Anna Lombard
I endeavored to draw in Gerald Ethridge a character whose actions should be in accordance with the principle, laid down by Christ, one that would display, not in word but in his actual life, that gentleness, humility, patience, charity, and self-sacrifice that our Redeemer himself enjoined. It is a sad commentary on our religion of to-day that a presumably Christian journal --The Daily Chronicle--should hold this Christ-like conduct up to ridicule and contempt, stigmatize it as "horrid absurdity," and declare that for such qualities a man ought to be turned out of their service. I challenge The Daily Chronicle and all who follow its opinion to find one act which does not reflect Christ's own teaching, committed by Gerald Ethridge. He forgives the sinner, raises the fallen, comforts the weak. He works and suffers to reclaim the pagan and almost lost soul of Anna Lombard. Fearlessly, and with the Gospel of Christ in my hand, I offer this example of his teaching to the great Christian public for its verdict, confident that I shall be justified by it.
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seemed to deepen in color and light up with curious fire.
"I am delighted to make your acquaintance," she said in the conventional manner, and moved just very slightly to one side of the fauteuil, which was large, to indicate I might sit down by her, which I did.
"Now you can amuse yourselves," said Anna's friend, lightly, as her partner made his way up to her to claim her. "Good-by," and she whirled away at the first bar of the new waltz.
It is difficult to say what we talked of or what it was lent "such an irresistible charm to that conversation, but looking back, I think it was partly the great interest and animation with which the girl both talked and listened. Her lace was brilliant, with her deep blue eyes darkening and flashing, and her milky, stainless teeth sparkling through her crimson lips as she laughed. Everything was new and Iresh to her in this wonderful India of ours, and life itself was just dawning in all its beauty before her mental vision. Ber childhood had been passed