VICES OF THE TONGUE.

            “I love to make people like each other better, and I often regret the tattling system which prevails so generally, and from which I grieve to say many, of whom it would be uncharitable not to think favourably on the whole, are nevertheless not exempt. It is, indeed, a striking instance of our natural self-deception, that persons who would quite shrink from committing most of those crimes which are condemned in the Word of God, think little of the vices of the tongue. But any one who is duly jealous of himself, will always watch most carefully against the sins which are the least unpopular in his own circle, and certainly the great evil of what is called the religious world is ‘Chatteration!’”—

Extract of a letter from the late William Wilberforce.