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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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1915

1915.16
[Cable.]
In: De Standaard 44 (1915/1916), no. 13399, December 15, 1915.
ET: I cannot say too much about your telegram expressing your loyalty. Apart from one thing. It was a drop of balm on the wound. Let me express my gratitude to you and the other brothers for it.

Te veel mag ik op Uw van trouw getuigend telegram niet zeggen. Toch dit ééne. Het was een druppel balsem op de wonde. Laat mij U en de andere broederen daarvoor dankzeggen. Kuyper.

Kuyper telegraphed this expression of gratitude to J.J. Croles (1869–1936), a judge in Leeuwarden. Croles, the chairman of the Provincial Committee of Anti- Revolutionary Electoral Associations in the Province of Friesland, had sent a telegram on behalf of the board to express unshaken trust in Kuyper as leader iure suo of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. The board also expressed the wish that party leadership remain completely in Kuyper’s hands. The members thanked God that they could still go forward under his leadership (cf. 1916.18). “The wound” probably refers to the events discussed in 1915.04, 1915.12, and 1915.14.