Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — The Elements of Repentance. [ARTICLE]

The Elements of Repentance.

Repentance has two elements in it—sorrow for sin, and turning away from sin. The psalmist put tt-right when he said: “I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies." Repentance is the* result of our looking into God’s face and seeing there the pain of our misdeeds. It is the feeling of sorrow that cornea when we look at the cross of Christ and see there what sin, our sin, has done. It is not so much the fueling of conviction that results from our thinking about our lost state, gnd the sad state of those who dl* without God and without hope, as 4,1 s the sorrow that our sin is so hatefql to God and so harmful to his righteous rule upon . the earth. It Is the state of mind of the child who feels sad at bis disobedience, not se orach because It fears punishment, as that be has caused pain to those who are dearer than life, and is determined not to cause his parents sorrow again. That la repentance.