No man can by any means undo his sin. He may be able more or less to undo the effects of it, and will, if truly repentant, use every opportunity to do so. But the sin can no man undo. Even if the last vestige of bad consequence were removed, that would not undo the sin nor atone for it; nor would tears, nor fastings, nor convent cells, nor self-castigations, nor doing of penances, nor charities, nor any other work of ours. This is a thing only our Redeemer can attend to, and he only because he gave up his life for us upon the cross. It is he alone that blots out our sins by his blood that they may be remembered no more. We must turn that matter over into his hands and accept his word of assurance. A Romish teacher said that a true penitent never forgives himself. Nay, but a true believer carries his sins to the cross of Jesus and leaves them there, to remember only that God picked him up scarlet and crimson and has now made him whiter than snow. "The blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

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