Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.

SUNDAY

SUNSHINE.

EDITED BY

CATHARINE SHAW.

AUTHOR OF

"Something for Sunday," "Mother-Meg," "Dickie's Secret," etc.

LONDON
JOHN F. SHAW AND CO.
48, PATERNOSTER ROW

CONTENTS.

A Black Sheep.
A Charge.
A Dark Night.
A Decision.
A Favour.
A Lightened Load.
I.
II.—Changed.
An Uninvited Guest.
At Bethany.
A Telegram.
A Wet Day.
Devotion.
God's Messages—Lettice's Lark.
Gossip.
Grand-dad's Advice.
"Hail, King of the Jews!"
Her Sailor Boy.
Hindered.
Hira's Quest.
I.—A Strange Visit.
II.—Hira's Friend.
III.—A Startling Question.
IV.—A Sad Story.
V.—Alone in the Storm.
VI.—Father and Daughter.
VII.—Sukhiya's Scheme.
VIII.—The Old, Old Story.
IX.—"His Great Love."
X.—Rest.
XI.—"Ask, and It Shall Be Given You."
XII.—"He Careth for You."
XIII.—Hira's Quest Ended.
XIV.—Believing and Confessing.
XV.—Hunger and Thirst.
XVI.—Home at Last.
XVII.—Another Prodigal Son.
XVIII.—The Father's House.
XIX.—Sukhiya's Fall.
XX.—Behári Lál.
XXI.—Brought Home.
XXII.—"She Only Touched The Hem of His Garment."
"If Thou Hadst Known!"
In the Prison.
"I Love Him Still."
Jesus Looked round about upon all Things.
Jim.
Looking for Father's Boat.
Making the Best of a Bad Job.
"Master, Rebuke Thy Disciples."
Memories.
"Me Too."
Nellie's Card.
Nora's Message.
On the Moors.
Our Jack-a-Napes.
I.
II.
III.
Out of the Tombs.
"Peter Followed Afar Off."
Pollie's New Mistress.
Pulling.
"Punchinello."
Royalty and Loyalty.
Scripture Clock.
Smoothed Out.
So Much the More!
Sunday Lessons.
Sunset for Jamie.
The Alms-house Inmates.
The Call of Peter.
The First Day.
The Hill above Nazareth.
The New Governess.
The Ringleaders.
The Stay of the Family.
To-day.
Turned Out.
Twenty Times.
Under the Lych Gate.
"What Doest thou here, Elijah?"
When?
"Will I?"

A blind beggar.
A "boat from the French shore picked him up."
"'Ain't you sold any more than that?'"
"All day she sat quiet and waited."
"A soft hand rested on his shoulder."
"Beatrice fidgeted her hoop backwards and forwards."
Big Bob and Little Bob were carrying Liz in a net between them.
Bring your work, and sit under the trees.
Dick bringing home the wood.
"Eileen stood and waited under the lych gate."
Elijah in the wilderness.
"Geraldine worked in a corner apart."
"Gladys is the little teacher."
"'Go out and stay by the church gate.'"
"Hail, King of the Jews!"
"He only moved his position nearer to the fire."
Her late Majesty distributing gifts to soldiers' children.
"Hira would steal away to this quiet corner."
His mother clasped him in her arms.
"'I don't believe I shall ever learn it!'"
"I never saw such a sweet baby," said Grannie.
"Ivan drew out his little Bible."
"'I will go with them myself,' said Geraldine."
Jesus and the angry Jews.
Jesus and the blind man.
Jesus and the man possessed with a devil.
Jesus at Bethany.
Jesus at Simon's house.
Jesus entering the Temple.
Jesus going up to Jerusalem.
Jesus viewing Jerusalem.
"Jim drew the child nearer and admired her fish."
Joseph interpreting dreams.
Launching the boat.
"Mary went out into the November mist."
Memories.
Milly getting her ticket.
"Minette took Hans by the hand."
Nellie's card.
"'Now I'll put him on his hat.'"
"'Oh, has it!' asked Tommy, looking up surprised."
Peace I leave with you.
Peter in the court of the palace.
"Pollie hardly saw what flowers she gathered."
Pulling.
"Rollo stood looking on."
Scripture clock.
"She lay back exhausted."
"She lay in her arms for her 'cuddle.'"
"She's in the passage, kneeling by the window."
"She stooped and tied a ribbon round her dog."
"She tossed the corn to the fowls."
"'Sleep, lambkin, sleep,' she sang softly."
"Taking the lamp she started back to the child."
The alms-house inmates.
The call of Peter.
"'The "Doris" is to proceed to the Cape, Nellie.'"
The fishing-boat.
"The foam broke up white at the water's edge."
The new governess.
Tommy's grandfather.
"Two laughing girls sat down to a cup of chocolate."
"'What "doesn't" he say?' she responded lightly."
"'What do you want?' Sandy growled."
When she got out into the fields better thoughts came.
"'Why, see, child, it's all coming undone!'"
"'Why, you are reading a story book!'"
"'Yes; and it is all my fault,' sobbed the girl."

SUNDAY SUNSHINE

Edited by CATHARINE SHAW

HIRA'S QUEST.

BY LOUISE MARSTON.