POWER OF FORGIVENESS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4379, 27 February 1909, Page 1

POWER OF FORGIVENESS

I remember once Mother had been trying to make us forgive' each other’s trespasses, and: Arthur would say that you cannot make yourself feel kindly to them that trespass against you ; and mother said if you make yourself do right, then at last you get to feel right; and ill was very soon after this that Harry and Christopher quar-. relied and would not forgive each other’s trespasses in the least, in spite of all that I could do to try and make peaoo between them.

Chris went off in the sulks, but after a long time I came; across him in the toy-cupboard, looking rather pale, and very; large-headed, and winding up his new American top, and talking to himself.

When he talks to himself he mutters, so I could only just hear what he was saying, and he said it over and over again :

Does first and feels after, wards.”

“ What are yon doing, Chris ?” 1 asked.

<£ I’m getting ready my new top to give to Harry. (Does first and feels afterwards.)

“ Well,” I said, “ Chris, you are a good boy.” “ I should like to punch his head,” said Chris, and he said it in just the same sing-song tone, “ But I’m getting the top ready. (Does first and feeds afterwards).” He went on winding anc muttering. Afterwards he tuff me that the “ feels ” came sooner than he expected. Harry wouldn’t take his top, and they made up their quarrel.—Mre Ewing in “Mary’s Meadow.”