St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-09-10

tions where the temptation is inlghtlef
than their character II there be largo
sums of money to be handled. and the
man is not sure of his own integrity
you have no right to run an unsea-
worthy craft in hurricane A man
can tell by the sense Of weak
ness or strength in the pres
ence of q bad opportunity wheth-
er he is in safe place How
many parents make an awful mistake
when they put their boys in banking
houses and stores and shops and fac
tories and places of solemn trust with
out once discussing whether they can
endure the temptation! You give the
boy plenty of money, and have no ac-
count of it. and make the way down
become very easy, and you may put
upon him . pressure that he can not
stand. There are men who go into
positions full of temptation, consider
ing only that they are lucrative posi-
tiOnS.
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
krop, and the abbot sowed acorns-a
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 mp until they will over
shadow you with horrible darkness,
overshadow all the time and all etern-
ity. 1t will not be . crop for 200 years,
but crop for everlasting ages.
Oh! is it not high time that we preach
the morals of the Gospel? Mr.. Froude,
the celebrated historian. 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 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 to be. We have false
weights, false measures, cheating and
shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
have seen all this grow up in absolute
indifference. Many hundreds OF SER
mons have heard in England on the
Divine mission OF the clergy, OF
bishops. and on justification. and the
theory Of good works. and verbal in
spiration, and the efficacy of the sacra-
ments; but, during all these 80 won-
derful years, never one that l can
recollect on common honesty"
Now, that may be an exaggerated
statement OF things in England. but
ann very certain that in all parts of the
earth we need to preach the moralities
OF the Gospel right along beside th,
faith of the Gospel
My hearer, what arc you doing with
that fraudulent document in your
pocket? My other nearer. how are you
getting along with that wicked scheme
you have now on foot? Is that q
pool ticket" you have in your
pocket? Why, o young man, were
you last night practicing in copying
your employers signature2 Where
were you last night? Are your habits
rs good as when you left your fathers
house2 You had Christian ancestry,
and yon have had too many prayers
spent on you to go overheard Dr.
Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
descended from the Highlanders, and
he said that one OF his ancestors,
one Of the Highlanders, one day
called his family around him. The
highlander was dying; he had his chill
dren around his deathbcd. He said:
"Now, my lads, / have looked ali
through our history rs far back as /
can find it, and have never found o
dishonest man in ail the line, and
want you to understand you inherit
good blood You have no excuse for
doing wrong. My lads, be honest
All, my friends, be honest before
God, be honest before your fellow men.
be honest before your soul II there be
those who have wandered away, come
back, come home, come now, one and
all. come into the kingdom of God.
arm glad some one has set to music
that scene in August, 1888 l, when .
young girl saved from death q whole
rail train of passengers. Some Of you
remember that out west in that year
ON a stormy night . hurricane blew
down part of railroad bridge. A
freight train came along, and it
crashed into the ruin, and the
engineer and conductor perished.
The was girl living in her IA
ther's cabin, near the disaster, and
she heard the crash OF the freight
train. and she knew that in q few mo-
ments an express was due. She
lighted lantern and clsmbered up on
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to the main bridge, which was trestle-
work, and started to Cross amid the
thunder and the lightning of the tenn
pest, and the raging of the torrent be-
meath. One misstep and it would
have been death. Amid all that
horror the lanterns went ont
Crawling sometimes and sometimes
walking over the slippery rails, and
over the trestlew0rk, she came to the
other side Of the river. She wanted to
get to the telegraph station, where the
express train did not stop, where the
danger might be tslegraphed to tho
station where the train did stop. The
tram was due in few minutes. She
| was one mile on from the telegraph
station but fortunately the tram was
late. With cut and bruised feet
she few like the wind. Conn.,
ing up to the telegraph sta
ton, painting with almost deadly
exhaustion, she had only strength to
shout: 1.-The bridge IS down. when
she dropped unconscious, and could
hardly be resuscitated. The message
was sent from that station to the next
station, and the train was halted, and
that night that brave girl saved the
lives of hundreds of passengers, and
saved many homes from desoiation-
But every street is track. and every
style Of business is . track. and every
day is q track, and every night is .
truck. and mnltitudes under the power
of temptation com. sweeping on and
sweeping down toward perils raging
and terrific Col help Us 70 60 ont
and stop the train! Let us throw some
signal. Let us give some warming. BY
the throne of God let Us fash some;
influence to stop the downward prog
resa Beware! Beware! The bridge
n down, the chosm Is deep. and tho
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