Letter of thanks to the the local noble O.W.A. Count Van Bylandt who had covered privately a deficit caused by the introduction in Beesd of the new synodical regulations for the nomination of elders and deacons and for the calling of pastors by male church members. The author, C.J. van Heuckelum, who included the letter in his booklet on Pietje Baltus and Abraham Kuyper, writes on p. 19, that Kuyper refused to pay the printer/publisher of his (first eeclesiastical) brochure, which discussed the question of how to deal with the above-mentioned new synodical regulations (see 1867.01) because he took the view that the church trustees should pay for it, while the trustees disagreed with their pastor. However, in Kuyper in de kiem (Hilversum, 2006) J. Vree states that the deficit was caused by the printing costs of the ballot papers, the mailing costs and the purchase of a ballot box. Count Van Bylandt, Lord of the estate Mariënwaerdt at Beesd and Lord of Enspijk, Ooy, and Persingen settled the controversy by paying 25 guilders from his own private resources. Van Bylandt was chair of the local Church Trustees for forty years.

The booklet Pietje Baltus, mystical woman from Beesd and her encounters with Abraham Kuyper was presented on June 15, 2013 in the Sint Pieterskerk at Beesd, the church of Kuyper’s first parish, at the opening of an exhibition concerning his life and work. The exhibition was organized on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of his installation as a minister of the Dutch Reformed congregation at Beesd (August 9, 1863).