Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-19
IF the last dav Yet men in business are apt

with GlllC 1QerCuauC NlO 10 uopciSSotJ az ON~e
to the importer for the goods purchased, and
to the landlord whose store he occupies, and
to the clerks who serve him.
There are hundred practices prevalent IN
the world of traffic which ought never to be-
come the rule for honest men. Their wrong
does not make your rigit. Sin never be-
comes virtue by being multiplied and admit
ted at brokers' board, or merchants ex-
change. Because others SnugSlo lew
things in passenger trunks, because others
take uSury when men are i'll tight places, De-
cause others deal ii fancy stocks, because
others palm OH worthless Endorsements be-
cause others do nothing but blow bubbles
10 not therefore, DC overcome of temptation;
Hollow pretension and fictitious credit and
commercial gambling may awhile prosper,
but the dav of reckoning cometh ana III ut
iition to the horror and condemnation OF
outraged communities thu curse OF God VIII
come. blow after blow Coils will forever
and forever is tho only standard oil rlSnt ana
wrong, and not commercial ethics.
Young business man. avoid the first ous;-
ness diShonor. and You will avoid all the rest.
The CAPTAIN of vessel was walking near the
mouth of a river waen the tide was low, and
there was long. stout anchor chain, into one
IF the great links OF which his foot slipped,
and it began TO swell and he could not with
draw it. The tide began to rise The chain
could not be looSened nor fled OIL III time
and n surgeon was callcl t. anputato tha
limb Int before the work could b. done the
tide rolled over the victim ana his HE was
gone.
And have to tell yoa young man, that
lust one wrong into which YOU slip may be Il
link of a long chain of circumstances from
which YOU cannot be eXtricated by any IN
renuity of your own or any help from others,
and the tides will roll over you as they nave
over many. When Pompey the warrior,
wanted to take possession of o; city, ana tney
would not open the gates, lie persuaded them
TO admit q sick soldier But the sick soldier
after :, while got well aud strong, and he
threw open the gates and let the devastat-
inc army come i'll. One wrong admitted
into the soul may gain in strength until
after awhile it filings open all the avenues OF
the immoral nature, and the surrender Is
complete.
Again. business men are sometimes
tempted to throw oil personal Responsibility
upon the moneyed institution to which they
belong. Directors in banks and railroad ant
insurance companies sometimes shirK per.
sonal responsibility underneath the action OF
the corporation Aud how often, when some
banking house or financial institution ex-
plodes through fraud, respectable niea in the
board OF directors say: Way, thoaghtail
was roiur Oh in al honest way. AMI am Ut
terly confoandel with this misdemeanor!
Tho banks. AMI the fire AMI life aud marine
Insurance. companies, and the railroaa coal
panies. will rot stand up for Judgment IN tne
last day. bu. those who i'll them actei riSht-
eously will receive, each for himself 4 re-
ward aud those who acted the part OF ne
rlect or tri.kery will. eacl for himself, re-
ceive condemnation.
Unlawful dividends are not clean before
God because there are those associated with
YOU who grab just rs big Il pie us You 40.
He who countaaances the dishonesty Oh cue
firm. or OF the corporation. or OIL the aSSoci',
ton. takes upon himself all OF tue moiai
liabilities. II the financial institution steals,
he steals If they go into wild specalatlohs'
he himself is q gambler. 1t they nsed!essly
erbarrass a creditor, he himself is guilty OF
cruelty II thev swiudle the uninitiated, he
himself is a defaulter. No financial lnstltu-
ton ever had money vault strong enough,or
credit stanch enough, or dividends large
enough. or policy acute enough 10 n.ae tne
individual sin OF Its members, Ing oiu
adage, that corporations have no souls, is
misleading. Every corporation has as many
souls as it has members.
AGAIN. many business mon have been
tempted to postpone their enJoyments ana
duties to Il future season of entire leisure:
What a sedasive the Christian Religion would
be TO all our business men II, instead OIL post
poniug its uses TO old age O: death, they
would take it into tbs store or factory OF
worldly engagements now! 1t is folly TO 80
amid the UNCERTAINTIES OF business life with
no God to help. .u.-
etondiner by a horse aud the horse lifted his
foot to stamp If IL pool Of water; anu the
merchant, to escape the splash, stepped INTO
the door Of an insurance agent, ana the agent
said: II suppose YOU have come TO renew
~
chant. ''Ihad forgotten that The lnsur-
nnce was renewed and the next day the
house that had been insured was burned.
Was il all accidental that the merchant, to
escana 9. splash from a horses foot, stepped
into the insurance office? No, 1t was proTi-
Dental. And what a mighty solace for ous!-
ness man TO feel that things are providentlai!
| What peace and equilibrium in such con-
sideration, and what grand tAing IL al ous'-
ness men could realize 1t.
Many although now comparatively strait
ened in worldly circumstances have goooIy
establishment in the future planned OUT.
They have in Imagination built about twenty
years ahead q house III the country not DIM
cult OF access from the great town. 1oT they
/ will often have business or OLD accounts 60
settle. and investments to look after Inc
house is large enough 10 acconii'iouass . Az
their friends. The halls are wide. and hung
with pictures OF hunting scenes and brancn
F.; of antlers. and are comfortable with chalrs
that can be rolled out on the veranda wnei
the weather is inviting or set out under
some OF the oaks that stand sentinel about
the house. and rustling in the cool breeze,
| and sonsful with the robins.
There is lust land enough to keep them In
terested, and its crops OF almost laouious
richness springng up under apphca1lon o.
the best theories to be found IN uhe aSilcuir-
70, .scrx- oil
cattle and horses, and sheep that know tne
voice and have kindly bleat when one goes
forth. to look at them. In this bllSsful ABODE
! their children will be instructed IN art ana
! SCIENCE and religion. This shall be the o!d
homestead to which the boys at college VIII
direct their letters and the hill ON which tne
house stands will be called lakewood or IVY
I Hill or Pleasant Retreat or Eagle Eyre NAY
the future have for every business man mere
all that and more besides But are you post
noninc your happiness to that tlme' Are
| you adJournlnS your joys W 'na0 eo'''
tion9
Suppose that you achieve all you expect
and the vision I mention is not up to the
i reality. because the fountains Will be brlghUe:'
the house grander and the scenery more PIC
t1,resuue-the mistake is none the less lalal.
! What charm will there be in rural quiet Ioi
a man who has thirty or forty years peeh
conforming his entire nature TO tue eAcl 1-
ments of business? Will flocks and herds
with their bleaU and moan be able to SILENCE
the Unsuitable spirit of acquisitiveness when S:I,
has for years had full swing in the soul? WIN
the hum of the breeze soothe the man VINO
now can find his only enjoyment IN the stocA
market? Will leaf and cloud and fountain
charm the eye that has for three-tourths OF
q lifetime found its chief beauty in hogsheads
and bills OF sale? Will parents be competent
to rear their children for high and holy pr
pose. if their infancy and boyhood and girl
hood were neglected. when they are almost
ready to enter upon the world aud have all
their habits fixed and their principles stereo
typed? 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