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So everybody trespasses, and she pays the taxes, and we are all satisfied, especially as there are plenty of better building sites in Alton to be bought for less money. That old woman bites her nose off every day, and never knows it."
Without any effort, and almost in spite of myself, pious words came back to my lips those words that my dear mother used to teach me on her knee years and years ago. And I felt a quiet delight in the almost forgotten words that came back to me: "Forgive us our trespasses.... Pray for us, poor sinners...." It seemed to me that I should presently go away a better man and a more valiant soldier.
"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." John Wesley laid his Bible down beside him on the rustic seat under the filbert-tree, and leaned back against the trunk with half-closed eyes. By and by he frowned, and the frown, instead of passing, grew deeper.
But in the world's great hospital of ailing souls, where every day the Good Physician walks, there is no incurable ward. He lays His hands on the sick, and they are healed; He touches the eyes of the blind, and they see; unto the leper as white as snow his flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child; even souls that are dead through their trespasses and sins He restores to life.
She began, his fingers tightened on hers. "Pray it for old Moy," he said; and as she paused, scarce hearing or understanding, "He he wants it," gasped Herbert. "No! One can't pray it, without " another pause. "Help me, Jenny. Say it O Lord, who savedst us forgive us. Help us to forgive from our hearts that man his trespasses. Amen." Jenny said it. Herbert's voice sank in the Amen.
There was, in the outskirts of the town, the inevitable rumshop, fed, it was said, by an illicit still in the woods, and there as usual Satan held high carnival among families dead in trespasses and sins. There we assayed to hold temperance prayer-meetings, but they loved darkness rather than light, and we cast our pearls before swine, who turned and rent us.
But it was curious, the way the innocent little things invariably hived there, no matter how awful and accusing the invitation would be to those "dead in trespasses and sins, who felt themselves lost and undone." So we began to be aware of the children as of strange young misguided angels in our midst, and it was a rigid test of the genuineness of William's character that they loved him.
Intercession for the universities and public schools, for many friends, for M.V.G.H., and E.C. THURSDAY "Goodness." For much fruit to His praise. Soul-winning. Spirit of praise. Forgive us our trespasses. Local work. Swansea and Mrs. Morgan. For my sister Ellen, all at Winterdyne, "and the servants." FRIDAY "Faith." Wisdom to be shown more of His will and commands. Lead us not into temptation.
And ye shall also forgive one another your trespasses; for verily I say unto you, he that forgiveth not his neighbor's trespasses when he says that he repents, the same hath brought himself under condemnation. Now I say unto you, Go; and whosoever will not repent of his sins the same shall not be numbered among my people; and this shall be observed from this time forward.
Ay, old man, words that make the stars brighter and the sons of the morning rejoice. I will not tell you whence I had them, but you shall say surely they never came from earth, selfish, cruel, revengeful earth, these words that drop on our hot passions like the dew, and speak of trespasses forgiven, and peace and goodwill among men." Oh! magic of a lovely voice speaking the truths of Heaven!
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