The Christian: God’s Delight........................ Rev. Fritz Harms .......................2
In this meditation Rev. Fritz Harms looks for the balance between a sorrow for our
sin and an understanding that we have been accepted of God.

Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964):
The Legacy of a Missionary, Professor and Author
....................................................Rev. Johan D. Tangelder ...............4
Rev. Tangelder reviews the influence that Dr. J. H. Bavink had in the field of
missions.

Teen Scene: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble ............. Mr. Dave Vander Meer ....................8
Mr. Dave Vander Meer looks at the battle that all Christians must fight as soldiers
in God’s army.

Some Distinctive Aspects of Rural Evangelism .... Rev. Jack L. Vander Laan ................9
This edited for size reprint from the March 1961 Torch and Trumpet describes
some of the difficulties of evangelism in rural churches.

Sound Bites - 1961 .........................................................................................................14
Quotes from the eleventh year of the Torch and Trumpet’s publication that still speak to us
today.

Election and the ‘Free Offer’ of the Gospel (2) ....Dr. Cornel Venema ....................... 16
In part 2 of his discussion of the “Free Will Offer”, Dr. Venema looks at the Biblical basis for the
“traditional” reformed view.

Folk Islam ..............................................‘Dick Wunnink’......................20
Writing under the name “Dick Wunnink”, the author looks at how local traditions
have influenced the Islam religion.

God’s People, My Parish .......................................Rev. Wybren Oord .........................22
“Year after year Alfred and Alice farmed the little plot of land they owned...”