malice and desire of revenge. This charity is to be extended even to enemies.

"THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.'

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth, Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth.

"BIBLE-1 CORINTHIANS 13."

And still another fact that should make us most charitable toward and slow to judge, or rather refuse to judge, a fellow-man and a brother-the fact that we cannot know the intense strugglings and fightings he or she may be subjected to, though accompanied, it is true, by numerous stumblings and fallings, though the latter we see, while the former we fail to recognise. Did we, however, know the truth of the matter, it may be that in the case of ourselves, who are so quick to judge, had we the same temptations and fightings, the battle would not be half so nobly, so manfully fought, and our stumblings and fallings might be many times the number of his or of hers. Had we infinite knowledge and wisdom, our judgments would be correct; though, had we we infinite knowledge and wisdom, we would be spared the task, though perhaps pleasure would seem to be the truer word to use, of our own self-imposed judgments.

-RALPH WALDO TRINE.

Be not too rigidly censorious,

A string may jar in the best master's hand.
-ROSCOMMON.

Before we censure a man for seeming what he is not, we should be sure that we know what he is.

am

-T. CARLYLE.

The longer I live and learn experience, the more I convinced that individual actions prove nothing either for or against men; the whole life must be taken into account, for there is no other measure of character than the relation of the will to the conscience or the feeling of right and wrong, good and evil. In individual cases the feeling may appear very different from that which it is in general.

-GEORGE FORSTER.

There is an ancient saying, famed among men, that thou canst not judge fully of the life of men, till death hath closed the scene, whether it should be called blesst or wretched.

-SOPHOCLES.

One of the consequences of good breeding is a disinclination, positively a distate, to pry into the private affairs of others.

Whatever you do, never set up for a critic in private life, in the domestic circle, in society.

Meddle not with that which concerns you not.

-MAXIM.

ness,

It's enough for a man to understand his own busiand not to interfere with other people's.

He who troubles not himself with other men's business, gets peace and ease thereby.

-OLD ITALIAN PROVERB.

Every man hath in his own life sins enough, in his own mind trouble enough, in his own fortune evils enough, and in performance of his offices failings more than enough, to entertain his own inquiry: so that curiosity after the affairs of others cannot be withont envy and an evil mind. What is it to me, if my neighbour's grandfather were a syrian, or his grandmother illegitimate; or that another is indebted five thousand pounds, or whether his wife be expensive? But commonly curious persons, or (as the apostle's phrase is) "busy bodies," are not solicitous or inquisitive into the beauty and order of a well-governed family, or after the virtues of an excellent person; but if there be anything for which men keep locks and bars, and porters, things that blush to see the light, and either are shameful in manners, or private in nature, these things are their

care and business.

-JEREMY TAYLOR.

We go through life misunderstanding

And misunderstood,

We are too prone to see in others

Evil instead of good.

We cannot read each other's hearts

There is a hidden history

In every life; we are to each other

All a mystery.

If none were to reprove the vicious, excepting those who sincerely hate vice, there would be much less censoriousness in the world.

-COLTON.

The less business a man has the more he meddles with that of his neighbours.

To find fault, some one may say, is easy, and in every man's power; but to point out the proper course to be pursued in the present circumstances, that is the proof of a wise counsellor.

-DEMOSTHENES.

The wise man is he who, when he desires to rid a room of darkness or gloom, does not attempt to drive it out directly, but who throws open the doors and the windows, that the room may be flooded with the golden sunlight; for in its presence darkness and gloom cannot remain. So the way to help a fellowman and a brother to the higher and better life is not by ever prating upon and holding up to view his errors, his faults, his shortcomings, any more than in the case of children, but by recognising and ever calling forth the higher, the nobler, the divine, the God-like, by opening the doors and the windows of his own soul, and thus bringing about a spiritual perception, that he may the more carefully listen to the inner voice, that he may the more carefully follow the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world! For in the exact proportion that the interior perception comes will the outer life and conduct accord with it so far, and no further.

-RALPH WALDO TRINE.

54. FEAR.

Fear anticipates and hightens future evils.

Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears.

--SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

But blind fear not only causes evil to the coward himself it makes him a source of evil to others; for it is the cruellest of all human states.

When a man dreads he knows not what, he will do he cares not what. When he dreads desperately, he will act desperately. When he dreads beyond all reason, he will behave beyond all reason. He has no law of guidance left, save the lowest selfishness. No law of guidance and yet his intellect, left unguided, may be rapid and acute enough to lead him into terrible follies. Infinitely more imaginative than the lowest animals, he is for that very reason capable of being infinitely more foolish, more cowardly, more superstitious.*

itself.

--CHARLES KINGSLEY. Apprehension of evil is ofttimes worse than the evil

Much of the fear that exists is the offspring of imagination, which creates the images of evils, which may happen, but perhaps rarely do. Thus many persons who are capable of summoning up courage enough to

* From Historical Lectures and Essays.