Milford chronicle., 1888-03-16

.AUIuDIlTt
for saying that when the memorable troubl,
broke out in Wall street four years age
there were S225, 10000 in suspense 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 as much
on Saturday and Monday as on the day be-
tween, and not as a mere periphrasis Of sane
tity. Our religion ought TO first clean our
hearts, and then it ought to clean our lives.
Religion is not, as some seem to think. a sort
Of church deleCtation kind Of confection-
cry, a sort of spiritual caramel or holy gum
drop, or sanctifed peppermint, or theologi-
cal aDRsthetic. 1t is an omnipOtent princi-
pie all controlling, all conquering. You
may get along with something less than that,
aud you may deceive yourself with il; but
you cannot deceive God, ard YOU cannot
deceive the world. The keen business man
viii put on his spectaeles, and he will look
clear through to the back of your head and
4 sec whether your religion is a fiction or a
fact. And you cannot hide your samples Of
sugar, or rice, or tea, or coffee if they arc
( false; YOU cannot hide them under the cloth
I Of a communion table. All your prayers 90
I for nothing so long as you misrepresent your
/ banking institution and in the amount of the
resources you put down more specie, and
more fractional currency, and more clearing
I house certificates, 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 iuen-
ton all the unpaid dividends, and the United
States bans notes outstanding, and the III
dividual deposits, aud 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.
stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. It is a compliment to you
that you have been so intrusted: but !
charge you. il the presence of God and the
world, be careful; be as careful of the prop
erty OF others rs you are careful Of your
own. Above all, keep your own private ac-
count at the bank separate from your ac-
count as trustee Of an estate, or trustee Of an
institution. 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 it into investment,
and away it all goes, and they cannot return
that which they borrowed. Then comes tho
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 advantage, nor without consent,
unless they are minors. If with their
consent you invest their property as
well as you can, and it is all lost,
you are not to blame; you did the best you
could; but do not como into the delusion
which has ruined so many men, Of thinking .
because a thing is in their possession, there /
fs,rsf q q. AT,.,f,
that God has given you. In this vast assem- /
blage there may be some who have misappro-
priated trust funds. Put them back, or, if /
you have so hopelessly 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 tho better chance for your soul What
a 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 misappro-
priated should suddenly fly to their owners.
and all the property that has been purloined
should suddenly so 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 ont Of his window and no
saw his yard full Of goods of all kinds He
and asked the cause of all this.
'sWeli, p said the natives, ''our gods that we
have been worshipping permit US to steal, but
according to what you said yesterday, the
God Of heaven and earth will not allow this
30 we bring back all these goods, and we ask
you to help us in taking them to the places
where they belong" If next Sabbath all the !
minister's in America should preach sermons
IN the abuse Of trust funds, and on the evils s
If purloining, and the sermons were all
blessed of God, and regulations were made A.,
hat all these things should be taken to the !
,ity halls, it would not be long before every !
.ity hall in America would be crowded from
.ellar to cupola.
Let me say in the most emphatic manner
o all young men, dishonesty will never pay. f
An abbot wanted to buy piece of ground,
md the owner would not sell it, but the L
wner finally consented to let it to him until
e could raise one crop, and the abbot sowed
cOrns, crop Of 20J years! And tell you,
oung man, that the dishonesties which YOU s.
liant i'll your heart and life will seem to be
cry Insignificant, but they will grow up un-
i they will overshadow you with horrible
arkness, overshadow all time and all eter- Il
ity. 1t will not be a crop for 200 years, but L
crop for everlasting ages. III
/ have also a word Of comfort for all who e
lifer from the malfeasance of others, and Il
very honest man, woman and child does &
lffer from what goes on in financial scamp
ON. Society is so bound together that all
le misfortunes which good people suffer in
usiness matters come from the misdeetls of :
theirs. Bear up under distress, strong in
cd. He will see you through, though your
lisfortunes should be centupled Philoso- G
hers tell us that a column of air fOrty-ilva B
lilies in height rests on every mans head and
ioulders. But that is nothing compared II
ith the pressure that business life has put q.
pom many Of you God made up his mind 4
ng ago how many or how few dollars it
ould be bIst for you to have. Trust to his 4,
opointment The door win soon open to !.
t you out and let you up. What shock OF 7.
eight for men who for thirty years have 81
cen IN business anxiety whom they shall sud
emily awake in everlasting holiday. On the
laps Of the Arctic regions there are two - -
laces whose names are remarkable, given, /,
oppose, by some Polar expedition "Cal,a y
arewelI" and THANK God Harborn At this "
st the Polaris wintered in 1871, and the
igress in 1873 Some ships have passed the Oh
lpe, yet never reached the harbor But re
ON what know Of many Of you, hfTe to
included that though your voyage Of life IN
ay be very rough, run into by icebergs on au
us side and icebergs on that, you will in
lie time reach Cape Farewell and there bid kI
'od-by 70 all annoyances, and soon after an
'op anchor in the calm and imperturbable tri
aters of Thank God Harbor. ''There the re,
ieked cease from troubling, and the weary
e at rest.n he
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