An Emissary of tlic New Faith.
accompanying, however, his missionary work with all kinds of secular occupation carried out with the energy and shrewdness of an excellent man of business, and full of the adventure which was congenial to his nature, n the course of this wandering yet always brilliant career, it was his rare and beautiful fortune to mee^with a lady of whom it is difficult to speak in terms that will not seem exaggerated to those who had not the good fortune to know her: a creature all charm, all genius, all brightness —a delicate enthusiast to whom his message of self-devotion and renunciation was as the secret of her being suddenly revealed in the midst of the uusatisfactoriness of life. The bond of marriage between these two remarkable persons involved little of what is ordinarily supposed to make the happiness of life. They were both dedicated to the mysterious work of their prophet, and long separations and distant travels fell to the lot of each. What the circumstances were, or whether it was a light of common sense in these disciples which turned them against the spiritual autocracy or Mr Harris, it is difficult to tell. However that may be, they emancipated themselves "om his sway; but they did not abandon
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Otago Witness, Issue 1915, 3 August 1888, Page 31
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214An Emissary of tlic New Faith. Otago Witness, Issue 1915, 3 August 1888, Page 31
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