The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-17
WASTE NOT AND WANT NOT
WARNING TO KEEP OUT, OF DEBT.
Young Men Advised To Pay Cash-Hov
the Preacher Threw Away His Salary
During an Early Pastorate-FoIly
OF borrowing Money, Etc.

was The Slaughterer, ana MS text,
Proverbs, vii, 81: "As an OK to the
slaughter" The eloquent preacher said:
There is nothing in the voice or manner
of the butcher to indicate to the OK that
there is death ahead. The oxthinks he is
going on to rich pasture field OF clover,
where all day long he will revel in the
herbaceous luxurance; but after a while
the men and boys close in upon him with
sticks and stones and shouting, and drive
him through bars and into q doorway,
where he is fastened. and with a we'll
aimed stroke the ak tells him; and so
the anticipation oil the redolent pasture
field is completely disappointed So many
q YOUNG man has been driven on by temp
tation to what he thought would be a
paradisiacal enjoyment; but after while
influences with darker hue and swarthier
arm close in upon him him and he finds
that instead of making an excursion into
the garden he has been driven "as an OK
to the slaughter"
l. We are apt TO blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought to blame
the influences that destroy them. Society
slaughters a great many young men by
the behest, "You must keep up appear
ances; whatever be your salary, you must
dress as well as others, you must wine
and brandy as many friends. you must
smoke as costly cigars, you must give as
expensive entertainments, and you must
live in as fashionable a boarding house.
II YOU haven't the money, borrow. If you
can't borrow, make false entry. or sub
tract here and there bill from a bundle
of bank bills; YOU will only have to make
the deception little while; in few
months, or in a year or two, you can make
all right. Nobody will be hurt by it; no
body viii be the wiser. You yourself will
not be damaged" BY that awful process
100000 men have been slaughtered for
time and slaughtered for eternity
Suppose you borrow. There IS nothing
wrong about borrowing money. There is
hardly a man in the house but has some
times borrowed money. Vast estates have
been built on a borrowed dollar. But
there are two kinds of borrowed money.
Money borrowed for the purpose of start
ing or keeping up legitimate enterprise
and expense, and money borrowed to get
that which you can do without. The first
is right, the other is wrong. II you have
money enough of your own to buy a coat,
however plain. and then you borrow
money for a dandy's outfit, you have
taken the first revolution of the wheel
down grade. Borrow for the necessities;
that may be we'll Borrow for the luXuries;
that tips your prospects over in the wrong
direction.
The bible distinctly says the borrower is
pervant of the lender. 1t is bad state of
- how to
other street to escape meeting some one
whom you owe. If young men knew what
Is the despotism OF being in debt more of
them would keep out of it. What did
debt do for Lord Bacon, with a mind
towering above the centuries? Itinduced
him to take brides and convict himself as
a criminal before all ages. What did debt
do for Walter Scott? Broken-hearted at
Abbotsford. Kept him writing until his
hand gave out in paralysis to keep the
sheriff away from his pictures and statu-
ary. Better for him if he had minded the
maxim which he had chiseled over the
fireplace at Abbotsford: Waste not.
want not.
The trouble is, my friends, the people
do not understand the ethics of going in
debt. and that if YOU purchase goods with
no expectation OF paying for them or go
steal just so much money. If go into a
grocer's store and buy sugars and cofees
and meats with no capacity to pay for
them and no intention of paying for them,
] am more dishonest than If | 90 into the
store and when the grOcer's face is turned
the other way / fill my pockets with the
articles of merchandise and carry off ham.
In the one case take the merchants time
and take the time OF his messenger to
transfer the goods to my house, while in
the other case | take none of the time Of
the merchant and L wait upon myself and
transfer the goods without any trouble to
him, In other words, a sneak-thief is not
so bad as n man who contracts for debts
he never expects to pay.
Yet in all our cities there are families
that move every May day to get into prox-
unity to other grOcers and meat-shops and
apothecaries. They owe everybody within
half mile of where they now live, and
next May they will move into distant
part OF the city, finding a new lot of vic
tins. Meanwhile you, the honest family
IN the new house, are bothered, day by
day, by the knocking at the door Of dis
appointed bakers and butchers and dry
goods dealers and newspaper carriers, and
you are asked where your predecessor is.
You do not know. 1t was arranged YOU
should not know. Meanwhile, your pre-
decessor has gone to some distant part of
the city, and the people who have any
thing TO sell have sent their wagons and
stopped there to solicit the valuable"
custom of the new neighbOr, and he, the
new neighbor with great complacency,
and with an air of affluence, orders the
finest steaks and the highest priced sugars,
and the best of canned fruits, and, per-
haps, all the newspapers. And the debts
will keep on accumulating until he gets
his goods, on the Both of next April, in
the furniture car.
Now, let me say if there are any such
persons in the house, If you have any re-
gard for your own convenience, you had
better remove TO some greatly distant part
of the city II is too bad that, having had
all the trouble of consuming the goods,
you should also have the trouble of being
dunned And let me say that if you find
that this pictures your own photograph,
instead OF being In church you ought to be
In the peDitentiaryl No wonder that so
many of our merchants fail in business.
They are swindled into bankruptcy by
these wandering arabs, these nomads OF
city life. They cheat the grocer out OF
the green apples which make them sick,
the physician who attends their distress,
and the undertaken who fits them out for
departure from tine neighborhood where
they owe everybody when they pay the
debt of nature, the only debt they ever