COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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Professor of theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam). The collection includes bound manuscripts of class lecture notes on general dogmatism and the history of dogmatism which were used in the course at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes sermons, addresses, correspondence, lectures, notes, and call letters.

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church and chaplain at Pine Rest Christian Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The collection includes articles, brochures, pamphlets, notes, a meditation, and a study manual for discussion groups entitled "Notes on the Art of Christian Living." [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

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Wagon maker and lay leader in the Seceding church in Grootegast, Groningen, the Netherlands. Documents, containing police orders from and reports to the Mayor of Grootegast. The reports concern illegal religious meetings held in the barn of Albert Jan Westra and Pietertje Willems Top, his wife.

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Minister of the True Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1880- 1890; and of the Christian Reformed Church, 1890-1927. Papers, consisting of sermon outlines, 1897-1941; papers referring to the transfer of the New York True Reformed Churches to the Christian Reformed Church; a listing of marriages performed, 1896-1917; correspondence; and a diary, 1886-1887.

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Professor of physics at Calvin College. The collection includes: correspondence with A. R. Hellworth of the University of Michigan concerning the engineering program at Calvin College, and a physics laboratory manual.

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Physician; collected autographed letters, poems, engraved portraits, and photographs (mostly printed pictures) of poets, writers, and composers connected with hymnody.

Scope and Contents Dewey Westra was a teacher and administrator in Christian Day Schools for forty-five years in Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin. (See his biography elsewhere in this collection). He is probably better known, however, for his avocational pursuits as an amateur poet, translator of Friesian and Dutch poems, and versifier of all 150 of the Psalms. His works appear in both the 1934 and the Centennial Christian Reformed Church Psalter Hymnals. He also did extensive work in a hymnal for the Canadian...

Scope and Contents Minister of the Christian Reformed Church and co-editor of The Reformed Journal. The collection includes articles written for The Reformed Journal, including "The Years of the Journal" dealing with the history of The Reformed Journal, and "Gijsbert Haan and the Secession of 1857;" thesis papers; lecture notes; correspondence; an overture; a protest; papers on Janssen case;...