He that is faithful in that which U least, is faithfuralso in much.— Luke 16:10. 



MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. 



WHAT CONSTITUTES GREATNESS? 



Give, and it shall be friven unto you; good mea- 

 sure, pressed down, and shaken tog-ether, and run- 

 ning' over, shall men give into your bosom. For 

 with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall 

 he measured to you again.— Luke, 6: 38. 



BEAR FRIENDS, did it ever occur to 

 you that you ure possibly living side 

 by side with those destined to be great 

 men, and that the great menof tlie age 

 may be (juietly j)lo<hling along at your 

 next-door neighbor'sV If not.alittle retlectiou 

 may tell you itis so. When Garheld was elect- 

 ed President an acquaintailce remarked, " I 

 used to know him quite Avell when a boy." 

 One of the girls who works at the books said, 

 " I used to go to school to him,"' and we hear 

 such things often. What constitutes great- 

 nessV Well, I can tell you some things that 

 help a boy to become great. I guess the talk 

 this morning will be a talk to boys ; Init may 

 be it will do for girls too. See what yoii 

 think. Last evening I listened to a grand 

 talk from the Rev. T. F. Ilildreth, of Nor- 

 walk, Ohio. He told us about a pleasure- 

 trip he made to (California ; and I want to 

 block out just one little point in the naira- 

 live. Somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, 

 where they had to change cars, he stei)ped 

 into a sleeping-ear just as one of his fellow- 

 travelers called him by name. Immediately 

 afterward a voice came from behind tb6 f'Ur' 

 tains, saying, — 

 "Is your name Ilildreth?" 

 "Yes, sir, that is my name," 

 "T.F. Ilildreth?- " 



•' Yes, sir. that is what they call me." 



I xVt this instant the curtains parted, and a 



i great burly six-footer, or a little more than 



six feet, to be accurate, stepped forth and 



! confronted the preacher. As our friend had 



' been considerably overawed already by the 



I lofty peaks and yawning chasms of the wild 



scenery around him he began to be a little 



frightened, wondering if it were not some 



; denizen of these savage wilds that was going 



to pounce down upon him and eat him up, or 



do something awful. But he screwed up 



courage enough to say back again, '• What is 



your name?" 



'• My name is Stubbs ; but 1 suppose you 

 don't know me." 



The preacher was obliged to admit that he 

 did not know Mr. Stubbs. 



" Well, if you don't, you certainly remem- 

 ber JohnnieStubbs who sawed that hickory 

 wood for you." 



"Jolmiiie Stubbs!" Sure enough, lie did 

 remember .Johnnie Stubbs ; and the orator 

 I asked us to please allow him to switch oft' on 

 I a side track, leaving, for the time being, the 

 1 little preacher standing before the stalwart 

 railroad man in his shirt-sleeves, just as he 

 ; got up. 



Years ago. down in Ashland Co., ()..in 



; some little obscure town the preaclier had a 



• Sundav-school class, and it was coming on 



' Christinas, just as it is now, an<l he talked 



! to the boys in the class about it, what they 



should do on (Miristmas. "I will tell you, 



' bovs," said he; "we will just go to work, 



and each one of ns earn all the money we 



can; and iust Ix'fore Christmas we will dj- 



