atience
and moderation, as there was before for a spirit of justice and
self-denial. If, by God's grace, you get the victory over these
temptations, you are the better man for having been called out to
them; always provided, that the temptations be not of your own
seeking. If you give way, and sink under these temptations, don't
go and say trade and business have made you covetous, passionate
and profane. No, no; depend upon it, you were so before; you would
have had all these evil seeds lurking in your heart, if you had
been loitering about at home and doing nothing, with the additional
sin of idleness into the bargain. When you are busy, the devil
often tempts you; when you are idle, you tempt the devil. If
business and the world call these evil tempers into action,
business and the world call that religion into action too which
teaches us to resist them. And in this you see the week-day fruit
of the Sunday's piety. 'Tis trade and business in the week which
call us to put our Sunday readings, praying, and church-going into
practice.

_Will._ Well, master, you have a comical way, somehow, of coming
over one. I never should have thought there would have been any
religion wanted in buying and selling a few calves' skins. But I
begin to see there is a good deal in what you say. And, whenever I
am doing a common action, I will try to remember that it must be
done _after a godly sort_.

_Stock._ I hear the clock strike nine--let us leave off our work. I
will only observe further, that one good end of our bringing
religion into our business is, to put us in mind not to undertake
more business than we can carry on consistently with our religion. I
shall never commend that man's diligence, though it is often
commended by the world, who is not diligent about the salvation of
his soul. We are as much forbidden to be overcharged with the
_cares_ of life, as with its _pleasures_. I only wish to prove to
you, that a discreet Christian may be wise for both worlds; that he
may employ his hands without entangling his soul, and labor for the
meat that perisheth, without neglecting that which endureth unto
eternal life; that he may be prudent for time while he is wise for
eternity.

PART VI.

DIALOGUE THE SECOND. ON THE DUTY OF CARRYING RELIGION INTO OUR
AMUSEMENTS.

The next evening Will Simpson being got first to his work, Mr. Stock
found him singing very cheerfully over his last. His master's
entrance did not prevent his