ONE of our exchanges has a long article on lying, and enumerates about every kind except the lie of exaggeration. To exaggerate is to make more out of a thing than is in it. This deceives, and hence is falsehood. So apparent is this, that the oath required in our courts of justice is not only to “tell the truth, the whole truth,” but also “nothing but the truth.” There are two methods of this kind of lying. One is to overstate your own deeds and goodness, and the other is to understate facts concerning others whom you do not like. Some people always do wonderful things. So they say. They have meetings where “lightning bolts flash from heaven,” “tornadoes of glory devastate the country.” “The oldest inhabitant says he never saw such a revival before.” Everything they do is wreathed in a cloud of glory. All workers who went before them were nothing, and the inference is that power will never be so manifest again. It is very difficult for them to see any good in any one else. They look through the magnifying end of the telescope when they describe their own virtues, and through the other end when they speak of the virtues of others. If there is any flaw in the other fellow, in any way, shape, or manner, they take out the big microscope, and show that he is straight on the road to hell. They magnify the virtues which they are sure they possess, and the faults that they are sure other people possess. Many people who mean to be good fall into this habit. Nevertheless it is lying. To state the position of other people unfairly, and declare that it is the truth, is lying. God help the man who wants to reform others to get the beam of exaggeration out of his own eye!—Christian Witness.