Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 9

INTRODUCTORY NOTE It gives

my

me the

greatest pleasure to respond to the request

—

Hendrik de Vries, to whom a due from us all for putting into English a vsection of this valuable treatise, that I should in a few words introduce its author to his American audience. It is not often that an opportunity falls to one to make known a thinker of Dr. Kuyper's quality to a new circle of readers and I count it a high honor to have been given this privilege. For many years now Dr. Kuyf»er has exercised a very remarkable influence in his own country. As leader and of

friend, the Rev. J.

debt of gratitude

is

—

;

organizer of the Anti-revolutionary party, and chief editor

De Standaard^ a newspaper which, we are told by good authority, occupies not only " a place of honor, but the place of honor among Dutch dailies " ^ as founder, defender, and developer of the Free University of Amsterdam, through which the people of the Netherlands are receiving an object lesson of the possibility and quality of higher education conducted on Christian and Reformed foundations, free from interference from the State as consistent advocate in the Church of freedom of conscience, confessional rights, and the principles of that Reformed religion to which the Dutch people owe all that has made them great, and strenuous promoter of the great end of bringing all who love those principles together into one powerful communion, free to confess and live the religion of their hearts as a religious teacher whose instructions in his weekly journal. Be Heraut^ are the of its organ,

;

;

;

^ Jhr. Mr. A. F. de Savornin Lohman in De Nederlander of April 1, 1807 (as extracted in the Gedenkboek, published in commemoration of the completion of the first twenty-five years of service by Dr. Kuyper as chief-editor

of

De Standaard, Amsterdam,

1897, p. 89).

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