The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-29

confess the whole thing to those whom
you have wrOnged, and you will sleep
better nights and your soul will be
more safe. Suppose you should die be-
fore you have adjusted that matter,
and your administrators should
find out by the books and a lack of
vouchers that your estate was bankrupt
and your soul lost. If all the abused
trust funds of our cities should sud
denly fly to their owners, crash into fiat
destruction would go all our American
cities. My friends, are you not all i'm
pressed by what we are constantly see
ing that this is most unsafe world to
dwell in without divine protection and
guidance. A man whom you suppose
completely invulnerable cOllapses under
what seems slight allurement. 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 business men is in
God. He knows all the temptations
and all the shocks, and he will bring
you out safely. 1t is an authentic sta
tistic that ninety-eight out of every
hundred business men fail financially
| wonder what proportion of them fail
morally. They need God before the
counter and behind the counter every
day. Then they will buy right and sell
right and be right, If you have the in
terests of others intrusted in your hands
If yOn are secretary or treasurer, or
agent or executor or administrator or
assignee or cashier, you need Gods help
and Gods control Do not attempt to
conduct your responsible work depend
ing ON your own strength lest it fail,
depending on your own wisdom lest it
turn to folly, depending on your own
conscience lest it be perverted. One of
the grandest specimens of Christian in
tegrity was seen in the life of the Duke
of Wellington. While he was moving
with the army in France, and they had
abundant opportunities of pillage and
plunder he would not allow anything
to be taken in plunder. Writing home
he says "We are overwhelmed
with debts, aud | can scarcely stir out
of my house on account of public credi-
tors waiting to demand payment Of
what is due to them" A writer says in
regard to this: Nothing can be
grander or more nobly original than
this admission. This Old soldier, after
thirty years service, this iron man and
victorious General in an enemy's cOun-
try, at the head of an immense army, is
afTai of his creditors. This is a kind
of fear that has seldom troubled the
minds of cOnquerors and invaders, and
doubt if the annals of war could pre-
sent any thing comparable to this sub
lime Simplicity This honesty well
aCcOrds with the scene enacted when
the Duke of Wellington knelt at the
chancel to receive the sacrament, and
some one, seeing a very plain man
kneeling beside the Duke, intimated to
the plain man that he had no right to
kneel so near the distinguished person
age. The Duke of Wellington, noticing
what was going on, said: "Do not in.
terrupt this mans devotion; we are all
equal here"
Moreover, it will be well at sucf
times to temper our criticisms of the
recreant with great mercy, There Dre
two kinds of people for whom we ought
to feel profound sympathy, First, the
innocent, when they are wrongly over
hauled and maligned and prosecuted
We ought to feel sympathy for them
because they did not deserve such NAL.
treatment But there is another class
of persons toward whom we ought tC
feel still greater pity, and that is the
guilty, They have not only the assault
Of the world, but the hard blows of theiI
conscience. You give a poor reason for
not plying any one when you say he is
guilty, Whom did Christ, the great ex.
ample, come to save? The guilty. Let
the law be executed, and for the good OF
society let the victim be punished; but
let there be no harshuess in the Judge,
charge. Let there be no clGpping Of
hands when the verdict of cOndemna
tiOn is rendered. wonder how mucf
better you and | would have been than
some OF those fallen ones if we had beer
tempted in the same way, Sometime,
God lets 60 of those merciIess critics 0
the fallen and they tumble into the
same crimes that they reprehended
Just about the time entered myprOces
siOn heard prominent minister OF {
sister denomination witha blast Ofmer
ciless Indignation deuOunce the crime
of fallen minister of the Gospel, de
claring in what seemed to me self
righteous air, that he could never bC
led into such sin. Before three years
had passed he was expelled from thC
ministry ior the same sin and died o. {
broken heart. Better temper your wratl
with charity. Do not let us say WI
could not be tempted to do this o.
that. If Gods grace let go of u
we could do any thing. ThC
simple fact is that some Of the mos
magnificent natures that God evel
created have fallen. They had ON,
weakness and that stew them, or the,
made one misstep aud could not recoye
from it, | have seen so many kind
genial, generous, talented, potent ma