CONGRATULATIONS MR. PRESIDENT On January 20 the Americans witnessed a modern miracle, the legal and orderly transfer of party-government, a feat which totalitarian systems cannot equal. On this momentous day a partisan politician also became the people’s president and a world leader. The central theme of President Nixon’s message was peace at home and abroad. […]

THE UBIQUITY OF THE PINK PEPPERMINT A Roman Catholic family moved into the house next door to a Christian Reformed family. After they had become acquainted, the Roman Catholic housewife felt free, over a cup of coffee, to say to the Christian Reformed housewife, “I understand a little of what your church believes, but one […]

“In every place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee” Exodus 20:24b The historical event, to which this text is related, years later was recalled in David’s psalm of praise to Jehovah the God of Sinai and of the Sanctuary. We read in Psalm 68:7,8, – “O God, when […]

QUESTION: In our high school catechism class we have had a boy who got on everybody’s nerves. His misbehavior finally exhausted the teacher’s patience and the boy was ordered to leave the class and not to return again. He is now telling it around that he is through with Sunday School and the church as well as catechism. […]

QUESTION: I am 19 years old and have been keeping steady company with a fine young man who is nearly 22 years old. When we first met, I expressed interest in a nursing course, and since then I have begun training in a local hospital. The longer I am at it, the more I love it. My grades […]

They found her dead in her apartment. Apparently she had taken too many sleeping pills. Within hours after her death a flood of eulogies, judgments, diagnoses, and appraisements began to Bow from the nation’s printing presses. Radio and television gave broad coverage to “the tragic death.” Drew Pearson, writing from Brioni, Yugoslavia, said that the chief subject […]

QUESTION: I am writing you about my sister who is 20 years old and who has us worried about her strange unfriendly attitude towards others. She is the oldest of three children in our home. I am 17 and my brother is 15. We don’t know what to do about it. She will not make friends […]

It has often been observed that the dignity and splendor of original man can in part be discerned in the startling character of his ruin. Just as something of the grandeur that once belonged to ancient civilizations still is traceable in their desolate remains, so humankind, even in its fallen state, carries vestiges of its original […]

QUESTION: At sixteen and a half years of age I have a problem with which I would like some help. After Young People’s Society we usually go for coffee at a member’s house. My deadline used to be 10:15 p.m., but recently it has become 10:00 p.m. I don’t see the reason why I have […]

QUESTION: I will soon be out of my teens and some of my friends at the office are urging me to attend an evening Charm School with them. My parents are shocked that their daughter would even think of such a thing, and every time I bring up the subject we have an unpleasant scene […]