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and correcting them, not caring for their souls, over working them, allowing them to neglect the duties of religion, allowing them to commit sin or to keep improper company, exposing them to temptation, making hard terms with them, breaking your agreement, delay in paying their wages, turning them away sick, dismissing them hastily without just cause, setting a bad example, not giving food enough, retaining wicked and blasphemous servants.

OF SERVANTS, CLERKS AND APPRENTICES.

Not serving your employers diligently and faithfully, wasting their property, stealing it or giving it away, not preventing or exposing the dishonesty or misconduct of fellow-servants, revealing the faults of your superiors without just cause, prying into their business, reading their letters, betraying their secrets, being disrespectful, complaining without reason, breaking your engagement, staying in a place where you were required to do wrong, helping your master in a criminal design, entering a service in which you cannot observe the duties of religion, or in which there is a temptation to give up the Catholic faith.

OF A LAWYER:

Maintaining an unjust cause in a civil court or an unjust charge in a criminal court, maintaining a

just cause by unjust means, culpable ignorances, neglect or delay in the management of a cause, causing useless litigation, falsified documents, not drawing up a will in accordance with the intentions of the testator, betraying confidence, asking exorbitant fess, not making restitution for any of these injuries.

OF A DOCTOR.

Attempting an operation which you were not equal to, not giving special care when a dangerous disease is impending, trying experiments on your patient, using dangerous remedies when you are in doubt, neglecting to consult others when there is need or calling them in unnecessarily, causing unnecessary expense by needless visits or medicines, causing the death of an infant before or after its birth, or neglecting to use influence to hinder this crime, allowing an infant to die without baptism, by drink or medicine stupefying the dying or hastening death, not warning the sick man when he is in danger of death, using an improper influence with the patient or his family, revealing professional confidence, making money out of the imaginary diseases of the rich, neglecting the poor or treating them unkindly, neglecting the sick through fear of infection.

OF AN INNKEEPER.

Overcharges, adulteration, selling drink to those

who you know will get drunk, keeping your house open at forbidden times, allowing dangerous dances, gambling, bad songs, evil talk, loose characters, bad newspapers or infidel tracts, cruelty to those who have drunk too much.

OF A SCHOOL TEACHER.

Neglecting the great object of education, viz., to make the child a good Christian, not loving the children and praying for them, want of punctuality, method and discipline in teaching, rudeness, tyranny, wicked ridicule of children, hardness, unfairness through fondness or dislike, exciting vanity, want of zeal and diligence in work, criticising or murmuring at a superior's orders, criticising a parent to a pupil, neglecting the reasonable wishes of a parent, keeping bad pupils which injure the others.

OF CHORISTERS AND PERSONS OCCUPIED IN CHURCH.

Singing well from vanity instead of for the glory of God, want of obedience and docility, irreverent postures, staring about, doing your part negligently, talking unnecessarily, noisy on leaving the church, talking lightly about sacred duties, giving up your place hastily, taking offence unnecessarily, discourtesy to strangers.

SINS OF PRIDE.

Thinking well of yourself, boasting, talking of yourself, showing off, vain of dress or appearance or strength or cleverness or popularity, vexation at failure, contempt, mimicry, arrogance, self-will, tyranny, hypocrisy, making excuses, obstinacy, not acknowledging that you were in the wrong, ashamed to do your duty, insolence, not bearing injustice patiently, mocking the afflicted, want of respect to the aged, habit of jesting on every subject.

SINS OF ENVY.

Not liking to see others well off, or noticed or esteemed, or good and pious, speaking evil of them without necessity, being glad at their misfortunes, spreading scandal, or listening to it, laughing at sin, not helping others in difficulty, not warning them of danger, leading them to sin, readiness to believe evil of them, not interpreting their words and actions in the best sense, encouraging fighting, going to see spectacles in which life is endangered.

SINS OF ANGER.

Anger at opposition, insult, or injury, impatience, touchiness, sullenness, cursing, malice, refusing to speak, violence, returning evil for evil, going to law through revenge, cruelty to animals, teasing, intimidation, unlawful strikes, murder and man

slaughter, frightening or injuring a pregnant woman so as to cause miscarriage, engaging in an unjust

war.

SINS OF COVETOUSNESS.

Love of money, giving or accepting a bribe, writing contrary to conviction for money, stealing, cheating, exorbitant prices, false weights or measures or bills, adulterated goods, two prices, unfair tricks to get customers, paying less than a fair price for goods, underpaying workmen, taking advantage of inexperience and ignorance, false representations, trickery, wasting another's goods, gambling, cheating at games, following an unlawful trade, joining in deceitful or precarious speculations, incurring debts unreasonably, defrauding creditors, falsifying accounts, exorbitant interest, forgery, passing bad money, appropriating things found, not returning borrowed things, keeping them too long or injuring them, buying or receiving stolen things, hard bargains with the poor, stinginess, hoarding up money, giving without discrimination, not providing for poor relations, not giving at least one-tenth of your income to God, giving grudgingly, allowing others to commit fraud or theft, desiring or intending to commit fraud, not making full restitution or deferring it.

SINS OF UNTRUTH AND DETRACTION.

Lying, deceit, equivocation, exaggeration, slan

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