The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-22

never had the missionary spirit wish.
ing the salvation Of foreign peeplep
Can IL be that you have becoNe ac-
quainted with all the oAtrages inflicted
In business life and that you have never
tried to bring to bear that gospel which
Is to extirpate al evil and correct all
wrongs and illumine all darkness aud
lift up all wretchedness and save man
for this world and the world to Gomez
Can IL be that understanding all the in
tricacies Of business, you know nothing
about those things which will last after
all bills of exchange and consignments
and invoices and rent rolls shall have
crumpled up and been consumed in the
fires of the last great day Can it be
that man will be wise for time and a
fool for eternity
remark, also, that the 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 integrity
merely because they have never
been tested. A man was elected
treasurer of the state Of Maine some
years ago. He was distinguished for
his honesty, usefulness and uprightness,
but before one year had passed he had
taken of the public funds for his own
private use and was hurled out of of.
fee in disgrace. Distinguished for vir-
tue before. Distinguished for crime
after. You can call over the names
of men just like that, in whose
honesty you had complete con-
fidence, but placed in certain
crises of temptation they went over
board. Never so many temptations to
scoundrelism as now. Not a law on
the statute book but has some back
door through which a miscreant can
escape All! how many receptions in
the fabric of goods so much plumber
ing in commercial life that If man
talk about living a life of complete
commercial accuracy there are those
who ascribe it to greenness and lack of
tact! More need of honesty now than
ever before--tricd honesty, complete
honesty, more than in those times when
business was plain affair and woolens
were woolens and silks were silks and
men were men.
How many men do you suppose there
are in commercial life who could say
truthfully, "In all the sales have ever
made have never overstated the value
of goods; in all the sales l have ever
made have never covered up an inn
perfection in the fabric; of all the thou
sands of dollars have ever made I
have never taken one dishonest far
thing?" There are men, however, who
can say it-hundreds who can say it,
thousands who can say it. They are
more honest than when they sold their
first fierce of rice, or their first frkin
OF butter, because their honesty and
integrity have been tested, tried, and
came out triumphant. But they re-
member a time when they could have
robbed n partner, or have abscondcd
with the funds of bank, or sprung n
snap judgment, or made n false as
signments, or borrowed illimitably
without any efforts at payment, or got
a man into a sharp corner and ficeced
him. But they never took one step
on that pathway of hell-tire. They can
say their prayers without hearing the
clink Of dishonest 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 judg-
ment that comes after it without any
finching-that 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 a fool"
Oh, what school of integrity bust
ness life is! If you have ever been
tempted to let your integrity cringe be-
fore present advantage, IL you have
ever Weakened up in some embarrass'
ment 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; it is only once" Oh, that only
once has ruined tens of thousands of
men for this life 7=d blasted their souls
for eternity. 1t is tremendous school,
business life, a school of integrity.
merchant 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. He finally dccipher-
ed the letters, and found out that the
writing had been made by slave in
Algiers, saying in substances: who
ever gets this bank note will please to
inform my brother, John Dean, living
near Carlisle, that am slave of the
hey of Algiers." The merchant sent
word, employed government officers
ond found who this man WAS spokcn