
Ministerial Calls
Extended:To Rev. A. Schot of Nunspeet, the Netherlands, by the congregation of Covell Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan.Declined:By Rev. B.J. van Boven of De Valk-Wekerom, the Netherlands, to the congregation of Brant ...

Letters to My Young Readers
Welcome to our new members: Zachary den Dekker, Jada Kelderman, and Zachary Van Brugge. Love, Aunt LenaBeth ...

God Is the Highest Good
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of Him is our proper happiness and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here—better than fathers and ...

Obituaries
COOPER, Henry – Age 99, July 15, 2021; North Haledon, New Jersey; Wife – Jozina (nee Sweetman) (deceased); survived by nephew John & Sherry Wigboldus; predeceased by brother Marinus. (Rev. H. de Leeuw, Genesis 5:27.)VANDE HOEF, Gerrit – Age 97, July 20, 2021; Siou ...

Report of the Classis Far West Youth Conference
The young people of the Classis were able to gather for this year’s conference, hosted by the Nobleford congregation, on Saturday, July 24.After a few welcoming words Rev. G.M. de Leeuw opened the conference and presented a topic based on Genesis 37. He explained how ...

Natural Foolishness
Everything in nature is against believing in Jesus Christ. What beauty can the blind man discern in a crucified Savior, for which he is to be desired? How can the will, naturally impotent, yes, and averse to good, make choice of Him? Well may the soul then say to Him in the day of the ...

Knowing the Son of Man
How different it would be in God’s church in our sad days of estrangement if we with the sick of the palsy might be privileged to experimentally take that place. Then more breaking-through work would be perceived and heard of, whereas we now so often remain in the childbirth and seek o ...

The Spies Meet Rahab
The children of Israel had reached Canaan. Now they could enter the country and make their home there. They could not do that, could they? Were there not other people living in the country? How could they just push their way onto someone else’s land? Joshua knew what to do. He decided ...

Is There No Balm in Gilead?
We have here the prophet himself bewailing the calamity and ruin of his people, for there were more of the lamentations of Jeremiah than those we find in the book which bears that title.Observe here (1) how great his griefs were. He was an eyewitness of the desolation ...

Godly Sorrow (3)
Because of the drawing love of the Lord, such a sorrowing one cannot let the Lord go. Jacob could not let go, the Canaanitish woman could not let go. All those who sorrow after God cannot let go, and they say with Job, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him” (Job 13:15a). All of J ...