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Show Knowledge of Holiness. While an unconsciousness of sin may not be proof of absolute freedom from Its in-being, yet It Is a blessed evidence of some gracious fact, when one who has long and oft been conscious of uprisings, up-risings, disturbances, inward friction and division in the ralm of the tempers, tem-pers, the affections, the desires of the will, Is no longer conscious of such facts, even under circumstances ol dreadful occasion and temptation, but Is, on the other hand, conscious of a" deep, all pervading peace, purity, patience pa-tience and a forgiving, tender spirit. We say the unconsciousness of sin and the consciousness of something very different from sin and from ourselves In times of trial and at all times certainly cer-tainly evidences, at least, the expulsive expul-sive power of a new affection. |