The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-03-14

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portunity whether he is in a safe |
place. How many parents make an |
awful mistake when they put their |
boys tn banking houses and stores and |
shops and factories and places of sol |
emn trusts, without once discussing |
whether they can endure the tempta1
ton. You give the boy plonty OF mo |
ney and have no account Of it, and |
make the way down become very easy,
and you may put upon him a pressure
that he cannot stand. TheIe are mem
who go into positions full of tempta-
ton, considering only the one fact
that they are lucrative positions.
say to the young people here this
morning, disonesthy will not pay in
this world or the world to come
An abbot wanted to buy piece of
ground and the owner would notssel1 |
it, but the owner finally consented to
let it to him until he could raise one
crop, and the abbot sowed acorns, a
crop of two hundred years. And
tell you, young man, that the dis
honesties which you plant in your
heart and life will seem to be very in
significant, but they will grow up
until they will overshadow you with
horrible darkness, overshadow all time
and all eternity. It will not be crop
for two hundred years, but crop for
everlasting ages.
I stand this morning before many
who have trust funds. It is compli-
ment to you that you have been so
intrusted, but I 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 al, keep your own pri-
vate account at the bank separate
from your accoun: as trustee OF all
estate, or trustee of an institution
That is the point at which thou
sands of people make shipwreck. They
get the property of others mixed up
with their own property, they put it
into investment, and away it all goes,
and they cannot return that which
they borrowed Then comes the ex-
plosion and the money markets. shak-
en- and the press denounces and the
church thunders expulsion. You have
no right to use the property of others
except for their advantage, nor with
out consent, unless they are minors
If with their consent 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
tits theirs. You have 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
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 bet
ter chance for your soul. What
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, tnat you were
not only bankrupt in estate, but that
you lost your soul. If all the
trust funds that have been misappro-
priated should suddenly fly to their
owners, and all the property that has
been purloined should suddenly go
back to It's owners, il would crash into
ruin every city in America.
DISHONESTY IS UNPRoFTTABLE.
A clustering young man arrived at
a hotel in the west and he saw man
on the sidewalk, and in a rough way,
as no man has a right to address a
laborer, said to him, Garry this trunk
up stairs" The man carried the trunk
up stairs and came down, and then the
young man gave him a quarter of a
dollar which was marked, and instead
of being twenty five cents it was worth
only twenty cents. Then the young
said, "You take this up to Governor
Grimes; / want to see him." "Ah," "
said the laborer, Il am Governor
Grimes" 'tOh," said the young man,
"you-I-excuse me- Then the gov
ernor said: II was much impressed by
the letter you wrote me asking for 9
certain office in my gift, and had
made up my mind you should have it;
but young man who will cheat a
laborer out of five cents would swindle
the government of the state if he got
his hands on it. I don't want you.
| Good morning, sir" It never pays.
Neither in this world nor in the world
to come will it pay.
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 plum
der to be taken. He writes home these
remarkable words: I'VE are over
whelmed 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 valuables to him to
keep. 4 celebrated writer says of the
transaction: Nothing can be grander
or more nobly original than this ad-
mission This old soldier, after thirty
years service, this iron man and vic.
torious general, established in an en-
emy's country at the head an an i'm
mense army, is afraid of his creditors
This is O kind of fear that has seldom
troubled eonquerors aud invaders, and
: I doubt if the annals of war present
!. anything comparable to its sublime
simplicity
Oil is it not high time that we
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right beside the faith OF the Gospel
: Mr.. Froude, the celebrated English
historian, has written of his owl
: country these remarkable words
+ From the great house in the city o
t London to the village grocer, the com
nercial life of England has been sat
, urated with fraud. So deep has i
t gone that O strictly honest tradesmar
( can hardly hold his ground agains
| competition. You can no longel
trust that any article you buy is th'
thing which it pretends to be. w,
have false weights, false measures
: cheating, and shoddy everywhere
And yet the clergy have seen all thi
grow up in absolute Indifference
Many hundreds of sermons haye
/ heard in England, many a dissertation
r on the mysteries of the faith, ON tn
. divine mission of the clergy, on bish
ops and justification, and the theor,
/, OF good works, and verbal inspira
i ton, and the efficacy of the sacra
t ments; but, during all these thirt.
a wonderful years, never one that cal
o recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerates
e statement of things in England, but
J. am very certain that In all parts o
i the earth we need to preach the me
d ralities of the Gospel right along be
Z side the faith OF the Gospel,
Y Ny hearerl What are you doini
!. with that fraudulent document Il
d your poclxet9 My other hearerl Hoy
y are you getting along with that wicke'
i; scheme you have now on foota ]
b that pool ticket you have in you
u nocket2 Why O ynnnr man Wer