The Reverend’s last stand / The Conservatives’ Alternatives

"The Reverend's last stand" An interesting defence of the title "Reverend" in addressing the minister of the Word is presented in the Calvinist Contact, Sept. 25, 1987, by Rev. Carl D. Tuyl (the periodical explains: "Pastor Carl is a reverend in the First Christian Reformed Church of Kingston, Ontario). There is among us of late a sort of linguistically reformatory movement which attempts to banish the title "reverend" from ecclesiastical vocabulary. Some grammatically enlightened persons in...