I Remember Herman Hoeksema – Personal Remembrances of a Great Man (8)

A God-given Leader In Richard Newhouse’s response to Herman Hoeksema’s “peccavi” (“I have erred”), “It took him forty years to admit he made a mistake, and then he did it in a language nobody can understand,” there was more than met the eye. The remark reflected the awareness of the members of the Protestant Reformed Churches that Hoeksema was never wrong. I do not at all refer to his spiritual life. He was a sinful man, with only a small beginning of the new obedience. He confessed this in...