Forgiveness Week

"Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye." Colossians 3:13

A custom way out in the African bush which has no equivalent in this part of the world is "Forgiveness Week." Fixed in the dry season, when the weather itself is smiling, this is a week when every man and woman pledges himself or herself to forgive any neighbor any wrong real or fancied, that may be a cause for misunderstanding, coldness or quarrel between the parities.

It is, of course, a part of our religion that a man should forgive his brother. But among recent converts, and even older brethren, this great tenet is, perhaps naturally, apt to be forgotten or overlooked in the heat and burden of work. "Forgiveness Week' brings it forcibly to mind. The week itself terminates with a festival of happiness and rejoicing among the native Christians.

It is too much to suggest that in this supposedly more civilized portion of the world a similar week might be instituted?

"Nothing between, Lord - nothing between;
Shine with unclouded ray,
Chasing each mist away,
O'er my whole heart hold sway -
Nothing between."

Let grudges die "like cloudspots in the dawn!" When God forgives, He forgets!

By Mrs. Charles E Cowman taken from "Springs in the Valley"