The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-23

10 honest;" wrots to the Philippians,
swhatsoever things arc honest :" wrote to
the Hebrews: Willing in oil thing to live
honestly" The Bible says that faith
without works is dead, which, being
literally translated. means that II youl
business life does not correspond with
your profession your religion Is hum.
bug.
| Here is something that needs to be
sounded into the ears Of all the young
men OF America, and iterated and re-
iterated. II this country is ever to be de-
livered from its calamities, and CONNER
eial prosperity is to be established and
perpetuated, live within your means
I have the highest commercial author.
\ ity for saying that when the memorable
trouble broke out in Wall street foul
| years ago there were SIS, OOO. 600 in sus.
pense 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 as on
the day between. and not be a mere
periphrasis of sanctity. Our religion
| ought to first clean our hearts, and
then it ought to clean our lives. Religion
is not, as some seem to think, q sort Of
church delectation, kind of confection.
cry. a sort of spiritual caramel or holy
gumdrop, or sanctified peppermint, or
| theological an1sthetic. 1t is an
omnipotent principle-all controlling, all
conquering. You may get along with
| something less than that, and you may
deceive yourself with it, but you can
| not deceive God, and you can not de-
ceive the world. The keen business mar
will put on his spectacIes, and he will
| look clear through to the back Of your
! head and see whether your religion
| is fiction or fact. And
you can not hide your sam.
| piles of sugar, or rice, or tea
| or coffee if thew are false; you can not
| hide them under the cloth Of a commun-
ion table. All your prayers go for moth
ing so long as you misrepresent your
banking institution, and i'm the amount Of
| the resources you put down more specie.
| and more fractional currency, and more
clearing house certificates, and more dis.
counts than there really are, and when
you give an account Of your liabilities
you do not mention all the unpaid divi-
dends. and the United States bank notes
outstanding. and the indi vidual deposits,
and the obligations to other banks and
bankers. An authority more scrutinizing
than that of any bank examiner will go
through and through and through your
business.
l stand this morn ing before many who
| have trust funds. It is a compliment to
you that you have been so intrusted; but
charge you. in 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 Of an estate, or
trustee of an institution. That is the
| point at which thous sands of people make
shipwreck. They get the property of
| others mixed up with their own property,
they put it into investment, and away it
all goes, and they can not return that
which they borrowed. Then comes the
explosion, 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 advan-
tage, nor without consent, unless they
are minors. II with their consent you
invest their property as we'll as
you can, and it 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
thing is in their possession, therefore il
Is theirs. You have solemn trust that
| God has given you. In this vast assem-
bl age there may be some who have mis-
appropriated trust funds. Put them back,
or. il you have 50 hopelessly involved
them that you can not put them back,
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 sad
thing it would be il. 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.
II all 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
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 yard full of goods
of all kinds He wondered and asked the
cause of all this.
"Well," said the natives, tour gods
that we have been worshiping permit rs
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
taking them to the places where they be.
long"
II next Sabbath all the ministers in
America should preach sermons on the
abuse Of trust funds and on the evils OF
blessed Of God, and regulations were
made that all these things should b
taken to the city halls, 1t would not b
long before every city hall in America
would be crowded from cellar to cupola
Let me say in the most emphatic man
ner to all young men, dishonesty will
never pay. An abbot wanted to buy .
piece Of ground and the owner would not
sell it, but the owner finally consented to
let Il to him until he could raise one crop,
and the abbot sowed acorns, . crop of two
hundred years! And 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
hundred years, buta crop for everlasting
ages.
Ihave also Q word Of comfort for all
who suffer from the maifeasauce 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