Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-21

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clustering young man arrived at
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 10
him: "Carry this trunk upstairs" The man
carried the trunk upstairs and came down,
and then the young man gave him quarter
of q dollar which was marked. and instead
of being twenty five cents it was worth only
twenty cents. Then the young man gave
his card to the laborer aud said "You take
this up to Governor Grimes; want to see
him." "Ah,n said the laborer: II am
Governor Grimes 'Oh," said the young
man, ''you--I-excuse me- then the Gov
ernor said 81 was much impressed by
certain office in my gift, and had made up
my mind you should have it; but young
man who will cheat laborer out of FIVE
cents would swindle the Government OF the
State il he got his hands on it. don't want
you Good morning, SIR" 1t never pays.
Neither n this world nor in the world to
COM all it pay.
10 not suppose thers 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 re-
| markable words: - We are over
whelmed with debts, and can scarcely stir
!
| ors waiting to demand what is due them"
| Yet at that very time the French peasantry
were bringing their valuables to him TO keep.
| A celebrated writer says OF the trans
action " Nothing can be grander or
more nobly original than this admls-
sion. THIS old soldier, after thirty
| years SERVICE this iron man and victorious
| general, established in an enemy's country
| at the head of az immense army, is afraid OF
his creditorsl This is the kind of fear that
has sedo n troubled conquerors and invaders,
and | doubt if the annals Of war present
4 anything comparable to its sublime SIM
| plicity.n
OH is it not high time that we preached
! the morals of the Gospel, right beside the
! faith of the Gospel MIR. 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 of England has been saturated
with fraud. So deep has 1t
gone that a strictly honest tradesman
can hardly hold his ground against competi
tion. You can no longer trust that any ar
tcle you buy is the thing which il pretends
TO be. We have false weights, false meas
ures, cheating, and shoddy everywhere. And
yet the clergy have seen all this grow up in
absolute indifference Many hundreds
of sermons have / heard in Eng
land, many a dissertation on the
mysteries of the faith, or tine
divine mission of the clergy, on bishops
and justification, and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacraments; but, during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one that
| can recolect on common honesty
Now. that may be an exaggerated state
ment of Things IN England, Du6 am very
certain that in ali parts of the earth we need
to preach the noraities of the Gospel right
along beside the faith of the Gospel.
Nv " n "a
FRAUDULENT document in your pocketi My other
hearer How are you getting along with that
wicked scheme you have now on FOOT Is
that pool ticket you have in your pocket
Why, O young man, were you last night
practcing in copying your employers sig
nature. Where were YOU last night Are
your habits as good as when you left your
fathers housel You had Christian ances-
try, perhaps, and you have had too many
prayers spent on you to 20 overheard.
DIR. Livingstone, the famous explorer was
DIES ended from the Highlanders, and he
said that one OF his ancestors, one of the
Highlanders, ono 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 have never found dishonest man
in all the line and l want you TO understand
you inherit good blood. You have no excuse
for dong wrong. My lads be honest
All my friends, be honest before God. be
honest before your fellow men. be honest be,
fore your soul Ii there he those here who
have wandered away, come back, com home,
come now, one and all, not one exception
in all the assemblage. come into the king
dom of God Come hack to the right
track The door of mercy is open AMI the
infinite heart of God is fun of compassion
Come homel Come home! Oh, would be |
well satisfied if | could save some young mau |
this morning some young man that has been /
going astray and would like TO get back.
am glad some one has set u music thai 1
scene in August OF 1881. when Young 0ir /
saved from death whole rail train OF pas |
seneers Some of you remember that ou /
west in that year on stormy night. hur 1
ricane blew down part OF railroad bridge /
A freight train came along and IT crashed /
into the ruin, and the engineer and conduct l
or persisted. there was girl livini
in her fathers cabin near the disaster
and She heard the crash OF
the freight train. and she knew that in
few moments an express train was dua |
She lighted lantern and clambered mp OF |
the one beam of the wrecked bridge Oh
to the main bridge. which was trestle work. (
and started to cross anil the thunder and /
the lightning of the tempest and the raging
of the torrent beneath One misstep AMI 4
il would have been death Amid ali that
horror the lantern went out Crawling
sometimes and sometimes 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
dan yer might be telegrapehd TO the station
where the train dill stop. lhe tral
was due in live minutes She was ore
mile off from Tho telegraph station
but fortunately rhe tram was late.
With cut and bruised feet sh> flew
like the wind. Coming up to tho telegraph
station, painting with almost deatiily eXhaus-
ton. she had only strength 10 shout e The
bridge is down when she dropped nncnn
scious and could hardly be rssuscitated Tho
message was sent from That station TO tile
next station and the train halted, and that
night that brave girl saved the !. ses Of hua-
dreds of passengers and saved mas y homes
from desolation.
But every street is a track and every style
of business is a track aud every dav is a
track. and multitudes under the power OF
temptation coming sweeping ON and sweep
ing down toward psrils raging and terrific
God heip us to go out and stop the
train let us throw some signal let
us give some warning. By the throne
rTsfs n f..1 RI, 81