Through Strife to Victory: Chapter 5 – Unrest in the Churches

The period leading up to the Synod of 1924 was a period of unrest in the Christian Reformed Churches in Grand Rapids. This unrest first appeared among the ministers and leaders of the churches as observed in the printed page. Rev. Jan Karel Van Baalen penned a brochure entitled, “The Denial of Common Grace Not Reformed But Anabaptistic,” The Revs. Hoeksema and Danhof responded to this attack with the brochure, “Not Anabaptistic But Reformed.” (Rev. Danhof, who was a minister in the First...