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  KEEP YOUR JUDGEMENTS IN CHECK
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of refraining from
judgment and cultivating kindness and empathy towards others.

Topics: "Judging Others", "Self Improvement"
Scripture References: Proverbs 19:11, Matthew 7:3, Luke 6:37, Romans 14:13, 1 Corinthians 13:4

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Mary Wilder Tileston, in her sermon, emphasizes the importance of
refraining from judging others and instead focusing on self-improvement.
She highlights the need to address our own faults before pointing out
those of others, urging us to seek purity in our souls before
criticizing our neighbors. Tileston stresses the significance of
developing a kind and charitable mindset, rather than indulging in sharp
criticism and analysis of others' characters, which can lead to
uncharitable behavior.

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Let us not therefore judge one another any more.

ROMANS 14:13

TELL not abroad another's faults

Till thou hast cured thine own;

Nor whisper of thy neighbor's sin

Till thou art perfect grown:

Then, when thy soul is pure enough

To bear My searching eye

Unshrinking, then may come the time

Thy brother to decry.

"Jesu, Saviour, pitying be;

Parce mihi, Domine!"

LYRA MYSTICA

THE habit of judging is so nearly incurable, and its cure is such an
almost interminable process, that we must concentrate ourselves for a
long while on keeping it in check, and this check is to be found in kind
interpretations. We must come to esteem very lightly our sharp eye for
evil, on which perhaps we once prided ourselves as cleverness. We must
look at our talent for analysis of character as a dreadful possibility
of huge uncharitableness. We are sure to continue to say clever things,
so long as we continue to indulge in this analysis; and clever things
are equally sure to be sharp and acid. We must grow to something higher,
and something truer, than a quickness in detecting evil.

FREDERICK WM. FABER

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/keep-your-judgements-in-check/
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