I Remember Herman Hoeksema – Personal Remembrances of a Great Man (12)

I visited with the Rev. Herman Hoeksema for the last time late in the summer of 1964. I called on him one more time in the summer of 1965. But by this time the earthly house of his tabernacle had so broken down that there could be no visit, only a call. In the late summer of 1964, Hoeksema was in the hospital, having suffered a stroke that effectively put an end to his public ministry. He would die in September, 1965. We visited in the hospital. I found him in a wheelchair in a hallway. We...