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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],
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Series 6: Addenda: Lectures, Papers, Sermons, 1946-1953],
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- Series 1: Outlines and Notes
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Book outlines: Alexander the Great, History of Rome, The Jewish People
- Folder 2: Notes on the Apostles' Creed, art. V to art. XII
- Folder 3: Notes on biblical introduction
- Folder 4: Notes on biblical theology
- Folder 5: Notes on Christianity and Liberalism by J. G. Machen
- Folder 6: Notes on encyclopedia
- Folder 7: Notes on The Jewish People in the Time of Christ
- Item 1: Bound volume: notes on dogmatics
- Item 2: Bound volume: notes on the history of religions
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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],
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Series 6: Addenda: Lectures, Papers, Sermons, 1946-1953],
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