Letter to the church council of the Gereformeerde Church of Makkum. Dr. A. Kuyper, Jr. (1872–1942) was called to his first pulpit in Makkum in 1899. His father was invited to deliver the sermon during his installation on April 30. The church council expected that the service would attract a great deal of interest and issued tickets for the service at the cost of ƒ1—per ticket to control the attendance. Kuyper wrote that while the church was rightly concerned to prevent crowding, the ticketing system should be amended in order to prevent objections against the service and his participation in it. Kuyper proposed a detailed plan to issue a limited number of free entrance tickets because “I could not connect my name to an ecclesiastical procedure that has been made unlawful through the exchange of money.”

The church council adopted the amendments. Kuyper closed the chapter on the incident in De Heraut, no. 1113, April 29, 1899. See also Nei bûten ta (Ljouwert: Tresoar, 2006, pp. 73–74). He based his installation sermon on the last portion of Leviticus 2:13 (“with all your offerings you shall offer salt”). The service of installation marked the final time that Kuyper preached a sermon.