No doubt it is easier to discover other people's faults than our own. Many of us are troubled more about the way our neighbours live, than we are with our own shortcomings. We manifest a greater feeling of responsibility for the acts and neglects of others than for our own. Now, the truth is, every man must bear his own burden. We shall not he called to answer at God's bar for the idle words, the sinful acts, and the neglects of duty of our neighbour. But there is one person for whose every act, word, disposi-tion, and feeling we shall have to give an account, and that is ourself. We had better train ourselves, therefore, to keep close, minute, incessant, and con-scientious watch over our own life. We had better give less attention to our neighbour's mistakes, foibles, and failures, and more to our own. Most of us would find little time for looking after other people's faults if we gave strict attention to our own. Besides, seeing and knowing our own defects would make us more charitable to those of others