It is the
grace of God that checked me in the full career of my wickedness.
It is the grace of God that has lighted my path ever since to
holier things. It is the grace of God that has changed me from
what I was to what I am. It is the grace of God that has brought
me here to ask pardon on my knees of the woman I have wronged.
The grace of God and of his son our Lord Jesus Christ, which came
upon me in a great light on that January afternoon even as it did
upon Saul of Tarsus. The grace of God has everything to do with
it."
"Mr. Mainwaring," said I, "such talk is either blasphemous or--"
He did not allow me to state the alternative, but caught up the
word in a great cry.
"Blasphemous! Why, man alive! for what are you taking me? Do
you think this is some unholy jest? Can't you see that I am in
deadly earnest? Come and see me where I live--" he caught me by
the arm, as if he would drag me away then and there, "among the
poor in Hoxton. You scarcely know where Hoxton is--I didn't when
I was a man of ease like yourself--that wilderness of grey
despair where the sun of the world scarcely shines, let alone the
Light of God.
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