Stepping Heavenward

Name: Stepping Heavenward
Author: Elizabeth Prentiss

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (1818–1878) was an American author, the daughter of pastor Edward Payson and wife of Presbyterian minister George Lewis Prentiss. Out of a life marked by the deaths of two children, she wrote books prized for their honest piety, above all Stepping Heavenward (1869), a novel in diary form tracing a woman's growth in grace. Her hymn 'More Love to Thee, O Christ' is still sung.

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First published: 1869
Categories: Christian Literature, Devotional
Length: 96k words · about 6 hours
Chapters: 26
Modernized version: In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 91% of the original wording.
Narration: 🎧 Volunteer Readers

About this book

Elizabeth Prentiss's Stepping Heavenward, published in 1869, tells the story of Katy Mortimer in the form of her journal, from a self-willed girlhood through courtship, marriage, motherhood, and sorrow. It is a devotional novel of sanctification: Katy learns, entry by entry, to submit her will to God and find Him sufficient. The book has consoled generations of Christian women.