p. 136 | A Synod in Holland

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 26, 1865

A Synod in Holland.

A CORRESPONDENT of the London Weekly Review gives an amusing account of a visit to the Reformed Secession Synod of Holland. On entering the church, fumes of smoke darkened the room. A long table stretched along the place where the women had sat during preaching the evening before, which was lined on either side by members and ruling elders, while at the head of this there was a transverse table, at which sat the moderator, the professor, and other official men. Every man was either smoking or preparing to smoke. The moderator held a pipe in one hand, and a wooden hammer, with which he called attention, in the other. The clerk wrote and puffed, too, while on the table, from one extremity to the other, boxes of lucifer matches, plates of tobacco, paper, pens, &c., were mingled in most admirable confusion.