Josh OConner, Kent Walters, Patsy and Penny Holt, and Eleanor Marlowe find themselves required to make choices between traditional beliefs and radical new trends in American life. The nation is in the throes of a depression, and there is a great divide among its people between the wealthy and the soup kitchen dependents. The youth of that generation find themselves searching for direction, and each must find his own way. However, these young people have the advantage of godly families and biblical counsel. When disaster strikes, the Holt twins and Kent find that God is real and in everything. They find that He can be trusted with their very lives. Eleanor Marlowe, after a rebellious, unsatisfying search, finds a reason for living in carrying on the family tradition of service to those less fortunate than she. And Josh meets the girl of his dreams as he serves the Lord in counseling youth. For those who were young in the thirties, this story will be a nostalgic journey. For young people to whom the thirties are the olden days, they will find that these young people are much like themselves. For everyone, the story will present anew the challenges of faith in our day.
Josh OConner, Kent Walters, Patsy and Penny Holt, and Eleanor Marlowe find themselves required to make choices between traditional beliefs and radical new trends in American life. The nation is in the throes of a depression, and there is a great divide among its people between the wealthy and the soup kitchen dependents. The youth of that generation find themselves searching for direction, and each must find his own way. However, these young people have the advantage of godly families and biblical counsel. When disaster strikes, the Holt twins and Kent find that God is real and in everything. They find that He can be trusted with their very lives. Eleanor Marlowe, after a rebellious, unsatisfying search, finds a reason for living in carrying on the family tradition of service to those less fortunate than she. And Josh meets the girl of his dreams as he serves the Lord in counseling youth. For those who were young in the thirties, this story will be a nostalgic journey. For young people to whom the thirties are the olden days, they will find that these young people are much like themselves. For everyone, the story will present anew the challenges of faith in our day.
When they find their familiar world collapsing around them, two sisters, Babette and Rosi Huebner, emigrate to America where they find love, fulfillment, and the abiding Presence of God as they and their family adapt to a new way of life.
Matthew Marlowe, an astute and wealthy Michigan businessman of the 1880’s, suddenly finds his comfortable priorities threatened. He briefly encounters a young boy who is struggling to support an invalid mother and is reminded of the orphaned boy he once was. In a series of flashbacks he sees his life unfold before him, and realizes that he is perilously close to losing the things most dear to him: his marriage and the God-fearing way of life to which he had once committed himself. He is forced to remember the things he was taught by his pioneer grandparents, and the lessons he learned early from the tragedy that befell his family. He turns his life around, and in a story of courage, despair, joy, and faith he rebuilds his home life, learns to trust God when his son is kidnapped, and finally brings his family “home†to fulfilled dreams and hopes for the future.
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