"But it is all very well to give an ideal picture. We want the reality, and where can he be found?" That is perfectly true. The _reality_ is wanted in every family, society, church, and nation in the wide world. My reader, do you see and approve the ideal? Then aim at the _reality_, and to be the first model human talker that has ever lived in this Babel-talking world. Mark well the failings of others in the use of their tongues, and strive to avoid them in your own. A heart and head united in being right will do almost everything in making the tongue right. When the interior of a watch is in order, it will generally indicate the right time: when a man in the belfry wisely pulls the rope attached to a bell, it will give a proper sound: when a musician is perfect in his art, and his instrument in tune, the music he plays will agree thereto. So, reader, is it with the tongue, when the "man of the head and heart" are perfect in Christ Jesus. Seek, and obtain this, and you will be among those who "OFFEND NOT IN WORD." "What! never speak one evil word, Or rash, or idle, or unkind? O how shall I, most gracious Lord, This mark of true perfection find? Thy sinless mind in me reveal, Thy Spirit's plenitude of grace; And all my spoken words shall tell The fulness of a loving heart." THE END. Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney, London and Aylesbury. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. VALUABLE WORK FOR MINISTERS, LAY PREACHERS, SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS, ETC. EIGHTH EDITION, _Revised and Enlarged, 8vo, cloth, 12s. 6d.; half morocco, 18s.; whole morocco, elegant, 25s._ A CYCLOPAEDIA of ILLUSTRATIONS of MORAL AND RELIGIOUS TRUTHS; CONSISTING OF Definitions, Metaphors, Synonymes, Contrasts, Analogies, Statistics, Anecdotes, etc. _Designed for the Pulpit, the Platform, the School, and the Family: selected from Authors Ancient and Modern._ The following particulars may be mentioned as the peculiar features of this work:-- I. =Arrangement=: The subjects are consecutively and analytically placed, so that the illustrations desired can at once be found by a reference to the letters beginning the proper word of the subject. Each illustration has over it the precise subject, as near as could be ascertained, for which it was intended by the author, forming in itself a thought upon the general subject. II. =Comprehensiveness=: Scarcely any point within the compass of theology and morals, in all their phases and relations, is omitted. There is from one to ninety or a hundred illustrations on each general subject. The work contains between SIX AND SEVEN THOUSAND ILLUSTRATIONS, gathered from more than EIGHT HUNDRED AUTHORS. III. =Newness of Illustration=: The greater proportion of the matter has never appeared before the public, apart from the respective authors. There is also a variety of _original_ illustrations, for the first time appearing in print.