Search Your Own Heart

December 2.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man,
whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein
thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself;
for thou that judgest doest the same things.

ROMANS 2, verse 1.


Search thine own heart. What paineth thee
In others, in thyself may be;
All dust is frail, all flesh is weak;
Be thou the true man thou dost seek.

J. G. WHITTIER.


A saint's life in one man may be less than
common honesty in another. From us, whose
consciences He has reached and enlightened,
God may look for a martyr's truth, a
Christian's unworldly simplicity, before
He will place us on a level even with the
average of the exposed classes. We perhaps
think our lives at least harmless. We do not
consider what He may think of them, when
compared with the invitations of His that we
have slighted, with the aims of His Providence
we are leaving without our help, with the glory
for ourselves we are refusing and casting away,
with the vast sum of blessed work that daily
faithfulness in time can rear without overwork
on any single day.

J. H. THOM.