Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-16

are as nothing compared WIFI Ine lone
line of breakers which bound the ecean
Of commercial life north, SOUTH esst and
west with the white foam Of their despair
and the dirge of their damnation: The
breakers Of borrow.
| i'll had only worldly weapon to use
on this subject would give you the fact
fresh from the highest authority, that so
| per cent. of those who go Into
| speculation In Wall street lose all !
but 1 have better warning than 3
worldly warning. From the place where
men have perished-body, mind and soul
stand of, stand OF! Abstract pulpit
discussion must stand aside on this ques-
ton. Faith and repentance are abso-
lutely necessary, but faith and repentance
are no more doctrines OF the Biole than
commercial integrity. Render to all their
dues. Owe no man anything. And
while I mean to preach faith and re-
pentance, more and more TO preach them,
/ do not mean to spend aOy time in chss-
ing the Utilities and Jebusites and Cir
gsshites Of Bible times, when there sre
so many evils right around US destroying
men and women for time and for eternity.
The greatest Evangelistic preacher the
world ever saw, man who died for his
EVangelism-Peerless Paul-Wrote to
the Romans, "ProYiee things honest in
the sight of sll men," wrote to the
Corinthians, "Do that which is honesti"
wrote to the Philippians, "What-
soever things are honest;" wrote
to the Hebrews, "Willing in ali things TO
live honestly" The Bible says that
faith without works is dead, which being
literally translated, means that il your
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 i.erated and reiter-
ated, il this country is ever to be dellv-
cred from it's calami les, and commercial
prosperity IL to be established and per
petusted,
LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS.
have the highest commercial author-
ity for saying that when the
memorable trouble broke out in
Wall street four years ago
there were 100000 In suspense
which had already been spent. Spend no
more than you make. And let us adju't
all our business and our homes by the
principles OF the Christian religion.
Our religion ought to mean just IS
much on Saturday and Monday as on the
day between, and not be 8 mere periph-
rAsis Of sGLctity. Our religion ought TO
first clean our hearts, and then it ought
to clean our lives. Religion is not, as
some seem to think, sert Of church de-
location, kind OF confectionery, sort
OF spiritual caramel or holy gun drop, or
sanctited peppermint, or theological an
esthetic. 1t is al omnipotent principle,
all contrliing, ell conquering. You may
get along with something less than that,
and you may deceive yourself with il;
but you cannot deceive God, and you can
not deceive the world. The keen bus
mess man will put on his spectacles, and
he will look clear through to the back of
your head and see whether your religion
is fiction or q fact. And you cSnnot
hide your samples of sugar, or rice, or
tea or coffee If they are false; you cannot
hide them under the cloth of Commun-
Jon table. All your prayers go for moth
ing so long as you mtsrepresent
your banking institution, ami in the
amount of the resources you put down
more specie, and more fractional cur
rency, and more clearinghouse certif-
Gates, and more legal tender notes, and
more loans, and more discounts than
there really are, and when you give an
account of your liabilities you do not
mention al the unpaid dividends, and the
United States bank notes outstanding,
and the individual deposits, and the obli-
cations to other banks and bankers. An
authority more scrurnizlng than that of
any bank examiner will go through and
through and through your business.
1 stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. It is compliment to
you that you have been so intrusted; but
I 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 st the
bank separate from your account as trus-
tee Of an estate, or trustee Of an institu-
ton. That is the point at which thou
sands of people make shipwreck. They
get the property of others mixed up with
their own property, they put 1t into in
vestment, and away 1t all goes, and they
cannot return that which they borrowed.
Then comes the explosion, and the money
market is shaken, and the press de-
nounces, and the church thunders expul-
sion. You have no right to use the
property of others except for their I'D
vantage, nor without consent unless they
are minors. II with their consent you
invest their property as well as you can,
and 1t 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 be-
cause q thing is in their possession,
therefore it is theirs. You have
solemn trust that God has given you. In
this vast assemolsge there may be some
who have misappropristed trust funds
Put than back, or, il you have SO hope
lessly 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 have
the better chance for your soul. What
sad thing it would be, il after you are
desd your administrator should find out
from the account books, or from the lack
OF vouchers, that you not only were bank
rupt in estate, but that you lost your
soul. II all the trust funds that have
been missppropriated 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.
missionary in one Of the islands Of
the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and
the next morning he looked out OF his
window, and be saw his yard full Of goods
of ell kinds. He wondered and asked the
cause of all this. "Well," said the me-
tives, sour gods that We have been wor-
shipping permit us to steal, but accord
ing to what you said yesterday, tee GOD
| of heaven and earth will not allow this,