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I knew a child who believed she had committed the sin against the Holy Ghost, because she had, in her toilette, made an improper use of a pin. Dare not to rebuke me for adducing the diseased fancy of a child in a weighty matter of theology. ‘Despise not one of these little ones.’ Would the theologians were as near the truth in such matters as the children. Diseased fancy! The child knew, and was conscious that she knew, that she was doing wrong because she had been forbidden. There was rational ground for her fear . . . He would not have told her she was silly, and ‘never to mind’. Child as she was, might He not have said to her, ‘I do not condemn thee: go and sin no more’? First series, It shall not be forgiven