An editorial from De Heraut, no. 1673, January 23, 1910 is reprinted on pages 64–65 of this third volume of Father Bensdorp’s collected apologetic works. In it Kuyper offers his commentary on an announcement of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of a local congregation. He opines that the announcement could give the wrong impression: “Our churches did not just come into existence in 1834 or 1886; they do not even date their existence to the sixteenth century; they are as old as the Christian church in our country.” Bensdorp could not leave that claim unchallenged. Kuyper’s first (p. 75) and second (pp. 77–79) replies to Bensdorp’s criticisms follow. The replies, which have to do with his account of the Roman Catholic perspective on the passion of Christ, are reprinted from De Heraut, no. 1666, December 5, 1909–no. 1667, December 12, 1909.

In the last section of this volume (for the first two volumes, see 1918.17 and 1920.12), there are many articles in which Bensdorp cites Kuyper extensively—in particular, in his defense of the Roman Catholic conception of Christ’s descent into hell (pp. 248–406), against which Kuyper had argued in his series of articles Pro Rege, and in his response to Kuyper’s comments about the miracles in Lourdes (pp. 757–789). Both series of articles were also published independently under Bensdorp’s pen name Th. Famulus: the first entitled Christus’ nederdaling ter helle. De katholieke zin van dit leerstuk tegen aanvallen van “De Heraut” verdedigd (Amsterdam: Van Langenhuysen, [1911]), and the second entitled Dr. Kuyper over de wonderen van Lourdes (Amsterdam: R.K. Boek-centrale, 1915).