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

stand that there is something in their
carriage to invite insult. There are
men at Albany, and at Harrisburg, and
at Washington, who would no more be
approached by bride than pirate
boat with few cutlasses would dare
to attack British man-of-war with
two banks of guns on each side loaded
to the touch-hole. They are incor-
ruptible men, and they are the few
men who are to save the city and save
the land.
Meanwhile, my advice is, keep out of
politics unless you are invulnerable to
this style of temptation. Indeed, il
even you are naturally strong, you
need religious buttressing. Nothing
but the grace of God can sustain our
public men, and make them what we
wish. / wish that there might come
an Old-fashioned revival of religion,
that it might break out in congress
and the legislatures, and bring many
of the leading republicans and demo-
Gratis down ON the anxious seat of re-
pentance. That day will come, or
something better, for the Bible de-
clares that kings and queens shall be-
come nursing fathers and mothers to
the church, and if the greater. in
authority, then certainly the less.
My charge also to parents is, remem-
Der that this evil of bribery often be-
gins in the home circle, and in the
nursery Do not bride your children.
Teach them to do that which is right,
and not because of the ten cents or the
orange which you win give them.
There is great difference between re-
warding virtue and making the profits
thereof the impelling move. That
man who is honest merely because'hon-
esty is the best policy" is already a
moral bankrupt
My charge is to you, in all depart
ments of life, steer clear of bribery all
of you. Every man and woman at
some time will be tempted to do wrong
for compensation. The bride may not
be offered in money. 1t may be offered
in social position. Let us remember
that there is ID day coming when the
most secret transactions of private life,
and of public life, will come up for
public apprehension.
We can not bride death, we can not
| bride sickness. we can not bride the
grave, we can not bride the judgments
of that God who thunders against this
sin. "Fie!" said Cardinal Beaufort
"fie!" Can't death be bribed? Is money
nothing? Must die, and so rich? II
the owning of the whole realm would
save me, | could get it by policy or by
purchase-by money" No, death
would not be bribed them he will moi
be bribed now. Men of the world often
regret that they have to leave their
money here when they go away from
the world. You can tell from what
they say in their last hours that one
of their chief sorrows is that they
have to leave their money. / breal
that delusion. | tell that bribetakel
that he will take his money with him
God will wrap it up in your
shroud, or put it in the palm of your
hand in resurrection, and there it will
lie, not the cool, bright, shining golC
as it was on the day when you sole
your vote and your moral principle
but there it will lie, hot metal, burn
ing and consuming your hand forever
Or, if there be enough of it for chain
then it will fall over the wrist, clank
ing the letters of an eternal captivity
The bride is an everlasting possession
You take it for time, you take it TO
eternity. Some day in the next world
when you are longing for sympathy
you will feel on your cheek kiss
Looking up, you will find it to be Ju
das who took thirty pieces of silver a
a bride, and finished the bargain b
putting an infamous kiss on the pur
cheek of his Divine Master.
Another wrong use of money is see
in the abuse of trust funds. Nearl
every man during the course of hi
life, on larger or smaller scale, ha
the property of others committed t
his keeping. He is, so far, safety de
post, he is an administrator, and hold
in his hand the interest of the famil
of deceased friend. Or he is an a
torney, and through his custody goe
the payment from door to creditor, G
he is the collector for business house
which compensates him for the RI
sponsibility; or he is treasurer for
Charitable institution, and he hold
aims contributed for the suffering; c
he is an official of the city or the stat
! or the nation, and taxes and subsidie
and salaries and supplies are in hi
keeping.
1t is as solemn a trust as God ca
make it, 1t Is concentrated and multi
piled condolences. On that man de
ponds the support of bereft house
hold, or the morals OF dependents, c
the right movement of thousan
wheels of social mechanism. A ma
may do what he will with his own, bu
he who abuses trust funds, in that on
act commits theft, falsehood, perjury
and becomes, in all the intensity O
the world, miscreant. How man
widows and orphans there are wit
nothing between them and starvation
but sewing machine, or held up on
of the vortex of destruction simply b
the thread of a needle, red with thei
own hearts blood, who little Will
ago had, by father and husband, lei
them competency! What is tn
matter? The administrators or tn
executors have sacrificed it-runnin
risks with it that they would not hav
dared to encounter in their own privat
| affairs