Calling on his old schoolfellow, the narrator learns from the landlady that Percival will never walk again and has perhaps months to live. In Percival’s room the two talk their way through a gallery of pictures, many of them scenes from the life of Christ, each drawing out a lesson on faith, suffering and friendship. The frontispiece shows a Persian, an Afghan and an old Sikh hearing the Gospel.
A short devotional story by the Victorian writer who spent her last years as a missionary in the Punjab. Download the free EPUB.