tion will come heavy upon you. " Judge not and ye shall not be judged."
Lastly, Brethren, the parable teaches how much at variance usually are the judgments of man and the judgments of God, They are generally as different as the grounds on which they are based; as different as was the Pharisee's fair exterior from his proud, uncharitable, sinful soul, or the publican's unpromising aspect from his humble and contrite heart. Far God is not concerned with the outward appearances of things, nor is His knowledge, like ours, acquired slowly and with much labor and easily forgotten. See what a weary process has to be gone through with in a court of justice that one little case may be decided, one little wrong righted, and consider how often even then justice miscarries and the innocent are punished and the guilty freed. And if decisions so laboriously arrived at frequently prove false, what of opinions formulated in a moment? But with God, to exist is to know, and so penetrating and so comprehensive is the scope of His vision that all creatures, all events, all men from time's beginning to time's end are ever present before Him; aye, even our very motives regarding which we manage so often and so egregiously to deceive ourselves. " Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off," says the Psalmist, (Psalms i. 38), "Thou hast foreseen all my ways. Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, whither flee from Thy face? If I ascend into heaven Thou art there, if I descend into hell Thou art present, and in the uttermost parts of the sea. And I said: Perhaps darkness
