St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
place the idols of the closet or of the


altar.
Third-Assurance that honesty, with
other proper qualities, is sure to win,
and that dishonesty, even with proper
qualities, is sure to fail. Such assur-
ance represents the essential and funda-
mental truth. A remark was made in
the recent number of Puck. The ques
ton was. Can one be honest and sue
coed? "Yes," is the answer, 'but you
must sink good deal at the start"
NO permanent success is secured
through dishonesty. ''HOnesty is the
best policy, my son. said Scotchman
to his boy, "for l have tried BOTH" God
has so fixed things in this world that it
pays to do right. If you are honest, and
are stupid and indOlent, you will fail;
if you are dishonest, even if brill
liant and labOriOus. you must fail.
Like the heather king, you fight
against the stars and the floods. The
laws of humanity, the laws of nature,
favor square dealing. Money, fortune,
gained for self or for children, by cheat
ing, is like bringing snakes home to
your fireSide; snakes chilled by the
winters cold. They will awaken to
poison and kill. Men who betray honor
for thirty pieces, or $4,000 pieces of sill
yer or gold, will sometime, like Judas,
fling down the coin on the hard pave
ment of hatred and flee to the shadows
of their own awful remOrse.
FOurth-Belief that character is more
than gold. Gold is good. No one
should despise it. Do you recollect the
dialogue between Mr.. DOmbey and his
son Paul? Paul breaks the silence by
"What is money, Paul?' he answered,
''mOney"' Eyes, SIR" said the child,
laying his hands upon the elbows of his
little chair and turning the old face up
to Mr.. Dombey's, what is money!"
''Why, gold, and silver, and copper,
guineas and shillings, half pence; you
know what they are" said
Paul; 81 don't mean that, papa;
l mean what is money, after all?'
''What is money after all?' said Mr..
Dombey. Il mean, papa, what can it
do?" returned Paul. Mr.. DOmbey drew
his chair back to its former place and
patted Paul on his head. "You will
money, Paul, can do anything" He
took hold of the little hand and beat it
softly against his own as he said
so. Anything, papa?" eyes. any
thing" said MI. Dombey. Anything
means everything. don't it, papa"' ut
includes it: yes" said Mr.. Dombey.
"Why didn't money save me my
mama?" returned the child. sit is not
cruel, is it?" Cruel" said Mr.. Dom
hey, settling his neckcloth and seeming
to resent the idea, mo, good thing
can not be cruel" eff it is good
thing and can do anything" said the
little fellow thoughtfully, as he looked
back at the fire, II wonder why 1t
didn't save me my mama"
Fifth-SatisfactiOn in ones own right
eous character. Holy pride is not a
bad, but very good quality. A pride
that lifts one above the bitterness, the
pettinesSeS, and meannesseS OF the day,
pride which arouses on to entertain
large conceptions, to grasp high ideals,
to undertake grand endeavOrs. There
is pride which is petty, small and
mean. 1t is wrong: beware OF it. But
never be afraid of arrOgating to yourself
the highest ideas and ideals. Know
yourself. Know yourself as worthy OF
your self love.s
Sixth.-And this suggests the sixth
and the last aid to honesty which L shall
name, and perhaps the most important.
Satisfaction in having the appreciation
of God. Brethren, we here come to
stand upon high plane of Christian
experience. God is; God is a person;
God is person of reason, conscience
and free will; God is good; God blesses
the good; God is omnipotent; God hates
evil; God Furnishes evil. God
therefore may bless you in
your righteousness; God hates
your sin. This is of the present. The APP
probation of God, what is it not worth?
What is it not worth now? The appro-
baton of God, what's it not worth when
we shall stand face to face with God?
Mr.. A. died worth S10,000,000. When
he comes before his God he will have to
answer two hard questions, said one:
First, how did you get that money? Sec
Ond. what did you do with that money?
These same two questions every man is
now obliged to answer: How are you
getting your 81? how are you get
ting your $1,000? What are you
doing with your 81, what are you dong
with your $1,000? Brethren, so get, so
keep, SO spend, that the face of Jesus
shall look down upon you, not as it
looked down upon the scribe, the Phari-
see and hypocrite, but as it looked down
upon the poor widow who cast her two
mites into the temples treasury. What
ever gain is made at the cost of this
divine appreciation is like passengers
saving his gold dust; but losing his life
In the.owning, is like gaining the whole
world but losing theSOul.