Through Strife to Victory: Chapter 12 – The Split of 1924

What had been feared for some time had finally happened in the first week of December. The minister of the Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church had been suspended from office and his consistory deposed. His deposition would soon follow. The Classis had ran rough shod over proper Church Order and assumed an authority which they did not have. For good reason a Classis could declare a pastor and his consistory outside of the denomination, but that was the extent of their power. On the Sunday...