...to send their missionaries to every part of the globe, " fold our arms, and close our eyes, and cry a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep?" Secondly. I would further observe, that we have every encouragement to exert...

...harvest, storeth up her provision. O sluggard, how long wilt thou lie? O when wilt thou arise from sleep? A little more sleep, a little more slumber; a little more folding of the hands to rest; and poverty shall come upon thee' as a swift messenger, and thy want as an armed...

...?" Are you saying in your heart, with Felix ; " Go thy way for this time ?" or, with the sluggard, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber ; a little more folding of the hands to rest ?" Ah ! this is the sin that slays its thousands. Many, it is to be feared, permit...

...for the present. If we attempt-any thing now, the good will all be lost before the Millenium arrives. A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." It is vain, my brethren, to expect the Milleninm one moment sooner, or later,...

...invitations, became so common to his accustomed ears that they failed in their expected effect. He wanted '' a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands for sleep," and he took it ; he would wake up again by and by, he said. Before long, perhaps,...

...lead them from ruin; they promise to hear at a more convenient season: they demand time for moving: 'A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep.' Hence we may account for many objections that are made to our labours. The...

...Notwithstanding all these motives, is not the speech of the sluggard the very language of our conduct? " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." The most supine indifference, where all possible diligence is but just sufficient...

...Notwithstanding all these motives, is not the speech of the sluggard the very language of our conduct? ' A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. 'f The most supine * Prov. vi. s. 1 There is, if I mistake not, a Dice gradation...

...house was marked with decay, and his children were crying for bread. Yet I heard the wretch exclaim, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber ; a little more folding of the hands to sleep." Surely, said I, this is the dwelling of misery and despair. Such is the idle...

...the same spirit ! 12. Poverty 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 is plain he could not eat. All the pains he...