This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...in America, Dutch, Scotch, and German. Had it been carried out, these three denominations would now be one body. An earlier attempt to unite two of the Calvinistic churches had been made on April 27, 1738, at New York between the Dutch and the German Reformed. It got as far as to draw up a constitution. This together ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...in America, Dutch, Scotch, and German. Had it been carried out, these three denominations would now be one body. An earlier attempt to unite two of the Calvinistic churches had been made on April 27, 1738, at New York between the Dutch and the German Reformed. It got as far as to draw up a constitution. This together with their minutes was sent to Holland for approval. But the Holland fathers with their usual Dutch slowness took so much time for its consideration that it never came to any result. The beginning of this movement originated across the Atlantic Ocean in Holland. The Reformed Church of the Netherlands, that great missionary church of the seventeenth century, having missions in the far east and the far west, was in the eighteenth century still supporting many Reformed churches in different parts of the world. Was there a poor persecuted Reformed church anywhere--they appealed to Holland and generally got relief. The German Reformed Church of Pennsylvania, in their destitution, thus came in connection with the Reformed Church of the Netherlands from 1725 to 1792. The Reformed Church of the Netherlands had been trying at this time to get more information about the Reformed churches in Pennsylvania and had tried to send several ministers to superintend the Pennsylvania churches. Nothing but Dutch patience and perseverance led them to continue trying to help these distant churches in the face of the difficulties that appeared. Finally, finding this so difficult, the deputies of the two synods of North and South Holland asked the Rev. P. H. Dorsius, a Dutch minister of Pennsylvania, who was then in Holland, whether the Dutch and German churches in Pennsylvania could not be united with the Presbyterian Church and thus the Church of the Netherlands be r...
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