History of the PRC: Learning to Live with Caricature

[The text of a lecture given to the Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies A.A.D.A.S.) held at Hope College on September20, 1991. The topic of the conference was "The Dutch and Their Faith." The conference was sponsored by the Joint Archives of Holland. This lecture was repeated at the Protestant Reformed Seminary on March 26, 1992, and, at the editor's request, submitted for publication in the SB.] We often wonder how others perceive us. This relates to many areas of our...