Why We Misjudge | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 30, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 44.

Why We Misjudge.

Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, who is now sojourning in Europe, draws the following pertinent moral from a significant condition:—

The unhesitating and undisguised admiration that France cherishes for Russia is interesting in the light of the fact that the Russian Government is dealing with Finland in precisely the same manner of regardless tyranny that France is persistently charging upon the British Government in its attitude toward the Boers. This is only another illustration of the fact that the estimate men pass upon any piece of wickedness depends principally upon their prior regard for the party that commits the wickedness. It is a great art to be able to see a thing as it is, uncolored by the complexion that our own precious judgment puts upon it. The reason we have so much difficulty in reaching a sound opinion upon men, nations, and ideas, is our lack of what Scripture calls “truth in the ‘inward parts.’” Our judgments and opinions are, many of them, a lie, for the reason that we are ourselves so much of a lie.