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June 22


Between Thee and Him Alone

 

Let us learn to seal our lips for ever on the wretched, miserable habit of telling the world about the motes in our neighbour’s eye. Who made us a judge over him? Tell him his faults between thee and him alone. You can find chapter and verse for that. Tell him his faults, if you will, with love and sympathy in your heart, confessing, your own to him meanwhile. Tell him his faults because you want to help him to become nobler, lovelier, and better, because you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, not because you want to humble him or glory over him. Tell him his faults in secret if you are ready for such holy work; but do not, do not tell the world of his faults.

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