But it is very often the case that the uncharitableness of others, where it really exists, is but the reflection of our own want of charity and want of temper.

It still oftener happens, that the worry we subject ourselves to, has its source in our own imagination.

And even though those about us may think of us uncharitably, we shall not mend matters by exasperating ourselves against them.

We may thereby only expose ourselves unnecessarily to their illnature or caprice.

"The ill that comes out of our mouth," says Herbert, "ofttimes falls into our bosom." The great and good philosopher Faraday communicated the following piece of admirable advice, full of practical wisdom, the result of a rich experience of life, in a letter to his friend Professor Tyndall:- "Let me, as an old man, who ought by this time to have profited by experience, say that when I was younger I found I often misrepresented the intentions of people, and that they did not mean what at the time I supposed they meant; and further, that, as a general rule, it was better to be a little dull of apprehension where phrases seemed to imply pique, and quick in perception when, on the contrary, they seemed to imply kindly feeling.