Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overcome evil with good (Frances Nasmith) -- Out of the miry clay (Maria McAuley) -- Perfect love drives out fear (Emma Whittemore) -- Let your light shine (Clemme Ellis White) -- Home missionary (Fanny J. Crosby) -- God is love (Sarah Clarke) -- Rescue us from the present evil (Eva von Tiele-Winckler) -- Rescue the poor who cry for help (Annie Green) -- Undivided devotion (Annie Spellman, Mamie Caskie, Jennie Goranflo) -- A mother's prayer : she never gave up (Emily Trotter) -- Compassion (Maude Benton) -- Willing wife, willing widow (Helen Sunday) -- Madams and pimps (Beulah Bulkley) -- Be strong and courageous (Mabel Everhardt) -- Father to the fatherless (Marie Sandvik) -- For such a time as this (Susan E. Benjamin) -- From generation to generation (Estelle Phillips)