to tears of penitence, and at last to confession and a complete breakdown before God. The sorrow accompanying this experience is generally spoken of as “conviction,” and some people are troubled because they have never passed through just such an experience as this; and they even question the reality of their conversion to God, although trusting Christ, because they have not known a period of poignant grief and anguish because of sin. Far be it from me to make light of such an experience. Yea, I
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