Independence! A beautiful word! A word which immediately calls to mind many wonderful visions and highly desirable situations. Independence! A goal which we strive for both as individuals and as a nation. Independence! A shrugging off and a casting away of bonds of servitude and obligation. Oh, but to attain thereto! What freedom would be […]
Once before an article with the same title appeared in Beacon Lights, which maintained that our doctrine, our confession, should not be a mere intellectual formula, but a living, vital, all-possessing factor, in every phase of our life. It was further pointed out that the home and even the church itself, in a measure, were […]
Beriberi is a word which has become more or less common to us. It is derived from the Singhalese wore beri which means weakness. We use it to denote the disease which is caused by an improper diet. Persons who do not eat the proper foods and persistently lack certain vitamins are liable to this […]
At mothers knee I learned to pray, And she it was who taught me to say – “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.” And when I’m old and bent and gray Let me at the close of life, Lord, say – “If I should die […]
Hiroshima was a city on the island of Honshu, Japan. The atomic bomb wiped it off the map. For years the scientists the world over have been trying to find a way to split the atom. Scientists in the U. S. under the direction of the government now know how. The product is the atomic […]
Dear Boys: As I am writing this letter to the boys in service, my mind brings me to the past history of my experience. When my boys left home, O what a time I had with myself thinking that life was not what it should be and my home life was broken. But when I […]
Dear Folks: Yesterday was V-E Day and it was an exciting day for me. I’ll try to tell you a little about the victory celebration in Paris last night. After I wrote you, fourteen others and myself went to the Arch of Triumph and I never saw so many people in all my life. It […]
Among the many and varied interesting phenomena of nature, we find the galls. Are you familiar with them? Have you ever observed the spherical enlargements on the stem of the goldenrod or the marble-like growth on the oak leaf called “oak apples?” Often they are also found on the poplar and willow trees. After observing […]
“August 2, 1939—Evening Session: Art. I—The evening meeting, which was held in the Auditorium of the South Holland Protestant Reformed church, was begun with a fifteen minute song service and the reading of Ecclesiastes 11 & 12…….Rev. G. Lubbers addressed us on the subject ‘The Days of our Youth.’” This is the way in which […]
According to precedent, the title of this article was selected after the name of the established church but I think “Reformation at Grand Haven” is a rather poor title since the actual reformation and missionary work which lighted the spark of enthusiasm that finally blazed forth into our Grand Haven Protestant Reformed Church did not […]