Very Much the Devil.

If You look through a red piece of glass, everything that you see will appear; but although it appears red, it does not follow that it is red; the fault lies with you, you are looking at things through a red piece of glass, and so many things appear to you different from what they redly are; in fact, some may be as opposite as possible to what they appear to yon, and those things that are red you can see in their real state; but you are not in a possition, under those conditions, to judge one from the other, or right from wrong.

There are some people you come across that have much to say about the evil and wickedness they see in others, they can never find a kindly word to speak of a friend or neighbour; in fact, they never see the good or virtue in anyone, but always the evil, and that too in its most glaring colours. You would seem to think by their conversation, that every one they came across is cither a human creature with devilish ways, or a perfect devil in human form, and I have little doubt but that they are perfectly honest to themselves when they speak this way, for they really do speak as they see things; but how is it they see all this evil? I will tell you.

They themselves are so imperfect in every part of their being, that oven in the very lens of their eyes they have so much of the devil, that every one they look at they fancy they can see the devil in them, and I would advise every one to be very careful how they stand and listen to such conversation; because while they are telling you the evil of others, they will be fancying they can see the devil in you, and then go and tell others of what they believe to be your devilish ways. If we cannot speak good of any one it is better to he silent; never speak evil.