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Peace in War, an adventure in Afghanistan
From the Author's Preface: "The story itself is a fiction, intended to illustrate the power of faith to give peace even in the midst of tumult and war."
196 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1862
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A.L.O.E.
235 books38 followersCharlotte Maria Tucker, the English author, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E (a Lady of England), was 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 on the 2nd of December 1893.
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August 3, 2021
A beautifully compelling story -- I read the version form Lamplighter.
August 29, 2019
Awesome rare book. I enjoyed the rich Victorian language used by the author. It felt to me like reading Dickens, as far as the language, but the sentences were not as long. I appreciate the fact that the turns in the plot were resolved a lot quicker, yet in a clever way. I loved the life lessons I encountered along the story portrayed in vivid word pictures which make them so memorable and insightful. They kind of make you pause to read and savor them again. The plot wasn't over bearing on my emotions; I was impressed with how touching and memorable this story is even though is quite short. Just 196 pages. So refreshing to read some Christian literature from the 1800's. Here are some of my take aways:
-“I had never been aware how much my fancied pity had rested on the desire for approbation”
-“One of the lessons in life which we have to study longest and latest is that of patience. To the child is a hard one, and even to the gray-haired Christian often cons with difficulty.”
-“I seemed to see my thought acted before me the very moment after it had darted through my brain.”
-“There was war in the heart of Delaforce-the struggle between evil and good, which the soldier of the cross know so well.”
-“Edgar suffered, but did not complain; he was learning to glorify God in the fires; and never did the light of his example shine more brightly before men, than when earthly source of joy seemed darkened to him forever.”
-“Even his mother was chiefly dear to him because he watched over his comfort and ministered to his enjoyment. Peregrine had never been taught self-denial or consideration for others.”
-“The cross our Master bore for us, For Him we fain would bear; But mortal strength to weakness turns, And courage to despair; Then pity all our frailty, Lord; Our failing strength renew; And when Thy sorrows visits us, Oh send Thy patience too!” –Bishop Heber
-Must and will are stout words, young master,” was the cool reply of Ratter..”but there’s can’t and won’t to match them”. The mongoose and parrot are dead as door nails-It’s like enough that we’d keep such pets when there’s famine staring us all in the face!”
-He had been floating on sea for pleasure, thoughtless of anything beyond, and it was not till the tempest had arisen, and the waves of trouble dashed him to and fro, that the boy cared to hear of a bright shore beyond, and of a Pilot who could guide him to Heaven”
-“There came no reply-life was extinct; the lips that had been so ready for the jest, so often polluted by the oath, were silenced forever in death; he that had put off repentance till old age, was cut off in the flower of his youth”.
-“Columbus, when he stepped on the shore of a new found world, felt hardly more honest triumph than the once spoilt, selfish, indolent boy, at his victory over himself”.
-“What strange and sudden bend the river of human life sometimes appears to take! It has flowed on, perhaps tranquility for years, till we begin to think to-morrow must be even as to-day, and then we are startled to find ourselves suddenly in some perfectly different scene, of which scarcely a feature resembles that through which we have been passing!"
-“I had never been aware how much my fancied pity had rested on the desire for approbation”
-“One of the lessons in life which we have to study longest and latest is that of patience. To the child is a hard one, and even to the gray-haired Christian often cons with difficulty.”
-“I seemed to see my thought acted before me the very moment after it had darted through my brain.”
-“There was war in the heart of Delaforce-the struggle between evil and good, which the soldier of the cross know so well.”
-“Edgar suffered, but did not complain; he was learning to glorify God in the fires; and never did the light of his example shine more brightly before men, than when earthly source of joy seemed darkened to him forever.”
-“Even his mother was chiefly dear to him because he watched over his comfort and ministered to his enjoyment. Peregrine had never been taught self-denial or consideration for others.”
-“The cross our Master bore for us, For Him we fain would bear; But mortal strength to weakness turns, And courage to despair; Then pity all our frailty, Lord; Our failing strength renew; And when Thy sorrows visits us, Oh send Thy patience too!” –Bishop Heber
-Must and will are stout words, young master,” was the cool reply of Ratter..”but there’s can’t and won’t to match them”. The mongoose and parrot are dead as door nails-It’s like enough that we’d keep such pets when there’s famine staring us all in the face!”
-He had been floating on sea for pleasure, thoughtless of anything beyond, and it was not till the tempest had arisen, and the waves of trouble dashed him to and fro, that the boy cared to hear of a bright shore beyond, and of a Pilot who could guide him to Heaven”
-“There came no reply-life was extinct; the lips that had been so ready for the jest, so often polluted by the oath, were silenced forever in death; he that had put off repentance till old age, was cut off in the flower of his youth”.
-“Columbus, when he stepped on the shore of a new found world, felt hardly more honest triumph than the once spoilt, selfish, indolent boy, at his victory over himself”.
-“What strange and sudden bend the river of human life sometimes appears to take! It has flowed on, perhaps tranquility for years, till we begin to think to-morrow must be even as to-day, and then we are startled to find ourselves suddenly in some perfectly different scene, of which scarcely a feature resembles that through which we have been passing!"
October 27, 2022
Peace in War: An Adventure in Afghanistan is an interesting piece of historical fiction set in the First Anglo-Afghan War. This story weaves together compelling themes of justice and punishment, indulgence and discipline, peace and war, and eternal life and death. It deepened my interest in a part of Afghanistan's history that I have not studied much (at least not yet).
This is a great story but too well-choreographed for my tastes of fiction. Also, details of the story are unlikely such as a Afghan warrior allowing his daughter to spend time alone with an English boy. But can I expect more from a lady of England writing about Afghanistan? :)
While I appreciated the emphasis of love over war, I am disappointed that the author did not portray England's imperialism as evil as it was. England's imperialism in Afghanistan may have stopped Russian imperialism, but I believe it deepened a bitterness against Christianity that exists to this day.
More of the story's backdrop can be found on Wikipedia or in the following article: https://www.thoughtco.com/britains-di...
This is a great story but too well-choreographed for my tastes of fiction. Also, details of the story are unlikely such as a Afghan warrior allowing his daughter to spend time alone with an English boy. But can I expect more from a lady of England writing about Afghanistan? :)
While I appreciated the emphasis of love over war, I am disappointed that the author did not portray England's imperialism as evil as it was. England's imperialism in Afghanistan may have stopped Russian imperialism, but I believe it deepened a bitterness against Christianity that exists to this day.
More of the story's backdrop can be found on Wikipedia or in the following article: https://www.thoughtco.com/britains-di...
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