[324] Matt. xviii, 23-35. See "Jesus the Christ," pp. 392-395. [325] Matt. v, 23-24: III Nephi xii, 23-24. [326] Doc. and Cov. lxiv, 9-10. =23. (3.) Confidence in Christ's Atoning Sacrifice= constitutes the third essential condition in obtaining remission of sins. The name of Christ is the only name under heaven whereby men may be saved;[327] and we are taught to offer our petitions to the Father in the name of His Son. Adam received this instruction from the mouth of an angel,[328] and the Savior personally instructed the Nephites to the same effect.[329] But no person can truthfully profess faith in Christ, and refuse to obey His commandments; therefore obedience is essential to remission of sin; and the repentant sinner will eagerly seek to learn what is further required of him. [327] Pearl of Great Price: Moses vi, 52. [328] Pearl of Great Price: Moses v, 6-8. [329] III Nephi xxvii, 5-7. =24.= Repentance, to be worthy of its name, must comprise something more than a mere self-acknowledgment of error; it does not consist in lamentations and wordy confessions, but in the heart-felt recognition of guilt, which carries with it a horror for sin, and a resolute determination to make amends for the past and to do better in the future. If such a conviction be genuine, it is marked by that godly sorrow which, as Paul has said, "worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death."[330] Apostle Orson Pratt has wisely said:--"It would be of no use for a sinner to confess his sins to God, unless he were determined to forsake them; it would be of no benefit to him to feel sorry that he had done wrong, unless he intended to do wrong no more; it would be folly for him to confess before God that he had injured his fellow-man, unless he were determined to do all in his power to make restitution. Repentance, then, is not only a confession of sins, with a sorrowful, contrite heart, but a fixed, settled purpose to refrain from every evil way." [330] II Cor. vii. 10.