If you know of a skeleton hidden away In a closet, and guarded, and kept from the day, In the dark, and whose showing, whose sudden display Would cause grief and sorrow and lifelong dismay, It's a pretty good plan to forget it.
If you know of a thing that will darken the joy Of a man or a woman, a girl or a boy, That will wipe out a smile or leastway annoy, Or cause a fellow any gladness to cloy, It's a pretty good plan to forget it.
How much brighter and how much more joyful would this old world be if we all got together and practised that old adage, "Do unto others as ye would that they do unto you."
This world is too full of sorrow and pain already, and we are all too ready to condemn when we ought to condone.
What is the matter with us anyway? If one has taken a false step in the past, is there any reason why they should be given the "cold shoulder," especially when they are endeavouring to lead a straight life?
Man or woman is entitled to a square deal, no matter what the past may have been.
Once the turning point has been passed between right and wrong, and a firm endeavor is made to keep to the "narrow way," then let us help and encourage instead of raking up the past and by so doing help wreck a human soul.
We are all human; many are subject to temptations from which others are immune. It is usually a case of environment, therefore judge not your neighbor harshly.
Let's all try to practice the suggestions in the above poem; let's judge fellow beings by the present—not by the past.