The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-23
SUBSCRIPTION: Sl.0O Per Year.

fty Tor saying that when the memorable
trouble broke out in Wall street four
years ago there were SOD, ,Oo0, 600 in sus-
penss which had already been spent
Spend no more than you make. And let
us adjust all our business and our
homes by the principles of the Christian
religion.
Our religion ought to mean Just A.
much on Saturday and Monday Rs on
the day between, and not be mar-
periphrasis Of sanctity. Our religion
ought 60 first clean our hearts, and
then it ought 20 clean our lives. Religion
Is not as some seem to think, a sort 9e
church dslectatiou, kind of confection~
| cry, sort of spiritual caramel or holy
gumdrops or sanctitied peppermint or
theological RnBsthstio It is an
omnipotsnt primo pls-all controlling, all
cOnquerinR. You may get along with
something less than that, and you may
/ deceive yourself with %, but you can
not deceive God, and you can not de-
ceive the world. The keen business man
will put on his spectacles, and he will
look clear through to the back OF your
head and $50 whether your religion
Il fiction or a fact And
you can not hide your sam
pies Of sugar, or rice, or tea
or coffee IL they are falsei you can NOT
/ hide them under the cloth of a commun-
ion table All your prayers so for moth
| ing so long rs y0u misrepressnt your
banking institution, and In the amount oe
the resources You put down more specie.
and more fractional currency, and more
clearing house certificates, and more disc
| counts than there really ara. and when
| you give an account of your liabilities
| you do not mention all the unpaid divl-
dends, and the United States bank notes
outstanding, and the indi vidual depositBs
and the obligations to other banks and
/ hmw A. gwfva
than that OF any bank examiner will 60
through and through and through your
| business.
stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. 70 Is compliment to
yOu that you have been so intrua ted; but
I charge you. I'm the presence of God and
| the worl d, be careful, be as careful OF the
property OF others as you are careful OF
your own. Above all, keep your own
private account at the bank separate from
| your account as trustee OK an estate, or
| trustee of an institution. That ls the
point at which thousands OF people make
shipwreck. They get the property of
others mixed up with their own property,
they put it into inYes tment, and away it
all goes, and they can not return that
which they borrowed. Then comes the
| explosion, aud the money market Is
shaken, and the press denouncos, and
the church thunders expulsion. You
have no right 60 use the property
of others, except for their advRn-
tage, nor without consent, unless they
are minors. II with their consent you
invest their property as we'll as
you can, and ib Is all lost, you are nos 20
blame, you did the best you could, but do
not come into the delusion, which has
ruined SO many men, OF thinking, because
thing Is In their possession, therefore IL
is theirs. You have a solemn trust that
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bl age there may be some who have mis-
appropriated trust funds. Put them back,
or, if you have so hopele essly involved
them that you can not put them bnck,
confess the whole thing to those whom
you have wronged, and you will sleep
better nights, and you will have the bet-
ter chance for your soul. What a sad
thing it would be IT, after you are dead,
yonr admin istrator should find out from
the account books, or from the lack oe
vouchers, that you not only were bank
rupt in stock, but that you lost your soul.
IL all the trust funds that have beon mis-
appropriated should suddenly fly 20 their
owners, and all the property that has
been purloined should suddenly 20 back
to it's owners, 1t would crush into ruin
every city In America.
missionary in one OF the islands Of
the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and
the next morning he looked out Of his
| WEnuOW anu No saw MS YHNM AutA OF AUuAH
OF all kinds. He wondered and asked the
cause of eli this.
"Weil," said the natives. tour gods
that we have been worshiplng permit US
to steal, but, according to what you said
yesterday, tn God Of Heaven and earth
will not allow this, 50 we bring bRok ali
these goods and we ask you TO help us In
taking them to the places where they be-
long"
IL next Sabbath all the ministers In
America should preach sermons on the
abuse Of trust funds and on the evils OF
purloining, and the sermons were all
blessed of God, and regulations were
? made that all these things should be
taken to the city halls, IL would not be
long before every city hall in America
would be crowded from cellar TO eupola.
J Let me say in the most emphatic mans
! ner TO all young men, dishonesty will
never pay. An abbot wanted to buy a
piece of ground and the owner would not
| sell it, but the owner finally consented TO
, | let It to him until he could raise one crop,
and the abbot sowed acorns, a crop OF two
! hundred yearsl And / tell you, young
man, that the dishOnesties which you plant
in your heart and life viii seem to be very
, insignificant, but they will grow mp until
they viii overshadow you with horrible
darkness, overshadow all Time and all
. eternity. It will not be q crop for two
, hundred years, buta crop for everlasting
ages.
! who suffer from the maifoasance Of
others, and every honest man, woman
] and child does suffer from what goes on
in financial scampdom. Society Is 50
. 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 Cod He
| will see you through, though youF plis-
| fortunes should be centunled- FhilosO
pliers tell us that column Of air forty
, | I've miles Ia height rests on every mans
| head and shoulders. But that Is nothing
compared with the pressure that business
q life has put upon many OF youw God
| made M his mind long ago how many or
/ how few dollars IL would be best for
. you to have. Trust TO bis appointment.
l The door win soon open TO let you out
p | and let you up. What shock or
delight for men who for thirty years
]. | have been in business anxiety when they
l | shall suddenly awake in everlas ting holi'
\ day. On the maps of the Arctic. regions
!. | there are two places whose names are ro'
q markable, given, ] suppose, by aom9 polar
4 / expedition: "Cape Farowelp and ''Thank
9 God Harbor." At this last the Polaris
O wintered in 1871 and the Tigreas in 1879
1 Some ships have passed the Cape, yet
o never reached this haFbor. But from whal
d 1 know Of many Of you, have concluded
s that though your voyage OF lifo may b'
4 very rough run into BY iceborgs on this
Q side and ieebergs on that, you win ip du'
: time reach Cape Farewell and there bid
a good bye TO all nnnoyancoss and Eo0n
g after drop anchor In the calm and impor'
. turhable waters OF Thank God Harbor
% '"rhere the wicked cease from troubling
b and the weary are at rest"
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70 THERE are many evils TO fight. both with
re- IN and without. which require ~ tho rour
h age and energy we can command The fact
z too, that tho battles are client aud bidder
Ir ones makes them more dihlgrat 20 ciiTr