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 "DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY."


 HERE was once a very little boy whose name
 was Willie. Willie's mother read the Bible to
 him before he could read himself, and when he
 did not understand, she explained it to him. She
 talked to Willie about Jesus Christ, and Willie
 knew he came from God to teach men, and
 women, and little children, and that the oldest
and the youngest ought to obey what he commanded. One
of the first of Jesus' rules which Willie learned was, that
you should do to others what you would have others do to
you. When Willie first learned this golden rule from the
Bible, he thought it would be very easy to obey it; but he
soon found it was not so very easy.
 A little way from Willie's father there lived an old
woman quite alone. She had not one child, not so much
even as one grandchild, to live with her. Willie felt sorry
for her, and so did Willie's mother; and if she got a plea-
sant new book, she would send it to Mrs. Bemis (that was
the old lady's name) to read. And often, when she baked,
she would send her a pie or a custard. Willie's father,
too, was kind to Mrs. Bemis, and often sent her a basket
of strawberries, or a mess of early peas, or some other
rarity from his garden. Mrs. Bemis was not poor; she
had plenty to eat. But Willie's parents knew that it is a