Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Penitentiary Work in the Church of England: Papers Prepared for Discussion at the Anniversary Meeting of the Church Penitentiary Association, on S. Mark's Day, 1873, at the Request of the Council
The Papers which form the present publication will be in teresting, it is hoped, to an increasing number of English Churchpeople. Of late years the deeper import of the work of our Divine Lord, as the Good Shepherd, Who came toseek and to save the lost, has, through the teaching of God the Holy Spirit, been pressed more closely than heretofore upon the heart and conscience of the English' Church. Those among her sons and daughters who have indeed listened to this heavenly Teacher, will not need any introduction to such a collection of Papers as the present. To every enlightened Christian conscience such documents will at once appeal, as the records of an honest attempt to deal wisely and courageously with what is perhaps the most difficult, as it is certainly among the most sacred duties of the Christian Church - the duty which she owes to perishing souls, and, it may be added, to imperilled society. But for others who may 'chance to meet with these Papers, a few words of explanation are perhaps necessary. The subject, at any rate, is one which will bear, and which indeed requires, importunate advocacy among those very many persons who only doinot support Penitentiary work from a deficient sense of its vital importance, or from their easy acquiescence in one or two fallacies which are in general circulation with respect to it.
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