Articles liés à Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History
Synopsis
Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893) was an English author who wrote under the pseudonym A. L. O. E. (A Lady of England). She was born near Barnet, Middlesex, the daughter of Henry St George Tucker (1771-1851), a distinguished official of the British East India Company. From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity. In 1875 she left England for India to engage in missionary work, and died at Amritsar. Her works include: The Rambles of a Rat (1854), Wings and Stings; or, Lessons From Insect Life (1855), The Young Pilgrim: A Tale Illustrative of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1857), The Mine; or, Darkness and Light (1858), Idols in the Heart (1859), The Lost Jewel (1860), Parliament in the Play- Room (1861), The Light in the Robber's Cave (1862), The Crown of Success; or, Four Heads to Furnish (1863), Stories for the Young (1864), Ned Franks; or, The Christian's Panoply (1865) and Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History (1869).
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FAITHFUL TO THE DEATH. The sun was setting gloriously over the hills which encompass Jerusalem, pouring its streams of golden light on the valleys clothed with the vine, pomegranate, and olive, sparkling on the brook Kedron, casting a rich glow on flat-roofed dwellings, parapets, and walls, and throwing into bold relief from the crimson sky the pinnacles of the Temple, which, at the period of which I write, crowned the height of Mount Zion. Not the gorgeous Temple which Solomon had raised, that had long ago been given to the flames, nor yet the Temple as adorned by King Herod: the building before us stands in its simple majesty as erected by the Hebrews after their return from Babylon under the leadership of Zerubbabel and Jeshua. Not the might of the powerful, nor the gold of the wealthy, but the earnest zeal of a people down-trodden and oppressed had built that Temple; and its highest adornment was the promise which Haggai's inspired lips had uttered: _The Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts_ (Hag. ii. 7). _The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former_ (Hag. ii. 9).
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