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Continued from p. 6 until I had taken revenge on the who sure ought to know his own gelist, received from Him grace to
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boys left their seats and went and man who murdered my father. mind, and say, 'He doesn't believe forgive the murderer of my
stood in a row in front of him. in that foolish talk about forgiving father.”
“I listened to your confessions “When I went home after the one's enemies.'
last night, boys,” said the service, I thought of how the devil “So, lest the devil should mislead Just then the list containing the
evangelist. “I heard you say that would be sure to take advantage you, I have bought these nine names of those upon who the
you were willing to forgive those of my example and put you boys hymn books, and I am going to Christians had planned to take
who killed your loved ones. Then to ridicule. People would say that present one to each of you, in the revenge was brought up to the
you heard me, a leader in the you were too young to know your hope that every time you open it to front and torn into bits and the
church, declare that I couldn't own minds. Then they would praise God from its pages, you fragments trampled under foot.
forgive and that I would not rest point to me as an intelligent man will recall how that I, an evan- - Prepare the Way, Issue no. 105

shamefaced employee was summoned to the office of the
senior partner to hear his doom. The least that he could expect
Awas a blistering dismissal; he might also be sent to prison for
years. The old man called his name and asked him if he were guilty. The
clerk stammered out that he had no defense.
“I shall not send you to prison,” said the old man. “If I take you back,
can I trust you?”
When the surprised and broken clerk had given assurance and was
about to leave, the senior partner continued: “You are the second man
who has fallen and had been pardoned in this business. I was the first.
What you have done, I did. The mercy you have received, I received. It
is only the grace of God that can keep us both.”
[Knight's Master Book of Illustrations, Walter B Knight, Eerdmans
Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan,1973].

EAS
EAST FROM WEST...T FROM WEST...

Dr. J Wilbur Chapman was asked to tell of a man who had been a
professor of mathematics in a German University, but who became a
wreck from strong drink. He came to one of Dr. Chapman's meetings,
forlorn and dejected and took a seat in the rear of the room.

He was converted and became a member of the church. It was Dr.
Chapman's custom to meet the men of his church every Sunday
morning, before going into his pulpit, for a short conference on things
pertaining to the Christian life.

One morning he told his men that our sins were taken from us as far as
the East is from the West, and then, seeing the old professor before
him he said, “Professor, that is a mathematical proposition for you.
How far is the East from the West?”

The professor reached for his pencil and notebook, when he suddenly
stopped and burst into tears; and facing the crowd of men he said,
“Men, you cannot measure, for if you put your stake here and keep the
East ahead of you and West behind you, you can go around the world
and come back to your stake and East will still be ahead of you and
West behind you. The distance is immeasurable. And thank God, that
is where my sins have gone!”

[Christ for the World Messenger, Knight's Master Book of
Illustrations, Walter B Knight, Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand
Rapids, Michigan,1973].