This is a book of interesting personal sketches for mission bands, Sunday schools and general reading. Ministers looking for new evidences of Christianity, new illustrations of the power of the gospel to change lives and conditions, new stories for pulpit, prayer-meeting, or Sunday-school will find that Jewels from the Orient will meet their need. It combines the charm of the Orient, the culture of the Occident, and the consecration of the Christian. In her travels around the world Mrs. Bainbridge has met many classes of people; here you meet them and experience something of the joy that filled the pilgrim's heart -- of seeing lives transformed by the power of the cross. Missionary faith and zeal receive new confirmation and stimulus as one reads these simple, direct stories from real life. -Moody Bible Institute Monthly, Vol. 21