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The book’s theme is foreshadowed in the church service the day before: “It is easy enough to thank God when everything is going well and we have all that we want in our lives. The true test of a thankful heart is to be able to sing praise when things are going all wrong. When we have lost our money or our friends or are disappointed in our dearest ambitions, or when we are in a strange unhappy environment, then we cry out, ‘How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?’ “ As is quite common, the family moves to a house in a poor neighborhood that they took possession of in payment of a debt sometime in the past. How they...

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Joyce wants to become a teacher to gain some independence and they want her to be their all-but-slave in exchange for her keep. When she leaves the house without permission to take her teacher’s exams, it starts a chain of events that result in her walking out the kitchen door and never looking back. Her sudden flight leads her to stumble upon a band of graveyard bootleggers and she recognizes one of them as a friend from her childhood—a man who we later find out has loved her since boyhood from afar. He lets her escape, but her recognition of him and his realization through it of the sin he is committing, starts him on two journeys—one to find her again...

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In Chapter 7 of Katharine's Yesterday, she receives a Christmas present from one of her summer friends: “Katharine opened one small, thin package, neatly wrapped in white paper, and addressed in a bold, clear hand. Then she gave her undivided attention to the package, and to the letter accompanying it. The opened paper disclosed a small white-clad book with gold letters. The Greatest Thing In The World was the title. On the flyleaf was written, ” A Merry Christmas and Joyful New Year, from your friend, Frank Warner.” Katharine’s cheeks flushed and a pleased look came into her eyes as she turned to the letter. It read: My dear friend, The accompanying little book has helped me very much, and I pass it on to...

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Stories by Mrs. C. M. Livington: His Friend My Aunt Katherine The Day Before Christmas Juana’s Master Ten Bushels Miss Whittaker’s Blankets Stories by Pansy Clean Hands Circulating Decimals Fishing for Phil Our Church Choir The Doctor’s Story ...

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The story was originally serialized in newspapers and we’ve found it running in The Christian Colonist newspaper published in Adelaide, Australia four years earlier beginning on October 27, 1882. In book form, this short story collection includes: Susan’s Sheaves Mrs. Dale’s Diamonds Where He Found Her Their Christmas Presents Topknot John Trent’s Discoveries That Cellar Door Books and Bread Who Is To Blame? Mrs. Raynor’s New Nurse-Maid ...