THE OTHER FELLOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 8

THE OTHER FELLOW

THE QUIET CORNER

(Written for THE SUN by the Rev. Charles Chandler, Assistant City Missioner) r pHE other fellow is always worse than ourselves. We let ourselves dozen from the first floor, while we drop him from the top storey. He is the chap who slams the door, and leaves the gate open. He is the fellow who knocks his wife about, and starves his children. He it is who never pays his grocer’s bill, and spends his money on slow horses and fast women. He’s the man whom the cap fits; who starts the row, and should be hanged, and takes the blame, and gives up his seat in a crowded tram, and does the things which we disdain. However greatly we err, we have this consolation, that ice are never so bad as he. Our vices are not quite so vicious, and our virtues are more virtuous. In similar circumstances we should have done this, while he went and did that. Whatever happens to him just serves him right he has been looking for it—while all our bumps are undeserved . No matter what job he is doing, we could shore him how to do it better, be he plumber or premier, parson or Pope. The fact of the whole matter is. we have never had our chance, because we have lacked the “ hide” that he had, to go and “turn it up.’’ For all that, God must be on the side of the “other fellow,’’ because he minds his own business, and being conscious of his own demerits, takes the Scottish Bard's advice: — “Then gently scan your brither man, Still gentler sister woman, Tho * they may gang a ’ Tcennin’ wrang, To step aside is human.” NEXT WEEK: “MOVINGITIS.