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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 3.

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Forgiveness.

By John Nevins Andrews

The Lord's prayer teaches us a most expressive lesson on this subject. We ask to be forgiven as we forgive others. We cannot use this prayer while we hold any hardness in our hearts toward our fellow-men. An unforgiving spirit on our part, shuts us away from the mercy-seat. For we cannot pray after any other “manner” than this; and to pray with a heart that does not forgive others, is to ask God to withhold forgiveness from us. If this be true, how forcible the admonition of Paul, “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” So long as the heart is unforgiving, so long is it not only unforgiven, but really debarred from prayer. J. N. Andrews.