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Three forms of misrepresentation may be indicated —

1. The suppression of facts essential to a right estimate of character. This is perhaps the most usual and most dangerous form of the evil. "No lie is so dangerous as a half-truth."

2. The accepting of unverified rumour for fact. He who does this becomes an indorser of the rumour. A premium is thereby placed upon slander.

3. Direct fabrication of known falsehood. The evils of such misrepresentation are lasting and obvious.

(1) It defiles the individual, blunts his sense of honour and justice, numbs his conscience, and weakens his moral influence over his fellows.

(2) It is a crime against one's country.

(3) It is a sin before God. In the thunders of Sinai it was condemned. Christ Himself was the victim of partisan misrepresentation.

(Homiletic Review.)

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KJV: Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

WEB: Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.