Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 14: Published Semi-Monthly; An Illustrated Magazine, Designed Expressly for the Education and Elevation of the Young; August 1, 1879 Among the Christian denominations of the world, we see this idea of repentance carried out; in a milder form, it is true, but still it is the same in spirit. The readers of the instructor, of more mature years, will remember the scenes they have witnessed around the mourners' bench and anxious seat at the protracted meetings they have attended in the lands of their nativity; the groans of anguish, the moans of contrition, and the mental agony that those who were repenting passed through. Often resulting in a species of swoon or convulsion, which contorted the body into shapes scarcely human, with every evidence of great mental and physical suffering. Attention has been called to these various ideas of repent ance for the purpose of contrasting with them true repentance as taught by the servants of God in former days and at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.