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Show neighbor.- That Is a very terrible threat. Inving flacheller has a story on " "Keeping ! ith Li isle," In Which one girl, who has been away snd com back with fine clothes and extravagant extrava-gant habits, started a whole neieh -borhood tn a foolish thouxh amusing race to be In style. Neighbors have a hahlt of goading each oilier on in thla fashion, mutually complaining of earn other the while. Neighbors are very tyrannical. Hut there comes to almost every home at some time In Its hiatory an occasion when the family learns what neighbors really are good for. Sickness, arrives, or trouble In some other form, snd the whole world looks bleak and drear. Then the neighbors come in. They answer the telephone, and wash the dishes, and neglect their own work, that they ms y do yours. They labor and love and sympathise. They warm youe heart and give you a new grip o;i the faith; and you and vour house-i house-i hold forget the dog und the chickens and tne phtMiograph. nnd ssy. "W' have the bt neighbors In t'ie wrnT." That interest ing genius, ( 'nest err on, Just now on a vtsit to this coun,fv. has this word to say: "We make our friends; we make one1 enemies; but (iod makes our next doo . neighbor. He Is Man. the terrible amone, the beauts. That is why the oM re-Igions re-Igions and the old Scriptural Ian proas showed so sharp a wisdom when they spoke, not of one's duty towards human hu-man it y. but one's duty toward one'g . neighbor. The most tnoa- strous martvrdom, the moet repulsive experience, may he the result of choice or kind of taste. We may be so made a-t to be particularly fond of 1 una Mrs or part leu larly interested In leprosy. We mty love negroes because thev ere b'ack. or German nm-iaDst I hca-ise thev are pedantic But we hav to ln e our neighbor because he Is t?ere.- One of the permanent needs of' society so-ciety Is for neigh hors. For them w msv well sacrifice much. We ma v leave i behind us much of comfort and even of luxury, and go with, itller. back te Grigshv station, "whir we used to be so happy and so pere,' For there we 1 shU fiaA neighbors. , 4 The Inhumanity of Neighbors A neighbor enn be a terrible thing. He ran keep chickens that scratch out vour garden, or a bulldog that frighten our children, or a daughter that aits with a companion In a hammock on the front ponh within souwd of your oben window snd forbid your elen. or a phonograph that plas jaxs tunes, and for none u( these iniquities Is ll lawful for jou to hhoot him. He can permit his children to be extravaKant. o that your children come to you demanding that you shall permit them to dresa or drive as fast aa his children do. He can fail to shoved the snow oil his front wai-k to the grave peril of your safety of body and p ace of mind. i ou cannot verr well Ignore him. he-I enue he I o near to you. if the world , were larctr jou niiirht, forget ntm. hut; he is ver near. TU line fence qufe- t ion i an oc a Ion of long standing bittetne-s between farmers. and clothesline quarrels are In a clans by themselves ia municipal court. There are times when you have a sutnit lon of what may have been the hidden eiperltnce behind the prohet s declaration. "I will show them do mercy, mer-cy, nalth the' Lord, but I will deliver tbem every man. Into the baa da of bit. |