A Simple Story, With Two Great Lessons

Simple Story, With Two Great Lessons Alice Moran, of Oxford, Idaho, writes the Era of an early experience in England, which taught her two important lessons "Years ago, when I was a girl living in England, I passed a pic- ture shop. Something attracted my attention and caused me to stop and look in the window. It was a picture. On it was a long row of houses. It had been snowing very hard, and snow was thick upon the ground. Before each door of the houses was a little boy or a girl with a broom trying to brush the snow each from his own doorstep. Oh, how happy they looked, all laughing and' trying to work so hard I have often thought of the words !

that were under the picture 'If each before his own door swept, :

the village would be clean.' "And while I have thought of those words, they have often taught and shown me a lesson, too. I have frequently said to myself 'Yes if I would only look at all my own faults and fail- : ;

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ings, and not be so keen and sharp to examine my neighbors', what a better woman I would be and if all did so, how much ;

!' more would we love one another "As I have thought of that picture, I have also drawn an- other lesson from it What better men and women we would be, :

if we would only try with the help and strength of our Father in

heaven, to love each other more, and try to work for him."