"If I might be permitted to borrow an illustration from poetry, the distinction between forgiveness and reconciliation is nowhere more strikingly shown than by a poet who, more than most other men, has sounded the depths of human feeling, and who supposes the question put to the husband of an adulteress: "Then did you freely, from your heart forgive?" to which he replies: "Sure, as I hope before my Judge to live; Sure, as the Saviour died upon the tree For all who sin—for that dear wretch and me, Whom never more, on earth, will I forsake or see." Grabbe's " Tales of the Hall," b. 12."