...this holy service there is no room for the pleadings or the indulgences of the sluggard. His cry for " a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," can neither be tolerated nor granted. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider...

...400 100 . 100 1000 . 200 400 and od . 4000 1500 . 1000 4000 . 4000 . 4000 . 2000 300 8 3 of life hy " a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," may be easily placed in a striking point of view by the following calculation...

...and active in plotting your downfall, and yet they let you sleep, and you choose not to be awaked ; " a little more sleep, a. little more slumber, a little more folding of th« hands to sleep." And now like a man whose house is on fire, dreaming of comfort and security,...

...inconvenient, and, indeed, more disgusting, than to have to do with girls, or young women, who lounge in bed: 'A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep.' Solomon knew them well: he had, I dare say, seen the breakfast cooling, carriages...

...inconvenient, and, indeed, more disgusting, than to have to do with girls, or young women, who lounge in bed: 'A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep.' Solomon knew them well: he had, I dare say, seen, the breakfast cooling, carriages...

...dozing professor. O; how they hold fast deceit, and refuse to return ! The language of their hearts is, a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. God often grants such the desires of their hearts, and lets them sleep until...

...the same spirit ! 12. Poyerty and want struck at the root of sloth also. It was now no time to say, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to rest." If a man would not work now, it was plain he could not eat. All the pains he...

...their future safety and blessedness. But be the danger of delay more or less imminent, they still covet a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. If the result of their delay is perdition, all this danger they intend to risk....

...while, ever as God and eternity exclaimed aloud, " Awake, thou that sleepest," the dreamer answered, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep !"—and so on thousands has ruin " come as one that travelleth, and destruction...

...interests of Eternity — but they defer the consideration till some future period. As the sluggard desires a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ; so do many of the young, yes, and many of the old, delay from day to day, and...