Lodgers—workpeople.
2. Never associate with the wicked, unless obliged to do so, or with a view to doing them good.
Even this needs caution.
3. Remember, ‘A man is known by his friends.’
You and your children will be judged by the company you keep.
XII. SLOTH.
I. The command to be diligent is plain. Rom. xii. 11. 2 Thess. iii. 10, 11.
II. See the miserable results of sloth.
1. It leads to tattling. 1 Tim. v. 13.
2. Decay. Eccles. x. 18.