The morning news., 1889-03-11

cDnDEG you, u Jit DitSttAN6 VI GtAA anu biiC
world, be careful; be as careful Of the prop
ertY of others a you are careful of your
own. Above all, keep your own private
account at the bank separate from your
account as trustee If an estate, or trustee 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 property, they put 1t
into investment, and away it all goes, and
they cannot return that which they b)r-
rowed. Then comes the explosion and the
money market is shaken and the press de-
nounces and the church thunders expu-
sion. You have no right to use the prop
erty of others except for their advantage,
nor without consent, unless they are
minors. II with their consent you invest
their property as we'll 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 50
many men, Of thinking because thing is
in their possession, therefore it is theirs.
You have a solemn trust that God has given
you. In this vast assemblage ttere may be
some who hav @ emisappropriated trust funds
Put them back or, if you have so hcpelesslv
involved them that you cannot nut them
back, confess the whole thing to those whom
you have wronged, and YOU Will sleep bet
ter nights, and you will have tine better
chance for your soul. What
sad thing it would be If, after you are dead,
your aduii istrator should find out from the
account books, or from lack Of vouchers,
that you were not only bankrupt In estate,
bgt that ycu lost your soul. If all the trust
funds that have been ppropriatei
should suddenly fly to their owners, aud oil
the property that has been purloi ed should
suddenly 20 back 10 its owners it would
crash INTO ruins every city il America.
A clustering young I-an arrived at a
hotel in the west and no saw mal Jn the
sidewalk, and in a r ugh way, rs no ma
has the right 10 address a laoorer, sal To
lum, Garry this trunk uD stairs" The
man carried the trunk mp stairs a cauo
down, and then the young man gave him IA
quarter of a dollac which was marked, and
instead of being twenty-five celtS IL was
worth only twenty cent. Then the yaung
man gave his card to the laborer aud
said, "You take this up to Cove
Eor Grimes; want to see him."
"Ah," said the laborar. az am Governor
Grimes" "Oh," said the young man, you
-l-eXcuse me-" hen the governor said:
Il was much impressed by tie Letter you
wrote me asking for a certain Office in my
gift, and | had made up my mind you
should have it; but n young man VINO will
cheat lsbCrer out OF five cents would
swirdle the government of the state if he
got his hands on it. / don't want you.
Good oraing, sir" 1t 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 tho French frontier, and the
army was suffering, and he hardly knew
how TO geo along. Plenty of pluuder all
about, but he commanded none of the plum
der TO be taken. He writes home these re-
IL Il
with debt, and l can scarcely STIR
out Of my house on account of
public creditors, waiting t. demand
whaJ is due to them" Yet at tat
very time the French peasantry were
bringing their valuabl5s to him to keep. A
celebrated writer SAYS of the transaction ::
Nothing eau be grander OF more u0bly
original than this admission. This old
soldier, after thirty years service, this iron
man aud victorious general, established in
an enemy's country at the head Of an i'm
mense army, is afraid of his creditors
This is kind Of fear that has seldom
troubled conQuerors and invaders, and
doubt if the annals of war present any,
thing comparable to its sublime sim
plIcity."
Oh! is it not high time that we preached
the morals Of the gospel, right beside the
faith Of the gospell Mr.. FrOude, the cele.
brated English historian, has written of his
own country these remarkable words:
From the great house in the city of Lon
don to the village grocer. the commercial
life If England has been saturated with
fraud. So deep has it gone that strictly
honest tradesman can hardly hold MS
ground against competition. You can no
longer trust that any article you buy is
the thing which it pretends to le. We
have false weights. false measures, cheat
ing and shOddy every where. And yet the
clergy have seen all this grow up in abso-
Lutte ind ference. Many hundreds of SER
mons have | heard in Eaglaud, many dis
sertation on the mysteries Of the faith, on
the divine mission II the clergy, on bishops
and justification, and the theory of good
works, and We bal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacraments; but, during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one
that | can recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an 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 gospel
right along beside the faith Of the gospel.
My hearerl What are you doing With
that fraudulent document in your pocketl
My other hearerl How are you getting
along With that wicked scheme you have
now on fOotl Is that pool ticket" you
have IN your pocket' WHY, o young man,
were you last night practiciug in copying
your employers signaturea Where were
you last nights Are your habits as good as
when you left your fathers house2 You
had a christian ance'try, perhaps, and you
have hal 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
Highlalders, one day called his family
around him. The Highlander was dying;
he had his children around his deathhed
He said: "Now, my lads, have looked all
through our history as far back as / can
find it, and have never found q dishonest
man in all the line, aud I want you TO un-
derstand you inherit good blood You have
no excuse for doing wrong. My lads, be
All, my friends, be honest before God, be
honest Defore your fellow men, be honest
before your soul If there be those here
who have wandered away, come back, come
bone, come now, one aud MI, not one ex-
ception in all the assemblage, come into
the king ION ( ucd. Come back on the
ght track. The door of mercy is open and
the infinite heart OF God is full of com
passion. Come home! Come home! Oh.
would be well satisfied if could save some
young man this morning, some you g man
that has been going astray and would like
to get back.
! am glad some one has set to music that
scene in August Of 1881, when young girl
saved from death a whole rail train II pas
sengrs. some Of you remember taat ont