The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Between 1910 and 1912 he was member of the committee headed by Heemskerk which prepared a revision of the constitution. Kuyper subsequently moved to the Hague without telling his friends in Amsterdam. In 1877 he left parliament because of problems with his health suffering from overexertion.

He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. Abraham Kuijper (October 29 1837 – November 8 1920) generally known as Abraham Kuyper was a Dutch politician journalist statesman and theologian.