All Articles For Hoeksema, Herman

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof. Rom. 13:13, 14 Even now, let us walk as in the day! Even now, while the day is not yet, while the night, though far spent, still lingers, and the day, though at hand, still tarries. Let us walk as in the day, that day, the day of Christ! For, of that day the apostle had been...

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light. Rom. 13:11, 12 Dawn is calling! The night is far spent! The day is at hand! Awake out of sleep! Put off your night-garments and dress for the day! Always there is the call to the saints in the world to walk worthy of the Lord...

Recently we wrote an article on “Banner Ethics.” It was in connection with The Banner’s refusal of the reply of our home missionary, the Rev. Kok, to insinuations which the editor of that paper published against our missionary. I now wish to call attention to Banner manners. Manners and ethics are more closely related than many people would be willing to admit. Bad manners are often rooted in bad ethics. Take, for example, the treatment accorded Dr. Schilder by The Banner. We all remember what was done before this distinguished theologian had left the old country to visit our shores....

In my report, in the last two numbers of our paper, of the conference that was recently held of some Christian Reformed and Protestant Reformed brethren, I promised that I would write a few words about the objections which were urged by the Rev. Mr. Hendriksen against my essay, read at the conference. The reader will remember that I stated how that the brother in the noon-hour had hastily written down some objections, read them in the afternoon session, and when asked by undersigned to motivate them, refused on the ground that he had to leave the meeting. Since then...

Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Rom. 13:8 Apparently paradoxical debt of love! You owe it, you pay it, you still owe it! A debt which accumulates as you pay, which never decreases though you pay! An obligation which, though you always faithfully fulfill it, is never fulfilled! Owe no man anything, render unto every man his dues, above all do not fail to render to every man the dues of love, yet acknowledge that you still owe the debt of loving one another. In your various and...

The above title will probably lead to expect a lengthy and profound treatise, for such could, indeed, be written on that subject. But be at ease, reader, for at present I have no such purpose. I merely intend briefly to answer a question I received from Mr. K. H. of R. Calif. The brother read my article on “The Vaunting Axe” and became somewhat confused by the following sentence: “It teaches that God did not forsake the works of His hands, as is the doctrine of the Deist; that He did not surrender them to the whims of fortune or...

The Banner, official organ of the Christian Reformed Churches, published in its editorial columns the following paragraph: “Third, we feel that the unbrotherly propaganda which the so-called missionary of the Protestant Reformed Church is making especially in some of our Western churches must cease before there can be any consideration of ecclesiastical union or ecclesiastical fellowship with those brethren. We are wondering whether all the members of the Protestant Reformed Church are aware of the deplorable tactics employed by its “missionary.” This minister moves into one of our communities and seeks to create dissatisfaction among the members of the Christian...

I shall now proceed to examine into the truth of the innuendoes of the Rev. Kuiper against our missionary. Let me first of all ask the editor of The Banner to make a sincere attempt to appreciate our Protestant Reformed view of the work of our missionary. He complains that the Rev. Kok creates dissatisfaction and disturbance in the Christian Reformed Churches. I frankly reply that such is his calling. And no fair-minded Protestant Reformed man will deny this. In fact, such is the calling of any missionary, whether at home or abroad. A missionary that does not cause disturbance...

(Translated from the Holland by Rev. H. Veldman) Is it demanded, possible, desirable? The immediate occasion of this meeting of certain leaders of the Christian and Protestant Reformed Churches has undoubtedly been the visit of Dr. K. Schilder among us. Now and then, also before the coming of the professor at Kampen, the sentiment was expressed that the difference between both churches was not sufficiently important or fundamental to justify their separate existence. Never, however, did this lead to any definite action. It was Dr. Schilder who in his lectures among us not only expressed the sentiment, but also urged,...

* Lecture delivered in several of our churches. A few preliminary warnings against a possible misunderstanding of the purpose and character of my lecture for tonight may not be superfluous. My subject might conceivably arouse the expectation in your hearts and minds that I am about to deliver a war speech, or that my lecture aims at justifying our giving as much as possible aid to Great Britain. Surely, you might argue, it is Nazism that in this present war is seeking world-dominion and control of all things, and that as such is fighting the democracies of the world, has...