• New, more frequent publication schedule • New, interesting features • New, more convenient size Frankly, it was not without considerable hesitation and regret that the publishers of Torch and Trumpet faced the fact that it was time for this magazine to get some new clothes. […]
Let us no longer be afraid to be dogmatic. To be dogmatic is not to be dictatorial. To be dogmatic is simply to be confident concerning that which we know to be the truth, Where anyone has mastered the facts of any branch of knowledge we expect rum to be dogmatic, except in religion! If […]
The South Votes No! It is no longer news that the proposal to unite the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (North), the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (South), and the United Presbyterian Church of North America has been defeated because of failure to gain approval from the required number of Southern presbyteries. By February 1 thirty-five “U.S. […]
It is noteworthy that, while the problem of the relation of the Church to the world of culture has tormented Christians unremittingly through all the Christian centuries, it has yet taken the Church such a long time to develop a theoretical account of that relation. The practical necessity of relating herself to the world ‘round about […]
Although scores of thousands of children never attend the public schools in the United States and Canada, all parents are taxed alike to maintain the public school system. Christian parents whose convictions will not allow them to use “neutral” schools for the training of their children are therefore penalized as they erect and maintain schools consistent with […]
Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.” Revelation 1:17b, 18 John, the evangelist, is well known as one of the most beloved of Jesus’ disciples. He had his […]
Without a doubt two of America’s most publicized Protestant clergymen are Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Each receives an unusually great deal of “copy” in the nation’s newspapers and magazines. The people who write the news and magazine features have found a rich source of material in these two colorful and energetic men. And […]
Every time when we are confronted with the Law of God. we realize that in thought, word, and deed we transgress that Law. And the transgression of the Law is sin. Sin is always a dishonoring of the Name of God. And especially to the devout heart is this grievous. The more we have learned to […]
One day Benjamin Harrison, then president of the United States, was engaged in earnest conversation with Philadelphia’s merchant prince, John Wanamaker. Said the former, “I have received many honors which I held dear and to which I tried to be true. But none of these do I esteem higher than my calling as ruling elder […]
What Shall I Say? (Devotional Addresses for Special Occasions) ARNOLD OBERMEIER (Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO, 1954, pps. $1.50) This little volume contains a series of talks for such special occasions as a district synod, pastoral conference, teacher’s conference, school graduation, Sunday school teachers’ banquet, Lutheran women’s missionary league, Walther league, religious emphasis week. […]