I Pass By That It Is Very

Because Men Believe Not In Providence, Therefore They Do So Greedily Scrape And Hoard. They Do Not Believe In Any Reward For Charity, Therefore They Will Part With Nothing.

I Pass By That It Is Very Culpable To Be Facetious In Obscene And Smutty Matters.

As A Stick, When Once It Is Dry And Stiff You May Break It, But You Can Never Bend It Into A Straighter Posture; So Doth The Man Become Incorrigible Who Is Settled And Stiffened Into Vice.

It Is A Fair Adornment Of A Man And A Great Convenience Both To Himself And To All Those With Whom He Converses And Deals, To Act Uprightly, Uniformly, And Consistently. The Practice Of Piety Frees A Man From Interior Distraction And From Irresolution In His Mind, From Duplicity Or Inconstancy In His Character, And From Confusion In His Proceedings, And Consequently Securing For Others Freedom From Deception And Disappointment In Their Transactions With Him.

The Fruits Of The Earth Do Not More Obviously Require Labor And Cultivation To Prepare Them For Our Use And Subsistence, Than Our Faculties Demand Instruction And Regulation In Order To Qualify Us To Become Upright And Valuable Members Of Society, Useful To Others, Or Happy Ourselves.