Editor’s Note – October 1990

Fifty year ago this October, the words on the front cover appeared in the October 1 issue of the Standard Bearer.  The words are the speech given by Rev. H. Hoeksema to the Second Annual Convention of the Protestant Reformed Young People’s Federation.  Why the reprint from the Standard Bearer?  I have three reasons.  First, historically, the Beacon Lights magazine did not exist until about two years later in 1942.  Until that time the convention addresses were printed in the Standard Bearer.  I...