Nearly three years ago when I became a grandmother many people said to me. “You’re going to spoil that little boy.” My answer to this was that with God’s help I would try not to spoil that precious child. It would not be right according to the laws of God, and it would not be […]
THE OUTLOOK is pleased not only to publish but also to endorse wholeheartedly the accompanying Testimony Concerning the Promotion of Christian Education issued by the Northwest Iowa Chapter of Reformed Fellowship, Inc. Executive Committee members of the chapter are: DR. PETER Y. DE JONG, President REV. HENRY VANDEN HEUVEL, Vice-President REV. JOHN B. HULST, Secretary […]
Will the National Union of Christian Schools remain Christian? The answer to such a question seems almost self-evident, for the NUCS has labored unceasingly for years to develop and maintain a school system true to the Word of God. How could it conceivably change its total direction? But such has happened in other Christian organizations. […]
Since the year 1880 there exists in The Netherlands an organization called “The Association for Scientific Education on Reformed Basis.” It is this organization which has been the sponsoring and directing agency behind the Free University of Amsterdam. This University never wanted to be a church school in the specific sense of that word. Nevertheless […]
ISN’T THE CHURCH “PRIMARILY MORE IMPORTANT”? “I would like to know…” wrote Arthur Davies in a recent TORCH AND TRUMPET article (August, 1970), “how that church is of primarily more importance than, for example, the God-instituted family.” “That church” to which he refers is the “church-as-institute-gathered-around-the-Word-with-its-Christ-appointed-officiary” spoken about by P. Y. De Jong in a […]
Introduction Each year Synod spends considerable time on educational matters pertaining to the College of the Church. Most of the decisions arc considered routine and recommendations are accepted without serious deliberation. This and next year Synod may have to make fundamental decisions regarding the acceptance of non-Christian Reformed students and faculty at Calvin, the proposal […]
Christian Education in the twentieth century may very well be facing its darkest hour. Not only does there appear to be a growing lack of interest in Christian instruction -as well as a frightening loss of understanding of what it is all about -hut also, more ominously, the spirit of secularism has infiltrated our own […]
The Christian community today is confronted by an increasingly critical situation. The crisis is reflected not merely in declining church membership, waning interest in Christian education, general apathy on the part of the young people, and fruitless theological dispute, but comes to the fore especially in the apparent failure to recognize the real enemy: the […]
The matter of public funds for private and parochial schools is one of the most controversial issues that face both the legislatures of our nation and the people within this nation. Indeed. every citizen has taken upon himself the responsibility to speak on this subject as is evident from the letters to the editor in […]
HONESTLY NOW The devil has one tactic which he seems to put to regular use; at least, it seems to be in current vogue. The devil regularly uses a truth as a foil or as a kind of backdrop against which he perpetrates a monstrous lie. At present integrity is his “thing.” Recently, he has […]