Connecticut western news., 1898-08-11

of 200 yearsl And I 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 overshadow you with horrible darkness, overshadow all time and all eternity. It will not be crop for 200 years, but 8 crop for ever lasting ages.
 address many who have trust funds It is compliment to you that you have been so intrusted. but 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 ao- 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 denounoes, 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 md 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 a 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 put 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 a hotel in the west and he saw a man on the sidewalk whom he supposed to be laborer, and in rough way, as no man has right to address a laborer, said to him, "Carry this trunk up stairs" The man carried the trunk up stairs and came down, and then the young man gave him a quarter of dollar which was clipped, and instead of being 25 cents it was worth only 20 cents Then the young man gave his card to the la borer and said: "You take this up to Governor Grimes. 1 want to see him." "Ah," said the laborer, "I am Gov ernor Grimesp' "Oh," said the young man, "you-I-excuse meI Then the governor said: 1T was much impressed by the letter you wrote me asking for certain office in my gift and 1 had made up my mind you should have it; but young man who will cheat la- borer out of five cents would swindle the government of the state if he got his hands on it. l 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 plunder all about, but he commanded none of the plunder to be taken. He writes home these remarkable words, I've are overwhelmed with debts. and 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 valuables 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 80 years service, this iron man and victorious general. established in an enemy's coun- try at the head of an immense army, is afraid of his creditors This Is kind of fear that has seldom troubled con- querors and invaders, and doubt if the annals of war present anything oompar- able to its sublime simplicity"
 Dishonesty In Trade.
 Oh, is 1t not high time that we preach the morals of the gospel right beside the faith of the gospel? Mir. Froude, the celebrated English historian, has writ ten of his own country these remarka- ble 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 1t gone that strictly honest tradesman can hardly hold his ground against com petition. You can no longer trust that any article you buy is the thing which 1t pretends to be. We have false weights false measures, cheating and shoddy ev- anywhere. And yet the clergy have seen all this grow up in absolute indiffer- enca Many hundreds of sermons have l heard in England on the divine mission of the clergy, on bishops and on justif- cation, and the theory of good works and verbal inspiration. and the efficacy of the sacraments, but during all these 30 wonderful years never one that l can recollect on common honesty" Now, that may be an exaggerated statement of things in England, but 1 am very certain that in all parts of the earth we need to preach the moralities of the gospel right along beside the faith of the gospel
 My nearer, what are you doing with that fraudulent document in your pock- ct? My other nearer. how are you get ting along with that wicked scheme you have now on foot? Is that pool ticket" you have in your pocket? Why. O young man, were you last night -prao- | tioing in copying your employers sig nature? Where were you last night? Are your habits as good as when you | left your fathers houseP You had Christian ancestry perhaps, and you 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