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 against it. But our Lord's own rule, which has been justly termed the golden rule, is the law to be remembered both by masters and servants: "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." Whatsoever you would wish your servant to do if you were a master, that as a servant do you. The neglect of this rule, or the total forgetfulness of it, has led to the general remark, that those who have at one time been servants, are, as masters, the most oppressive and overbearing. If we inquire into the reason of this, the solution is at once simple and easy. When they were servants, they practised every evasion, and used every cunning method to over-reach their employer; and hence, when they become masters, they suspect their servants of doing what they themselves had previously done. In this way the "eye-servants" become terrible as masters, and the kingdom of darkness gains an accession of miserable inhabitants.

There is a beautiful sentence contained in four words, which we should all do well to keep in remembrance, yea, engrave on the tablet of the heart, and keep as frontlets before the eyes; it is this: "." Were it remembered, and were reflections awakened in the mind, of its vast significance, how much evil would be avoided, how much more faithfully would our duties be performed! We should then so "let our light shine before men, that they might see our good works, and glorify our Father which is in heaven." Here is the reward of a Christian servant—doing good for the pure love of good, loving and practising truth because it is truth, and shunning evil, not merely because it is mischievous in