William Masselink Collection, 1925-1953 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

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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

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Outlines and Notes],
[Series 2: Notes],
[Series 3: Sermon Outlines, 1925-1951],
[Series 4: Bound Manuscripts],
[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],
[All]

Series 3: Sermon Outlines --- 1925-1951

Box 3

Folder 1: Sermon outline on Esther 4:13,14
Folder 2: Sermon outlines --- 1925
Folder 3: Sermon outlines --- 1932-1933
Folder 4: Sermon outlines, Lord's Day 5-15 --- 1933
Folder 5: Sermon outlines --- 1933
Folder 6: Sermon outlines --- 1933-1934
Folder 7: Sermon outlines --- 1934
Folder 8: Sermon outlines --- 1934
Folder 9: Sermon outlines --- 1934
Folder 10: Sermons on the Commandments --- 1934
Folder 11: Sermon outlines --- 1936
Folder 12: Sermon outlines, free texts --- 1936
Folder 13: Sermon outlines, free texts --- 1937
Folder 14: Sermon outlines, free texts --- 1937-1938
Folder 15: Sermon outlines --- 1938-1939

Box 4

Folder 1: Sermon outlines --- 1938-1939
Folder 2: Sermon outlines --- 1940
Folder 3: Sermon outlines --- 1940-1941
Folder 4: Sermon outlines --- 1941
Folder 5: Sermon outlines --- 1941-1942
Folder 6: Sermon outlines --- 1941-1942
Folder 7: Sermon outlines --- 1945
Folder 8: Sermon outlines --- 1945-1946
Folder 9: Sermon outlines --- 1946
Folder 10: Sermon outlines --- 1947
Folder 11: Sermon outlines --- 1947-1948
Folder 12: Sermon outlines --- 1948
Folder 13: Sermon outlines --- 1948
Folder 14: Sermon outlines --- 1948-1949

Box 5

Folder 1: Sermon outlines --- 1949
Folder 2: Sermon outlines --- 1949
Folder 3: Sermon outlines --- 1949-1950
Folder 4: Sermon outlines --- 1950
Folder 5: Sermon outlines --- 1950
Folder 6: Sermon outlines --- 1950-1951
Folder 7: Sermon outlines --- 1950-1951
Folder 8: Sermon outlines --- 1951
Folder 9: Sermon outlines --- 1951
Folder 10: Sermon outlines --- 1951
Folder 11: Notes on common grace and sermon notes --- 1951
Folder 12: Van Til's Views of Common Grace Compared with the Three Points with Supplement to "Common Grace and Christian Education"
Folder 13: Syllabus on common grace
Folder 14: Let Us Face the Issue, brochure by Masselink