The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-03-22


md they cannot return that which they
borrowed. Then comes the explosion, and
the money market IS shaken, and the presa
lenOunces, and the church thunders exc
pufsion. You have no right to use the
property of others, except for their ad'
vantage, nor without consent, unless they
are minors If with their consent you in"
vest their property as we'll as you can, and
it 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 because a thing is in
heir possession, therefore 1t IS theirs.
You have a solemn trust that God has
given you. In this vast assemblage there
may be some who have misappropriated
trust funds. Put them back, or, if you
have so hopelessly involved them that yoR
cannot put them back, confess the whole
thing to those whom you have wrongeds
and you will sleep better nights, and you
will have the better chance for your soul.
What 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
misappropriated 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 he 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. "Well," said
the natives, "our gods that we have been
worshiping permit US to steal, but Gc-
cording 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 belong" If next
Sabbath all the ministers in America
should preach sermons on the abuse Of
trust funds, and on the evils of purloinings
and the sermons were all blessed of God,
and regulations we're made that all these
things should be taken TO the city halls, II
would not be long before every city hall
in America would be crowded from cellar
to cupola.
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 it to him until he could raise one crop,
and the abbot sowed acorns, crop of 200
years! And tell you, young man, that
the dishonesties which you plant in your
heart and life will seem to be very insigni-
icant, but they will grow up until they
will overshadow you with horrible dark
ness, overshadow all time and all eternity.
it will not be a crop for 200 years, but
crop for everlasting ages.
! | have also a word of comfort for all
who suffer from the malfeasance of others,
and every honest man, woman, and child
does suffer from what goes on in financial
scampdom. Society is 80 bound together
that all the misfortunes which good peo-
pie suffer in business matters comes from
| the misdeeds of others. Bear up under
distress, strong in God. He will see you
| through, though your misfortunes should
be centupled. Philosophers tell us that
column of air forty-ive 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 min d
long ago how many or how few dollars ii
would be best for you 10 have. Trust to
His appointment. The door will soon open
to let you out and let you up. What SHOCK
of delight for men who for thirty years
have been in business anxiety when they
shall suddenly awake in everlasting holi-
day. On the maps of the Arctic regions
there are two places whose names are re-
markable, given, suppose, by some Po.
lar expedition, "Cape Farewell" and
SThank God Harbor." At this last the
Polaris wintered in 1871, and the Tigresa
in 1873. Some ships have passed the
cape, yet none have reached the
harbor. But from what L know
Of many of you, 1 have
concluded that though your voyage OF
life may be very rough, run into by ice.
bergs on this side and icebergs on that,
you will in due time reach Cape
Farewell and there bid goodbye to all
annoyances, and soon after drop anchor
in the calm and imperturbable waters oi
Thank God Harbor. "There the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are al
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