Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-23

men," wrote to the Corinthians: "Do that
which is honest;" wrote to the Philippians:
whatsoever things are honest" wrote to
the Hebrews: "Willing in all things to
live honestly" The Bible says that faith
without works is dead. which, being
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 reiterated, if
this country is ever to be delivered from its
calamities, and commercial prosperity is to
be established and perpetuated: Live
within your means.
have the highest commercial authority
for saying that when the memorable
trouble broke out in Wall street four years
ago there were $225,0O0,0 600 in suspense
more than you make. And let us adjust
all our business and our homes by the
principles of the Christian religion.
stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. It is 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 yeu are careful of
your own. Above all, keep your own pri-
vate account at the bank separate from
your account as trustee of an estate, or
trustee of an institution. This is the point
ct which thousands of people make ship
wreck. They get the property of others
mixed up 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 explosion, and
the money market is shaken, and the press
denounces, and the church thunders ex-
pulsion. You have no right to use the
property of others, except for their adj
vantage. nor without consent, unless they
are minors. If with their consent you in
vest 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 delusien which has ruined SO many
men, of thinking because thing is in
their possession, therefore it is theirs.
You have solemn trust that God has
given you. In this vast assemblage there
may be some who have misappropriated
trust funds. Put them back, or, if you
have SO hopelessly involved then that you
cannot put them back, confess the whole
thing to these whom you have wronged,
and you will sleep better nights, and you
will have the better chance for your soul.
What sad thing it would be if, after you
are dead. your administrator 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
misappropriated should suddenly fly to
their owners, and oil 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
asked the cause of all this. "Well," said
the natives, "our gods that we have been
worshiping permit us to steal, but ac-
cording 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 belong" Ii 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 we're made that all these
things should be taken to the city halls, it
in America would be crowded from cellar
10 cupola.
Let me say in the most emphatic man
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, crop of 200
years! And tell you, young man. that
the dishonesties which you plant in your
heart and life will seem to be very insigni-
fcant. but they will grow up until they
will overshadow you with horrible dark
noos Ovaraho6Ou oil finno and oil of
1t will not be crop for 200 years, but
crop for everlasting ages.
l have also word OF comfort for all
who suffer from the malfeasance of others,
and every honest man, woman, and child
does suffer from what goes on in financial
scampdom. Society is so bound together
that oil the misfortunes which good peo-
pie suffer in business matters comes from
the misdeeds Of others. Bear up under
distress, strong in God. He will see you
through. though your misfortunes should
column of air forty-fve 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 min
long ago how many or how few dollars it
would be best for you to Rave. 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 holi-
day. On the maps of the Arctic regions
there are two places whose names are re-
markable, given, I suppose. by some Pc
lar expedition, "Cape Farewell" and
"Thank God Harbor." At this last the
Polaris wintered in 1871, and the Tigress
in 1873. Some ships have passed the
cape, yet none have reached the
harbor. But from what I know
of many of you, I have
concluded that though your voyage of
life may be very rough, run into by ice
bergs on this side and icebergs on that,
you will in due time reach Cape
Farewell and there bid goodbye to all
annoyances, and soon after drop anchor
in the calm and imperturbable waters Of
Thank God Harbor. aThere the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are at
rest"
Wanted Struggled Goods.
She asked for lace of a certain kind,
and the clerk took down box and ex-
kho