Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-08-13

opportunities Tor sinners on large scale
to escape. For boy who steals loaf
of bread from Il corner grocer, to keep
his mother from starving to death, a
prison, but for defrauders who abscond
with $500, 600 castle on the Rhine,
or, waiting until the offense is forgot
ten, castle Oh the Hudsonl
Beware of Temptation.
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. If there be large sums
of money to DO handled and the man is
not sure of his own integrity, you have
no right to run an unseaworthy craft in
a hurricane. A man can tell by the
sense Of weakness or strength in the
presence of bad opportunity whether
he is in safe place. How many par
ents 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 tempta-
tionl Yon give the boy plenty OF mon
ey and have no account Of it and make
the way down become very easy, and
you may put upon him pressure that
he cannot stand. There are men who go
into positions full of temptation, con-
sidering only that they are lucrative
positions.
An abbot wanted to buy piece Of
ground, and the owner would not sell
it, but the owner finally consented to
let it to him until he could raise one
crop, and the abbot sowed acorns, crop
of 200 years! And tell you, young
man, that the dishonesties which you
plant in your heart and life will seem
to be very Insignificant, but they will
grow up until they will oyershadow
you with horrible darkness, overshadow
all time and all eternity. 1t will not be
a crop for 200 years, but a crop for ever
lasting ages
address many who have trust funds.
1t is compliment to you that you have
been so intrusted, but I charge you, in
the presence Of God and the world, be
careful, be as careful of the property of
others as you are careful of your own.
Above all, keep your own private ac-
count at the bank separate from your
account as trustee of an estate or trustee
of an institution. That is the point at
which thousands of people make ship
wreck. They get the property Of others
mixed up with their own property,
they put it into investment, and away it
all goes, and they cannot return that
which they borrowed Then comes the
explosion, and the money market is
shaken, and the press denounces, and
the church thunders expulsion.
You have no right to use the property
of others except for their advantage,
nor without consent unless they are
minors. If with their consent you in
vest their property as well as you can
and it is all lost, you are not to blame.
You did the best you could. But do not
come into the delusion, which has ruined
so many men, of thinking because a
thing is in their possession therefore it
is theirs. You have solemn trust that
God has given you.
In any community there may be some
who have misappropriated trust funds.
Put them back, or, if you have so hope
lessly involved them that you cannot
PIT them back, confess the whole thing
to those whom you have wronged, and
you will sleep better nights and you
will have the better chance for your
soul. What sad thing it would be if
after you are dead your administrator
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!
Small swindles.
A clustering young man arrived at q
hotel in the west and he saw man on
the sidewalk whom he supposed to be q
laborer, and in q rough way, as no man
has right to address laborer, said to
him, Garry this trunk up stairs" The
man carried the trunk up stairs and
came down, and then the young man
gave him quarter of q dollar which
was clipped, and instead Of being 20
cents it was worth only 20 cents. Then
the young man gave his card to the Ia
borer and said: You take this up to
Governor Grimes. want to see him. "
"Ah said the laborer, II am Gov
ernor Grimesr' "Oh," said the young
man, "you-I-excuse mel" Then the
governor said: 81 was much impressed
by the letter you wrote me asking for a
certain office in my gift and 1 had
made up my mind you should have it;
but young man who will cheat Ia
borer out of five cents would swindle
the government of the state if he got
his hands on it. 1 don't want you.
Good morning, sir. "
do not suppose there was ever 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 homo these remarkable words,
eve are overwhelmed with debts, and
I 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 yaluables to him to
keep. A celebrated writer says Of the
transaction; Nothing can be grander
or more nobly original than this admis-
sion. This old soldier, after 30 years
service, this iron man and victorious
general, established in an enemy's coun-
try at the head of all immense army, is
afraid of his creditors. This is kind
of fear that has seldom troubled con-
querors and invaders, and I doubt if the
annals of war present anything compar-
able to it's sublime simplicity"
Dishonesty In Trade.
Oh, is it not high time that we preach
the morals of the gospel right beside the
faith of the gospel? Mr.. Froude, the
celebrated English historian, has writ