The Nearness of the End*

Herman Hoeksema was the first editor of the Standard Bearer. "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." I Peter 4:7 On the one hand, New Year's Eve is apt to be an hour of reminiscence.* It is apt to be an hour in which we are inclined to glance back upon the way which we have traveled. Another year has again passed by. A year with many and various experiences. A year of joy and of sorrow, of laughter and of tears, of prosperity and of adversity, of...