I must confess of the title of this article, as the man did of the axe head which fell into the stream (II Kings 6:5) that it was borrowed.  Perhaps, I might better say, the title was suggested by a member of my congregation in connection with a comparison drawn in a recent sermon. In […]

Accent on the first syllable!  Put Christ back into Christmas! The Christmas season is already upon us.  In fact, the approaching holiday is rushing at us from all directions.  Everywhere we turn, we are reminded of it.  Do your Christmas shopping early!   Mail early!  Order your holiday poultry now!  Gift suggestions!  These and many more […]

Christmas 1946.  Already in November the streets and stores were filled with early shoppers scurrying through crowded aisles, pausing to inquire about this article or that, exhausting the patience of harried clerks, pushing their way into a compartment of a revolving door and elbowing a path down the sidewalk.  The stores advertise that Christmas is […]

Never does the difference between the church and the world, the Christian and the unbeliever, reveal itself more strikingly than it does on New Year’s Eve, the night of December 31.  In its vain and foolish attempt to banish from its mind all thoughts of the end and in its anticipation of a new year […]

Last month we called your attention to the false doctrine of Ebionism which troubled the early New Testament Church.  It was a mixture of some of the truths of Scripture together with the lies of Judaism and it was an attempt on the part of the devil to destroy the Church from within by manufacturing […]

The series of meetings and conferences now being held at Lake Success on Long Island in the state of New York under the name of the United Nations Organization is an interesting spectacle.  Aside from the cosmopolitan atmosphere created by the presence of delegations from most of the prominent nations of the earth and aside […]

Have you ever observed a large number of swallows or grackles congregate and prepare for the “take-off”?  Did you ever listen to the weird honking of geese as they journeyed southward through a cold, bleak, snow-laden sky?  Where do you suppose they were going?  Why? Occasionally, one still hears the query, “Do birds migrate?”  This […]

The controversy of 1924 was the cause of much agitation in the fair city of Holland, Michigan.  Many were dissatisfied with the action of the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church.  This was to be expected for several of these individuals had heard the Biblical Reformed preaching of the Rev. H. Hoeksema for over four […]

Grand Rapids, Mich. November 1946 Dear fellows: My last letter I wrote to you from Platte, South Dakota. But, as I wrote then, I could not stay there much longer because of the army of hunters that invaded that part of our country, and I could not find a suitable place to lodge. After all, […]

A writer is greatly delighted when he finds out that his articles are read and even discussed. So I was delighted when I received various letters from those who had an interest in what I wrote concerning our latest Young People’s Convention and that I had but one criticism to offer, n.l., “Personally I disapprove […]