I perceived that admonition had no effect, and that my warm breath made no impression upon his cold iron. I ceased to advise him. I quitted his society, and whitdrew into the corner of safty, conformably with the sayings of the wise:

" Exhort and admonish, as in duty bound; and if they will not listen, it can no further concern you"
"Although thou are aware that they will not hear, inculcatewhat thou knowest of admonition and instruction"
" It must soon come to pass, in their desperate plight, that thou shall see them with their feet fast bound and in durance,"
" Wringing their hands, and crying: " Alas! that we did not listen to the good man's advice!"

After a time, what I had predicated of his dissolute conduct came to be verifide; for I saw him patch over patch on his ragged clothes, and wandering from door to door begging crumbs. I felt in my heart for his distressed state; but I deemed it ungenerous to hurt his feelings with reproach, or in such a case to sprinkle a poor man's sore with salt.

Translated by James Ross