Where holy feelings find a home;

For there the law of God secure,

Makes every thought and impulse pure:

Repentance may be slow to bring

Comfort and healing on its wing;

The doubting sinner in despair,

Asks, trembling, in a hurried prayer,

If guilt like his, of foulest trace,

Can hope for pardon and for grace:

But, when such doubts are swept away,