94 THE LAW ON LYING.

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immediately he fell down dead, and great fear came upon
all the people. Then the young men arose and carried
him out and buried him.

Not long after his wife came in, not knowing what
had happened to her husband; and Peter asked her
whether she sold the land for so much, and she said for
so much. “Then Peter said unto her, how is it that ye
have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?
Behold the feet oi them which have buried thy husband
are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell
she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up. the
ghost. And the young men came in and found her
dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her hus-
band.”

We may learn by this how God hates lying lips.
But lying is not all done with the lips, for sometimes, we
act alie. Whenever we try to deceive God, or one an-
other, by pretending to be what we are not, we act a lie
and break the commandment of God. It is so much
better, children, always to tell the truth, for we not only
offend God, when we tell a lie, but our friends learn to
distrust and despise us. It may cost us something to be
truthful, but it will cost us more to be untruthful, for the
Bible tells us, that our sin will be sure to find us out.