BUSYBODIES
If, as our proverb puts it, “Charity begins at home,” so should criticism; and criticism
concerning character had better stop there. There is so much dirty linen in our own
house needing to be washed that none of us need to take in our neighbour’s washing.
“Mind your own business,” is a command that might have been spoken by Solomon
himself, and the apostle Paul was inspired to write to the Thessalonians, “Study to
be quiet, and to do your own business;” and he and Peter very sternly condemned
those who were “busybodies in other men’s matters.” 3055.421