412 C?iftl$TIAN bfÖAALIT]`. HYMN FOR SERMON XXia Christian Morality, viz. Thingsof GoodReport. IS it a thing of goad report, To squander fife and time away To cut the hours of duty short, While toys and follies waste the day To ask and ptattle all affairs,. And mindall business but our ordtì? To live at random void of cares, While all things to confusion run ? troth this become thechristian name, 7o venture near the tempter'sdoor I To sort with 'heededit dame, And yet presume to stand secure ? Am t myonly sufficient guard, While I expose my soul to shame ?' Can the short joys ofsin reward The l'astiog blemishof my name ? Q may it he my constant choice To walk with men of grace below,/ 'Till I arrive where heavenly joys," And never-fading honoursgross i
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