t you sell? Do you substitute inferior grades of goods? Are your
advertisements deceptive? Are your cheap prices made possible by
defrauding your customers either in quantity or in quality? Do you
teach your clerks to put a French or an English tag on domestic
manufactures, and then sell them as imported goods? Do you tell them
to say that the goods are all wool when you know they are half cotton?
Do you give short weight or measure? See what God says in His Word:
"Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of
deceitful weights? Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a
great and a small: thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a
great and a small: but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a
perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be
lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. . . . Ye
shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in
measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin,
shall ye have." Are you like those who said: "When will the new moon
be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth
wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying
the balances by deceit? that we may buy the poor for silver, and the
needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?"

"Show me a people whose trade is dishonest," said Fronde, "and I will
show you a people whose religion is a sham." Unless your religion can
keep you honest in your business, it isn't worth much; it isn't the
right kind. God is a God of righteousness, and no true follower of his
can swerve one inch to the right or left without disobeying Him.

STOLEN GOODS A BURDEN.

I heard of a boy who stole a cannon-ball from a navy-yard. He watched
his opportunity, sneaked into the yard, and secured it. But when he
had it, he hardly knew what to do with it. It was heavy, and too large
to conceal in his pocket, so he had to put it under his hat. When he
got home with it, he dared not show it to his parents, because it
would have led at once to his detection. He said in after years it was
the last thing he ever stole. The story is told that one of Queen
Victoria's diamonds valued at $600,000 was stolen from a jeweler's
window, to whom it had been given to set. A few months afterward a
miserable man died a miserable death in a poor lodging-house. In his
pocket was found the diamond and a letter telli