Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1934 — Page 15

FEB. 22, 1034

The Times Announces First World-Wide Publication “The Life of Our Lord”

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written by Charles Dickens For His Own Children 1849 and Cept a Family Secret for 85 Years

< First Public Release in the World — Monday , March sth To safeguard against the loss of a single installment, order Times Guaranteed Home Delivery. Place your order now. First release in THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES. Begins Monday, March sth In The Indianapolis Times (A Seri pps-Ho ward Newspaper)

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NEVER INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION—Written with no eye to profit. Here is anew insight into the innermost thoughts of the world’s most widely read author, on a subject that ever remains news. Lovers of Dickens’ works, numbered by millions the world over, have never accurately known his own real feelings toward his own real children. But now after 85 years the discovery is made of a love that was so tender and devout it prompted him to write a manuscript to his children for their guidance through life, while they were all quite young, and this he titled “THE LIFE OF OUR LORD.” f Dickens himself believed in the power and the glory of the Nazarene. He wanted his own children to know The Lord as hallowed in his own innermost thoughts. Perhaps he deemed the teaching too important or sacred to entrust to others, but at anv event he laboriously, and painstakingly, lent his talents and his literary charm to Bethlehem and Gethsemane so even his youngest child could understand. Unnublished, but already famous, this manuscript mellowing with age, written with the tenderness, charm and love for humanity, marks it indelibly as one of the greatest works of the author of “The Christmas Carol.” “THE LIFE OF OUR LORD” will be printed under a distinctive title line; and these installments, cut out and assembled will be truly a first edition... a collector’s item... of Charles Dickens’ last published work. It in itself will be anew testament!

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