BEWARE OF MISJUDGING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 1 November 1900, Page 20

BEWARE OF MISJUDGING.

Perhaps it were better for most of us to complain less of beinjr ininunderKtood and to take more care that we do not misunderstand other people. It ought to make us pause at times to remember that each one has a stock of cut-and-dry judgments on hia neighbors, and that the chances are that most of them are quite erroneous. What our neighbor really is we may never know, but we may be pretty certain that he is not what we have imagined, and that many things wh have thought of him are quite beside the mark.

What he does we have seen, but we have no idea what may have been his thoughts and intentions. The mere surface of his character may be expose!, but of the complexity within we have not the faintest idea. People crammed with self consciousness and self-conceit are often praised as humble, while shy and reserved people are judged to be proud. Some whose whole life is one subtle, studied seltishnehs, get the name of self-sacrifice, and othef silent heroic soula are condemned for want of humanity.