TERAUCHI Takashi (Mr.)：　An independent scholar or a 'plain Michael Faraday' in Japan, member of Japan's Dickens Fellowship, and the president of Ouzansha Publishing.

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Submitted to the online forum Victoria on 17 July 2020.

　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Charles Dickens was converted, I believe.

　　I am a Buddhist, from its position I have one question for Anglicans. I wonder if some Anglican told a big lie to the public, he could, without conversion, encourage his children to give prayer to God every morning and evening and at the same time read the New Testament?
　　It will be a common acceptance that Dickens was guilty:　he, 45 years old, made Ellen Ternan, 18 years old, a mistress secretly in 1857, soon their relationship began to be whispered among people, so he denied "all the lately whispered rumours" through The Times and Household Words in 1858: he told a big lie.
　Dickens was a serious Christian who never missed morning and evening prayers including “I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.”　So I would like to insist that he was converted.

　　The description shown below, I think, might be regarded as the proof of Dickens's conversion.

Dickens’s fifth son Sydney passed the examination as a Naval Cadet on 14 September 1860, and Dickens took ‘the Admiral’ down to Portsmouth to make him join HMS Britannia on September 24 (Letters 9: 315-16, 318, 320). It would be this time that Dickens urged him to keep the practice of saying a prayer night and morning and to follow the teachings of the New Testament not to go wrong. The proof can we get from his letter of ?28 May 1865 to his fourth son Alfred, in which he wrote ‘in parting from you, as in parting from Sydney & Frank I tell you that if you humbly try to guide yourself by the beautiful new testament, you can never go wrong: also that I hope you will never omit under any circumstances to say a prayer by yourself night & morning’ (Letters 11: 48; Letters 12: 734). The same directions did he give to his seventh son Edward and his sixth son Henry both in 1868, too
(Letters 12: 188, 202). It is quite natural that we should not be able to detect the directions to his second son Walter Dickens, because he had left for India one month before the final performance of The Frozen Deep, namely on July 20, 1857.

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