Editorial May 23, 1925 Issue

Triumphing over Misjudgment

Ella W. Hoag

In their demonstration of the Science of being Christian Scientists find themselves faced with various mental problems which have to do with misjudgment. The form most commonly guarded against is the mistaken criticizing and condemning of one's brother. Many earnest workers are awake to this and they spend much thought and prayer on the subject, since they see how prone so-called mortal mind is to attend to its neighbor's business.

The true worker quickly learns that he can spare no time from occupation in his own mental home to steady the altar of his brother. It is only as he learns to stay quietly where he rightfully belongs, examining and correcting his own thoughts, purposes, and acts, that he can be sufficiently God-governed to be able to aid others when they come to him for assistance. While all must be continually on guard lest this misjudging of one's brother renewedly assail and overthrow them, so much has been written and said on the subject of minding one's own business that no one need fall asleep on this point if he will but watch and pray with proper assiduity.

Another form of misjudgment which Scientists sometimes find it difficult to rise above is the ordinary misjudgment by others. When they discover that others are misjudging them, they are apt to be quickly disturbed and frequently rush out to make things right through human means. They imagine a little explanation will soon straighten out the seeming tangle. In the first flush of being misjudged one is apt to think he will be immediately understood as soon as he presents his own case with candor and earnestness. He fails to recall that when mortal mind starts to misjudge, it is not always willing to be quickly convinced of its mistake. Because misjudgment by whomsoever indulged is ever the suppositional activity of error, and since it is largely based upon either material sense testimony or hearsay, if it is to be met and mastered it must be approached by other than merely human methods.

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