"Pay attention and always be on your guard looking out
for one another. If your brother sins, misses the mark,
solemnly tell him so and reprove him, and if he repents,
feeling sorry for having sinned, forgive him.
And even if he sins against you seven times in a day,
and turns to you seven times and says, I repent, I am sorry,
you must forgive him, give up resentment and consider
the offense as recalled and annulled.
The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith, that
trust and confidence that spring from our belief in God.
And the Lord answered, If you had faith, trust and confidence
in God even so small like a grain of mustard seed, you could say
to this mulberry tree, Be pulled up by the roots, and be planted
in the sea, and it would obey you."
(Luke 17:3-6)
"Forward!" be our watch-word, Steps and voices joined;
Seek the things before us, Not a look behind:
Burns the fiery pillar At our army's head;
Who shall dream of shrinking, By our Captain led?
Forward through the desert, Through the toil and fight,
Jordan flows before us, Zion beams with light.
-Reverend Henry Alford
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