"Never forget, when you have been injured, that your duty is not only to refrain from retaliating, not simply to retire upon your dignity and self-respect, not to leave the offender severely alone; but to seek him out, to reason with him, to pray for him, to exhaust all your powers of persuasion, all the resources of gentleness and love. It is only when all this has been done that your responsibility is ended, and you are justified in leaving him to be dealt with by Almighty God." _Life Here and Hereafter_, Canon MACCOLL. "'Remember,' he said, ... 'that if you forgive him, you become changed yourself. You no longer see what he has done as you see it now. That is the beauty of forgiveness: it enables us better to understand those whom we have forgiven. Perhaps it will enable you to put yourself in his place.'" _The Mettle of the Pasture_, JAMES LANE ALLEN. "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" THOREAU. Forgiveness APRIL 25 "The little hearts that know not how to forgive!" TENNYSON. "Oh, make my anger pure--let no worst wrong Rouse in me the old niggard selfishness. Give me Thine indignation--which is love Turned on the evil that would part love's throng; Thy anger scathes because it needs must bless, Gathering into union calm and strong All things on earth, and under, and above. "Make my forgiveness downright--such as I Should perish if I did not have from Thee; I let the wrong go, withered up and dry, Cursed with divine forgetfulness in me. 'Tis but self-pity, pleasant, mean and sly, Low whispering bids the paltry memory live:-- What am I brother for, but to forgive? * * * * * Lord, I forgive--and step in unto Thee." GEORGE MACDONALD. Reparation APRIL 26 "All high happiness has in it some element of love; all love contains a desire for peace. One immediate effect of new happiness is to make us turn toward the past with a wish to straighten out its difficulties, heal its breaches and forgive its wrongs." JAMES LANE ALLEN. "As long as we love, we can forgive." LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. "When it is our duty to do an act of justice it should be done promptly. To delay is injustice." LA BRUYÈRE. "His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong." EMERSON (_said of Lincoln_). The Unamiable APRIL 27