio Valley College, like many private colleges in the land, received federal assistance in its buildin g program, under the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963. One day, early in 1968, the college was […]
Dear Sirs: Now that the subject of music has been broached in your magazine, allow me to say a word or two about it also. I don’t pretend to be any kind of an expert in music, but I do like to make a few comments regarding the latest edition of the Psalter Hymnal. In […]
A VARIED HARVEST, by Frank E. Gaebelein. W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1967. Cloth. 198 pp. (Price $4.95). This book is a collection of essays by a well-known author who for years was the headmaster of Stony Brook School and afterwards became co-editor of Christianity Today. His essays give evidence of a […]
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. Eccl. 3:1 Background Last June the Christian Reformed Synod endorsed full participation in the Theological College of Northern Nigeria. But this same Synod hesitated to make TCNN the sole institution for training Reformed ministers in Nigeria. She postponed decision on the […]