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Rh began to learn the nature of sin, and his relations to God and his holy law. As he looked back upon his feelings, he adds "In all my sorrows, I had not a right sorrow. My sorrow was, because I had sinned against man."

"The Sunday following," he proceeds to say, "just after I had carried my dinner to my cell, I put my dinner down, and went to prayer. I rose, and just as I rose from prayer, the chaplain was at the door. 'We are all guilty creatures,' he said to me, 'and we cannot be saved, except God, for Christ's sake, will save us. If we pray and go to God, we must go in the name of Jesus Christ. If we expect to be saved, we must be saved through the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ.' Then I picked up encouragement. "'The sins which you have committed,' he went on to say, 'are against your fellow-creatures, but they are much more against God.' Now, I never knew before that they were against God. When the chaplain left me I went to prayer again. I