The Only Revenge Which Is Essentially Christian

... Religious Controversy Does Only Harm. It Destroys Humble Inquiry After Truth, And Throws All The Energies Into An Attempt To Prove Ourselves Right-a Spirit In Which No Man Gets At Truth.

We Hear In These Days A Great Deal Respecting Rights--the Rights Of Private Judgment, The Rights Of Labor, The Rights Of Property, And The Rights Of Man. Rights Are Grand Things, Divine Things In This World Of God's; But The Way In Which We Expound These Rights, Alas! Seems To Me To Be The Very Incarnation Of Selfishness. I Can See Nothing Very Noble In A Man Who Is Forever Going About Calling For His Own Rights. Alas! Alas! For The Man Who Feels Nothing More Grand In This Wondrous, Divine World Than His Own Rights.

What We Mean By Sentimentalism Is That State In Which A Man Speaks Deep And True Sentiments Not Because He Feels Them Strongly, But Because He Perceives That They Are Beautiful, And That It Is Touching And Fine To Say Them,-things Which He Fain Would Feel, And Fancies That He Does Feel.

By Experience; By A Sense Of Human Frailty; By A Perception Of "the Soul Of Goodness In Things Evil;" By A Cheerful Trust In Human Nature; By A Strong Sense Of God's Love; By Long And Disciplined Realization Of The Atoning Love Of Christ; Only Thus Can We Get A Free, Manly, Large, Princely Spirit Of Forgiveness.

False Notions Of Liberty Are Strangely Common. People Talk Of It As If It Meant The Liberty Of Doing Whatever One Likes - Whereas The Only Liberty That A Man, Worthy Of The Name Of Man, Ought To Ask For, Is, To Have All Restrictions, Inward And Outward, Removed That Prevent His Doing What He Ought.