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Title: Out of the Deep
Words for the Sorrowful

Author: Charles Kingsley

Editor: Fanny E. Kingsley

Release Date: January 8, 2007 [eBook #20312]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUT OF THE DEEP***

Transcribed from the 1906 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

Out of the Deep:
WORDS FOR THE SORROWFUL.

_FROM THE WRITINGS OF_
CHARLES KINGSLEY.

"Out of the deep have I cried unto Thee, O God."

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1906
_All rights reserved_

Printed by Robert MacLehose & Co. Ltd.
University Press, Glasgow.

First Edition 1880.
Reprinted 1883, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1896, 1900, 1906

THIS LITTLE BOOK IS
Dedicated
TO ALL TROUBLED SOULS
AND
TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF ONE
WHO PASSED THROUGH THE DEEP
INTO ETERNAL REST.

F. E. K

_June_ 12,1880.

I. OUT OF THE DEEP OF SUFFERING AND SORROW.

Save me, O God, for the waters are come in even unto my soul: I am
come into deep waters; so that the floods run over me.--Ps. lxix. 1,
2.

I am brought into so great trouble and misery: that I go mourning all
the day long.--Ps. xxxviii. 6.

The sorrows of my heart are enlarged: Oh! bring Thou me out of my
distress.--Ps. xxv. 17.

The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping: the Lord will receive my
prayer.--Ps. vi. 8.

In the multitude of the sorrows which I had in my heart, Thy comforts
have refreshed my soul.--Ps. xciv. 17.

Each heart knows its own bitterness; each soul has its own sorrow; each
man's life has its dark days of storm and tempest, when all his joys seem
blown away by some sudden blast of ill-fortune, and the desire of his
eyes is taken from him, and all his hopes and plans, all which he
intended to do or to enjoy, are hid with blinding mist, so that he cannot
see his way before him, and knows not whither to go, or whither to flee
for help; when faith in God seems broken up for the moment, when he feels
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