(i) We never know the whole facts or the whole person. There are three great reasons why no man should judge another. NO MAN CAN JUDGE ( Matthew 7:1-5 continued) And yet the strange fact is that there is hardly any commandment of Jesus which is more consistently broken and neglected. There is hardly anyone who has not been guilty of some grave misjudgment there is hardly anyone who has not suffered from someone else's misjudgment. They had changed from service dress into civilian clothes and were lunching together at a famous London restaurant, when a girl came up and handed to each of them a white feather-the badge of cowardice. The friend had that very day been decorated for gallantry at Buckingham Palace. He himself had been badly smashed up in a flying accident while serving in the Royal Flying Corps. Collie Knox tells of what happened to himself and a friend. By the way, tell me his name again so that I can cross him off my list.' The actor was Ronald Colman who was to become one of the most famous the screen has ever known.Īgain and again people have been guilty of the most notorious moral misjudgments. He cannot act, and he never will be able to act, and you had better tell him to look for some other profession before he starves. After the test Gilbert Frankau telephoned to the agent. The young man was interviewed and tested. He sent to a theatrical agency for a young male actor to play the leading male part. Gilbert Frankau himself was producing a play. After she had sung, Gilbert Frankau's mother said, 'What an appalling voice! She ought to be muzzled and allowed to sing no more!' The young singer's name was Nellie Melba.

Once she engaged a young Australian soprano to sing. His mother arranged for the entertainment of her guests. In his autobiography Gilbert Frankau tells how in the Victorian days his mother's house was a salon where the most brilliant people met.

In the Edinburgh Review of November, 1814, Lord Jeffrey wrote a review of Wordsworth's newly published poem The Excursion, in which he delivered the now famous, or infamous verdict: 'This will never do.' In a review of Keats' Endymion, The Quarterly patronizingly noted 'a certain amount of talent which deserves to be put in the right way.'Īgain and again men and women who became famous have been dismissed as nonentities. There have been so many that one would have thought it would be a warning to men not to judge at all. One would have thought that this would have been a commandment easy to obey, for history is strewn with the record of the most amazing misjudgments. The Jews knew that kindliness in judgment is nothing less than a sacred duty. 'He who judges his neighbour favourably,' they said, 'will be judged favourably by God.' They laid it down that there were six great works which brought a man credit in this world and profit in the world to come-study, visiting the sick, hospitality, devotion in prayer, the education of children in the Law, and thinking the best of other people. Many a time the Rabbis warned people against judging others. When Jesus spoke like this, as so often in the Sermon on the Mount, he was using words and ideas which were quite familiar to the highest thoughts of the Jews. Why do you look for the speck of dust in your brother's eye, and never notice the plank that is in your own eye? or, how will you say to your brother: 'Let me remove the speck of dust from your eye,' and, see, there is a plank in your own eye? Hypocrite! first remove the plank from your own eye then you will see clearly to remove the speck of dust from your brother's eye. 7:1-5 Do not judge others, in order that you may not be judged for with the standard of judgment with which you judge you will be judged and with the measure you measure to others it will be measured to you.

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