That font says: "Be you poor, tempted, ignorant,
stupid, be you what you will, you are God's child--your Father's love
is over you, His mercy is ready for you." You feel too weak to
change; ask God's Spirit, and He will give you a strength of mind you
never felt before. You feel too proud to change; ask God's Spirit,
and He will humble your proud heart, and soften your hard heart; and
you will find to your surprise, that when your pride is gone, when
you are utterly ashamed of yourself, and see your sins in their true
blackness, and feel not worthy to look up to God, that then, instead
of pride, will come a nobler, holier, manlier feeling--self-respect,
and a clear conscience, and the thought that, weak and sinful as you
are, you are in the right way; that God, and the angels of God, are
smiling on you; that you are in tune again with all heaven and earth,
because you are what God wills you to be--not His proud, peevish,
self-willed child, fancying yourself strong enough to go alone, when
in reality you are the slave of your own passions and appetites, and
the plaything of the devil: but His loving, loyal son, strong in the
strength which God gives you, and able to do what you will, because
what you will God wills also.
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