The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-03-22

cunfposent prsncipls--aiI controlling. 81
conQuering. You may get along Wild
something less than that, and yoa MAJ
deceive yourself with il, bat yOu can
not deceive God. and yea can not de-
cegvp the world. The keen business mas
win pat on his spsctacSes, and he VII
| look clear through 70 The back OF yeur
head and see whether your reiigson
Ia fiction or fact and
Won can not hide your sam
piles Of sugar, or rice, or tes
or coffee II they are false; you can not
hide them under the cloth Of 8 commua-
| ion table. All your prayers go for moth
| ing 80 long as you misrspresent your
banking institution, and IN the amount OF
the resources ven put down more specie
and more fractional currency, and Uers
| clearing house certificates, and more dis.
counts than there really are, aud when
You give an account OF your liabilities
YOU do not mention all the unpaid divf-
/ dends, and the United States bank notes
/ outstanding, and the indi sidaai depos rs,
and the obligations to other banks and
| bankers An authority more scrutiniE n z
| than thAt Of any bank examiner viii go
| through and through And through your
bus iuess-
/ / stand this morn ing before many whs
have trust funds. II Is a compliment to
you that you have been SO intrusted; bat
4 I charge you. ia the presenes of God and
| the worl d, be careful. be as careful OF the
/ property Of others as yon are careful OF
your own. Above aIl, keep your own
| private account at the bank separate from
/ your account as trustee Of an estate, or
/ trustee OF an institution. That is the
| point at which thoas sands OF people make
1 shipwreck. They get the property OF
others mixed up with their own property,
| they put il into investment, and away 10
ell goes, and they can not return that
/ which they borrowed. Then comes the
| explosion, and the money market ,
shaken, and the press denouncss, and
the church murders expulsion You
have no right 20 use the property
/ OF others, except for their adyan-
| tage. nor without consent, unless they
are minors. II with their consent you
| invest their property as we'll as
you can, and il Is all lost, you are not TO
blame, you did the best you could, but do
not come into the delusion, which has
ruined so many men, Of thinking. because
q thing is in their possession, therefore il
4 Il theirs You have solemn trust that
/ God has given you In this vast assem-
| b age there may be some who have mis-
| appropriated trust funds Put them back,
| or. il you have SO hopelessly involved
| them that Won car not put them back,
| confess the whole thing 70 those whom
Won have wronged, and you viii slesB
| better nights, and you will have the bet.
| ter chance for your soul What sad
| thing It would be IT, after you are dead,
| your admin istrator should find out from
| the account books, or from the lack Of
| vouchers, that YOU not only were bank
rupt in stock, but that you lost your soul
IL gil the trust funds that have been mis-
| appropriated should suddenly fly TO their
| owners. and all the property that has
been purloined should suddenly go back
10 its owners. ii would crush into ruin
every city in America
| A missionary in one Of the islands OF
| the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and
the next morning he looked out OF his
| window and he saw hrs yard full OF goods
| of ali kinds He wondered and asked the
cause Of all this.
/ aWsn.D said the natives, sour gods
that we have been worshiping permit Us
TO steal, but, according TO what You said
Yesterday, the God Of Heaven and earth
| will not allow this, so we bring back all
these goods and we ask you to help US in
taxing them 70 the places where they be.
4 long,
| II next Sabbath all the ministers in
America should preach sermons on the
] abuse Of trust funds and on the evils OF
l purioin ing, and the sermons were all
| blessed Of God, and regulations wers
made that al these things should be
| taken 70 the city halls, it would not Be
| long before every city hall in America
| would be crowded from cellar TO cupol q.
Let me say in the most emphatic man
uer TO all young men, dishonesty viii
/ never pay. An abbot wanted 70 buy q
piece Of ground and the owner would not
sell il, but the owner finally consented to
| let II to him until he could raise one crop,
and the abbot sowed acorns, a crop of two
hundred yearsl And / tell vou, young
man, that the dishonssties which you plant
| in your heart and life viii seem to be very
| insignificant, but they win grow up until
| they will overshadow you with horrible
darkness, overshadow all time and all
eternity. II will not be a crop for two
hundred years, buta. crop for everlasting
| ages.
have also a word of comfort for all
who suffer from the maifeasance OF
others, and every honest man, woman
and child does suffer from what goes on
/
| bound together that all the misfortunes
which good people suffer in business mat
| ters come from the misdeedes of others.
| Bear up under distress, strong in God He
will see You through, though your mis-
| fortunes should be centupled- Philoso-
piers tell US that a column OF air forty
five miles In height rests on every mans
head and shoulders. But that Is nothing
compared with the pressure that business
life has put upon many Of you God
made up his mind long ago how many or
how few dollars IL would be best for
you to have Trust to his appointment
The door will soon open to let Won out
and let you up. What shock OF
delight for men who for thirty years
have been in business anxiety when they
shall suddenly awake in everlasting holi.
day. On the maps OF the Arctic regions
there are two places whose names are re-
markable, given, l suppose, by some polar
expedition: "Cape FAREWELL and Thank
God Harbor." At this last the Polaris
wintered in 1871 and the Tigrsss = .s-3.
Some ships have passed the Cape, vet
never reached the harbor. But from what
know Of many II you, l have concluded
that though your voyage Of lie may be
very rough, run into BY icebergs on this
side and icebergs on that, yoI will in due
time reach Cape Farewell and there bid
good bye 10 all annoyAnces, and soon
after drop anchor in the calm and imper-
turbable waters Of Thank God Harbor.
'sThere the wicked cease from troubling,
and the weary are at rest"
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