ead in
Latin before a large audience in the great church. The Remonstrants were
required to subscribe the condemnation, and many of them refused and
were banished. The synod was concluded on the 9th of May 1619, by a
magnificent banquet given by the chief magistrate of Dort. The Dutch
deputies remained a fortnight longer to attend to ecclesiastical
business. Though the canons of Dort were adopted by but two churches
outside of Holland, the synod ranks as the most impressive assemblage of
the Reformed Church.

AUTHORITIES.--_Acta synodi nationalis ... Dordrechti habitae_ (Lugd.
Bat. 1620, official edition); _Acta der Nationale Synode te Dordrecht_
1618 (Leiden, 1887), French translation (Leiden, 1622 and 1624, 2
vols.), for the Canons, and the _Sententia Remonstrantium_, E. F. Karl
Muller, _Die Bekenntnisschriften der reformierten Kirche_ (Leipzig,
1903), p. lix. ff., 843 ff.; for canons and abridged translation used
by the Reformed Church in America, P. Schaff, _The Creeds of
Christendom_ (3rd ed., New York, 1877), 550 ff. See also H. Heppe, in
_Niedner's Zeitschrift fur die historische Theologie_, Bd. 23
(Hamburg, 1853), 226-327 (letters of Hessian deputies); _Acta et
scripta synodalia Dordracena ministrorum Remonstrantium_, Hardervici,
1620 (valuable side-lights); A. Schweizer, _Die protestantischen
Centraldogmen in ihrer Entwicklung innerhalb der reformierten Kirche_,
zweite Halfte (Zurich, 1856), 25-224; H. C. Rogge in Herzog-Hauck,
_Realencyklopadie_, Bd. 4 (Leipzig, 1898), 798-802; H. H. Kuyper, _De
Post-Acta of Nahandelingen van de Nationale Synode van Dordrecht, een
historische Studie_ (Amsterdam, 1899, new material); J. Reitsma,
_Geschiednis van de Hervorming en de Hervormde Kerk der Nederlanden_
(2nd ed. Groningen, 1899); F. Loofs, _Dogmengeschichte_ (4th ed.,
Halle, 1906), 935 ff.; T. Van Oppenraij, _La Predestination dans
l'Eglise reformee des Pays-Bas depuis l'origine jusqu'au synode
national de Dordrecht_ (Louvain, 1906). (W. W. R.*)

DORTMUND, a town of Germany, the chief commercial centre of the Prussian
province of Westphalia, on the Emscher, in a fertile plain, 50 m. E.
from Dusseldorf by rail. Pop. (1875) 57,742; (1895) 111,232; (1905)
175,292. Since the abolition of the old walls in 1863 and the conversion
of their site into promenades, the town has rapidly assumed a modern
appearance. The central part, however, with its winding narrow streets,