• Author: Unknown
• Editor: B-7413
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 5
• Page Number:
• Date: 3 29 1916
• Tags:
• advice
• criticism

FLAW-SEEING EYES From the columns of one of our exchanges we glean the following article from the pen of George Clarke Peck, which we deem well worthy of reprinting, for perusal by our readers. It is said that when Raphael was hard at work on his famous frescoes in Saint Peter's Cathedral, two churchmen made him frequent visits. "You have made the face of Saint Paul too red," said one of the visitors, critically. "Yes," replied the artist, in not entirely good humor; "he is blushing to see into whose hands the Church has fallen.'? It does not follow that one who cannot paint a picture is therefore disqualified from criticizing it. But most of us are alarmingly, and some of us savagely, free with criticism. And the pathos of the situation is that most of our criticism is worse than wasted. A thunderstorm which sours the milk in the pantry, usually clears the air outside. But the trouble with most criticism is that it sours the milk of human _ kindness without improving the atmosphere at all. Criticism is seldom a spur. It is frequently a drag. It is sometimes paralyzes." "Let something good be said !"—