All Articles For Faber, John M.

Rev. R.C. Harbach, of Kalamazoo, has declined the call to be Home Missionary of our churches.  Rev. J. Kortering, of Hull, has declined the call which came to him from Edgerton, Minn.  Rev. Harbach has received a call from Randolph, Wis.; and Rev. Lanting is considering a call which he received from Edgerton. Rev. Kortering is also considering the call he received from Hudsonville.  Isabel, S. Dak. has announced the following trio: Revs. D. Engelsma, J. Kortering, and M. Schipper.

If our denomination should ever adopt the custom of the Christian Science churches who usually read a designated sermon in all their churches on the same Sunday, we would favor one preached in First Church March 10 to be read in our churches for a “preparatory sermon” before one of the quarterly celebrations of The Lord’s Supper.

The winter’s grip on the nation was felt in Iowa Dec. 22 when all church services were cancelled and the evening Christmas program was postponed. This winter’s grippe was also in evidence in all our churches, leaving many seats vacant, and in one instance, Southeast Church, the pulpit had to be occupied by an elder on Sunday evening and Christmas morning when Rev. Schipper was laid low by its bug.

On Sunday Morning, March 24, in First Church of Grand Rapids, “the minister and rulers of the church of God, being assembled in the name and authority of our Lord Jesus Christ” under the disagreeable necessity of being further grieved for members of their congregation, came to the “last remedy” of excommunicating the impenitent “to the end that they might not put the whole body of the church in danger, and that God’s name might not be blasphemed.” Let every one of us, besides those who heard the Form read that morning, “take warning by this and such like examples;...

Upon the request of the Mission Committee Southwest’s Consistory has granted their pastor, Rev. Lubbers, permission to labor for six Sundays in Pella, Iowa. Rev. and Mrs. Lubbers’ plan was to be gone from home from Jan. 10 to Feb. 18. Rev. Veldman, of Hudsonville, was obtained to teach the two mid-week catechism classes on Tuesday evening, and the Elders were assigned the Saturday classes.

Rev. G. VanBaren has received a call from our church at Hull, Iowa. The trio included the Revs. R.C. Harbach and B. Woudenberg.

The Hope Protestant Reformed Christian School rendered an excellent Easter Program in the auditorium of First Church on the evening of April 11. The program consisted of selections from Scripture and songs chosen for the support of the theme which was, “Rejoice, for the Lamb Reigneth.” The entire program was produced by the Principal, Miss A. Lubbers, and was one of their finest renditions. The choir music was faultlessly rendered and the narration was plain and clearly understood.

Hope’s congregation held a 50th Anniversary celebration, recently, and the celebrants included the one remaining charter member, Mr. Richard Newhouse. The main speaker on the program was Rev. D. Engelsma, a son of the church. Greetings were given by former pastors, Revs. H. Hanko, H. Veldman, and J.A. Heys. Rev. Kortering conducted the opening devotions. Mr. John Moelker rendered the organ prelude and postlude; a piano-organ duet by Lois Engelsma and Bonnie Meulenberg, and singing by a mass choir composed of the Hope Heralds and the Choral Society completed the program.

The January issue of Loveland School’s Ledger contained an editorial by the school board regarding the so-called findings of science—specifically their latest venture to determine the “origin” of the rocks on the moon.

The call to Edgerton has been declined by the Rev. G. Lanting, pastor of Holland. At this writing, Hudsonville had not received a decision on its call to the Rev. J. Kortering, who had requested a week’s extension. The Rev. R.C. Harbach’s decision on the call to Randolph, Wisconsin was negative.