Sarah Martin, the Prison Visitor, of Great Yarmouth: With Extracts from Her Writings & Prison JournalsReligious tract society, 1799 - 144 pages |
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... gaol , I felt a strong desire to obtain admission to the prisoners to read the Scriptures to them , for I thought much of their condition , and of their sin before God ; how they were shut out from the society whose rights they had vio ...
... gaol , I felt a strong desire to obtain admission to the prisoners to read the Scriptures to them , for I thought much of their condition , and of their sin before God ; how they were shut out from the society whose rights they had vio ...
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... gaol for having cruelly beaten her child , and having learned her name , went to the gaol , and asked permission to see her , which , on a second application , was allowed . When I told the woman , who was surprised at the sight of a ...
... gaol for having cruelly beaten her child , and having learned her name , went to the gaol , and asked permission to see her , which , on a second application , was allowed . When I told the woman , who was surprised at the sight of a ...
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... gaol about three years , a lady who felt much interest in my success , with the view of enabling me to allow myself more rest for my health's sake , kindly proposed the gift of an additional day at her own expense , which was to ...
... gaol about three years , a lady who felt much interest in my success , with the view of enabling me to allow myself more rest for my health's sake , kindly proposed the gift of an additional day at her own expense , which was to ...
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... gaol every day ; at which place a measure of em- ployment for female prisoners had been first pro- vided in 1823. One gentleman then presented me with 10s . , and another , in the same week , with 1. , for prison charity . It then ...
... gaol every day ; at which place a measure of em- ployment for female prisoners had been first pro- vided in 1823. One gentleman then presented me with 10s . , and another , in the same week , with 1. , for prison charity . It then ...
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... gaol , I have called myself " an ob- server , " and I seemed in the happy presence of God , as an insect basking in the sunbeams , in the light of peace , hope , and joy , for I have been with my directory , the Bible , gathering from ...
... gaol , I have called myself " an ob- server , " and I seemed in the happy presence of God , as an insect basking in the sunbeams , in the light of peace , hope , and joy , for I have been with my directory , the Bible , gathering from ...
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Popular passages
Page 106 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine ; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Page 96 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 98 - And inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...
Page 78 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Page 43 - God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have life everlasting.
Page 86 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 79 - As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Page 96 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 77 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 78 - Thou shalt also decree a thing, And it shall be established unto thee : And the light shall shine upon thy ways.