WE know of no intelligent Christians who hold the absurd dogma of prospective pardon, or, in other words, that sins are forgiven before they are committed. Mr. Kelly writes― “Prospective forgiveness, which I have always denounced.” It is one of the many inventions that have been found out and fathered on such as go entirely by the Holy Scriptures. Nor do we object to ask, as believers, for the forgiveness of our sins; though we consider confessing our sins to be essential to our forgiveness, and a much deeper thing. In his lecturing on the “Lord’s Prayer” Mr. Kelly says, “There is not a clause of that prayer, I believe, but what one might prefer now, even to “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”