Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-10-05
EXAMINE YOUR own RECORD Be.
fore THROWING ROCKS.
1t is so Easy to Sit in Judgment Upon
Ones NeighbOr When You DO 1t
ThOughtleSSiy. n Little Honest
Personal Retrospect Night be
Well Before COndemning.

In the play "Resurrection" most in.
teresting scene is that in the jury room
1t will be remembered by those who
have witnessed that striking play that a
many of the jurors expressed very strong
for and against the defendant.
Every one of these jurors was "cocksure
he was right, whether he favored acquit-
tai or conviction. A gray haired and
gray.bearded juror, who by the wav,
was very hard OF hearing, was finally
persuaded to express his opinion. Turn
ing first to the jurors on his right, then
to the jurors on his left and finally to the
Jurors in front OF him, he reiterated with
great deliberation: E-NONE
-OF-US-SAINTS!"
1t is more than probable that every
man has done things of which he is
heartily ashamed. 1t is more than prob
able that in the life of every man there
are several chapters which he would not
desire to have revealed to public gaze.
1--WE are none Of us saints" and it is
safe to say that The man whose disposition
is to hasten to the rock pile h g the most
need of the injunction: "Let him that is
without sin cast the first stone."
When in the discussion of one who has
displeased us we are tempted to say
harsh things, we should look over our
own record and see whether we have
been as circumspect rs We sholid have
been. We should stop to consider that
perhaps our enemy has had pressing
upon him such force of disadvantageons
that he could not always
do as we would wish him to do or as,
perhaps, he would have preferred to do.
When we are tempted to say that our
enemy has been immoral, should We not
at least look over our own record and de-
termine whether we have always lived
uD to the moral law?
Ir undertaking to enumerate .,.o
of our enemy, should we
not be bit careful lest we charge him
with the very sins of which we ourselves
have been guilty?
1t is very serious matter for those to
whom distinguished republican candi-
date for congress once referred as "hu.
man men" to engage in wholesale accu-
sation against their fellows. "We are
none of us saints; ;" and every one OF us
have SO many shortcomings, some Of one
kind and some of another, that even
though the milk of hnman kindness does
not run so regularly as to prompt us to
avoid inhicting needless wounds and
creating unnecessary scars, consideration
of the law Of self-preservaton should tie
our tongue and temper our bitterness.
A very little boy had learned to de.
scribe in his own way some of the scenes
as presented in the large pictures in the
old family Bible. He undertook to tell
a visitor the story of the fallen woman,
and he told that story somewhat in thi.
fashion:
"Dere's the dear, good Lord, and dere' q
de poor, wicked woman. Dere's de mean
men. De mean men dey say: Fro
wocks at her! Fro wocks at her!' And
de de dear, good Lord he say: No fro
wocks at her No fro wocks at her!'"
The little lads description was not
entirely accurate as concerns language,
but the spirit was there, and when we
are tempted to pass harsh judgment upon
our unfortunate fellow, would we not do
well to remember the admonition: "No
fro wocks?"