The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-05-04

name without realizing what we are
doing.
In our Public Library is book en-
titled The Bishop of Cottontown,
and while, perhaps, the story is not a
strong one, there is a character, the
old bishop, who in his crude way
enunciates great truths aud startling
epigrams that might be needed 10y us
all with profit TO ourselves as well as
the community in which we live.
In this connection the old bishop
says, land note how much truth is
contained in the utterance). Many a
woman, so ugly that she wasn't any
temptation for sin to mate with her,
has done more harm with her SANDER
ing tongue than fallen woman has
done with her whole body. We are
mortals and can't help it and God
made us so"
In preaching the funeral of weak
brother i'm the church he remarked,
Brother -- had his faults as we all
have. He was rinkling of good
and evil, a mixture of laziness and
diligence, a brave man mostly with a
few yellow crosses in him truthful
nearly all the time, and lying mostly
for fun or through force of habit {;
good at times and bad at others (;
spiritual at times when 1t looked like
he could look right into the gates of
heaven, and then again racked with
passions that swept over him in great
waves until it seemed that God had
forgotten him. Come to think of it
brethren that's about the way it is
with the most of us. Let us remem-
ber when we see the faults of others
that we see only what they have done,
as Bobby Burns says, we don't know
what they have resisted. Give them
credit for that, maybe 1t will over
balance" And who will say that the
old bishop was not right ?
In recent issue of the Saturday
Evening Post, the editor says in an
editorial. "Some minds plume them
selves upon not being taken in by any
appearance of masculine virtue. Any
mans virtue provokes in them the
same interest as conjurer's trick.
They would like to known how the
fake was worked and wait in astute
assurance that time will expose 1t.
If he has shown unblemished probity
in money matters for many years,
that, they admit, constitutes strong
presumptive evidence that he did not
steal the gold watch that was missing
after a conference at which he was
present. If he has been uniformly
kind and temperate all his life they
will not readily believe he murdered
the stranger who was found dead in
the alley back of his house. If no one
has ever caught him in lie his word
will carry greater weight with them
than that of an habitual prevaricator,
but though he has lived three score
and ten untouched by any breath Of
domestic scandal, the moment an in.
situation In that direction is raised
against him he might as well-so far
as these astute citizens are concerned
have been notorious sinner all his
life. His record counts for nothing
with them except TO aggravate his as
sumed offense. There Judgment is,
"He was certainly sly old dog, but
he's been found out at last"
There are such people-but fortu-
nately there are others.
Would 1t not be good policy to at
least give every one the benefit of the
doubt? What is to be gained by idly
discussing the conduct of others any
way ? Have charity for everyone in
these things and you will be surprised
to know what a source of satisfac-
tion it is to yourself as well as to the
community at large.