Third book in the Chautauqua Girls series. Written by Isabella Alden under the pseudonym “Pansy.” Ruth’s father brings home a wife and daughter, after 18 years, that Ruth had never known about. Suddenly she is no longer the queen of her home. And what’s worse, the new mother and sister are rude and antagonistic. How will Ruth bear this cross?

Latest episodes of the podcast Ruth Erskine's Crosses by Isabella Alden

• 01 – Her Cross Seems Heavy
• 02 – Side Issues
• 03 – A Cross of Lead
• 04 – Bitter Herbs
• 05 – Seeking Help
• 06 – From Different Standpoints
• 07 – One Drop of Oil
• 08 – Finding One’s Calling
• 09 – A Society Cross
• 10 – Other People’s Crosses
• 11 – A Newly-Shaped Cross
• 12 – The Cross of Helplessness
• 13 – Looking for an Easy Yoke
• 14 – ‘Through a Glass Darkly’
• 15 – Rests
• 16 – Shadowed Joys
• 17 – Duty’s Burden
• 18 – Embarrassment and Merriment
• 19 – My Daughters
• 20 – A Sister Needed
• 21 – Trying Questions
• 22 – ‘That Which Satisfieth Not’
• 23 – Wherefore?
• 24 – ‘Hearken Unto Me’
• 25 – ‘Bitter-Sweet’
• 26 – ‘These Be Thy Gods’
• 27 – The Baptism of Suffering
• 28 – ‘The Oil of Joy’