may be lifted up by wealth to sit among princes, he is, in the eyes of God, a degraded and an outcast creature. He has sold his soul for what must soon be wrung from his grasp. He has bowed down to an idol as senseless, and as unable to bless him, as the stone god of the Hindoo devotee. Though a world were in league to prove the contrary, ungodly gain wraps up a curse in it; and the larger the pile, the more deadly or crushing are its effects. Those were solemn words which Eliphaz spoke to Job: "I saw him taking root, but I cursed his habitation."[16] Let God, then, be recognised as a party in all that is done. Be it our maxim, in the market-place as well as on our knees: "Thou, God, seest me;" and it will at once fortify and warn us. He who forgets that simple principle in our busy day, is like one who casts the pilot overboard when the tempest is rising. The suggestion now offered would at once sweep away those petty encroachments which pass in the world almost without rebuke, but which are an offence to the Holy One. It seemed a small and venial thing to Eve to do what she did, and to Adam to follow her example; but that little thing dragged the world to ruin. And so before God, offences deemed venial by man are seen in the defilement and the hatefulness of sin. Hence the call to act under the divine eye --to adopt the divine standard--to make God a party in all our proceedings. His holiness, his justice and truth, should at once repress the unprincipled and encourage the pure; and man would then be made upright towards man by being made right with God. * * * * * MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH. But side by side with that, we must place a second Counsel, not less needed than the other--Watch with care, /lest the engrossments of business should so accumulate as to overlay and crush the godliness of the soul/. Amid the pressure of times like ours, this is one of the greatest perils of the market-place: it is destroying its tens of thousands. Men eagerly plunge into speculation after speculation. They try to extend, to ramify, and engross, till you might suppose they have a home in city after city; nay, in kingdom after kingdom. Not contented with the gains, the competency, or the honest rewards of what they can easily overtake or personally control, many make such haste to be rich, that an empire is too limited for their plans. In their zeal, they embark in scheme after scheme; they wrap themselves round with entanglement after entanglement, till, in some cases, the ends of the earth are not too remote for their desires to reach. TRUE ENTERPRISE: