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Updated: May 25, 2025
The grossest vice is not so thorough a barrier as self-satisfied self- righteousness. A thin slice of crystal will bar the entrance of air more effectually than many folds of stuff. IV. Faith in its practical effects. Rahab's story shows how living faith, like a living stream, will cut a channel for itself, and must needs flow out into the life.
The first floors all have balconies, and on these sit draped, barefooted women of Rahab's profession. The women of Lucknow are fairer and handsomer, and the men bolder and more stalwart, than those in Bengal, and it takes no great penetration to discern that Lucknow is still ruled by fear and not by love.
This ardent support of Dave, who saw not only the price which the squire had cawntracked to pay him, but a furtherance of his suit with little Katy, as rewards of his zeal, would have turned the balance at once in favor of Metropolisville, had it not been for a woman. Was there ever a war, since the days of the Greek hobby-horse, since the days of Rahab's basket indeed, in which a woman did not have some part? It is said that a woman should not vote, because she can not make war; but that is just what a woman can do; she can make war, and she can often decide it. There came into this contest between Metropolisville and its rival, not a Helen certainly, but a woman. Perritaut was named for an old French trader, who had made his fortune by selling goods to the Indians on its site, and who had taken him an Indian wife it helped trade to wed an Indian and reared a family of children who were dusky, and spoke both the Dakota and the French
So Rahab's faith led her, as ours, if real, will lead us, to break with old habits and associations contrary to itself. She ceased to be 'Rahab the harlot, she forsook 'her own people and her father's house. But her conquest of her old self was gradual. A lie was a strange kind of first-fruits of faith. Its true fruit takes time to flower and swell and come to ripeness and sweetness.
Urge these as a reason for trust. III. Faith in its relation to the previous life. It is a strange instance of blindness that attempts have been made to soften down the Bible's plain speaking about Rahab's character. In her story we have an anticipation of New Testament teaching. The 'woman that was a sinner. Mary Magdalene. 'Then drew near all the publicans and sinners for to hear Him.
It would be quite as fair to claim that God approved of Rahab's harlotry, in this case, as to claim that he approved of her lying. Rahab was a harlot and a liar, and she was ready to practice in both these lines in the service of the spies.
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