It begins on Christmas Eve in a lumber camp in the Selkirk Mountains, where the young missionary Craig sets out to win the loggers and miners of Black Rock from whisky and despair. With the help of the gentle widow Mrs. Mavor, he forms a temperance league that the saloon keepers are determined to break.
The first big success of the Canadian minister-novelist, warm-hearted and full of rough frontier life. Download the free EPUB.