HONESTY.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day.—Romans, xiii. 13.
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.—I. Thessalonians, iv. 11, 12.
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.—Hebrews, xiii. 18.
Honesty!
A name scarce echo to a sound—honesty!
Attend the stately chambers of the great—
It dwells not there, nor in the trading world;
Speaks it in councils? No, the sophist knows
To laugh it thence.
Havard.
I ask not for his lineage,
I ask not for his name—
If manliness be in his heart,
He noble birth may claim.
I care not though of world’s wealth
But slender be his part;
If yes you answer, when I ask—
Hath he a true man’s heart?
I ask not from what land he came,
Nor where his youth was nursed—
If pure the stream, it matters not
The spot from whence it burst:
The palace or the hovel,
Where first his life began,
I seek not of: but answer this—
Is he an honest man?
Nay, blush not now—what matters it
Where first he drew his breath?
A manger was the cradle-bed
Of Him of Nazareth!
Be nought, be any, every thing—
I care not what you be—
If yes you answer, when I ask—
Art thou pure, true, and free?
R. Nicoll.