Visits to Female Prisoners at Home and AbroadMatilda Wrench Wertheim and Macintosh, 1852 - 324 pages |
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Visits to Female Prisoners at Home and Abroad Matilda Wrench,British Ladies' Society for Promoting Th No preview available - 2016 |
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afforded Association Asylum attention benevolent blessing Borough Compter Bridewell British Ladies cell Chaplain Christ Christian circumstances committed Committee conduct confined continued convicts crime Deaconesses dear desire destitute discipline Divine grace duty employment encouragement endeavour establishment evil evinced exertions expressed faith favourable feel felt female prisoners friends gaol girl give grace gratitude Greenock habits heart Holy hope imprisonment improvement inmates instances Institution interest Jesus Kaiserswerth kind labour ladies who visit leave letter liberated prisoners living Lord Matron means ment mercy Millbank Millbank Prison months Newgate outcasts Paramatta Patronage penitent Penitentiary persons Petersburgh placed pleasure poor women prayer Prison of St prison visiting promise received reformation Refuge religious instruction repentance Report Sarah Martin Saviour Scotland Scripture sent sentence servants Shelter sinners Society spirit suffering superintendence temptation thankful tickets of leave tion trust Turin uncon visiting the prison visitors words
Popular passages
Page 223 - And let us not be weary in well-doing ; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Page 240 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die?
Page 143 - He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Page 16 - Christ is represented as the way, the truth, and the life ; and as able and willing to save to the uttermost all who come to God through Him.
Page 51 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 6 - ... system of Newgate, empowered the ladies to punish the refractory by short confinement, undertook part of the expense of the matron, and loaded the ladies with thanks and benedictions.
Page 36 - ... but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, that the world is to be overcome, and the kingdom of righteousness and peace established.
Page 18 - Newgate was affectingly evinced by her making an effort to come there to see them as soon as she believed she had strength for the exertion. But it was found to be too much for her enfeebled frame ; and she rapidly sunk from that time, and died on the 10th of May. Her kind friend, in communicating the event, observes, " Her trust in the merits of her Saviour was firm, and appeared to increase with her bodily sufferings; and her views were clearer, and her sense of the great love of God in giving...
Page 116 - God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved ; " so he had now another error to oppose.
Page 141 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.