George M. Ophoff (13)

Not too many years went by of Rev. Ophoff’s work as pastor of the congrega­tion of Hope before he became actively embroiled in the common grace contro­versy. As we noticed already in another connection, the controversy over common grace had long agitated the church before it became an ecclesiastical issue at the Synod of 1924. And Rev. Ophoff had come to an independent conclusion on the issue while he was still a student in the Seminary. It is not our intention in this series of articles to go...