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publican's idea of the Pharisee, or to imagine the surprise of each had they been told later on of Christ's, of God's, judgment between them. The parable was addressed, you know, to "some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others," and it is worthy of notice that the only one in Christ's audience or Christ's parable who succeeded in arriving at a just estimate of himself or of others, was he who humbly said: " O God, be merciful to me, a sinner." The inference would seem to be that at no time are men more prone to error than when they attempt to determine their own or their neighbor's moral status, and that in no other matter are human opinions more likely to run counter to the.judgments of God. It is Msop, I believe, who represents man as going through life with two pouches suspended from his neck, one in front and one behind, and in the former, ever before his eyes, he keeps his own virtues and his neighbor's vices, but in the latter, behind his back, his neighbor's good traits and his own faults. Never shall we judge just judgments until we have reversed the pouches, or in some way acquired the spirit of the publican. Nor is this a matter of little moment; it is a question of such human interest that it appeals even to the Pagan, and its claim on the attention of Christians is more especial still, since it deals with that new commandment Christ gave us, the very groundwork, the heart of all religion, the law of charity. " For charity," says St. Paul, " is not puffed up, nor envious, nor self-seeking, nor perverse, but is patient, is kind, thinketh no evil; re-