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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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1914

1914.07
[Cable.]
In: De Standaard 43 (1914/1915), no. 12918, May 23, 1914.
See also: 1915.01.
ET: For your loyalty and love the gratitude of my heart; the hope of Calvinist Netherlands remains with your federation. If you do not stray from your principles, you will contribute to the history of our fatherland; if you let go of your principles, you are done for. May the Lord bind himself to you with a bond no change of times can break.

Voor Uw trouw en liefde de dank van mijn hart; blijft in Uw Bond de hope van het Calvinistisch Nederland. Zoo ge van Uw beginselen niet afwijkt, maakt ge een stuk Vaderlandsche Historie; zoo ge uw beginselen loslaat zijt ge weg. Binde de Heere zelf er U aan met een band, die geen wisseling van tijd verbreekt. Kuyper.

Kuyper wrote these words of gratitude in response to a telegram he received from the rally of the Dutch Federation of Young Men’s Associations on Reformed Principles, which met on May 21, 1914, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The Rev. J.E. Vonkenberg (1869–1934), the federation’s chairman from 1888–1924, had sent Kuyper a telegram to let him know that the federation kept alive with gratitude and respect the memory of its debt to Kuyper and were praying that he might continue to receive the unceasing power of the Holy Spirit.

This item was also included in Gereformeerd Jongelingsblad 25 (1913/1914), no. 38, May 29, 1914.

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