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Manhattan, Montana March 29, 1939 The Rev. H. J. Kuiper, Editor of The Banner, Grand Rapids, Michigan Dear Brother: I have read with interest your editorial in The Banner of March 23, entitled “Shall we seek reunion with the Protestant Reformed Church? (Churches).” It is not my purpose to reflect upon the entire article but only upon that paragraph in which you made an ignoble and despicable attempt to discredit my work and person, not only in the eyes of the members of your churches but also of ours. As to the charges you make against the many articles which...

As I already remarked, so reads the caption of an editorial appearing in The Banner for April 11. The author of the writing is Rev. H. J. Kuiper, editor in chief of The Banner. The Brother advances several reasons why Christians do well to practice tithing. He invites his readers to give special consideration to his arguments in favor “of this time-honored method of contributing to the needs of the kingdom of God.” As I wrote, I have given special consideration to the reverend’s arguments in favor of tithing. I trusted and still trust that the brother will bear with...

The purpose of this discourse is given in chap. 40: “Comfort ye my people,” saith your God. The prophecy of Isaiah is a prophecy of comfort. Let this statement not be misunderstood. The meaning is not that the discourses of the other prophets have no comfort for the believers or that it was not the mission of these others to speak comfortable words; what is meant is that the prophecy of Isaiah is pre-eminently a prophecy of comfort and that he more than the others gave utterance to comforting speech. That he did so is due to the immense scope...

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel.” Numbers 13:1. According to this notice, Moses acted in response to an express command of God, when he sent forth the spies, while according to a statement found in his first farewell address to the people, this action was taken by him because the people had so requested. “And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the...

The Men’s League Annual membership meeting was held Tuesday, April 15, in the Fuller Ave. Prot. Ref. Church parlors. The Board had planned an up to date program, which was well received by old and young; although the attendance was rather small, which was not to our credit, to be sure. The topic of the program was: Should we have our own System of Christian Instruction? The Revs. P. Boer, C. Hanko, R. Veldman and J. De Jong were asked to speak on this worthy subject, and they were each allowed 15 minutes time. The first speaker spoke on: the...

* Lecture delivered in several of our churches. A few preliminary warnings against a possible misunderstanding of the purpose and character of my lecture for tonight may not be superfluous. My subject might conceivably arouse the expectation in your hearts and minds that I am about to deliver a war speech, or that my lecture aims at justifying our giving as much as possible aid to Great Britain. Surely, you might argue, it is Nazism that in this present war is seeking world-dominion and control of all things, and that as such is fighting the democracies of the world, has...

The Jewish typical theocracy suffered many an assault, throughout its history. At regular intervals the heathen nations appear as scourges in the hand of the Lord for the chastisement of His people. Of all these assaults, however, only two were disastrous and final: the destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and that by Titus. Each culminated in the demolition of the temple and the holy city, and the carrying away of the people. Each had its prophet: the former Jeremiah, and the latter, Christ. There is, of course, an important difference to be noticed between the two catastrophes. The second was absolutely final,...

Our Synod is again past history. At some future time we will perhaps make a few remarks regarding same, but at this time we thought it well to transcribe two missives which were sent by our Synod. Their contents are sufficiently interesting to our readers to warrant immediate publication. The letters in question follow: Grand Rapids, Michigan. May 23, 1941. The Consistory of the Kalamazoo Protesting First Christian Reformed Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Esteemed brethren in our Lord Jesus Christ: We received the two letters you sent us under date of July 30, 1940, and January 28, 1941. The Synod decided...

In my last article under the above caption I showed that, in the language of Rev. Steigenga, “for many the tithe is an easy, cheap and arbitrary way of serving God with their abundance, and for many others it is it is unfair and difficult in the extreme.” It is very difficult, I wrote, for the father of a large family, with an income much too small, to give the tenths. Such a man should not tithe, as through his doing so he would be taking the bread out of his children’s mouths. For this man to tithe would be...

As was said, It was a hard speech that the people uttered against the Lord, at their hearing of the report of the spies. They wanted to know why He had brought them to the border of Canaan that they, their wives and their children, should be a prey. The people were committing a great sin. In the Lord’s own words, they were despising and rejecting Him in His faithfulness and veracity, His longsuffering and mercy, holiness and righteousness. They did so, not in their ignorance but deliberately, knowingly. For these virtues of God were manifest in them and were...