Where hope prevails
About this book
When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. The town's rapid growth means more students. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education -- one that dismisses religion and rejects God. Fearful for the children who sit under the influence of Robert Harris Hughes, Beth struggles to know how to respond.
Subjects
- canada, fiction
- coal mines and mining
- fiction
- fiction, romance, historical, general
- fiction, romance, western
- marriage proposals
- philosophy
- religion in the public schools
- teachers
- teaching
- women pioneers