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REPENTANCE.
140 my dear child, you must ask God for Christ's sake, to forgive you and to wash away your sins in the blood of Christ." So Annie left her father's knee, went up stairs into the nursery, and kneeled down by her little bed, and did as her father had told her. REPENTANCE.. Here, you see, was a little girl that knew what sin was, and when she had committed it, felt very sorry, but this was not repentance, only a part of it. III. For the offender must go to God and acknowledge it; that is confession. The Bible says, "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the Digitized by Google
