Kuyper had this short thank-you letter printed in response to a telegram he had received from the first Anti-Revolutionary Party rally in the Haarlemmermeer constituency, which met in Hoofddorp on February 14, 1913. The meeting had pledged its loyalty to Kuyper and expressed its hope that he continue “to be the eminent leader of our party” for many years to come. “Such refreshing telegrams are the flowers on my path of life,” writes Kuyper toward the end of the letter, “which is usually not lacking in thorns and thistles.”

For the numbering of this volume of De Standaard, see 1911.07.