One morning in war-time Britain a schoolteacher gives a little yellow pamphlet to a fellow bus passenger. And so William Hellaby, a life-long seeker after truth, is launched on his first investigation of the Bahá í Faith, but in the end he decides instead to train for the ministry in the Unitarian church. After a ten-year interval, and now recently married to a woman whose family s Unitarian church membership goes back 200 years, Billie embarks with his wife on his second examination of the Bahá í Faith. Their studies throw new light on Gospel teachings, challenge long-held ideas and beliefs, and bring them closer to Christ than ever before. Growing commitment to the teachings of Bahá u lláh faces them with moral decisions and the fact that acceptance of the Bahá í Faith will bring loss of home and livelihood for a family with three young children, and plunges them into crisis. Eventually, even Grandpa becomes interested . . .

This thoughtful and challenging account, in which Madeline Hellaby relates how she and her husband investigated the Bahá í Faith, will appeal particularly to readers wishing to understand something of the questions facing students of the Faith from Christian denominations.