Stepping Heavenward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 154689490X ISBN 13: 9781546894902

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

The classic, Stepping Heavenward By Elizabeth Prentiss, will lead you on your own unforgettable journey as you follow Katherine through her life from sweet sixteen to her grown-up later years. As she learns that true happiness is found in giving oneself to others, you, too, will be immeasurably encouraged to step heavenward—to live with greater Godliness, humility, tranquility, and hope.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Prentiss was born on October 26, 1818 in Portland, Maine, (United States), the daughter of Pastor Edward Payson and his wife Louisa. Elizabeth was deeply impacted by the death of her father, who had suffered from tuberculosis for over a year, on October 22, 1827. The family moved to New York City in 1831, and in May of that year, Elizabeth made a public profession of faith in Christ. Elizabeth was well educated and possessed a gift for writing. In 1838, she opened a small school for girls in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. Two years later, she left for Richmond, Virginia, to be a department head at a girls' boarding school. In 1845 she married George Lewis Prentiss and they settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where George became pastor of South Trinitarian Church. After a happy time of transitioning into the duties of a pastor's wife and a housewife, in 1852 she lost, within a period of three months, her second and third children – one as a newborn, one at age four. Though Elizabeth struggled with chronic health problems, she went on to have three more healthy children. After George resigned from his church in New York because of failing health, the family went abroad to Europe for a couple of years, returning in 1860 to New York, where George resumed his pastorate and held a chair at Union Theological Seminary. The family eventually settled in Dorset, Vermont, where Elizabeth died in 1878 at the age of 60. Her own hymn "More Love to Thee" was sung at her funeral.