This book, with its astonishing revelations of London's Underworld, was written under a deep sense of inner compulsion which brooked no denial, "As the reader turns its pages, living men will tell what Christ meant to them in this weird, dimly-lighted, grotesque existence amid unspeakable vileness, abject poverty and sin. it is a narrative of God's redeeming' grace to make the angels sing saints rejoice, for i shows Christ saving to the Of one it ig written that he was actually contemplating, climbing the steps of Hungerford Bridge, near Charing Cross, and terminating it all ina leap and x splash when a Volee spoke to him, Referring to this experience later he says:
"It was the first blissful moment of a life in which there have been many blissful moments since. At that moment, I made a full surrender of myself and all my weariness to Christ, and had the joy of knowing that I was, there and then, really child of God. Ever since, the Presence of Christ in times prayer blots out all the world, and makes His to shine in the heart; time passes on swift wings, and the ecstasy of His Presence fills me."
This is what prayer can mean to a man who once only named the Name of Christ in blasphemy, and it came to mean that, not after all the struggle and paverly were over, and dietance might lend enchantment to the view, but while the struggle against abject want and the morass of the London few. people know, continued...
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