Mere legal pardon (and there is no other, for divine

Principle never pardons our sins or mistakes till they

are corrected) leaves the offender free to re-

peat the offence, if indeed, he has not already

suffered sufficiently from vice to make him turn from it

with loathing. Truth bestows no pardon upon error, but

wipes it out in the most effectual manner. Jesus suffered

for our sins, not to annul the divine sentence for an in-

dividual's sin, but because sin brings inevitable suffering.