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Finding Wisdom
We stand at the beginning of a new school year. Soon our students will go back to school to receive instruction and to be prepared for a place in society. It is a great privilege that we may still have our own schools where our children are taught in the true wisdom from God’s Word so ...
The Life of Daniel (19)
There is a spiritual warfare of which we read in these prophecies. The powers of the devil are not omnipotent, and the ultimate success of the power of the light should not be doubted; however, there can be tremendous opposition to the performance of the commandments of the Lord. The d ...
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 ...
A Warning Against World Conformity (1)
Although this admonition of the Apostle Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, was addressed to the congre gation at Rome, it is also necessary for us. In the first place, this admonition was addressed to those who no longer served the world, for the apostle wrote to the beloved of God and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The School of Affliction
We read in Job 5:17&18: “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty; for He maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and His hands make whole.” These words, uttered by Eliphaz, are very instructive. Although they were sp ...
Questions from Our Readers
This time of the year the confession of faith classes generally will have resumed in the congregations. Every year the consistory is eager to learn whether there will be such a class, and if so, how many have indicated a desire to attend. Rightly so, because it is both a weighty as wel ...
No Other Gods (3)
The partingNaturally, a great deal of talking was done throughout the village about the departure of Anna Brongers. Everyone had his or her own thoughts about it. Also, the aged Rev. Lensveld visited her and asked if she were not going in her own chosen way. ...
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