The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-30
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of temptation. Indeed, II you are nat
urally strong, you need religious but
tressing. Nothing but the grace oil
God can sustain our public men, and
make them what we wish. wish thai
there might come an o~ld-fashioned re
vivaI of religion, that it might break
out In Congress, and in the Legislatures,
and bring many of the leading Republi.
cans and Democrats, down on the anxi.
GUS seat of repentance. That day will
come, or something better, for the
Bible declares that kings and queens
shall become nursing fathers and moth
ers to the Church, and IL the greater in
authority, then certainly the less.
My charge also to parents IL, reEem-
Der that this evil or bribery often begins
in the home circle, and in the nursery.
Do not bride your children. Teach
them to dc that which IS right, and not
because of the ten cents or the orange
you will give them. There is a great
difference between rewarding virtue,
and making the profits thereof the i'm
polling motive. That man who is
honest merely because ''honesty is the
best policy" is slready a moral bank.
rupt.
My charge is to you, In all depart
ments of life. steer clear OF bribery, all
of you. Every man and woman ut
some time will be tempted to do wrong
for compensation. The bride may not
be offered In money. 1t may be offered
In social position. Let us remember
that there is a day coming when the
most secret transaction Of private life,
and Of public life. will come up for pub
lie apprehension. We
CANNOT BRIDE DEATH.
we cannot bribo sickness, we cannot
bride the grave, we cannot brIbe the
judgments Of that God who thunders
against this sin. sFie!' said. Cardinal
Beaufort, s.fel can't death bthiredY ia
money notLingy must / die. and SO
rich? II the owing Of the whole realm
would save me, / could get it by policy
or by purchase by money! No,
death would not be hired then, lie will
not be hired now. Men OF the world
often regret that they have to leave
their money here when they 20 away
from the world. You cal tell from
what they say In their last hours that
one of their chief sorrows Is that they
have to leaye their money. I break
that delusion. / tell that bribe-taker
that he will take his money with him.
God will wrap it up in your shroud, or
put it in the palm Of your hand in res
direction, and there it will lie, not the
cool, bright, shining gold as it was on
the day when you sold your voc and
your moral principle, but there it will
lie, a hot metal. burning and consum-
ing your hand forever. Or. IL there be
enough OF it for a chain, then it will
fall from the wrist. cAnking the letters
Of an eternal captivity. The bride is
AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION.
You take it for time, You take it for
eternity. Some day in the next world,
when you are longing for sympathy,
Looking up you will find 1t to be Judas,
who took thirty pieces Ut silver as a
bride, and finished the bargain by put
ting an Infamous kiss on the pure cheek
of his divine Master.
Another wrong use of money is seen
in the abuse Of trust funds. Every man
during the course of his life, on u larger
or smaller scale, has the property of
others committed to his keeping. He
is, SO far, a safety deposit, he is an ad-
ministrator, and holds in his hand the
interest of the family OF y deceased
friend. Or he is an attorney, and
though his custody goes the payment
from debtor to creditor, or he Is the col
lector for a business house, which COM
pensates him for the responsibility, or
he is treasurer for q charitable institu-
ton, and he holds aims contributed for
the suffering; or he is IN official Of tile
city or the state or the nation. and taxes
and subsidies and salaries and supplies
are in his keeping. 1t IS as solemn a
trust as God can make 1t. It Is con-
centred and
MULTIPLIED Condolences.
On that man depends the support of a
bereft household, or the morals OF de-
pendents, or the right movement OF a
thousand wheels of social mechanism.
A man may do what he will with his
own, but he who abuses trust funds, in
that one act commits theft. ~falsehood,
perjury, and becomes, In all the inten-
sity Of the word, q miscreant. How
many widows and orphans there are
with nothing between them and starva-
ton but q sewing machine. or held up
out of the vortex of destruction simply
by the thread Of a needle, red with
their own hearts blood, who a it'll.
while ago had, by father and husband,
left them a competency. What il the
matterp The administrators of the ex-
ecutOrs have sacrificed it-running risks
with 1t that they would not have dared
to encounter In their own private af-
fairs. How often it is that a man will
earn a livelihood by the sweat of hi
brow, and then die, and within a few
months all the estate goes into the
safeguarding rapids Of Wall Street.
How often it is that you have known
the man to whom trust funds were
taking them out of the saw
ing bank and from trust companies and
administrators, turning old homesteads
into hard cash, and then putting the
entire estate into the vortex Of specula.
ton. Embezzlement Is an easy word
to pronounce, but it has ten thousand
ramifcations. There is
NOT A CITY THAT HAS NOT SUFFERED.
from the abuse OF trust funds. Where
Is the courthouse, or the city hall, OF
the Jail, or the ~post-ofice, or the hos.
pital, that in the building Of it has moi
had a political job?
Another remark needs to be made,
and that is that people ought not to e
into places, into business, or into posi-
tons
WHERE THE TEMPTATION Is
MIGHTlER
than their character. II there be larg,
sums OF money to be handled, and til,
man Is not sure OF his own integrity
you have no right 10 run an unsea
worthy craft in q e~uroclydon. A-mai
can tell by the sense Of weakness o
strength In the presence Of n had op
portunity whether he Is in a safe place
How many parents make m awful mis-
take when they put their boys in bank
ing houses and stores and shops am
factories and places Of solemn trusts
without once discussing whether the,
can endure the temptation. You Civ,
,he boy plenty Of money, and have N,
account Of 1t, and make the way dow
hacOma very eaaV md vnu may mn