They are vanity, and the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Jeremiah x, 3, 8, 15.
The Witch recalled an instance where a distinguished political leader married a sewing woman, and his bride was ostracized from society when it leaked out that she had labored for a livelihood. Had all these aristocrats as clean a record?
Am afraid one's hands would be somewhat soiled by too close investigation.
Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts. Luke xvi, 15.
For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Luke xii, 2.
For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. Ecclesiastes xii, 14.
The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not. Zephaniah iii, 5.
CHAPTER X.
One day when passing the jail our Witch was moved with an impulse to go inside. The warden allowed her to pass in. Her heart ached for these poor wretches whose faces from behind the bars looked so hopeless and unhappy, and whose blasphemous language chilled her. She longed for the time when:
Every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. II Timothy ii, 19.