{"id":7870,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/power-of-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:04","slug":"power-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/power-of-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a story of an incorrigible soldier who had been punished so often for so many offenses, without avail, that his commanding officer despaired of the man&#8217;s amendment.  Again he was under arrest, and the officer spoke hopelessly of him, asking what more could be done to save him from his own undoing.  A fellow-officer suggested, &#8220;Try forgiving him.&#8221;  The man was brought in and asked what he had to say for himself.  He replied: &#8220;Nothing, except that I&#8217;m very sorry.&#8221;  &#8220;Well,&#8221; said the officer, &#8220;we have decided to forgive you.&#8221;  The man stood dazed for a moment and then burst into tears, saluted, and went out to become the best and bravest soldier in the command.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; J. R. Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a story of an incorrigible soldier who had been punished so often for so many offenses, without avail, that his commanding officer despaired of the man&#8217;s amendment. Again he was under arrest, and the officer spoke hopelessly of him, asking what more could be done to save him from his own undoing. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[527],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}