The Black Reality of Penitence

Clergyman: I have left in bitterness and agony of heart at the contrast between what I seem and what I am. And Satan laughs at it. You wrong yourself in this, said Hester gently. Your sin is left behind you in days long past. Your present life is not less holy and very truth than it seems in people's eyes. Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works? No, Hester, no! replied the clergyman. There is no substance in it. It is cold and dead, and can do nothing for me. Of penance I have had enough. Else, I should long ago have thrown off these

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