My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

m while common sense convinces us of the truth
1B of kind interpretations, common selfishness ought
to open our eyes to their wisdom and their policy. We
must have passed through life unobservantly if we have
never perceived that a man is very much himself what
he thinks of others. Of course his own faults may be
the cause of his unfavorable judgments of others; but
they are ah, and in a very marked way, effects of those
same judgments. A. man who was on a higher eminence
before will soon by harsh judgments of others
sink to the level of hisawn judgments. When you hear
a man attribute meanness to another, you may be SUE
not only that the critic is an ill-natured man, but that
he has got a similar element of meanness in himself, or
is fast sinking to it. A man is always capable himself
of a sin which he thinks another is capable of, or which
he himself is capable of imputing to another.
a
*
IND words are the music of the world.
*
IND words produce ha piness. How often have
a we olrvlves been ma& happy by kind words, in
a manner and to an extent which we are quite unable
to explain? No analysis enabtes us to detect the secret
of the power of kind words; even self-love is found
inadequate as a cause. Now, as I have said before,
happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind
words, by their poPter of prodneing happiness, have
also a power of producing hoiiness, and so winning men
to God.
a
*
IND words cost us nothing, yet how often do we
grudge them? On the few occasions when they
Private Use Only