place. [Add the lines about eye and mouth, completing Fig. 109.]
What was the matter? Some one asked him the question. And this was his
answer--listen to it: 'I never knew, during those years when I could
not hear the sound of people's voices, that those about me were so
unkind to each other!'

"'Unkind?'

"'Yes,' said he; 'ever since my hearing was restored I have been
surprised and pained and shocked to hear the careless words--the
harmful words--which people speak concerning even those they love. I
have thought about it a good deal and have made up my mind that the
people do not speak these words because they always mean what they
say, but because they have grown into the habit of saying unkind
things. And the profanity! And the vulgarity! It is dreadful to listen
to the language used by many men, and even boys, in their ordinary
conversation!'

"The man had spoken a sad, sad truth. How careless we are! Even the
best of us speak too many thoughtless, unkind words--words which may
affect the entire after life of the one who is the subject of their
utterance. And how many there are all about us who blaspheme the name
of their Maker!

"All of us are familiar with the words of Shakespeare, who, in
'Othello,' causes Iago to say that 'he that filches from me my good
name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor,
indeed.' Our slighting word may rob some one of his good name and
leave him poor, indeed; while the kind word which rises to our lips,
but remains unspoken, may retard the progress of the person of whom we
might have spoken it.

"'Be not rash with thy mouth,' says the writer of Ecclesiastes; 'let
thy words be few.'

"'Behold also the ships,' says the Epistle of James, 'which, though
they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned
about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even
so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold
how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a
world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it
defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and
it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts and of birds and
of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed of
mankind; but the tongue can no man tame.'

"Let us, friends, watch this unruly member. Profanity and vulgarity
bespeak a vile mind. We trust that our trouble is not so