The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-20

OlrecJlOn IN Dank Wlen you never look
after the facilities of that bank? Do not
take an appointment in the board OF di-
rectors as a compliment If you cannot
somehow scrutinize the running OF that
financial machinery. There is where the
difficulty often begins. People ought not
TO 90 into such associations unless they are
somehow going to take the responsibility
OF such associations. Lest man steal
cents that do not belong to him, the car
companies make conductor at the pay
ment OF each fare puch his bell, while for
sinners on a large scale there is every OPP
pOrtunity of escape. For a boy who steals
loaf OF bread from a corner grocery to
keep his mother from starving to
death, the penitentiary; but for
a man who absconds with $780,
600, castle on the Rhine, and
after they have forgotten about it, then a
castle on the Hudson. Now, let me say
to all parents, be careful where you put
your boys in temptation. Here is where
the trouble often begins. There Is good
position opening for your boy In bank,
In a factory, in some kind of commercial
establishment, where he will have access
TO great many funds. Is he an honest
boy? All is we'll Do you know that he
is not honest? Do you know he cannot
going to put him in place where he will
surely be overthrow? / will tell you
what you had better do. Bury him in the
Potter's field at Greenwood. Let me say
to the multitude of young men who are
here this morniDg-before | left my room
| prayed God Almighty this morning TO
save young men-let me say to the
young men here, it is never
safe to be dishonest. 1t does not
pay in this world. Ii most certainly
will not pay in the world to come. An
abbot wanted to buy a piece of property
and the owner did not want to sell it.
The abbot persisted that he must have it.
Finally the one said: "Well, you can
have it to raise one crop on" The abbot
took it TO raise one crop and he sowed
acOrns-a crop of 200 years. And let me
say, my young friend, while the dishones-
ties and receptions which you may be
tempted to practice may seem TO you in
significant, they will grow and they will
overshadow all time and overshadOw all
eternity, and instead of being a crop of
200 years it will be a crop of the everlast-
ing ages. | may be standing this morning
i may stand before many who have
trust funds. Let me say you have very
sacred trust. Let me charge you, my
brother, as a brother would talk to a
brother, TO keepyOur private bank account
separate from your account as the trustee
of an estate or an institution. Forgetting
that works many financial troubles IN
our day. Men get in the habit OF putting
their private accounts and their accounts
as the guardians of estates all together.
After awhile they get into trouble. Their
own money goes and the money in trusted
to them goes at the same time. Keep
your accounts separate. 1t Will be an
awful thing If after you are dead your adj
ministratOr should come around and find
out that you had not only lost your prop
erty but also your soul. Ruined for this
life and then swindled out of heaven, and
swindled by your own malfeasance, your
own misdOing. 1t may be that in a vast
assemblage like this l am addressing
some one who has misappropriated trust
funds. Pay them back. Or, if matters
have gone so wrong and for so long
time that they are all involved, and
you cannot pay the money back, 60
TO the one you have ruined and confess
your fault and you will sleep better to-
night, and you will have better prospects
for the world to come. 1t seems to me in
our churches, in our Dulpits and every
where, it is high time we put the mOrali-
ties OF the gospel right beside the faith OF
the gospel. Do you know what is the
strongest argument against Christianity,
and the only one that makes any impress
sion? 1t is not that presented by the
blatant infidel. It is not the argument
against the Christian religion. 1t Is the
hypocrisy OF some man who processes to
be a Christian, while he is a first-class
scoundrel. l declare to you in all parts
of the world to-day, the moraiities of the
Il
OF the gospel. So, my nearer, what about
the fraudulent document you have In
your pocket? My other hearer, how
are YOU getting along with that
wicked scheme you have set afoot?
Where were you last night? Why
did you occupy so much time trying to
initiate the signature of your employer?
Have you a pool ticket in your pocket?
What is that key for that YOU have in
your pocket Is it not the key that lets
you into the store? 1t is not the kew that
lets you into your house. What is that
key for? Had YOU a pious ancestry?
Where is your father to-day? Your
mother? Where are they? Did you not
have a grand old ancestry Are you liv-
ing worthy of them? David Livingstone
was descended from the Scotch Highland
ers, and he tells of an old Highlander, one
of his ancestors, who was dying and who
called his sons around him, and he said in
his last moments, MY lads, l have been
looking up our family history, and as far
as | can 90 back l cannot find there was
a dishonest or bad man in the whole lot,
and / tell you this, my lads, to know that
you come of good blood, and you have no
right to 90 wrong. My lads, be honest"
Then the old man folded his hands and he
was dead. 1t may have been a somewhat
eccentric death-bed, but it embraced
about everything in the way of counsel,
for if a man is honest with men and
honest with his God, that will tell the
whole story of pardon, peace, salvation,
redemption and heaven.
Sunday Schools.
The Sunddy-SchOol Times makes some
interesting suggestions concerning the
government of Sunday-schools. Every
church" 1t says, fought to have its Sum
dav-school, as surely it has its pulpit.
And the oversight of its Sunday-school is
quite as important 10 a church as the over
sight of its pulpit. The responsibility for
both pulpit and Sunday-school rests on
the church, and it ought TO rest there.
just how local church is to discharge its
responsibility is question of expediency.
The superintendent of Sunday
school ought to receive his authority
from the church; yet church may quite
properly-as it often dOes-delegate to the
teachers in the Sunday-school the desig-