Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: We are come together here this evening in order to inaugurate this newly established organization in the presence of God. When they to whom the preparation of this meeting was entrusted invited me to address a few words to you, I did not hesitate for a moment to accede to […]
In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. Matthew 28:1 The first Easter service was a gloomy one, shrouded in grief and doubt for the disciples. They […]
In our preceding article we embarked upon a survey of the musical situation in the Church at the time of the Reformation. Our first point was that the music in the Protestant worship service, like the preaching, had to be in the vernacular. This departure from the Latin called for the establishment of a whole […]
Note: This is the twelfth of a series of articles on common contemporary viewpoints which are contrary to orthodox Christianity. As summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Bible teaches that God is “most free, most absolute, working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory…and is […]
Having considered in previous articles (cf. Torch and Trumpet, vol. II, nos. 5, 6) the significance of a growing interest in the Christian junior college movement together with the growing need for such institutions, we now turn to the problem of organizational and administrative arrangement. Perhaps some of our readers are awaiting in this series an […]
One who would understand the attack upon the Old Testament which is being carried on today must consider the book of Isaiah. It is at this point that modern criticism appears to have come to its fullest expression. The Book of Isaiah well serves as a testing ground. Here one may see clearly the issues which […]
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (I Cor. 15:58, A.R.V.) Paul wants the Corinthian Christians to be witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This was, however, a very difficult matter, especially in Corinth. […]
EDITORIAL NOTE In this article Dr. Reid of McGill University, Montreal, puts up an impressive argument for his point of view on the subject of appearing in the title. Some of our readers may disagree with Dr. Reid’s line of argument. The editors of TORCH AND TRUMPET will be glad to place another cant issue […]
In our preceding articles we gave a brief picture of the economic situation of Western Europe in the first half of the 19th century and of the advent and development of social reform in that part of the world. Being a part of Western Europe the economic and social development of Holland ran parallel with […]
Young, William, TOWARD A REFORMED PHILOSOPHY. Grand Rapids, Piet Hein Publishers. 1952. 155 pp. Reformed people in America should rejoice at the publication of this slender volume. Before its appearance there was no easy access to a survey in English of the development of the new Calvinistic philosophy, the Philosophy of the Idea of Law, […]