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 state, kingly titles, and imperial diadems, making them all to appear as mere tinsel.

4. Yet does many a man imagine in his blindness and thirst for gain that Sunday labor is of advantage to him, and increases his store of money. How short-sighted I If you. my friend, could reckon up the number of those - if indeed any such could be found who have become rich through working on Sunday, and also those who, in spite of working on Sunday, or, to speak more correctly, because they worked on Sunday, have come to beggary; then would the mere consideration of worldly advantage restrain you from desecrating the day of the Lord. Everything depends on the blessing of God; the curse of God, on the contrary, brings to nought the fairest hopes and wisest calculations. Can not God send down, in the space of one brief hour, lightning and hail, sickness and death? Does His hand not know how to strike the guilty?

5. A certain judge in his youth had be longed to a society composed of young men