I Remember Herman Hoeksema – Personal Remembrances of a Great Man (10)

Vignettes of a Seminary Training Vignette (vin-yet): “a short descriptive literary sketch;” “a brief incident or scene” (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary). Herman Hoeksema was an old man when I was in seminary (1960-1963). Born in 1886, he was seventy-four when I entered seminary and seventy-seven when I graduated. After my graduation, he had only two more years to live. Naturally enough, he had lost something, even a great deal, of the liveliness of the days of his great powers. He...