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JACOB HODGES.
lief that a sense of pardon will afford
to tne wounded spirit, as it abandons
its fruitless efforts to find peace any¬
where but in the cross of Christ. When
in deep agony of soul he had been point¬
ed to the Saviour, his own happy expe¬
rience was to him abundant proof of
Christ's willingness and power to save
even the chief of sinners. The suffering
girl, he saw to be more in need of faith
in Christ, than of an increased sense of
sin and of her lost condition.
To bring her to the cross, he ktiew that
every false refuge must be torn away.
Instead of meeting their request to pray,
calling his young friend by name, he said
to her, in tones peculiarly tender and im¬
pressive, "Go and give your heart to
Christ, at once," and left the room. His
own experience had taught him the dan¬
ger of imparting ease to the stricken soul
oy Christiar. sympathy and prayer, where
there was no repentance and faith in
Cnrist. There was conscious rectitude in