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Show SPEAK WELL" OF EACH OTHER I President Frank Y. Taylor of the 1 Granite stako of Salt J.ake county oc- N cupied the pulpit in tho Tabernacle fl yesterdav afternoon. His theme was "Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged " 1 The speaker said that one of the most common frailties of humankind S Is tho tendency to Judge ono another, B and to baekblto one another. Thero g probably never was more than one human being who was not tempted, j at one lime or other, to find fault 0 with his fellows. Not thut all sue- S cumb to this temptation, for there are I many noble spirits '.n the world that I scorn to stoop so low as to speak of jj an acquaintance to his disadvantage, jj jet many of us, said the Beaker, do 0 not thus get ourselves In control, but S thoughtlessly get into the habit of I sitting in Judgment upon our neigh- t bor. And the most significant thins I about the practice Is that those who I do this almost inevitably find, If thoy afterward imcstlgate the matter, that they don't know anything about It. J They hnd seen only ono Bido of the Individual criticised. They did not turn him around to get an all-sided view, or their Judgment might have been reversed. Elder Taylor cited soeral incidents to Illustrate this thought. He said, he j was once in a political meeting that had been called to raise campaign fund6. Whenever ji liberal sum wa3 contributed by a citizen his name was loudly applauded by the conen-tion. conen-tion. Soon a man came forward whom Mr Taylor thought to be one of the wealthiest of the community and when ho dropped Into the contribution box but a small coin the latter felt to condemn con-demn in his heart that man's stinginess stingi-ness and said so to one who Bat near. "Be not so hasty," replied his companion, com-panion, "that man, though thought to be very wealthy, has really not the means to meet his pressing obligations." obliga-tions." i Mr. Taylor's fooling of condemnation condemna-tion immediately changod to ono of dcop pity for tho man whom ho had so hastily and so wrongfully judged. This taught the speaker a lesson that he never forgot At another tlmo tno Salt .Lake churchman said he was tittlng In a room with a friend, a man of great worldly possessions, when an elderly man with a care-seamed faco and bowed head passed by the window "Thero," observed his woll-to-do companion, "goes a man who has been a complete failure in life " "Hold on," responded Mr. Taylor, ' I know that man intimately and, while he may not have prospered financially, fi-nancially, ho has been one of the greatest public benefactors this community com-munity has had. Ho has cleared many a piece of land of sage brush, dng canals and made the land to blos-aom blos-aom with fruit and flowers to beautify beau-tify the earth. Moreover, he has been a great teacher of right doing among his fellows, his sons look up to him as a righteous man and their best and wisest companion, Such a man cannot can-not be a failure,-but a great success." "Well," retorted his associate, "1 don't know about that, but I know he can't pay his dents." 'And still," continued Mr Taylor, "whllo I appreciate you as a good business bus-iness man, If I wanted advice at any tlmo I would go to him " The speaker further doplctod the evil of making hasty Judgments of one another and also the Inclination of people to be unforgiving of ono another's an-other's faults. He read how Christ, had forgiven the woman taken In sin, and contrasted Itpwith our usual attl-tudo attl-tudo toward one who has fallen low in the community Ofton the latter feels that no one will forgive him and accept him and so ho goes on and on along the downward road to self-destruction, whon he might havo been saved, if his acquaintances had showed show-ed tho same atUtudo of forgivoness as tho Lowly Ono did to tho fallen woman. Ho closed with an appeal to members mem-bers of tho church to hold an attitudo of forgiveness toward ono anothor, and to ccaso to talk unfavorably about ono another The attondance was good, nonrly even- seat In tho auditorium being filled |