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 zeal? No: Go to the next town, and bespeak a pair of shoes of one of these saints; will he not solemnly promise, that they shall be made by a certain day, while he, in his conscience, knows, they will not then have had a single stitch put into them? So it is with tradesmen in every branch of business. And has this want of probity no effect upon the moral character? Is it consistent with the belief of our being accountable to the God of truth? And were the doctrine of our being thus accountable, wrought into our minds as an abiding principle, would it be possible that it should have no greater effect upon our actions? Remember, that in being called to the office of instruction, you are bound to do all that is in your power to lead the little children unto Him who declared, that for this end he came into the world, to hear witness to the truth. With this impression constantly upon your mind, you need be under no