Facsimile (not in Kuyper’s handwriting but signed in his name) of a letter in which Kuyper warns dolerende consistories to take care of their church archives. The letter was occasioned by a judge’s ruling that permitted house searches to retrieve the archives of two Dutch Reformed congregations from which dolerende churches had separated. At the advice of legal counsel, the waarschuwing urged consistories to deposit their archives and other important papers with people who were above suspicion. From the signature it appears that Kuyper issued this warning on behalf of the office of the Reformed Church Congress (see 1887.01).

The dolerende churches claimed the properities, funds, and archives of the Dutch Reformed Church in regions where they claimed to represent the continuing congregation. This claim found no acknowledgment from the civil court, however.