Article May 8, 1902 Issue

Gratitude and Forgiveness

BY W. T.

In quiet gratitude for the modest blessings close at hand; in silent thanksgiving for the common little bits of good which come daily into our lives, and which generally are disregarded, because of the habitual fashion of looking at them in a careless, matter-of-fact way, we can make ready our lives for the blessings in God's store for us.

Let us add to this a willingness, when we reject a wrong, to help the doer of the wrong, when we can do so, in a firm yet kindly manner, to see his error. Let us, in a spirit of compassion and encouragement, seek to restore such an one; in meekness remembering our own frailties, lest we, too, in pride at our standing, compass a fall. Through the door-way of a grateful and forgiving heart, the Spirit finds an ingress. The love of Christ must needs abound where such an entrance is.

"With thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." And Paul in recourse to the rich experiences of his "inward man" knew well, indeed, whereof he spoke. We find him in his letter to the Colossians, exhorting them, likewise, to "continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving."

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