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 146 REPENTANCE. wrong, you must remember that you not only offend against your fellow-being, but against God himself. In telling a lie about the lost thimble, Hannah not only deceived her mother, but she tried to deceive God, and broke one of his laws, and the Bible says, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Will confess- ion save us here? Will minding for fu- ture make up for our sin? Oh, no, and here it is that Jesus Christ comes to our help as our Saviour and Almighty friend. He has borne our sins in his own body on the cross. By his stripes we are healed. In confessing our sins to God, Digitized by Google