The Pre-publication Sale is now one-fourth over. The moral is this: do not continue to postpone sending in your order! Before you know it, April 1 will be here; and then it will be too late to take advantage of the sale price. Hence, get your order in today, accompanied by $7.95. Look up the handy order envelope in the February 1 issue. As of this writing, we are on schedule with our publication plans; and “Behold, He Cometh!” should meet our publication deadline of April 1.
Don’t blame your editor if you fail to take advantage of the pre-publication sale of “Behold, He Cometh!—An Exposition of the Book of Revelation.” The reason will not be that you have not been reminded. When this issue arrives in your mail, the pre-publication sale will be exactly one-half over. Have you ordered your copy? Being privy to all the preparations for publication, I have had the opportunity to see the final page proofs. This is going to be a beautifully printed book, I can assure you!
Our readers are reminded of the scheduled change in subscription rates announced in the last issue, and also blank on the inside back page of the subscription drive announced in that issue. Since we publish only one issue in August, this will be your last reminder before the September 1 deadline to take advantage of the old subscription price of $5.00. Be sure to take double advantage of the old rate! Get a subscription renewal for yourself; and do your part toward spreading the witness of ourStandard Bearer by sending in $5.00 for a gift subscription for a non-reader.
This October 1 issue is the beginning of our 84th year of publishing the Standard Bearer. We thank God for His goodness in preserving the magazine for all these years as a “standard” for the Reformed faith and life. We bear the standard gladly, with the confidence that the God of grace will use it to bless His church and people—worldwide. God give us faithfulness to His Word. A few changes are in store for the coming volume year. The editors and staff express hearty thanks to two writers who are “putting down their pen.” Rev. G. VanBaren, emeritus minister, has...
On this Issue The work of reforming the church is always a work of God by His sovereign grace. The church is God’s, and He has determined the marks of the true church. These marks are the preaching of the pure gospel, the proper administration of the sacraments, and the right exercise of Christian discipline. However, due to the sinful natures of believers as well as the presence of carnal seed within the church, there is a constant tendency for the church to depart from these biblical standards. For this reason, God must reform His church from time to time....
NOTE OF THANKS A word of thanks goes to Torch and Trumpet, organ of the Reformed Fellowship, for including the Standard Bearer in its “Survey. . .An Annotated Guide to Certain Magazines Current Among the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.” This survey calls attention to our February 15 issue, particularly to four articles appearing therein. Our Standard Bearer likes to be noticed, and we thank “T and T” for this publicity. SPEAKNG OF BILLY GRAHAM. . .
With this issue, the Standard Bearer enters the eighty-third year of continuous publishing. This cannot be noted without expressing gratitude to God for making the bimonthly publication a reality—including the financial support, the RFPA, and the superb support staff. Above all, we thank God for willing and able writers who are committed to the Reformed truth. The start of another volume is a good time to look back, and to give a preview of the coming year. The Standard Bearer will introduce two new features for the coming year. First, we plan to print a number of Rev. Haak’s Reformed Witness Hour sermons from...
This issue is the last one of Volume 44. Again the Lord has given us abundant reason for thanksgiving that we might complete this forty-fourth volume of consistent and distinctive witness to the Reformed faith. The last few pages of this issue contain the annual index for the convenience of those who like to consult past issues in their studies. This is also a reminder that it is time to place your order for a bound copy of Volume 44 if you do not have a standing order. Write to the Business Office.
Book Club Members. You are reminded that- if you have a change of address, you should notify our Business Manager. A notice of change of address for our Standard Bearer will not be sufficient, due to the fact that we keep a separate file for Book Club members. Hence, when you send in such a change for the Standard Bearer, add a note informing our Business Manager that you are also an RFPA Book Club member.
Our readers probably noticed the omission in the May 1 issue of the Rev. B. Woudenberg’s department, A Cloud of Witnesses. This was not an intentional omission by your editor, but was due to a mistake on the part of the firm which is responsible for our composition-work.