SHUTTING OUR EYES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 24, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 59.

SHUTTING OUR EYES.

VERY miserable people are those who go through the world seeing too much. They plume themselves upon their ability, and proclaim everywhere the wonderful secrets their sharp-sightedness has discovered. They find out small delinquencies and trifling offenses of friends, neighbors, and servants. We are not at all obliged to them for what they reveal. On the contrary, we are continually trembling lest our own pet sin be brought to light, or our friend's dear little secret weakness exposed.

It is not hard to gain much peace of mind by studying the art of judiciously shutting our eyes. Let us refuse to see too much of other people's errors and mistakes. Nay, more, let us refuse to see anything except what we wish to see. The way is clear, the circumstances are fortunate, people are well-meaning and industrious, happiness abounds, and we ourselves are on the high road to fame and fortune.

A fool's paradise, you say? Perhaps. But I doubt if a fool's paradise is not better than the heaven of people who would carry thither microscopes that they might discover its possible imperfections.—Bazar.