Classis East met in Southeast Church. Rev. G. Vos, president of the October Classis, led in opening devotions. All the churches were represented by two delegates each. Rev. C. Hanko, following order of rotation, presided over this session of Classis, while the Rev. Vos recorded the minutes. Much of the…
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Rev. R.C. Harbach, of Lynden, is considering two calls at present, one from Kalamazoo and the other from Loveland. Southwest’s new trio consist of the Revs. R.C. Harbach, J. Kortering and H. Veldman. The congregational meeting intended to call from this trio was postponed from Jan. 14 to the 21st…
NUCLEAR WAR AND OUR CHILDREN There is a growing concern in these times of threat of nuclear war about the effects on children. Children hear their parents and teachers speak of the horrors of nuclear destruction; they watch air raid shelters being built; they see missiles blast off from their…
One more reason that is often advanced to support the contention that ecclesiastical censure cannot be applied to those who neglect their calling to use the facilities of Protestant Reformed education where these are made available is the claim that the task of the training of the children is a parental responsibility…
The Oneness of God (continued) In answer to this question, we may state from the outset that it certainly was not the intention of our Reformed fathers to teach anything at all like the error of tritheism, and to make a division in the work of the Three Persons. This…
We now continue with our quotations from the Radio Replies of the Fathers Rumble and Carty, Volume II, 716-721, 732-735. 720. Is not the application of water merely symbolic, testifying an inward regeneration? No. The sacramental external rite does not merely testify to an inward regeneration. It causes that regeneration.…
King Rehoboam lost the greater share of his kingdom because of a dispute over the matter of taxes. Indeed, there was, much more to the argument that split the twelve tribes of Israel into two separate kingdoms and cost Rehoboam ten of these tribes. Solomon had taxed the people to…
What the apostle has instructed Timothy concerning the duty of slaves toward their lawful masters, whether these latter be believers or unbelievers, we have noticed in two former essays. This matter of the true relationship of a slave toward his master, as he lives under the grace of God in…
And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. . . . And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the…
It is in the nature of the case that Reformed theologians always maintained that the believers in Christ will certainly persevere unto the end, and that final and complete apostasy and falling away from grace is impossible. I say that this is in the nature of the case. For, in…
Through sin man did not change essentially. He still is the same personal, rational, moral, psychological, material, earthly being. And from a natural point of view he still stands in the same relation to the world about him. Of course, even from a natural point of view he lost much,…
January 4, 1963 Chandler, Minn. Rev. Herman Hoeksema Grand Rapids, Michigan Dear Rev. Hoeksema: May I first of all extend to you a happy and blessed New Year. As I was reading in the January, 1963, issue of the Standard Bearer, I came across this statement in the Meditation written by…
Arminius and Arminianism We have very little disagreement with Arminius when he writes about the free will of man. According to him man in the state of righteousness could perform the true good; in the state of sin “man is not capable, of and by himself, either to think, to…
“. . . because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.” Ecclesiastes 12:5 When we begin our ministry there are many “firsts.” The first time we meet with and lead the consistory meeting; our first house visitation; sick visitation; Lord’s Supper; baptism; wedding ceremony;…