. Living and loving; selections from the devotional works of Professor A. Tholuck for every day of the month;. estined ; that it is an abuse of confidencetowards our neighbor. These arguments may be goodin their place. Enough for me to say with David, OLord, thou art God, and thy words be true ; and, beingthe servant of the Lord, I will walk on no other pathbut his. Moreover, I see what becomes of those whotry to bargain for an abatement of the truth. The stonecannot be stopped which has once begun to roll downthe hill, and one lie produces seven. If you are to con-sider good reasons a suffici
. Living and loving; selections from the devotional works of Professor A. Tholuck for every day of the month;. estined ; that it is an abuse of confidencetowards our neighbor. These arguments may be goodin their place. Enough for me to say with David, OLord, thou art God, and thy words be true ; and, beingthe servant of the Lord, I will walk on no other pathbut his. Moreover, I see what becomes of those whotry to bargain for an abatement of the truth. The stonecannot be stopped which has once begun to roll downthe hill, and one lie produces seven. If you are to con-sider good reasons a sufficient excuse for passing off alie, ah me! how cheap these are, especially when fur-nished by a wicked heart! I never saw a thief use hislight fingers who had not good reasons to plead fordoing so, although the only true one might have beenthat his fingers itched. Let the conscience have becomeso relaxed as to sell its consent for what are called goodreasons, and I know of nothing which it will not will I say with the poet: — The conscience which men pliant call,Is much the same as none at 4° Zwenty*eiQbtb 2>a£ THE TRIVIAL ROUND. ,HE better and more serviceable the articlesare which one Christian furnishes to another,the wholesomer the bread which the bakerbakes, the more firmly the architect lays thefoundation of the house which he builds, the more expe-ditiously and largely the merchant procures the com-modities of other countries for the use and benefit ofhis own, — the more in such external services will aregard for the welfare, and a desire in all respects toconsult the interests, of his brother be all this spring from a desire to serve God and hisneighbor, his daily work will be a work of Christiancharity, and he will no longer require to wait for specialand select occasions to exercise that virture. Luther hassaid that a married wife ought to be convinced that inher position the suckling of her babe and the tending ofher children are
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