Prayer

         Every false pleasure in sin will furnish more than its equivalent of pain until belief in material life and sin is destroyed.  Prayer is not a safety valve for wrong doing.  Calling on God to forgive our poor work or work left undone, implies the vain assumption that we have nothing to do but ask for pardon, and that afterwards we shall be free to repeat the offense.

     ** Jesus uncovered (exposed) and then rebuked sin BEFORE he cast it out!