All Articles For A Notable Meeting on Behalf of the Reunion of the CRC and the PRC

At the Pantlind Conference of Christian Reformed and Protestant Reformed men in 1939, Herman Hoeksema gave a notable speech. He himself knew the importance of the speech. He took a week off from his regular work in order carefully to craft it. Immediately after the conference, he devoted an entire issue of the Standard Bearer to the publication of the speech both in the Dutch original and in English translation. Soon the RFPA published the speech as a pamphlet, in fact two pamphlets—one in Dutch and another in English. It is this speech, in the English translation by Herman Veldman,...

At the Pantlind Conference in 1939 regarding the reunion of the CRC and the PRC, one of the participants gave expression to a notable doctrinal insight. He expressed this insight in the clearest, most forceful manner. The insight was not that of Herman Hoeksema. At least, it was not he who expressed it. In fact, the insight was not that of any of the Protestant Reformed contingent at the conference. The insight belonged to Dr. Y. P. De Jong, one of the Christian Reformed ministers at the conference. It was profound insight into the radical, all-comprehensive nature of the common...

In the 75 years of the divided history of the Christian Re-formed Church (CRC) and the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC), there has been one, and only one, notable meeting on behalf of the reunion of these two denominations. That was the all-day conference in the old Pantlind Hotel, now the Amway Grand Plaza, in Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 29, 1939. By decision of those in attendance, Herman Hoeksema opened up the conference by reading his prepared address, “De Hereeniging Der Christelijke Gereformeerde En Protestantsche Gereformeerde Kerken: Is Ze Geeischt, Mogelijk, Wenschelijk?” (English translation: “The Reunion of the Christian Reformed...