...addressed to us. As spiritual husbandmen, we have not laid to heart that proverb of axiomatic wisdom, " He that gathereth in summer is a wise son ; but he...sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame." Unless we now bestir ourselves, while yet it is sowing and reaping time, "the harvest will pass" and...

...poor that dealcth with a slack hand : but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 5 He that gathcreth pake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 6 Blessings are upon the head pf the just : but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7 The memory...

...perhaps, more suitable and seasonable, than in these days of luxurious ease and physical refinement. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand : but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. Prov. x. 4. We forget that the effeminate and the trifling shall not inherit the kingdom. 1 Cor. vi....

...soul. While the soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing, the soul of the diligent is made fat. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. If you, then, would secure the favor of God, and replenish the soul with divine grace, you must shake...

...the grave, whither thou goest," Eccl. ix. 10. Think, too, of the fearful consequences of neglect. " He that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame," Prov. x. 5. The wicked shall arise from their graves to " shame and everlasting contempt." Destruction and misery...

...and commended ? Ex. 20. 9. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work. Pr. 10. 4. He beconieth poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maktth rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that...

...gathereth her food in the harvest." And chap. x. 5, &c., " He that gathereth in summer is a wise SOD; sufferings, says, Col. i 24, " Who now rejoice in my sufferin And many other places might be mentioned. So, on the other hand, if we were certain that we should...

...calling, but he must be diligent and industrious in it : for, as the wise man Prov. i0. 4. observes, " He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand ; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich," not of itself, but because the blessing of God attends it, without which, all our care and diligence...

...working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Prov. x. 4. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand : but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 'John vi. 12. When they were filleJ, he aid imto his disciples, Gather up the "ragments that remain,...

...riches are not for ever : and doth the crown endure to every generation? Hebecometh poor thatdealeth with a slack hand : but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule : bat the slothful shall be under tribute. Love not sleep,...