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THE GREAT ACCEPTANCE
[Illustration: (Hand written--Yours faithfully
Fredk. N. Charrington)
_From a pencil drawing by Edward Clifford_] [_Frontispiece_]
THE
GREAT ACCEPTANCE
THE LIFE STORY OF
F. N. CHARRINGTON
BY
GUY THORNE
AUTHOR OF
"WHEN IT WAS DARK," "THE DRUNKARD," ETC.
_WITH THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS_
SIXTH EDITION
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
_Printed in 1913_
DEDICATION
TO THE POOR OF THE EAST END
AMONG WHOM MR. CHARRINGTON HAS
LABOURED SO LONG
_Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face
of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours._
_When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and
shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all
that they looked for._
_And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say
within themselves, This was he whom we had sometimes in derision, and
a proverb of reproach:_
_We fools counted his life madness, and his end to be without honour:_
_How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among
the saints!_--Wisdom of Solomon.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
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