The Meaning of Unfairness
By S. S. Times
UNFAIRNESS toward others is disastrous evidence of the weakness of one’s own position. The man who is wholly in the right, is the most likely to recognize and give credit to all that is right in another. For when we are right we have nothing to fear from any one; but when we are wrong we are almost irresistibly impelled to try to conceal something of our wrong by accusing others of wrong where it does not exist. That is unfairness. Therefore to be really fair to all our fellow men is a challenge to everything that is best in us. As Bishop Brent, of the Philippines, said in a recent sermon on “Fairness” preached in Westminster Abbey, “I have urged upon you something that only strong men can venture to do.” The most subtle danger of unfairness is that we seldom admit to ourselves at the time that we are unfair. Our only hope against it lies in the strength of love, which is the strength of God. When self has died, and we have Christ-directed love for another, we shall not be unfair.—S. S. Times.