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.

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.