eal to my younger Brethren to be watchful day by day in the matter of
money. At this moment there rises in my memory the face and name of a
Clergyman with whom, long years ago, I became acquainted about the time
of his ordination. He was unquestionably in earnest; I believe that he
truly knew his Lord and Master, and was truly desirous to serve Him in
His flock. But I am perfectly sure that he must have forgotten, almost
from the first, to take heed unto himself in the matter of money. [SN:
PECUNIARY INTEMPERANCE.] Perhaps he had brought with him from the
University that fatal habit of _pecuniary intemperance_ which sometimes
gets a hold upon a man second in its grasp only to that of intemperance
commonly so called. Unhappily the ways of modern college life too easily
generate such a habit, as University men are led more and more by their
surroundings into a dread of appearing to be poor, and are almost
expected to cost their fathers more for the academical year of eight or
nine months than they will earn in the clerical year of twelve. But
however it was, my poor dear friend _had_ about him the tendency to
debt. And not all his earnestness and his devoutness could maintain his
influence when that tendency began to tell. One post of duty had to be
soon quitted for another, and so again and again, under this
ever-recurring failure. Let us take heed unto ourselves.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MONEY.

In dealing with money which in any sense is public, no care can be too
great. In a case well known to me, a Clergyman imperilled his whole
influence, to the verge of ruin, by the simple but effectual process of
allowing money collected for a church-object to be mixed and "muddled"
with his private funds. He was not business-like, and he was not at all
well off. And somehow, when the time of reckoning came, the money had
melted, he knew not whither. Strenuous exertions on the part of friends
replaced privately the missing collection; but it was only just in time.
I have often heard our Indian Missionaries say how great and frequent is
the difficulty raised by the apparent incapacity of some otherwise
excellent native Pastors to keep public and private money apart. They
mean all that is honourable; but a friend comes in begging for a loan,
and there is the church fund at hand, and of course the sum taken shall
be soon repaid, and of course it is _not_ repaid. But such difficulties
are not confined to India. The native Pastors of Englan