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REPENTANCE.
114 mind, to be sorry for what you have done, and to do so no more. Yet there are very few grown up people and children who seem to know what true, real repent- ance means. No man, woman, or child can repent of themselves. Repentance is something which God gives to each one of us, so that no one repents or knows how to repent, but those who are taught by the Holy Spirit. Two persons may do the very same thing, but feel very differ- ently about it, and act very differently about it. They may both know it is very wrong, but only one of them, per- haps, may repent. So it was with Robert REPENTANOE. Digitized by Google
