“My Specialty Is Mercy”
Marion D. Hanks October 1981 Sunday Afternoon Session
My theme today is mercy. The poet wrote that mercy is “twice blest; / It bless[es] him that gives and him that takes,” and added that “earthly power doth then show likest God’s / When mercy seasons justice.” (Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, lines 186–87, 96–97.)