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50 relief that a sense of pardon will afford to the wounded spirit, as it abandons its fruitless efforts to find peace anywhere but in the cross of Christ. When in deep agony of soul he had been pointed to the Saviour, his own happy experience was to him abundant proof of Christ's willingness and power to save even the chief of sinners. The suffering girl, he saw to be more in need of faith in Christ, than of an increased sense of sin and of her lost condition.

To bring her to the cross, he knew that every false refuge must be torn away. Instead of meeting their request to pray, calling his young friend by name, he said to her, in tones peculiarly tender and impressive, "Go and give your heart to Christ, at once," and left the room. His own experience had taught him the danger of imparting ease to the stricken soul by Christian, sympathy and prayer, where there was no repentance and faith in Christ. There was conscious rectitude in