p. 278 | Forbearance by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 11, 1879

Forbearance.

By Editor

We may well introduce a paragraph clipped from one of our exchanges:—

“Many beautiful stories of the exercise of mutual forbearance come down to us from the days of the early church, when Christians seemed to be more impressed with the meaning and power of the Christian duty than later. One of these relates to the Bishop of Alexandria, who, it is told, had a fierce quarrel with the Governor, so that they parted like two pieces of tinder, which, by their rubbing together, had both caught fire; each going home in a flame of hatred. As the shadow of the declining day, however, fell into his room, the bishop grew pensive, and wrote on a slip of paper, ‘The sun is going down.’ This he sent to the Governor, who, catching the reference to St. Paul's precept, ‘Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,’ hastened to the old bishop and, together, mutually reconciled, they stood in the sunset's benediction.”