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- ID
- bx8
- Title
- 'The Electric Christ'
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 2
- Word Count
- 3500
- Publisher
- John O'London's Weekly
- Auckland Star
- Publication Year
- 1935
- Document Types
- Eads, Additions to
- Uncollected Antemortem
- Topics
- Old Age, Religion
A retired Reverend becomes enamored of a statue of Christ with an electric halo and purchases it for his home.
When it fails to work but is at last repaired, 'He had a single moment of beatific joy as he switched on the halo and saw it bathe the face of the Christ in the old effulgence but with a new and comforting tenderness. He felt very happy.'
In John O'London's Weekly, (September 28, 1935), the Auckland Star (November 28, 1935 p. 30) and the ebook edition of The Fabulous Mrs V (Bloomsbury, 2016).
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