Making Allowances by Christian Intelligencer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 44.

Making Allowances.

By Christian Intelligencer

THAT is a very lovely disposition which excuses the faults of others, albeit severe with its own, on the plea that there is some reason, unseen and unsuspected, which, were it revealed, would go far to modify a harsh judgment. We are told of, or we observe in some fellow-creature, actions which our tastes or our principles condemn; or we are pained by something which a friend says or does. Let us not only have patience, but let us be tolerant also, since we cannot know all the difficulties with which another must contend; nor can we estimate the weights with which another is handicapped in the race of life.—Christian Intelligencer.