Author: Curate Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com ISBN: 9781230066318 Category : Languages : en Pages : 126
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...resentment, and to submit ultimately to the filthy probing which it suggests, and for which she is to prepare?" Overwhelmed with shame and grief she fled from the room, and in the privacy of her own apartment flung herself on her knees, and in an agony of prayer besought the Lord to save her poor sister from the foul tyranny of which she was now the victim. Rising from prayer somewhat calmed and comforted, she sat down to ponder over this new discovery, and to consider what was her duty under the circumstances. After due deliberation and asking guidance of the "Wonderful Counsellor," she determined boldly to communicate to her sister the fact that she had seen the book, and to remon strate with her affectionately, but strongly, against the degrading and enslaving course on which she was entering. p She knew that she had the powerful influence of Mr. Bayley against her, but it was the Lord's cause, and she would trust in His strength, not in her own. Determined to carry out her resolve at once, she asked Jane Hughes where Miss Rumford was, and learning that she was sitting alone in the breakfast parlour working some bookmarkers, with crosses and other emblematic devices, for Mr. Bayley, she quickly descended, opened the parlourdoor, and asked Florence if she might come in and sit with her for a short time, to which Florence consented. apter mini. THE CONFESSIONAL DISCUSSED. FLORENCE," she began, "I have come to acknowledge a fault which I have committed." Florence looked surprised. The intercourse of the sisters recently had been very limited and formal. Mary's manner was so much like that of days gone by when they were children together that Florence was touched, and old feelings revived. "What have you...
Author: Rene Kollar Publisher: James Clarke & Company ISBN: 0227903110 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 318
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This work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.