Kuyper’s reply to a telegram sent by the meeting of the Provincial Committee of Anti-Revolutionary Electoral Associations in Friesland, which met in the Noorderkerk in Leeuwarden on December 30, 1919. The meeting sent a telegram expressing its solidarity with Kuyper and his work and stating that his name would continue to inspire the next generation in the struggle for Christian principles. Kuyper received the telegram too late to send a reply while the meeting was in session. He immediately wrote to the chairman, J.J. Croles, about how the fraternal loyalty attested by the telegram had revived him in the midst of his strained and difficult health.