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Iidk Faber on Kindness 67
RE is one class of kind thoughts which must be
dwelt upon apart. I allude to kind inhpetatiores.
The habit of not judgiig others is one which it is very
difficult to acquire, and which is generally not acqujred
till late on in the spiritual life.
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ow, the standard of the Ldst Judgment is absolute.
It is this - the measure which we have meted
to others. Our present humor in judging others reveals
to us what our sentence would be if we died.now.
Are we content to abide that issue? But, as it is impossible
all at once to stop judging, and as it is also
impossible to go on judging uncharitably, we must pass
through the intermediate stage of kind interpretations.
Few men have passed beyond this to a habit of perfect
charity, which has blessedly stripped them of their
judicial ermine and their deeply-rooted judicial habits
of mind. We ought, therefore, to cultivate most sedulously
the habit of kind interpretations.
Men's actions are very difficult to judge. Their
real character depends in a great measure on the motives
which prompt them, and those motives are invisible
to us. Appearances are often against what we afterward
discover to have been deeds of virtue.
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T mistakes have we not made in judging others !
m? Have we not always fwnd in our past experience
that on the whole our kind interpretations were truer
than our harsh ones?
How many times in life have we been wrong when we
put a kind construction on the conduct of others? We
shall not need our fingers to count those mistakes upon.
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