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person employed advises and directs his employer, — of which,the lawyer and his client, the physician and his patient, the cler-gyman and his congregation, are the chief and most familiarcases. This, too, is the nature of the relation subsisting be-tween the Faculties of our universities, colleges, &c., and theBoards of Trustees which employ them, so far as the literaryand professional department of those institutions is concerned.These cases, in which the advice of the person employed gov-erns the conduct of the employer, are of all, the most honorablekind of agencies. In them, moreover, a special responsibilityalways rests on the person employed. In all these cases, theemployer calls into requisition and pays for, the peculiar skill andknowledge, and not merely or chiefly the manual labor, of theperson employed. And the employments of life rise in rank,in proportion as they require more skill, knowledge, and integ-rity, for their successful exercise.

CHAPTER III.

THE OBSERVANCE OF TRUTH.

This general form of expression is used to designate thispart of my subject, because there are many violations of truth,besides direct falsehood. An adherence to truth is deservedlyesteemed the chief of the personal virtues, and a disregard of itis universally numbered among the most flagrant offences againstmanners, morals, and religion. A single deliberate falsehood isa stain on the character which cannot easily be wiped away.

£< Ye shall not steal,” says Moses to the Hebrews, “neitherdeal falsely, neither lie one to another.”* David makes it acharacteristic of the wicked, that “ they go astray speaking liesas soon as they are born, that they love evil more than good, andlying rather than to speak righteousness.” f Again, “ Lying lipsare an abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his

Leviticus xix. 11.

t Psalms lviii. 3; lii. 3.