Anyone Can Grumble

     Fault-Finding is not difficult.  Isaac McCurry illustrates this.  A dog hitched to a lawn mower, stopped pulling to bark at a passer-by.  The boy who was guiding the mower said, "Don't mind the dog; he is just barking for an excuse to rest.  It is easier to bark than to pull this machine."

     It is easier to be critical than correct.  Easier to bark than work.  Easier to burn a house than to build one.  Easier to hinder than help.  Easier to destroy reputation than construct character.

     Fault-Finder is as dangerous as it is easy.  Anybody can grumble, criticize, or censure, like the Pharisees, but it takes a great soul to go on working faithfully and lovingly, and rise superior to it all, as Jesus did.

--1959