A Felon's Pardon In The Dungeon
Illustration★★★★Open the iron-bound door of the condemned cell, and by the dim light that struggles through its bars read the sovereign’s free pardon to the felon, stretched, pale and emaciated, upon his pallet of straw; and the radiance you have kindled in that gloomy dungeon, and the transport you have created in that felon’s heart, is a present realization. You have given him back a present life; you have touched a thousand chords in his bosom which awake a present harmony; and where, just previous, reigned sullen, grim despair, now reigns the sunlight joyousness of a present hope. Dr. O. Winslow.
Dr. O. Winslow.
The point
A pardoned prisoner's transformed joy pictures the immediate, present reality of the freedom and hope God's pardon brings to a forgiven sinner's heart.