Rev. B. Woudenberg, of Edgerton, has received the call to be Home Missionary, from a trio which included the Revs. J.A. Heys and J. Kortering. The Western Ladies’ League met April 10 at Edgerton Church, with the Rev. J. Kortering as principle speaker. The subject of his speech was the…
The New Publishing Project All our Protestant Reformed people should by this time have received their second letter concerning the efforts being put forth to publish Rev. H. Hoeksema’s dogmatics. In order to reach those who might not have received the letters, as well as to furnish more complete information…
The Fall of the Evil Angels The Fall of the Evil Angels Although there is often a certain attraction in speculating about things which Scripture does not specifically tell us, and although also with regard to the evil angels it is rather easy to give one’s imagination free rein, yet…
The sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is, of course, treated in all the Protestant and Reformed Symbols. We wish to quote, first of all, from the Gallican Confession, the French Confession of Faith, composed in 1559, approximately the same time as our Heidelberg Catechism and our Belgic Confession. This Gallican…
The faith of God’s child is everlasting. Jesus tells us inJohn 15:5 that except we abide in Him,—and that means by faith,—we can do nothing. We surely shall do much in the new creation, and that exactly because the bond of faith wherewith we are united with Christ has not been…
General Observations We will begin in this essay our exposition of the last two chapters of this unique prophecy in which all the former prophets find their consummation. We may here repeat what we wrote in an earlier essay: Malachi is truly the last prophet in the Old Testament dispensation.…
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of, the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me…
As I promised you a few months ago, there is still one more report that will appear in this column before it is presented to Synod. This is the Long Range Report on Foreign Mission Work. As I promised you a few months ago, there is still one more report…
Of the seventeen schemata proposed to the Vatican Council at its second session, only seven reached the floor for discussion, and of these, but two have been formally approved by the Council. These two have been promulgated by Pope Paul VI at the closing day of the second session, December…
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel in those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:…
We call attention to the fact that elsewhere in this issue, under the title, “The New Publishing Project,” the reader will find complete information in regard to the proposed publication of Rev. H. Hoeksema’s dogmatics. Since there had been many requests for information, and since this requires considerable space, it…
Hate—Sin or the Sinner? Prof. Dekker, in order to maintain that God loves all men, as he once more emphasizes in his article on “Telling the News to All Men,” attempts to base this heretical view on Scripture. First of all, he tries to prove that God hates sin but…
“Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and bath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor.” Ephesians 5:1, 2 “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk…