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Show SET THEIR MINDS AT EASE. Cases Are Numerous Where Wrongdoers, Wrong-doers, After Many Years, Make Restitution to Show Regret. The sting of conscience is a'-wnys a'-wnys dulled by the lapse of time. There is no more bitter penalty than, to spend one's life with an accusing conscience, no more unpleasant memory mem-ory than of a wrong done. That is particularly true where it is in the power of the Individual to repair t he-wrong, he-wrong, to show by restitution that regret re-gret is real. Conscience money Is frequently received re-ceived by Individuals and corporations. There may be times when payments come from individuals who are mentally mental-ly atllieted, but In many cases where payments could be traced buck they were made to ease an accusing conscience, con-science, to right a wrong of years ago. There are oilier individuals who do not use mystery, but who come out in j (he open and pay debts long since outlawed, out-lawed, many times forgotten. There-are There-are stories of these belated payments frequently printed, the last one ooniinsr from North Dakota, where a man paid, a debt nearly thirty years old. He not only paid the debt, hut he paid interest to date and cleaned the transaction up as a man ought to do. Ohio State Journal. |