DEAR FRIENDS: With this issue Torch and Trumpet completes two years of work. Two years packed with the enjoyment and the excitement of service! Two years of laborious effort to achieve objectives we would be the first to admit were not perfectly attained. As we close the books on our second season we would give an […]
Editorial Note Can our readers stand some debate, some controversy? Can we of the Reformed community, subscribing as we do to the principle ECCLESIA REFORMATA REFORMANDA EST,1 carry on a discussion of important matters of principle without having such a discussion deteriorate into an unseemly personal affair? We think we can carry on such a discussion on a high level. We are confident Dr. Henry Stab, […]
It is an undeniable fact that the maintenance and growth of the Church of Jesus Christ in truth and in number is, humanly speaking, in a large measure determined by the competence, sincerity, and faithfulness of the shepherds who pastor and feed the flocks with necessary spiritual food. It is also generally agreed that prospective ministers […]
The growing interest in the Christian junior college movement finds its basic explanation in the growing need for Christian higher education. To discuss this need is our aim in this article. That there is such need is being questioned by no one. The issue that has come up for debate recently is whether or not […]
It would not be surprising if, at sight of this word antithesis, the reader would feel a touch of nausea rising up in him. With some misgivings, if not actual resentment, he may have observed that Torch and Trumpet goes in heavily for this thing called the antithesis. Either the word by itself or the two-camp idea […]
The disease of our church is indifference to doctrine.” In this trenchant statement the Reverend Henry Bast, popular Grand Rapids preacher, characterizes his denomination, the Reformed Church of America (CL An Appeal To The Ministers And Laymen Of The Chicago And Iowa Synods, p. 4, 1949). If we were honest with ourselves, insofar as we have not […]
Although the scientific questions of our age and of all ages do not touch the central truth of the Christian Gospel: “that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,” we must nevertheless recognize the fact that the changes which have occurred in our ideas concerning the universe have resulted in changes in our thought of […]
“The righteous shall live by faith.” Faith is the law of life. Adam lived by faith, although not saving faith. It was his sin that he did not believe the Word revelation given in Paradise. Saving faith, both as gift and task, is the law of life of the redeemed. […]
(NOTE: This is the concluding installment of an article begun in the last issue of TORCH AND TRUMPET.) 3. Germany To understand the Christian social movement, both its principles and aims, knowledge of the German movement is indispensable. Like Great Britain, its origin was in the sphere of home or city missions, which concerned itself with […]
When faced with making decisions on church music, a nonmusical theologian will undoubtedly concern himself primarily with the content of the music, i.e., the words actually used by the congregation or the choir in the songs which they sing. A non-theological musician will, on the other hand, be more concerned with the beauty of musical […]