Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-03-15

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honestly" The Bible Sc wa faith
without works is dead, which, being
literally translated, means that Il your
business life does not correspond with
your profession your religion is g hum.
bug.
Here is someshiae that nss ha
sounded into the ears O. all
men of Amsrica, and ;sgal au1 -
iterated. Il this c1al -s- IS ay to To =
livered from it c. CT.-tle= o. conn l-
cial prosperity is To BE- ertohlj he'd N |
perpetuated, live within yol- means
have the highest comm.Ic al az or
ity for saying that VIII IN 5da memorable
trouble broke out in Wal street four
years ago there were S225, 0.0, 900 in sus-
pense which had already Leen 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 as
much on Saturday and Monday as on
the day between, and not be a mere
periphrasis of sanctity. Our religion
onght to first clean our hearts, and
then it ought TO clean our lives. Religion
is not, as some seem 10 think, q sort Of
church delectation, kind Of CONNECTION.
cry, a sort of spiritua caramel or holy
gumdrop, or sane. fed peppermint, or
theological an@sthetic 1t is an
omnipotent prime iple-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 man
will put on his spectacles, and he wiz
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 they 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 mjsrepresent your
banking institution, and in 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 th9 unpaid divi-
dends, and the United States bank notes
AMI the indi viiaai d pos s,
and the obligations to other banks AMI
bankers. An authority more acra.fusz ug
than that Of any bank exam nor VIII 20
through and through and through your
business.
l stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. Il is a compliment 10
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
of Others q 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 thousands of people make
shipwreck. They get the property Of
others mixed up with their own Or pertv,
they put it into inves tment, and away it
all goes, and they can not return tLat
which they borrowed Then comes tie
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. If with their consent you
invest their property as we'll as
you can, and it is al 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
a thing is in their possession, therefore it
IS theirs. You have a solemn trust that
God has given you. In this vast assem-
81 age there may be some who have mis- |
appropriated trust funds. Put them back, |
Or, if you have so hopelessly involved |
them that you can not put them back, |
confess the whole thing TO those whom |
you have wronged, and you viii sleep |
better nights, and you will have the .
jer chance for your soul. What a sal |
hing it would be if, after you are dead, |
your admin istrator should find out from |
;he account books, or from the lack of |
vouchers, that you not only We're bank |
'upt in stock, but that you lost your soul. |
e all the trust funds that have been mis- |
appropriated should suddenly fly to 5Ia.r |
owners, and all the property that Ina |
been purloined should suddenly 60 back !
20 it's owners, it would crush into ruin |
'very city in America.
A missionary in one Of the islands If |
he Pacific preached on dishonesty, and |
he next morning he looked out of his
window and he saw his yard full of goods
# all kinds. He wondered and asked the |
ause of all this.
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,esterdav the Cod Of rTaoz-an and eorsJ,
will not allow this. so we brinr bacr, aII
hese goods and we ask Won TO helm Us IN
aking them to the places where thew be-
ono"
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