Introduction: The power of stores / Joseph Leininger Wheeler ; Winter to Spring: "Revolutions" / Ida Alexander -- In a Chinese garden / Frederic Loomis -- The Golden moment / Author unknown -- "Sing for me" / Arthur A. Milward -- When Lincoln passed / Mabel McKee -- A boy who loved Lincoln / Kathleen Read Coontz -- The spirit of Valley Forge / Wallace Dunbar Vincent -- For better or worse / Lynnette Baughman -- Could you have loved this much / Bob Considine ; Spring to Summer: The heart's beginning / Pearl S. Buck -- An Easter song / Grace Ethelyn Cody -- In an artist's studio / Author unknown -- Hero in feathers / Ella A. Duncan -- Influence unawares / Frances Greenman -- The hardest lesson / Fulton Oursler -- Matilda / Author unknown -- Her greater privilege / Josephine DeFord Terrill -- The Captain who did not play / Ira Rich Kent ; Summer to Autumn: My life as a Black man / Jesse Owens, with Paul G. Neimark -- Bobbie Shaftoe / Author unknown -- When tulips die in the spring / Ruth Garren -- The story of a stepmothering / Annie Hamilton Donnell -- Interview with an immortal / Arthur Gordon -- The canopy bed / Temple Bailey -- Father / Edith Hoffman James -- At the close of his career / Grace S. Richmond -- Ready for Heaven / Ewart A. Autry ; Autumn to Winter: Annie, the railroad dog / Phil Walker -- A matter of honor / William T. McElroy -- Miss Lavinia's call / Grace Livingston Hill -- Queen Esther's petition / Dixie Wolcott -- Teaching truth / Dorothy Waldo -- Home for Thanksgiving / L.D. Stearns -- The littlest orphan and the Christ baby / Margaret E. Sangster, Jr. -- The third rose / Joseph Leininger Wheeler.