There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. No man can be renewed without as real and true a manifestation of the Holy Spirit's energy as he felt at first,

Let us labour to feel what an evil thing this is-little love to our own dying Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little fellowship with the Beloved!

Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.

Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus' bosom.