The Great Acceptance: The Life Story of F. N. CharringtonThorne, Guy
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The Great Acceptance: The Life Story of F. N. Charrington
Thorne, Guy
Charrington, Fredk. N. (Frederick Nicholas), 1850-1936; Poor -- England -- London
Mr. Stead used this man's revelations in his "Maiden Tribute of Modern
Babylon," under the heading "Confessions of a Brothel-keeper." The
statement was to the effect that the man had formerly kept a noted
house of ill-fame near the Mile End Road, but was now endeavouring to
start life afresh as an honest man. Mr. Stead saw both him and his
wife, herself a notorious woman, whom he had married off the streets,
where she had earned her living since an early age.
He gathered that the white slave traffic, more particularly in regard
to very young girls, was in the most flourishing and lucrative
position. He exposed all the details, the working of this infernal
machinery, and all England was thrilled with horror. This man made it
a part of his daily business to go away into the country, and to decoy
girls from their parents for bad purposes. Among his patrons were many
wealthy men who paid him large sums--monsters of iniquity, who stood
at nothing to gratify their evil desires. The whole story is a
systematic confession of a depravity which can hardly be equalled, and
yet we see how, before the man was put into communication with Mr.
Stead and confessed, Frederick Charrington was able to rescue even
such an one as this, and bring him to Jesus!
I have quoted other testimonies elsewhere, but I think this is
probably the most striking instance upon record of the exercise of Mr.
Charrington's God-given power.
Never was a more striking amplification of the saying, "It is never
too late to mend." Never was a more extraordinary instance of the
power of Jesus to cleanse and purify, than in the case of this man.
He owes everything, his whole chance of Eternal Life, his veritable
salvation, to Frederick Charrington, through the working of the Holy
Spirit.
If the evangelist in all his long career had done nothing else than
this, even then, I beg leave to think, his career would have been a
marvellous one.
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