THE BETTER WAY

New Zealand Tablet, 6 May 1920, Page 19

THE BETTER WAY

It is always better to help others to criticise themselves than it is to criticise them. They will believe themselves; they are not likely to believe you. The way to bring about this healthy and helpful condition of selfcriticism, with its accompanying desire for improvement, is to show by our lives, silently, the better way, while resolutely refraining from urging it on others. It was a high tribute paid to a Christian man, when one who had known him intimately said of him “He never told me that I ought to do better, but I always came away from any conversation with him wanting to do better.” If we would do this for others, let us seal our lips to criticism, and incarnate the better way in our lives.

A return to God can never be too late to be accepted. He is a Father, and loves His children as long as His love' can reach them. "