God desires that all of us treat everyone with kindness.

It' s a compelling story with a message of restraint and mercy laced throughout.

When bad things happen they seem to contradict belief in the goodness and care of God.

"If, in all these past seven years, " thought he, "I could recall one instant of peace or hope, I would yet endure, for the sake of that earnest of Heaven's mercy.

I cannot admit that there was on the whole anything in our behaviour or demeanour to have put us beyond the pale of human kindness.