Address given at the Ladies’ Day of the 16th Annual Cedar Lake Christian Reformed Conference, July 2, 1952. Dear Susan: It has been a long time since I last wrote you. But I have waited purposely because I have so many things that I want to say and I needed enough time to write them. […]
This is God’s own inscription for the gravestones of departed believers. It is not a human composition instanced by admiration or by flattery. It is an epitaph from heaven, set down by the pen of inspiration at the command of the Divine voice. Hence, it tells nothing but the truth. […]
That every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is in duty bound to belong to the organized church is ‘beyond dispute. However, the visible church is divided into a great many parts known as denominations, and some parts are so independent of all others as to call themselves undenominational. Thus the question arises in which one […]
By the time this issue reaches you Dr. Peter Y. De Jong, charter member of the Reformed Fellowship, Inc., will be sailing to south India. Dr. De Jong has accepted a call to serve in the Mysore-Bellary area as a missionary for the Christian Reformed church. The decision to heed the missionary call involved a […]
May we call a man “insane” just because the society in which he lives is annoyed with him? In our last article (February–March issue) we saw that a “social” definition of mental illness has its pitfalls. How may we generally describe the sick or the healthy personality? We also saw in the previous article that the mere fact certain […]
Groen van Prinsterer, the father of the Christian Schools was born 150 years ago, in 1801. He died 75 years ago, in 1876. Christians in the Netherlands, especially the school-people, have remembered the occasion this past summer. A friend gave me a copy of “School en Huis,” the official organ of the “Unie, Een School Met […]
Christians are often the worst sort of advertisement for the Christian life. Professing to have been redeemed from sin by a Savior who gave himself to the bitter death of the Cross, they respond by a service which is either grudging or antagonizing. In the first instance the non-Christian is convinced that our profession is merely […]
A Chinese evangelist ’employed by the mission organization of a Reformed denomination in China had received his training in a Bible school which was evangelical but not Reformed. A missionary asked to see the textbook which he had used in studying Christian doctrine. Glancing through the pages of Chinese text, the missionary was somewhat surprised to note […]
In the year 1753 the Frenchman Jean Astruc published a book in which he discussed the question of the composition of the book of Genesis. He advanced the theory, although he was not the first to do so, that the book of Genesis can be divided into different documents, each of which goes back to […]
With a week-long jubilee we celebrated some sixteen months ago the seventy-five year existence of our beloved Calvin Seminary and College. Highlight of that Jubilee was a Pageant, which pictured in a series of scenes the growth of these two institutions. The Pageant was an artistic triumph for everyone who had anything to do with it, […]