The book collects Royden's speeches that were made at the prior National Convention of the Young Women's Christian Association.
[1] The book's final speech is about Royden's belief that love is the only power of creativity.
[1] The Shamokin News-Dispatch published a 1923 report from YWCA USA that says the book had "widespread demand".
[2] The president of YWCA at the time, Mabel Marshall, held a toast to the book.
[4] Mary O. Cowper said in the journal Social Forces that as Royden "writes or speaks she seems not to be visionary or sentimental, but practical, sensible, convincing, and inspiring".