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The Koran says that two angels guard every man on the earth, one watching on each side of him. When at night he sleeps, the angels fly up to heaven with a written report of all his words and actions during the day. The one on his right tells of every good thing he had done, and it is recorded at once and repeated ten times, lest some item may be lost or omitted from the account. But when the angel on his left tells of a sinful thing, the angel on his right says, “Forbear to record that for seven hours: peradventure, as the man wakes and thinks in the quiet hours, he may be sorry for it, and repent and pray and obtain forgiveness.”
This is only a fancy, and yet it really is a true representation of the way in which God regards our lives. He is slow to see our sins or to write them down against us. He delights in mercy. The lesson is for us, too, for we are to repeat in our lives as God’s children something, at least, of his patience. The song of forgiveness and forbearance which he sings into our hearts we ought to echo forth again. We, too, should be quick to note and remember all the good things of others, and slow to mark or record the wrong that we see in them.