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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 6.

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JUST TELL THE TRUTH.

By Fireside Teacher

ANY one who knows he is telling the truth can afford to keep cool—even under the proverbial badgering of a pert lawyer. The boy who learns that lesson at home is fortunate.
A boy twelve years old was the important witness in a lawsuit. One of the lawyers, after cross-questioning him severely, said: "Your father has been talking to you, and telling you how to testify, hasn't he?" "Yes," said the boy. "Now," said the lawyer, "just tell us how your father told you to testify." "Well," said the boy modestly, "Father told me that the lawyers would try to tangle me in my testimony; but, if I would just be careful to tell the truth, I could tell the same thing every time." The lawyer didn't try to tangle up that boy any more.—Fireside Teacher.