National Republican., 1888-03-12

you have no right to take the money of others
and turn II into kites. There Is one word that
has deluded more people into bankruptcy and
state prison and perdition than any other word
in commercial life, and that is the word bor
row; that one word Is responsible for all the
defalcetionB and embeZzements and financial
coDsternations OF the last twenty years. When
executors conclude to speculate with the funds
OF an estate committed TO their charge they do
not purloin, they say they only borrow; when
a banker makes an overdraft upon his in-
ttitution he docs not commit theft he only
borrows; when the officer Of q company, by
pspeIs, and gilt certificates Of stock, gets a
multitude Of country people to put their small
earnings Into an enterprise for carving on
ffaudul entity tVgiEa lake s theirs M money HSy' DD he
only borrows. When a young man with
easy access to mis- employer, money
By coss propnquy to Ro account boSEs eEs
takes few dollars for Wall street excursion
he expects 70 put y bac. ae Will put 1t all
only borrows. what is needed Is some man Of
gigantic limb TO take his place at the curbstone
In ffopt OF Trinity Church, and when that
clean through to Wall street ferry boat, aud II,
striking on that, II bounds clear over till It
strikes Brooklyn heights or Brooklyt hill, II
Why, when you are going to do wrong, pro.
nounce so long q word as borrow, a word of
SIX letters, when yon can get shorter word
NOR more descriptive OF me reality, word OF only
There are times when we all borrow, and
borrow, legitimately, and borrow with the
the Mount epjoips "from him that would bor-
row OF thee turn not thou away" A young
man rightly borrows money 70 get his eduoa.
tion. Purchasing house and not able to pay
all down in cash, the purchaser rightly borrows
on mortgage. Crises como in business when
y would be wrong for a man not to borrow.
But roll this warning through all these aisles
over the backs OF all these pews, never borrow
70 speculate; not dollar, not cent, not
iartbiDg. Young men. young men. warn you
your immortal souls. do not do II. There are
breakers distinguished for their shipwrecks
nthe Hanwsys, The Needles, the Caskets, the
craft bas gone to pieces on those rocks; but
have to tell you that all the Hanways, and
the Needles, and the Caskete, and the skerries
breakers which bound the ocean of CONNER
cial life north, touth, east, and west with the
white foam Of their despair and the dirge OF
-, II had only worldly weapon to use on
this subject won d gjye you the fact fresh
from the highest authority that ninety, per
street lose all; but have o better warning
than a worldly warning. From the .pla g
where men have perisht d. body, mind, and
cussion must step aside on this question. Faith
and repentance are absolutely necessary, but
faith and repentance are no more doctrines of
the Bible than commercial integrity. Render
to oil their dues. Owe II o man anything. And
while mean to preach faith and repentance.
more and more TO preach them, DO not mean
Jebusites and Girgashites of Bible times when
there are so. many evils right around us de-
stroying men and women for time and for
the world ever saw, a man who died for his
evangelism = peerless Paul : wrote to the
Romans, Provide things honest in the sight
that which is honest" wrote to Tic PsilinP.
ans, "WhatsoeyeI things are honest;' wrote to
the Hebrews; ~ I"Willing in al things to live
works is dead; which being literally trans.
lated means that If your business life does not
CORES pond with your profes sions. your relg.
ion is a humbug.
Here is something that needs TO be sounded
into the ears OF all the young men of America
and iteratcd and reiterated, II this country is
ever to be delivered from It's calamitles, and
PhSspSS Sep p%Sn your o @ean and
l have the highest commercial authority for
saying that when the memorable trouble
were S225, ,000,0 600 In suspense which had al.
make. And let us adjust ali our business and and
our homes by the principles of the Christian
Our religion ought to mean just as much ON
Saturday and Monday az on the day between.
religion ought to first clean our hearts, and
then 1t ought to clean our lives. Religion is
not, as some seem 70 think, asort OF church
spiritual caramel or holy gumdrop or sanctifd
peppermint or theological aumsthetlc. 1t is
an omnipotent principle all;oontrolling, all
thing less than that, aud YOU may deceive
yourself with IT, but you cannot deceive God
and. you cannot deceive the world. The Ike n
business man will put on his spectacles and he
Will look clear through to the back of your
head and see whether your eligion is fiction
or fact. And you cannot hide your samples
Of sugar, or rice, or tea, or coffee II they are
false; you cannot hide them under the cloth of
a communion table. All your prayers go for
nothing SO long as you misrepresent your bank
ins institution, and In the amount of the re.
sources you put down more specie, and more
fractional currency. and more clearing house
certificates, and more legal tender notes, and
really are, and when you give an account of
your liabilities you do not mention all the un.
paid dividends, and the United States bank
notes outstanding and the individual deposits,
and the obligations to other banks and bank
ers. An authority more scrutini izing than that
Of any bank examiner will go through and
through your business
stand this morning before many who have
trust funds. 1t is a compliment to you that
you have been so lntrusteo; but charge you,
In the presence Of God and the world, be care.
ful, be as careful Of the property, OF Others as
you are careful OF your own. Above all, keep
your own private account OF the bank sepa.
rate IRON your aSGSIn, as trustee hs 81 an estate
at (which thousands OF people make ship
wreck; They get the property OF others mixed
up with their own property, they put It into
cannot return that which they borrowed.
Then comes the explosion, and the money
YeS
have 10 right to use the property of others,
except for their advantage, nor without con.
ens nheS Wo ineg are be win thes
blame; you did the best you could bat do not
come into the delusion which has ruined SO
hnfangn n 10
have solemn trust that God
ssembEase there may so some who have ms
appropriated trust funds. Put them back, or,
II you have so hopelessly involved them that
ySi ySoin cannot put them back confess the whole
you will sleep better nights, and yon win
have the better chance for your soul What a
81 should out neha he
account books or from the lacK of vouchers
that you not only were 6ankrupt in estate,
nds fun that have t been msapproprated @ at should
suddenly fly to their owners, and all the
property that has been purloinsd should sud
denly 60 back TO its owners, 1t would crush
A missionary in one of the islands of the
Pacific preached on dishonesty, and the next
hss 3 hs Of ali Gnds nd he
Si@nassS' shs aHa "Ss" "stf% "a ssla 'aass he
natives, our BOus tnht we nave Deeh
worshiping permit us to steal, but according
TO what you said yesterday the God of heaven
and earth will nj allow this, so we bring back
all these goods and we ask you TO help us In
taking them TO the placesMhere they belong"
Ifnext 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 regula-
tions were made that all these things should
be taken TO the city halls II would not be long
before every city hall in America would be
crowded from cellar to cupola.
Let me say in the most emphatic manner TO
all young men. dishonesty will never pay. An
abbott wanted o buy piece of ground and
the owner would not sell IT, but the owner
finally consented let 1t to him until he could
raise one crop, and the abbot sowed acoTns u
crop of two hundred years. And tell you,
young man, that the dIshonosties which You,