jgfaturday Qig.it caoII C Py F E DAVISON Rutland, Vt THE GOLDEN RULE OF THE KINGDOM. International Bible Lesson for Feb. 20, '10. (Matt. 7:1-12). That there In a vast amount of cv'.l In the world nerds no argument. Our eyes, and ears and hearts are assivllcd by Its omnipresence. The question Is: What shall be the attitude of the chil dren of the kingdom toward the evil whlrh they cannot but seo In the pro pp of the world among whom they live. In the wonderful Surmon on t'.io Mount which we are still ron'dpr!r;, the Christ meets the question r.u 1 an swers It fully, frankly, sathsfacto. I'y. He litters two warning, each ntnlnr-t danpers lying In opposite direction), the one, tho danger of making too much of the evil we see. or think v.- see, In others; tho other, that of Mak ing too little of It. Censorlousness Rebuked. The first dnnper to guard rp'.'n!-,: Is censorlousiness. His golden l i'Ie Is "Judge not, that ye he not JmTr;;-tI." As if He had said, As you Judgn, y n: shall ho Judged, on the general princi ple that as you g've to o'hers tl.ey will give to yon, charity for charity, severity for severity, gencio:;!ty f-r generosity, uncharitabletie:s fur i:i charitableness. Men nre soclaly Interdeper.fif r.t. and must have dealings with e.. h other; must meet, know, rounstil, !'.e!;. and bargain with their fellows. It H well then to keep In mind the lav. 3 of social Intercourse, and always 'Tut yourself In his place." The law Is rot. do to others what we would have tlioni do to us, (this might beco:ne mere barter) but do to thorn what we think they would wish to have done to them. Do to them what we would wish to have done to us If we were In their situation. This Is the hig'ient nnd most revolutionary rule in the world. Now one of the most Important rea sons for being careful In our Judgment of others He points out is that there Is so much evil In ourselves. The difficulty with most men Is, they pose as occullsts and optometrists, discov ering motes in the eyes of others, ob livious grafters In their own. Christ says. In effect, If you would be a skill ful occullst In spiritual affairs put yourself In the hands of a divine prac tloner and allow him to extract the beam from your own eye, then you will see clearly. The trouble with most of us Is we are afflicted with such personal strabismus that wo think the beam is in the eyes of the other fellow. The consciousness of our own Imperfections should moder ate our personal Judgments. Here Is the fault of many a reformerso-called. He Is zealous to re form his neighbor, but Indifferent re specting himself. So that men who are strong on one particular line of Improvement of others may be as far dT from personal righteousness them selves, In some other direction. Tho golden rule of the kingdom will save us from using a spy-glass on other people and refusing to gaze Into tho looking glass ourselves. We shall not carry the sins of our neighbors In front of us and those of ourselves bo hind us. There are very few people who are as merciless in Judgment of their own sins as of those of their follow men. What we call errors of judgment in .ourselves are criminal actions when committed by others. Hence we have soft words for our own sins, and blistering condemnation for the sins of others. It Is against tH spirit of harsh, and unrelenting criti cism of other people that this lerr.on utters Its loudest warning, Discrimination Urged. Cut there is another side to tho sub ject, as there U to all subjects and it is this: In our attitude toward tho evil in the world we should not nnki too little of It. Though we may not Judge, we should discriminate, V.'u miist not go so far to the other ex treme as to Insist that there are no such things as motes and beams, in other words that sin Is all in your eye. There are holy thins, and there are dogs and swine, and Christ s iys. You are to be careful not to cast your pearls before swine, nor give that which Is holy Into the dogs. Swine are swine and no amount of washing and attention will convert them into sheep. We are under no obligation to Insist that black 13 white and that there 1b no difference between the holy and the unholy. Not Judgment but Caution, Borne things there are which nre too holy and sacred to be thrown out carelessly among those who would suroly reject them with contempt and ravage hatred. If you do not want your pearls to be trodden under foot of men keep them under lock and key. When sinners turn swine, and wo are In danger of being rent by them, Christ gives us a permission to cease our attentions. We may not Judge, but we must be cautious. We may not condemn arbitrarily, but we must distinguish between the false nnd the true, and In our desire to be gentle and kind wo must not go to the other extreme and treat all men alike. Adaptation requires Judgment. , Cen sorlousneas on the one hand and In 'hicrlmluntlon on the other are equal ly to bo f.voldod. Between these two extremes is the golden rule of the Kingdom, Happy are tbey who find ftfu practice it. VALUE OF SPECULATION. Mental Process That Does Much To ward Mitigating Life's Woea. We are all somewhat In the habit of divorcing the Idea of speculativo thought from that of usefulness, and of considering It a dreamer's va gary without which the world would progress along its acctistomnd and predestined route. It ts particularly tho habit of Bet and elderly persons to speak with scorn of schools of thought, methods of careful prepara tion for life, and of abstract con sideration of values. They Insist that the world was better ofT when people did things and thought less about them. The difficulty In leaving ourselves to act without preparatory thought Is, that It finds us prepared only for such events as have taken place be fore within our experience or within the experience of those wo have talked with or read of; wht rcas we are likely to be plunged at any mo ment Into a new set of circumstances or given a new lot of conditions and motives which alter the most appar ently similar canon. Then, Indeed, for lack of the hnbit of speculative thought, of weighing motives and values, we are npt to drown lu our own absurdities or worse, commit hideous injustice. Odd as It may seem, tho end of spe culation is practice, says Harper's Weekly. The process may seem wasteful nnd futile, but the results, If one examine them, nre worth tho energy spent; and the lives we boo about us, lived without the directing of abstract thought, are warnings ac cepting the cheap and easy ways of life. To turn hack to the value of specu lative thought, Us flr.it use Is to teach the body Its place In the trlunity, which Is a human J)eitig. It looks nt life with new eyes nnd weighs values; It undertakes to find out what Is truly the heart's desire wine, laughter, lust, longing, prayer, hope or peace. Once we know what object we are pursuing, once we have turned spe culative thought free upon the uni verse, nnd made up our winds what is worth while, then, with our sense of values fixed, wo know where to direct efTort; what makes for the end Is worth while, and what gives mere momentary ease is negligible. This search for the real aim. this close examination- Into the trend of our thoughts, this speculative atti tude toward proportionate values do much toward mitigating the woes of life, for they open the doors to love and wisdom, the domlnators of des tiny. Love and wisdom annihilate melodrama, avert tragedy, soften grief, rob Joy of selfish and aggressive noise; they regulate conduct so that It ceases to be self-seeking and In jurious; they widen tne mental hor izon, and Infuse tolerance and Justice. And when love and wisdom stand upon the threshold, letting their light shine In upon the little turmoil of life, how small and silly see mour cower ing fears, our greed and cruelty and selfwlll as they lurk In the corners, eager to escape the light. Speaking Through the Nose. The offensiveness of the present defect could not be exaggerated, per haps, but It Is best to guard against exaggeration In dealing with It, writes William Dean Howells. in Har per's Bazaar. Not long ago we talked with an observant Englishman, who was hardly the most willing of wit nesses, but a Just as well as a gentle spirit, and we asked him If he had been much struck by our far-famed nasality since coming among us. No, he said, not half so much as he had expected; but what he had no ticed was that we spoke drawllngly, draggingly, In tones that weakly and tardily did their ofllce. It seemed to use, when we thought the matter over, that there was a great deal of truth In what he said, and we now commend his remark, to gether with our own less lenient ac cusations, to the attention of tho American Woman's Speech Reform crs What they want to get at is the average offense, and not to err as to its precise nature. There is no doubt that certain of our women twang, and whine, and whittle, and whinny, but possibly close Inquiry might develop the fact that, after all. U may be lazy and careless mismanagement of the voice In the sort suggested which Is most to bo corrected. Crescent Shaped Viennese Bread. The origin of that Viennese bread shaped like a crescent, which is found In most places on the continent, dates back to 1C83. At that time the Austrian capital was being besieged by the Turks under the terrible Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha, and as they foiled to take the city by assault they decided to dig a passage under the walls, anl so penetrate into the town. In the daytime the noise of the siege made the sound of the tunnel ling Inaudible and at night time the defenders of the place were asleep, all but the sentries and the bakers. It was the bakers who, as they baked the bread for the garrison, heard the pickaxes of the miners coming nearer and nearer and gave the alarm. In the fighting of the Bakers' Association took their share with the utmost bravery, and as a reward for their Borvlces the emperor gave them per mission to make a special cake shaped like the Turkish crescent. 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