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Updated: September 11, 2025
Deathbed repentances may be legal-tender for salvation in another world, but for this they are below par, and regeneration that is postponed until the man has no further capacity to sin is little better. For sin is only perverted power, and the man without capacity to sin neither has ability to do good isn't that so?
I involuntarily exclaimed, "Have you known many such cases?" "More than I dare to remember." "And as many more, perhaps, where the person died." "Yes, fully as many more." "Then did not the bitter failure of these death-bed repentances to bear the tests of time shake your confidence in their value under the tests of eternity?" "It did, it does," said the clergyman, with tears in his eyes.
But deathbed repentances, as Bunyan sensibly said, were seldom of more value than 'the howling of a dog. The broken leg was set again. The pain of body went, and with it the pain of mind.
But here on a sudden had all repentances, as it were, dashed themselves together into one grand whirlwind of repentance; and his past life was fallen wholly as into a state of reprobation. A great remorseful misery had come upon him.
Since that day I have often smiled to think how foolishly do the wisest men deport themselves when they first begin to love. Their little starts of passion, their petty angers and their sweet repentances all were unexplored by me, for Love to me was yet an unread book.
"Ah, if I only could!" cried Raoul; "but no, it is too late! Besides, can I tell how long my good resolutions will last? This is not the first time that I have condemned myself pitilessly. Stinging remorse for each new fault made me swear to lead a better life, to sin no more. What was the result of these periodical repentances? At the first temptation I forgot my remorse and good resolutions.
It is better, with all one's sins upon one's head, to deem oneself in the hands of Fate, than to think with our fierce passions and weak repentances; with our resolves so loud, so vain, so ludicrously, despicably weak and frail; with our dim, wavering, wretched conceits about virtue, and our irresistible propensity to wrong, that we are the workers of our future sorrow or happiness.
The young should be encouraged to record their feelings in them; their hopes and fears their anticipations and their regrets their joys and their sorrows their repentances and their resolutions. Such journals, with old and young, could not fail to advance the intellect, even if they should not improve the heart. IV. Music.
Singular young brother of Monsieur de Camors after all, certainly, more fortunate than he he belongs to the age, which, if it had great faults, had also great repentances.
But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity Fair exhibits in public, do not always pursue the performer into private life, and that the most dreary depression of spirits and dismal repentances sometimes overcome him. Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.
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