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Anna Seward Pruitt published this book in1929 after spending a long missionary career in China with her husband C.W. Pruitt.This is the story of her first years in China as only the second woman Southern Baptist Missionary to China, the first being Lottie Moon, who is mentioned about a dozen times mostly in first person accounts, in the text. Her daughter Ida Pruitt went on with Rewi Alley to become one of the few Westerners acknowledged as a friend of early Communist China.

This book recounts the history of Protestant missionaries in Northern China. It is written by Anna Seward Pruitt who to honor the example of a beloved cousin that died in China, Anna Seward went to China as a missionary in the late 1880's. She stayed there until the mid 1930's with her husband Cicero Washington Pruitt became among the longest serving Protestant missionaries there.

Told from a Christian missionaries perspective and set in rural China of the late 1880's and early 1900's, this book consists of five stories of adventure, adversity and perseverance of young Chinese persons coming to and adhering to the new Christian faith in the face of millennial old Chinese traditions.