them. Do you see why Jesus said so often, "Woe comes to the Pharisee"
--the self-righteous? And why he called them hypocrites? Of course they
are unconscious of their hypocrisy--self-righteousness blinds them to
the truth; they think _others_ are to blame for most of the
self-righteous one's own hard conditions.

The self-righteous one is doomed to a tread-mill of petty failures. He
goes round and round his own little personal point of view and
learns nothing.

It is by getting at the _other fellow's_ point of view that we learn
things--about him and ourselves, too. When the self-righteous one wakes
up to the _fact_ that the world is _full_ of people whose points of view
are _just exactly_ as right and wise and ideal as his own; and begins to
_feel with_, and PULL WITH these other people, instead of against them;
when he does this he will find himself out of the treadmill to _stay_.
As he shows a disposition to consider _other_ people's ideals and help
others in the line _they_ want to go, he will find the whole world eager
to help _him_ in the way _he_ wants to go. The self-righteous one works
alone and meets defeat. The one who, recognizing his own righteousness
_in intent_, yet forgets not that _others are even as he,_ is the true
friend and _be_-friended, of all the world.

Now don't let this homily slip off _your_ shoulders. We are _all_
self-righteous in spots, and none of us is so _very_ wise that he cannot
by self-examination and readjustment learn a lot more.

Each soul _in its place_ is wisest and best. Don't _you_ try to get into
the pilot house and steer things for Tom, Dick, or Harry. Stay in your
own and steer clear of the rocks of anger, malice, revenge, _resentment,