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he knew that she was very poor. With his half-crown in his hand, he knocked at the door; but she did not answer. He concluded she was not at home, and went his way. A little after he met her at the church, and told her that he had remembered her need: “I called at your house, and knocked several times, and I suppose you were not at home, for I had no answer." "At what hour did you call, sir?" "It was about noon." "Oh dear,” she said. "I heard you, sir, and I am so sorry 1 did not answer; but I thought it was the man calling for the rent.” Many a poor woman knows what this meant. Now, it is my desire to be heard, and therefore 1 want to say that 1 am not calling for the rent; indeed, it is not the object of this book to ask anything of you, but to tell you that salvation is All Of Grace,which means free, gratis, for nothing.
Oftentimes, when we are anxious to win attention, our hearer thinks, "Ah! now I am going to be told my duty. It is the man calling for that which is due to God, and I am sure I have nothing wherewith to pay. 1 will not be at home." No, this book does not
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