Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-05-16
..ruou SHALT NOT STEAL"
Rev. Chase Breaches on the Evils of the Human Flock, without Fear,
 Favor ar Affection.

tuuICt LII thlH NtAf Rttsa8NN oftA bA Rev. C, J. Chase, has been unusually large during the past few Sundays. It has been made so from the fact that the reverened gentleman has been doing some plain talking to sinners, that the orthodox element of Prescott have never heard before from the pulpit, original m its la guage and creating on each occasion of it's dellyeranee something of commotion and that intensity of interest m the line of expectation as to know what was coming next Sunday. Mir. Chase has been wa1
 ing through the good oldfashioned Ten Commandments, to the obser
 vance of which all of us have more or less been innoculated with m days gone by, but which in reality
 have been more or less disobeyed m one instance or another. That this has been so, and recognizing the frailty of human existence generally
 Mir. Chase simply put on the gloves
 with the evil doers of the genera tion, and the following synopsis Of
 his sermon last Sunday will give
 Prescottites an idea of the gentle
 mans cleyerness in rough handling of those who violate the sacredness of that chapter which says Thou
 Shalt not Steal:'
 The sixth commandment, "Thou
 shalt not kill, was designed to pro
 tect life. The seventh command
 ment, which We considered last
 Sunday evening, was designed to
 protect the home, the family, the
 marriage relations. The eight com
 mandment, Thou shalt not steal,
 was designed to protect property.
 That this commandment forblds common theft is too obvious to re-
 quire any argument. But this com
 mandment has 8 wider range than
 is commonly accorded 1t. 1t de-
 mands honesty in every respect.
 This commandment forbids gam5-
 ling in all of its forms. Money
 won at gambling is obtained with out returning just equivalent; it IS
 getting something for nothing; he
 who obtains money in that way Is thief; the dollar thus secured IS not an honest dollar; for every dollar that man wins at gambling sOme one else must lose a dollar; 1t Is not
 honest; it is robbery; this applies to cards, dice, Board of Trade specIla- tions Tn grain and stocks, and church
 rallies: if church cannot bs sus- tained financially without railing of a cake with ring in it, the sooner that church dies the better; our God did not propose, nor does He now intend that his church shall
 be sustained by gambling; betting on elections are in this same cata- logue; the object is to get some thing for nothing. The Globe Democrat, of St. Louis, has collected statistics from all the state prisons of the embeZZlers and defaulters now in prison; these statistics show that the foremost cause of embezzle- ment is gambling in some it it's forms; in most instances the criminal took money from his employer, in- tending to replace it but luck did not come; the money was lost at gambling and could not be replaced; then came the state prison. The money sharks, those who take advantage of the necessities of | others, are violaters of this con- mandment; you have a house and l lot worth S2,0OO; you are financially 1 embarrassed; you must raise some l money at once; this money shark l hears that you are in a tight place; and he offers you one thousand for | your property; you must have the money. and he takes your property, l paying for it only half of it's value; | that shara has speculated on your misfortune; he has robbed you of l Sl GOO. But there are com | mercial usages. There are commercial usages that will not sland the test of the Judgment | day; vet men in business are apt to do as their neighbors do; if the majority of traders in any locality are tax in principle, the commercial code in that community will be | spurious and dishonest; 1t is hard thing to stand close by the law of right when your next door neighbor by his looseness of dealing Is en- abled to sell goods at a cheaper rate than you can. Becau e others take usury when men are in tight places, because others deal in fancy stocks, because others palm of worthless endorsements; does not make it right for others to do the same thing; hollow pretention and fictitious credit, and commercial gambling may prosper for . while, but the day cf reckoning will come. and the curse of God rest upon their work. We admire acuteness and tack in a business man, but we must condemn any process by which is represented as possess ing a value it does not have; noth- ing but sheer faisehood can repre- sent as perfection boots that rip, calicoes that wash out, carpe s that are poor, ole furniture plttied aud glued and vanished, aud sold as the latest style, barrels of fruit, the biggest apples on top. Aliof this Is wrong and in violation of the eighth commandment. When Pompey, the warrior, wanted to take possession of city, and they would not open the gates, he pursuaded them to admit sick soldier; but the sick soldier after a while got we'll and strong, and he threw open the gates and let the arm come in; one wrong admitted into the soul may gain in strength until, after a while, it filings open all the avenues of the important nature, and the the surrender is complete, No man can make many millions oi dollars in this country and b stick Iy honest about it; somebody is and in many cases it is the Iaboring man; sometimes this occurs in the management of corporation; the dividends go to the rich and must be kept up at all hazards; business is dull. and in order to pay hose dividends expenses must be reduced; then comes an order to