unclean life is pleasantly styled by the world a _fast man_.
God in the Bible calls him by a very different name.

Let us learn to call things by their right names. If what we say is
not quite true it is a lie, neither more nor less. If we go about with
idle tales of our neighbour, tales which have some truth in them, but
not all the truth, then we are verily guilty concerning our brother;
since the truths which are only half truths "are ever the worst of
lies." If in our business we say more than the truth, or less than the
truth, we are verily guilty. A lie is no less a lie because it is
printed in a prospectus, or written up in a shop window. A tradesman
who sells a pair of boots which fall to pieces, or a garment which will
not wear, and tells us that they are good and genuine articles, is just
as false as Ananias himself. I have heard traders declare that they
cannot afford to be honest. This is an utter mistake. Every Christian
man is bound by the vows of his Baptism both to speak and act the
truth. Well says a preacher of our day, "we have dethroned the Most
High in the realm of commerce, and in the place of the Heavenly Majesty
have erected unclean and pestiferous idols; we have put into the holy
place the foul little gods, named Trickery and Cunning. We have tried
to lock God up in the Church, and have shut upon Him the iron gates of
the marketplace."

My brothers, if you would prosper you must have God with you in your
business, guiding your plough, blessing your farm, ruling your trade.
You must have God with you behind the counter of your shop, or your
office, and if God is to be there you _must speak_ the truth. A
Christian man must have nothing to do with an unjust balance, or a
false weight. He must refuse to adulterate his wares, for these things
are lies. The Chinese are in the habit of adulterating some of their
tea for the market, but they are honest enough to call it in their
language _lie tea_. I only wish our traders would do the same when
they offer us false articles under the name of genuine wares. The time
would fail me to tell one quarter of the ways in which God's law of
truth is broken. I may not stay to speak of the false advertisement,
of the highly-coloured description, of the quack medicine, which we are
solemnly told will cure any kind of disease. I would only say, take
the matter home to your own hearts. Whoever you are, make up your mind
that as Christians you must s