The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-08-10

tnelr own properly, tney pu6 IL lHlo
and away it all goes, and
they cannot return that which they |
borrowed. Then comes the explosion,
and the money market is shaken, and |
the press denounces, and the church
thunders expulsion.
You have no right to use the prop |
erty of others except for their advan-
tage, not without consent, unless they |
are minors. If with their consent you
invest their property as well as you
can, and it is all lost, you are not to
blame; you did the best you could; |
but do not come into the delusion
which has ruined so many men, of
thinking because thing is in their
possession, therefore it is theirs. You
have a solemn trust that God has
given you.
In any community there may be
some who have misappropriated trust
funds. Put them back, or if you have
so hopelessly involved them that you
cannot put them back, confess the
whole thing to those whom you have
wronged, and you will sleep better
nights, and you will have the better
chance for your soul. What a sad
thing it would be if, after you are
dead, your administrator should find
out from the account books, or from
the lack of vouchers, that you were
not only bankrupt in estate, but that
YOU lost your soul!
l do not suppose there ever was
better specimen of honesty than was
found in the duke of Wellington. He
marched with his army over the
French frontier, and the army was
suffering and he scarcely knew how to
get along. Plenty of plunder all about,
but he commanded none Of the plum
der to be taken. He writes home these
remarkable words: I'VE are over
whelmed with debts, and | can scarce
ly stir out of my house on account of
public creditors, waiting to demand
what is due them Yet at the very
time the French peasantry were bring
ing their valuables to him
to keep. A celebrated writer
says of the transaction:
Nothing can be grander or more
nobly original than this admission.
The old soldier, after 80 years service,
this iron man and victorious general,
established in an enemy's country at
the head or an immense army, is
afraid of his creditors. This is kind
| &c faor +bo+ hoe cal1ou trouhlpd con-
querors and invaders, and l doubt if
the annals of war present anything
comparable to its sublime simplicity"
My hearer, what are you doing with
that fraudulent document in your
pocket? My other hearer, how are
you getting along with that wicked
scheme you have now on foot? Is that
pool ticket you have in your pock-
ct? 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
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
lander was dying; he had his children
around his death-bed. He said: Now
my lads, have looked all through oul
history as far back as | can find it
and ! have never found dishones
man in all the line, and | want you tC
understand you inherit good blood
You have no excuse for doing wrong
My lads, be honest"
All, my trends, 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, ONT
and all, come into the Kingdom O.
God.
am glad some one has set to music
that scene in August, 1851, when
young girl saved from death who'll
railroad train of passengers. Some o
YOU remember that out West in tha
5 year on stormy night hurricane
: blew down part of railroad bridge
A freight train came along and /
{ crashed into the ruin, and the engi
} neer and conductor perished. Their
} was girl living in her fathers cabin
near the disaster, and she heard tn
crash of the freight train, and sh
: knew that in few moments an eX
S press was due. She lighted lanterl
: and clambered up on one beam of tn
4 wrecked bridge on the main bridge
e which was trestlework, and started t
2 cross amid the thunder and the light
l ming of the tempest, and the raging o
D the torrent beneath. One misstep an
4 it would have been death. Amid al
! that horror the lantern went ou1
Crawling sometimes, and sometime
walking over the slippery rails, AM
over the trestlework, she came to tn
y other side of the river. She wante
> to get to the telegraph station, wher
D the express train did not stop, so tha
= the danger might be telegraphed t
S the station where the train did stoI
e The train was due in few minute!
i She was one mile off from the telt
: graph station, but fortunately tn
a train was late. With cut and bruise
\ feet she few like the wind. Comm
S up to the telegraph station, pantin
with almost deadly exhaustion, sh
e had only strength to shout, 9Th
bridge is down." when she droppe
+ unconscious. and could hardly
d resuscitated. The message was sci
: from that station to the next station
g and the train halted, and that nigh
i that brave girl saved the lives of hui