The Centennial of the Doleantie (3)

van Nederland (the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands). A relatively small segment of the Secession churches did not go along with this merger but continued a separate existence; they are known today as the Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerk (the Christian Reformed Church), to which the Free Reformed Church in the U.S. The churches of the Doleantie did not long remain a separate denomination after the separation of 1886. In 1892 they united with the churches of the Secession of 1834 to form the...