Although this book was written about fifty-five years ago and would be considered by most readers a "conservative Christian read," it has helped many young people stick to the principles by which they have been raised. So read how a Christian girl, facing the many subtle pressures and fierce temptations of her time, meets the tests put to her by a rich and skeptical young diamond merchant from South Africa. Exulting in his great "find," this worldly young man discovers, to his chagrin, that Someone has outbid him Read, and be encouraged that it is possible, even today, to prove that Christ...

Like most grandmothers, I loved to tell bedtime stories to my six-year-old granddaughter, Catherine. This is how the tale of Licky the Singing Mouse began. Then, one day, I thought it might be worth writing down. And so the story grew. Eventually, Catherine wanted to help. Sometimes she would suggest names for the characters; sometimes, sitting beside me on the sofa or propped up in bed, she would spell out words on the keyboard. "This is what a child would say, Grandma," she would advise, or "I don't like that name for the king. Let's call him Rumurus." "If this ever gets printed," I told...

In this book you will learn to know us and our family. You will meet people who came together to make it possible for us to serve in Germany and in the States. You will meet others with whom we worked overseas and learn about the Institute for Research in Christian Origins and the International Christian Church-"faith in practice." More than recording the story of our personal lives, I wanted to preserve our commitment as representatives both of the Lord in whose name we served, and of the European Evangelistic Society in Germany. I wished to testify to the presence and guidance of Jesus and...