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Show 15 HOW TO FORQIVE AN INJURY. I ! True Spirit In Which Apology 8hould ' Be Accepted. ' now do wo forglvo? Let us hope . that wo always forglvo as wo would L wish to bo forgiven. "Tho Lord lav-oth lav-oth a ohoerful glvor." Ho who gives j pardons has need of both lovo and 1 cheeiinoss. j Porhops wo do not npreclato how hard It Is for somo poruans to say "I nm Borry." Perhars tlrnro Ib n vindictive vin-dictive streak In raauy of us that I' holds out against our bettor Impulses, k , To npologizo Is rarely If ovor a I A ploasant task. Ono may feel that a M certain angry spocch was wrong, but h ' it takes great mornl and spiritual U courago to go to tho person with l whom ono has been lrrltnted and say. J humbly: "I was nngry Just now; f. ' spoke hastily. Will you forglvo mo?" It should not roqulro superhuman grace for tho porson who has been offonded to accept such an npology In I tho same spirit In which it has been 6 offerod. But too often tho speech of . pardon Is cold and has a ring that Is C not sincoro. Onco In a great while I it Is accompanied by an r.cknowlodg-1 r.cknowlodg-1 mont that tho suor for forgiveness !j . has been dlsagrecablo and that while V 1 ho is forgiven ho must romembor ! that an unkind spocch cannot always If bo forgotten at will. E Ho who thus rocelvos an apology Is i farther from tho right rlth than he r vho has acknowledged his fault. Tho je, one Is consclpus of his wrong and ads' ad-s' mlts It and seeks to make amends; 9 tho othor Is wrapped about with a II mantle of self-concolt and solf-rlght-g. Aousness. Chicago Trlbuno. |