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Show Point of View Is Important. There is no doubt that what we desire to find in humanity, that we shall find. If we look for faults and errors, we shall soon discover them; if we watch for noble deeds, kindly impulses and pure motives, they, too. will answer to our call. But let us bear in mind that on whichever side we lay the smphasis. that is the side we are aiding and encouraging. en-couraging. Whereer our thoughts dwell, there' will our influence be directed. Xothing seems more thoroughly to foster evil than to linger lovingly upon jts details; nothing so quickly dissipates it as total neglect. Let us throw ourselves on the side of the good by welcoming it with gladness wherever it may exist, and cultivating, a warm sympathy which alone can give us such a knowledge knowl-edge of hum.Th nature as may enable us to attain to anything like justice' either in judging or in suspending judgment. |