Follows the experiences of sixteen-year-old Eliza Shirley, who traveled from England to the United States in 1879 to pioneer the work of the Salvation Army.

"This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest...

Whether children are coming to terms with the illness or death of a loved one, or simply fearful of when that day might come, this book reassures them with the knowledge that Jesus came to give his friends life after death.