Obviously the texts of Ephesians 5:18, 19 and Colossians 3:16cannot be used as a Scriptural basis for the introduction of hymns in the worship of the church. One reason for this is that the term “hymn” in these passages does not have the same meaning as is commonly given to that word today.…

Randolph’s Consistory announces the following trio from which they will choose one to call to be their minister: Revs. R.C. Harbach, G. VanBaren, G. Vanden Berg. A news item from the Program Comm. of the Reformed Witness Hour: The Lord willing, Sunday, May 27, with the usual introduction—”Dear Radio Audience”—the Rev.…

Dear Rev. Hoeksema: God’s Word teaches us that women must keep silence in the churches, I Cor. 14:34, and that the women must not teach, nor usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence, I Tim. 2:12. We also believe that national and state affairs must be ruled and governed…

“SHARED TlME SCHOOL PLAN” The problem of federal aid to education remains a vexing problem to school officials and politicians, as well as to Church leaders. There are those, predominantly Roman Catholics, who insist on their proper share of federal funds for their parochial and private schools. There are others,…

Thus far in our study of the formation of the Old Testament canon we have seen, in the first place, that the Old Testament has the sanction of Christ Himself and of His apostles, so that it is impossible to believe in Christ and not to believe the Scriptures, that…

It is evident that Rome’s conception of the holiness of the church is, first of all, to be understood as referring to a liturgical, ceremonial holiness, consisting in this that the church, as institute, possesses the proper form of worship and the proper use of the sacraments, through which the…

“Only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”  Galatians 5:13 Why does Paul say that to the churches in Galatia? The answer is not hard to find: The flesh in the church always does exactly that. It takes hold of the Word…

We now turn to I Timothy 4:6-10 once more. In a former article from our hand on this subject we called attention to the fact that in this section Paul writes Timothy concerning three matters. (1) A good minister. (2) Of a minister who is to exercise himself unto godliness. (3) Of the incentive of…

“And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.” Numbers 12:1 It is a very brief insight which the Scriptures give into Moses’ personal life when they write, “He had married an Ethiopian woman”; but the…

We still have to present the report of the committee that was appointed at the February sessions of Classis East in re the cases of Mr. and Mrs. H. Vander Vennen, Mr. D. Flietstra and Mrs. P. Van den Engel. Again I present this report of the committee in abbreviated form. First…

“The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the body, but the answer of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” I Peter 3:21 The like figure? What figure?” Answer: The salvation of eight souls…