This book has 12 short stories written in it and all are thought provoking and give you a glimpse of how things were in times past. As all of Grace Livingston Hill's book do, this will entertain but also challenge and inspire one to live a life more like Jesus. It will deal with the struggles with pride, self-centeredness and temptation, which are issues we deal with today just like they did in the past. But as it says on the back of the book, "Fortunately, the solution to these struggles is equally timeless". Reading these short stories was time well spent. ( )