Regeneration: Need Of. A raw countryman having brought his gun to the gun-smith for repairs, the latter is reported to have examined it, and finding it to be almost too far gone for repairing, said, “Your gun is in a very worn-out, ruinous, good-for-nothing condition, what sort of repairing do you want for it ?“ “Well,” said the countryman, “I don’t See as I can do with anything short of a new stock, lock, and barrel; that ought to set it up again.” “Why,” said the smith, “you had better have a new gun altogether.” “Ah!” was the reply, “I never thought of that; and it strikes me that’s just what I do want. A new stock, lock, and barrel; why that’s about equal to a new gun altogether, and that’s what I’ll have.”
Just the sort of repairing that man’s nature requires. The old nature cast aside as a complete wreck and good for nothing, and a new one imparted.