10 TRUTH.

night here, it was day in China—“and
now,” said he, “ of course the sun is shining
there, though it is night here. I said that
the sun shines, and so it does.”

To this the father replied as follows:

‘What you say now, John, is true, but
still, what you said to James was a falsehood.
You knew that he understood you to say,
that the sun shone..ere—you meant that he
should so understand you; you meant to
convey a statement to his mind that did not
conform to fact, and which was therefore
untrue. You had a reservation in your own
mind, which you withheld from James. You
did not say to him that you restricted your
statement to China—that was no part of
your assertion.

“Truth requires us not only to watch over
our words, but the ideas we communicate.
If we intentionally communicate ideas which
are false, then we are guilty of falsehood.
Now you said to James that which ‘was
untrue, according to the sense in which you
knew he would, and in which you intended
he should, receive it, and therefore you
meant to violate the truth. I must accord=