"We meet and mingle, we mark men's speech; We judge by a word or a fancied slight; We give our fellows a mere glance each, Then brand them for ever black or white. "Meanwhile God's patience is o'er us all, He probes for motives, He waits for years; No moment with Him is mean or small, And His scales are turned by the weight of tears." Judging JUNE 25 "Perhaps it were better for most of us to complain less of being misunderstood, and to take more care that we do not misunderstand other people. It ought to give us pause at a time to remember that each one has a stock of cut-and-dry judgments on his neighbours, and that the chances are that most of them are quite erroneous. What our neighbour really is we may never know, but we may be pretty certain that he is not what we have imagined, and that many things we have thought of him are quite beside the mark. What he does we have seen, but we have no idea what may have been his thoughts and intentions. The mere surface of his character may be exposed, but of the complexity within we have not the faintest idea. People crammed with self-consciousness and self-conceit are often praised as humble, while shy and reserved people are judged to be proud. Some whose whole life is one subtle studied selfishness get the name of self-sacrifice, and other silent heroic souls are condemned for want of humanity." _The Potter's Wheel_, Dr. JOHN WATSON. "To weigh other minds by our own is the false scale by which the greater number of us miscalculate all human actions and most human characters." JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. Biassed Judgments JUNE 26 "How difficult it is to submit anything to the opinion of another person without perverting his judgment by the way in which we put the matter to him. If one says, 'For my part I think it beautiful,' or 'I think it obscure,' or the like, one inclines the hearer's imagination to that opinion, or incites it to take the contrary view." PASCAL. "Human speech conveys different meanings to differently biassed minds." _Pastor Pastorum_, HENRY LATHAM. "We judge of others by what we see in them: and, what is more perilous still, we are tempted to judge of ourselves by what others can see in us." Bishop WESTCOTT. Judging JUNE 27 "The sinner's own fault? So it was. If every own fault found us out, Dogged us and hedged us round about, What comfort should we take because Not half our due we thus wrung out? "Clearly his own fault. Yet I think My fault in part, who did not pray But lagged and would not lead the way. I, haply, proved his missing link. God help us both to mind and pray." CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.