The Grenada sentinel., 1889-03-16

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can't death be hired? is money nothing
must die, and so rich? if the owning o
the whole realm would save me, coul
get it by policy or by purchased
money" No, death would not be hire
then; he will not be hired now. Men c
the world often regret that they have t
leave their money here when they g
away from the world. You can tell from
what they say in their last hours that on
of their chief sorrows is that they have t,
leave their money. break that delusion
tell that bribe-t -taker that he will tax
his money with him. God will wraI
it up in your shroud, or put !
in the palm of your hand in resur
rection, and there it will lie, not thu
cool, bright, shining gold as it was on the
day when you sold your vote and your
moral principle, but there it will lie, no
metal, burning and consuming your hant
| forever. Or, if there be enough of it TO
a chain, then it will fall from the wris
clanking the fetters of an eternal
captivity. The bribe is an everlasting
possession. You take it for time, vol
take it for eternity. Some day in the next
world, when you are longing for SYM
pathy, you will feel on your cheek kiss.
Looking up you will find it to be Judas
who took thirty pieces of silver as bribt
and finished the bargain by putting an in
famous kiss on the pure cheek of his
divine NJ aster.
There is not a city that has not suffered
from the abuse of trust funds. Where is
the courthouse, or the City, Hall, Or the
Jail, or the post office, or the hospital,
that in the building of it has not had q
political job:
Long before the new courthouse in New
York City was completed, it cost over
twelve million dollars. Five millions six
hundred and sixty three thousand dollars
for furniture, For plastering and repairs,
two million three hundred and seventy
thousand dollars. For plumbing and gas
works, one million two hundred and thir-
ty-one thousand eight hundred and seven
teen dollars. For awnings, twenty-three
thousand five hundred and fifty-three
dollars. The bills for three months COM
ing to the nice little sum of thirteen MILL
ion one hundred and tifty-One thousand
one hundred and ninety eight dollars and
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of plsmbiug or inch of plastering, or ink
stand, or door knob in the whole estab-
lishment.
That bad example was followed in many
Of the cities, which did not steal quite so
much because there was not so much to
steal. There ought to be a closer inspec-
tion, and there ought to be less opportuni,
ty for embezzlement. Lest a man shall
take five-ceut piece that does not belong
TO him, the conductor on the city horse
car must sound his bell at every payment,
and we are very cautious about small Of
tensos, but give plenty of opportunity for
sinners on a large scale to escape. For
boy who steals a loaf of bread from a corr
ner grocer to keep his mother from starry
ing to DEATH prison: but for defrauders
who abscond with five hundred thousand
dollars, a castle on the Rhine, or, waiting
until the Otfense is forgotten, then castle
on the Hudson.
Another remark needs to be made, and
that is that people ought not to go into
places, into business, or into positions
where the temptation is mightier than
their character. If there be large sums
of money to be handled and the man is
not sure Of his own integrity you have
no right to run an unseaworthy craft into
an euroclydon. A man can tell by the
sense Of weakness or strength in the
presence of bad opportunity whether he
is in safe place. How many parents
make an awful mistake when they put
their boys in banking houses and stores
and shops and factories and places of
solemn trusts, without once discussing
whether they can endure the temptation.
You give the boy plenty of money and
have no account Of it, and make the way
down become very easy, and you may put
upon him pressure that he can not
stand. There are men who go into posi-
tions full of temptation, considering only
the one fact that they are lucrative posi-
tions. Isay to thu young people here this
dishonesty will not pay in this
world or the world to come.
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 two
hundred years. And | tell you, young
man. that the dishonesties which you plant
in your heart and life will seem to be very
but they will grow up until
they will overshadow you with horrible
darkness, overshadow all time and all
eternity. 1t will not be a crop for two
hundred years, but crop for everlasting
ages.
| stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. 1t is compliment to
you that you have been SO intrusted, but
charge you, in the presence Of God and
the world be careful; be as careful Of the
property Of others as you are careful of
your own. Above all, keep your own
private account at the bank separate from
account as trustee Of an estate or trustee
of an institution. This is the point at
which thousands of people make ship
wreck. They get the property of others
mixed up with their own property, they
put 1t INTO investment, aud away IT. all
goes, and they can not return that
which they borrowed. Then comes the
explosion, and the money market is
shaken, and the press denounces and the
Church thunders expulsion. You have no
right to use the property of others except
for their advantage, nor without consent,
unless they are minors. II with their con-
sent you invest their property as well 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 their possession, therefore it
Is theirs. You have solemn trust that
God has given you. In this vast assem-
blage there may be some who have mis-.
appropriated trust funds. Put them
back, or, if you have so hopelessly in.