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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

The Home Circle.

IT MAY BE YOUR TURN NEXT.

JUDGE not too harshly, oh my friend, Of him your fellow-man, But draw the veil of charity About him if you can. He once was called an honest man, Before sore trial vexed; He stepped from out the narrow way— It may be your turn next.

Fainting upon the great highway A suffering soul doth lie; Go staunch his wounds and quench his thirst, Nor pass him idly by. God will not brook the swift excuse, The thoughtless, vain pretext; A fellow-mortal bites the dust— It may be your turn next.

You heard one day a single word Against a person's name; Oh, bear it not from door to door, To further hurt his fame. If you're the man you claim to be, Remember, then, the text, To "speak no evil," true or false— It may be your turn next.

The world is bad enough, we own, And many need more light; Yet, with true love to all, may we Help in the cause of right: Lift up the sinful and the weak, The soul by care perplexed, Well knowing that to drink the gall It may be our turn next.

—Downsville News.