Sarah Martin, the Prison Visitor, of Great Yarmouth: With Extracts from Her Writings & Prison JournalsReligious tract society, 1799 - 144 pages |
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... workhouse ; and by my gra- cious God I was soon indulged in this also . Having been told of a young woman afflicted with an abscess , I found admission by going to visit her , and at her death , obtained the desire of my heart , in the ...
... workhouse ; and by my gra- cious God I was soon indulged in this also . Having been told of a young woman afflicted with an abscess , I found admission by going to visit her , and at her death , obtained the desire of my heart , in the ...
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... work- house ; but whilst compelled with sincere regret to leave that department , another interesting one was ... workhouse - yard . The first schoolmaster was an old man , who did not live long . His successor was selected by the ...
... work- house ; but whilst compelled with sincere regret to leave that department , another interesting one was ... workhouse - yard . The first schoolmaster was an old man , who did not live long . His successor was selected by the ...
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... workhouse , for another able to teach reading could not be found . He , Edward Lenny , however , kindly entered into my views as respected the children ; and in a few years became a decided believer in the Son of God . He was a man of ...
... workhouse , for another able to teach reading could not be found . He , Edward Lenny , however , kindly entered into my views as respected the children ; and in a few years became a decided believer in the Son of God . He was a man of ...
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... wishes . May mercy meet him , that he may not be found at last rejecting a Saviour in the preference of sin ! The workhouse school children were formed into classes . All committed portions of the Holy Scriptures LIFE OF SARAH MARTIN . 19.
... wishes . May mercy meet him , that he may not be found at last rejecting a Saviour in the preference of sin ! The workhouse school children were formed into classes . All committed portions of the Holy Scriptures LIFE OF SARAH MARTIN . 19.
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... workhouse was built , and a schoolmaster and schoolmistress appointed , and then , being no longer wanted there , I entered on teaching at the gaol every day ; at which place a measure of em- ployment for female prisoners had been first ...
... workhouse was built , and a schoolmaster and schoolmistress appointed , and then , being no longer wanted there , I entered on teaching at the gaol every day ; at which place a measure of em- ployment for female prisoners had been first ...
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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.