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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, December 31, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 3

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FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE.

REPENTANCE, when true and heartfelt, is a tree that bears the most excellent fruit.
  1. It changes a man's whole course of life.
  2. It causes frank and hearty confession of sins.
  3. It causes men to make reparation to every person that they have defrauded.
Satan, who does everything in his power to lead us into sin, does his utmost also to prevent us from repenting. It is repentance that is the shameful thing, not sin—the thing that we only need to fear and shun. Yet, in the sight of God, repentance is an honorable and noble work, and such it is in the sight of all who love and fear him.
I am glad to give the following from Bro. and sister White, who deeply feel the danger of those who are disposed to cover the sin of extortion and deception:
The subject of restitution must be faithfully brought before the people, so that those who have wrongfully taken from others may see that the only way to free themselves from this sin is to fully restore. If they have not means to fully do this, let them confess their sin to those injured, and restore as far as their means will reach. If they have sufficient means, let them be sure and repair all the injury, in point of property, their sin has done to those they have wronged.
The frank confession of the brother at Norridgewock who was waiting for baptism till he should restore to the one he had cheated before he had turned to the Lord, is a rare exception. Because the Lord will forgive such sins, thousands think their work done when they have confessed their sins in general, without repairing such injuries to others as taking from them wrongfully. Zaccheus would restore fourfold. These are not willing to restore that which they took without giving it its value. Such cannot be saved with this sin upon them.
The following from the Christian is a candid and pointed illustration of this great subject. Mrs. W. has read it with deep interest, and we wish it set before the readers of the Review.