personal bearing and deeds in to-day by the other's ill deeds of
yesterday.

All we are asked to do is to forgive as we are forgiven. Our hope is
that when we have fallen our friends will not lose their faith in us
nor entirely forsake us, that they will give us another chance; not
that they will shield us from the fruitage of our follies and our
falseness, but that they will not shut us off forever from their faces.

So far from forgiveness being the weakness of the thoughtless, it is
the helpfulness of the strong and the wise. To forgive a man will not
mean to escape from the trouble of securing his punishment; it will not
mean the weak complaisance of indolent tolerance. It will mean thought
for his weakness, taking up his burden, doing the brother's part for
him, the endeavour to do for him what we would like to have the Father
of us all do for us all.




XIV

Men and Mammon

_Riches and Righteousness_
_Religion and Business_
_The Moral End of Money-Making_


_Better a sweet failure than a sour success._