not removed. Their sympathies, with all the sources of consolation presented to her, afforded no relief to her troubled mind, but rather aggravated her sense of guilt. It was at length proposed that Jacob should be requested to converse and pray with her. He came into the room with emotions of deep interest for his young friend. There was no one for whose salvation he more earnestly prayed.
Jacob stood before the weeping girl. He knew from his own bitter experience, what she was now suffering; for, though in circumstances vastly different, the human heart is still the same, and the necessity for atoning blood is as absolute for the religiously educated and moral daughter of Christian parents, as for the vilest of convicts. The heart that never has loved God supremely, and that has virtually rejected the Saviour, is, in every instance, a heart at enmity with God, and hopeless in guilt, without the cleansing blood of Christ. Jacob had himself felt the anguish of sin, and he knew the
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