Editor’s Notes

The editorial in this issue was written by Rev. Gerald Vanden Berg, whose name is probably not familiar to you. This is partially due to the fact that he is long deceased, and partly because he wrote the article for the December 1948 issue of Beacon Lights, a few decades before most of our readers were born. Beacon Lights is not big on reprints, preferring to stay as up-to-date as possible.  So why are we republishing a 65-year-old article? Two reasons. First, the curious staff wanted to know...