Dear Friends: Some of you have asked me the reasons for my decision to spend this sabbatical year at Basel, Switzerland. As a city Basel has many features which make it an ideal place to spend a year of study. In urging someone to accept an appointment to the University of Basel, the 16th century […]
In the September, 1958, issue of TORCH AND TRUMPET, an article appeared under the heading: The Future of our Christian Schools. The author was Mr. Raymond J. Geerdes, Mr. Geerdes also wrote: “Dr. Daane was later questioned as to whether this involvement in the American scene could not be more easily accomplished by sending a […]
For the Reformed churches of Australia the task of bringing in the straying and lost sheep of the fold is great. In fact, so great is that task that the churches are at a loss how and where to begin and, when begun, how to proceed. As can be expected, there are various opinions as to how we […]
REV. HUGH KOOPS ON THE COVENANT AND OUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS November 6, 1958 Champaign, Illinois To the TORCH AND TRUMPET and to Mr. Raymond J. Geerdes, principal of the Christian High School in Ripon, California, I must extend a word of thanks for the appearance of the “frankly critical” article entitled “The Future of Our […]
October 6, 1958 Dear Brother Kuiper: I refer to an article which appeared in the September issue of your paper, entitled “The Future of Our Christian Schools,” by Mr. Raymond J. Geerdes. In the article he calls attention to the report of the Board of Education of the Reformed Church in America on the subject […]
Calvin Professor Defends the Term “Rational Animal” as Applied to Man December 16, 1957 The Rev. H. J. Kuiper, Managing Editor TORCH AND TRUMPET 2401 Paris Avenue, S. E. Grand Rapids, Michigan Dear Sir: Will you allow me just a brief comment on Mr. Walter A. De Jong’s interpretation of the expression “rational animal” in a […]
Dear Friends: In any enterprise it is both fitting and necessary that we take time to look backward. We must see what we have done. We must take stock of that which we have failed to do. With this issue of Torch and Trumpet we finish our fourth year of publication. We have enjoyed this […]
Letter to the Editor TORCH AND TRUMPET DEAR SIRS: While we are in agreement with the witness which Torch and Trumpet gives for orthodox Christianity in its best form, Calvinism, we sometimes find ourselves a little uneasy about statements appearing in the magazine. The February–March issue contained a number of these. Perhaps we have misinterpreted them. But we […]
EDITORIAL NOTE The letter written by Dr. Daniel F. Malan, Prime minister of the Union of South Africa, published in our previous issue, provoked considerable reaction in the prime minister’s own country. Of the many letters received from sympathetic followers of Dr. Malan as well as from those opposed to his policies we print the […]
The Rev. Dr. Daniel F. Malan, Prime Minister. Unie van Suid Afrika, Pretoria, U.S.A. Most esteemed and reverend brother: You are well aware of the fact. I am sure that the policy of apartheid associated with your administration does not receive a favorable press in the United States and Canada. It is very ordinary for us […]