A Time to Heal contains 60 selections of essays, narratives, and poems; 5 are Biblical selections, and 11 contain Anabaptist themes. The study exercises are more extensive than in Grade 8. The paragraphs in the text are numbered, and literary terminology is marked to help the student with the exercises.

The teacher's manual has an answer key and provides background information to enrich the class.

Table of Contents

• 1. A Handful of Clay...
• 2. Book Learning
• 3. Have Faith
• 4. Life, Light, and Fellowship (1 John 1)
• 5. The Roman Persecution of Christians
• 6. Old Sulidan the Chieftain
• 7. Better Things
• Introduction to Anabaptist Writings
• 8. George Bauman and Anna of Freiburg (1529)
• 9. Explorer of the Stars
• 10. Poetry for You
• 11. The Ridiculous Optimist
• 12. The Emperor and the Anabaptists
• 13. Abraham Lincoln's Letter
• 14. A Moment of Time
• 15. My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord
• 16. Gods Incomparable Greatness (Isaiah 40)
• 17. The Masterpiece
• 18. The Majestic Language of the Bible
• 19. The Bridge Builder
• 20. Govert, Gillis, Mariken, and Anneken (1550)
• 21. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
• 22. The Most Dangerous Word
• 23. Wisdom of Discipline
• 24. Joris Wippe, Joosten's Son, Put to Death at Dortrecht (1558)
• 25. An Effectual Prayer
• 26. Beauty of the Clouds
• 27. The Right Must Win
• 28. Judah's Supplication to Joseph (Genesis 44:14-45:15)
• 29. The Country Doctor
• 30. The Private Life of Insects
• 31. The Waterbed Lilies
• 32. Promises for Those Bearing the Cross
• 33. Adrift on an Ice Pan
• 34. The Snow Storm
• 35. Has God Spoken?
• 36. My God, Where Shall I Wend My Flight?
• 37. Life for a Leper
• 38. The Indians of North America
• 39. The Refiner
• 40. Preface to A Mirror of Baptism
• 41. From Inside a Mosquito Net
• 42. The Suffering Saviour (Isaiah 52:13-53:12)
• 43. An Ideal Meeting House (a Parable)
• 44. God Needs Men!
• 45. The German Translation of Martyrs Mirror (1748)
• 46. The Master
• 47. God, the True Object of Confidence
• 48. The Living Temple
• 49. A Spark Neglected
• 50. Pure Love to God and to Our Neighbor
• 51. One by One
• 52. Uncle Tom's Cabin
• 53. What to Do to Be Saved
• 54. Stopover in Queretaro
• 55. Now the Laborers Task is Ore
• 56. New Members, One and All (Ephesians 2)
• 57. The Right to Run Things
• 58. At the Place of the Sea
• 59. The Keepers of the Nest
• 60. Stemming the Tide of Worldliness and False Doctrine