Thinking of becoming a teacher? Then let me give you a few words of encouragement. Maybe this article may seem a bit idealistic to you. Perhaps it is that this is my first year of teaching. Or it may be that I’m teaching kindergarten and nineteen of the most wonderful children on earth. I thank […]
Music has the power to stir the heart and soul of man. For centuries poets, in extolling its sweet compulsion, have dwelt on the delight of comprehending the intricacies of this universal language of mankind. Soft music soothes the tired mind. There is music which can strike fire from the heart of men and tears […]
It is refreshing to the soul to peruse some of the works of John Calvin in which he both criticizes the modem perversion of the truth he loved and taught and also ably sets forth and defends that truth. When we consider the arguments which he brings forth and notate his repeated appeals to Scripture […]
Crucial Wars: In the history of the world there have been several crucial wars that have decidedly turned the direction of the world’s history in the path that it took. We may point to three main wars. The Persian wars, the wars between Greece and Persia; the Punic wars, the wars between Rome and Carthage; […]
The scene of this debate may be in any of our Young People’s Societies, either here in Michigan or as far west as Bellflower, California. However, I like to think of it as being conducted in a society of one of our mid-western churches on a Sunday evening. (Sunday evening is the set time for […]
Marvels of Spring will never cease to awe and thrill mankind. The seeming “death” of plant and animal life is but a mere dormancy, for the potential being remains and that “breath of life” will never completely cease until time itself will end. The warmth of the sunshine, the refreshment of the rain, the balm […]
Meet Your Servicemen The following letter may give you fellows an incentive to pass on some ideas of what you would like to see in Beacon Lights. It comes from Albert Visser, from our Manhattan Church. “I received your letter a while back, and I am sorry I couldn’t answer before. Yes, I have been […]
The Rose aloft in sunny air, Beloved alike by bird and bee, Takes for the dark Root little care That toils below it ceaselessly. I put my question to the flower: “Pride of the Summer, garden queen, Why livest thou thy little hour?” And the Rose answered. “I am seen.” I put my […]
From Iowa I received the following question: Dear Schuiler, My question is a problem that I think is facing many young men these days May a Christian enlist in the armed forces of our country? I asked this question mainly in view of the fact, that the young man assumes he will be called soon […]
The English dictionary defines gambling as “to risk something of value on an event or a possible happening; to persue a course accompanied by a high degree of uncertainty or risk of loss”. Because America is money mad, she is also the gamblingest nation that ever existed in spite of the fact that gambling is […]