Atlanta Daily World

ON
THE
REEL

By
REV. TASCHEREAU ARNOLD

IT IS EASY TO FIND FAULTS

While it's rotten, it will rend. We have been a great while up and down the country, and we never to our satisfaction saw a perfect house yet, or a perfect man, and perhaps we never will.

It is not to be expected that one should get white flour out of a coarse sack, nor perfection out of human nature; yet we are making no claim against perfection, for it should be one of the true goals of all true Christians. If a man has reached that stage in life, we all adore him.

There is an old saying like this: Of the dead, faultless, we should say nothing but good; but when it comes to the living, one can say many things. It is quite unjust to "hit a dead man below the belt." By so doing, such person does not prove his bravery, for it would have been far better to have said the unkind word to him while he fell asleep. No heads have soft spots in them while men's hearts have their black spots.

Why is so pleasant even the mighty and pots in it, and the choicest skies have dark clouds.

After all we are not so wise, for man's wit is half folly enough to run vanity far. There is evil mixed up with people for there is no sunshine without some shadows.

Moreover, all men's faults are not written on their foreheads and it is well that they are not for they would need hats with wide brims to hide them.

Sin like hares pop out of the thick unexpectedly. If the horse is weak in the knees, he will soon stumble, though he may go a mile or two and to avoid this, the rider better hold him up well. Many a child has embarrassed the parent by calling some one of the outcast minority a cup ugly names. No one knows when sins will show itself. As we live among men let us be ever mindful that we are perhaps imperfect. Hence, we should not get excited when we find out our friend's failings. What's rotten will smell as sure as a cracked pot will leak. If you expect nothing of poor flesh and blood you are blessed for you will never be disappointed.

The best of men are men at the best but the highest grade of wax will melt.

It is a good horse that never stumbles and a good wife that never grumbles. Perhaps such horses and wives are mostly found in a fool's paradise, in a section with dumplings on trees. Remember that the straightest timber in the forest has knots in it and the cleanest fold of oats has its share of weed. If you said you were good when you knew you were a hypocrite, whether others knew it or not. This will make you feel sick but a little of the tonic of truth will put you on the road to health.

The imperfection of one man is still a reminder to another man of his imperfections for a sheep is like a sheep.

We have no delight with that crowd of people who poke their nose into every man's home to throw out his short comings or faults, put on huge magnifying glasses to find their neighbor's flaws. Such person better look at home lest they should find to their great surprise that the devil resides there.

"A list of our faults it would take a large slate to hold the account of them but thanks God we know where to take them and how to get the better of him" our writer left on record to the goody goody people.

With many faults God loves us if we are believing in Him so therefore let us not be downhearted, but hope to live and die and do much good service before we are called by the death angel. Fault, or no faults work must be done and imperfect people do it too. Selah.