The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-08-20

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 q bride than pirats
boat with a few cutlasses would dare
to attack a 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
tho 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. l wish that there might come
an old-fashioned revival of religion,
that 1t 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 IL 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 oflthe ten cents or the
orange which you will give them.
There is a great difference between re-
warding virtue and making the profits
thereof the inpelling 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 ut
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 IL day coming when tn c
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!n said Cardinal Beaufort,
''fie!' Can't death be bribed? Is money
nothing? Must l 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 then; he will not
be bribed now. Men Of the world often
| regret that they have to leave their
| money here when they go away from
they say in their last hours that one
| of their chief sorrows is that they
| have to leave their money. / break
| that delusion. l tell that bribetakeI
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 COLE
as it was on the day when you sold
your vote and your moral principle
but there it will lie, n hot metal, burn
| ing and consuming your hand forever
Or, if there be enough Of it for IA 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 fol
eternity. Some day in the next world
when you are longing for sympathy
you will feel on your cheek u kiss
Looking up, you will find it to be Ju
das, who took thirty pieces of silver n
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 seei
| in the abuse of trust funds. Nearl,
every man during the course of hi
life, on a 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 holds
in his hand the interest of the famil,
of n deceased friend. Or he is an at
torney, and through his custody goe
the payment from door to creditor, o.
he is the collector for business house
which compensates him for the re
| sponsibility; or he is treasurer for /;
charitable institution, and he hold!
aims contributed for the suffering; o.
he is an official of the city or the stat,
or the nation, and taxes and subsidies
and salaries and supplies are in hi
keeping.
1t is as solemn a trust as God cal
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, o.
the right movement of a thousant
wheels of social mechanism. A mar
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 Of
the world, a miscreant. How many
widows and orphans there are will
nothing between them and starvation
but a sewing machine, or held up out
| of the vortex of destruction simply by
the thread of a needle, red with theil
own hearts blood, who little Will,
ago had, by father and husband, lief
them a competency What is tn,
matter? The administrators or tn,
executors have sacrificed it-runnini
risks with it that they would not hav,
dared to encounter in their own privat,
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