Chairman Collapses in Course of Heated Debate and"
Then Dies Assen, Holland, Jan. 28.
There was a dramatic incident at meeting of a committee that was considering the competence of the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church to decide whether the well-known Amsterdam clergyman, Dr. J. C. Geelkerken,—was rightly declared a "suspect" owing] te his alleged unorthodox _views with regard to certain narratives in the Old Testament, especially' whether the serpent actually spoke to Eve in the Garden of Eden.
The discussions in the committee were very heated, speakers indulged personalities' and when the excitement was at its highest the chairman, Dr. De Moor, suddenly collapsed' and died almost _immediately, apparently from apoplexy.
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