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Collection Overview
Abstract
Details the latter part of Henry Baker’s ministerial career, when his work focused on home missions. Includes biographical data, sermons, essays, meditations, and reports. Particularly rich in detailing the evangelism and home mission efforts in the Christian Reformed Church in North America during the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Biographical Note
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Henry Baker (1887-1985) was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. He graduated from Calvin Seminary in 1910. He served congregations in Michigan, New Jersey, and Illinois before becoming the denomination’s first “missionary-at-large.” Instrumental in developing the denomination’s chaplaincy program during WWII, he also launched efforts to help resettle Dutch immigrants after the war. A strong advocate of missions, he helped establish radio ministry and the Back to God Hour. He retired from the active ministry in 1957, at the age of seventy-two, after a forty-seven-year career. He and Tillie Etta Westmaas (1888-1970) were married in 1910, and they had four children: Antoinette Florence (1911-1933), Marjorie Josephine (Haeck), Clazina (Klauzina), Pearl (Masselink), and Frederick Henry. In 1971, Baker married Angie VanderTill née Mersman (1899-1977).
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- Series 1: Biography, Sermons, and Scrapbooks --- 1926-1990
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- Box 1
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- Folder 1: Biography by Clazina Baker Masselink and biographical material
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- Folder 2: Sermons, outlines --- 1926, 1927, 1936
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- Folder 3: Back to God Hour sermons --- 1959
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- Folder 4: Banner meditations --- 1950s
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- Folder 5: Banner essays --- 1960s
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- Folder 6: Scrapbook material: Press clippings and articles on mission work
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- Folder 7
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- Item 1: Christian Doctrine for Beginners --- 1960 and undated
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- Item 2: Home Mission Order, The Christian Reformed Church and What It Teaches --- undated
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- Folder 8: Daily Manna meditations --- 1940s
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- Folder 9: Radio sermons --- 1940s
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- Folder 10: Synodical sermons --- 1948, 1949, 1952
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- Folder 11
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- Item 1: Reports: On the Gereformeerde Kerken Synod --- 1952
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- Item 2: A New Seminary Building --- ca. 1956
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- Folder 12: Christian Doctrine for Beginners --- 1954
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