teach men so: and it is a sad thing, how many persons, especially young ones, are taught by older persons to do these little wrong things. And therefore, you, who are parents, should be extremely cautious what example you set your children in this respect. For God's sake, for your own soul's sake, do not teach your chil dren to think any sin little, to look upon a little stealing or a little lying, for instance, essential things: teach them to fear God, and avoid all sin, however small: check and prevent them at an early time, before bad habits grow upon them. Be careful what example you set them, and if they should, after all, turn out wicked and worthless, let them not have it to say, if my father and my mother had checked me when I was doing little wrong things, I should never have done so bad an act as this, I should not have been the worthless being I have grown up to be.

Our Saviour goes on: Ye have heard,

says he, that it was said by them of old time, others, who lived before me have said, Thou shalt not kill, and whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of judgment; they have told you not to do murder, but have said no more to you, they did not care what passed in your hearts, provided your hands were clean from blood. But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, whoever harbours angry thoughts against other people, shall be liable to punishment from God; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council, and whosoever shall say, Thou fool,shall be in danger of hell-fire. Our Saviour, my friends, knew what was in man; he knew that if we set a guard on our tongues and on our hearts, we should set it in the right place, and that our conduct would be the conduct of Christians. He therefore forbids us to harbour angry and revengeful thoughts: he forbids us to use abusive and ill lan

guage towards other people. Because, if we feel, and take a pleasure in feeling, thoughts of revenge against others, we shall be ready, as soon as an opportunity happens, to shew our revenge by what we do: if we pour forth bitter and abusive words against others, we shall, in that way, keep up the fire of hatred, and perhaps go on, till we treat him ill with our hands. No caution is more necessary than this: we all require it: we all require to be cautioned not to think evil in our hearts, and to say evil with our tongues about others. And no people ought to be cautioned against it more than yourselves. know, my friends, how apt you are to take offence against others, how apt to quarrel and fight, how apt to be angry and revengeful, how apt to abuse and to call ill names. This you must not do, if you wish and expect to be Christians. Remember it is not I who tell you, it is your Saviour, who is to judge you after death, who tells you not to be angry with your brethren,

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that is, with another person without a cause: it is he who tells you not to be calling each other by abusive names, lest you fall into hell-fire. A mild, quiet, and forgiving temper is the temper of a Christian, it is the temper of Heaven. It was the temper of your Saviour himself, who, when he was abused, abused not again, and who commands us to bless and curse not.

Our Saviour goes on: Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way: first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. In the same manner 1 would say to you, my friends and hearers. If you wish to attend this church, to hear my instructions, and in time to become Christians, recollect if any one has cause to be angry with you, or if you have any cause to quarrel with any one: and if it be so,

first be reconciled: ask pardon where you haye offended, and where others have offended you, pardon and forgive them. Then come to this place of worship: fall on your knees before your Father in Heaven, whom you have all offended every day of your lives, and pray to him to forgive you your trespasses or sins, as you forgive others your trespasses or offences against yourselves. If the world were a world of Christians, if all persons, whites as well as blacks, would behave as their Saviour orders them, what a different world would it be from what it now is. Peace and quiet

would reign among us.

We should be

like one family, where all loved each other and did every thing in their power to help and oblige each other.

Our Saviour says, agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast