Repentance is neither base nor bitter. It is good rising up out of evil. It is the resurrection of your thoughts out of graves of lust. Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. Darkness drops from the face and silver light dawns upon it. Do not live, day by day, trying to repent, but fearing the struggle and the suffering. Deferred repentance, in generous natures ,is a greatr pain than would be the sorrow qf real repentance. Manly regret for wrong•never weakens, but i always strengthens the heart. As some plants of the bitterest root have the j whitest and sweetest blossoms, so the i bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance, which, indeed, is only the ‘ soul blossoming back to its better ! nature.—Henry Ward Beecher.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 11
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