meaning of this. It says, in the plainest language--"Piety without
charity is nothing;" and yet how many thousands and hundreds of
thousands around us expect to get to heaven by Sunday religion
alone! Through the week they reach out their hands for money on the
right and on the left, so eager for its attainment, that little or
no regard is paid to the interests of others; and on Sunday, with a
pious face, they attend church and enter into the most holy acts of
worship, fondly imagining that they can be saved by mere acts of
piety, while no regard for their fellow-man is in their hearts.

Such a man was Brian Rowley. His religion was of so pure a stamp
that it would not bear the world's rough contact, and, therefore, it
was never brought into the world. He left the world to take care of
itself when the Sabbath morning broke; and when the Sabbath morning
closed, he went back into the world to look after his own interests.
Every Sunday he progressed a certain way towards heaven, and then
stood still for a week, in order that he might take proper care of
the dollars and cents.

Business men who had transactions with Mr. Rowley generally kept
their eyes open. If they did not do it at the first operation, they
rarely omitted it afterwards, and for sufficient reason; he was
sharp at making a bargain, and never felt satisfied unless he
obtained some advantage. Men engaged in mercantile pursuits were
looked upon, as a general thing, as ungodly in their lives, and
therefore, in a certain sense, "out-siders." To make good bargains
out of these was only to fight them with their own weapons; and he
was certainly good at such work. In dealing with his brethren of the
same faith he was rather more guarded, and affected a contempt for
carnal things that he did not feel.