The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-30

let it to him until he could raise one
'trop, and the abbot sowed acorns.

let 1t to him until he could raise one
crop, and the abbot sowed acorns,
A CROP OF TWO HUNDRED YEARS.
And l tell you, young man, that the
dishonesties which you plant in your
heart and life will seem to be very in
significant, but they will grow up until
they will o~vershadow you with horrible
darkness, overshadow all time and all
leternity. 1t will not be a crop for two
hundred years, but a crop for everlast-
ing ages.
/ stand this morning before many
who have trust funds, It is a compli-
ment TO you that you have been
so ~intrnsted, but | charge you, In
the presence of God and the world, he
careful; lie as careful of the property Of
others as you are careful of your own.
Above all, keep your own private ac-
count at tie bank separate from your
account as trustee of an estate, or trtis-
tee Of an Institution. That is the point
at which thousands of people make
shipwreck. They get the property Of
Others mixed up with their own prop
erty. they put it into investment, ana
away it all goes, and they cannot return
that which they borrowed. Then comes
the explosion, and the money market is
shaken, and the dress d%enounces, and
the Church tlunders expulsion. You
have no right TO use the property OF
Others except for their advantage, nor
without consent, unless they are minors.
III with their consent you invest their,
property as well us you can, and it is all
lost, you ale 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 Col has given you. In this vast
assemblage there may be some who
have Incorporated trust funds. Put
Them back, or, if you have SO hopelessly
involved them that YOU cannot put them
back, confess the whole thing to those
| whom you have wronged, and you will
sleep better nights, and you will have
the better chance Tor your soul. What
a sad thing it would he if, after you are
ldead, your administrator should find out
from tile arcount-bookS, II from the
Hack OF vouchers, that you were not
Ionly bankrupt Ill estate, but thai you
lost your soul.
Oil is it not high time that we preach
ed
THE MORALS OF TIE GOSPEL
right beside the faith of the gospel?
Mr.. Froude, the celebrated English
historian, has written Of his " coun-
try these remarkable works: s'From
tile 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 strict
lily 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 70
be. We have false weights, false
me- assures. cheating, and shoddy very
! where. And yet the clergy have seen
all this grow up in absolute Indifference.
Many hundreds of sermons have 1
heard in England, OIL the divine mission
OF the clergy, OH bishops, and Justihca-
ton, and tile theory OF good works, and
verbal inspiration, and the Ell lacy OF
the sacraments; but, during all these
thirty wonderful years, never ne that l
can recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may he an exaggerated
statement of things in England, but l
am very Ger ain that in all parts Of the
earth we need TO preach IT, moralities
of the Gospel right alon! beside the
faith OF the Gospel.
My hearerl What are y'u doing with
that fraudulent document in your pock-
et2 My other hearerl How are you get
| ting along with that wicked scheme you
have now on fo0tp Is that a pool
ticket" you have in your pocket? Why.
10 young man, were you last night
practcing in copying your employers
Isignature2
WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT?
Are your habits as good as when you
left your fathers housep You had a
Christian ancestry, perhaps, and you
have had too many prayers spent on.
you to 60 overheard. DR.. Livingstone.
the famous explorer, was descended
from the IIighlanders, and lie said that
one of his ancestors, one OF the High
flanders. one day called his family
Iaround him. The Highlander was dy-
ing; lie had his children around his
i~death-be,i. lie aid: Now, my lads.
| have looked all through our history
as far back as / can find it. and l have
! never found q dishonest man in all the
line, and l want you to understand you
inherit good blood. You have no ex-
cuse for doing wrong. My lads, be
honest"
All, my friends, be honest before God,
he honest before your fellow-men. be
honest before your soul. II there be
those here who have wandered away,
come back, come home, come now, N
and all, not one exception in all the
dssemblage, come into the Kingdom VI
God. Come back Oh the right track.
tt Q door OF mercy is open, and the in
finite heart of God is full of compassion.
Come homel Come homel Oh, 1 would
be well satisfied if could save some
young man this morning, some young
man that has been astray, and would
like to get back.
A GIRL HEROINE.
1 am glad some one has set to music
that scene in August of 1881, when a
young girl saved from death a whole
rail train of passengers. Some OF you
remember that out West in that year
on a stormy night, a hurricane blew
down part of a railroad bridge. A
freight train came along and 1t crashed
into the ruin, and the engineer and Con-