Conscience and Sin.
Ash Wednesday.
ON CONSCIENCE.
God has created man for a purpose, and that purpose is, that he should attain to everlasting blessedness.
God is good and loving unto all His works. He made the plants and the beasts, and set them ends to accomplish here on earth, but the ends for which man was made are not to be attained in this life.
Through the Fall man’s mind is darkened, his connexion with God is broken, his sight of the aim to which he should tend is obscured. God has given to him His law as the rule of his actions, that man, hearkening to the revealed Will of God, may be guided aright, and so accomplish that end for which he was made, and attain finally to everlasting blessedness.
Every act of man that is in conformity with the revealed law of God is good.
Every act of man that is contrary to this revealed law of God is bad.