DEDICATION. FIRST, to every Christian man or woman, who has stood by the cold remains of relative or friend, and felt one doubt as to his acceptance with the Judge of all the earth; to such chiefly, with most earnest sympathy for them, and in hope that they may find some clue of consolation in these pages: next, to every soul that, by the prejudice of religious education, the torrent of surrounding opinions, or by misplaced confidence in the devices. and learned disquisitions of even good men, is prompted to dark and gloomy thoughts of the Son of Mary, to doubt his own right to go to Him for sympathy and cleansing; and, lastly, to those whose sins cry out upon them, and whose hearts are filled with the pains of fear and remorse; with a prayer for them that they may learn that it is the goodness of God that leads men to repentance, this little book is affectionately presented by the AUTHOR. |