The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-03-16

head and see whether your religion is fiction
| or a fact And Won cannot hide your samples
| If s-.Car or rice, or tea or coffee If they are
false: YOU cannot hide them under the cloth
| of a communion table. All 20 prayers 60
| for nothing so long as you msr resent your
banking institution, and in the Mount of re-
sources YOU put down more spec e. and more
| fractional currency, and more earing-house
certificates, and more legal tenG notes. and
more loans, and more discount than there
| really are, and when you give al account OF
| yOiir liabilities YOU do not mention all the I'M
! paid dividends, and United States bank notes
| outstanding and the individual deposits and
| the obligations to other banks and bankers.
/ An authority more scrutinizng than that OF
| any bank examiner will go through and
| through and through your business.
L stand this morning before many who nave
trust funds. 1t is a compliment to you
that you have been so intrusted; but
| charge you, in the presence OF
God and the world 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 &C.
count as trustee of an estate, or trustee of an
institution. That is the point at which thou
sands of people make shipWreck. They get
the property Of othets mixed tip with their
own property, they put it into investment, and
away it all goes, and they cannot return that
which they borrowed. Then comes the eX-
plosion, and the money market is shaken, and
the press denOunces and the church thunders
expulsion. You have no right to use the
property of others, except for their advant-
age, nor without their consent, unless they
are minors. If with their consent you invest
their property as well as you can, and ii 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 th nkiug
because thing is in their pOsS Ssion, there
fore it is theirs. You have solemn trust that
God nu civ l.
there may be some who have misapprOpriated
trust funds. Put them back or If YOU have
so hOpelesSlr involved them that you cannot
put them back, confess the whole thing to
those whom you have wrOnged, and you will
sleep better nights and you will nave the bet
ter chance for your soul. What sad thing
it would be- If 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 bankrupt in estate, but that
you lost your soul. If all the trust funds that
have been Incorporated should suddenly
fly to their owners, and all the property that
has been purlOined should suddenly 90 back
to its owners, it 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 his ward full Of goods of all kinds. lie
wondered and asked the cause of all this.
''Well," said the natives, "Our gods that we
have been WOrshiping permit us to steal, but
according to what YOU said Yesterday the
God of heaven and earth viii not allow this
80 we bring back all these goods, and we ask
you to help us in taking them to the places
where they belong" If 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 bless
ed of God, and regulations were made that all
these things should be taken TO the city halls.
tyr - rr,Cr hoF =
America would be crowded from cellar to
cupOla.
Let me say in the most emphatic manner to
all young men, dishonesty will never paw. 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 crop of two hundred years. And l
tell you, young man, that the dishOnesties
which you plant in your heart and life will
seem to be very insignificant. but they will
grow up until they will overshadow you with
horrible darkness, OVershadoW all time and all
eternity. 1t will not be crop for two hun
dred years, but crop for everlasting ages.
have also word of comfort for all who
suffer from the malfeasance of Others and
every honest man, woman and child does suf-
fer from what goes on in financial scampdom
Society is so bound together that all the mis-
fortunes which good people suffer in business
matters come from the misdeeds of Others
Bear up under distress, strong in God.
He will see you through, though your misfor-
tunes should be centuped. Philosophers tell
us that a column of air 45 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 it would be best for you to
have. Trust to his appointment The door
will soon open to let you 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 holiday.
On the maps Of the Arctic regions there are
two places whose names are remarkable Civ
en-, | suppose, by some Polar Expedition:
"Cape Farewell" and "Thank God Harhor."
At this last the POlars wintered in 1871, and
the Tfgress in 1873 Some ships have passed the
Cape, yet never reached the HarbOr. But
from what | know Of many of yOu, have con-
Guided that though your voyage of life may
be very rough, run into by icebergs on this
side and icebergs on that, YOU will in due
time reach Cape Farewell and there bid good
bye to all annoyances, and soon after drop
anchor in the calm and imperturbable waters
of Thank God Harbor. There the wicked
cease from troubling, and the weary are at
rest"