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Here is Christianity with its ence and pardon Jesus was full of love for souls wounded

by the passions of men; he loved to bind up their wounds and to find in

those very wounds the baldalen: "Much shall be forgiven thee because thou hast loved much," a

sublimity of pardon which can only have called forth a sublime faith

Why do we

obstinately to the opinions of the world, which hardens itself in

order that it , do we reject, as it rejects, souls

bleeding at wounds by which, like a sick man's bad blood, the evil of

their past may be healed, if only a friendly hand is stretched out to

lave them and set theeneration that I speak, to those for whoer, to those who, like myself,

realize that humanity, for these last fifteen years, has been in one of

its ood and evil

is acquired forever; faith is refashioned, respect for sacred things has

returned to us, and if the world has not all at once becoood, it has