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Time, as the swinging pendulum, Brings the new millennium. Man fears what is to transpire, Hearing the predictions dire. Some are worried, many fret Over things unseen as yet. People prepare in rapid paces, For preservation of the races. While others plan to celebrate This much anticipated date, With merriment and revelry They’ll celebrate the century. Millennium markers are on the rise As Y2K is commercialized.

Rev. Terpstra is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois. Able to gaze on the glory of our Lord now in this life?! And doing so, to be changed into the same image as He, even from glory to glory?! That we shall behold our Lord’s glory in the hereafter is our great hope, for then we shall see Him “face to face” (I Cor. 13:12). That we shall be like Him then, in perfection, is our sure expectation (I Jn. 3:2). But now already to be able to see His glory and be changed into His...

Cornelius Hanko is an emeritus minister in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Ques. 108. What doth the seventh commandment teach us? Ans. That all uncleanness is accursed of God; and that therefore we must with all our hearts detest the same, and live chastely and temperately, whether in holy wedlock, or in single life. Ques. 109. Doth God forbid in this commandment, only adultery and such like gross sins? Ans. Since both our body and soul are temple of the Holy Ghost, he commands us to preserve them pure and holy: therefore he forbids all unchaste actions, gestures, words, thoughts, desires,...