Show nothing was ever put on 1 earth without some reason reasons q dumani humanity aided by E each ach thing and every thin tiling the hypocrite has some use anil and was created for some purpose good AUGUST WESTMAN jr chicago by I 1 L I 1 or bad the hypocrite is no exception to the general rule there is some reason for his being on earth most of us have taken a decidedly wrong view of 0 this social bugaboo 0 our estimation of him is not based on a scientific analysis of the vacations of his character he is accused of exerting a bad influence but this has never been the vocation of any of my hypocritical acquaintances A hypocrite does doer not show off his bad points if he has any on the loutrary bont Lont he be makes it his business constantly to hido hide them and to show up the best that is in him in fact making us believe him to be a perfect specimen of humanity in doing this he produces a good effect for he is pointed out as a model and people try to be like him in every way possible because he has hidden his imperfections his degenerated faculties find and selfishness revealing only his better self although deep in ids his heart he is a wretched poltroon be is making better men and women of us all because we copy his best side eide we copy his polite manner his cordial friendliness his religious professions but instead of becoming like him we become vastly different because we copy only his bis good tide side failing to see the bad we become wholly good while he is partly bad therefore he is lin an unintentional benefactor to mankind for by his designs he misleads us into thinking him a saint find and in patterning our own lives after his we wa ne making an added step toward progress therefore let us not judge him by the evil in his heart but ra rather h is r by the good effect he has upon others let us give him at least a little credit for doing something to promote the welfare of the tha world in short let us give the hypocrite his just due the only way that we can ever learn to better ourselves is by refusing to deny even the worst and most undeserving among us the privilege of knowing that even he has not lived his bis life in vain |