Were you, Sir, or I, to become stock-jobbers, money-scriveners, or adventurers in commerce, it would not be more entangling, or more likely to impede the discharge of our duty, in spiritually serving a congregation, and in communicating biblical and theological learning to young men of approved piety, to prepare them for the work of the ministry,—than is the other class of allurements and entanglements.
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