The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-08

as trustee of an estate. or trustee of an in
stitudoo. That is the point at which thou
sands Of people make shipwreck. They
get the property Of others mixed up VITA
their own property, they put it into in
Vestmeut and away it AL goes, and they
cannot return that which they borrowed.
Then comes the explosion, and the money
market is shaken, ana the press Ceuounees,
ana the church thuuders expulsion.
You have no right 10 use the property
of others except for their advantage. nor
without consent, unless they are minors
If with their consent you invest their
property as well as you can, and 1t As all
lest YOU are not 10 blame, you dld the
best YOU could; but do not come mo the
delusion which has ruined so many men,
Of thinking because a thing is in their Pc
session, therefore It is theirs. You nave
a solemn trust that God has given you.
In any community there may be some
who have misappropriated trust funds
Put them back, or of you nave so nope
lcssly involved them that you cannot put
them back, confess the whole thing 10
those whom you have wronged, and you
wiz sleep BETTER nights, and you viii nave
better chance for your soul. W That a SAD
thing il would be it, after you are dead
your administrator should fnd out from
the account books or from the lack OF
vouchers. that you were not only bank
rupt in estate. but that you lost your soul,
A clustering young man arrived at
hotel in the West, and he saw man on
the sidewalk whom he supposed 10 be
laborer and in a rough way, as no man
has a right TO address a laDorer, said 10
him. Garry this trunk upstairs The
man carried the trunk upstairs and came
down, and then the young man gave him
a quarter of a dollar which was clipped
and instead of being twenty-five cents it
was worth only twenty cents. Then the
young man gave his card to the laborer
Grimes; I want to see him. "Ah, said
the laborer. Il am Gov. Grimes" "Oh,
said the young man, ''yOu-I-eXcuse me-
Then the Governor said: Il was much
impressed by The letter you wrote me ask
ing for a certain office I'm my gift and
had made up my mind you should have il;
but a young man who win cheat la
borer out of five cents would swindle the
government of the state if he got his
hands on it. l don't want you. Good
morning sir"
I do not suppose there was ever a bet
ter 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 plumber all about, but he commanded
none of the plumber TO be taken. He
writes home these remarkable words:
I'VE are overwhelmed with debts, and l
can scarcely stir out of my house on ac-
count of public creditors, waiting to de-
mand what is due to Them Yet at the
very time the French peasantry were
bringing their valuables to him to keep.
Celebrated writers says of the transaction:
Nothing can be grander or more nobly
original than this admission. This Old
soldier, after thirty years service this
iron man and victorious general estab-
lished in an enemy's country at the head
of an immense army, is afraid of his cred
itorsi This is a kind of fear that has
seldom troubled conquerors and invaders,
and l doubt if the annals Of war present
anything comparable 10 its sublime sim
picity."
Oh! is it not high time that we preach
the morals of the Gospel right beside the
faith of the Gospel? Mr.. Froude, the cele-
brated English historian, has written of
his own country these remarkable words:
From the great house in the city Of Lon
don to the village grocer the commercial
life of England has been saturated with
fraud. So deep has it gone that a strictly
honest tradesman can hardly hold his
ground against competition. You can no
longer trust that any article you buy is the
thing which it pretends 10 be. We have
false weights, false mca suTes. cheating
and shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
have seen all this grow up in absolute in
difference Many hundreds of sermons
have 1 heard an England on the divine mis-
sion of the clergy, on bishops, and on jus
tihcation, and the theory of good works,
and verbal inspiration, and the efficacy of
the sacraments; but, during all these
thirty-one wonderful years, never one that
l can recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerated state
ment of things in England, but 1 am very
certain that in all parts of the earth we
need to preach the moralites of the gos-
pei right along beside the faith of the
gospel.
Mr. hearer, what are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pocIet2 My
other bearer how are you getting along
with that wicked scheme you have now
on foot? Is that a pool ticket you have
in your pocket? Why, O young man, were
you last night practising in copying your
employers signature? Where were You
last night? Are your habits as good as
when you left you fathers house? You
had a Christian ancestry, perhaps. and
you have had too many prayers spent on
you TO go overheard. DIR. Livingstone
the famous explorer. was descended from
the Highlanders, and he said that one of
has ancestors, one of the Highlanders che
day called his family around him. The
Highlander was dying; he had his chill
dren around his deathbod He said: Now
my lads, | have looked adj through our
history as far back as l can find 1t, and
have never found a dishonest man in all
the line, and l want you to undestdnd
YOU inherit good blood. You have no eX-
cuse for doing wrong My lads, be honest"
All. my friends, be honest before God,
be honest before your follow men, be hon
est before your soul. IF there be those
who have wandered away, come back,
come home. come now. one and all, come
INTO the Kingdom of God.
l am glad some one has set to music
that scene in August, 1881 when a young
eirl saved from death a whole rail train
| of passengers Some of you remember
that out West in that year on a stormy
night a hurricane blew down part of a
! railroad bridge. A freight train came
along and it crashed into the ruin, and
the engineer and conductor persisted.
There was a girl living in her fathers
cabin, near the disaster, and she heard
the crash of the freight train, and she
knew that in a few moments an express
was due. She lighted a lantern and clam
bered up on the one beam of the wrecked
bridge on to the main bridge which was