Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-26

oDg after all bills OF exchange and. c0nsign-
| nents and invoices and rent rolls shall have
.rump'ed up and been consumed in the fires
II the last great day. Can it be that a man
will be wise for time and fool for eteruityl
! remark, also, that business life is
school for integrity. No man knows what
( he will do when he is tempted. There are
/ thousands OF men who have kept their in
legrity merely because they never have been
1 tested. A man was elected treasurer of the
Z State of Maine some years ago. He was dis
angusiad for his honesty, usefulness and
iprightness, but bafore ona year had passed.
ae had takel of thu public funds for his own
5rlvats use. AMI was hurried out o. offics in
ilsgrace. Distinguished for virtue before.
Distinguished for crima after. You can cali
I 1ver the names OF msl just like that in
whose honesty you ha / comp.e confidence,
1ut placed IN csrtaln CRISIS OF temptation
hey went overboard
Never SO many temptations to scoundra.-
sln As now. Not law on the statute book
put has soma back door through which
niscreant can escape. All, how many de-
:eptions in the fabric of goods; so much
olundsring in comm 4rcial life, that if man
ak about living life OF complete com
ilercial accuracy there are those who
tserihe it 10 greenuess and lack of
act. More need of honesty now than ever
1efore-ti1ed honesty complete honesty,
more than in those times when business was
plain affair, and wooens were weolens
and silks were silks and men were man.
How many men do you suppose there ara
n commercial life who could say truthfully.
''lnatl the sales | have ever made [ have
never oyerstated the value o; goods; in all
the sales have ever made | haga never
covered up an inlperfection in the abric: OF
Ill tae thousands of dollars | have evsr
made have not taken one dishonest far
thing" There are men, however, who can
.fr-.f xsv a..
VINO can say it. They are more honest than
when they sold their first tierce OF rics, o.
heir frs tirkiB OF butter. because
;heir honesty and Integrity have been
.estel, tried aud c-.rriei out triumph.
ant. But they remember time when
hey could have robbed part
lsr, o. a5seonie1 with the funds
ii banF, or sprdng snap
judgment, OF made faisa as
iignment, or borrowed iimitably
xltaout 2ny effort ct payment. or got man
nto a sharp corner and feecei him. But
they never too. one step on that pathway
oi hel-tire. They can say their prayers
without hearing the ciink OF dishonest dol
iars. They can read their Bloc without
shinkingof the time when with lie on their
,oui in the custom house they kissed the
Book. They can think OF death and the
ia igment that comfs after it without any
ainchine-that day when all charlatans and
cheats and jockeys AMI frauds shall be
loublv damned. 1t does NOT make their
knees knock together and it doas not make
their teeth chatter to real ''as the partridge
sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not. 50
he shat eetteth riches. anil not by right,
shall leave them in the mi lst OF his DAYS
and at hts end shall be a fo2l.n
Oh. what "A school of integrity business life
is! Ii you have ever been tempted to let
your integrity cringe before present a Ivan
To- ,aJ
embarrassment and said: Nov I'll step a
little aside from the right path and no one
will know il, 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
aud blasted their souls for eternity. 1t is a
tremendous school, business life-a school of
( integrity A mer chant in Liverpool got a
five pound Bank of England note, and hold.
ing il up toward the light he saw some inter
lmeaticus in what seemed red ink
He finally deciphered the letters, and found
out thai rha writing had been made by q
Save III Alsiers, saying in substance. who.
ever gets this bank note will plsass 10 infors,
my brother, john Dean living near Carlisle
that L am n slave OF the bay OF AIyiers j
The merchant SEM worl, empiayei Govern
ment officers AMI foun who this man was
spoken of in this bank bill. After awhile
the man was reseuel wac fo~ eleven yea~;
had heea slave of the hey of Alaiars IT,
was Immediately enlncioatet. but was 81
wora out by hardship and exposure he sooa
alter died. "a, il SOM OF the bank bills
that come through your hauls c)nid tell all
tue Sc mes through which they have passed
1t would be tragedy eclipsing any drama
OF Shakespeare, mightier than King Lear or
Macoeth.
As go on in this suojecs, / am impressed
with the lmportance OF our 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 teO ptations! Men VINO toll with the
hand are not apt TO be very sympathetic with
t1ose wso toll with the brain, The farmers
: WAC raise the c1ri. aad ths oats, and the
wheat sometimes are tempted to think taa :
gram merchants have an easy time. and
get their profits without giving any eGuiva-
te2t Pllto dni Aristotle We're so on ,ossi
( to nerchan HE that they decar com:nercl
to be the ours OF the nations, and tlev ad-
vlsed ttaS citits be built at Least ten miles
from the seacoist.
But you and l know that there are no
more industrious or high minded men than
| those who move in the world OF traffic.
Some OF them carryin. burdens heavier
than hods OF brick, and are exposed to
sharper things than tine east wind. an climb
mountains higher than the Alps or Him.
.ayas. and If they are faithful Christ will
at last say to them: We'll done, good and
faithful servant; thou hast been faithful
over few things I will make thee rule,
over many things. Enter thou into tue 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 was just as certainly martyrs
OF Wall street aud State street martyrs of
Fulton street ami Broadway. MARTYRS Of
Atlantic street AMI Chestnut street, gong
through hotter fires, or having their neci
under sharper axes. Then it behooves us to
DANISH all trettuines; from our lives il this
subject be true. We LOOK back to the tim ,
when We were at scoool, and we remember
the rod and we remember the bari tasks
and we complained grievoaslv. bat now We
see it was for the best Business life is a
school, and the tasks are hard. and the chas-
easements sometimes are very grievoas but
do not complain. The hoster the fire tn,
batter the refining
There are men before Tao tar5la o. C9I
this day in triumph who OF etrsl w4r G
cheated out OF everything bat tleit clfiI
They were suel, t1ey were imDrisons Il fo.,
debt, they were throtJel by a waole PACK
OF coastab!es with wrltS. they were sold out
by the sh ariffS 5, they nal ~ conp-o Mise with
their credit ,rA they hal u mae assign
ments. Their dying hours were annoyed by
tue sharp riu sins tls d93r-)all by 50 M
impetuoas creditor who thought it was out
rageous an ignpu elt thIt man sholt
dare TO die befoge he paid the last three
shillings AMI sixoenc.
had a friead VINO had mani mi sso,-tune.
Fverythin. went against hinl. H.h1d ro,I
business quality an was OF the best uo3als.
but he was one OF thjs men. such as you
have sometimes seen, for whom everything
seems to 90 wrong. His life became t, AIM
plasue. When heard be was dea 1 said
'tGeo1; g It rid Of ths shariffs" Who are
those lustrous soais before the throne When
the question is asked "Who ara tneyF tbs
angels standing on thu SEA OF oiass rlsnonl