The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-24

Trespasses as We Forgive Those That
 Trespass Against US."
 The Rev. Charles H. Palmer of liar yard occupied the college pulpit at Bat
 tell chapel yesterday and preached
 very instructive sermon to Yale men. His text was from the 9th chapter of l St. Matthew's gospel and that portion
 of the Lords prayer which reads: For ] give us our trespasses as we forgive 1 those who trespass against us" Jesus
 says we are forgiving of one another II
 we only knew and understood it. We
 should try to discover why forgiveness
 Is wrought in our souls. There are many forms. There is the forgiveness of indifference. When the rich man has i been cheated he does not break out ln- 1 to passion, but crosses the account OH l lis book, When a great scholar IS re- | rroacned for lack of scholarship he does not resent it, but merely considers the
 one's position who has thus reproached hi n lie is indifferent to it. There is the necessity of indifference in our daily lives. There is no such protection against vanity as pri1e, Then there is also an indifference to wrong done to
 one Yale men certainly find the ne
 cessity of practicing this indifference.
 You know the touchy, sensitive, thin
 skinned man who thinks you are al
 ways talking about him and criticising
 his actions. He should be singled out,
 and there is need of practicing this n' difference toward him, and learn to dis
 crminate between the great and small. This is the species of human forgive ness but how does 1t apply to divine l forgiveness? We have the promise that God does so forgive. He knoweth our frame and remembereth that we are but dust Our little indifferences to |
 Him He magnanmously forgives. We should rise to that high region where | the unkind cannot hurt us. To bestoW | benefits on those who try to injure us | Is the lowest form of forgiveness. There | is a great gulf between this and the | higher forms, We should turn to the higher for the forgiveness of excuse and sympathy. There Is no doubt of the | degradation of those who have been forgiven by excuse. But there is need of that We should meet our fellow
 man, understand their weaknesses and identify ourselves with their case. We should sympathize with them. Jesus forgave those who murdered Him. He said Father forgive them; they know not what they do."
 We must appeal to God for His for giveness and excuse. We must enter into our weaknesses and understand our cases. We can endure having his errors carefully studied so that there may be forgiveness by excuse? It was no accident that the words forgive and forget have been associated. We do not trust any one to study our wrongdoings so minutely. We should practice for giveness of others. Men who aie asso- ciated in the same class, the same club ana the same university should be able to keep up their noble spirit of indiffer- ence No human society can go with cut 1t. God has placed our transgres- rons as far from us as the east is from the west We should practice the for riveness of oblivion. It is hard to for l get and the more we try the less this spirit comes. The last species of for siveness includes all others It is faith. The hardest of all Is to forgive our selves for what we have done or omit ted to do. If we prevaricate the thought of being @ liar Is always upon us and pursuing us. We should put aside this false person, but how can we bring our selves to forgive ourselves, Try and discover that this is not our veritable self, but our false one, and we should ook on the other side and then trust We should not dwell with the false one True forgiveness must come from above. That is the forgiveness of faith and does not deny the wrong which has been done. So 1t is God forgives us in he highest. He says thou are my child and takes us into His services and I, q Ienc 1.irr tnnuann nsc stIlI tnnes hln |