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Collection Overview
Title: William Masselink Collection, 1925-1953
ID: COLL/166
Primary Creator: William Masselink (1897-1973)
Extent: 9.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Minister of the Christian Reformed Church and teacher of Reformed doctrine at the Reformed Bible College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Class notes and sermons. Manuscripts entitled “The Covenant of Grace and Infant Baptism” and “Common Grace and Christian Education.”
Biographical Note
William Masselink was born February 15, 1897, in Meservey, Iowa. He began his theological training in Iowa at Grundy College. Post-graduate work was done at Princeton Theological Seminary; Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky; and Chicago Divinity School. During his ministry, he pursued additional graduate studies at the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1936-1937).
He was ordained in 1922 and began his ministry in the Lafayette CRC in Lafayette, Indiana. Other churches served included Fourteenth Street, Holland, Michigan (1925); Alpine Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1928); and Second Englewood, Chicago, Illinois (1942). In 1952, he began a teaching ministry at the Reformed Bible Institute, which continued until he retired in 1963. He passed away October 19, 1973 at the age of seventy-six.
The obituary notice in the Acts of Synod of 1974 memorialized Dr. William Masselink as “a man with a great heart, full of love for his wife Mary, for his daughter and two sons, and also for the people in the churches he served. He was a fervent minister of the Word, with great love for the Reformed truth and with ability to inspire his people for Christian living.”
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Outlines and Notes],
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Series 2: Notes],
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Series 3: Sermon Outlines, 1925-1951],
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Series 4: Bound Manuscripts],
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Box 6: The Covenant of Grace and Infant Baptism],
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Series 5: Dr. V. Hepp's notes at Free University of Amsterdam, 1925-1936],
[Series 6: Addenda: Lectures, Papers, Sermons, 1946-1953],
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- Series 6: Addenda: Lectures, Papers, Sermons --- 1946-1953
- Box 8
- Folder 1: Biblical theology, Reformed Bible Institute brochure
- Folder 2: Brief summary of Reformed doctrine, co-authored by Ed Masselink; Catechism
- Folder 3: Common Grace and Christian Education supplement
- Folder 4: Covenant of Redemption, paper
- Folder 5: Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh Day Adventism
- Folder 6: Doctrine of the Last Things, paper
- Folder 7: Family Altar message --- Jan-46
- Folder 8: General Revelation, paper --- Feb-53
- Folder 9: Notes on Hebrews
- Folder 10: Inaugural sermon, Second Englewood CRC, Chicago, Illinois
- Folder 11: Letter to Board of Trustees on issue of Masselink's teaching --- 1953
- Folder 12: Let Us Face the Issue, second edition; Van Til's "Common Grace"
- Folder 13: Lord's Prayer sermon --- 1948
- Folder 14: Qualities of God, notes
- Folder 15: Reasons for evangelistic work
- Folder 16: Recent Tornado Disaster in the Light of Scripture, paper
- Folder 17: Revelation: notes, exegetical studies
- Folder 18: Sermons on the Apostles' Creed --- 1946
- Box 9
- Folder 1: "Social Problems," Reformed Bible Institute, class notes --- undated
- Folder 2: "Summary of Sociology" --- undated
- Folder 3: "Teachings of the Letter to the Hebrews"
- Folder 4: "The Well-meant Offer of Salvation" --- undated
- Folder 5: What is Wrong with the Lodge? --- [195-]
- [HERH HS495.M3]
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Series 1: Outlines and Notes],
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Series 2: Notes],
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Series 3: Sermon Outlines, 1925-1951],
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Series 4: Bound Manuscripts],
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Box 6: The Covenant of Grace and Infant Baptism],
[
Series 5: Dr. V. Hepp's notes at Free University of Amsterdam, 1925-1936],
[Series 6: Addenda: Lectures, Papers, Sermons, 1946-1953],
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