Article May 29, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from John McDowell, P. C. Money, Charles S. Macfarland

[Universalist Leader.]

How little we know, and yet we judge. This one is "good" and that one is "bad." This one is "weak" and that one is "strong." This one is "wise" and that one is "foolish." But the "good" go wrong, and the "bad" on occasion reveal heroic qualities; the "weak" perform miracles of strength, and the "strong" collapse in the presence of danger; the "wise" grope in doubt and stand stock-still in the consciousness of limitations, while the "foolish" march with confident step into the unknown. We all know so much more than we can express and are so impatient at another's judgment. Others know so much more than we can understand, and yet we judge them. The foolishness of one age is the wisdom of the next, and the wisdom of one era becomes the foolishness of the succedding. Dreams are transformed by time into realities, and the stable things dissolve as mist before the sun. Virtue in one place is sin in another, and the good of one condition is turned into evil in new surroundings. How little we know, and yet we judge!

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

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