A Business-Man's Testimony to the Sabbath.
Of the late Adam Rolland, an eminent lawyer and chamber-counsellor, well known half a century ago, the following anecdote was told by the late pious Walter Tait, minister of the Trinity College Church of Edinburgh, of whose church Mr. Rolland was a member. Mr. R., having met with a country-friend coming out of the church, invited him to share in the hospitalities of his house. On his friend telling Mr. R. that in fact it was to see him and to consult him on some important business that he had come to town, and being about to enter on the subject, Mr. R. gently touched him, saying, “My friend, I do not keep company on this day—far less could I enter on worldly business, of which I have enough during the week-days. The key of my business-room remains at rest till to-morrow at ten o’clock, when I will be ready to give you my best advice. I saw you in our church, and am happy to show you attention, but we’ll leave the concerns of this world out for this day.” He added, that to this resolution he owed much of the comfort he had enjoyed.