Origins - Volume XIX no. 2
Volume XIX - Number 2 2001
Historical Magazine
of the Archives -
The Hekman Library
Calvin College and
Calvin Theological Seminary
3207 Burton SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546
(616) 957-6313
 
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2 From the Editor
4 Albertus C. Van Raalte: Leader
of the Dutch Emigration to the
United States, 1847-1867
Elton J. Bruins

12 Albertus C. Van Raalte
A Look at the Autumn Years of
His Life (1867-1876)
Michael De Vries

 

19 From the Recollections of Gezina
Visscher Van Der Haar, 1820-
1901
translation by C.L. Jalving 1954

27 Children of the Day: Not of the
Night: The Background of the
Afscheiding, 1834
Leonard Sweetman

  

 

Richard H. Harms
Editor

Hendrina Van Spronsen
Circulation Manager

Conrad J. Bult
Book Reviewer

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Designer

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Associate Editors

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Robert Swierenga
Contributing Editor

Eerdmans Printing Co.

Cover Photo: Rev. Albertus C. Van Raatle

  

34 Henry Dosker, between Albertus
C. Van Raalte and Abraham
Kuyper
George Harinck

42 Book Notes

For Thy Truth's Sake: A Doctrinal History of the Protestant Reformed Churches

Our School: Calvin College and the Christian Reformed Church


45 For the Future

46 Contributors

  

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