Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-11


1t is n compliment to you that You |
havs been so entrusted. but | charge |
you, in the presence of tod and tha |
world, be care iul; be as careful of the |
property of others as YOU are careful |
of your own. Above all, keep your |
own private account Mt the bank sep- |
arate from your account as trustee of |
an estate or trustee of an institution
That is the point at which thousands |
of people make shipwreck. They get |
the property of others mixed up with |
their own property, they put il into in |
vestment, and away it all goes, and |
they can not return that which they
borrowed. Then comes the explosion,
and the money market is shaken, and
the press denounces, and the church
thundcrs expulsion.
You have no right tn use the prop
erty of others except for their advan-
tage, nor without consent, unless they
are minors. II with their consent you
invest their property as well as you
can, and it is all lost, you are not tn
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,
therefor it is theirs. You have SOL
emn trust that God has given You.
In any community there NAV be
some who have misappropriatcd trust
funds. Put them back, or, if you have
So hopclcSsly involved them that YOU
can not put them back, confess the
whole thing To those whom YOU havt
nights. and you will have the better
chance for your soul What a SAL
thing it would be il, after you are
dead, your administrators 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!
clustering young man arrived at a
hotel in the west, and he saw a man On
the sidewalk whom he supposed to be
laborer, and in a rough way, a. no
man has a right to address laborcr,
said to him, Carry this trunk up
stairs" The man carried the trunk up
stairs and came down, and then the
young man gave him quarter
of dollar which was clippcd,
o'iN VI OtlhH NoTll II
cents it was worth only 20 cents.
Then the young man gave his card
to the laborcr and said: You take
this mp to Coz. Grimes; | want to see
him AN" said the laborer. Il am
Gov. Grimes" oh" said the Young
man. "you-I-cxcuse me-" Then the
governor said: Il was much i'm
pressed by the letter you wrote asking
me for certain office in nv gift, and
had made up my mind Won should
have II; but young man who will
cheat a laborcr out of five cents would
swindle the government of the state il
he got his hands on it, | don't want
you. Good morning, sir"
do not suppose there was ever a
better specimen of honesty than was
found i'll the Duke of Wellington lie
marched with his army over the Fren III
frontier, and the army was suff ring,
and he scarcely knew how to get along.
Plenty of plunder all about, bat hc
commanded none of the plum Ter to Ue
taken. lie writes home tn sc rem Ir,l-
able words: We are overwhel me
with debts, and | can scarcely
stir out of my house on account of
public creditors, waiting to demand
what is due to them" Yet at the
very time the French peasantry were
bringing their valuablcs to him
to keep. A celebrated writer of the
transaction says: Nothing can bc
grander or more nobly original than
this admission. This old soldier, aft
er so years service, this iron man
and victorious general, established in
an enemy's country at the head of an
immense army, is afraid of his cred.
itors! This is a kind OF fear that has
seldom trouble conquerors and in.
vaders, and l doubt if the annals of
war present anything comparable to
its sublime simplicity"
Oh! is it not high time that we
preach the morals of the Gospel right
beside the faith of the Gospel? Mr..
Froude, the ccle brated English histor-
ian, has written of his own country
these remarkable words: From the
great house in the city of London to
the village grocer, the commercial life
of England has been saturated with
fraud. So deep has it gone that
n strictly honest tradesmaa
can hardly hold his ground
against competition. You can no longer
trust that any article you buy is the
thing which il Intends to be. We hnvs
false weights, false measures, cheating
and shoddy everywhere. And yet the
clergy have seen all this grow up In
absolute indifference. Many hundreds
of sermons hive | heard in England
on the divine mission OF the clergy, on
bishops and on Justification, and the
theory of good works, and verbal in.
SEPARATION, and the efficacy of the
sacraments; but during all these sc
wonderful years. never one that car
recollect on common honesty"