The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-04-30
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from which you can not be ext,icated
by any ingenuity of your own, or any
help from Others, and the tide will roll
over yol as they have over many.
Wher Pompey, the warrior, wanted to
take possession of a city, and they would
not open the gates, he persuaded them
TO admit sick soldier. But the sick
soldier after a while got we'll and strong,
and he threw open the gates and let the
devastating army come in. One wrong
admitted into the soul may gain in
strength until, after while, it filings
open all the avenues of the immortal
nature, and the surrender is complete.
Again, business men are sometimes
tempted to throw off personal RESPONSE
bility upon the moneyed institution to
which they belong. Directors in banks
and railroad and insurance companies
sometimes shirk personal responsibility
underneath the action of the corpora
ton. And how often, when some bank.
ing house or financial institution eX-
plodes through fraud, respectable men
in the board of directors say, why, l
thought all was going on in an honest
way, and am utterly COMPOUNDED with
the misdemeanor.
The banks and the fire and life and ma
rine insurance companies and the rail-
road companies will not stand up for
judgment in the last day, but those who
in them acted righteously will receive,
each for himself, reward, and those
who acted the part of neglect and trick
cry will, each for himself, receive con-
demnation. Unlawful dividends are
not clean before God because there are
those associated with you who grab just
rs big pile as you do He who counte-
nances the dishonesty of the firm, or of
takes upon himself all the moral liabil.
tiles. If the financial institution steal,
he steals. If they go into wild specula-
tions he himself is a gambler. If they
needlessly embarrass creditor, he him
self is guilty of cruelty. If they swim.
die the uninitiated, he himself is de.
Srauder No financial institution ever
had money-vault strong enough or
credit stanch enough, or dividends large
enough. or policy acute enough to hide
the individual sins of it's members. The
old adage, that corporations have no
souls, is misleading. Every corporate
has as many souls as it has members.
Again, many business men have been
tempted to postpone their enjoyments
and duties 20 a future season of entire
leisure. Whao sedative the Christian
religion would be to our business men
if, instead Of postponing it's use to old
age or death, they would take it into the
factory or store or worldly engagements
now! 1t is folly to go amid the uncer-
tainties of business life with no God to
help. A merchant in New England
village was standing by horse, and the
horse lifted his foot to stamp in a pool
of water: and the merchant, to escape
the splash, stepped into the door of an
Insurance agent, and the agent said: 81
81 tT~sser yoE~have comes to renew your
fire insurance?' oh" said the mer
chant, 81 had forgotten that" The in
surance was renewed, aud the next day
the house that had been insured was
burned. Was it all accidental that the
merchant, to escape splash from a
horses foot, stepped into tie insurance
Office? No, it was providential. And
what mighty solace for business man
to feel that things are providential
What peace and equilibrium in such
a consideration, and what a grand thing
if all business men could realize it!
Many, although now comparatively
Strengthened in worldly circumstances,
have 4 goodly establishment in the fu.
ture planned out. They have in mag
nation built about twenty years ahead
a 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 accommo-
date ali their friends. The halls are
wide and hung with pictures of hunting
scenes and ~ branch of antlers, and are
comfortable. with chairs that can be
rolled out on the veranda when the
weather is inviting, or set. out un.
der some oaks that stand sentinel about
the house, and rustling in the cool
breeze, and songful with the robins.
There is just land enough to keer
them interested, and its crops of almost
fabulous richness springing up under
application of the best theories to be
found in the agricultural journal. The
farm is we'll stocked with cattle and
horses, and sheep that know the voice
and have q kindly bleat when one goes
forth to look at them. In this blissful
abode their children will be instructed
in the art and science and religion,
This shall be the old homestead to which
the boys at college will direct their let.
tiers, and the hill on which the house
stands will be called lakewood OF Ivy
Hill or Pleasant Retreat or Eagle Eyrie.
May the future have for every business
man here all that and more beside. But
are you postponing your happiness to
that time? Are you adjourning your
Joys to that contamination?
Again, business men are often tempt.
ed to let their calling interfere with the
interests of the soul. God sends men in
to the business world to get educated,
just as boys are sent to school and col
lege. Purchase and sale, loss and gain,
disappointment and rasping prosperity,
the dishonesty of others. panic and bank
suspension, are but different lessons in
the school. The more business, the
more means of grace. Many have gone
through widest panic unhurt. "Are
you not afraid you will break?" said
some one to merchant in time of great
commercial excitement. He replied:
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