Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21

can not return that which they borrowed
Then comes the explosion and the money
market is shaken and the press denounce:
and the Church thunders expulsion
You have no right to use the property oil
others except for their advantage nor
without consent unless they are minors.
If with their consent you invest their
property as well as you can and it is al
lost you are not to blame, you did the best
you could; but do not come into the de-
fusion which has ruined so many men, of
thinking because a thing is in their posses
sion therefore it is theirs. You have a
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 so hope
lessly involved them that you can not put
them back, confess the whole thing to
those whom you have wronged and you
will sleep better nights, and you will have
better chance for your soul. What a
sad thing it would be if, after you are
| dead, your administrator should find out
from the account books, or from the lack
of vouchers, that you were not only bank
rupt in estate, but that you lost your soul.
| A clustering young man arrived at a
hotel in the West and he saw a man on the
| sidewalk and in a rough way, as no man
| has a right to address laborer. said to
him: Garry this trunk upstairs" The
| man carried the trunk upstairs and came
down, and then the young man gave him
a quarter of dollar which was marked,
and instead of being twenty-five cents it
was only twenty cents. Then the young
man gave his card to the laborer and said:
you take this up to Governor Grimes; l
|
81 am Governor Grimes" co." said the
young man, '.you-I-excuse me-" Then
the Governor said: 81 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 would cheat laborer of
| five cents would swindle the Government
of the State if he got his hands on it.
don't want you. Good morning, sr.'' 1t
never pays. Neither in this world or in
| the world to come will it pay.
l do not suppose there ever was a 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 but he commanded none of the
plumber to be taken. He writes home
these remarkable words: "We are over
whelmed with debts and l 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 VAL
uabies to him to keep A celebrated writer
says of the transaction: Nothing can be
grander or more nobly original than this
admission. This old soldier, after thirty
years service, this iron man and victori-
Gus 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 conquer
ors and invaders and / doubt if the annals
of war present any thing comparable to
its sublime simplicity"
O.! is it not high time that we preached
the morals of the gospel? Mr.. Froude, the
celebrated English historian, has written of
his own country these remarkable words:
From the great house in the city on Lon
don to village grocer, the commercial life
of England has been saturated with fraud
So deep has it gone that strictly honest
tradesman can hardly hold his ground
against competition. You can no longer
trust that any article you buy is the right
thing 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 in
difference Many hundreds of sermons
have l heard in England, many disserta-
ton on the mysteries of the faith, on the
divine mission of the clergy, on Bishops
and justification, and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspirations, and the
efficacy of the sacraments, but during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one
that l can recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be au 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 gos-
pei right along beside the faith of the gos-
pei.
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, have looked all
through our history as far back as | can
find it, and l have never found dishonest
man in all the line, and want you to I'M
derstaud 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 hon.
est before your soul If there be those
here who have wandered away, come
back, come home, come now, one and all,
not one exception in all the assemblage,
come into the kingdom of God. Come
back on the right track. The door of
mercy is open and the infinite heart is full
of scion hopoaf 81
o, will be well satisfied if 1 could save
some young man this morning, some
young man that has been going astray
and would like to get back
am glad that some one has set to music
that scene in August of 1881. when young
girl saved from death whole rail train
of passengers. Some of you remember
that out west in that year on a stormy
night, hurricane blew down part of a
railroad bridge. A freight train came
along and it crashed into the ruin, and the
engineer and conductor persisted. There
was girl living in her fathers cabin 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 a lam
tern and clambered up on the beams
of the wrecked bridge on to the main
bridge, which was trestle work, and
started to cross amid the thunder and
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
some times and some times 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
egrrphed to the station where the train
did sion. Tha train d1a in |