I am quite certain, that ninety five per­cent of our young readers are able to answer the question in the Heidelberg Catechism, which reads as follows: How many Sacraments has Christ instituted in the New Covenant or Testament? The answer would immediately be forth-com­ing, and our readers would say: Two, namely, Holy Baptism and the […]

A Tear for Judas by LeGette Blythe, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. “Look at the tree, Shelomith. It has been buffetted by the winds—the burn­ing sirocco from the East, the blasts from the Great Sea, the hot desert winds from below Kirriot, the wet winds that rush down from the north. It has been […]

I was asked to write the Thanksgiving Day feature article for this “Beacon Lights” under the title “Thanksgiving Day, 100 Years Ago.” As I was looking around through the library for suitable material to write such an article, I came in six sermons delivered by several—outstanding pastors in the Episcopal Church delivered to their congregations […]

We find that two of our servicemen have recently been discharged, namely John Bekendam from Redlands, and Carl Idema from First Church. Our first news item comes from Ernie Van Weelden from our Oskaloasa church, and he writes that he received his first copy of Beacon Lights since being overseas and that he enjoys it […]

For centuries small tribes or clans of dark-skinned, black haired people, gaudi­ly dressed, have traversed the European and American continents. Although they have no basic religion or social structure which binds them together, their habits and shiftless manner of living identifies them. According to historians they ori­ginated in India and are more commonly known as […]