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PAGE PART I
LIFE IN ENGLAND
THE STORY OF HER FATHER 3
CHILDHOOD AND GIRLHOOD 13
EARLY WRITINGS 27
A 'FARCE' OF GIRLISH DAYS 39
HOME LIFE 62
GRAVITY AND FUN 71
THE FIRST GREAT SORROW, AND THE FIRST BOOK 83
CRIMEA, AND THE INDIAN MUTINY 100
LIFE'S EARLY AFTERNOON 112
A HEAVY SHADOW 126
GIVING COMFORT TO OTHERS 137
THE OLD HOME BROKEN UP 146
VARIOUS CHARACTERISTICS 159
AN UNEXPECTED RESOLVE 173
BESIDE NIAGARA 184
PART II
LIFE IN INDIA
FIRST ARRIVAL IN INDIA 197
A HOME IN AMRITSAR 209
CURIOUS WAYS 224
A PALACE FOR A HOME 239
DISAPPOINTMENTS AND DELAYS 253
A BROWN AND WHITE 'HAPPY FAMILY' 267
PERSECUTIONS 282
EARLY CHRISTIAN DAYS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 299
THE CHURCH AT BATALA 318
LOYAL AND TRUE 331
CLOUDS AFTER SUNSHINE 344
THE FIRST STONE OF BATALA CHURCH 359
SOME OF A. L. O. E.'s POSSESSIONS 374
ON THE RIVER'S BRINK 395
IN HARNESS ONCE MORE 410
A VISIT FROM BISHOP FRENCH 427
THE DAILY ROUND 445
IN OLD AGE 461
LIGHT AT EVENTIDE 475
THE LAST GREAT SORROW 491
THE HOME-GOING 503
LIST OF PRINCIPAL BOOKS BY A. L. O. E. 515
LIST OF SOME SMALL BOOKLETS BY A. L. O. E. 519
PART I
LIFE IN ENGLAND
'Constant discipline in unnoticed ways, and the hidden spirit's silent unselfishness, becoming the hidden habit of the life, give to it its true saintly beauty, and this is the result of care and lowly love in little things. Perfection is attained most readily by this constancy of religious faithfulness in all minor details of life, in the lines of duty which fill up what remains to complete the likeness to our LORD, consecrating the daily efforts of self-forgetting love.'--T. T. CARTER.
A.D. 1771-1835
THE STORY OF HER FATHER
She was the sixth child and third daughter of Henry St. George Tucker, a prominent Bengal Civilian, and, later on, Chairman of the East India Company. All her five brothers went to India, and all five were there in the dark days of the Mutiny. Thus by birth she had a close connection with that great eastern branch of the British Empire, to which her last eighteen years were entirely devoted. People in general go out early, and retire to England for rest in old age. Miss Tucker spent fifty-four active years in England, and then yielded her remaining powers to the cause of our fellow-subjects in Hindustan.
It seems desirable that a slight sketch of her father's earlier life should precede the story of hers.
Henry St. George Tucker came into this world on the 15th of February 1771. He was born in the Bermudas, on the Isle St. George, whence his name, and was the eldest of ten children. An interesting reference to this event is found in a letter of Charlotte Tucker's, written February 15, 1890: 'As I went in my duli to villages this morning, I thought, "One hundred and nineteen years ago a precious Baby was born in a distant island"; and I thanked God for our beloved and honoured Father.'
The elder Mr. Tucker appears to have been a man of gentle temperament and liberal views; I do not mean 'Liberal' in the mere party sense, but liberal as opposed to 'illiberal.' Whatever his own opinions may have been, he did not endeavour to force them upon his children; he did not, in fact, petrify the children's little fancies by opposition into a lasting existence. It is amusing to read of the opposite tendencies among his boys, one taking the loyal side and another the republican side in the dawning struggle between England and her American Colonies. Long after, Henry St. George spoke of himself as having then been 'a bit of a rebel'; adding, 'But my republican zeal was very much cooled by the French Revolution; and if a spark of it had remained, our own most contemptible revolution of 1830 would have extinguished it, and have fixed me for life a determined Conservative.'
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