And after that you will easily get him to put off purity and prayer till he is a married man and at the head of a house.

Only get the idea of a more convenient season well into their heads, and their game is up, and your spurs are won.

Take their arm in yours, as I used to do, at their church door, if you are posted there, and say to them as they come out that to-morrow will be time enough to give what they had thought of giving while they were still in their pew and the minister or missionary was still in the pulpit.

Only, as you value your master's praises and the applause of all this place, keep them, at any cost, from striking while the iron is hot.

Let them fill their hearts, and their mouths too, if it gives them any comfort, with the best intentions; only, my scholars, remember that the beginning and middle and end of your office is by hook or by crook to secure delay.' And a great crop of young orators sprang up ready for their work under that teaching and out of the persuasionary school of Ill-pause.