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The Face Reveals Truth

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 23, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 25.

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The Face Reveals Truth

By Emerson

DREADFUL limits are set in nature to the power of dissimulation. Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body. Faces never lie, it is said. No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression. When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, his eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. I have heard an experienced counselor say, that he never feared the effect upon a juror, of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.—Emerson.