Settling Accounts

A Gentleman introduced an infidel friend to a minister, with the remark, "He never attends public worship."

"Ah!" said the minister, "I am almost tempted to hope you are bearing false witness against your neighbour."

"By no means," said the Infidel, "for I always spend Sundays in settling my accounts."

The minister immediately replied,"You will find, sir, that the day of judgment will be spent in the same manner."

This reminds us of the remark of an old gentleman who once lived in Salem. The good old man was much annoyed by the conduct of some of his neighbours, who persisted in working on Sabbath. One Sabbath, as he was going to church, his Sabbathbreaking neighbours called out to him sneeringly from the hay-field: "Well, father, we have cheated the Lord out of two Sundays any way! "

"I don't know that," replied the old gentleman, "I don't know; the account is not settled yet."—Traveller