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Do what thou wilt with me. Train
me as thou wilt. Punish me if it be necessary. Only make me good.'
Then is the man fit indeed to come to church, sins and all:- if he
carry his sins into church not to carry them out again safely and
carefully, as we are all too apt to do, but to cast them down at the
foot of Christ's cross, in the hope (and no man ever hoped that hope
in vain)--that he will be lightened of that burden, and leave some of
them at least behind him. Ay, no man, I say, ever hoped that in
vain. No man ever yet felt the burden of his sins really intolerable
and unbearable, but what the burden of his sins was taken off him
before all was over, and Christ's righteousness given to him instead.
Then a man is fit, not only to come to church, but to come to Holy
Communion on Christmas-day, and all days. For then and there he will
find put into words for him the very deepest sorrows and longings of
his heart. There he may say as heartily as he can (and the more
heartily the better), 'I acknowledge and bewail my manifold sins and
wickedness.


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