28 WHAT KIND OF HEART

A person with a good heart is almost always »
good-looking ; and for this reason, that the’
soul shines through the countenance. If
the heart is angry, the face is a tell-tale, and
shows it. If the heart is exercised with
piety, the countenance declares it.

Thus the habits of the soul become written
on the countenance; what we call the ex-
pression of the face is only the story which
the face tells about the feelings of the heart.
If the heart is habitually exercised by malice,

*then a malicious expression becomes habi-
tually stamped upon the face. The expres-
sion of the countenance is a record which
sets forth to the world the habitual feelings,
the character of the heart. |

I know very well that some persons learn

to put a false expression upon their faces :

“Shakspeare speaks of one who “can smile
and smile and be a villain still.” This false
veil, designed to hide a bad heart, is, how-
ever, generally too thin to answer its pur-
pose. Mankind usually detect the veil of
hypocrisy, and as flies see and shun a
spider’s web, so mankind generally remark
andavoid the hypocrite’s veil. They know