The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-08

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my mind you should have IL but . ycunl
man who will cheas q laborer ont o(
cents would swindle the government o
the state II he got his hands on IL dom
want you. Good morning, air."
do not suppose there was ever q bettel
specimen Of honesty than was found II
the Duke of Wellington He marched will
his army over the French frontier, ant
the army was suffering, and he soarcel.
knew how to get along. Plenty Of plum
der all about, but he commanded none O.
the plumber to be taken. He writes hom'
these remarkable words, I'VE are over
whelmed with debts, and can scarcely
stir out of my house ON account of public
creditors, waiting to demand what Is du'
to them" Yet at the very time the French
peasantry were bringing their valuables Il
him to keep A celebrated writer says Of
the transaction: Nothing can be grandel
or more nobly original than this adInis
sion. This old soldier. after 30 years serv'
ice, this iron man and victorious general,
established In an enemy's country at the
head of an immense army. is afraid Of his
creditors! This Is a kind Of fear that has
seldom troubled conquerors and invaders,
and doubt II the annals, Of war present
anything comparable to Its sublime sim
plicity."
Return to God.
Oh, is II not high time that We preach
the morals Of the gospel right beside the
faith Of the gospel Mr.. Troude, the oele-
brated English historian, has written Of
his own country these remarkable words
From the great house In the city Of Lon
don to the village grocer the commercial
life Of England has been saturated with
fraud So deep has IL gone that strictly
honest tradesman can hardly hold his
ground against competition. You can no
longer trust that any article you buy lie
the thing which 1t pretends to be. We
have false weights, false measures, cheat
ing and shoddy everywhere. And yet the
clergy have seen all this grow up in abso-
Lutte indifference. Many hundreds Of SER
mons have heard in England on the d.
vine mission Of the clergy, on bishops and
on justification, and tho theory Of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy Of the sacraments, but during all
these 80 wonderful years never ono that /
can reCollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerated state
ment Of things in England, but I 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 hearer, 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 footS Is that pool ticket" you
have In your pockets Why, o young man.
were you last night practicing in copying
your employers signature2 Where were
you last night9 Are your habits as good
as when you left your fathers housep You
had Christian ancestry perhaps, and you |
have had too many prayers spent on you |
to go overheard. DR.. 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 high |
hinder was dying. he had his children |
around his deathbed He said: NOW, my |
lads, have looked all through our history |
as far back as / can find 1t, and have |
never found q dishonest man in all the |
limo, and want you to understand you |
inherit good blood. You have no excuse |
for doing wrong. My lads, be honest"
All, my friends, be honest before God,
be honest before your fellow men, be hon
est before your soul. II there be those
who have wandered away, come back,
como homo, come now, one and all, come
Into the kingdom Of God.
Warning Signal.
lam glad some one has set to music
that scene in August, 1881, when young
girl saved from death q whole rail train
Of passengers. Some Of you remember |
that out west In that year ON q stormy |
night hurricane blew down part Of q |
railroad bridge. A freight train came
along, and 1t crashed into the ruin, and |
the engineer and conductor persisted.
There was girl living In her fathers |
cabin, near the disaster, and she heard the
crash Of tho freight train, and she knew
that In few moments an express was
duo. She lighted lantern and clambered
up on the one beam of the wrecked bridge
on to the main bridge, which was trestle-
work, and started to cross amid the thunder
and the lightning Of the tempest and the
raging Of the torrent beneath. One mis-
step and 1t would have been death. Amid
all that horror the lantern went out.
Crawling sometimes, and sometimes walk
ing over the slippery rails and over the
trestlework, she came to the other side Of
the river. She wanted to get to the tele.
oronh station where the EXPRESS train did
not ston. 20 that the danger might be tele-
oranbed to the station where the train did
stop. The train was due in few minutes,
She was one mile off from the telegraph
station, but fortunately tho train was late.
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