Over the years, we have published many small articles, some a few lines, others a page, but all of them convey matters of interest. Each month we will add a few more and wish you good reading.
The Banner of the Netherlands
Just as Canadians had some controversies about a new flag there was quite a flag fight in Holland before the last world war. There was a trend to change the old red-white-blue flag into orange-white-blue without an orange ribbon. This ribbon was and is used only when the Dutch flag flies during festivities in connection…
Great Ladies of History – Edith Louise Cavell
Not the labour of my hands, can fulfill Thy law’s demands. Could my zeal no respite know, could my tears for ever flow? All for sin could not atone, Thou must save and Thou alone. In the grey light of an October morning in 1915, Nurse Edith Cavell faced a firing squad of German soldiers…
When the Vikings landed in Britain in 449 AD
…they were but one of many waves of invasions by people of the same stock — Jutes, Norsemen, Danes, Saxons and Angles from the continent of Europe. These were branches of the Israel peoples found where Israel was lost after their Assyrian captivity. Ancient historians, Herodotus and Pliny and others, tell us that they sprang…
On The Throne Of David
Vignettes of Israel’s History The Protestant Church has been prophetically honoured in having two Queens bearing the name of Elizabeth, a name which means, “God, My Swearer”. The Reformation and the accession of Elizabeth I to the throne and her ordering the Bible to be set up and read in English in every Church could…
The Truth Shall Be Declared
“For evil shall be put out, and deceit shall be quenched. As for faith it shall flourish, corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which bath been so long without fruit, shall be declared.” II Esdras 6:27-28. The prophet Esdras here assures us of the end of evil and the ultimate victory of Truth. Literally…
Abraham Lincoln Said…
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong….