The Seaboard Parish V2

I do not doubt it; for conscience is so near in all those memories to which you refer. The whole surrounding of them is so at variance with sin! A sense of purity, not in himself, for the child is not feeling that he is pure, is all about him; and when afterwards the condition returns upon him, –returns when he is conscious of so much that is evil and so much that is unsatisfied in him, –it brings with it a longing after the high clear air of moral well-being