The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-10-28

| bankrupt, as he looked on the wounded
soldier, covered all over with honorab Bile
scars, got in front, manfully confronting
the foe. He has suffered, but it was in
the cause of God and his country. just
now, We are in a Balaklava battle, and
somebody has blundered. Let us do
honor to the "six hundred" remember
ing how they "rode onward" meaning
right.
In conclusion, Mr.. Parker set forth
the duties devolviDg upon honorable and
Christian men, in this time of trouble
and distress. He counseled for bearance
towards solvent debtors as long as posi-
BILE; the payment of small debts to
tradesmen and artisans; the avoidance
of all waste of articles of food or cloth
ing, for we had hard Winter before
US, and should want all we have got
! Yet he did not think it manly or Chris,
| tian to make large rctrenchments in
| these times when man could afford his
| previous expenditures, for by SO doing,
he simply shifted the burden to another
mans back. Charity should be remem-
bered, for he thought much of that
| would be needed before the Winter was
half through. They should be humanity
generous to such as fall through mistake,
humanity just against defrauders, swind-
Iers, cheats, of whatever name charita-
bic to the follies Of the weak, the errors
of the wise, but stern against the cul-
prits meditated wickedness and con-
cealed crime. -.7.i-
The rem moter duties were to reform
the whole monetary system, make gold
and silver the medium of business, aud
i depart from the habit of buying and
selling on credit to so great an extent
When the potato rots in the ground, it
tells us it is not fit to be nations bread
1t is the voice of God crying out of the
ground-"Beware! bewarel" Cholera,
yellow fever, typhoid, the plague, le
proey, they also have a warning telling
US what will follow if we violate the N
ditions of life and health. They also,
though our brothers blood, are Gods
voice, crying Beware! bewarel The
spot whereon you stand is unholy ground.
Make clean your cities, breathe pure
air. Turn ye, for why will ye die?'-
And when a commercial distress Ike
! this occurs in nation full of plenty,
and wealth, and industry, and wisdom,
surely it tells US that we have made a
mistake that the experiment does not
succeed; that paper money is tool
that does not work we'll; that extraya-
CANT expenditure, waste, the importation
of luxuries, dishonesty in trade, are not
wise.
Besides, lave we not made mistake
which lies deeper, nearer, likewise, to
the business Of the pulpit? Have We
not thought little too much of prop
erty, fine houses, gaudy steamboats,, New
York hotels, costly silks? 1t is not
worth while to hold the raiment above
the body, ana the meat more than the
soul which should consume it. The
millionaire is not the highest product of
human civilization, 4 rich man, a rich
city, does not NECESSARILY possess all the
Christian virtues, Money answereth
all things says the Bible proverb; but
it cannot answer for honesty, it will new
er do for virtue, it cannot take the place
of confidence in Thy higher law, thou
Father of earth and heaven Is our
trade conducted on fair, just principles?
Does the Golden Rule lie on the mer-
chants desk, measuring out between
man and man the rule of the mark
ct Have we have not forgotten
Gods higher law? Certainly, we over
rate wealth to-day, just as our fathers
thought too much of fighting. The
great end of business is not the accunu-
lation of property, but the forma tion of
character. u He heapeth up riches, aud
knoweth not who shall gather them, "
says the Psalmist; but great virtues,
prudence, wisdom, justice, benevolence,
piety: these may be gathered from your
trade; they are not uncertain riches,
but imperishable; tndeiled, and which
fade not away.
"In the day of adversity eonsider."-
America will learn ner lesson from this
&C Numerical distress, tits Scarcity of
money, lack of work, temporary hunger,
transient fear. Let Us be thankful that
our teacher comes with such mild face.
If we do not learn by this, then the les
son is to be taught as, not only with
failure, but with the thunder
of cannon. When God spoke to England
through the jingling dollars she did not
heed Him, but she hears when Hespeaks
through the Crimean cannon, and one
hundred and fifty millions of men in re-
oellion on the other side of the world.
But we will learn, and then shall the
light break forth out of the darkness,
md the solid blessings of prosperity
hall attend a thoughtful. industrious,
ocecasting people, who remember the
Inevitable law of justice which God has
Fritten on every metallic dollar, on ev-
,ry paper promise to pay, as he has