fortune of another; sought to lessen him in the estimation of others; rejoiced to see him disappointed or mortified?—Gluttony. Have you indulged an inordinate gratification of your appetite; been guilty of eating or drinking to excess, or caused others to do so?—Anger. See the Fifth Commandment.—Sloth. Have you remained in bed through laziness, after the appointed hour of rising; squandered your time in idleness or useless occupation; feigned to be sick, thereby to be dispensed from work?
Observe that in each of those sins you may have been guilty, not only of your own sin, but of the sins of others, by counselling, commanding, consenting to or praising the sins of others; assisting or otherwise sharing in them; not hindering them when you could, and by concealing them when it was your duty to make them known. You may have been guilty of the sins of
