![]() ![]() It from having it repeated to them-long before they could read, and almost as It and because I rewrote that history for my children-every one of whom knew To express veneration for the life and lessons of Our Saviour, because I feel Words, “ I have always striven in my writings Words in the last paragraph of that letter-and perhaps Charles Dickens’ final written Last letter to a man who had accused him of irreverence in a passage of the June of 1870, Charles Dickens suffered a stroke, which would cause his death a ![]() The life of Christ, sought to answer their questions about religion and faith. Many of whom were quite inquisitive, Dickens, through this simple narrative of Have a more humble veneration for the New Testament, or a more profoundĬonviction of its all-sufficiency than I have.” With eight children under the age of twelve, In a letter to a clergyman, Charles Dickens professed “ There cannot be many men, I believe, who If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful, and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them, or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. It is Christianity to love our neighbors as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. Remember! It is Christianity TO DO GOOD, always-even to those who do evil to us. This simple narrative continued for several There was no cradle orĪnything of that kind there, so Mary laid her pretty little boy in what isĬalled the manger, which is the place the horses eat out of. To lodge, and in the stable Jesus Christ was born. Room for Mary and Joseph at the Inn or in any house so they went into a stable Town being very full of people, also brought there by business, there was no In a city called Nazareth, but they were forced by business to travel to Long long time ago-nearly two thousand years ago-at a place called Is, without knowing who He was and what He did. In Heaven, where we hope to go, and all to meet each other after we are dead,Īnd there be happy always together, you never can think what a good place Heaven So gentle, and so sorry for all people who did wrong, or were in any way ill or No one ever lived who was so good, so kind, That you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. At the end of the time he gave it back to meĪnd said he had decided to never publish it-or to even have it printedīegan his narrative for his children as follows: Manuscript and take a week or two to consider it. I asked Charles if he did not think it would be well for him to have it He used to read it to the little boys before Most beautiful, most touching, most simple as such a narrative should be. Published…He wrote it years ago when his elder children were quite little. New Testament which he wrote for his children. “ I must tell you about the beautiful little In a letter that she wrote to a close friend, she gave insight into “ The Life of Our Lord”: Twelve! And, for the next eighty-five years, that manuscript would be a closelyĬatherine Dickens’ younger sister, Georgina Hogarth, lived with the Dickens family. At the time, Charles Dickens and his wifeĬatherine were the parents of eight children-all of whom were under the age of Three years later, while working on David Copperfield, Dickens finished the sixteen-chapter manuscript He penned those words for his children-andįor their eyes alone. President Oaks remarks, my cell phone began to vibrate with text messages: Do you own a copy of that book? Do you haveĪ first edition? Was Dickens really that religious? Well, here are a few ofġ846, three years after Charles Dickens finished writing A Christmas Carol, he began work on a story that he knew that he would Oaks referred to and read from Charlesĭickens’ The Life of Our Lord. ![]() The most recent Christmas Devotional of The Church of Jesus Christ of ![]()
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