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Ruth Erskine's Cross

Pansy

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. . .t new garments were to be bought, and thus forestall, if she could, haughty objections. She need not have been thus careful. Mrs. Erskine had stated truly that she was not one of the “haughty” sort. She had no objection to any number of new dresses, and to their being made as elaborately as possible.

“Now you speak of it, I dare say I do,” she said, leaning back complacently in her comfortable little rocker. “In fact, your pa spoke of that very thing this morning. He said like enough you would ’tend to it, and he filled my pocket-book up handsome. There ain’t a stingy streak about your pa. I knew that, years and years ago, when he was a young man. It was the very first thing that drawed me to him—the free kind of way in which he threw around his money. It seemed so noble-like, specially when I was drivin’ every nerve to keep soul and body together, and lived among folks that didn’t dare to say thei. . . Read More

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There are (too) many Christians like Ruth, but I'd rather read about Flossie!

This was the first of Isabellas books for grown ups I had ever read. I tried skimming through an e-book, but I just kept coming back to it, until I read it through. Only somewhere in the middle I understood this is a part of the series. I would have loved it in my teenage years already. Great book f

In Ruth's first few months as a Christian, she grew steadily in her faith and character. Then, as alarming changes in her family life came about, and her closest Christian friends moved away, she faltered in her faith and wisdom. Good study on how individuals react to differing personalities that ma

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This was actually not one of my favorites among her books. However, the message is painful, but loud and clear and very well written. This is a quote can the book that pretty much sums it up, at least for me. "I think we do, sometimes, put added touches of our own to the cross that the Father lays u

At first I didn't understand or sympathize with the character of Ruth. I wondered if any real person would act that way. But as the book progressed, I began to see a character in my own family as being motivated similarly. I have never understood that family member, and this book helped me understan

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Number 3 in the Chatauqua Girls series by Pansy (Isabella Alden); this follows Ruth as she attempts to accept the fact that she has a stepmother and sister that she's never met. The sister, Susan, is a stronger Christian than Ruth, and is willing to bend to blend into the family. Ruth is the one tha