Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17


bility upon the monied institution to
which they belong. Directors in banks
| and railroad aud insurance companies
sometimes shirk personal responsibility
| underneath the action of the corpora
ton. And how often, when some bank
ing house or financial institution explodes
through fraud, respectable men in the
board Of directors say: "Why, L
thought all was going on in an honest
way and 1 am utterly COMPOUNDED with
this misdemeanor! The banks, and the
fire and life and marine insurance COM
paDies; and the railroad companies, will
not stand up for judgment in the last
day, but those who in them acted right
eously will receive, each for himself, a
reward, and those who acted the part Of
neglect or trickery will, each for him
self, receive a condemnation. Unlawful
dividends are not clean before God be-
cause there are those associated with you
who grab just as big pile as you do. He
who countenances the dishonesty of the
firm, or Of the corporation, or of the as
ISOLATION, takes upon himself all the
moral liabilities. If the financial insti-
tuition steal, he steals. If they go into
wild speculations, he himself is gam
bier. If they needlessly embarrass q
If they swindle the uninitiated, he HIM
self is q defrauder. No financial institu-
ton ever had a money vault strong
enough or credit staunch enough or divi-
dends large enough, or policy acute
enough to hide the individual sins Of its
members. The old adage, that corpora
tons have no souls, is misleading. Every
corporation has as many souls as it has
members.
Again, many business men have been
tempted to postpone their enjoyments
and duties to q future season of entire
leisure. What a sedative the Christian
religion would be to all our business men
if, instead of postponlng its uses to old
age or death, they would take it into the
store or factory or worldly engagements
now. 1t is folly to go amid the uncer-
tainties of business life with no God to
help. A merchant in a New England
village was standing by a horse, and the
horse lifted his foot to stamp it in
pool of water; and the merchant to es-
cape the splash, stepped into the door of
an insurance agency, and the agent
said: ST suppose you have come to re-
new your fire insurance. - ''Oh, said
the merchant, 81 had forgotten that. -
The insurance was renewed, and the
next day the house that had been insured
was burned. Was it all accidental that
the merchant, to escape a splash from
horses foot, stepped into the insurance
office? No,
IT WAS PROvIDENTIAL.
And what a mighty sOlaGe for bust
ness man to feel that things are provi-
Dental! What peace and equilibrium
in such consideration. and what
grand thing if all business men could
realize it.
Many, although now comparatively
straitened in worldly circumstances,
have goodIy establishment in the future
planned out. They have in imagination
built about twenty years ahead house
in the country not difficult of access
from the great town, for they will often
have business, or old accounts to settle,
and investments to look after. The
house Is large enough to accommodate
all their friends. The halls are wide,
and hung with pictures of hunting scenes
and branch of antlers, and are COM
Portable with chairs that can be rolled
out on the veranda when the weather Is
inviting, or set out under some of the
oaks that stand sentinel about the house,
songful with the robins. There is
just land enough to keep them
interested, and it's crops of
almost fabulous richness springing up
under application of the best theories to
be found in the, agricultural journals.
The farm is well stocked with cattle and
horses, and sheep that know the voice
and have kindly bleat when one goes
forth to look at them. In this blissful
abode their children will be instructed in
art and science and religion. This shall
be the old homestead to which the boys
at college Will direct their letters, and
the hill on which the house stands will be
called lakewood or Ivy Hill or Pleasant
Retreat or Eagle Eyre. May the future
have for every business man here all that
and more beside! But are you postpon-
ing your happiness to that time? Are
you adjourning your joys to that con-
summation
Suppose that you achieve all you ex-
pect-and the vision 1 mention is not up
20 the reality, because the fountains will
be brighter, the house grander, and the
scenery more picturesque-the mistake
is none the less fatal. What charm will
there be in rural quiet for a man who
has for thirty or forty years been con-
lOEmluS Ills 6uLIF6 uHLuE0 10 Tue OAClIo-
ments of business? viii fiocks and herds
with their bleat and moan be able to ST.
lenoe the Unsuitable spirit of acquisitive-
ness which has for years had full swing
in the soul? viii the hum of the breeze
soothe the man who now can find his only
ENJOYMENT IN THE STOCK MARKET?
Will leaf and cloud and fountain charm
the eye that has for three-fourths of
lifetime found its chief beauty in hogs
heads and bills of sale? Will parents be
competent to rear their children for high
and holy purpose, if their infancy and
boYhood and girlhood were neglected,
when they are almost ready to enter up
on the world and have all their habits
fixed and their principles stereotyed?
No, no; now is the time to
be happy. Now is the time to
serve your Creator. Now is the
time to be Christian. Are you
too busy? 1 have known men as busy as
you are who had place in the store-loft
where they went to pray. Some one
asked Christian sailor where he found
any place to pray in. He said: ''I can
always find quiet place at masthead. ="
And in the busiest day of the season if
vour heart il right Won can find q plaoe