The youth of today will constitute the church of tomorrow. This often repeated phrase clearly points tip for today the importance of the work of the church in respect of its children and young people. The prospect for the youth of the church today and in the future seems to be something less than optimistic. They […]
IN ARGENTINA You asked me how Christmas is celebrated in Argentina. Well, what would you answer if I asked you how Christmas is celebrated in the United States? Would you presume to tell me how the Swedish in Minnesota, the Chinese in San Francisco, the Negro in Georgia, the Dutch family in Hudsonville celebrates? No, you […]
I hope that these few notes may give you some idea of the interesting and challenging religious climate in this vast land down-under. Before the Reformed churches were organized in this land in 1951 there was not much “doing” within the various Protestant churches. Catholicism still has a strong grasp on the inland or country population. Many […]
More than thirty years ago the writer heard a Methodist minister of the gospel make this statement before a group engaged in a study of Christian leadership in Protestant churches, “Unless tho Christian church undergirds gospel preaching with a sound educational program centered in the Scriptures she will find her influence decreaSing rapidly,” This brother in the […]
Within recent weeks we again commemorated the grace of God which operated providentially to produce some centuries ago the reformation of his church on earth. Our attention centered itself among other things on the precious privilege of having been incorporated in that spiritual body. We appreciated anew the sentiments of that great man of God, John […]
The Reformed Review During the past eight years the faculty of Western Seminary at Holland, Michigan, has issued a small quarterly bulletin. With the opening of a fine new seminary building, the faculty decided “to signalize this happy event” by improving their periodical. Since last October The Western Seminary Bulletin has appeared in a new format under the […]
Two men were talking over a Monday morning cup of coffee. Both were typical American suburban dwellers who never bothered much about the church. As well informed individuals they had heard about the current movement back to the church by many citizens. They had decided to try it too. After all, going to church never hurt anyone […]
A Roman Catholic Evaluation of Protestant Churches “AMERICAN Protestants go to church for ‘amusement’ and are less concerned about religious doctrine than parking facilities.” This is the opinion of Osservatore Della Domenica, Vatican city Sunday magazine as quoted by The Albertan, Calgary, Albertha daily (Feb. 6, 1956). The American Protestant “leaves home for a religious service and goes […]
The Church and Politics A five year controversy between the clergymen and the laymen of the National Council of Churches was recently “disclosed” from the laymen’s side in the U.S. News and World Report (Feb. 3, 1956, pp. 43–48). Mr. J. Howard Pew, former president of the Sun Oil Company, reports that the 190 member Laymen’s Committee, […]
A Sample of Ecumenical Agitation The existence of separate Christian denominations is widely deplored in our time, if we may be permitted to express an opinion so obviously true as scarcely to warrant mention. “Ecumenicism” is the impressive word coined out of this impatience with ecclesiastical boundaries, and it is often on most every churchman’s lips these […]