He that is faithful In tliat w lich U least is faithfvil also in niiuh -Likk IC 10 



MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. 



Thou Hliult love tlif Lord tliy (iod willi all tliy 

 heart, and with all thy soul, and witli all thy 

 strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor 

 as thyself.— Luke 10: CT. 



Jp MONG the piles of things thrown on 

 k my table, from our heavy mails, there 

 \l came yesterday a little "pamphlet. I 

 ^ picked it np and absently turned to 

 the first page. The words I read 

 startled me. I put it in my jxtcket tliis 

 morning, and at breakfast I read it aloud to 

 our family circle. Tiie words look iiold of 

 every heait, I believe, just as they took hold 

 of me; and if 1 am not mistaken, tiie 

 glances that were exchanged indicated that 

 the words went home to otlier hearts than 

 mine. Do yt)U want to know what were those 

 words that gave me a start—yes, that startle 

 me now, and trouble me, because they re- 

 mind me that I am a guilty sinner in (iod's 

 sightV Well, heri' is tiie little sentence: 



I had been thinking how strange a thing it was 

 that 1 disliked so many people, and liked so lew. 



The next words were right in the same 

 line, and they make me even now catch my 

 breath, as it were, and call out from the 

 bottom of my heart, "• Lord, help!*" Here is 

 the next sentence: 



Only to look at some persons seemed enough to 

 put me out ot humor, and make me feel like saying 

 cross things. 



And now I think I will give you the whole 

 of the little pamphlet. 



THE LANTERN PEOPLE. 



I have been thinking how strange a thing it was 

 that I disliked so many people and liked so few. 



Only to look at some persons seemed enough to put 

 nic out (if humor and make me feel like saying 

 cross things. IJut there were others (although not 

 ni-arly so many of them) whom I loved to meet, and 

 whom 1 could hardly be cross to if 1 tried. 1 had 

 been thinking about this, when I fell asleep and had 

 a dream. 



1 thought I wnsciinieil awav 

 when- it wiis :ilwa\s daik. N 

 tlicre, the sun ncvrr shone, an 

 in the sU.\ . \it jieopk' wer( 

 could see thcni walking about, 

 stiange j)cople, such as 1 ha<l 

 (1 (.1. nor I 



o a strange country 

 morning ever came 

 there were iki stars 

 living there, and I 

 IJut they were very 

 never seen before, 

 heard of. nor e\cn thought of. I called them 

 I the /,(Ui^'/)i /'top/t, because they looked like great 

 hnitii-ns with lights inside of them that shone 

 through. And they were <.f a verj strange shape, 

 tor they had ever so many sides, and on every side 

 was a picture. Some were pretty and some were 

 \igl.\ pictnits. Every person I saw had both pretty 



Of course I was very much surprised, and stood 

 looking a long while: for the jieople could not see 

 me, though 1 coi'ld sic them and was close to them. 

 On sonic of their sides were ))ictures of snakes, 

 1 wasps, and pigs: on other sides, <>i doves, lambs, 

 j llowers, and such beautiful things. And now I 

 want to tell you a very curious thing about the 

 way these people did when they met each other. I 

 noticed when a man met jinother in the street, he 

 would (|uickly turu around one of his sides, so that 

 the man he met could see it and nothing else— that 

 is, nothing but the picture that was on the side 



While T stood watching I saw a man coming 

 along, and he turned almost the whole way round. 

 so as to bring the picture of a dog in front, where it 

 could be most i)lainly se(>n. It was a bulldog— one 

 of the sort that shows its teeth, veiy ugly and sav- 

 age-looking. I could not understand why he should 

 take so much trouble to turn out that ugly picture 

 (for he had prettier ones that 1 could see) until I 

 saw another man coming toward him who turned 

 out a picture uglier still. It was of a wolf. 



As soon as they came close up to each other the 

 pictures seemed to be alive. I was astonished to 

 see their eyes move and their mouths open and 



