Contentment, although as precious as a jewel, is also very rare. How many of us today, among the people of God, can say with honesty that, having food and raiment, we are therewith content? Burroughs' analysis of what true Christian contentment is and what it is not, his examination of the sin of grumbling and murmuring against God, and his inquiry into the practical effects which true contentment brings to the believer, make up a book which answers every possible excuse that our hearts can offer to avoid this duty.