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Updated: July 11, 2025
My Second is, A word of caution. Take heed of over-looking, or of shutting your eyes upon your own guilt: 'He that covereth his sins, shall not prosper. It is incident to some men, when they find repentance is far from them, to shut their eyes upon their own guilt, and to please themselves with such notions of deliverance from present troubles, as will stand with that course of sin which is got into their families, persons, and professions, and with a state of impenitence: But I advise you to take heed of this.
'But impenitence, if you like, not backsliding. I never made any profession. After all, however, their opinions don't seem to hurt them I mean my mother and sister. 'They must hurt them if only by hindering their growth. In time, of course, the angels of the heart will expel the demons of the brain; but it is a pity the process should be retarded by your behaviour.
The theory, he thought, was so good that there must be something wrong with it. His work brought him into daily contact with the natives, and, so far as he could judge, Mektoub was only one aspect of their general way of looking at things. It was bound up, for instance, with that idea of impenitence.
Although no mention is made of his repentance, the heart of the world will not accept his final impenitence; and we infer from the book of Ecclesiastes, written when all his delusions were dispelled—that sad and bitter and cynical composition,—that he was at least finally persuaded that the fear of the Lord constitutes the beginning and the end of all wisdom in this probationary state.
Let us go together, my brother. My mother's dream may yet be realized. Who knows but our weak, filial hands, may lift our unhappy father from the black abyss of sin and impenitence, Almighty God assisting us?
This man died, it is said, in final impenitence, as do, unfortunately, many noble geniuses, whom God may forgive. The life of this man, great as he was, was marred by many meannesses, to use the expression employed by his enemies, who were anxious to diminish his glory, but which it would be more proper to call apparent contradictions.
"If I had not come and spoken unto them," saith Christ, "they had not had sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin," for their sin of persevering in impenitence; Job xv. 22. But what did he speak to them? Why, even that which I have told you; to wit, That he has in special a delight in saving the biggest sinners.
"But, father," said Frances, a prey to cruel doubt and embarrassment, "it is to my husband that these children were entrusted and to dispose of them without his consent would be " "Can you instruct these children at your house yes or no?" interrupted the voice. "No, father, I cannot." "Are they exposed to fall into a state of final impenitence by remaining with you yes or no?"
But bring to bear upon a man's heart the thought of the infinite and perfect love of God, and that is the solvent of all his obstinate impenitence, and melts him to cry, 'I have sinned. And along with that element there is the other, the plain striking away of all disguises from the ugly fact of the sin.
The hard, defiant tone of his speech effectually dissipated the momentary sympathy felt for him by his audience. The judge sternly cut him short, and said a few solemn words on the heinousness of his offence and the impenitence which he had evinced. Then came the tragic conclusion of the scene.
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