118 A Perfect Gentleman.

buyer, “you needn’t mind that; my orders
will be three times as large. Besides, if you
like, I will undertake to purchase all the
goods you can turn out.”—‘‘ No, I cannot
break faith with my first customer !”—
“Well, look here; send the stuff to that
London address and they can forward it,
and then you won't be supplying a New
York house.”—‘‘ No; my word is pledged,
and no inducement will make me to break
it.” And now mark how God honours the
-faith of those who trust in Him; for the
Christian Gentleman has this as an additional
aid,—his loyalty to God is his strength, his
confidence is his strong tower. ‘‘ They that
honour me I will honour.” The American
had scarcely left when a London buyer,
whom my friend had often tried to obtain
as a customer, came in and gave him a good
order with promises of more. Let sceptics
sneer as they please, the word of God
standeth sure. “Godliness (and in this is
included every quality of the Perfect Gentle-
man) is profitable to all things; having the
promise of the life cin now is, as well « as
that which is to come.’