Project Gutenberg 2025-06-26 Public domain in the USA. 185 Giberne, Agnes 1845 1939 Charity's birthday text $aLondon :$bThe Religious Tract Society, $c1882. "Charity's birthday text by Agnes Giberne" is a Victorian-era children's moral tale with a Christian devotional theme. Centered on the virtue of charity—understood as patient, Christlike love—the story uses a family drama to teach perseverance, forgiveness, and kindness in the face of teasing and grief. The narrative follows gentle Charity Mitchel, who receives an illuminated text—“Charity suffereth long, and is kind”—on her tenth birthday, only to lose her father that evening. She and her younger brother Edwin move to their uncle and aunt in the country, where their cousins include the affectionate Lottie and two rough, teasing boys, George and Wilfred. Struggling with her temper as the boys goad Edwin and herself, Charity learns to pray for help and tries to “overcome evil with good.” During an outing the boys’ unkind prank leads to her fall and a painful, lingering injury, which brings them deep remorse. George apologizes, and Charity points him to the meaning behind her birthday text and to faith in Christ. Her steady patience and kindness win the boys over, soften the household, and bring peace to the family. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250603081610giberne 1882 GB Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Christian life -- Juvenile fiction Orphans -- Juvenile fiction Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Sunday school literature Birthdays -- Juvenile fiction Aunts -- Juvenile fiction Anger -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: British Literature 92258 2025-07-30T07:56:45.862500 text/html 67501 2025-06-27T19:15:39 text/html 1181090 2025-07-30T07:56:48.313507 application/epub+zip 1181591 2025-07-30T07:56:46.337549 application/epub+zip 94462 2025-07-30T07:56:46.084516 application/epub+zip 1224810 2025-07-30T07:56:50.085529 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1214975 2025-07-30T07:56:48.058532 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 80302 2025-07-30T07:56:45.513496 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 60593 2025-06-27T19:15:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15067 2025-07-30T07:56:50.250500 application/rdf+xml 31792 2025-07-30T07:56:46.159506 image/jpeg 4477 2025-07-30T07:56:46.123494 image/jpeg 1413779 2025-07-30T07:56:45.917555 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia