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To: David fisk who wrote (19435)	7/26/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: David fisk	Respond to of 39621

In the days of the American Revolutionary War there lived at Ephrata, Pennsylvania, a Baptist pastor by the name of Peter Miller who enjoyed the friendship of General Washington. There also dwelt in that town one Michael Wittman, an evil-minded man who did all in his power to abuse and oppose this pastor. One day Michael Wittman was involved in treason and was arrested and sentenced to death. The old preacher started out on foot and walked the whole seventy miles to Philadelphia to plead for this man's life. He was admitted into Washington's presence and at once begged for the life of the traitor. Washington said, "No, Peter, I cannot grant you the life of your friend." The preacher exclaimed, "My friend, he is the bitterest enemy I have." Washington cried, "What? You've walked seventy miles to save the life of an enemy? That puts the matter in a different light. I will grant the pardon." And he did. And Peter Miller took Michael Wittman from the very shadow of death back to his own home in Ephrata -- no longer as an enemy, but as a friend. -- Stephen Olford, The Grace of Giving. See: Rom 12:19-21 "Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord." (Rom 12:19 NKJV) Rom 12:19: A difficult truth for most Christians to apply in life is that of not retaliating in kind. Paul's admonition to Christians that they refrain from retaliating, even when wronged, springs directly from the apostle's unerring confidence in the providence of God and the certainty of His judgment. David