Act of Secession or Return

* This translation by Homer C. Hoeksema appeared originally in the February 15, 1984 issue of the Standard Bearer, p. 211. We the undersigned, Overseers and members of the Reformed Congregation of Jesus Christ at Ulrum, having observed for a considerable time the corruption in the Netherlands Reformed Church (Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk), as well in the mutilation or denial of the doctrine of our fathers, based on God's Word, as in the degeneration of the administration of the Holy Sacraments,...