The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-08-13

the property of others committed to
his keeping. He is s. far, a safety
deposit, he is an administrator, and
holds in his hand the interest Of the
family Of q deceased friend Or he is
an attorney, and through his custody
goes the payment from door to credi-
tor. or be is the collector for a BUSH
ness house, which compensates hia
for the responsibility; or he is treas
urer for a charitable institution, and
he holds aims contributed for the suf-
fering; OF he is an official Of the city
or the state or the nation, and taxes
and subsidies and salaries and supplies
are In his keeping. IL is as solemn q
trust a God can make il II Is con.
centrated and multiplied condolences
On that man depends the support
Of q bereft household, or the morals OF
dependents, or the right movement Of
n thousand wheels Of social mechanism.
A man may do what he will with his
own. but he who abuses trust funds, |
In that one act commits theft, false
hood, perjury, and becomes in all the
intensity Of the world, u miscreant
How many widows and orphans there
are with nothing between them and
starvation, but 4 sewing machine, OF
held up out OF the vortex OF destruc-
ticu simply by the thread OF a needle,
red with their own hearts blood, who
= little while ago had, by father and
husband, left them a competency
What is the matter? The admins
traitors or the executors have sacrificed
it-running risks with 1t that they
would not have dared TO encounter in
their own private affairs.
Another remark needs To be made,
and that Is that people ought not to
go into places, into business, or into
positions where the temptation Is
mightier than their character. II
there be large sums Of money TO be
handled, and the man is not sure OF
his own integrity, you have no right
to run an unseaworthy craft in h hur.
ricane. A man can tell by the sense
OF weakness or strength in the pres
ence Of a bad opportunity whether he
Is in q safe place. How many parents
make an awful mistake when they
put their boys in banking houses and
stores and shops and factories and
places Of solemn trust without once
discussing whether they can endure
the temptation! You give the boy
plenty OF money, and have no account
Of IL, and make the way down become
very easy, and you may put upon him
a pressure that he cannot stand.
There are men who go into positions
full Of temptation, considering only
that they are lucrative positions
A clustering yorng man arrived at
hotel In the west, and he saw 4 man
on the sidewalk whom he supposed to
be q laborer, and in q rough way, as
no man has a right to address a labor
er, said to him: Garry this trunk up.
stairs" The mar carried the trunk
upstairs and came down, and the
young man gave him q quarter Of a
dollar which was clipped, and instead
OF being 25 cents 1t was worth only 20
cents. Then the young nan gave his
card 10 the laborer and said; You
take this card up to Gov. Grimes; |
want 10 see him" "Ah," said the
laborer, II I'm Gov. Grimes" oh"
said the young man, ''you-I-excuse
me-" Then the governor said: II was
much impressed by the letter you
wrote me asking for a certain Office in
my gift, and made up my mind you
should have 1t; but a young man who
will cheat q laborer out of FIVE cents
would swindle the government Of the
state II be got bis hands on It. Idon't
want you. Good morning, sir"
Oh! is II not high time that We
preach the morals Of the gospel right
beside the faith Of the gospel Mr..
Froude, the celebrated English his
%torian, has written OF his own coun-
try these remarkable words: "From
the great house in the city Of London
TO the village grocer, the commercial
life Of England has been saturated
4 With fraud. 30 deep has It gone that
[ . Gtriatly honest tradesman can hardly
9 hold his ground against competition.
' You can no longer trust that any arti.
q Gle you buy is the thing which Il
: pretends TO be. We nave false
. weights, false measures, cheating
: and shoddy everywhere. AND
yet the clergy have seen al
|, this grow up in absolute indiffer
1 epee. Many hundreds Of sermons
! baVe heard In England on the divin,
miGGicp af the clergy, on bishops, ant
ON Qualifications, end the theory o
a good works, and verbal inspiration
and the efficacy Of the sacramento, b4t
, during all these 80 wonderful years
never n that / can recollect on com
mon honesty" Now, that may be al
y exaggerated statement Of things II
y EEgiapd, but | am very certain that IL
Y al part NJ the earth we need u
u preach tina RoyalIties Of the gospe
right along beside tbs faith 81 N.
p gospel.
u am glad some one has set 10 must
that scene in August 1851, when
x young girl saved from death a Who'll
u rail train Of passengers. Some Of 20
y Eemember that out west in that yea
on 4 stormy night a hurricane ble'
down part n p railroad bridge.
" freight tralD came alopg, and
crashed into tho ruin, and ths %
p gineer and conductor perished. Their
3 was a girl living In her fathers cabin
70 near the disaster, and she heard tn
70 crash Of the freight train, and she kne,
D. that In a few moments an expires
q WA dus- She lighted a lantern an
o clambered up on the u beam OF th
'r wrecked bridge on to the main bridge
y which was trestlework, aud starts
70 TO cross amid the thunder and tn
Lightning OF the tempest, and Ii
m raging Of the torrent beneath. On
misstep and II would have been dealt
is Amid all that horror the lanter