FORGIVE AND FORGET

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 25, 1872

FORGIVE AND FORGET.

Oh! forgive and forget; for this life is too fleeting To waste it in brooding o’er wrongs we have met; It is better, far better, to smother our anger, To teach the proud heart to forgive and forget.

In the path we must tread, leading down to the valley, Are crosses and trials to lift and to bear, And the chalice of life from which we are now drinking Oft bears to our lips drops of sorrow and care.

But this life is so short, be it sunshine or shadow, That we cannot afford to brood over wrong. Let us lift up our burdens, and bear them on bravely, We’ll lay them down shortly, it cannot be long

Then forgive and forget, if the friends we love fondly Prove themselves to be false and unworthy of trust, Oh! deal with them kindly, for they are but mortals, Erring like us—for we, too, are but dust.

Oh! deal with them tenderly, and pity their weakness, We know every heart hath its evil and good; We all have a Father in Heaven—hence we are brothers, Then let us forgive and forget as we should.