A paper presented before the Senior Mr. and Mrs. Society of First Church   Less than a year ago the vast majority of the peoples of the earth would have scorned any suggestion that possibly someday man might reach the moon or be able to travel more or less freely in space. Some people, perhaps, […]

In deference to the cursory reader, who is given to paging through the magazine, breezily skimming off the words at the beginning or near the end of an article – without really giving the author a chance to make a point – let us say this article in substance qualifiedly “endorses” television in our homes, […]

With this brief note I would say farewell to the readers of Beacon Lights and to the wonderful young people who form the staff of our magazine. Farewell, that is, as Editor-in-Chief. The Reverend James A. McCollam, pastor of the First Protestant Reformed Church of Holland, Michigan, has graciously consented to take up the work […]

Would you say the spiritual life of the child of God is an easy way of life? With the recent conditional controversy still causing pain and anguish in the hearts of many who might sometimes have failed to grasp the extent of the doctrinal implications in all the phases of the argument, can we agree […]

The well-known poet, Longfellow, once wrote that in this world a man must either be an anvil or a hammer. Perhaps without intending to, he neatly summed up the philosophy of living for many a worldly man seeking recognition, success and even security. Either make things or break things. Beat or get beat. Life is […]