The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-12-20
WILSON'S MISSILES"
BY Ona B. Wilson.

~ Una ID W AloOAs go sssss
Fault finding is one of the dreariest
pets a person can humor. 1t is a men
ace to society and a destroyer of self.
How many of us if it were possible
would get a false notion of our stand
ing among friends? How many would
like to know what is being said about
us behind our back If we did know;
one day we would go around in a glow
of self esteem and the next burdened
under a miserable load of self disgust
and hurt. There are persons consid-
cred wise that find most to laugh at
in strangers, boot at scandal and
have a way of ridiculing the slightest
errors in others. 1t is to be consid.
cred from the source it came. But
the person who stands as a guiding
light to help in the time of sorrow and
daily walks to be guilty of such al
act is more than sad. True worth my
friends does not eXult in the faults
and DEFICIENCIES of others. True re-
tinement even though it may turn
aside from grossness and deformity
does not indulge in an unmanly
triumph Yer it, real power, real
Christianity does not fear contain
inatiOn from coming in contact with
the things that are sordid and home
ly. And why? Because it reposes On
its self and is equally free from all
envy and affection. There are hun
dreds of people who's delight is in
speaking evil of others. We can IN
derstand how a boy who has never
been taught different might carry tor
pedoes around in his pocket and de
light to throw them down at the feet
of passersby to sec them bound and eX-
plode; but we cannot understand how
any deep thinking, we'll instructed per-
son could do such a thing. And yet
there are persons who carry tOrpedoes
all through their lives and delight to
throw them at people. They will say
7 know i'll of that person and they at
once proceed to tear down the intlu'
ence of that struggling one, If remon.
strated with, they will say it is true
as if that justified the act. Little
thinking hat if Il Heavenly Father
would take all the things true of us
cast them to the winds that they
might blow back upon our own forget
full past, how miserable we would be
By the law of justice and mercy no
one should be ridiculed for their i'm.
PROJECTIONS For if we must bear our
neighbOrs faults then cast thine eyes
upon thine own said the greatest OF
teachers" The greatest of all faults
is to believe you have none. Little
minds ignore their own faults ant
carp at the defect of others. Bu'
great minds are sensible of their owl
faults and are largely compassionate
toward their interiors. Beecher says
when the absent are spoken of somt
speak gold of them, some silver, somt
l lead and some dirt! but shall I USE
the slangy phrase of others. "Wher
speaking of your neighbors faults
l pray don't forget your own. Remem
Der those with homes of glass SHOULD
l never throw a stone II We have moth
| ing else to do but talk of those whit
sin, It's better far we commence a
home and from that point begin. w
have no right to judge a man until h
is fairly tried, if we don't like his CON
: pany we know the world is wide. Som
have faults and those who have no
the old as well as young, perhaps W
may for all we know have fifty to thei
one. I'll tell you of a better plan an'
l find it works full well, to try GU
own defects to cure before on other
tell. So let us all when we commend
to Islander friend or foe just thin.
Y of the harm one word may do to thos,
We little know. Remember curse
sometimes like our chickens roost a
home. Friends" don't speak of 9th
ers faults until we have non of on
I own"