Report on the opening address at the fifteenth general meeting of the Association for Higher Education on Reformed Principles, held at the Seinpost in Scheveningen on June 27, 1895. According to the report, after reading Psalm 130 Kuyper used the de profundis imagery of the psalmist to describe the state of affairs at the Vrije Universiteit. During the service of prayer on the previous evening, the Rev. W.H. Gispen had described the university as a “college under the cross,” but opponents had joked that it was more like a “night school.” Kuyper also referred to the tension that had arisen at the university because of disputes about the principles undergirding the teaching of the professors (see 1895.22). He drew upon the concept of forgiveness as described by the psalmist and upon the principle of soli Deo gloria as adhered to by Calvinists to voice a hopeful prophecy about the future of the Vrije Universiteit. He then built up to a peroration that likened the present situation at the university to that described in Habakkuk 3:17.