ALAS! how many perish, utterly dead to the sense of sin, altogether indifferent to the love of God! A patient greeted his physician with a smile, “Doctor, I shall get well now: I feel no pain.” The physician mournfully shook his head; the fatal symptom had showed itself―mortification had set in. I feel no pain! I do not feel my sins, I am dead to the mercy of God, insensible to the sufferings of Jesus for sinners, Ah! poor sinner, these are fatal symptoms.