Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-19

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ned the city leads US to two or three re.
marks: First, there is something very
wrong in a management which makes il
possible for man to steal hundreds OF
thousands OF dollars, and to carry on
the work year after year and not to
be found out sooner than this fraud was
discovered. There must have been
quite group Of men cognizant OF this
malfeasance and good many hands en-.
listed in it. 1t is my hope that the Of
ficers of the law may track these off.
cial monsters to their den and haul
them out into the sunlight of public in
speetien. But there 10 need OF O new
style Of business in the different depart
ments OF public service, closer inspection
and less opportunities afforded for en-
bezslement.
Let no man put himself in a position
where the temptation may be stronger
than his character. How many boys
are put in stores and in banking houses
and in Offices without any discussion as
to their capacity to resist. Many men
will take positions full of temptation,
considering nothing but the fact that it
is lucrative.
l address many who have in their
keeping the moneys or the property OF
others. 1t is a high compliment that
YOU have been so trusted. / charge you
before God and the world he scrupu.
louslv faithful. Be as careful Of that
which belongs to others as OF that which
belongs to yourself Keep your private
accounts separate from your account as
trustee. At that point thousands OF
men, who seem to be as good as you,
have made sbipwrecks. Going into
great enterprises they have invested
their own and that OF others and defeat
ed in their undertaking and losing all
have not been able to make up what
they had lost of the property OF others.
Then came the explosion and the money
market was shaken and the press de.
nounced and the church thundered its
expulsion. You have no right to use
the property OF others for any other pur-
pose than their profit nor without their
consent. Though in your possession,
it is no more yours than the property
OF entire strangers. If with the consent
OF those who trust you you make the in
vestment the best you can and it turn
out ruiuous, then you are not to blame.
But in no wise be deluded with the idea
that because thing is in your posses
sion it Is therefore yours. 1t is solemn
trust and God and society will hold you
solemnly responsible. In large as
sembly like this there are probably
some who are misappropriat:ng trust
funds. Put them back! Ii you have
already hopelessly involved them, con-
fess the whole thing to those whom you
have wronged and you will sleep better
nights and your sou! will be more safe.
Suppose you should die before you
have adjusted that matter, and your
administrators should find out by the
books and lack OF vouchers that your
estate was bankrupt and your soul lost.
III all the abused trust funds OF our cities
should suddenly fly to their owners,
crash into fiat destruction would 90 all
our American cities. My friends, are
you not all impressed by what We are
constantly seeing that this is most un.
safe world to dwell in without divine
protection and guidance. A man whom
you suppose completely invulnerable
coIlapses under what seems slight al
lurement. They not only brave their
own conscience, but knowing they will
be found out. brave the execration OF
all the good. The only safety for busl-
ness men is in God. He knows all the
temptations and all the shocks and he
will bring you out safely. 1t is an au-
thentic statistic that 9S out of every 100
business men fail financially. / wonder
what proportion of them fail morally.
They need God before the counter and
behind the counter, and every day.
Then they will buy right and sell right
and he right If you have the interests
of others entrusted in your hands, II
you are secretary, or treasurer, or agent,
or executor, or administrator, or as
signee, or cashier you need Gods help
and Gods control.
This summer there was terrible
night OF tempest out West. The river
rose and the wind was so strong that a
part OF the railroad bridge was blown
down. A freight train came along, and
with frghtful crash went into the wa
ter. Engineer and conductor perished.
A girl living in her fathers cabin near
by bethnught herself that in few mo-
ments the express train laden with pas
sengers would be along, and she started
with lantern toward a telegraph office
where the train did not stop, so that the
danger might be telegraphed to the de.
pot further on where the train did stop,
walked over one OF the beams still
standing from the wreck Of the bridge,
got to the main part OF 1t, which was
open trestle-work, and one mlsstep
would have dropped her into the raging
torrent. Amid the thunder and the
lightning and across the wild river, some.
times walking and sometimes crawling
along on the slippery rails, she got 10
the other side, but her light had gone
| out. In five minutes the train was
due, and the telegraph office was a
mile away. Fortunately the train
was little late. The girl sped along
like the wind, with feet cut and bruised
and painting in almost deathly exhaus-
ton she reached the telegraph office in
time to shout: "The bridge down" and
then fell into an unconsciousness from
which it seemed as il she would never
be resuscitated. The telegraph mes
sage reached the next station in time to
warn the train, and so that brave girl
had saved the life oil a multitude OF pas
sengers. Every street is track, every
style of business track, and every day
is track, and every nights track, and
multitudes under power Of temptation
sweep on or down toward perils raging
and terrific. God help Us to go out and
stop the train, Let US throw up some
Signals. carry some message through
some lightning influence from the throne
of God, arrest the downward progress.
Beware! the bridge is down, the chasm
is deep, while the lightnings OF God set
the night OF sin on fire with this warn
ing: "He that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck shall be suddenly de-
stroyed and that without remedy"
Capturing HIS Wife's Relations.
From the New York World.
The secretary of the Board Of Educa-