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When One be Offended by Others

 

FORGIVENESS Accepting

Sen. Mark Hatfield recounts the following history: James Garfield was a lay preacher and principal of his denominational college. They say he was ambidextrous and could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.

In l880 he was elected president of the United States but after only six months in office he was shot in the back with a revolver. He never lost consciousness. At the hospital the doctor probed the wound with his little finger to seek the bullet. He couldn't find it so he tried a silver-tipped probe. Still he couldn't locate the bullet.

They took Garfield back to Washington D.C. Despite the summer heat they tried to keep him comfortable. He was growing very weak. Teams of doctors tried to locate the bullet probing the wound over and over. In desperation they asked Alexander Graham Bell who was working on a little device called the telephone to see if he could locate the metal inside the president's body. He came he sought and he too failed. The president hung on through July through August but in September he finally died-not from the wound but from infection. The repeated probing which the physicians thought would help the man eventually killed him. So it is with people who dwell too long on their sin and refuse to release it to God.

Roger Thompson