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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

1914.09
[Preface.]
In: Van strak gespannen snaren, [door] Ds. R.J.W. Rudolph. Met een voorwoord van Dr. A. Kuyper en een kort levensbericht van den schrijver door Ds. G. Verrij.
Rotterdam, J.H. Donner 1914, pp. [5–7].
Published: June 1914.
Preface dated: June 8, 1914.
2nd printing also published in: 1914.
Cheap edition, see: 1916.02.
RKB 101.

Kuyper wrote the preface to this collection of posthumously published letters that the Rev. R.J.W. Rudolph (1862–1914) had written to the members of his former congregation in Leiden during his final seven months while suffering from cancer. These letters had been previously published in the church newsletter of the Reformed Church of Leiden. In the autumn of 1912, Rudolph had bidden farewell to this congregation and had become chaplain-director of an association for neglected children and tramps in Achterveld (known as the Rudolphstichting since 1927). Kuyper found these letters so moving and such a comforting testimony of faith that he nearly subordinated his friend’s achievements in life—Rudolph was very active in politics, society, and journalism (including De Standaard)—to his death. The preface begins with the words “Rudolph’s significance for the country lies in his death.”