O Lord our God, whose command it is that we love our neighbour as
ourselves, help us to cherish and protect his good name as carefully as
we guard our own. Make us more willing to repeat the good about him,
but slower to retail or exaggerate the evil. Grant us all a deeper
sense of the deadly wrong a foolish tongue can work, and keep Thou the
door of our lips. For Thy Name's sake. Amen.
"_Thou preventest him with_
_the blessings of goodness._"
(PSALM xxi. 3.)