Prepare another card about an inch smaller all around it. Paint on it the word "Working." Shall I work? Shall I do penance? Shall I suffer bodily torture? Will these works obtain my deliverance? Now place this card over the black card "My Sins," and you notice it does not cover my sins. They still are visible. Working cannot save me. The "working"' card is not big enough to do it. Now prepare a card with the word "Weeping" upon it, making that two inches shorter on all sides, and place it over the "My Sins" card, and you notice it does not cover the black card. It is too short. Weeping will not wipe away my sins. Weeping will not wash out my sins. Weeping will not save me; Though my face be bathed in tears, That could not allay my fears, Could not cleanse the sins of years; Weeping will not save me. After this prepare a card smaller still on which is painted the word "Praying." Place this against the black card "My Sins," and again this card does not cover the "Sin" card. Praying for deliverance from sin is essential, but we must act as well as pray. We realize our lost condition, and hear the voice of God say, "Come unto me." We must do something more than just cry, "Save, Save." We must _do_. The Prodigal Son would never have left the far country if he had merely cried out in fervent prayer, "I have sinned against thee." But he _arose_ and _went_. That was his way home. It is our way too. Praying will not save me; All the prayers that I could say Could not wash my sins away, The debt I owe could never pay; Praying will not save me. Prepare now a card only half as large as "My Sins" card, painting on it the word "Feeling." Try now to cover the black "Sin" card with this card and it will not half do its work, Waiting for "feeling" is useless delay. It would never save you if it should come. All the feeling that is needed is to "feel your need of him." Feeling will not save me; Though I may so happy be As to think God's pardoned me, Feelings change continually; Feeling will not save me. At last prepare a red card about an inch larger all around than the sin card on which you have painted the words "Faith in Christ." Now put this over the black "Sin" card, and you will perceive that it covers completely all your sins. It hides "My Sins" forever more. They are all taken away to stay, and as you say this remove the black "Sin" card and let it fall behind the desk, or cast it back of you, for this is what God does with our sins when he forgives them for Christ's sake. He casts them behind his back. Now lift up the red card, and the black has been taken away--and--taken away to stay. That is what faith in Christ will do. They are rolled away as a thick cloud forever.