The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-08-18
we're not .nly BANKRUPT in estate, bot

were not snly bankrupt In estate. but
that you lost yoAI soul!
A clustering young man arrived at 4
hotel In the West. and he saw q man
on the sidewalk whom he supposed to
be a laborer ard In q rough way. as No
man has a 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 dol
lar which was clipped, and instead Il
being worth twenty-five cents 1t was
worth only twenty cents. Then the
young man gave his card to the labor
, er and said You take this up 70
Governor Crimes / want to see him."
"Ah. said the laborer. l am Governor
Grimes" oh" said tile 7ouag man.
''you-I-excuse mc." Then the COVER
nor said: II was much impressed with
; the letter you wrote me asking for a
/ certain office in my gif.. and had
/ made up my mind You should have ",
! out 4 young man who would cheat a
: laborer out Of five cents would swim
die the government Of the state IL he
/ got his hands on It, l don't want you.
Good morning, SIR"
oh, Is IL 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
written OF his own country these re-
markable words: from the great
house in the city OF London to the vii
lage grocer, the commercial life Of Eng
land has been saturated with fraud.
| So deep has II gone that a strictly hon
/ est 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 meas
ures. cheating and shoddy everywhere.
And yet the clergy have seen all this
| grow up in absolute Indifference Many
/ hundreds of sermons have l heard in
England on the divine mission OF the
clergy, on bishops and on Justification,
and the theory of good works, and ver-
| bal inspiration, and the efficacy of the
| sacraments, but during all these thirty
wonderful years never one that can
| recollect on common honesty"
Now. that may be an exaggerated
| statement Of things in England, but /
| am very certain that in all parts Of
the earth We need to preach the morali-
ties of the gospel right along beside the
faith of the gospel
/ My hearer. what are you doing with
that fraudulent document In your
| pocket? My other hearer, how are You
getting along with that wicked scheme
you have now on foot? Is that pool
ticket" you have in your pocket? Why,
O. young man. We're you last night
| practicing In copying your employers
| signature? Where were you last night!
left your fathers house? You had a
Christian encesnv, Perhaps, and you
have had too many prayers spent over
you to go overheard. Dr. Livingstone,
from the highlanders, and he said that
| one Of his ancestors, one OF the high
| landers, one day called his family
| around him. The highlander was dy-
! ing. He had his children around his
! death bed He said: Now, my lads l
have looked all through our history, ss
, far back as / can find 1t, and have
never found dishonest man in all the
, line, and l want you to understand you
| inherit good blood. You have no ex-
cuse FOR doing wrong. My lads, be hon
est"
Ah my friends, be honest before God,
b. honest before your fellow men, be
honest 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.
am glad some rne has set to music
| that scene in August, 1884, when
young girl saved from death a whole
railroad 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 perished. There was 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 minutes an express was due. She
lighted a lantern and clambered up on
the one beam of the wrecked bridge
on To the main bridge, which was tres
tie work. and started to cross amid
the thunder and the lightning OF the
tempest and the raging Of the torrent
| beneath. One misstep and II would have
been death Amid all that horror the
| lantern went out. Crawling sometimes,
and sometimes walking over the slip
perry rails, and over the trestlework,
she came to the other side " the river.
She wanted to get to the telegraph sta
ton where the express train did not
stop, so that the danger might be tele-
graphed to the station where the train
did stop. The train was due In a few