Woman and Her Accusers: A Plea for the Midnight Mission, Delivered in Several of the Churches of New York and Brooklyn (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Thus, too, adopting the distinctions founded on custom and fashion, winking at the notions of honor which banish the adulteress, but not the adulterer, from the social pale; easily forgiving the man but damning the woman for that which, in the essence of its guilt, in the all-equal Eye, is the same. Not so, He whom we call our Exemplar unfaltering before sinners in high estate apply ing the same truth in the same terms, to great and small alike; criminating, as we have seen, learned and reverend criminators, and befriend ing the abject, dishonored criminal. There we have the judgment of Jesus Christ, reversing the judgment of the world, which casts the stone of infamy at the ruined, and leaves the author of her ruin unharmed. You are well aware how it is. You have all known some. Unfortunate irretrievably undone, while her undoer has fared as well as ever. I have never forgotten the pale emaciated form of a young woman, a distant connexion of my own, whom in the beginning of my ministry, I visited in her lonely chamber, to which she was doomed in perpetual and almost solitary confinement, for a solitary trans.

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Some three years ago, there came one morn ing to St. Luke's Hospital a young girl asking to see her mother, who had been a patient there. On being told that she had died sev eral weeks before, the poor child, not more than seventeen, - was overcome with.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.