The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-12-18
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(H. E. Prall's Sunday Noon Talk
over KICK, December 49,

Perhaps none of the judgment
Of men is more important in the
building Of personal character
in the living Of an individual life
than thai judgment which is the
sasis of our opinion Of our fel,ow-
en-. My opinion Of you is reflect.
I with unfailing candor in myself
should not care to place implic-
confidence in the man who is
.bitually suspicious Of his asso-
iates. | should not expect just.ca
)r mercy from one who Away
.uspects others of injustice and
ruelty. One may be a fool to love
and trust the people generally
Who come into his life, but it is a
most admirable sort Of foolishness.
The confidence which you have in
YOUR friend, grows into your own
life and makes you the more de-
pendable.
KNOW that sin and selfishness
I'D greed and lust abound in the
world. l KNOW that men are in
ersntly bad and women are in
nately weak and vain, but God help
me to forget it when l come face
to face with them in the daily walk.
of life. I know, SUBCONSCIOUS-
LY, that there is much treachery
and infidelity in the lives of men,
but God protect me from a CON
SCIOUS consideration of that fact.
May l be spared the cankering in
fluence of morbidly connecting that
fact with the people whom l meet.
Fortunate indeed, is that man or
that woman whose eyes are blind
ed to the evils of the world so
that only the good qualities of 9th
ers are visible. How truly it might
be said, GAS a man thinketh of
others, so is he"
Have you ever thought how
easy it is to respect and admire
anyone who has good manners? Do
you realize how easy it is to think
well of a well-mannered person?
Good manners should have a valid
claim upon our favor if for no 9TH
er reason. If we are elevated by
thinking well of our associates,
is it not your obvious duty to your
friends, to make it easy for them
to love and respect you?
Good are the greatest
product of civilization in that they
are the greatest factor in the pro-
gress of civilization. You are i'm
proved by your good opinion Of
me. | am elevated by noting your
improvement. And so, first one
foot and then the other, we climb
the ladder of civilization.
1t is said that good manners
are from the heart. Perhaps it is
so. Certain it is that they pervade
the whole life of that person who
has them, much as the blood cir
culates through the entire body.
You may have occasional bursts
of etiquette, but you never see
such bursts of good manners. Good
manners are like education,-you
either have them or you haven't.
You don't have education today
and none tomorrow. 1t is the same
with good manners. You neve see
a person with education, this year,
and when you see him next year,
he is ignorant. 1t is the same with
good manners. Nothing in the life
of a man or a woman is more per-
manent or more consistent than
good manners. Etiquette may be
only skin deep, but good manners
never are. The same is true of bad
manners. How terribly the world
is afflicted by the bad manners
which are only too common. The
Bible says of the childre nof Israel
that "for forty years, God has suf-
fered their manners in the wilder
ness. And / say to you that the
bad manners of five thousand
years ago were no more pleasing
than the bad manners Of the pres
ent day, neither were they mor
disgusting. All down across the
ages, people have been spilling
their bad manners-polluting the
pages of history and spelling the
lives of those with whom they have
lived. How apt is the use of that
word suffered" as applied to bad
manners. All down through the
years of human activity, ill-manner-
ed people have been making 9th
ers suffer. YOUR bad manners
may seem to you to be rather clev-
er, but be assured they r a big
source of suffering to others. How
you suffer from the bad manners
Of your friends. How your friends
suffer from YOUR bad manners.
How society suffers because all
bad impede the progress