The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-10-22

Easy for US to pass Judgment upon 9TH
ers. 1t Is very hard. however. for us
30 be willing TO let others criticise their
neighbors when they themselves are
fiagrantly guilty of the same sins. Yet
everywhere we find that those phar-
isaical people who themselves are most
vpen To criticism are the most critical
Of others.
Sit any day YOU will in crowded
city street car and find an illustration
Of what | mean. When the poor old col
orcd washerwOman tries TO enter with
her bundles and drops some packages
who laughs-the educated gentleman
or the refined lady. the man whose
cerebral development indicates the
dome of his skull covers a well devcl-
opcd brain, or are the laughers and the
ScoffcrS found among the ignorant and
the stupid, among those whose intellect
in all probability is not even as -rcat
aS that of the old black woman who
mover had Il days schooling I'm all her
life: Who is hardest upon the Young
clrlor boy who has gone aStray: The ulG
Christian man ana woman who furu
their very earliest days have praycvtu,
~ followed Christ: oh. no, The per
sons who will hc most apt TO pass the
hardest critic,>m against the fallen
are The men and the women who dare
not have the search light Of invcsaga-
tion turned upon ,hCir own lives. So
some of uS can we'll make the aS>cy-
ton: We drSp>n IN. but we dc,pi>c
worse the sinner who is criticisug sin
when he himself is guilty OF the same
or even worse sins"
But, steady, my brother. Ec patient
also with these who are harsh in their
criticisms Of others. Remember that
for them Il day Of reckoning is coming
or perhaps has come. Who among Your
brothers and sisters today is having
the hardest times? Is II not the sister
who never had in her heart any love
for the common people? Is ii not the
sister who felt she was socially and
mentally little higher than any one
else: Who today is most mcrcilcSSly
laid upon the diSSrcting table of criti-
ciSm and having his whole life cut 10
pieces? Is IL not the man who himself
once most vigorously welded the cen.
serious scalpcl? DO not worry that
these sinners who are, so harsh in their
criticisms against the sins Of others
VIII not have their Just rewards. Yer
iIy verify, | say unto you. their con.
dcmnation will come from God 1t Is
better for us not 10 try 10 snatch the
divine thundcrbOlts out Of Gods hand
Re patient even in your criticisms
against those unjust critics. Let Your
moderation be- known unto all men"
But there is still another class OF ag-
greSSive critics against which | would
plead with You 10 apply the teachings
of my text. They are those who have
no sympathy with you in your work.
do not mean those who are maliciously
falsifying, but those who honestly.
truthfully and positively do not like
your way of doing things.
Let me suggest one other overmas-
tering consideration which ought to
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