It is probably true that divine grace, working through the sympathetic and loving service of a fellow mortal, Is the only adequate instrumentality for the reformation of a deformed human character. And yet the Infliction of physical pain by chastisement may secure obedience to the rules of an Institution and place those thus reduced to obedience on the high road toward moral regeneration. It may be the occasion If not the cause of the reformation of character.
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