Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — The Joy of Forgiveness. [ARTICLE]

The Joy of Forgiveness.

There is no respect in which men get closer to Jesus, or more complete in their exemplification of His life, than in the enjoyment and manifestation of the spirit of forgiveness, which Is the condition of our own access to the grace of pardon and peace. If we forgive not. there is no forgiveness for us. "Forgive us our trespasses,” Jesus taught us to pray, “as we forgive those who trespass against us." That means much both ways. If we withhold that boon from others, we simply lock the door of mercy against ourselves; but in case we forgtve tuliy and affectionately, then the gracious arms and words of our heavenly' Father cover and comfort us as completely as they did the prodlgaL A fatherly embrace, a kiss, a ring, a robe, and shoes for our sore and weary feet am bound to follow 1