Encounter with our “last enemy” (1 Cor. 15:26) is never easy. And so the news that our friend, Dr. Edwin H. Palmer, had died was not easy to absorb. Ed was healthy. He worked at keeping physically fit. And he looked it. Seeing him was pleasant for many reasons, among them the fact that the […]
Introduction to Dr. Lloyd-Jones In The Calvin Forum in February, 1943 Dr. Clarence Bouma, the editor, called attention to a little book, The Plight of Man and the Power of God. He hailed it as “a gem of 120 pages” which “ought to be on the desk of every preacher in the English-speaking world. And […]
Rev. Edward J. Knott, age 97, passed away Friday night, November 29, 2019 due to complications from a fall. He was preceded in death by his wife, Harriet, infant son Fred, and granddaughter Sandy Lautenbach. Surviving are his children Kathy (John) De Leeuw, Edward (Marcia) Knott, and Fred (Deb) Knott, his 8 grandchildren and 15 […]
Miss Timmer was widely known in the Christian Reformed Community as an outstanding leader and teacher. She was the first dean of women at Calvin College and served as dean and teacher for fourteen years. She was the first acting president of the Reformed Bible Institute (now Reformed Bible College) as well as a much […]
The late Rev. William Kok, always a zealous contender for the faith, was a member of Reformed Fellowship, Inc. and a contributor to TORCH AND TRUMPET (former name of THE OUTLOOK) in bygone days. Dr. William Rutger’s readiness to write this In Memoriam is greatly appreciated. Factual statistics of a man’s life can be told […]
Rev. Corey Dykstra came to the end of his short earthly pilgrimage on Saturday, June 22, 2019. All the families of the Walker United Reformed Church, in Walker, Michigan, were notified by phone that evening that our brother had taken his own life. We do not know the reason for his action that afternoon, and […]
Dr. Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary reached the noble age of eighty on May 3. And on July 24 his devoted wife of fifty years, Bella Klooster Van Til, joined him at eighty! The editor asked me to write a short article to commemorate this landmark in the lives of my influential uncle […]
In attempting to characterize Rev. Nicholas J. Monsma for this In Memoriam I think immediately of the word stalwart. Physically he was stalwart. al· ways a dignified and impressive figure whether in the pulpit or as he appeared elsewhere in the service of the church. But it was not only his physique that always commanded […]
As this issue of Torch and Trumpet is on the press we of Reformed Fellowship Inc. received notification that our esteemed colleague, friend and brother, the Rev. Prof. Rienk B. Kuiper, has been removed from this life into the joyous presence of the Lord whom he loved and served so long. Death came on the […]
Stunned to silence were we with many others throughout the Reformed community, when the news first reached us that God in his inscrutable wisdom had taken to himself a man who by his preaching had won our hearts. We pondered the ways of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His great and […]