and hymnody. At the same time, the consistory insisted that Sunday school continue to use Dutch material. Kolyn periodically suffered from ill health and after his five years in Orange City, he became a professor at Western Theological Seminary. Rev. N. M. Steffens - 1898–1901 Reverend Nicholas Martinus Steffens was born in Germany, educated in the Netherlands, and was a missionary to the Jewish population in Istanbul. He served congregations on the Dutch-German border and in the United States, taught at Western Theological Seminary and Dubuque Theological Seminary and was a friend and ally of the theologian-politician Abraham Kuyper. It was surprising to many that a man of his stature accepted the call to a church in a developing and isolated area, but he may have been influenced by the fact that his daughter taught at the Northwestern Classical Academy. His pastorate was short lived and after two years he accepted the call again to teach at Dubuque Seminary. Rev. E. W. Stapelkamp - 1901–1907 Like Kolyn, the Rev. Evert Stapelkamp was born in Wisconsin and graduated from Hope College and New Brunswick Seminary. During his time at First Reformed Church, the renting of pews was abolished. He also introduced electric lighting to the sanctuary and added concrete sidewalks. The church choir, an American innovation, was introduced and singers were instructed to sing beside the organ. He too had health problems that led him to resign. Rev. John Engelsman - 1908–1925 Rev. Engelsman had the longest pastorate at First Reformed Church up to that time. He preferred to preach in Dutch, but was able to preach in strongly accented English. This caused considerable tension during the World War I (his lawn was set on fire for being too 'Dutch'), when state policy called for English-only services (the Sioux County Board of Defense allowed the service to be repeated in Dutch after an English service). Rev. Engelsman took a group to Palestine in 1914, after which he presented lectures on his trip throughout the town. Rev. Dr. Henry Colenbrander - 1925–1960 Colenbrander was the pastor of First Reformed Church for 35 years through a myriad of transitions - in particular the transition from worshipping in Dutch to worshipping in English. He served as the president of the Board of Trustees at Northwestern Classical Academy for thirty-four years and oversaw its expansion to a junior college in 1928 and, just before his