The Liberated Churches In The Netherlands (17)

THE CHURCH POLITICAL ASPECT: The following synod met on the heels of her predecessor. It was, of course, overdue. Ordinarily its sessions should have commenced in June 1942. Due to the fact that its predecessor stretched its sessions over all of 1942 and met till May 1943, and to the fact that the churches in the way of consistories, classes, and particular synods, raised no protest against this unprecedented assumption of hierarchical power on the part of the General Synod, it was impossible...