Emphasis Preaching Journal

As often as we seek forgiveness, it is God's wish and pleasure to grant it. So it was with the Czarina of Russia, Maria Fedorovna. Using very subtle means, she once saved a prisoner from being deported to Siberia. Her husband, Czar Alexander, wrote when consigning the condemned man, "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia." The Czarina intervened, had one comma changed, left her husband's signature and the royal seal intact and saved the prisoner. When she finished with the edict, it read, "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia."