The Fourth Man (15)

A Story from the Time of the Afscheiding translated by Rev Cornelius Hanko Chapter 15 “Floris V”1 Brings News Evert Splint and his family had joined the Secessionist Church in Hilversum, after having been refused aid from the deacons of their former congregation. As a result of their church move, Evert was fired from his job as weaver. But Gerard Ham, the owner of another mill and the son of a godly “minister-weaver” who had started the mill, gave him a job, though at a decrease in pay. In...