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to the portem of hia warehouHC, and they arc be- holden tohimslill more in return; nnd while they fulfil theircifficesfaitlifully^tkeyare in much charge of one another The trader is beholden to hi? cufitomer^ and the customer to the trader ; and so oa through all the offices of mercantile life; as it was wont to be a century- ago, when the name of a merchant, and of a London merchant, com- manded rcvLT^nce all llie wtirki over: ^nd the companies of our merchants, American and East- Indian, laid the foundation of widest empire, and were God'g chief instruments for civilizing the world: whereas, now a joint-stock company of merchants U a rope of sand, a rock to wreck hopes upoTi, a quick»at>d to engulph valuable goods. I speak advisedly when I say. that a 916 OOD'0 CON'THOV£nSV WITH THE tANjJ. [INl|i pcUifoggiog law]Fer i& not novr lowest in the tcaJe of kimvery : ccmpaDieH of merchaiiU arc beneaUi. biiD. This i» a mout crying «iQ birloi^ lUe Lur vhereof avarice is tlie root; avarice the root all CTil. A competeDcy &ati3fieB do mau: ere man mu^t bavo a fortune, must distinguish liimsciri Hmflt make bis family : our merchniit^ must dwdL beajde our lords, and the tradesman m.usi hav4 liU villa be»ide the squire. It la a race for gain; i ii a scramble for gold, and what gold can pur- cliofic. And 86 you cannot scrre both God and mammon, it i5 a torsaking of God^ a diaowoing oC him, and a ^'or»hipping of the barest »pint wlucb- fdl rroiii ii«av«ii. Also the maoufacturer ii bound to lock with: a care and conoern upon tJie people who labour for him, and upon llicir children ; and to guaxd: ihcm against extraraganco ia good times, and agaiuiit want in l>ad times, to look after Ui«f couifbrt of tbeir habitations, the iuKtruction o their children^ tho spiritual health of all. Oh, what a maD, what a noble man, might a inanu* facturcr be I The owner, not of faelds of the earlh*^ or trees of the wood« but the master of ingenious men, of hundreds njid ihuusands of most ingeni* ous men. Such mnnufacturerit were U^dle^ and otbera> whoso nnmois 1 do not meution, as being of our own times: aud, oh! it were very easy for any mauufacturcr, in vrbocn dwelt the fear of God and the obedience of Christ, to earn tu btiu- aelf a crown of ^lory, both in this world and the world to come. But hon*, aUft! it is become! In good times beating up for workn>en by tuck of di^m, advertiaing for tlkcm to come in from distant parts, to tettle by their foctortcs; and, in bad tiraea, paying Ihcm off, and cas