The South-African crisis - pagina 3
Il^TEODUCTIOI^.
Dr.
Abraham Kuyper,
and review
South
of
opinions cannot but
men
women
;,nd
a
journalist,
command
allairs,
is
a great
Dutchman whose
the respectful attention of tlioughtful
whatever
in this country to
Kuyper has won
Dr.
belong.
the author of the following inasterfal criticism
African
political party
they
may
distinction as a scholar, a theologian,
and a statesman.
He
was born
1837 and, after a
in
brilliant career as a student at the University of Leyden, where he
graduated D.D. in 1802 he became a famous preacher in Amsterdam. Jn 1880 he was appointed professor of Theology in the Free University
—
of that city
a position which he
been
Theology", has
still
holds. His "Encyclopa'dia of
translated into English
and
is
well
known
to
students of the science of religion on both sides the Atlantic. In 1898 the University of Princeton, U.S., conferred
upon him the honorary
degree of LL. D., and two years ago he was appointed to deliver the ''Stone Lectures".
He was welcomed by
the American people with remar-
kable enthusiasm. "The Dutch Gladstone" was the conferred upon journalist.
He
him is
in the
American
press. Dr.
title
Kuyper
is
appropriately
also a brilliant
President of the Dutch Press Association and in
his silver jubilee as editor of
"De Standaard", one
I8'.)7
of the ablest and
most intiuential daily papers in the Netherlands, was celebrated by
manner worthy of
his tine charac-
friends
and opponents
ter, his
great intellectual powers, and his far-reaching influence. It
however,
household of
a
as
a
alike in a
Statesman that he
words to Dutchmen
great party
in
ail
has
made
his
over the world.
the States General
and
is
name
He
is
is
familiar as
the leader
a muster of parlia-
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Abraham Kuyper Collection | 85 Pagina's