"A moving book, written not only with deep insight into the ecclesiastical, religious, social and historical situation in which the story takes place, but also with a warm, rich understanding of a childs soul. Every page of the book carries proof that it has eked out of the author's own experiance. It is written from the inside out, and the people who appear in it are flesh and blood people as they walked the streets of southeastern Zeeland. Zeelanders with a mystical character...who had great difficulty appropriating in faith the redemptive deeds of the covenant God.