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Historical Documents

• A Brief Chronology of the RCA (17k)
• A Timeline of RCA History, compiled by Russell Gasero and includes world, American and general church history for context. (268k)
• RCA Pictorial History, by Russell Gasero. (1.3MB)
• An Index of Social Issues in the Acts and Proceedings of the General Synod (from the RCA web site). (36k)
• Christian Action Commission papers on pornography (271k)

Black Manifesto
• Black Manifesto Newspaper (2.3MB)
• Response of the General Synod to the Black Manifesto (296k)

China Mission
• Letter from David Abeel, October 15, 1829. (347k)
• David Abeel, Pioneer Missionary to China, from The Mission Field, June 1895. (378k)
• Christmas Greetings from the Amoy Mission, 1949. (7.4MB)
• The Church of Christ in China, a survey of the work of the mission from 1842 to 1936. (3.3MB)
• Greetings From Amoy, 1842-1907. (2.5MB)
• 100th Anniversary of Start of Christian Work Marked, New Brunswick Daily Home News, Feb. 25, 1942. (380k)

Fulton Street
• The Prayers of a Generation: A Discourse Delivered in the Collegiate Church, Twenty-ninth Street cor. Fifth Avenue, Sept. 23, 1887, being the thirtieth anniversary of the Daily Noon Prayer Meeting, Fulton Street, by Talbot W. Chambers. (948k)
• Appendix to The Prayers of a Generation, Part I - The Anniversaries of the Meeting; Part II - The Literature Connected with It. (365k)
• Pictures from The Prayers of a Generation (2.7MB)

Missions
• Entries on Domestic Missions from Corwin's Digest (859k)
• Index to Reports of the Arabian Mission (Neglected Arabia and Arabia Calling included) (840k)
• The United Mission in Iraq, 1924-1962: A Brief Historical Survey, by Rev. James W. Willoughby. (3MB)

The Name of the RCA
• The Name of the Reformed Church in America by Charles E. Corwin (191k)
• The Change of Name by Rev. Swick (364k)
• The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church -- Name (from an unnamed appendix) (198k)
• An Appeal to the General Synod Concerning the Name of the Church from James Anderson, Nov. 1867 (497k)
• The Rightful Name of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: A Review of the Report of the Committee Proposing a Change by A.B. Van Zandt (1347k)
• Article on Name Change by Charles Corwin and handwritten manuscript of a vote (104k)

South Africa
• Summons to South Africa, Chapter 10 of Ecumenical Testimony by Arie Brouwer (44k)
• Extracts from the Acts and Proceedings of the General Synod (1MB)
• A Plea for Understanding (book presented to the RCA General Synod from the South Africa Dutch Chuch (5.8MB)

True Reformed Church
• Ten letters concerning the situation in Montgomery classis of New York and the schism creating the True Reformed Dutch Church. The letters in these three files cover theperiod from 1820 to 1829. (3.9MB)
• Six letters continuing the above issues written by a father to his children so that they understand the situation. (6.3MB)
• Four letters continuing Part 1 above. (4.1MB)

Women's Ordination
• Full Participation: A Long Time Coming, by Ed Mulder, from Reformed Review. This electronic edition is from the RCA web site. (119k)
• Images of women in mission from the RCA web site archives pages. (331k)
• Reports on Women's Ordination to the 1957 and 1958 General Synod reformatted text. (127k)
• Original copies of the 1957 and 1958 reports distributed to the churches. (51MB)

Other Documents
• Responses to the 375th anniversary questionnaire sent out prior to the 2003 General Synod for use in the RCA's anniversary celebration. (596k)
• Baptismal Form from the 1840 Liturgy (156k)
• A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Brooklyn, on Sabbath Morning, the 27th Day of July, 1951 by Jacob Brodhead, D.D. (Text: Ex. 12:14) (1MB)
• Corwin's Digest pages for the Rules of Government of Dort and the Explanatory Article of 1792 (1.3MB)
• Non-Immigrant Reformed Churches in the Middle West Before the Civil War, by Gerald De Jong. Published by the Particular Synod of Chicago, 1978. (464k)
• A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Jacob R. Hardenbergh, D.D., by Peter Studdiford, 1791. (812k)
• Obituaries from several publications for Jacob Hardenbergh. (1.8MB)
• Manuscript sermon of Rev. James B. Hardenbergh on Matthew 25:13 (from the collection in the RCA Archives). (60.6MB)
• A Tribute to Filial Affection...on the death of Mrs. Jane Kirkpatrick, April 5, 1851, by the Rev. Samuel B. How (784k)
• The Rutgers Graduates in Japan, an address delivered in Kirkpatrick Chapel, June 16, 1885, by William Elliot Griffis - revised edition, 1916. (3MB)
• A Beloved Patriot Pastor, in Memory of Chaplain Victor W. Simons, A Memorial Sermon preached by the Rev. Verne M. Oggel, June 17, 1945. (308k)
• Christian Action Commission papers on pornography (271k)