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Updated: May 23, 2025
She had sat in the presence of the ungodly and looked upon the wine both when it was red and effervescent. At midnight she wrote this letter: "MR. BERIAH HOSKINS, Harmony, Vermont. "Dear Sir: Henceforth, consider me as dead to you forever. I have loved you too well to blight your career by bringing into it my guilty and sin-stained life.
And as I looked upon that face I shrank back dazed, and breathless, and blinded shrank back with a cry like the cry of one smitten of the lightning; for beneath the wide white brows there shone out eyes, before the awful purity of which my sin-stained soul seemed to scorch and to shrivel like a scroll in a furnace.
Hardened, sin-stained as he was, the father was himself visibly affected; but the tempest of wild, passionate grief that agitated the little girl, so soon to be left an orphan, was something remarkable in one of her years. She was evidently a child of the streets.
The song finished, one part of the crowd seemed to fade away, the others stayed and gathered about Jane as if only to touch her meant something better than their own sin-stained lives. She moved among them speaking gently to this one, earnestly to that one. Tenderly she smoothed the covers over the sick bodies, leaving a smile and word of cheer wherever she stopped.
"Please, don't cry, dear Mrs. Flanagan," she said timidly. "Nora will soon be like she once was; won't she, mother?" "Bless you, my precious," cried the poor old woman, laying her hand lovingly on the child's curly head, "you're a real comfort to me." "O mother," murmured a soft voice, "have patience with me, dearest; I am still your own Nora; only oh, so worn and sin-stained!"
Haunts abound where, in the pretended seclusion of a few yards' distance, rich adventurers riot with the beautiful battalions of the fallen angels. It were gross profanation to the baleful memories of Phryne, Aspasia, and Messalina to find, from all the sin-stained leaves of the world's past, prototypes of these bold, reckless man-eaters.
In the great towns beyond the hills, women were still starved and sweated, still enslaved and degraded. Man no doubt was still the stupid and vicious tyrant, the Man-Beast that Gertrude Marvell believed him. But here in this large English village, how the old primal relations stood out! sorrow-laden and sin-stained often, yet how touching, how worthy, in the main, of reverence and tenderness!
"You have the freedom of the camp yonder?" "I hardly know," she responded sadly. "God has placed in my poor hands, Monsieur, a portion of His work amid those benighted, sin-stained creatures there. Times come, as now, when the wild wolf breaks loose, and my life hardly is safe among them.
You remember the blessing of the pure in heart, that they shall see God? There would be little hope in that promise for the soul that knew itself to be impure, if it were not for the other side of it that the vision of God, which is the most terrible of all things, can give purity to the most sin-stained soul.
For love of me, as for the love of your own soul, pray. Leave the God of Moses until your soul's stomach can take the strong meat of him for he is strong meat and come simply to Jesus, the meek and gentle the Redeemer, who died that his blood might cleanse our sin-stained souls.
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