There must be a present conscious enjoyable pardon of sin, else there would be no joy in the world for thoughtful minds. I always feel a suspicion of those converts who get up and glibly boast that once they were drunkards, thieves, blasphemers, and so forth. Brother, if you do tell the story of your sin, blush scarlet to think it should be true. Oh happy man, to know no scepticism, but heroically to believe! There are many ungodly people still in the world who are not happy in the condition in which
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