Herman Bavinck's (1854-1921) public role as a theologian implied involvement in public debates on education, suffrage, feminism, and the rights of the working man. He was asked to lecture at the first Social Congress in 1891 on the implications of the Mosaic law for present-day social issues, like poverty and landownership. This congress meant to keep a group of orthodox Christians with radical social demands the Antirevolutionary Party did not voice yet, closely aligned with the party. At this congress Abraham Kuyper voiced his famous words on the architectonic critique of modern society. The Social Congress satisfied the critical voices. What role did Bavinck's lecture play in the appeasement of radical working class antirevolutionaries. What view of society did he offer, what did he say on the relationship between labor and capital? It turns out that the radical reputation of the Social Congress did not rely on Bavinck's lecture, to the contrary.