The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-07-29
On tho Judging of Others.

Did YOU ever notice two people talking
for any length OF time and observe how
much of the conversation is made up of
reference to others, their acts and ways?
And further, how much OF that plentiful
criticism is adverse?
Go back over yesterday and trace. it
you can. the kind judgment YOU put upon
record-ether in your own mind or in the
minds of others-concerninC your fellow
men and women. Now the natural ten.
1ency when you have done this will be to
at once defend yourself for the judgments
you have made. ana in many cases perhaps
they would seem iustihabe-but think!
Are you willing to be judged by the samG
Judgment? To he measured with the samO
measure with which vou have condemned
him? Perhaps even this you may say in
your righteous wrath YOU are willing to do,
but think once more. Given that man'J
surroundings and circumstances, his here
ditary tendencies. his weaknesses his TEN.
perament, and, above all. his temptations
leaving out, of course, all advantages
that YOU have had and he has nOt-then,
would you be willing to be judged as Sc
verely as you have judged him!
And it may be true, il all truth were
known, that he deserves such judgment; ;
but even so, Christ says, that judgment is
not for us to give, but for Him.
There are two reasons why this law OF
Christ's is right. The first is because it is
not possible that we, so long as we dwell
upon this earth, should with our earthly
vision and understanding. know all the
circumstances of any mans acts but our
own. There is one person whose judgment
has been committed to our care II We
choose to look into it, and that is our own.
There is no great danger that our judg.
ments OF ourselves will be too severe.
The second reason is that the judge
should be without . fault. Can any one OF
us aspire to that positiony
And il we needed any more OF Christ =
words upon this subject, after the lesson
| that we have before us, we have theiL in
| the chapter where the sinful woman was
brought to Him, and He said to her ac'
cusers: 'He that is without sin among you
let him first cast stone at her"
| And vet to-day we cast our stones as
| gaylv as though they were not crushing
the life from some heart for whom Christ
! died.
But when YOU think OF the long years
OF careful training your parents gave you
| of your fathers patience and your moth
er's prayers. do YOU think it can be any
| greater in Gods eyes than the way you
lose your temper every day? You spoke
roughly to your lLother this morning. or
to your friend. Wait until a day comes
| when YOU have not lost your temper, or
Welded in the least to your besetting sin,
before YOU presume to Judge your neigh
DOT, III TINS rulc were {, mmOn among
Christians it would make V; difference
not only in our conversations. but in our
feelings one toward another. Harsh judg-
ments. even though they may be true,
often lead to misunderstanding and life
long arrangements between people who
were meant to be help to one another.
The time is coming when we shall have
the right to Judge; when we shall sit on
thrones and judge. But 1t is not yet. For
| in that day We shall be washed white
from every spot and bemish.
And it may be thai just the beam that
is in our own ewes is the very beam of not
loving our neighbor. So. without love,
ments differ vastly when the case is our
own. 1t is the old story of whose OK is
gored" 1t is the love that Christ bears to
souls and His knowledge of their tempta-
tons that makes Him the righteous judge,
And God has given judgment into His
hands.-Grace Livingston Hill, in the Ne!
York Mail and Express.