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Show Reputation. Reputation is the outer garment of char-actor. char-actor. Reputation often conceals the character; char-acter; yet, sooner or later, the character'? form will ghow itself in or through the garment gar-ment which it wears. An old English ballad tells of a magic garment brought to King Arthur's court, which could be worn only by a person of right and honorable life. From contact witfc any other wearer the sensitiTo fabric shrank away, refusing to do its.ofHc8 of covering the person. Not. unprofltaHy might wo fancy ourselves subjected to similar simi-lar ordeals. That if the- truth of our language lan-guage could be tested, so that words insincerely insin-cerely written by us should vanish from our page; or if our voice, in its too muoh protesting, protest-ing, were to become inaudible? Would not the confusion of Zing Arthur's circle be repeated re-peated in tho society of today? Such liability to public conviction would render many a person more heedful of thought and word than ho now supposes himself to bo; yet, even as things are, disclosures like these are constantly con-stantly being made. A kindly seeming note shows itself void of the spirit it professes, tho assurance of tho lips is denied by an inflection of the voice, and the tenor of th? inner life is by manifold signs laid open to the keen observer. There is no lack of ters whereby our real character is revealed to others, though we may bo all unconscious when or how the revelation is effected. ef-fected. And so it is that gradually our reparation repa-ration is adapting its form to tho character bcacath it Somday School Times. |