
Timothy
THE CONFESSION OF FAITH ARTICLE XV (continued) Of Original Sin In our previous discussion regarding this article we have seen that original sin extended to all mankind; even the small children are polluted by this sin. This takes p ...

Yeddie’s First and Last Communion
Author Unknown A poor simple boy, who was supported by his parish in the Highlands of Scodand, passed his time in wandering from house to house. He was silent and peaceful and won the pity of all kind hearts. He had little power to converse ...

Music, a Good Way to Relax
Joke Meeuse and Gerriët Hofman God created man, and each person has received his or her own talents. One of the gifts God gave man is the ability to make music. Do you say that you are not musically inclined? If you aren’t, you may still mak ...

How Do You View Eternity?
Rev. W. Visscher, Amersfoort, the Netherlands Translated from Daniel, youth periodical of the Gereformeerde Gemeenten With the invisible church, it always goes well Recently, ther ...

Why Is the Name of God as Father Used So Infrequently?
Rev. B. Labee, Veenendaal, the Netherlands (De Saambinder has a rubric consisting of questions sent in by readers. Rev. Labee then provides weekly answers to the questions that he receives. Following is his response to the question posed a ...

And They Called His Name
In one of the old volumes of the Gereformeerd Weekblad (Reformed Weekly), which is no longer in existence, I found an article that was written by the well-known, experientially Reformed Rev. I. Kievit in which he mentions many names of the Med ...

Awake, O North Wind; and Come, Thou South
They lived at the foot of the dike. It was just a simple family: father, mother, and their children. Father was kept busy in his business, selling flour. The mother was well known as a mother in Israel. The father was known as one of the quiet ones in the land, but when he began to tal ...

Travel Prayers in the Wilderness
(The book of Numbers describes a portion of the desert journey of the people of Israel. The journey onward progresses according to God’s direction. The tribes go forward in an orderly manner. The priests who carry the ark follow the pillar of a cloud. Supplication is made to God for pr ...

Man of the Earth Earthy (5)
When commencing the construction of the new house, after the purification of the previous foundation (since the beams and planks formerly had consisted of Amorite and Hittite tree trunks), a new foundation was laid—a rock which encompassed the complete length and width, yea, that was e ...

God’s Free Grace Glorified (2)
Slowly, she recovered, but there was something that was difficult to heal, and that was the great anxiety; that anxiety remained. The great shock was not mediated sufficiently. To what would this lead?From the time of this accident, Mina remained afraid of an unexpect ...