The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-22

BILE TO commerce ana the ADVANCE Oh nh =
tions. With one hand 1t blssses the
lender and with the other it blessss the
borrower. The bank was born Of the
worlds necessities, and Is venerable with
the marks Of the thousands Of years. Two
hundred years before Christ the Bank OF
Illum existed and paid It's dspositors ten
| per cent. The Bank Of Venice was estab-
iIshed in 117l, and was Of such high credit
| that its bills were at a premium above
coins, which were frequently clipped.
Bank of Genoa, founded in 1345; Bank OF
Barcelona, 1901; Bank of Amsterdam,
1899; Bank of Hamburg, founded 1873, Its
circulation based on great silver bars kept
In the vaults; Bank of En- CLAN d, started
by William Patterson in 1872,
up to this day managing the
stupendous debt of England; Bank
of Scotland, founded in 1895; Bank
Of Ireland, 1888; Bank Of North America,
plan ned by Robert Morris, iii, without
whose financial help all the bravery of
our grand fathers would not have achieved
American independence. But now we
have banks In all our cities and towns,
thousands and thousands. On their
shoulders are the interests OF private In
dividuals and great corporations In
them are the great arteries through which
run the currents of the Nations life. They
have been the resources of the thousands
Of fnanciers in days of business exigency.
They stand for accomm odatio on, for
facility, for ind vidual, State and Ma
tional relief. At their head and in their
management there is as much interest
and moral worth as in any class or men
perhaps more. How nefarious, then, the
behavior of those who bring disrepute
upon this venerable, benignant and God.
honored institution.
We also depore abuse of trust funds,
because they fv in the face of that divine
goodness which seems determined to bless
this land. We are having the eighth year
of unexampled Nation al harvest. The
wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat,
} and the corn gamblers get hold Of the
} corn. The full tide of Gods mercy toward
this land is put back by those great dikes
of dis honest resistance When God pro.
vides enough food and clothing to feed
and apparel this whole Nation like princes,
the scrabble of dishonest men to get more
than their share. and get ii at all hazards,
keeps every thing shaking with uncer-
tainty and every body asking, what
I nexti Every week makes new rev
eations. How many more bank
presidents and bank cashiers have
been specializing with other peoples
In imbecile silence letting the perfldy go
! on, the great and patient God only knows
, NV opinion is that we have got near the
bottom. The wind has been prcked from
the great bubble of American speculation.
/ The men who thought that the judgment
} day was at least five thousand years of,
q found it in 1888, 1887, 1886; and this Nation
has been taught that men must keep
their hands out of other peoples pockets
/ Great businesses built on borrowed capital
, have been obliteratcd and men who had
nothing have lost all they had. l believe
we are started on a higher career Of pros
. perity than this land has ever seen, IT.,
and II. and if.
II the first men, and especially Christian
men, will learn never to speculate upon
borrowed capital. II you have mind to
take your own money and turn it al into
kites, TO fly them over every commons In
the United States, you do society no
wrong, except when you tumble your
| helpless children into the poor house for
, the public to take care Of But you have
no right to take the money of others and
3 turn it into kites. There is one word that
! has deluded more people into bankruptcy
and State prison and perdition than any
other word in commerC al life, and that is
the word borrow; that one word is re-
sponsible for all the defalcations, and
? entertainments. and financial consterna-
tions of the last twenty wears. When
executors conclude to speculate with the
| funds of an estate committed to their
charge, they do not pur DIN, they say
they only borrow; when a banker makes
an overdraft upon his institution, he
t does not commit theft, he only borrows.
Why, when you are going to do wrong,
HrNF.r n
I word of six letters, when you can get a
, shorter word more descriptive of the
, reality, word of only five letters, the
3 word steal?
3 There are times when we all borrow
and borrow egitimately, and borrow with
the divine blessing, for Christ in his SER
l mon on the mount enjoins from him
, that would borrow of thee turn not thou
s away" A young man rightly borrows
= money to get his education. Purchasing
/ a house and not able to pay all down in
cash, the purchaser rightly borrows it on
mort gage. Crises come in business when
it would be wrong for man not to bor-
1 row. But roll this warning through all
these aisles, over the backs of all these
pews, never borrow to speculate;
I not dollar, not a cent, not farthing.
q If had only worldly weapon to use
, on this subject, would give you the fact.
fresh from the highest authority, that
| ninety per cent of those who 90 into
speculation in Wall street lose all; but
, have a better warning than a worldly
warning. From the place where men have
! | perished-bodv mind and soul-stand off
stand off! Abstract pulpit discussion
,. must step aside on this question. Faitt
and repentance are absolutely necessary,
: | but faith and repentance are no more
a doctrines of the Bible than commercial
G integrity. Render TO all their dues. Owe
no man any thing. And while mean tC
preach faith and repentance, more and
O more to preach them, do not mean tC
4 spend any time in chasing the Hittites anc
;. Jebusites and Girgas hites of Bible time:
r when there are so many evils right around
' us destroying men and women for time
q and for eternity. The greatest evangel
a istic preacher the world ever saw, mar
who died for his evangeism-peerles
h | Paul-wrote to the Romans: "Provld
q things honest in the sight of all mem;
4 wrote to the Corinthians: "Do that whicl
a honest;" wrote to the Philippians
r Whatsoever things are honest;" wrote t.
a the Hebrews: "Willing in all thing to liv
r honestly" The Bible says that faltl
r without works is dead, which, being
!. literally translated, means that If you
4 business life does not correspond will
q your profession your religion is q hum
Il bug.
4 Here Is something that needs to b
!. sounded into the ears of all the youne
!. men of America, and iterated and re