Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-11

without consent, unless they are minors.
| If with their consent you invest their prop
erty as we'll as you can, and 1t is oil 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 think
ing because 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 misapproprintcd trust funds
! Put them back or, If you havo so hopeless
ly involved them that you cannot put
them back, confess the whole thing to
those whom you have wrongcd, and you
will sleep better nights, and you will have
tho better chance for your soul What
sad thing it would be If after you arc dead
your administrator should find out from
! tho 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 Mt u
hotel in the west, and he saw u man on
the sidewalk whom he supposed to be
laborcr, and in u rough way, as no man hos
n right to address laborcr 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
n quarter of II dollar which was clipped,
and instead Of being % cents it was worth
only 30 cents. Then the young man gave
his card to the laborcr and said; you take
this up to Governor Grimes. | want to
see him. " "Ah," said the laborcr, IL am
Governor Grimes. "Oh, said the young
man, "you--l-Cxcuse me. " Then tho
governor said Il was much impressed by
the letter you wrote nc asking for GER
tain office in my gift, and | had made up
a. 4 l,,,f mr.
man who will cheat laborcr out Of b
cents would swindlo the government of
the state il he got his hands on it. j don I
want you Good morning, sir.
do not suppose there was ever better
specimen of honesty than was found in
tho Duke of Wellington. lie marched with
his army over the French frontier, and
the army was suffering, and he scarcely
knew how to get along. Plenty Of plum
der all about, but he commanded mono of
the plumber to be taken. He writes home
these remarkable words "Wc are over
whelmcd with debts, and | can scarcely
stir out of my house on account of public
creditors waiting to demand what Is due
to them" Yet ut the very time the French
pcasantry were bringing their valuables 10
him to keep y celebrated writer says OF
the transaction: Nothing can be grqndCr
or more nobly original than this admis
sion. This old soldier, after 30 years serv'
ice, this iron man and victorious general
established in an encmys country mt tho
head of an Immense army, is afraid of his
creditors This is kind of fear that has
seldom troubled conqucrors and invaders,
and / doubt IL the annals Of war present
ANYTHING comparable to its sublime sim
plicity."
Return to God.
oh, is it not high time that we preach
the morals of the gospel right beside the
! faith of the gospel! MIR. Froudc the cclc
bratcd 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 witt
fraud. So Sccp hns 1t gone that strictly
! honest trudcsman can hardly hold hi'
ground against competition. You can nc
longer trust that any article you buy !!
; the thing which it prctends to be- W.
have false weights, false measures, cheat
ing and shoddy everywhere. And yet th'
clergy have seen all this grow up in abso
Lutte indifference Many hundreds of ser
\ mons have heard in England on the di
vine mission of the clergy, on bishops ant
$ works, and verbal inspiration, and III
l efficacy of the sacramcnts, but during al
5 these 30 wonderful years never one that
e can rccollcct on common honesty.
5 Now, that may he an exaggerated statr
L. mcnt of things in England, but am YER
0 certain that in all parts of the earth W
= need to preach the moraltics of the gospe
D right along beside the faith OF the gospel.
My hcarcr, what are you doing wit
l that fraudulent document in your pocket
5 My other hearer, how are you gettin
/ along with that wicked scheme you hay
Q now ON foot? Is that pool ticket yo
Z have in your pocket Why, o young man
V were you last night praciicing in copyin
your employers signature? Where Wer
Il you last night? Are your habits as goo
i as when you left your fathers house; Io
; had Christian ancestry perhaps, and 20
; have had too many prayers spent on 20
@ to 20 overheard. DIR. Livingstone, til
Il famous explorer, was descended from I'll
It highlandcrs, and he said that ono of hi
" ancestors, one Of the highlandcrs, one da
d called his family around him. The higl
lander was dying. He had his childre
around his dcathbcd He said; Now, III
y lads, have looked all through orr histor
o as far back as l can find IL, and | hay
o never found dishonest man in all II
> line, and | want you to understand 20
l. inherit good blood. You have no cxcus
II for doing wrong. My lads, be honest, "
o All, my friends, be honest before Got
II bo honest before your fellow men, be hol
d ,.t before your soul. If there be tho
5, who have wandered away, come bacl
/. como home, come now, ono and all, con
" into the kingdom of God.
IT Warning Signal.
% am glad some one has set to mus
10 that scene IN August, 1881, when your
10 girl saved from death IA whole rail tra
r of passengers. Some of you rcmomb
that out west in that year on storm
ID nipht y hurricane blew down part of
tc railroad bridge, a freight train can
IS along and it crashed into the ruin, an
N tho engineer and conductor perishe'
Of There was girl living in her father
Ut cabin, near the disaster, and she heard Il
10 crash of the freight train and she kne
u that in few moments an express WI
Of duo. Sho lighted lantern and clambert
a up on the one beam of the wrecked bridl
fe on to the main bridge, which was trcstl
vi work, and started to cross amid the thund
k and the lightning of the tempest and &
c. raging of the torrent beneath. Ono mi
1T step and it would have been death. Am
re all that horror the lantern went o,
ty Crawling sometimes, and sometimes wal
I'd ing over the slippery rails and over t
sy trcstlework she came to tho other side
re tho river. Sho wanted to get to tho to
no graph station whore the express train d
n not stop, so that the danger might be to
ST. graphed to the station where the train d