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Dr. Albertus C. Van Raalte was appointed to a committee at this session of the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church "to examine into the expediency and propriety" of removing the word Dutch from the name of the denomination. Other members of the committee were: Revs. H. D.Ganse, C. Van Santvoord, Thomas De Witt, and E. S. Porter, and elders S. B. Schieffelin, R. H. Pruyn, and J. R. Wortendyke. Van Raalte, in the Netherlands at this time, was the only delegate from the western part of the denomination appointed to the committee.
Date
6-6-1866
City
New York City
Source
The Acts and Proceedings of the Sixtieth General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, Convened in the City of New York, June,1866, page 112.
Recommended Citation
"The Acts and Proceedings of the Sixty General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, Convened in the City of New York, June,1866, Page 112" (1866). Van Raalte Papers: 1860-1869. 567.
https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1860s/567
Notes
Description of the document by Dr. Elton J. Bruins.
About the collection:
Elton J. Bruins, long-time professor in the Department of Religion at Hope College, spent years collecting documents by and about Albertus C. Van Raalte, founder of Holland, Michigan and early patron of Hope College. Documents were gathered from dozens of public and private collections, making a nearly exhaustive collection of Van Raalte's writings and reflections. It is these documents that make up the "Van Raalte Papers."
Digitizing the Van Raalte papers was supported by the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. The project was done in partnership with Heritage Hall at Calvin University, which also digitized its Van Raalte collections.