even with regard to the things of this life. There are still far too many to whom the familiar lines of Dr. Watts may be applied,— “’Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, ‘You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.’ ” It sometimes happens, too, that these idle people are religious people, or profess to be so, though I have no faith in that man’s religion who is lazy. He reminds me always of a certain monk, who went to a monastery, determined to give himself up entirely to contemplation