I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.