Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-24

TatnWdy OF ncH IRE Inty can say tHclr
prayers without hearing the chnk of dis
honest dollars. They can read their Bible
without thinking of the time when, with
lie on their SOUL in the custom house
they kissed the Book They can think of
death and the judgment that comes after
It without any hinching-that day when
oil 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 sitteth on eggs and
hatcheth them not, so he that gctteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave them
in the midst of his days and at his end
shall be n fool"
Oh, what a school of integrity business
life isl If you have ever been tempted to
let your integrity crnge 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 III 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 a tremendous school, bust
ness lifc-a school of integrity. A mer-
chant in Liverpool got five pound Bank
or ENGLAND note, and holding it up toward
the light he saw some interlineaJions in
what seemed red ink.
He finally deciphered the letters, and
found ont that the writing had been madc
by Il slave in Algiers, saying in substance,
"Whoever gets this banknote will please
to inform my brother, John Dean, living
near Carlisle, that ! am slave of the hey
OF AlLiers." The 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 slave of
the hey Of AlUicrs. He was Immediately
emaucipatcl, but was so worn out by
hardship and exposure lie soon after died.
Oh, if some of the bank bills that come
through your hand, could tell all the
scenes through which they have passed,
it would bc a tragedy eclipsng any drama
Of Shakespeare, migutier than King Lear
or Macbeth.
THE TEMPTATIONS OF BUSINESS MEN.
As 20 On iuili, subject, | am impressed
with the Importance Of orr having more
sympathy with business men. Is it not Il
shame thnt we in orr pupits do not ofterer
preach Sh'u. their struggles, their trials
and their t"n.p tat.one? Men who toll with
the hand are not apt to be very syInpa-
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