36 ‘ CHARITYs

feelings or reputation of another, than to
wound his person? Is it not as bad to destroy
his good name, as to break his bones? In
the sight of God, one is as bad as the other;
they both’ show a want of that love which
we call charity, and this every good heart
possesses.

There are many persons who think that it
is witty to be severe ; that it shows talent to
find fault; that it displays superiority to be
dexterous in picking out and showing-up
_the follies and foibles of others. This is a

great mistake, for of all kinds of vulgarity
and meanness, that of fault-finding is the
most easy and the most common. Who is
there so weak, so dull, as not to be able to
make another appear wicked, unamiable, or .
ridiculous, if he will watch his actions and
be resolved fo attribute them to bad motives?

It is easy to draw a caricature likeness of
another: you have only to represent the
prominent features, with a little absurd ex-
aggeration, and any body sees at once the
ridiculous resemblance. Thus a caricature
of even a handsome person excites laughter:
but it is a very poor vocation—this of draw-