CD's Testimony

Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ taught to His Discilpes and to us, and what we should remember every day of our lives, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our mind, and with all our soul, and with all our strength; to love our neighbours as ourselves, to do unto other people as we would have them do unto us and to be charitable and gentle to all.
There is no other commandment, our Lord Jesus Christ said, greater than these.

-- Charles Dickens "The Life of Our Lord"

For 85 years the manuscript was guarded as a precious family secret, and it was handed down from one relative to the next, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived.

"It was not for profit, not for publicity, but as a domestic and paternal privilege that Charles Dickens took up the most lucrative pen in the literature of his day and dedicated it freely to the brief and earnest manuscript printed for the first time in this unusal little book," wrote P.W. Wilson in The New York Times when The Life of Our Lord was first published in 1934.

I think I know how Dickens must have felt.

Testimony is a very personal thing.

:) so glad I have one!

Note: The opening quote is from the very last page of the little book, as one of 2 prayers Dickens wrote for his young children. I copied the comment from P.W. Wilson, from the Pulisher's Note, in the forward section at the beginning... I have not read the book completely through! To tell you the truth, I've been saving it for "Christmas"!