Acknowledgments

           The writing of this study was supported in part by a Mellon Faculty Development Grant from Hope College, for which I am very grateful. I am grateful also to Charles A. Huttar, Leland Ryken, and my wife Karen, for reading the manuscript and offering many helpful suggestions; to Greta Hutchins, who typed early drafts of several chapters, fitting them into an already crowded secretarial schedule; to Phyllis Vandervelde, for her prompt and careful typing of the final draft. The staff of the Marion E. Wade Collection at Wheaton College provided willing and courteous assistance on several occasions. Although I owe a general debt to my students, both at Hope College and in several area churches, for their questions and comments regarding the Chronicles, I am particularly indebted, for ideas and the structure of Chapter 6, to a paper on The Horse and His Boy by Marilyn Pool. [ß p. viii]