Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, Principally Among the Dens of London |
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... children charity schools were scarcely known in one parish of the country in a hundred . To attempt conveying religious instruction to this class is a very painful task , followed in general by most unsatisfactory results , or rather by ...
... children charity schools were scarcely known in one parish of the country in a hundred . To attempt conveying religious instruction to this class is a very painful task , followed in general by most unsatisfactory results , or rather by ...
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... child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven . Death is always a solemn matter — a solemn reminder of sin , by which it entered into the world , and of the anger of God against sin - a solemn reminder of disease and ...
... child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven . Death is always a solemn matter — a solemn reminder of sin , by which it entered into the world , and of the anger of God against sin - a solemn reminder of disease and ...
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... child was christened it was very sickly , but that through being baptized it had improved in health amazingly . I might multiply such details , but space can only be made for one more , It is an extract from my journal : - “ I was ...
... child was christened it was very sickly , but that through being baptized it had improved in health amazingly . I might multiply such details , but space can only be made for one more , It is an extract from my journal : - “ I was ...
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... child also . On inquiring of the parents upon my district what prayers they have taught their children , I have in general found they were taught none whatever . Some have said , " Oh ! I teach them the Our Father , ' and ' Matthew ...
... child also . On inquiring of the parents upon my district what prayers they have taught their children , I have in general found they were taught none whatever . Some have said , " Oh ! I teach them the Our Father , ' and ' Matthew ...
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... child , and notwithstanding the most unpromising aspect of his case , from excessive ignorance , as described , it seems very doubtful whether those instructions did not result instru- mentally , in the salvation of his soul . Nor must ...
... child , and notwithstanding the most unpromising aspect of his case , from excessive ignorance , as described , it seems very doubtful whether those instructions did not result instru- mentally , in the salvation of his soul . Nor must ...
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