Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-27
OUR JuDGMENr.oF TIE OTHER FELL low!

l.T -sa,,, s+3. self. He who brews his own medicine
 and takes 1t himself ism. poisoning
 anybody else if he makes a mistake in | the mixture But he who bases an | I opinion about other people on ignor- ] ar,ce CT half -kslowledge. of their mo- tives and conditions, does, them an in- ! jury as well as himself respectfully if he | makes his privately formed opinion the
 basis for. publicly expressed Judgment. l because regard them as, any worse | l sinners in this respect;than, other mon land wonen,l but because they're prob | | ably just about as badly .tarfed as the | average and because they ought not to be tarred at all! Besides, T can per haps set a few farmers to thinking, l while I don't suppose any consider abie humber of lawyers or bankers or store keepers or railroad men. .fwho may be as bad. read these talks. I'm aiming at targets can possibly hit; not at those out of my rangeA Il You know where your own shoe pinches; who else does? Do you sup t pose. you also know better than your neighbors where their corns are sit Eyou convince yourselfs that to you has
 been given a .vision.irto the neighbors' motives which you ki}ow; they have
 not been giyensirto yours:
 I Anyway, eWho art thou that judaest Ithy. neishbor?~ It's the etApostle James .IWho asks that pointed question, not John Farmer. You may settle the l ethics of 1t with hinn. after your own fashion. The Apostle Paul asked very similar question, as some of you may recall. And a greater than either solemnly forbade you and me to judge others lest we ourselves have meted out to us the Judgment wherewith we have judged. as%f ,ss ., -
 It isn't. however the ethical or
 spiritual side of thelauestion which I am thinking about this morning. so
 much as the social.
 We've all of us got, to live together,
 after some fashion or another. The
 other fellow is here just as certainly
 and with as good right as we. We
 didn't place him any more, than he
 placed us. tB But there he is; in the next
 house, with only a line fence, and an
 area of. soil between us and shim. He
 can't order us to- move to central Sa-
 hara if by some. chance we displease
 by similar chance he displeases US.
 Isn't it then, the most sensible and , satisfactory way to rub along smooth
 ly$ with him, rather than stand off at s arms, ,,length,o at swords points?
 And How en earth are, we ever going . to do that iftwe're all the time mea sur ing shins by Seur owns uncerta in. yard- , sticks; pr wsishing him. ,on5 our own
 variable scales. or mea asuring him in
 our own home -made and unsealed
 bush el lakaskets2 2. ..E35e.. ! We believe in our. own Scales and v our oWnyardstick and our own basket. = VeIilS snag not the, have scales and a ]. yardstick and a measure which he be- 1 lieves fin.S tooe Painstaking science . has developed the fact that no two measures whether of length or bulk or
 area, are ever absolutely alike. to the
 laststen nillionth decimal Of accuracy. How much sTaria ton may we not .ex- | pectlin the crude measures which we
 have to use; if the utmost skill; applied :. with the highest art te, the most per feet materials cannot insure absolute
 accuracy? 5s.. .aE y .I @fteil you, brother or sister, its going ]. to res1lf in a whole. lot Of neighborly
 ructiops whenever you and your neigh
 Dor insist each upon measuring the . other with your own Yardsticks. Worst of all, .yor don't either one of you eyer know exactly what it is you
 are measuring or trying to. Nine times out of ten you're guessing at one ' thing :, and imagining another. Then :. you expect to get at the truth by di- !, viding what you've guessed by what ( you we ina gined! :t@s ', : livery famous surgeon was once
 asked his opinion upon somewhat complicated eye derangenent He r looked the eye over. Then he used an ;, opthalmiscope: Then he tried some
 other sort of scope. Then he. tested a 2. tear-drop in tube. Then he began a set up and prepare some other instru- z ment. The impatient D atient, after
 nearly half an hour of this, during cl which the surgeon had said never . : word. broke in: Well, what's the mat
 ter, doctor 2, Don't know, yet" was
 the answer. Haven't got enough facts yet to base an opinion on'' 5@s
 Another eye doctor had stared at the cl eye for. a minute, pried up an eyelid. q looked into it withsa pair of exaggerat- D ed goggles and announced, after three l minutes: You've got gIaucoma; better !, have an operation. Tho second sur
 reputation, took aSfull hour during
 which he did nothing but hunt for ali
 the facts he could possibly gather by
 observation. and test. When he'd got
 them all together at last, he gave his 5l opinion in. just ,aboutS ten seconds
 Which opinion was utterly unlike the
 first doctors and being based on
 knowledge proved the right one, later
 Now one's envirennaent and one.
 mottve9 are potn "a Eood deal more
 complicated than anybody's eyeball. II is a. good deal more risky to make UT
 opinions about them without fui
 knowledge than it is.tto diagnose ar o optical aiIment without first findins
 out what it really is..SS maintain that
 as "a rnattef of moral right and 0,
 neighhorly con,ity. have no righ
 whatever to criticize my. neikhbors fo, " their management of their farms ol I their households till [ Know fully al F.. theS' conditions and all the motive, G which govern their action. Y a:sa&f X
 Nor have they the Tight tos critieiz,
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