Sharp County record., 1888-03-29

tbe, II onoht to clean our lives. Religion
is not as some seem to think, sort o'
church dslectatiou, kind of confectio i
erv. a soft of spiritua caramel or Ho
gnmdroD, or sanctifed peppermint %
fbaological ang ;the tic. 1t IS d,
omnipotent prime p,e-all coltroilng, a.
conouering. Yol NAV get along VIII
something less than that, and you MAJ
doce,ve vourself with it, but you eau
not deceive Goo. and you can nos ue.
caive the world. The keen business MAJ
will put on his spactacles, ana ne VIII
look clear through to the back OF your
head and see whether your reI'S'oI
il fiction Or fact. Anu
Won can not hide your sam
ples of sugar, or rice or Io'
or cof 70 if they are false; you can noO
hide III ,m under the cloth OF commuh'
ion table. All your prayers go 10. noun
ing so long as you misrepro3en1 your
bonkino institution, aud in the amount OF
the resources you put down more SPec'''
and more fractional currency, and moF'
cIaarino house certificates, and more as
counts than there really are, ana Wue"
won yiTe an account Of your llablIltIe9
Won do not mention all the unpaid dlVI-
dands, and the United State7 bank notes
outstanding, and the ind VIduat dsPo''O',
and the obligations to other banks an
bankers. An authority more scrutInlz'n%
than that Of any bank examiner Will g
through and through and through your
business.
| stand this morning before many Wno
have trust funds. It is compliment 10
YOU that you have been so intruS tea; DuI
I charge you, in the presence OF TOD anu
the world. be careful, be as careful OF the
nronertv of others as you are careful OF
vour own. Above all, keep your own
nrivate account at the bank separate from
vour account as trustee Of an estate, or
trustee of an institution. That is tho
nofnt at which thousands Of people make
shipwreck. They get the property OF
others mixed up with their own property,
they pus it into Investment, and away 10
all goes, and they can not return lha'
which thew borrowed. Then comes the
eynIosion, and the money market II
shaken, and the press denounces, ana
tbe church thunders expulsion You
have no right to use the property
Of others, except for their advan-
tare. nor without consent, unless they
are minors. If with their consent you
invest their property as well as
YOU can, and it is al LOST, yoH are not to
blame, YOU did the best you could, but DO
not come into the delu5ion, which has
ruined so many men, of thinking, because
a thing is in their possession, therefore 1T
is theirs, You have a solemn trust that
God has given you. In this vast assem-
bl age there may be some who have MS
appropriated trust funds. Put them back,
or. if YOU have so hOpelessly involved
them that you can not put them back,
confess the whole thing to those whom
YOU have wronged, and you will sleep
better nights, and you will have the bet
ter chance for your soul. What SAD
thing it would be if, after you are dead,
vour admin istrator should find out from
the account books, or from the lack OF
vouchers, that you not only were BANK
rupt in stock, but that you lost your soul.
II all the trust funds that have been mis-
appropriated should suddenly fly to their
owners, and all 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 be looked out of his
window and he saw his yard full Of goods
of all kinds. He wondered and asked the
cause of all this.
"WelI," said the natives, "our gods
that we have been worshiping permit us
to steal, but, according 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 be-
long"
If next Sabbath all the ministers in
America should preach sermons on the
abuse of trust funds and on the evils OF
purloning, and the sermons were all
blessed of God, and regulations were
made that all these things should be
taken to the city halls, it would not be
long before every city hall in America
would be crowded from cellar to cupoI a.
Let me say in the most emphatic man.
ner to all young men, dishonesty will
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 1t to him until he could raise one crop,
Al, lok of tyvO-
hundred yearsi And | tell you young
man, that the dishonesties which you plant
in your heart and life will seem to be very
insignificant but they will grow up until
they will overshadow you with horrible
darkness, overshadow all time and all
eternity. 1t will not be a crop for two
hundred years, buta crop for everlasting
ages.
have also word of comfort for al
who suffer from the malfeaSance o1
others, and every honest man, woman
and child does suffer from what goes on
in financial scampdOm. Society is sc
bound together that all the misfortunes
which good people suffer in business mat
ters come from the msdeedes of others.
Bear up under distress, strong in God. He
will see you through, though your mis-
fortunes should be centupled. Philo5o
piers tell us that a column of air forty
five 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 mind long ago how many or
how few dollars it would be best for
you to have. Trus. to his appointment.
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