If someone came up to you and said “persecution”, what would you think of? You would probably think of certain times in history. Maybe Nero and Hitler would come to your mind. Perhaps you would not consider the times of today because of all the freedom you have: freedom to go to the school of […]
ROBERT E. A. LEE, published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, $3.50 (169 pages). Reviewed by Mrs. Robert Decker The author, drawing upon his personal observations and experiences in Berlin, has created a novel depicting the life and problems of two young Germans. Werner Hirn, a publicist for a film company in Hamburg, […]
Robert E. A. Lee—Eerdmans—133 pp. The usual order of events is that a successful novel becomes a movie. Question 7 is a reversal of ordinary procedure, having first been produced as a movie, commissioned by the Lutheran Church. As a novel, Question 7 suffers from an almost inevitable malady. The author felt duty bound to […]
Book by Lester De Koster—Eerdmans, 158 pp. For a good many Americans, opposition to Communism rest upon a dislike of Khrushev’s shoe-pounding and a vague awareness that countries with a Communistic credo have been resisting the interests of the United States. Lester De Koster, Director of the Library at Calvin College and Seminary, holds such […]
Dear Miss Lubbers, Through the courtesy of my good friend, Robert Harbach, I frequently receive Beacon Lights. I enjoy the magazine and save them for reference. Today the April issue came and I have finished reading your article on the “Far Right.” I feel constrained to reply and hope I do not overly offend you […]
While conversing recently with a literate and well-informed businessman, he made the surprising and unusual statement that he had never met or talked with a Communist. In all the fervor which is presently being expended this is a surprising statement. Few would make such a statement and yet the truth of this statement can undoubtedly […]
GROUND BREAKING With this issue the undersigned begins a new rubric. The task of the writer will be to report and to comment on any important event which occurs in the world around us, in the nominal church world or more particularly in our Protestant Reformed Churches. Permit the undersigned to become trite and say […]
A paper read at a combined “Young People’s Meeting.” As members of the Church of God, we have often derived an amount of comfort from the fact that the Bible was still the world’s best selling book. That day is gone, and in 1956 the Bible became the world’s SECOND best seller. The first place […]
Fourteen years ago, on December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the forces of the Empire of Japan. Japanese planes swept down on Pearl Harbor, our great naval base in Hawaii, while submarines sank many of our battleships, killing […]
In my last installment, we have seen how the secret controlling process of Communism in the United States seeks to destroy the God-ordained institution, the family, from off the face of the earth. This is exactly in accordance with Communist doctrine as taught by one of its great leaders, Lenin, who wrote the following: “The […]