Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-24

u lie on Unelr soul, IN the custom uOuse
they kissed the Book. They can think of
death and the Judgment that comes after
it without any fiinching day when
all charlatans and cheats and jockeys and
frauds shall be doubly damned 1t does
not make their knees knock together and
it does not make their teeth chatter to
read 'as the partridge stitch on eggs and
hatcheth them not, so he that getteth
riches, and not by right. shall leave them
in the midst of his days and at his end
shall be fool"
oh, what school OF integrity business
life isl II you have ever been tempted to
let your integrity cringe before present adj
vantage If you have ever Weakened up in
some embarrassment and said: "Now I'll
step little aside from the right path and
no one will know it, and I'll come all right
again. 1t is only once" Oh, that only
once has ruined tens of thousands of men
for this life and blasted their souls for
eternity. 1t is tremendous school, bust
ness life--a school of integrity. A mer-
chant in Liverpool got five pound Bank
of England note. and holding it up toward
the light he saw some interlineations in
what seemed red ink.
7. He finally deciphered the letters, and
found out that the writing had been made
by slave in Algiers, saying in substance,
Whoever gets this banknote will please
to inform my brother, John Dean, living
near Carlisle, that ! am a slave Of the hey
of Algiers" Ihe merchant sent word,
employed government officers and found
who this man WAS spoken of in this bank
bill After awhile the man WAS rescued.
who for eleven years had been a slave of
the hey of Algiers. He was Immediately
emancipated, but was SO worn out by
hardship and exposure he soon after died
Oh, If some of the bank bills that come
through your hands could tell all the
scenes through which they have passed,
it would he a tragedy eclipsing any drama
of Shakespeare. mightier than King Lear
or Macbeth
THE TEMPTATIONS OF BUSINESS MEN.
As 90 on in this subject, am impressed
with the Importance of onr having more
sympathy with business men. Is it not a
shame that we In our pulpits do not oftener
preach about their struggles, their trials
and their temptations' Men who toll with
the hand are not apt to be very sympa
thetic with those who toll with the brain.
The farmers who raise the corn, and the
oats, and the wheat sometimes are tempted
to think that grain merchants have an
easy time, and get their profits without
giving any equivalent. Plato and Aris-
totle were SO opposed TO merchandise that
they declared commerce TO be the curse of
the nations, and they advised that cities
be built at least ten miles from the sea.
coast.
But you and | know that there are no
more industrious or high minded men
than those who move in the world of traf
fc. Some of them carry burdens heavier
than hods of brick, and are exposed to
sharper things than the east wind, and
climb mountains higher than the Alps or
Himalayas, and IL they are faithful Christ
will at last say to them: well done, good
and faithful servant; thou hast been faith
full over few things. | will make thee
ruler over many things. Enter thou into
the joy Of thy Lord"
We talk about the martyrs OF the Pied |
mont valley, and the martyrs among the |
Scotch highlands, and the martyrs at Ok |
ford. There are just as certainly martyrs |
of Wall street and State street, martyrs of |
Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs Of |
Atlantic street and Chestnut street. going |
through hotter fires, or having their necks |
under sharper axes. Then it behooves us
to Danish all fretfulness from our lives IL |
this subject be true. We look back TO the |
time when we were at SCHOOL, aud we re-
the rod, and we remember the |
hard tasks, and we complained grievously, |
but now we see it was for the best Bust |
ness life is a school, and the tasks are |
hard, and the chastisements sometimes are
very grieyous, but do not complain. The |
hotter the fire the better the refining
There are men before the throne of God
this day in triumph who on earth were
cheated out of everything but their coffin.
They were sued, they were imprisoned for
debt, they were throttled by constables
with whole pack of writs, they were sold |
out by the sheriffs, they had no compromise
with their creditors, they had to make as
signments. Their dyings hours were an
noyed by the sharp ringing of the door
bell by some impetuous creditor who
thought it was outrageous and impudent
that man should dare to die before be
paid the last three shillings and sixpence
| had friend who had many misfor-
tunes. Everything went against him. He
had good business quality and was of the
best morals, but he was one of those men,
such as you have sometimes seen, for whom
seems to go wrong. His life
became to him a plague When | heard
he was dead said, Good; got rid of the
sheriffs" Who are those lustrous souls
before the thronei When the question is
asked, "Who are theygn the angels stand
ng on the sea of glass respond, "These are
hey who came out of great business trou-
Die and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lambn
REMARKABLE ANSWER TO PRAYER.
A man arose in Fulton street prayer
Meeting and said: 81 wish publicly to ac-
the goodness of God. Twas in
business trouble. | had money to pay,
md had no means to pay it. and was in
liter despair of all human help, and laid
his matter before the Lord, aud this morn
ng went down among some old business
friends had not seen in many years-just
o make r call-and one said to me: Why.
am SO glad to see you; walk in. We have
ome money on our books due you good
While. but we didn't know where you were,
md therefore not having your address we
ould not send it. We are very glad you
AVE come" And the man standing in