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Aunt Jane's Hero
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( CHAPTER III. HORACE WHEELER had stood up years before, in the little village church, and confessed Christ before men. He was then not much more than a boy, and had very indefinite notions as to what this step implied and involved. Indeed, he had been urged into it by his mother, whose delicate health made it probable that she would not live to see him safely through the perils of early youth, and who felt that she could die in peace if she could leave him in the sheltering bosom of the Church she loved. She died soon after he entered college, and so he lost the letters that would have counselled and stimulated and blessed him. Shall we say he lost her prayers, also ? God only knows. His father, a grave, hard, good man, prayed for, but rarely wrote to him ; he had never had either sister or brother. Perhaps, all this made old Mrs. Faulkner peculiarly dear to him, when on his establishing himself in this great city, she became to him almost a mother. But all he knew of religion was what his own meagre experience had taught him, and all he knew of young women he had learned in society. And he had, so far, got very little comfort out of either. So now when he marched smarting and stinging out of Miss Fitzsimmons's ceiled house, he never once thought of such a thing as making the pain she had cost him a religious discipline; nor did he fly to the genial presence of other ladies in the hope of finding solace in their society. On the contrary, he fell to generalizing in this style : " They're all alike, and I knew it, and yet have been and made a fool of myself. All they care for or think of is dress and show and fashion. There isn't enough heart in the whole concern to make one warm, manly heart. If you can put diamond rings on their fingers, and give them palaces to li...
This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
( CHAPTER III. HORACE WHEELER had stood up years before, in the little village church, and confessed Christ before men. He was then not much more than a boy, and had very indefinite notions as to what this step implied and involved. Indeed, he had been urged into it by his mother, whose delicate health made it probable that she would not live to see him safely through the perils of early youth, and who felt that she could die in peace if she could leave him in the sheltering bosom of the Church she loved. She died soon after he entered college, and so he lost the letters that would have counselled and stimulated and blessed him. Shall we say he lost her prayers, also ? God only knows. His father, a grave, hard, good man, prayed for, but rarely wrote to him ; he had never had either sister or brother. Perhaps, all this made old Mrs. Faulkner peculiarly dear to him, when on his establishing himself in this great city, she became to him almost a mother. But all he knew of religion was what his own meagre experience had taught him, and all he knew of young women he had learned in society. And he had, so far, got very little comfort out of either. So now when he marched smarting and stinging out of Miss Fitzsimmons's ceiled house, he never once thought of such a thing as making the pain she had cost him a religious discipline; nor did he fly to the genial presence of other ladies in the hope of finding solace in their society. On the contrary, he fell to generalizing in this style : " They're all alike, and I knew it, and yet have been and made a fool of myself. All they care for or think of is dress and show and fashion. There isn't enough heart in the whole concern to make one warm, manly heart. If you can put diamond rings on their fingers, and give them palaces to li...
292 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1999
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About the author
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
51 books113 followersELIZABETH PRENTISS (1818 -1878) was the daughter of an early nineteenth-century revival preacher and began writing as a teenager. Born in 1818 in Portland, Maine, Prentiss was also the writer of the hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ." Prentiss died in Vermont in 1878.
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July 20, 2016
A tale of the home front in the North during the Civil War.
I reread this so many times that the pages are literally falling out of my copy. Someday perhaps I will find a reasonably priced hardcover!
I reread this so many times that the pages are literally falling out of my copy. Someday perhaps I will find a reasonably priced hardcover!
August 12, 2024
Written by Elizabeth Prentiss in 1871, this is the story of Horace, whose aunt prays for him to find the Lord and find a godly wife. He learns to leave his bachelor ways behind him and seek God.
This was a sweet story and I enjoyed it.
This was a sweet story and I enjoyed it.
October 25, 2014
Aunt Jane's Hero is definitely one of the books that have challenged me in my spiritual walk. On the outset, the book looks like a boring story about perfect people (Aunt Jane and Maggie) reaching down to convict the sinners (Horace and Maggie's sister Annie), yet there is so much more to this book, so much depth and beauty. Horace and his wife go through many little and major trials as we all do, they fail and speak or behave wrongly sometimes, even doubting God, yet He brings them through each thing, strengthening them and growing them closer to Himself. Through Annie and Tom, the story brings out other difficulties and sins to look for in our own lives. Aunt Jane's Hero is touching, humorous and deeply edifying.
July 2, 2018
Oh how I've come to love Elizabeth Prentiss! She masterfully weaves biblical themes throughout her sweet and Christ-exalting stories. Self-sacrifice, hospitality, discipleship, service, prayer, and repentance are just a few of the ideas woven into this depiction of a Christ-centered home.
January 8, 2010
This novel was written in the nineteenth century. I greatly enjoy literature from that period, so I have a high tolerance for certain writing techniques in this work that might seem jarring and "preachy" to most modern readers. Even by the standards of the day, the writing would be mediocre, at best. However, I do find the characters and the plot to be charming.
The book outlines the story of a young couple who meet, date, and marry, all while looking to their mutual friend, Aunt Jane, for advice and inspiration. If a young bride of today can get past the quaint language, she can glean many lessons about how to establish a godly life and home from the book's pages. She will be entertained, as well. The novel deals with both the "poetry" and the "prose" of married life. The author refers to the romance as poetry and the dailiness of living as the prose.
There are lessons for young husbands, as well, though I don't think that the book would appeal to many young men. Additionally, those of us who are older can learn a few things from Aunt Jane, as she fosters healthy friendships among single young people and godly young marriages, as well.
I have some serious reservations about Mrs. Prentiss's theology, but that doesn't intrude very much in this particular novel. Mrs. Prentis does excel in giving us fictional characters who present examples of how one might put faith into practice.
The book outlines the story of a young couple who meet, date, and marry, all while looking to their mutual friend, Aunt Jane, for advice and inspiration. If a young bride of today can get past the quaint language, she can glean many lessons about how to establish a godly life and home from the book's pages. She will be entertained, as well. The novel deals with both the "poetry" and the "prose" of married life. The author refers to the romance as poetry and the dailiness of living as the prose.
There are lessons for young husbands, as well, though I don't think that the book would appeal to many young men. Additionally, those of us who are older can learn a few things from Aunt Jane, as she fosters healthy friendships among single young people and godly young marriages, as well.
I have some serious reservations about Mrs. Prentiss's theology, but that doesn't intrude very much in this particular novel. Mrs. Prentis does excel in giving us fictional characters who present examples of how one might put faith into practice.
January 13, 2024
This is the oldest writer I’ve read, I think, but it was a good story! The first part is definitely for those who love romance and enjoy seeing a character truly develop into someone you love. Her writing got a bit confusing for me, but I think it’s because of the lingo for that time period. I’d like to see what other stuff she has and check it out!
August 30, 2024
Engaging story about a young man who struggles with a strong draw to worldly society, his godly "aunt," and different girls who would either ruin or make him.
As with any Prentiss novel, there are great little truths to ponder scattered throughout the narrative.
Content considerations: While completely clean and of high moral value, the reading level and adult themes would make this more suitable for ages 14+
As with any Prentiss novel, there are great little truths to ponder scattered throughout the narrative.
Content considerations: While completely clean and of high moral value, the reading level and adult themes would make this more suitable for ages 14+
August 19, 2025
Such a sweet book with nuggets of Truth sprinkled throughout! It can be hard to read the older language, but it’s always fun to read a book that’s both based in the 1800’s and written in the 1800’s!
4/5: Would recommend!
4/5: Would recommend!
April 15, 2024
A biblical romance novel. Highly recommended by Elisabeth Elliot, Susan Hunt and Martha Peace. It was a great getaway read :) Inspiring and helpful. Also, this is a great introduction to Christian marriage - useful as a light read for all, but especially for those who have not seen what a Christian marriage should look like. Don't be afraid to be exhorted/advised/prompted through this book to grow in your Christian walk or marriage!
January 4, 2013
This is a staple of my book collection, one I have read and reread over the past few years. Though perhaps a bit idealistic, there are a number of passages throughout the book that could stand alone as inspiration and direction for grounded Christian living. I'm sure I will be reading it again in the near future.
March 12, 2017
Another great Prentiss book. The story was so good and the moral priceless. Highly recommend it!
January 15, 2025
“Wait and See.” The title, “Aunt Jane’s Hero” made me look over this worthy book! With odd cover art, and a title I wrongly assumed wasn’t my cup of tea, I shamefully waited too long to read this gem in the treasure trove of Prentiss books. I am not too proud to call her my favorite author. Until I read Elizabeth Prentiss, I never thought I could settle on a favorite book, either. This is not my favorite of her works, but is one of those books I dearly wish had helped form me into adulthood. No matter, since it is still effective and edifying 14 years into marriage. I love that Elizabeth Prentiss wrote with a purpose— not of pure amusement, but also to direct her readers in the path of wisdom and righteousness. Aunt Jane’s Hero is meant to be her book on marriage, but it is much more. It is a book on finding new life, and about fleeing idolatry, and mostly knowing true peace and contentment in Christ alone! We watch her characters grow, and grow some more, and we are convinced that we might do the same. I can’t pretend to make a better title than my beloved authoress, but if I tried, I might steal a sentence from the book itself and name it, “Wait and See.”
Elizabeth Prentiss books in order of my affection
1st 🏆: Stepping Heavenward
2nd 🏆: The Home at Greylock
Tied for 2nd: Little Threads
3rd 🏆: Aunt Jane’s Hero
When third place is still awarded a 5 star rating, you know it’s worth reading! I will definitely enjoy rereading!
Elizabeth Prentiss books in order of my affection
1st 🏆: Stepping Heavenward
2nd 🏆: The Home at Greylock
Tied for 2nd: Little Threads
3rd 🏆: Aunt Jane’s Hero
When third place is still awarded a 5 star rating, you know it’s worth reading! I will definitely enjoy rereading!
January 19, 2025
I finally figured out why I'm still waiting on several young men of my acquaintance to come to the end of themselves. They've had no Major Health Crisis. According to Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, that's what it takes. Now I know what to pray for.
Brighter Winter: Read two books by same author (also read The Little Preacher.)
Brighter Winter: Read two books by same author (also read The Little Preacher.)
January 23, 2021
Such a lovely story of a “portrait of a Christ centered home”. I loved Stepping Heavenward and can’t believe it has taken me two years to read more by Elizabeth Prentiss! I am definitely eager to read her other books now too.
“It is good to go out, if only to find how good it is to be at home again” - may this be said by my husband and children!(less)
“It is good to go out, if only to find how good it is to be at home again” - may this be said by my husband and children!(less)
February 16, 2014
Aunt Jane's Hero is a little bit nuts. The trouble with a good Christian novel, with good Christian characters who strive earnestly to do what's best in the eyes of an ever-loving and -providing God, is that, because God provides, none of the narrative tension lasts for more than a few chapters. Horace is worldly, then he becomes a better Christian. Horace thinks Maggie doesn't love him, but she does. Horace takes sick, but then he gets better. Maggie's sister Annie is too worldly, but she learns to be a better Christian. Maggie wants a child, and they have one. God provides. As well as God, Horace and Maggie experience the benificient influence of providence in Aunt Jane herself, a pious but pleasant elderly widow in the Protestant tradition, she is Horace's late mother's dearest friend and his advisor on things spiritual. Maggie meets Horace at Aunt Jane's knitting bee and asks him how he knows Aunt Jane, and Horace says, "Why, she's my Aunt Jane too!" Maggie says, "She's not actually my aunt, I just call her that because she is such a dear friend of my family." Horace says, "She's not my aunt either, so we must be cousins!" They joke about all evening but Horace is still too much of the world to realize what a catch Maggie is. Then the Civil War happens, mostly offscreen, and Horace loses a leg at Bull Run. After months in a field hospital and a wooden leg attached with some sort of elaborate leather strapping, Horace visits Aunt Jane again and falls madly in love with Maggie. He's prepared to love her forever in silence, but she loves him too so he need not be silent any longer. Horace doesn't believe he can afford to marry and set up a household on his meager lawyer's salary, but Aunt Jane convinces him that they can live in an unfashionable neighborhood, so Horace marries Maggie and they settle into the kind of genteel poverty that only employs one maid. For a few chapters Aunt Jane's Hero becomes a manual of domestic economy. Maggie scrimps and saves keeps the household budget down and Mrs. Prentiss emphasizes, chapter after chapter, the majesty of domestic economy as opposed to boarding. (If you want a novel of household management with humor and details, read Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper by T.S. Arthur, the real pseudonym of an editor for Godey's Lady Book.) Something besides a quiet married life needs to happen to a keep Aunt Jane's Hero going, so Horace comes down with typhoid fever, contracted from the Irish to whom Maggie charitably bestows soup. Maggie and Horace spend all their free time trying to convert the Irish. They lure Irish children to Bible Study with cookies. It's all very Protestant and sneaky, and Aunt Jane encourages them at it. Some trials and resolutions later, Aunt Jane says, "What if I told you I was going to Europe?" and means that she is going somewhere better than Europe: the loving embrace of our heavenly Father. Aunt Jane dies peacefully, explaining that, while she's looking forward to seeing her late husband and son, she is more excited to meet Jesus. Maggie has the long-awaited child around the time Aunt Jane dies, and Aunt Jane leaves Horace and Maggie enough money to afford a slightly larger house and a horse, the longest unresolved issue in Aunt Jane's Hero: Because Horace has a wooden leg, he cannot go on walks to cure his dyspepsia like other men, and the doctor recommends he ride, but he cannot afford a horse. Now he can. God provides. Like The Palace in the Garden, there is nothing wrong with Aunt Jane's Hero. It's simple, plodding, predictable, and sweet. Apparently Elizabeth Prentiss is enjoying a renaissance in Christian fiction circles, and it's well deserved. If anyone needs comfort from a Protestant God, Aunt Jane's Hero is written just for that. And Aunt Jane's Hero is ideal for anyone who needs to write an essay on "The Cult of Domesticity and the Early Victorian Novel."
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May 31, 2011
Own.
I read this a year or two ago on my own and the ladies in my book club decided to read it for this month.
I really like Elizabeth Prentiss. She's not the most polished authoress: the stories often begin slowly and her writing voice and instruction is too up front for the modern reader ... but well fit the style of the era.
Aunt Jane's Hero teaches us much about faithfulness to Christ through trials. It teaches us about being good mentors and encouragers. It teaches us how to love one another. It teaches, mainly, about marriage through the story of Horace and Maggie ... from their failures, courtship, love, and first few years of marriage. It teaches through the lives of its characters, their successes and their failures. The example of faithfulness in small and in great things.
Yes, the situations and needs are very different in that era. Yes, the writing style is very outmoded for today. Do not let those things deter you. The story will be an encouragement in your walk and in your marriage.
I read this a year or two ago on my own and the ladies in my book club decided to read it for this month.
I really like Elizabeth Prentiss. She's not the most polished authoress: the stories often begin slowly and her writing voice and instruction is too up front for the modern reader ... but well fit the style of the era.
Aunt Jane's Hero teaches us much about faithfulness to Christ through trials. It teaches us about being good mentors and encouragers. It teaches us how to love one another. It teaches, mainly, about marriage through the story of Horace and Maggie ... from their failures, courtship, love, and first few years of marriage. It teaches through the lives of its characters, their successes and their failures. The example of faithfulness in small and in great things.
Yes, the situations and needs are very different in that era. Yes, the writing style is very outmoded for today. Do not let those things deter you. The story will be an encouragement in your walk and in your marriage.
January 27, 2015
I really enjoyed this book. So much so that I straight away listened to it again (audiobook version). I rarely reread books but this one is like a devotional, with little christian truths to be mined each time you dig into it. Shows that rare christian life of being completely sold out to Christ, deep joy and genuineness. I have a feeling this is going to be one of my all time favourite reads.
December 25, 2017
How does she do it? I love anything by Elizabeth Prentiss. She knows women, and she knows the good things of God. This novel, like her others is about a Christian woman’s calling and duty, to find and create and treasure all that is beautiful and good in the Lord’s world. This book is about God’s economy and the great reversal. You will not put it down, and you will be tutored through Prentiss’s characters: who to strive to be like, and who to pity.
January 9, 2012
I enjoyed reading this novel of Elizabeth Prentiss as I had only ever read “Stepping Heavenward” – certainly it does read as another “Prentiss” work and while it could be said that the heroine Maggie was beyond perfect I really appreciated many of the lessons found in the book. If you have read Stepping Heavenward this is the next in the series.........
May 31, 2014
This particular (free) ebook edition that I have is very poorly edited. I'm guessing other editions are much better, so I'm not going to base my rating/review on that. This was a beautiful of two couples that are inspired by the Christian faith of an older woman, whom they call Aunt Jane.
September 24, 2007
This is a must read!
February 5, 2008
An enjoyable read about the importance of keeping an eternal perspective in life.
February 23, 2008
An excellent novel and living picture of a vituous matchmaking and the value of faithful and loving counsel from a loving aunt - with wisdom and exp.erience. Refreshing and inspiring
May 23, 2015
Love it! I cannot say enough about Elizabeth Prentiss. Great Christian fiction on the truths of being married! Highly Recommend.
January 25, 2012
An old, sweet, clean story.
May 7, 2012
Not what I was expecting.i was surprised to see it was s so recently published due to the theme vocabulary and grammer.
July 27, 2014
One of my favorite Christian authors.
April 6, 2018
I have found the writings of Elizabeth Prentiss to be quit enjoyable. She sees the beauty in everyday life, but does not gloss over the hardships. This book was no exception.
January 9, 2024
What an absolutely beautiful book. This was a Lamplighter published book under the new title "The Making of a Hero", and I was a bit uncertain if I would like it considering it's from the 1800s and I wondered if it would be overly trite and sappy; but it was written with humor and grace, and made me feel so uplifted, yet convicted, by reading it. It lays excellent groundwork for relationships, has a beautiful romance, shows the allure of a worldy lifestyle, is realistic and shows an interesting perspective of how relationships with our earthly loves can sometimes damage ours with God. Here's some of my favorite quotes:
"There is no art or trickery in a true woman. She will not flatter, she will not stoop to humor pet vices, but fighting and conquering them, she will give her whole loving heart to him she has thus blessed."
"May I ask you one more question Horace? Are you living a life of prayer amid all the distractions of the times? "That is a question you have no right to ask,"he said, coloring. "Perhaps it is," she said gently. "There is a time in my history when I should have resented such a question; yet it was a time where it would have been well for my soul had some loving voice asked it."
"It is not faith in my prayers, but faith in Him who dictates them."
"It did not occur to him that this endless flow of small talk was very small indeed..."
"As she silently prayed for him, he felt the old discomfort creeping over him, the sense of unrest experienced, at times at least, by every human soul that tries to satisfy its infinite longings and yearnings with finite things."
"Horace went home in the comfortless state of mind familiar to those who have been left to do, in one or two little sentences, what they feel they cannot undo in a lifetime. There are few warm-hearted people who do not sometimes say in their haste what nothing would tempt them to say in their leisure, and then, how they chafe under the sense of their own folly." (RELATABLE!)
"Because young couples can't begin where their fathers and mothers left off, they won't begin at all." (referring to overspending and needing the best even when they lack funds)
"I know that it was easier for you to face the cannon's mouth on the field of battle than it is now to face what people will say."
"You have been mixed up with people who shuffled religion out of the way, as something to come in play on one's death bed, but as unfit to mix up gracefully with daily life."
"God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear life's blows; He does not heal before he smites.... In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength."
"Where she had been gentle and affectionate and charming before, there was now an added grace that made those who saw her day by day take note of her, not that she had been, but was with Jesus."
"It is not true that as soon as soon as human beings reach a certain point in the divine life they are snatched out of this; saints move about us and among us every day."
"For Horace had learned that to love as an idolator is not to love as a Christian."
"There is no love like that which unites those who live to Christ.."
"One can't always get into the mood to put on good faces."
"But one can bear the contrary mood patiently, and then is passes away, as moods will."
"I had thoughtless merriment, but not one satisfied moment."
"Ah, but it is not in order of life for things always to go on just to our minds. That is the very point. If they did, we should never ask for anything better."
GO READ THIS BOOK!!!
"There is no art or trickery in a true woman. She will not flatter, she will not stoop to humor pet vices, but fighting and conquering them, she will give her whole loving heart to him she has thus blessed."
"May I ask you one more question Horace? Are you living a life of prayer amid all the distractions of the times? "That is a question you have no right to ask,"he said, coloring. "Perhaps it is," she said gently. "There is a time in my history when I should have resented such a question; yet it was a time where it would have been well for my soul had some loving voice asked it."
"It is not faith in my prayers, but faith in Him who dictates them."
"It did not occur to him that this endless flow of small talk was very small indeed..."
"As she silently prayed for him, he felt the old discomfort creeping over him, the sense of unrest experienced, at times at least, by every human soul that tries to satisfy its infinite longings and yearnings with finite things."
"Horace went home in the comfortless state of mind familiar to those who have been left to do, in one or two little sentences, what they feel they cannot undo in a lifetime. There are few warm-hearted people who do not sometimes say in their haste what nothing would tempt them to say in their leisure, and then, how they chafe under the sense of their own folly." (RELATABLE!)
"Because young couples can't begin where their fathers and mothers left off, they won't begin at all." (referring to overspending and needing the best even when they lack funds)
"I know that it was easier for you to face the cannon's mouth on the field of battle than it is now to face what people will say."
"You have been mixed up with people who shuffled religion out of the way, as something to come in play on one's death bed, but as unfit to mix up gracefully with daily life."
"God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear life's blows; He does not heal before he smites.... In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength."
"Where she had been gentle and affectionate and charming before, there was now an added grace that made those who saw her day by day take note of her, not that she had been, but was with Jesus."
"It is not true that as soon as soon as human beings reach a certain point in the divine life they are snatched out of this; saints move about us and among us every day."
"For Horace had learned that to love as an idolator is not to love as a Christian."
"There is no love like that which unites those who live to Christ.."
"One can't always get into the mood to put on good faces."
"But one can bear the contrary mood patiently, and then is passes away, as moods will."
"I had thoughtless merriment, but not one satisfied moment."
"Ah, but it is not in order of life for things always to go on just to our minds. That is the very point. If they did, we should never ask for anything better."
GO READ THIS BOOK!!!
October 24, 2019
I listened to an audio recording by Librivox which was not listed on Goodreads.
I loved this book! It reminds me a little of “Not My Will “ or of books by Grace Livingston Hill. But somehow deeper and more challenging to one’s own heart for being very closely friends with God to be His ambassador.
Aunt Jane’s influence on many young people who loved her comes from the things she has been taught by her own life and friendship with Christ. And so her love makes her the one to whom they go for advice. She is able to point them to the right way or rather to the One who knows the right way
Horace is the main focus from the beginning, and we see how he learns life’s lessons. Disappointments, affects of service in the Civil War and more change his focus to look to God. Then he comes to know another of Aunt Jane’s acquaintances and begins to wonder if this one was The One for him.
There is another girl who also needs to grow and learn to take her eyes from ‘having ‘ to being contented.
These two couples then continue to learn lessons from the Father as they come to difficulties, illnesses and poverty, yet also see that they are much better situated than some of the people around them. And so find ways to help the poor and influence young ones for God.
This is worth reading even if you are not religious or close to God. If you can open your mind to read it to understand those who choose a different way of life, I am sure you will learn a great deal more than an old fashioned romantic book!
The readers were good for the book.
I loved this book! It reminds me a little of “Not My Will “ or of books by Grace Livingston Hill. But somehow deeper and more challenging to one’s own heart for being very closely friends with God to be His ambassador.
Aunt Jane’s influence on many young people who loved her comes from the things she has been taught by her own life and friendship with Christ. And so her love makes her the one to whom they go for advice. She is able to point them to the right way or rather to the One who knows the right way
Horace is the main focus from the beginning, and we see how he learns life’s lessons. Disappointments, affects of service in the Civil War and more change his focus to look to God. Then he comes to know another of Aunt Jane’s acquaintances and begins to wonder if this one was The One for him.
There is another girl who also needs to grow and learn to take her eyes from ‘having ‘ to being contented.
These two couples then continue to learn lessons from the Father as they come to difficulties, illnesses and poverty, yet also see that they are much better situated than some of the people around them. And so find ways to help the poor and influence young ones for God.
This is worth reading even if you are not religious or close to God. If you can open your mind to read it to understand those who choose a different way of life, I am sure you will learn a great deal more than an old fashioned romantic book!
The readers were good for the book.
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