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Show Our Mistakes. One of the experiences that is probably prob-ably common to most of us is to look back over a period of five or ten years and wonder how we could have been so foolish as to do things and say things on certain occasions which we too keenly remember. Today as w. recall re-call the circumstances we bitterly le-proach le-proach ourselves that we could have probably five or ten years hence we beln so fatuous and short-sighted. But shall look back upon these periods with much the same feeling. We are going to continue to do oolish things to the end of the chanter. By divi.ie grace one may largely overcome sinful tendencies, but there seems to be no help for unwisdom and poor judgment and inability to adjust one's self to circumstances but the bitter discipline of experience. There is one ray of light, however, upon this course of reflection, re-flection, and that is the fact that we recognize our mistakes in the past is the best sort of reason for believing that we are improving. We have got our eyes open to some things, and though we shall probably make mistakes mis-takes in the future just as in the past, they will not be the satne ones. And then, too, we should not blame ourselves our-selves too severely for these errors. In the nature of the case there were things when we made these mist ikes that we could not know as we know-now. know-now. The man who is standing on the mountain top and sees the path winding wind-ing up should be charitable to the man down in the valley who is losing his way in the thickets. We need to cultivate culti-vate charity for our own mistakes. |