Through Strife to Victory: Chapter 3 – Antithesis or Synthesis

Grand Rapids, Michigan was at one time considered to be the city “with a church on every corner” and the Jerusalem of the Christian Reformed Churches, since many of the churches in the city were Christian Reformed Churches. The early immigrants who came to America from the Netherlands were mainly members of the Afscheiding (The Secession of 1834) who were being sorely oppressed by the authorities of the Netherlands. We should bear in mind that the State Church from which they seceded was...