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All do not know it, but
it is a fact that the grandest quality that man can exercise, and
the one which brings the largest amount of blessing itself, is the
exercise of the God-like quality of mercy, compassion,
benevolence. The Lord lays great stress upon this quality of mercy,
declaring that whatever else may be our attainments of knowledge or
of grace, if we have not this one we can never be acceptable to
Him if we do not have mercy upon others neither will our Heavenly
Father have mercy upon us. And to insure that we do not consider
this mercy to be merely an outward form, an expression of
forgiveness and benevolence, our Lord expounds the matter, saying,
“If ye do not from the heart forgive one another, neither will your
Heavenly Father forgive you.” ... Only the merciful shall obtain
mercy; and if we have not mercy at the hands of the Lord, all is
lost; for by nature we were children of wrath, even as others, and
under just condemnation. |
