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Hope for One With a Hardened Conscience—Now you have no
hope; you are without God; and yet Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. Will
you now cry to God with a broken, repentant heart, “Jesus of Nazareth,
have mercy on me”? I press this matter upon your conscience. May
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God urge it upon your soul with arguments of mighty power. Oh, that
the blind might see the solemnity of eternal judgment, and deepen the
appeal I make to you at this time. I am writing in the early morning
hours, while all in the house are locked in slumber. Be not determined
to be lost. You cannot comprehend what a terrible thing it is to be lost.
Your conscience has become hardened in sin and transgression and
unbelief; but you may, if you will, fall on the Rock Christ Jesus and
be broken before it is utterly too late, crying, “Jesus of Nazareth, have
mercy on me.” If you do this, God will not leave you to perish....
Whatever suggestions Satan may make to keep your soul bound
in sin and despair, I still say, Go to Jesus, the sin-pardoning Saviour,
without delay. And may the Lord who is mighty to save rescue you
out of the snare of the devil, is my prayer.—
Letter 1d, 1890
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