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A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)

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1905

1905.01
[Cable.]
In: De Standaard 34 (1905), no. 10069, January 13, 1905.
See also: 1934.04.
ET: Van Vliet, Chairman of “Patrimonium.” Please express my gratitude to “Patrimonium” for its encouraging telegram. Where mistrust creeps in, the highest hopes get lost. Where, as in this case, manly confidence was so regally maintained despite initial disappointment, one may expect the best from the future. Also in this, your telegram, “Patrimonium” maintained its noble character. May it thrive under God’s blessing.

Van Vliet, Voorzitter “Patrimonium.” Wil aan “Patrimonium” mijn dank overbrengen voor zijn moedgevend telegram. Waar wantrouwen insluipt, gaat de beste verwachting te loor. Waar, gelijk hier, manlijk vertrouwen, ook bij aanvankelijke teleurstelling zoo koninklijk stand hield, mag van de toekomst het schoonste verwacht worden. Ook in dit Uw telegram handhaafde “Patrimonium” zijn nobel karakter. Bloeie het onder Gods zegen. Kuyper.

Answer to a telegram sent by the twenty-fourth annual General Meeting of the Dutch Workingmen’s Union “Patrimonium.” The annual meeting, which took place in Amsterdam on January 11, 1905, after the Christian Social Conference of January 9–10, had sent Kuyper by telegraph the text of a motion that the meeting had unanimously adopted. The motion expressed gratitude for the government’s broad efforts, through legislation, to strengthen society in both a material and a spiritual sense. The motion subsequently expressed the wish to continue on the current route, as this would bring about the accomplishment of the association’s program—namely, a confirmation of the Christian basis of Dutch society and the promotion of the welfare of its people. P. van Vliet jr. was since 1900 chairman of Patrimonium.