Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.