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ety to which they may be more appropriately compared than to an Irish land-grabber, or a "scab" workman during a strike, or a soldier who betrays his country's military secrets to the enemy. An orthodox Jew, a Pharisee, could no more see good in a publican than can I in the vilest proprietor of a combined saloon and brothel. And yet this man, this publican, went down to his house justified rather than the other. Ah, Brethren, there is enough there to deter me for the rest of my days from ever presuming to pass judgment on my neighbor. " Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart — and He resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble." No judgment of one man by another can ever be infallible; the more severe it is, the more likely it is to be false; and even when it is favorable, there is still danger of error, as we see in the opinion nine-tenths of humanity would have conceived of the Pharisee. No man nor set of men are above reproach, and no man nor set of men are utterly beneath praise. St. Paul himself tells us that he was a Pharisee and the son of a Pharisee, and SS. Matthew and Zacheus had both been publicans. Two classes of society which produced such material, and which besides, as we read in the Acts, sent hundreds of their members into the early Christian Church, could not have been wholly bad. Judge not, therefore, and ye shall not be judged, but if you persist in passing condemnatory sentences on your, fellowman, be sure you will make such glaring mistakes and work such mischief, that God's condemna-