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Isaac P. Stryker <ref name="term_62476" />
<p> a missionary of the (Dutch) [[Reformed]] Church to Borneo, was born at Harlingen, N.J., Nov. 27, 1811, and was brought up to mechanical labor, until God turned him aside to prepare for the Gospel, ministry. He began his studies late in life, graduated at Rutgers College in 1837, and from the Theological Seminary at New [[Brunswick]] in 1840. In November of that year, having been ordained as an evangelist to the heathen by the [[Classis]] of New Brunswick, he sailed for [[Borneo]] with his classmate Rev. [[William]] T. [[Van]] Doren and wife. He died of a swift fever at [[Singapore]] in 1842, after spending a year in Java, as required by the law of the Dutch government, and almost before the real beginning of his missionary work. He was a man of fervid piety, zealously earnest in the [[Christian]] life, and thoroughly devoted to the cause of Christ among the pagans; The mission to which he belonged, after years of patient struggles, was abandoned in 1849. Mr. Stryker was unmarried. See, Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church, p. 473. (W.J.R.T.) </p>

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<ref name="term_62476"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/stryker,+isaac+p. Isaac P. Stryker from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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