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129 TilE HrnING.TBfF. or LIFE.
C()Tr~~p()nd('ncebdwccn the heart and thc Epg,
the feelings nnd the words, the illward conscionsness
anJ the outwnrll expression. A
really truthful mau never intends to produco
n con viction in the mind of another, b)" Ian.
guage or sigri~ different from that which exif'ts
in hi!! own miml. If yon could. read 11is very
thought.'i, as they arise and assume l:llmpe,yon
could frame from them no other conclusions
than tho.c.c which bis words are adapted to
,,'ouvey. Inl.I}JJlUOUShlm~>lf, he caunot desire
to dcceiye others, or allow them to receive
from him as true, what he know.') to be false.
If he spcak or act at all, he must ~pcnk and
act conscientiously.
He careful to uudcl'8tanu this. No man deliervco
to be called a man of vcracity, who d00l
not h';VC uttA~mUCCto tho real meaning of his
own hcart. 'fhe esscnce of falsehood con~ists
in :ltl intcntloll to deceivc, and thi~ mn)' bo
bhown hy a look of the eye, a motion of tb~
hand, or n. tOllC of the voice a.~eflcetuall.y a.i
by explicitly uttered words. J\nything which
makes an imprc6Sion inconsistent with fact,
when that impression is purposely made, is a