Reminiscences on the Early SB

"Rev. Hoeksema, if only you had never published that Standard Bearer!" The remark was made on Classis Grand Rapids East by Rev. Veldkamp. This was approximately two months after The Standard Bearer had made its first appearance. The classis was about to suspend Rev. Herman Hoeksema and his consistory from office in the Christian Reformed Church because of his refusal to sign the three points of common grace adopted by the synod of 1924. The impression was left that publishing The Standard...