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Mutely, within herself, she craved his forgiveness for the appearance of that phantom which should never have come forth from out that chaotic hell which had engendered it. "Armand!" she cried. And the loving arms that had guided his baby footsteps long ago, the tender hands that had wiped his boyish tears, were stretched out with unalterable love toward him.
"These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full." His love held redemption was a saving love. "He that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." His love knew fullest forgiveness. He said to the woman taken in sin, "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." His love brought friendship. "Ye are my friends."
Not a word, not a sign of apology. She could not have been more astounded had a thunder-bolt struck at her feet, nor more bereft of action. She must have sat there fully ten minutes without movement. From Thomas, the guileless, this! What did it mean? She could not understand. Had he instantly begged forgiveness, had he made protestations of sentiment, a glimmering would have been hers.
In teaching his disciples how to pray, he linked their promise to forgive with their plea for forgiveness, so that no prayer of theirs should rise to heaven for receiving pardon unless it were accompanied by an engagement expressed or implied to bestow pardon: "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."
Yes, my brethren, you are His witnesses that He has done it. He has taken you into His covenant till He has made you both able and willing, both willing and able, to grant and to bequeath to others, all that free, full, and everlasting forgiveness and love that He has bequeathed to you.
It is my heartfelt wish to own that I have sinned against you, and to make all the atonement that I can. I am too anxious to deserve your forgiveness to have any fear of seeing you." Conciliatory as the reply was, it was spoken with a simple and modest dignity of manner which roused Grace Roseberry to fury. "How dare you speak to me as if you were any equal?" she burst out.
The forgiveness which is offered to us in the name of Jesus Christ is not, and our own moral sense ought to assure us that it could not be, the being let off punishment. "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins," not from any external pains or penalties of their sins. To be saved from sin, is to have sin brought to an end, abolished within us.
By our confession of our sins we participate in His death for us and for our sins, and the assurance of His forgiveness enables us to participate in His resurrection so that we may rise to our feet, make a confident offering of ourselves, and sing our praises of thanksgiving. The Christian, we conclude, is one in whom the Spirit of Christ is incarnate.
"Your motto is, 'Hard words and kind acts," said Mrs. Callender, as Agatha came in with the toast and the egg. "My motto is, 'Hard words and soft boiled eggs," said Agatha, who had by this penance secured her own forgiveness and recovered her gayety. In vain was Phillida entreated to rest. She felt herself drawn to Mrs.
That authority inopportunely revived the question of Stone's death and required the Pequots to deliver annually a heavy tribute of wampum as the price of their forgiveness and protection. Had the object of the Massachusetts people been to promote bad feeling, no better method than this could have been adopted.
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