And is it not plainly the fact, that what the world for long enough has needed has been this spirit of Jesus Christ, the forgiving to the "seventy times seven?" Surely we can see it! The world is full of fusty old age-long grievances. They poison the life of society yet. Is it not time they were forgotten and forgiven? How cam we have art ever raking in the putrid rub-the face to talk of progress, if we
hish heaps of the past, which are like heaps of rotten cabbage stalks rotten old grievances. Let us hope from the garden, and dragging out for instance, that the happier state of things in Ireland will lead even the "Die-hard" Republicans to forget King Henry LI and Oliver Cromwell. One has been about 800 years and the other 300. Hasn't the time long; gone by when whatever they did should be forgotten? Let us hope so. What kind of Christians are we if we annet forget old putridities like these} And what is to become of the world, if we cannot? There is King George III]. He did make a big mistake. None of us is perfect. But isn't it time, he, poor old man was given a bye in American history books? There are France and Germany. Who will take the first step in reconciliation and forgiveness? Somebody must make a Start, or the world will be poisoned for ever by these damnable everlasting feuds and pestilential grievances. First one side wins a war, then the next. So it will go on for ever, unless some one of the two begins and forgives freely and fully. The thing that we are all too blind to see, is that the Gospel is the one fundamentally practical thing in the world. It is such a "huge and devastating error to think that doctrines like this of forgiveness are mere Sunday topics for ministers to preach on. This one is vital. If men would only be forgiving to a tenth of the "seventy times seven" the world would be a
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