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The Church in The Netherlands (1)
What do we understand by “the Church”? “A holy congregation of true Christian believers, all expecting their salvation in Jesus Christ.” In this manner our God-fearing fathers expressed themselves many years ago in the Confession of Faith which they left us. There are many ...
The Church in the Netherlands (3)
I wrote a little concerning the agitation and unrest which prevailed in the Church of the fatherland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was not until the year 1834 that a split came in some places.On a certain Sunday in April, 1833, Rev. H. De Cock of Ulrum preached a sermon on ...
The “Unknown” Voetius Remembered
This year is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cysbertus Voetius in Heusden, the Netherlands. Although we wrote a biographical article about him three years ago, we wish to again draw your attention to this champion of Reformed orthodoxy. Voetius’ life was one of strife and conflict, eruditio ...
Rev. H.P. Scholte and the Settlement in Iowa
It was God’s hand that gave bread to those who hungered after the truth and graciously gave leaders to His wandering, scattered sheep. Although divisions and separations in the church can never be a cause of joy and gladness, we must consider that the Lord Himself sometimes allows circumstances t ...
Ledeboerian Churches (1)
There was a very complicated situation among Reformed professors in the last century, with much division and many separations. This we also saw in our article about Rev. Wust. He found in several places groups of followers of Rev. Ledeboer as well as former members of the Churches under the Cross ...
Rev. Albertus Van Raalte and the Emigration to Michigan
The followers of the secession movement in the Netherlands had to endure bitter persecution both from the government and from the common people around them. At the same time there was a severe economic crisis which has been known in history as the” potato famine.” Many of the followers of the sec ...
Rev. Willem C. Wust—A Restless Traveller for the Gospel
The King of His church has given faithful watchmen in His church, also in the days of much decay. He showed His care for His children. These watchmen, taught by His Spirit, preached the Word of God purely, in spite of severe persecutions they had to endure.In a previous article we saw that ...
Ledeboerian Churches (2)
Ledeboer was a man of strong emotions, quite impulsive, and sometimes very straightforward in his preaching. His way of life gave deep impressions of sincerity and uprightness. People could feel that here was a man of God with a message from heaven. He was an example of self-denial, simplicity, d ...
Arminianism: Past And Present (2)
3) The will of man is free to choose good as well as evil It seems to me that in this point, Arminius has followed the way of Pelagius who taught that every man is born like Adam before the fall, with a free will. He thought that the fall did not change anything ...
The Dutch Second Reformation (1)
The Dutch Reformation proper may be divided into four periods: the Lutheran period (1517-26), the Sacramentarian phase (1526-31), the Anabaptist movement (1531-45),1 and the most influential—the ...
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