Kuyper-gedenkboek 1907 - pagina 478

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kommt,

die Ursache werden, dasz es anders

als er

und seine

Anhanger glauben.

The Banner. Dr.

Abraham Kuyper.

October 29

name we

ored

and prominent men

homage

to the

for the

wrote above our sketch.

ago that he was born.

years

day

will be a great

A

It

man whose honwill be

number

large

seventy

of influential

the Netherlands will unite in paying

in

great leader, the wise statesman, the

power-

orator, the rejuvenator of Calvinism.

ful

The Banner also wishes and

appreciation

of

his

to join

at the

speaking a few words

in

same time present

a sketch of

life.

Kuyper was born October

Dr.

29, in Maassluis, near Rot-

terdam. His father was a minister of the Reformed church.

mother was a talented

His

oughly

Swiss descent, thor-

of

acquainted with the French language which young

Abraham him

woman

learned

an

early

His

age.

elementary

education.

They imparted

erence

the

which never

for

father

Bible

to

left

him

a

Zeeland,

to

which

his

meanwhile and where he attended lege, lish

he spent

influence. sailor.

In

had removed gymnasium or col-

father

the

many an evening with

of

deep rev-

him, even in days

when unbelief came upon him with withering The young minister's son wanted to become a Middelburg,

instructed

Both parents taught him the branches

English.

in

at

the skippers of

Eng-

boats talking about the sea.

Plans were made for him to go to Amsterdam to attend the in

naval academy there. But the Lord had different plans niind.

Just

at

this

juncture

his

father received a call

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