COLL/127 Guide to the Lammert Jan Hulst Collection Hulst, Lammert Jan Collection

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Guide to the Lammert Jan Hulst Collection Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Lammert Jan Hulst Collection 1869-1985 COLL/127 Lammert Jan Hulst, 1825-1922 2.00 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes sermons, biographical data, correspondence, pamphlets, and textbooks written in Dutch with notes on dogmatics and the history of dogmatics; plus a paper entitled "Van Coldbrook te Eastmanville," undated. Painting in storage.
Biographical Information:

Lammert Jan Hulst was born in Dalfsen, Overisel, Netherlands on February 10, 1825. Son of farmers, Hulst’s parents belong to a group of families that were dissatisfied with the corruption of the state church. They worshipped together in their homes. At the age of nine, Hulst witnessed the Secession of 1834. Although having a religious upbringing, from the age of 16 to 20, Hulst was a shepherd and often hung out with frivolous and idle young men. Since these friends were a bad influence on Hulst, he decided to abandon his job as a shepherd. A Christian farmer hired Hulst to work on his farm.

It was after a visiting student minister from Hoogeveen came to visit his parental home that Hulst became interested in becoming a minister as well. At 22, Hulst enrolled at Hoogeveen. In 1849, Hulst became ordained in Birdaurd, Friesland. While serving a congregation at Stadskanaal, Groningen, he received a call from the Reformed Church in Danforth, Illinois. Hulst accepted the call and in 1874, he immigrated to the United States to serve the congregation of Danforth. In 1876, he was invited to serve the recently organized Coldbrook Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. While at Coldbrook, he saw the church grow from a thirty-six family congregation to serving three-hundred families.

Entering into the 1880s, Rev. Hulst led the anti-masonic movement, in that lodge members were unsuited as members of the Christian church. They took their plea of excluding of masonic members from the church to the Synod. The Synod refused the plea; as a result, the Coldbrook Church severed ties with the Reformed Church of America. In 1883, they joined the Christian Reformed fellowship; soon other congregation followed their lead. Hulst continued to serve the congregation of Coldbrook for thirty years. In 1906, Hulst accepted the call from a small church in Eastmanville, Michigan, which he served until his retirement in 1910. Even after his retirement, Hulst still occasionally preached.

On a personal level, Hulst was married to Abeltje H. Hellenga on April 25, 1850. Together they had seven children, one son being Dr. Henry Hulst, a pioneer in medical imagery. Rev. Hulst also contributed articles to the De Wachter. He also had a number of publications, including an autobiography. Rev. Lammert Jan Hulst passed away on August 21, 1922.

Arrangement of Materials:

Folder level description

Detailed List of Contents id28125 Sermons, Manuscripts, Correspondence 1909-1912 id28126 1 id28127 1 1 Eleven sermons id28128 1 2 Sermon outlines id28129 1 3 Manuscript on the covenant id28130 1 4 Manuscript: Van Coldbrook naar Eastmanville Scope and Contents

(with translation)

id28131 1 5 Correspondence 1909-1912 id28132 1 6 Korte Geschiedenis, Classis minutes reports, correspondence id28133 1 7 Poems (3) id28134 1 8 Bijbelsch Geschiedkundige Vragen voor Jonge Kinderen 1869 id28135 1 9 Het Geloof Stilstaande en Rondziende op de Levensbaan [1874?] id28136 1 10 Oopen Brief aan Rev. N.H. Dosker 1881 id28137 1 11 Het Anker Onzer Hoop 1884 id28138 1 12 De Volmaking der Gemeente 1885 id28139 1 13 Supra en Infra [1891?] Scope and Contents

[HERH BT810.H83]

id28140 1 14 Gereformeerd - Bijbelsche Geloofsleer 1893 id28141 1 15 Herdenking van Zijne Vjftig-Jarige Evangeliebediening 1899 id28142 1 16 Practische Verklaring der Openbaring van Johannes 1909 Scope and Contents

[HERH BS2825.H8]

id28143 1 17 Drie en Zestig Jaren Prediker 1913 Scope and Contents

(translation of chapter 5, 1985)

id28144 1 18 Kentering in de Verbondsleer 1917 Scope and Contents

[HERH BT155.H8]

id28145 1 19 Christelijke Geloofsleer, een Leerboek voor Eenigzins Gevorderde Catechesanten 1872
id28146 Bound Manuscripts id28147 2 id28148 2 1 Dogmatiek I id28149 2 2 Dogmatiek II id28150 2 3 Dogmengeschiedenis id28151 2 4 Homilitiek id28152 2 5 De Naturaal of de Naturilijke Godgeleerdheid id28153 2 6 Textkritiek: Dogmengeschiedenis id28154 2 7 Xenophantos, translated from the Greek from his (Xenophon's) Anabasis