Happy Holidays to you all! You are free to forward the following, but please do so in it's entirety. and for more of Steve's work... http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/3873/franklina.html Happy Holidays!! Cathy Hall cat5hall@email.msn.com ASC TNGenWeb TNGenWeb Bradley County http://www.tngenweb.org/bradley TNGenWeb Polk County http://www.tngenweb.org/polk USGenNet http://www.usgennet.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <snipped> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 8:52 AM Subject: another holiday story > The following story came from Steve Batson, from Travelers Rest, SC, <snip> > The next story, which is equally instructive, is an > episode in the life of the distinguished Confederate > general Robert E. Lee. > > When Robert E. Lee was a cadet at West Point, a > classmate took a violent and irrational dislike to > him. The animosity persisted into later life. For many > years this fellow officer made malicious attacks on > Lee. One day a mutual acquaintance asked Lee what he > thought of this individual. To the questioner's > surprise, Lee spoke in the highest terms of him. Then > his questioner said slyly, "I guess you don't know > what he's been saying about you for years." "You have > not asked me," Lee replied, "for his opinion of me. > You have asked me for my opinion of him." [As related > by James G. Gilkey in Stanley I. Stuber and Thomas > Curtis Clark, eds., Treasury of the Christian Faith: > An Encyclopedic Handbook of the Range and Witness of > Christianity (New York: Association Press, 1949), pp. > 775-76] > > General Lee was known as a man of honor and as one who > exemplified the highest of moral character. I am > confident that his honorable actions were both > observed and emulated by the soldiers who served with > him. Thus General Lee is one who, by practicing acts > of magnanimity, could double the effect and then have > those effects doubled again by the actions of others. > I believe General Lee incorporated fully in his life > the teachings of the Savior given in Matthew 18:21-22: >