A pastor was making a call upon an old lady who made it an habitual rule never to speak ill of another, and had observed it so closely that she always justified those whom she had heard evil spoken of. Before she made her appearance in the parlor, her several children were speaking of this peculiarity of their mother, and one of them playfully added: “Mother has such a habit of speaking well of everybody, that I believe if Satan himself were the object of conversation, mother would find out some virtue or good quality even in him.” Of course this remark elicited some smiling and merriment at the originality of the idea, in the midst of which, the old lady entered the room, and on being told what had just been said, she immediately and involuntarily replied: “Well, my children, I wish we all had Satan’s industry and perseverance.”—Sel.