The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-04-03

luS dSeS.
stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. 1t is compliment to you
that yorl have been so intrusted, but l
charge sou, in the presence Of God and
the woc.d, 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 sepa-
rate from your account as trustee OF an
estate, or trustee Of an institution. Ihat
is the point at which thousands Of people
make shipwreck. They get the property OF
! others mixed up with their own property;
they put it into investment and away 1t all
goes, and they can not return that Whlcn
they borrowed. Then comes the explosion,
and the money market is shaken and the
! press denounces and the church thunde:s
/ expulsion. You have no right to use the
property Of others except for their advant-
/ age, nor without consent, unless they are
minors If with their consent YOU invest
their property as well as you can, and t Is
! all lost, you are not to blame, you did
! the best you could; but do not come
into the delusiou which has ruined so many
men, thinking because thing is IN their
! possession, therefore 1t IS theirs. y GU nave
a solemn trust that God has given you. In
! this vast assemblage their may be some
who have nisapproprlated trust funds Put
! them back, or, if you have so hopeiessly IN
volved them that you can not put them
back, confess the whole thing to those
whom YOU have wronged, and you Will
! sleep better at nights, and you will have the
better chance for your soul. What sad
thing it would be il, after YOU are dead,
Your administrator should find out from
the account books, or from the lack OF
vouchers, that you were not only bankrupt
. in estate, but that you lost your soul. II
all the trust funds that have been misap-
propriated should fly suddenly to their
owners, and all the property that has been
purloined should suddenly 60 back to its
owners it would crash into ruin every city
! in America.
A clustering young man arrived at a hotel
| in the West and he saw man on the SIDE
walk, and in d rough way. as no man mas
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 mar gave
| his card to the laborer and said, you take
this up to Governor Grimes: l want to
| see him. 'sAh,' said the laborer, Il am
Governor Grimes" 20, said the young
man, "you-I-excuse me-" Then the
Governor said: II was much impressed
by the letter you wrote me asking for
certain ofice in my gift. and had made
up my mind you should have 1t; but
Young man who will cheat laborer out OF
| five cents would swindle the government
Of the State if he got his hands on 1t. ldon't
want you. Good morning, sir" II never
! paws. Neither in this world nor in the world
to come will 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 20
etalong. Plenty of plunder all about, but he
commanded none of the plunder to be taken
He writes home these remarkable words:
Eve are overwhelmed with debts, and / can
scarcely stir out of my house on account OF
Public creditors, waiting to demand what IS
due to them" Yet at that very time the
French peasantry were bringing their valu-
ab!es to him to keep. a celebrated writer
saws of the transaction: "Nothing can be
mission, The old soldier, after thirty years.
| service, this iron man and victorious general,
established in an enemy's country at the
head of an immense army, IS afraid OF his
creditors! This is kind Of fear that has
seldom troubled couqusrors and invaders
and doubt if the annals Of war presentany-
thing comparable to its sublime simplicity" J"
On! is it not high time that we preached
the morals of the gospel, right beside e
faith of the gospel! Mr.. Froude, the ce'e-
brated English 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 En-
gland has been saturated with fraud. SO deep
| it has gone that strictly honestly trades
man can hardly hold his ground against
competition You can no longer trust that
any article you buy is the thing which 1t
pretends TO De- We have false weights, false
measures, cheating and shoddy yeverywhere
And yet the clergy have seen this grow up
| in absolute Indifference. Many hundreds Of
sermons have heard in England, many a
| dissertation on the mysteries Of the faith,
on the divine mission Of the clergy, on bish-
ops and justification, and theory OF good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the eff
| cacy OF the sacramerts; but. during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one that
car. recollect on common honesty
Now, that may be an exaggerated state
ment of things in England, but l am very
certain that in al parts of the earth we need
to preach the moralities Of the gospel right
along beside the faith Of the gospel.
Ny hearer! What are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pockets My
other hearer! How are you getting along
with that wicked scheme you have now on
foot? Is that pool ticket'' you have in
your pocket! Why, o young man, were
you last night practicing in copying your
EMPLOYERS signature! Where were yoa
! last night! Are your habits as good as
! when you left your fathers house! You
had Christian ancestry, perhaps, and you
have have had too many prayers spent on
you to go overheard.
DR.. Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
descended from the HighlanderS, and he
! said that one of his ancestors, one of the
Highlanders, one day called his family
around him. The Highlander was dying;
he had his children around his death bed.
he said: Now, my lads, I have looked
all through our history as far back as can
! find it, and have never found dishonest
man in all the liae, and want you to un-
derstaad you inherit good blood. You have
no excuse for doing wrong. My lads, be
| honest"
All, my friends, be honest tefore God, be
honest before your fellow men, be honest
before your soul If there be those here who
have wandered away, come back, come
| home, come now, one aud all, not one eX-
ception in al the assemblage, come into the
! kingdom of God Come back on the