Here are four great Christian books you should know, abridged and lightly updated for ease of reading: Check out The Essential Christian Classics Collection, containing The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith, Foxe’s Christian Martyrs by John Foxe, In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon, and The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. These books own a well-deserved status as Christian classics, having challenged and encouraged readers over the past four centuries. Now, they’re shortened and simplified for today’s busy reader!
HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1832-1911) was born into a strict Quaker home in Philadelphia and became a major influence in the Holiness movement of the late nineteenth century. Besides "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life," Smith also wrote "The God of All Comfort" and an autobiography, "The Unselfishness of God."