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•‘AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS.”
When a mere lad I was struck with
the remark of an eminent physician,
and have thought of it hundreds of
times since. His collector, in making
returns, reported as valueless an ac
count against a gentleman who had
failed in business.
“This bill is good for nothing,’’ said
the collector. “M has sunk every
thing, and is now with his family on
the world penniless.”
The physician took the bill, quietly
tore it into pieces, and then, turning to
the unfortunate debtor’s account, wrote
across it, “Settled.”
“Rather a losing business that,” re
marked the collector.
“I hope to be able to say tho Lord’s
prayer as long as I live,” was the phy
sician’s reply. “ ‘Forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors.” When we
say that prayer, my friend, it behooves
us to look into our hearts, and ask onr
selves how we forgive our debtors.
‘With what measure ye mete it shall be
measured unto ye again.’ ”
Hundreds of times since then, in my
worldy experience and contact with men
have I thought of that physician’s re
mark. But very few have I met, who,
like him, could say the Lord’s prayer
without asking for a curse instead of a
blessing; for if the Lord forgave their
debts- as they forgive their debtors,
chances for eternal salvation would not
be worth a fraction of a mite.
This defect of forgiveness is not con
fined to tho non-professor—to him
whose lips repeat not daily the holy
words of that holy petition. So far as
my experience and observation go, they
who profess to have “had much forgiv
en, because they had sinned much,”
are as rigid in their exaction of the ut
termost farthing, as the men who as
sume no sanctity of life or conversation.
Self love and self interest blind us all.
They blinded Mr. Harvey Green, not
withstanding he had passed from
“death unto life,” and had the evi
dence of the change in the fact that he
“loved the brethren.”
Harvey Green was a shrewd man of
business—honest in all his dealings,
vqt ever exacting his own. He took
no advantage of others, and was very
careful not to let others take advantage
of him.
While acting on the precept, “Owe
no man anything,” he never lost sight
of a debtor, nor rested while the obli
gation remained in force. Avery nat
ural result was that Harvey Green
prospered in the things of this world—
not that he became very rich, hut so
well off as to leave no reasonable want
unsupplied.
It so happened, a few years ago, that
a man named Wilkins, after an unsuc
cessful struggle with fortune contin
ued through six or seven years failed
in business. Few men had toiled har
der or suffered more; and when at last
he yielded to the pressure of iron cir
cumstances, he sank down for a season,
prostrate in mind and body. Every
thing that he had was given to his
creditors, the property paid but a small
percentage on their claims—and then
he went forth into the world, all his
business relations broken up, and, un
der the heavy disadvantage of his sit
uation, bravely sought to gain for his
large dependent family things needful
to their sustenance and growth in mind
and body.
Among his creditors was Harvey
Green. Now Mr. Wilkins belonged
to the same church that numbered Mr.
Green among its members. When the
latter heard of the failure, he was a
great deal disturbed although the sum
owed to him was not over three or four
hundred dollars. On reflection he
grew more composed.
“Mr, Wilkins is an honest man,”
said he to himself. “He’ll pay me
sooner or later.”
It did not take long to sell off at a
sad sacrifice the stock of goods re
maining in the hands of the debtor; for
he threw no impediment in the way of
those who sought to obtain their due.
“Ah, my friend,” said the latter, on
meeting with Mr. Green a few days af
ter the closing up of his insolvent,
“this is a sad business! But if God
gives me strength, I yyill pay off every
dollar ot this debt before I die. An
honest man can never sleep soundly
while he owes his neighbor a farth
ing-”
“The right spirit Bro. Wilkins,” an
swered Mr. Green; “the right spirit!
Hold fast to that declaration, and all
will come out straight in the end.
Though I can’t very well lie out of my
money, yet I will wait patiently qutil
you are able to pay flip. I always said
you were an honest man; and I am sure
you will make good my words.”
“God helping me, I will,” said the
debtor; his voice tiembled, and his eyes
grew moist. Oh, how dark the future
looked! What a cloud was on his path!
What a weight of grief, mortification
and despondency on his heart!
The two men parted, and each took
his homeward way, tho one with coun
tenance erect, self-complacent feelings,
and elastic step; the other, sad and de
pressed.
That night Mr. Green prayed, “For
give us our debts as we forgjvp our
debtors.” Yet scarcely had the words
djpd on his lips ere Ir> was mqsing op
the chances ip fqvor of his ever receiv
ing from the penniless Wilkins the few
hundred dollars owed him by that un
happy individual. There was no sym
pathy for him in his heart, no thought
of his terrible prostration of spirit,
nothing of pity and forgiveness. A
selfish regard for his own interest com
pletely absorbed all humane consider
ations.
Time passed on. Mr. Wilkins was
no drone. An earnest, active man, he
soon found employment —not very re
munerative at first, but sufficiently so
to enable him to secure many comforts
for his family, and to provide for their
education.
One, two, three years glided by.
With the growth of his children his
expeuses increasel, and kept so close a
tread upon his income thal ho had not
been able to pay off any of the old ob
ligations; although he never lost sight
of them, ar.d never ceased to feel troub
led on account of their existence.
“Oh, debt, debt, debt!” he would
often sigh to himself. “What would
I not give to be able to say, “I owe no
man anything.” But with my large
family and limited income, what hope
i6 there?”
This was his depressed state of mind
one day when Mr. Green called in to
see him. Many times before the un
happy man had been reminded of the
debt,.
“How are yon getting on?" inquired
the creditor, fixing his eyes steadily
upon poor Mr. Wilkins, who felt a
sense of suffocation, and slightly quail
ed before his tyrant.
“I have much to be thankful, for,”
meekly answered the debtor. “My
health has been good, and I have had
steady employment.”
“You are living very comfortably.”
“And we are grateful to a kind
Providence for our blessings.”
Your salary is one thousand dollars.”
“It is; and I have six children to
support.”
“You ought to save something. I’ve
been easy on you for a long time; it’s
three years now, and you haven’t offer
ed me a cent. If you’d paid me five or
ten dollars at a time, tho debt would
have been lessened. I wish you would
begin to make some arrangement. You
ought to save at least two hundred
dollars from your salary. I know
plenty of men who get only eight hun
dred dollars a year and have as large
families as yours. I have always up
held you as an honest man,” contin
ued Mr. G reen, in a tone of voice that
implied an awakening doubt as to
whether this view of the debtor’s char
acter was really correct.
“That is between God and my own
conscience,” said Mr. Wilkins, lifting
his eyes from tho floor and looking
with some sternness into the face of his
persecuting creditor.
“For your own sake, l.trust you will
keep a clear conscience,” returned Mr.
Green. “As for the present matter be
tween us, all I wish to know is, wheth
er you mean to pay my debt; and if so,
when I may expect to receive some
thing.”
“How much is tho debt?” asked Mr.
Wilkins.
“It was three hundred and seventy
dollars at the time of your failure. In
terest added, it now amounts to four
hundred and fifty,” said Mr. Green.
“There were other debts besides
yours,”
“Of course there were; but 1 have
nothing to do with them.”
“The whole amount of indebtedness
was twenty thousand dollars. The
yearly interest on this debt is more
than my whole income. I cannot pay
even the interest much less the princi
pal.”
“But you can pay my small claim if
you will; you could have paid it before
this time if the disposition had existed.
You talk of conscience, but I’m afraid,
Brother Wilkins, in your case there is
a very narrow foundation of honesty
for conscience to rest upon. I don’t
put much faith in the professions of
men who live after the fashion you live
and refuse to pay their debts. I’m a
plain spoken individual, and you now
have my mind freely.”
The tone and manner of the creditor
were harsh in the extreme.
“Perhaps,” said Mr. Wilkins, with
forced calmness, “there may be less of
dishonesty in my withholding than in
your demanding.”
“Dishonesty! Do you dare!” The
creditor’s face flushed, and his lips
quivered with indignation.
“There are ten creditors in all,” said
Mr. Wilkins, with regained compos
ure. “Let me put to you a question.
I owe John Martin six hundred dol
lars. Suppose I had six hundred dol
lars, and little prospect of ever getting
any more, and were to pay the whole
of it over to John Martin, instead of
dividing it equally between you and all
the creditors, would you deem that
right on my part? Qr would you think
Martin really honest, if he were to
crowd and chafe me until in very des
peration as it were, I gave him the
whole of what mainly belonged to oth
ers? Would you not say that he had
possessed himself of your property? I
know you would. And let me say to
you plainly, that I do not think your
present effort to get me to pay off your
claim entire, regardless of those equally
as much entitled to he paid as your
self, at all indicative of unselfishness,
or a spirit of genuine honesty. If I
have any money to pay it belongs
equally to all my creditors—not to any
one of them exclusively,”
To he turned upon thus by a man
who was in debt to him —to be charged
with a dishonest spirit by the poor
creature whose relation to society he
regarded as essentially dislionost—this
xyas too much for the self-complacency
of Mr, Green. Ho rose up quickly,
saying, in a threatening tone:
“You will repent this insult, air! 1
have forbornq foy years, believing that
you wore really honest; but for this
forbearance I now meet with outrage.
I shall forbear no longer. You are
able enough to pay me, and I will find
a way to compel you to do so.”
Left alone with his troubled thoughts
poor Mr. Wilkins felt not only humil
iated and wretched, but alarmed.
There wae no way in which his credi
tor could extort tho sum due him ex
cept by seizing upon his household
furniture. His fears proved not alto
gether groundless. On the very next
day, a sheriff’s writ was served on him
at the suit of Harvey Green.
“What do you propose doing?” ask
ed Mr. Wilkins, on meeting with his
creditor a few days afterward.
“Get my money,” was answered,
sternly.
“But I have nothing.”
“We will see about that! Good morn
ing.”
Mr. Green imagined that the indig
nation felt toward Mr. Wilkins was
directed against his dishonest spirit—
was in fact, a righteous indignation,
when its spring was in cupidity and
wounded pride.
It was the day before the trial of his
cause against Mr. Wilkins, when he
expected to get judgment by default,
as no answer had been made by the
defendant in the case. And it was his
purpose, as it had been from the begin
ning, to order an execution as soon as
the matter was through the court, and
seize upon any property that could be
found.
Evening came, and Mr. Green sat,
with his children around him, in his
pleasant home. A sweet little boy
knelt before him, his pure hands clasp
ed in prayer, wliille from his lips came,
musically, the words taught by the
Lord to his disciples, “Forgive us our
debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
There seemed to be a deeper meaning
in tho words, murmured by innocent
childhood, than had ever before reach
ed his perceptions. His thoughts were
stirred; new emotions awakened. The
prayer was said and the little one arose
and lifted his rosy lips for the good
night kiss.
“Father said he, turning back after
going across tho room, “I’m not going
to let Harry Williams pay me for that
sled, tt was broken to pieces the next
day after I let him have it.”
“Ho bought it from you,” said Mr.
Green.
“I know ho did; but Harry’s mother
is poor, and he only gets a penny now
and then. It will take him a long,
long time to save a dollar; and then
the sled is broken, and no good to him.
1 have a great many more nice things
than ho has, and why should I want
his pennies when he gets so few?”
“What made you think of this?”
asked the father, who was touched by
the words of his child.
“It came to my mind just now when
I was saying my prayer. I prayed,
‘Forgive us our debts, as we forgive
our debtors.’ Now Harry Williams
is my debtor, is he not ?”
“Yes, my son.”
“Well, if I don’t forgive him his
debt, how can I expect God to forgive
me iny debt? If I pray to him to for
give me as I forgive Harry, and I don’t
forgive Harry at all, don’t I ask God
not to forgive me, father?”
The child spoke earnestly, and stood
with his large, deep, calm eyes fixed
intently upon his father’s face. Almost
involuntarily Mr. Green repeated the
words,
“ ‘lf ye forgive not men their tres
passes,’ said our Savior, ‘neither will
your Father forgive your trespasses.’ ”
I’ll forgive Harry tho debt, father.
I’m sure he isn’t able to pay for the
sled; and I have a great many more
nice things than he has. If I don’t do
it, how can I ever pray that prayer
again?”
“Oh, yes, yes; forgive him the debt,
by all means!” replied the father, kiss
ing his boy.
That evening was spent by Mr.
Green in closer self-communion than
he had known for many years. The
words of his child had come to him
like rebuking precepts from heaven,
and he bowed his head, humiliated and
repentant, resolving to forgive, in the
future, as he would be forgiven.
On the following morning, as Mr.
Wilkins, from whose mind the cloud
had not lifted, who was yet trembling
for the home of his children, was pass
ing from his door, a lad placed a letter
in his hand. He knew the face of the
boy from its likeness to that of Air.
Green.
“More trouble,” lie sighed to himself
as he thrust tho note into his pocket.
An hour afterward he opened it, and to
liis bewilderment and surprise, found
within his account fully drawn out,
and receipted with the signature of
Harvey Green. Below the receipt was
written, “I stand rebuked. I must for
give, if I hope to be forgiven.”
It was with difficulty that Mr. Wil
kins could refrain a gush of tears, so
great was his instant revulsion of feel
ing. Ah, if Harvey Green could have
seen his heart at that moment, his debt
would have been paid fourfold. No
amount of money poured into his cof
fers could have produced such a feeling
of heavenly delight.— Sel.
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The Moiueutns Question —The
Thing that Few Know.
“How shall a man propose in order
to he successful in his suit?” repeated
one of our most intelligent society
ladies, whose silver locks only 7 serve to
enhance the beauty of her still youth
ful face. In my opinion, though all
men know well enough how to ‘make
love,’ there is not one in a thousand
who knows how to propose. My hus
band spent six months protesting and
convincing me of his love, of which,
by 7 the way, 1 was well aware from the
first, without once asking me the im
portant question, ‘will you marry me?’
and finally one day said to me with a
disneartened air, ‘you are like all the
rest, a perfect enigma, i have spent
months trying to win you, and 1 do
not know that I have made any 7 im
pression upon you; you are as hard to
unravel as the scarf yon wear around
your throat. This, 1 exclaimed, in the
most innocent way, ‘why, ’tis no diffi
cult task to unravel it, if you get hold
of the right string.’ He saw the point
took hold of the right string, and ”
“His arm took the place of the scarf!”
“Well, neither of us have ever regret
ted it.”
on ms knees.
One lady, the wife of a learned
judge, said: “’Tis eighteen years since
that dear man made a fool of me, and
after so great a lapse of time y r ou can
not expect me to remember how he did
it. I’ll vow ho went down on his
knees, though y 7 ou wouldn’t think it to
look at his rotund proportions. And I
■was silly enough to believe every word
he said, and when ho declared solemn
ly that he would shoot himself if I did
not marry him, of course I consented,
just to save his life but I’ll not l* so
silly another time—if he only gives
me the chance.”
“Don’t believe a word of that,”
chimed the judge from behind his pa
per. “I was actually compelled to ask
her to marry me to get rid of the trou
ble of taking her or some other girl
around, 1 saw she was in love with
me, and thought she would do as well
as any 7 other. Now that sums up the
whole history ot this case.”
VlilOßOrs COURTSHIP.
A bright-eyed girl, who is a skillful
angler for hearts, thinks a young man,
to be successful, should propose after
a very short acquaintance, take a girl
by 7 storm, as it were, while she is pleas
ed with anew beau, and before she has
time to tiro of him; then follow tho
proposal up with a vigorous courtship,
lots of flowers and bonbons, drives,
theatre parties, etc.,and if she consents,
insist upon a short engagement by all
means.
UNEXPECTED VOWS.
Another well known blonde beauty
who has created sad havoc, and had
much experience in this line, says the
only successful way is to propose when
least expected. Allow no time for con
sideration, and then insist that the ac
ceptance must be “now or never.” She
feels sure that is the only way that she
will be captured, but she thinks very
few men are bold enough to try that
game.
LOVERS POKES.
One well-known belle and beauty
says that “she has had so many make
love to her that she hardly knows what
is the best and most successful method.
She was more occupied in studying
how to prevent an approach to tho sub
ject than in facilitating it. Beaux were
all lovely until they became lovers, for
they moved, thought and talked con
stantly of themselves and their happi
ness, while she wished to bo thinking
of her own happiness. Marriage is
quite another thing; is easily settled
when one finds a suitable partner.
AROUND THE WAIST.
A married lady, in whose household
the little god of love certainly makes
his abode, says the only successful
proposition of which she knows any
thing was made without a word being
spoken: “John and I sat looking in the
fire a long time, without saying any
thing, when all at once he put his arm
around me. When father came in a
moment later lie said; ‘Major, I’m
going to steal your daughter.’
WILY WIDOWERS.
A dark-eyed girl, with a tangle of
soft brown hair shading her brow, says
“it a fellow is desperately in love with
a girl, ami persistent in His effort to
win her, he is sure to gain his suit.
Widowers understand this point, and
know exactly how to make love and
propose, and you will observe they are
always successful.” She knows one
case where a widower went in and hung
up liis hat, announced his intention of
remaining until he was accepted, and
the girl had to marry him to get rid of
him. A widower beau makes her ner
vous about the result.
xo “parlor” beau.
A society girl, who evidently had a
head for business as well as beaux,
says: “No ‘parlor beau’ need ever
propose with any hope of success, for
after a girl is compelled to bend her
whole energies to the task of entertain
ing him quietly at home, for six
months, she would he appalled at tho
proposition of spending the balance of
her life ‘quietly at home.”’ She ex
plains that a ‘parlor beau’ is that sel
fish, egotistical individual who being
a man has as much variety and change
as he wants, and thinks himself sufli
ciently interesting to entertain a girl
without any assistance in the way of
theatres, parties and drives, hut loaves
the other fellows to amuse her in that
way.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
| FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 92.
The Day ami Year of Christ's
Crucifixion.
Judge Bradley, of the Supreme court
has contributed to the Evangelist an
article on the day and year of Christ’s
crucifixion. The work is thoroughly
done by analytical historical analysis
and astronomical calculations. The
Judge says:
“Thecardinal conditions required by
these data arc, first, that the time must
be brought within the Procuratorship
of Pontius Pilate; secondly, it must he
after the fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberious, and after the thirtieth of
Christ’s age; thirdly, it must occur on
the 15th of the Jewish month Nisan
(or Abib,) and on the sixth day of the
week, or Friday.”
The Judge states the verified history
very carefully, and says :
“John’s preaching commenced in the
year ”0, and Jesus was baptised and
commenced preaching at the end of 20,
or beginning of 27. His first Passover,
after he commenced His public minis
try, would be either that which took
place in the spring of 20 or that which
took place in the spring of 28. It is
certain that the crucifixion could not
have taken place earlier than A. D. 28,
and it is not probable that it took place
later than A. I). 31.
“Matthew tells us: ‘Now the first
day of the feast of unleavened bread
the Disciples came to Jesus, saying
unto him: Where wilt Thou that we
prepare for Thee to eat the Passover?
etc. (Matt xxvi., 17.) Luke says:
‘Then came the day of unleavened
bread, when the Passover must be kill
ed. And He sent Peter and John, say
ing: Gj and prepare ns the Passover
that we may eat’ etc., (Luke, xxii., 7,
8.) Then followed the Last Supper
and Gethsemane; and the next morning
(the 15th of Nisan, of course) Jesus
“I shall assume that the day was the
sixth day of the week, or Friday—the
day 7 preceding the Sabbath, tue prepar
ation day. That is almost the univer
sal understanding of Christendom.
There are some, it is true, who contend
for some other day, just as there are
some who say that Shakespeare did not.
write the plays that go by his name.
But I ivill not stop to argue the point.
“We are able to find, then, a year,
from 28 to 31 inclusive, in which tho
15th, and of course, the Ist, of Nisan,
fell on Friday.
“Taking the Roman Calendar as the
standard of comparison, and the longi
tude of Jerusalem (35 degrees 18 min
utes 30 seconds east) as the point for
regulating time, and midnight as tiie
commencement of the day, it was found
by calculation, based on the ordinary
astronomical tables, that the vernal
equinox in the former half of the first
century occurred in the afternoon or
evening of the 22d of March. There
fore the full moon of Nisan ought not
to happen before that day, and the pre
ceding new moon ought not to happen
before the <th of March. Therefore
tho full moon of Nisan ought not to
happen before that day, and the prece
ding new moon ought not to happen
before the 7th of March. Therefore
the new moon, marking the Ist of
Nisan, must happen between the 7tli
of March and the 7th of April.”
A table of calculation is made, from
which it is apparent that in. A. D. 27 ;
“The new moon, which occurred on
the 2(sth of March, was first visible (ac
cording to Selden’s rule) on Thursday
evening, March 47, when the Ist of
Nisan commenced, and continued until
sunset of Friday evening, March 28tli.
For our purpose the Ist of Nisan was
Friday, March 28. And in like man
ner, attending to the respective times
of new moon in the other years con
tained in the table, it is equally appar
ent that the 1 st of Nisan occurred in A.
D. 2S, Tuesday, March 16; in A. D.
20, Monday, April 4; in A. D. 30, Fri
day, March 24; in A. D. 31, Tuesday,
March 13; in A. D. 32, Monday, March
31; in A. D. 33, either Friday, March
20. or Saturday March 21 (uncertain
which); in A. D. 34, Wednesday,
March 10; and in A. D. 35, Tuesday,
March 20. The moons here taken for
the month Nisan exactly agree with
the cycle before referred to.
“Thus we see that there were only
three years from A. D. 27 to A. I).
35, inclusive, in which the Ist of Ni-
san, and consequently the 15tli of Ni
san, happened Friday; and these were
A. D. 27, 30 and 33, the last of which
is very doubtful; But we have al
ready seen that the Crucifixion could
not have happened before A. D. 2S,
and probably not later than A. D. 31.
Therefore the year 30 is the only one
which satisfies all the conditions of the
problem. It does satisfy them, be
cause jit gives opportunity for Jesus
to teach publicly for about three years,
and to attend three Passovers during
His ministry, or four, according as it
commenced before or after April, A.
D. 27.
Now, since in A. D. 30 the Ist of
Nisan fell Friday, the 24th of March,
the 15th fell Friday, the 7th of April,
which, therefore, was the day of the
Crucifixion.”
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