Out of the Depths: The Story of a Woman's Life

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W.A. Townsend, 1860 - Prostitutes - 370 pages

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Page 141 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 183 - God is our refuge and strength : a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed : and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea : Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled : though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 5 - She sat and wept, and with her untressed hair Still wiped the feet she was so blest to touch; And He wiped off the soiling of despair From her sweet soul, because she loved so much. I am a sinner, full of doubts and fears, Make me a humble thing of love and tears.
Page 125 - Now is she without, now in the streets, And lieth in wait at every corner...
Page 7 - To burn away, in mad waste, the divine aromas and plainly celestial elements from our existence ; to change our holy of holies into a place of riot ; to make the soul itself hard, impious, barren ! Surely a day is coming when it will be known again what virtue is in purity and continence of life ; how divine is the blush of young human cheeks ; how high, beneficent, sternly inexorable if forgotten...
Page 365 - Abraham's bosom." Stephen, when dying, " saw the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God," and in full expectation of going thither, immediately yielded up his soul, crying : " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Page 5 - ... past, extinct, and out of date ; Only the sin remained — the leprous state. She would be melted by the heat of love, By fires far fiercer than are blown to prove And purge the silver ore adulterate. She sat and wept, and with her untressed hair, Still wiped the feet she was so blessed to touch ; And he wiped off the soiling of despair From her sweet soul, because she loved so much.
Page 7 - ... impious, barren ! Surely a day is coming when it will be known again what virtue is in purity and "continence of life ; how divine is the blush of young human cheeks ; how high, beneficent, sternly inexorable if forgotten, is the duty laid, not on...
Page 182 - Feelings had changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence; Even God's providence Seeming estranged.
Page 366 - But dear mother, we have this certainty, that those ' who confess with their mouths the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in their hearts that God has raised Him from the dead, shall be saved...

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