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 142 REPENTANCE. pardon, then go to your closet and ask God also to forgive you. I remember reading of a little boy, not seven years old, who, in the absence of his parents, carelessly broke a valuable dish. When his father returned at even- ing, he told him what he had done, and said he was very sorry, and would not do so again; and asked his father to forgive him. This his father cheerfully did, and told the child he loved him, and did not mind the loss of the dish because he had told him, the truth about it. The next morning one of the family asked the little boy if he had told his father what he had Digitized by Google