WANTED—A GOOD CONSCIENCE.
By Lyman Abbott
There is no article so rare, none for which the market price is so high, as a good conscience; nothing for which, in others, men are willing to pay such good wages. We all want carpenters that will put no green timbers and no sappy boards in our houses, masons who will mix no mortar with ill-slacked lime, farmers who will put no thistles and no stone in the center of their baled hay, market men who will not put the ripe fruit at the top and the green fruit at the bottom, lawyers who are not liars, shopmen who guarantee nothing that they do not know, authors who never forget to put quotation marks where they belong, ministers who preach their own earnest and hearty thoughts.—Lyman Abbott.