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Show MEN OFTEN JUDGE UNWISELY "It is indeed hard for men to judge accurately of success in life. One man puts forth ordinary efforts and achieves great success, and another may put forth efforts equally strong and fail in every particular by the standards of men, and the short-visioned human critic elevates one to the throne of honor and relegates the other to the depths of degradation. But God knows and judges in justice. There are drunkards in the ditch, so-called criminals in the penitentiary, peni-tentiary, and courtesans in the brothels, who are immeasurably immeasur-ably higher in the sight of God than some of the juries and judges and the white-washed men and women who have still about them the cloak of respectability, and who were the instruments by which these so-called failures in life have been consigned to their filthy prisons. Oh, the sham and shoddy of modern respectability! If half of the secret corruption cor-ruption of so-called respectable society could be revealed then the hideous glare of Red light districts would pale into insignificance." Selected. |