All Articles For Kuiper, Henry W.

(At the occasion of the farewell program for Rev. Carl Haak by Lynden Protestant Reformed congregation, Lynden, WA, on October 21, 1994.) When Christ Himself was yet upon this earthly scene, Pray ye, said He, the Lord of Harvest, when you see fields unto that harvest white. That He the Lord send laborers there to reap His Wheat and from the midst of chaff to separate and claim His own with might. So do the saints in congregations in this age beseech, and so did we, Almost a decade now, ago … though we are startled by time’s swift and...

Much writing has been done concerning the so-called “Hymn Question” in our church periodicals during the past few years. And discussion is proper, even though some feel, even as they write, “. . . that any amount of writing will not convince the opponents, because it is their conviction, and it is impossible to change or even argue against one’s conviction.” This, if discussion is to retain any merit whatever, and if the concept that the Word of God is the determining criterion for all our convictions is to be maintained, I emphatically deny. “Hymn Question”? Perhaps. The question does...