A Brief History of the Afscheiding (3)

The Character of the Movement The Secession of 1834 was for the most part a movement among the lowest and poorest of the Dutch people. Even the ministers of the Secession were not from the higher classes, but for the most part from the middle class. Kromminga says: The National Synod of the established Church is said to have comforted itself with the numerical smallness of the secession. The seceders came then and for years continued to come from the humbler walks of life. But, though...