Ex-Governor
Pennypacker, in an address that wa.s both kind and witty, said in Philadelphia
of the divorce evil:
"There would be
less divorce if there were more forgiveness. We forgive our enemies-would it be
so dreadful to forgive our husbands and our wives?
"I have been
reading a play by a Frenchman-Hervieu's Connaistoi-I wish we turned out stich
plays in this country-and in the last act of this play an old soldier says a
profoundly beautiful thing about those husbands and wives who forgive.
" 'Happiness,' he
says, 'is so precious to some of us that, when it is broken, we stoop and
gather up the pieces.' "
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