"Never Trespassed Against"
ONE who sees his own sin as Christ sees it has little room left in his heart for any thought of his own "rights." As we increasingly recognize the awfulness of the wounds we have inflicted by our sin in the body of Christ, we shall be less and less able to think about or even to recognize any injury as done by others to us. A man who had sinned and had been forgiven by the Father was praying in grateful penitence the Lord's Prayer. When he came to the petition, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us," he cried out in the protest of his whole being, "No one has ever trespassed against me." Nor had any one, as that man had trespassed against God. The worst injuries done us by others are so infinitesimal as compared with the injuries we do God that we may well deny their existence altogether. Any comparison between the two throws the wrongs done us so hopelessly beneath reckoning that we can safely leave them out of account altogether. "I have nothing to forgive," said one friend to another when asked for forgiveness for an injury done by the latter. That is forgiveness; the forgiveness that ignores, forgets, denies the very existence of an injury to self. And it is easy so to forgive when we are looking into the face of the forgiving Christ whom we have crucified.—S. S. Times.