Only, if they must feast and dance and such like, be
you all the more diligent in your exercises at home on their behalf till
they are back again, where, after all, they like best to be, in their
good, kind, liberal, and loving father's house.
Have you a family? Are you a married man? Or, if not, do you hope one
day to be? Then attend betimes to what Charity says to Christian in the
House Beautiful, and not less to what he says back again to her.
SHAME
'Whosoever shall be ashamed of Me, and of My words, of him shall the
Son of Man be ashamed, when He shall come in His own glory, and in His
Father's, and of the holy angels.'--Our Lord.
Shame has not got the attention that it deserves either from our moral
philosophers or from our practical and experimental divines. And yet it
would well repay both classes of students to attend far more to shame.
For, what really is shame? Shame is an original instinct planted in our
souls by our Maker, and intended by Him to act as a powerful and pungent
check to our doing of any act that is mean or dishonourable in the eyes
of our fellow-men.
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