Foreign Language Press Service

Friday of this week the Christmas packages and boxes will be distributed at the Cook County Infirmary at Oak Forest, Illinois in which several churches will participate, among them the First Reformed Church on Hastings Street, First Christian Reformed, 14th Street and the West Side Reformed C

Many of our Holland people who came here when they were young, or were born here from Holland parents are nearly all lost in the American pot of assimilation. Many of them are strangers to the so beautiful Holland language, of the characteristics common to them and of the ways of the Holland

Let us not forget that our schools can be of enormous value to our country. Is it not possible that God will use our people to give to American Christianity the free Christian school? American Christianity is not satisfied with our public schools without the Bible. It seeks a remedy. <

Answer to Mr. P. Termaat regarding the teaching of the Dutch language in the Christian schools..... Herewith, we give a reprint of the articles of the laws governing teaching. This law governs the teaching in the elementary grades. By elementary grades, we usually understand the grades from 1

On Thursday, February 9, 1922 the Ruth Bible Class wishes to give a public entertainment in the building of the First Christian Reformed Church on 14th Street at 7:45 P.M. On this occasion there will be a contest of recitations between the young daughters of different societies. Eve

Our Art Institute, Michigan Avenue & Adams Street, has again increased it's wealth by the addition of another attractive masterpiece. It is of the Dutch master, Jacob Maris, and is titled, "Grandmother," picturing a friendly woman with a child on her lap. Before her stands a small girl, l

Absolute neutral education for us in unthinkable. It is education without a soul. A teacher who must smother his convictions, whatever they may be, before a class, cannot teach efficiently. And to cleanse the teachings in our public schools of Darwinism by law would, we fear, bear very little

On Wednesday, February 22, at 8 p. m., the well-known Hamilton Park Men's Club will give a concert in the Second Christian Reformed Church, located at 66th and Peoria Streets. A collection will be taken. The majority of the members of this singing society are young Holland men from

The well known William Jennings Bryan, is busy nowadays awakening the Christian part of our people to the religious character of the teachings of the public schools. Bryan declares that the teaching of the Bible had to make way for the teaching of evolution. We do not plead for the

It is not alone the thrill idols (as the moving pictures were titled recently by a sister newspaper) who are worshipped by the idol worshippers who attend the movies, but the persons who are being photographed, who pose for the plays, that are really the personifications of this new and gener

This is a fast age. An age in which good and evil influences abound. All of us are subject to either the former or the latter. Judging from appearances at the present time, evil influences or tendencies seem to have the upperhand. And among them, especially, the tendency to dispose of a numbe

On April 1, Alva lost Den Briel. (Den Briel was the first town to surrender to the conqueror, Alva). Yes sir - it was 350 years ago that this feat was accomplished, but that day will forever live as one of the weightiest and most touching happenings in the history of the Netherlands. No - in

The example set by Mr. Eagan, Atlanta, Georgia, is being widely discussed by the press as is evident by the following in the Literary Digest of February 25. Christian methods, adopted to business is the motto of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company, of which John Eagan, one of Atlanta's wealth

The word "prohibition" is of the same meaning in the Dutch language as in the English. Although the meaning remains the same, it seems to be altered to the extent that in daily life it is only used exclusively in relation to the sale and use of alcoholic liquors. However this may be to the su

The summertime is outing time, when one should visit the great outdoors in order to behold the beauties of nature. All outings contain the possibilities of pleasure, but an outing which Christians arrange gives an excellent opportunity to glorify God, which is the primary purpose of Christian

On August 31, the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the Roseland division of the General Netherland Union will give an exceptionally interesting program at Palmer Park, 111th Street, and Indiana Avenue. The Dutch Tri-Color, which is honored by all nations, will wave next to the

In the issue of January 31 of Onze Toekomst, my attention was called to the fact that The Story of Mankind, written by the Hollander, Hendrik Van Loon, can now be read also by the blind through its re-writing in Braille. It is important news, because such a work is not only large and expensiv

It may sound strange to call Chicago a center of the Netherland civilization but that nevertheless is the truth. Who ever looks upon the proud buildings and no less upon the proud people on Michigan Boulevard at Chicago, will not suspect at a first glimpse that here is a true center of Hollan

A reporter of the Chicago Daily News writes from Amsterdam, that the decision of the Department of Commerce at Washington to send a representative to the Dutch East Indies, fills the Netherlanders with hope of a return of American commerce. For a year past, the United States was not officiall

According to the daily papers, the United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, has recently made an important decision, namely, the language question in the lower grades of schools, a question in which many of us are interested. No less than five convictions in three different