"Beyond this, which I bring forward as a specimen of the character
of your dealings with your fellow-men, I could adduce almost
innumerable examples of your indirect and covert modes of obtaining
the advantage in ordinary transactions. You may not be aware of the
fact, Mr. Rowley, but your reputation among business men is that of
a dealer so close to your own side of the bargain as to trench upon
the rights of others. You invariably keep the half cent in giving
change, while you have been repeatedly known to refuse a ten cent
piece and two cents for an elevenpence. In fact, you are known as a
man who invariably seeks to get the best of every transaction. If
this is Christian charity--if this is a just regard for the rights
of your neighbours--if this is in agreement with the spirit of the
Bible, then I have been labouring under a mental delusion. Man of
the world as I am--heathen as you have seemed to regard me, I am
proud to say that I govern my actions from a higher principle. You
now understand, gentlemen," addressing the friends of Rowley, "why I
have called this man a Sunday Christian. It is plain that he expects
to get to heaven by a simple Sunday service of his Maker, while all
the week he pursues gain so eagerly as to thrust other people aside,
and even make his way, so to speak, over their prostrate bodies. I
have no more to say."

Rowley was so much confounded by this unexpected charge, that he was
silent. His own conscience wrote an affirmation of the truth in his
countenance. The men who had come with him arose, and, bowing with
far more respect than when they entered, withdrew, and Rowley went
with them.

There was a change in the pious merchant after this. He conducted