Suppose our governor, impelled by mighty love, should pardon all the criminals in our State. It would jar the machinery of government, and endanger the very foundations of society. But God’s law has no defects. Its decisions are invariably just; and for God to forgive wrong without conditions would be for him to destroy right, and to disorder the universe. It is no easy thing to forgive sin. The hardest question ever put is, “How can man be just with God?” But while God is just, his name is Love; and out of the depths of infinite wisdom, Love has found a way by which he can “be just and the justifier of them that believe.” This is the mystery of the Cross.

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