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really sorry for your sin, Alfred? This is the question, or are you only mortified that your guilt is discovered?" "Oh, yes, mamma, I am indeed sorry, and I have been trying to tell God about it; I asked him to forgive me, but I am afraid he will not. How dreadful it is to think that God will remember that I have told a lie. What would become of me if I were to die to-night?"
His kind mother took a chair by him, and told him if he really felt sorry, there was hope he might be forgiven; for although she said God is a God of truth, and has said, "whosoever loveth or mak-
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