Milford chronicle., 1889-03-15

into the delusion which has ruined so many
men, Of thinking because a thing is in their
possession, therefore it is theirs. You have
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 50 hopelessly involved them
that you cannot put them back, confess the
whole thing TO those whom you have wronged,
and you viii sleep better nights, and you viii
have the better chance for your soul What
a sad thing it would be, if after you are dead
your administrator should find out from tho
account books, or from the lack OF vouchers,
that you were not only 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 pursoined should
go back to its owners, it would
crash into ruin every city in America.
DISHONESTY IS UNPRoFITABLE.
A clustering young man arrived at a hotel
in the west, and he saw a man on the side
walk, and in rough way, as no man has
right to address a laborer, said to him,
Garry this trunk upstairs" The man car
ried the trunk upstairs and came down, and
then the young man gave him quarter OF
dollar which was marked, and instead Of
being twenty-five cents it was worth only
twenty cents. Then the young man gave
his card to the laborer, and said: "You take
this up to Governor Grimes; / want TO see
him" "Ah, said the laborer, 81 am Gov
ernor Grimesin "Oh, % said the young man,
"you-I-excuso mein Then the governor
said; Il was much impressed by the letter
you wrote me asking for a certain Office in
my gift, and l had made up my mind you
should have it,; but a young man who win
cheat laborer out Of i've cents would
swindle the government Of the state, If he
got his hands on it. don't want you Good
sir" 1t never pays. Neither in
this world nor in the world to come viii it
pay.
I do not suppose there ever was better
specimen Of honesty than was found in the
Duke Of Wellington. He marched with his
army over the French frontier, and the army
was suffering, and he hardly knew how to
get along. Plenty Of plumber all about, bul
he commanded none Of the plunder to be
taken He writes home these remarkable
words: 1--WE are overwhelmed with debts,
and ! can scarcely stir out Of my house on
account Of public creditors, waiting to de
mand what is due to them" Yet at that
very time the French peasantry were bring
ing their valuables to him to keep. A cele-
brated writer says Of the transaction; Moth
ing can be grander or more nobly original
than this admission. This old soldier after
thirty years service, this iron man and vic
torious general, established in an enemy couu-
try at the head Of an immense army, is afraid
Of his creditorsl This is a kind Of fear that
has seldom troubled conquerors and invaders,
and doubt if the annals Of war present any
thing comparable to its sublime simplicity
Oh! is it not high time that we reached the
morals of the Gospel, right beside the faith Of
the Gospell Mr. Froude, the celebrated Eng
lish historian, has written Of his own country
these remarkable words: "From the great
house in the city Of London to the village
grocer, the commercial life of England has
been saturated with fraud So deep has it
gone that a strictly honest tradesman can
hardly hold his ground against competition.
You can no longer trust that any article you
buy is the thing which it pretends to be. We
have false weights, false measures, cheating
and shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
have seen all this grow up in absolute indif-
ference. Many hundreds Of sermons have
heard in England, many a dissertation on
the mysteries Of the faith, on the divine mis-
sion Of the clergy, on bishops and justifca-
y
verbal inspiration, and the efficacy Of the
but, during all these thirty Won
derful years, never one that can recollect
on common honesty
Now, that may be an exaggerated state
ment Of things in England but am very
certain that in all parts Of the earth we need
to preach the moralities Of the Gospel right
along beside the faith Of thesf5ospel.
Sly hearerl What are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pockets Ny
other hearerl How are you getting along
with that wicked scheme you have now on
footl Is that ''pool ticket" you have in
your pocketl Why, D young man, were you
last night practicing in copying your en-
ployer's signaturel Where were you last
nightl Are your habits as good as when you
left your fathers house9 You had Christian
ancestry, perhaps, and you have had too
many prayers spent ON you to 60 overboard
NO EXCUSE FOR DOING WRONG.
DR.. Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
from the Highlanders, and he said
that one Of his ancestors, one Of the High
lands, one day called his family around him.
The Highlander was dying; he had his chill
dren around his death bed He said; "Now,
my lads, have looked all through our history
rs far back as / can find it, and have never
found a dishonest nan in all the line, and !
want you to uIi1.4- land you inherit good
blood. You have no excuse for doing wrong,
my lads, be honest
All, my friends, be honest before God, be
honest before your fellow men, be honest be-
fore your soul If there be those here who
have wandered away, come back, come home,
come now, oIs and all, not one exception in
al the assemblage; come into the kingdom Of
God Come back on the right track Tbs
door OF mercy Is open and the infinite hears
Of God is full of compassion Como homo.
Come homel Oh, would be well satisfied if
could save some young man this morning,
some young man that has been going astray
and would like to get back.
] am glad some one has set to music that
'eene in August Of 1881, when a youas girl
saved from death a sshole rGi truin OK Dls
iengers Some of you remember that cut
st, in that year on a stormy night, a hurri
cane blew down part Of a railroad bridge. A
irelght train came along and it crashed into
ihe ruin and the engineer and conductor per-
shed There was girl living IN her fathers
,abin near the disaster, and she heard the
crash Of the freight train, and she knew that
IN a few moments an express train was due
She lighted lantern and clambered up on
the one beam of the wrecked bridge on to the
main bridge, which was trestle work, and
started to cross amid the thunder and the
lightning Of the tempest and the raging Of
the torrent beneath. One misstep and it
would have been death. Amid all that horror
the lantern went out Crawling sometimes,
and sometimes walking over the slippery rails
and over the trestle work. she came TO the
other side of the river. She wanted to get to
the telegraph station where the express train
did not stop, so that the danger might be tel
agraphed to the station where the train did
stop. The train was due in five minutes. She
was one mile of from the telegraph station,
but, fortunately the train was late. With
cut and bruised feet she aew like the wind
Coming up to the telegraph station, painting
with almost deathly exhaustion, she had only
strength to shout, "The bridge is DOWN.
when she dropped unconscious and could
hardly be resuscitated The message was
sent from that station TO the next station and
the train halted, and that night that brave
girl saved the lives Of hundreds of passengers,