“My Daughter Susan” by Isabella Alden

My Daughter Susan

by Isabella Alden

Synopsis: 

If Miss Susan Carleton has one overriding ambition in her life, it is to one day hear the King say: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ She won’t be content with anything less than the commendation God promised to those who faithfully serve Him.
And serve she does, filling one single day with more testimony and more kind Christian acts than most people accomplish in a lifetime. With so many lives to be helped and souls to be won, Susan draws energy and inspiration from God’s promise, “Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye did it unto me.”

My Review:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ & ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎

4.5 stars & 5/10 hearts. I love this story! It was an excellent portrayal how what a young, well-off young Christian woman should act in the 1800s. The active work against liquor was very good. Susan is an excellent model, and I learned a couple good things from her that I can use even in my generation. 

A Favourite Quote: “Watching her, it appeared that half the secret lay in her habit of planning ahead. She carried out a half dozen schemes at once. This faculty shone conspicuously in all the minor household duties which fell to her lot. Did she have occasion to go up to her mother’s room, it seemed to flash upon her that she should pass the jelly closet on her way, and that certain jellies would be needed for dinner, and that the linen closet was just across the hall, and piles of clean table drapery lay ready to be sent there, which might as well go then; and a book that her mother would be inquiring for was on the parlor table, she would just take it along. And little Ted’s tin horse she noticed on a shelf in the back kitchen; he would be sure to want it, she would step there, and take it up to him. Thus her one journey accomplished half a dozen errands, and her descent was equally triumphal.”

A Favourite Humorous Quote: “'I meet with not a few women who do not descend to particulars, but content themselves with that favorite argument among a certain class of Americans: "Fiddlesticks!" And in some respects it is really the most unanswerable argument that can be offered; because, after you have given what you consider to be an earnest, and practical reason on the other side, what can you say to a woman who tosses her head, and curls up her nose, and answers "fiddlesticks!"?'”

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