The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

million six hundred and sixty.threc
Thousand dollars for furniture! For
plastering and repairs, Ss,37G, 900. For
plumbing and gas works, Sl,23l,SlT.
For awnings, s93,553. The bill for
three months coming to the nice little
sum of Sl3, Isl, 1883 There was not
an honest brick, or stone, or Hath, or
nail, or foot of plumbing, or inch of
plasterlng, or inkstand, or door-knob
in the whole establishment.
That bad example was followed in
many of the cities, which did not steal
quite so much because there was not
so much to steal. There ought to be a
closer inspection, and there ought to
be less opportunity for embezzlement .
Lest a man shall take tive-cent piece
that does not belong to him, the con-
ductor of the city horse-car must sound
his bell at every payment; and we are
very cautious about small offenses, but
give plenty of opportunities for sin.
ners on a large scale to escape. For
boy who steals u loaf of bread from n
corner grocer to keep his mother from
starving to death, a prison; but for de-
frauders who abscond with half mil
lion dollars, castle on the Rhine, or,
waiting until the offense is forgotten,
a castle on the Hudson
OH is it not high time that we preach
the morals of the Gospel? Mr. Froude,
the celebrated historian, has written
of his own country these remarkable
words: From the great house in the
city of London to the village grocer,
the commercial life of England has
been saturated with fraud. So deep
has it gone that a strictly honest
tradesman can hardly hold his
ground against competition. You
can no longer trust that any
article you buy is the thing
which it pretends to be. We have false
weights, false measures, cheating and
shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
have seen all this grow up in absolute
indifference Many hundreds of SER
mons have heard in England on the
Divine mission of the clergy, OF
bishops, and on justification, and the
theory of good works. and verbal in.
spiration, and the efficacy of the sacra-
ments; but, during all these 80 won
derful years, never one that l can
recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerated
statement of things in England, but l
am very certain that in all parts of the
earth we need to preach the moralities
of the Gospel right along beside the
faith of the Gospel.
My nearer, what are you doing with
that fraudulent document in your
pocket? My other nearer, how are you
getting along with that wicked scheme
you have now on foot? Is that a
! ''pool ticket" you have in your
pocket? Why, o young man, were
you last night practicing in copying
your employers signature? Where
were you last night? Are your habits
as good as when you left your fathers
: house? You had Christian ancestry,
and you have had too many prayers
, spent on you to 60 overheard. DIR.
/, Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
!, descended from the Highlanders, and
he said that one of his ancestors,
; one of the Highlanders, one day
called his family around him. The
: highlander was dying; he had his chill
> dren around his deathbed. He said:
Nov, my lads, / have looked all
through our history as far back as
" can find it, and | have never found a
dishonest man in all the line, and /
y want you to understand you inherit
; good blood You have no excuse for
D. doing wrong. My lads, be honest"
All, my friends, be honest before
= God, be honest before your fellow men.
' be honest before your soul. If there be
' those who have wandered away, come
back, come home, come now, one and
= all, come into the kingdom of God
. . / am glad some one has set to music
. that scene in August, 1881, when a
= young girl saved from death a whole
:. rail train of passengers. Some of you
. remember that out west in that year
" on stormy night hurricane blew
: down part of railroad bridge. A
. freight train came along, and il
~ crashed into the ruin, and the
!, engineer and conductor persisted.
= The was girl living in her ia
n theirs cabin, near the disaster, and
: she heard the crash of the freight
!, train. and she knew that in a few mo-
a ments an express was due. She
: lighted lantern and clambered up on
Il the one beams of the wrecked bridge on
to the main bridge which was trestle-
n work, and started to Cross amid the
i. thunder and the lightning of the TEN.
:. pest, and the raging of the torrent be-
e. meath. One misstep and it would
n have been death. Amid all that
d horror the lanterns went out.
n Crawling sometimes, and sometimes
It walking over the slippery rails, and
q over the trestlework, she came to the
other side of the river. She wanted to
4 get to the telegraph station, where the
v express train did not stop, where the
h danger might be telegraphed to the
!. station where the train did stop. The
4 train was due in few minutes. She
v was one mile off from the telegraph
II station but fortunately the tram was
e late. With cut and bruised feet
t she flew like the wind. Com
e ing up to the telegraph sta
e tom painting with almost deadly
q exhaustion, she had only strength to
e shout: THE bridge is down. when
,e she dropped unconscious, and could
hardly be resuscitated. The message