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penitence. Let me entreat you to ask it
humbly, on your knees, before you leave
this house, and in His name for whose
sake it is never denied.”

“One word more before I quit this sub-
ject, never to return to it. In the present —
instance the thoughtlessness of one of your
companions, and the unkindness of an-
other, have had the effect of rousing you
to a sense of your guilt, and of leading you
to repentance. God has thus been pleased
to bring good out of evil. But im your
future life, should you again fall into
sin, He may not, and, probably, will not,
vouchsafe you such visible means. of
awakening your conscience. Beware, then,
of yielding to petty temptations, of vio-
lating small duties, under the idea that
it signifies little whether you perform
them or not. Remember how far wrong