The Christian Remembrancer Vol 17 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 17: A Quarterly Review; January June 'The Church and her female Penitents.' - No one, we suppose, could even glance at these few words, which we have purposely tied together, without feeling how far the realities they represent have been separated from each other - how little the Church has even attempted to deal with her female penitents - how coldly she has turned away from her backsliding daughters, as though they had fallen into an unpardonable sin - how scant a measure of long-suffering and pity she has meted out to that hopeless multitude of wandering souls whom she once fed with her own milk - how many of her children she has suffered to sink into the burning flood, while she stood aloof in strange hard-heartedness, or not less cruel bashfulness. It is best at once plainly to speak of this neglect; it is no time to be mincing words. Our very love, both of the Church and of the souls once new-born in our spiritual home, and now dying as it were before our very doors, constrains us to free our minds, and to show what portion of the high mission of the Church we have hitherto been unwilling to fulfil. 'To seek and to save that which is lost, ' after the example of Him who 'receiveth sinners, ' is one of those plain duties of the Christian Church, no mean part of her spiritual vocation in the world, which must not be partially carried out; that is, she must not for some sins, or for one sex, preach the doctrine of repentance, and be a recipient of penitents; while to sins of no darker dye, or to sinners of the weaker sex, no door is opened, no mercy shown. Neglected duties, it must be remembered, running through many years, bring in time their proportionate course of chastisement and woe; and unless the Church takes her post, as the voice of one crying in the wilderness to the lost sheep in strains of impartial entreaty, shall we not - must we not, - expect to suffer? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.