Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-05-01
SEE THE GOOD IN THEM

SEE THE GOOD IN THEM
Everyone is full enough
OF deeds that are a bit too rough
While everyone at some old time
Performs some act that is sublime.
The tendency of a whole lot of
folks is to be ever on the lookout
for hte faults and failings of others
that they may put forth barrage
of criticism. They never seem to
realize that one can sometimes have
a few good qualities along with the
bad and still be kind of humane
like or that is, like the most of the
human beings we know. Of course
1t Is perfectly natural that the i'm
projections of man should be the
most prominent part of him to the
rest of the world, else we would not
have been endowed with a certain
amount of jealousy and selishness,
the two great instigators of criti-
cisn and fault-fnding. But for
tunately for US, along with our nat
ural tendencies we have been given
q divine principle which if we
could but follow, would bring about
more happiness than all the destruc-
tive criticism in the world and that
is, LET him who is without sin cast
the arst stone" Old Mother Nature
did not make any of us creatures of
perfection, If she had there would
have been no need for the Redeem
er to come into the world or for
us to have governing laws of any
kind. So for some reason unknown
to us, she made each one an individ-
nal and to each individual gave in
diyidual qualities, both physical and
moral. She did not pick out anyone
and endow him with all the good
qualities nor another and burden him
wit hall the bad; instead she kind
of equalized things a bit and gave
us all, little of both. The most
significant example of this, perhaps,
is in our physical construction. To
one she gives the face and form of
a Venus or an Adonis and adds for
some unknown reason a pair of
scow-like feet that spoil it all. To
another she gives the grace of an
elf, with eyes and lips that are the
envy of the fairest movie queens,
but instead of stopping in the COM
position here, she tops it off with a
pair of comical looking ears and a
peculiar-looking nose. She does not
stop here, either, but goes on play
ing the same kind of tricks on US
morally. One poor old fellow has
a weakness for drink and a vocab-
ulary in swearing that often shocks
the entire community, but as a sort
Of stabulator there is placed within
him a heart as big as a mountain
and disposition as CHEEKY as spring
sunshine. Another lies like a troop
er and yields to a temper as mean
and ungovernable as ruler of
hades, yet If an opportunity would
come his way he would risk his life
to save another. There is no de-
nying that we are all faulty, but re-
member that the meanest person
you know has some redeeming at
tributes and perhaps would have
many more IL we would but encour-
age him a little and let him know
that we are behind him everytime
he performs some good deed. The
people who stand on the side lines
and criticize, forget themselves for
the time being, strutting and parad-
ing as examples of goodness, with
all the pompadour of a well-kept
peacock, but If they would pick up
a mirror and take a peek or go to
some quiet spot and mediate over
themselves for a few minutes their
feathers would drop with a flop.
oh! my goodness! how bad other
people are, and how much worse are
the same faults In other people than
in ourselves. Really the best thing
for all OF US to do is to try and see
the good In the people as we'll as
the bad and we will all live a little
more contented.