If you were placed before the question why you attend Catechism you might answer quite readily, either, because I must, or, because I enjoy it, or, because I consider it very important. It might be better to put the question this way: Why do we have Catechism? And if that were a question in your […]
Who started the fad of white skating shoes? Hollywood, in releasing a picture of the famous skater, Sonje Henie. Who introduced Venetian blinds and the one-hand telephone for common use? Who helped a certain well-known comic strip character to bring 40 percent increase in the sale of spinach? And who set the people to asking […]
Under this title one finds a brief article written by the Reverend Edwin H. Rian, a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian denomination, in “The Banner” for the week of Friday, February 13th, 1942. Out of fairness to the writer we must emphasize, as he also does, the fact that this article is not written by […]
The following story is quoted from the department entitled “The World Today”, prepared each week by the Rev. E. J. Tanis of Chicago, Illinois, for “The Banner”. It appeared in the issue for the week of Friday, January 9th, 1942, as an example of the deceitfulness of men. “The Japanese building in the New York […]
The past month has not brought us very pleasant or encouraging news concerning our war efforts in the Pacific. In some ways it seems to be a repetition of the German procedure in Europe. Country after country fell individually into the hand of the German war-machine. So also in the Pacific, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, Malaya […]
“What profusion is there in His work!” “When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole blossom-full of gems: and, of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, […]
“He is not here.” Of course not! “Why seek ye him that liveth among the dead?” He is the Lord of Glory, the Resurrection and the Life! And here is the grave! This “here” is the realm of the dead, the place of corruption. It is the place that proclaims unto us the wrath of […]
It has been said by Christ, and afterwards by His apostles, that false prophets would arise and would deceive many, that is, that many would follow them. One of these great false prophets was Mohammed. He was indeed the great prophet of the lie. Mohammed was born about 569, in Mecca, Arabia. In early childhood […]
It is very difficult to say what light is. According to a discarded theory it consists of the actual distribution of particles in every direction by the heavenly luminaries. Perhaps it consists of vibrations or ether waves. But we may say something about light: a. It is movement. Light travels at the rate of 186,000 […]
We hear it said so often that God is a sovereign God; that God’s sovereign counsel contains the destiny of all creatures: that the grace of God is sovereign elective grace. Yet, do we realize just what the word “sovereign” implies? Do we realize the extent of God’s sovereignty? What is meant by God’s sovereign […]