Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-06-25
VIRTUE OF FORGIVING.

VIRTUE OF FoRGIvING.
1t Is Incumbent Upon All WI
Would Measure Up to the
Full Stature of Life's
Highest Ideals.
Exchange forgiveness with me. mob
Hamlet,
Mine and my fathers death CON
not upon thee,
nor thine on me.
Dare to be great without a guilt
crown;
View it, and lay the bright tempts
ton down.
Ii Is very needful, my beloved
That we pray always for the virtu
t a forgiving spirit and for powe
over temptation.
Day by day, almost hour by hour
the least offending amongst us hay,
need OF the virtue of forgiveness: 70.
too often in this wide world wome1
and men who are least offending ar.
most offended. Gentleness is eve,
the mark for rudeness; yirtue
arouses the resentment of the vuI.
gar; meekness is a challenge to COW.
ards who rant in the similitnda NJ
courage.
But the only revenge left to repu-
table men and women is forgiveness.
Not every one can forget wrongs
imposed; but every one can forgive.
Whosoever holds vengeance to be
sweet has never known the spiritual
satisfaction of forgiving evil.work-
ers or evil-wishers.
Lead us not into temptation!
Many and many a time it seems
bitterly hard to forgive even little
ofenses; and to forgive real ong
requires stubborn and relentless pur-
pose. In every life there are num-
berless minor miseries inflicted nv
individuals Of whom as of right one
anticipates nothing but constant and
watchful kindness, loving and cor
dial concern.
Inconsiderateness comes from those
to whom n looks for ceaseless con-
sideration.
Thoughtlessness of speech or con-
duct is apparent, aud whom we love
sting US ltn wordless offense.
Carelesstiess cries'everywhere. and
behind it crawls reptile w%illfulness.
Back of i~nattention to the gentler
courtesies and minor civiI1ties is the
serpent's trail of sin and grief: be-
yond that, perdition.
The breaking of every friendship
and every love and every trust since
mans first betrayal found its first
little rent in a little wrong. It NAV
have been lack of courtesy, lack Of
sincerity, or lack of thoughtful CON-
~slderation; whatever it's character |
1T was small as the sigh of a lover.
"A KISS too few, a sigh too many, |
and love was not the same. Onel
swift impression, fleeing as the |
CHANGING shadow flung from the tip
OF a white doves speedy wing, and
MES sweetest melody is broken out
of tune.
Eternal vigilance of word and
work and conduct, in gentle spirit
OF forgiveness, is the price of ham
plness IN this life, my beloved.
IT is best to pray without. ceasing.
that we be lee not into temptation
to 90 wrong to ourselves or to anv
child of earth.
Dare to be great without beipg
Wrong-great in goodness, sweet
ness, g%entleness, forgiveness; in real
Womanllness and manliness. True
.glrllshness and true boyishness lead
to true womanhood and manhood.
Habit is the citadel of the strong.
t is the valley of skulls for such as
will not be strong. HabituaI GEN.
'leness and habitual rule of the spirit
II forgiveness fit men and Women
or happiness. These virtues in the
create true greatness; not that
nlsnamed greatness which some-
lines haunts itself in barbaric vul-
but the quality of humanitvI
which loves and labors, and does
'ood because of devotion to good
less, giving for the love of giving.
Other ambition than to be great in =
he gentler and drawer virtues is an
nglorious cheat which can bring1
othing but grief.
Guard well your speech. Guard
yell your speech, and forgive whom-
oever afronts or offends you. For-
ivr the rude, the uncivil, the dis-
ourteous, even the liars and the
anderers. f
Forgive those whom you love is
nd likewise those who love You: -
this, alas, is oftenest hardest to IL
o. Forgive all, and be great with ir
1t being wrong