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Free Church of Scotland minister James Stalker: Jesus commanded love of enemies and forgiveness of injuries, on pain of going unforgiven yourself. Utterly new, he said. Still is, apparently. Civic life runs on the grudge as a renewable resource.

Whom are you holding out on?
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Black square graphic. Left: an engraved portrait of a man with dark wavy hair and a moustache, in a dark coat and high white collar. Beneath it in bold white type: "JAMES STALKER (1848–1927)," then in italics, "Ethic of Jesus According to the Synoptic Gospels." Right, in white text, the quotation: "Jesus applied the law of love to an extreme case when He said: 'Love your enemies.' To the same effect He commanded to forgive injuries, putting into the Lord's Prayer the petition: 'Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,' and frequently affirming with solemnity that, unless we forgive men their trespasses, our heavenly Father will not forgive us. Nothing of the kind had been conceived in the world before..."