Did he rise to find that the penitence which had shaken his reason would henceforth suffice to save his life from all error?
Alas! remorse overstrained has too often reactions as dangerous; and homely Luther says well, that "the mind, like the drunken peasant on horseback, when propped on the one side, nods and falls on the other."-- All that can be said is, that there are certain crises in life which leave us long weaker; from which the system recovers with frequent revulsion and weary relapse,--but from which, looking back, after years have passed on, we date the foundation of strength or the cure of disease.

It is not to mean souls that creation is darkened by a fear of the anger of Heaven..