Catherine Perronet’s world is shaken when she learns Charles Wesley is engaged to marry another. After all, Catherine’s initials were on the list John Wesley gave to his brother listing acceptable matrimonial candidates. And that’s not all that’s wrong in Catherine’s world. As teacher at a Methodist Society school in London, she sees her brother beaten while preaching in the open air, her favorite pupil forced to leave school because of his family’s poverty, and a prisoner receive his death sentence in Newgate Prison. Catherine undertakes the joys and hardships of a circuit-ride preaching tour to Canterbury where a French invasion threatens then must face the terrors of the Great London Earthquake before coming to an understanding of the gentle calling God has for her.

The author has skillfully blended true historical accounts to bring to life real persons in the context of their struggle to learn and live the true Christian faith. . . and in so doing dramatize for the reader an important era in. Your library should have all [the]books in the series. ~ MB, Librarian’s World Carefully researched, the authentic warp and woof of English lifestyles during this period are laced throughout. ~ Emma C. Johnson, The Pen Woman Mary Tudway is forced to choose between two worlds: the pleasurable life of her high society friends Sarah Child, heiress of Osterley Park, and the Bishop of Raphoe and his dashing Nephew, Roger; or the life of faith and service represented by the Countess of Huntingdon, her lovely daughter Selina and the witty but devout Rowland Hill. The story moves through the fashionable worlds of London and Bath as the death of one friend, the elopement of another and the startling unveiling of the Highwayman of Hampstead Heath play their parts in Mary’s finally making a choice of lasting value.

Until he gets an answer, Cranville seems destined to repeat the same pattern: Resolve to try harder in hopes of earning that acceptance. Stumble. In despair, give himself over to the fast life. Again and again. But then one of his escapades comes to the attention of his father and it also awakens him to the truth.

Witness the Victorian era's part in the evangelical movement via the preaching of Charles Spurgeon, the work of Florence Nightingale, and the increasing social and spiritual enlightenment of the characters.

Hilda Beauchamp believes that God guides the life of every believer—and that it is her job to guide God. Hilda’s plans meet many complications, but at least one of her prayers gets answered when the winds of spiritual revival sweep England, stirred by the great evangelistic campaigns of D. L. Moody and Ira Sankey. Word of Hudson Taylor’s mission to China fires imaginations and missionary fervor within the Cambridge community. But Hilda and the charming Kynaston Studd—whom Hilda has slated to marry her sister—find their plans sidelined. Kynaston was the leader, the first within his circle to catch the vision of going to China. But God seems to be calling his friends there instead of him and Hilda is horrified to find herself falling in love with the man she had intended for her sister.