The sum of the whole matter is this:--The Son has come from the Father
to set the children free from their sins; the children must hear and
obey him, that he may send forth judgment unto victory.

Son of our Father, help us to do what thou sayest, and so with thee die
unto sin, that we may rise to the sonship for which we were created.
Help us to repent even to the sending away of our sins.




_THE REMISSION OF SINS._

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance
for the remission of sins.--_Mark_ i. 4.


God and man must combine for salvation from sin, and the same word, here
and elsewhere translated _remission_, seems to be employed in the New
Testament for the share of either in the great deliverance.

But first let me say something concerning the word here and everywhere
translated _repentance_. I would not even suggest a mistranslation; but
the idea intended by the word has been so misunderstood and therefore
mistaught, that it requires some consideration of the word itself to get
at a right recognition of the moral fact it represents.

The Greek word then, of which the word _repentance_ is the accepted
synonym and fundamentally the accurate rendering, is made up of two