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    OlST^DISTIilCT VISITOBS. 325

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    tastes of the poor , and get them , to discuss with her what they have time been much reading good , leaving miht * them be done free Many as to tracts their we opinions are afraid at the like sam the e

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    healing hearted up If the Christ wounds himself , and sp came eaking to call words sinners of , comfort to repentance to the broken surely

    -. , disappoints it is not for us us to what pass by does them it matter on the ? other We side do . it not And for if the our favor mission of

    manbut of Himwho " when he was reviled , reviled not again , " who , , towards the

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    Olst^Distiilct Visitobs. 325

    _OlST _^ DISTIilCT VISITOBS . 325

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/37/