Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-05-06

But he goes TO the insurance once 10 get
policy on his life and tells the doctor
that he is we'll when he knows that for
ten years be has had but one lung.
Honest? Though he sells property by the
map, forgetting to tell the purchaser
that the ground is all under water; but
it is generous in him to do that. for be
throws the water into the bargain.
Standard of Right and Wrong.
All, my friends, there is but one
standard of the everlasting right and OF
the everlastingly wrong, and that Is
the Bible, and when that principle
shall get its pry under our commercial
houses | believe that one-half OF them
will 90 over. The ruin will begin at
one end Of the street, and ii will be
crash, crash, crash all the way down
to the docks. "What is the matter!
Has there been a fall in gold?" "Oh, |
no." "Has there been new tariff"
"No." "Has there been failure IN
cropsf" "No. A" "Has there been al un-
accountable panic?" mo" This is the
secret: The Lord God has set up his
throne Of judgment in the exchange.
He has summoned the righteous and |
the wicked to come before him. What |
was 1897? A day of Judgment. What |
was 1857? A day of judgment. What !
was the extreme depression Of two years
ago? A day OF judgment. Do you think
that God is going to wait until be has
burned the world up before he rights
these wrongs? tell you, nay. Every
day is day of judgment.
The fraudulent man piles up his
gains, bond above bond, United States
security above United States security,
emolument above emolument, until his
property has become a great pyramid
and as be stands looking at it be thinks
il can never be destroyed, but the Lord
God comes, and with his little finger
pushes it all over.
You build a house, and you put into
it rotten beam. A mechanic standing
bv says at will never do to pot that
beam in; it will ruin your whole build
ing" But you put it in. The house is
completed. Soon it begins to rock. You
call in the mechanic and ask, "What is
the matter with this door? What Is the
matter with this wall? Everything
seems to be giving out" Says the
mechanic, "You put rotten beam into
that structure, and the whole thing has
got 10 come down." Here is an estate
that seems to be all right now. 1t has
been building great many years. but
IA wears ago there was dishonest
transaction in that commercial mouse.
That one dishonest transaction VIII
keen on working ruin in the whole
: structure until down the estate VIII
come in wreck and ruin about the pos
, sessor's ears-one dishonest dollar IN
, the estate demolishing all his posses
I sions. l have seen it again and again,
s and so have you.
Z Here is your money safe The manu-
facturer and yourself only know how 1t
can be opened. You have the key. You
touch the lock, and the ponderous door
b. swings back. But let me tell You tnat
q however firmly barred and bolted your
money safe may be you cannot keep
God out. He will come, some day. into
vour counting room, and he will de-
mand: "Where did that note OF hand
? come from? How do you account tor
u this security? Where did you get that
mortgage from? What does this meanT'
Fit is all right, God will say wen
q done. good and faithful servant BE
II nrosnered in this world. Be happy IN
d the world TO come" II it is all wrong
Is he will say: Depart, ye cursed BE
70 70 miserable for your iniquities III tnl'
II life. and then go down and spend your
!" eternity with thieves and horse Jockeys
and pickpockets.
. You have an old photograph OF the
70 signs on your street. Why have those
ie signs nearly all changed within th'
10 last 20 years? Does the passing away O.
D a generation account for 1t! On, no
70 does the fact that there are hundreds o
Us honest men who 90 down every year &C
o. count for it? Oh, no. This is the secret
y The Lord God has been walking through
~ the commercial streets OF our grea
Is cities. and he has been adjusting thing
according to the principles OF eterna
- rectitude.
90 The time will come when, throug
ne the revolutionary power Of this gospel
sn falsehood instead of being called e1
" aegeration, equivocation or evasio
u, will be branded lie, and stealing
'ii that now sometimes 60 under the hea
81 of percentages and commissions all
" bonuses will be put into the catalogu
81, en- OF state prison offensesl Society Will
Ill turned inside out and upside down an
m' rausacked of Gods truth until businel
or- dishonesties shall come to an END an
IT, all double dealing, and God will owe
ay turn and overturn and overturn, al
nu commercial men in all cities will tnro
* mn their hands, crying out, "These th'
on have turned the world upside down a
~ come hither. "
Christian Conquest.
,ut The religion of Jesus Christ will pr
,ye duce a revolution in our churches. II
on noncommittal, do nothing policy OF q
tbs church of God will give way to splr
YER of bravest conquest. Piety in this d'
her seems to me to be salted down just
for AS to keep. 1t seems as II the cnur'