The work went on slowly but surely, still he held back forgiveness to
John, and while he did this, he could not be happy, he could not himself
feel that he was forgiven. "I do forgive him, at least I wish him no
ill, Miss Schomberg," he said in one of his conversations with Emilie.
"I don't suppose I need be very fond of him. Am I required to be that?"
"What does the Bible say, Joe? 'If thine enemy hunger feed him, if he
thirst give him drink.' '_I_ say unto you,' Christ says, '_Love_ your
enemies.' He does not say don't hate them, he means _Love_ them. Do you
think you have more to forgive John than Jesus had to forgive those who
hung him on the cross?"
"It seems to me, Miss Schomberg, so different that example is far above
me. I cannot be like Him you know."
"Yet Joe there have been instances of persons who have followed his
example in their way and degree, and who have been taught by Him, and
helped by Him to forgive their fellow-creatures."
"But it is not in human nature to do it, I know, at least is not in
mine.
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